Skylab 1/4 Technical Air-To-Ground Voice Transcription Vol 4 of 7

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Time: 357:01:00 to 357:02:30
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VO[.CE 'Iq_AN_(!E[I_PION
357 01 25 13 CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 16 minutes.
CDR Hello, Richard.
CC Hello there.
357 01 38 05 CC Skylab, Houston, if the SPT is not busy and has

a couple of minutes to listen, I had a couple of
notes on tomorrow's J0P 18 Delta.
SPT Go ahead,
Dick.
CC Ed, it really is no partfcular change to what's

going on tomorrow. We wanted to visit with you
Just for a second here and about the pointing
error that we saw last time. Ted O'Neill and
Steve Bales have spent a good bit of time this
afternoon trying to psych out exactly why we
were able to point so well when we looked at
_-_ Mercury, and then we missed Antares' pointing
the other day by abouta 0.1 to 0.15 degrees,
and then we missed the comet pointing by somewhere
in the order of magnitude of 0.3 degrees. And
after much searc - searching and rechecking all
! the correctionfactors and - and also having some
other folks rechecktheir work, we Just simply
haven't come up with a very good explanation as
to why the pointing has been in that fashion.
And tomorrow, the way the pad is worked out, if
the error is still present and not random, it
still should appear to you very much like it did
the other day, that is, possibly down a little
bit to th_ left on the grid but still within
the edge of the field of view.
SPT Okay, Dick, you planning on putting in that 77

again like you did last time? I think we're
very fortunate that it happened to have the error
in that particular direction or I never would have
seen it. Came out with the thing Just barely
in the edge of the scope and Just barely visible.
CC Okay, it's going to be pointed a little more to

the Center. I think we're going into a keyhole
here. Let me wait a few seconds and then get with
youwhenwe get out of it.
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357 01 40 h5 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS

at Bermuda. I'll give you a call at Madrid at
01:47 and we're going to dump!the data/voice
recorder there at Madrid. And, Ed, back to the
18 Delta, the pointing we'reshooting for tomor-
row is 100, 50 and so if the error is - appears
again and is not random, it probably will be down
and to the left but that should give you a - that
should put you in a little better position than
it did the other day for keeping it in the field
of view. Of course, if it is a random error and
is in some other direction, then you'd probably
be better off yet.
357 01 41 25 SPT Okay, Dick; thank you. I got a question for you
or ASC0. When we see a number to one-tenth of a
degree, is that a truncated number to one-hundredth
of a degree or is it rounded off?
CC Stand by; I'm not sure we'll be able to get an

answer to you here but if not, I'll call you at
Madrid.
SPT Okay, Dick. The reason for asking is that you

sent up final attitude to expect to one-hundredth
of a degree. Sometimes we're off by one-tenth
and l'm wondering whether that's because of
truncation or whether it's actual error.
357 01 42 00 CC Okay.
357 01 47 00 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Madrid for the next 9 min-

utes. And, SPT, Houston. I think I have an
answer to your question about the - the attitude
numbers.
SPT Okay, Dick, go ahead.
CC Roger. It turns out that on the JOP 18 Delta

pads that we send you, we send you attitude num-
bers listed as final attitude that you should
expect that are listed as XF, YF and ZF to the
nearest one-hundredth of a degree. In the case
of the ATM DC, the computer calculates these at-
titudes as accurately as it can, which is some-
where in the neighborhood of a couple of hundredths
of a degree. However, it rounds off and displays
to you to the nearest tenth. Does that answer your
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SPT Yes, it does, Dick. It rounds off rather than

truncates to the hundredth digit. Now in that
case if you look at the numbers I read down for
the final attitudes, then I don't think we're
really at the attitudes that we had initially re-
quested. Were you able to check all the DAS en-
tries also?
357 01 48 12 CC Well, we don't have immediate answer for you,

Ed, but it's certain - certainly some - something
to think about. At any rate, the ATM DC does
its calculations as accurately as it can. And
when ASCO calculates his attitudes he sends them
up to you to his best accuracy, but the displays
are to the nearest tenth, and it's rounded off.
SPT Okay, thank you, Dick. I'm Just trying to - in

my own mind tryin_ to figure out where the dis-
crepaney arose. I guess we were off 0.i or so.
That can now be explained by roundoff and the
flat latitudes we achieved versus those which
were sent up.
CC Well, we certainly haven't given up thinking about

it, but as of now we Just don't have a real straight
answer for you. But we'll get one and you'll
hear it as soon as we have it.
SPT Okay, thanks very much. Thanks to Steve and all

his troops who are working hard on it.
CC Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Hou - Houston, I forgot to warn you,

we're dumping the data/voice recorder here at
Madr i d.
357 01 54 00 SPT Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Dick, do you have a comet-rise time for the

current rise. Ought to be in about another
4 or 5 minutes, I guess.
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i CC Stand
by.
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CC Skylab, Houston. i minute until LOS. Tananarive

comes up at 02:07. And we're checking on the
rise time. I hope we can get it before LOS;
we'll try.
CC SPT, Houston. The comet rise is estimated to be

about a minute and a half prior to sunrise. We're
looking for GMT now, if we don't get it though,
you should be able to use the time remaining
• clock and - and get a good hack on that.
SPT Okay, a minute and a half before. Thank you.
357 01 55 37 CC Yes, sir.
357 02 09 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive for the

next 7 minutes, and we think we missed a nu Z up-
date the last scheduled opportunity. One is
available now, Ed, if you can get it for us any-
time in about the next 5 minutes.
PLT Roger; we copied that, Dick. Thank you.
CC Okay, Bill, thank you.
357 02 15 17 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS, Tananarive.

Honeysuckle comes up at 02:33. See you there.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
357 02 33 17 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CC And -
CC And, Skylab, Houston. To the SPT: On the ATM

panel, we'd like to get DETECTOR 3 on.
357 02 37 34 CC Thank you much. We're i minute from LOS. Hawaii

comes up at 02:53.
SPT Dick, I'm reading 80 for my GRATING POSITION now.

Apparently, we've got another transient in here,
which has bumped it up from zero.
357 02 37 52 CC Okay, we show a zero on TM on the ground for your

information, Ed. Thank you for letting us know,
though.
357 02 53 14 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Hawaii for 7 minutes.
357 03 Ol 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for 9 minutes.

How do you read?
CDR Loud and clear, Dick.
CC Roger, Jer. We're standing by for the evening

status report. And we did have little co_m problems
there, down at Hawaii. l'm trying to check now and
make sure that Ed's family conference is set up.
This is the site for it.
CDH Roger. I'll check.
CC Okay. And l'm standing by for the evening status

report.
CDR Okay, Ed's in the command module.
CC Good show.
CDR You caught us trimming our Christmas tree.
CC Hey, we've got a pretty one down here, also.

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CDR Can't be as pretty as ours.
CC Well, the people who trimmed it were a lot prettier.

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CDR All right, let's have the evening status report.

Enough of that talk.
357 03 03 00 CDB Just get us all lathered up here. Sleep: CDR,

6.5; 6.5 heavy. SPT, 6.8; 6.8 heavy. PLT, 9.5;
9 heavy, 0.5 light. Volume: CDR, 1200; SPT, 1750;
PLT, 2000. Water gun: CDE, 76h7; SPT, 3175; PLT,
9357. Body mass: CDR, 6.317, 6.319, 6.315; SPT,
6.366, 6.356, 6.355; PLT, 6.258, 6.258, 6.259.
Exercise: CDR, method Alfa: minus 2 minutes.
SPT: no Alfa done today. PLT, Alfa: minus 5
minutes. Foxtrot: plus 5 minutes. Medications:
CDR, none; SPT, one Dalmane; PLT, Tinactin as
directed. Clothing: CDR, one pair of socks; SPT,
one pair of shorts, one pair of socks, and a shirt ;
PLT, one shirt and one short. Food log: CDR,
zero salt, minus two coffee with sugar, plus 1.5
water. SPT: ll.5 salt; plus one grape drink;
plus one number 2 mineral supplement, phosphorus,
which was taken by mistake ; rehydration water, zero.
PLT: no salt, plus one butter cookies, no water.
Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping list
accomplishments : none. Inoperable equipment :
none. Unscheduled stowage: none. Photos next.
CC Okay.
357 03 04 59 CDR Okay, photo log. 16-millimeter: 151. ETC prep:

Charlie India 75, 82, Charlie India 73. M151, M509
prep: Charlie India 75, 68, Charlie India 73.
Nikons: 01, Charlie X-ray 36, 15; 0 - 02, Bravo
Victor 43, 03; 03, no change; 04, Bravo Echo 08,
38 ; 05, Bravo Hotel 05, h3. 70-millimeter: Charlie
X-ray 17, 152. ETC: Bravo Whiskey 03, 035. EREP:
no change. Drawer A: Alfa l, 02, Charlie India 75,
68, Charlie India 73; Alfa 2, no change; Alfa 3, no
change; Alfa h, 08, no supply reel, takeup is
Charlie India 7h. Back: no change. That's it.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much. We still have

about h minutes left in this pass, and I'm standing
by. When we get to Bermuda in a few minutes - we
are going to drop out between Goldstone and Bermuca.
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I've got a pass there - I can read you g_s some

news, if you're amenable to that. Following that,
we have a pass that'll be the med conference and
then the final pass of the evening. So between
this Bermuca pass and the last one of the evening,
I can read you the news.
CDR Okay, turn them loose.
CC Well, I figured I'd wait until this next pass to -

to - for - Ed got off the phone.
CDR All right; that'll be fine.
CC Okay, y'all can go back to tree trimming.
357 13 09 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from LOS;

Bermuda comes up about 5 minutes from now. I'ii
give you a call there.
357 03 14 hh CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Bermuda for about

6 minutes. We do have a keyhole in this pass -
about a minute and a half into the pass.
SPT Okay, Dick, let me give you the ATM frame count.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
SPT 3761, 1007, 13551, 3041, 1635.
CC Okay. I got that. And for Jerry, we'd like to

reconfirm one of the items out Of the evening
status report, if he'll glance at it again. It's
out of the photo area. What we'd like to confirm
is the - what is the takeup on transporter 08?
357 03 16 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be going into a keyhole

here in Just a couple of seconds for about a minute.
I'ii give you a call out of keyhole.
357 03 17 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of keyhole. Still have

about 3 minutes left at Bermuda.
PLT Roger. And that is Charlie India 71 instead of

74 on transporter 08.
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CC Okay, Bill. Thank you very much. Would you guys

like to hear a couple minutes of news before we go
LOS here?
PLT Sure would.
357 03 18 23 CC Okay. A bitter and divided Congress adjourned

for the winter holiday today after failing to pass
emergency energy legislation. President Nixon
expressed regret that no bill was passed but said
voluntary conservation and other administration
efforts should be effective. The Pentagon has
grounded all Air National Guard and Air Reserve
training flights as a result of a Federal Energy
Office order diverting one and a half million
barrels of military Jet fuel to civilian airlines.
Military forces said the stand-down went into effect
Friday night and will last indefinitely. Four
bombs exploded in London Saturday, injuring five
persons. The blasts were the latest in a wave of
explosions blamed on Irish guerrillas. Stormy,
wintery weather cleared out of eastern half of the
nation today, but hazardous and clogged road
conditions in many areas kept holiday travel diffi-
cult, slow, and uncertain. Forecasts for Christmas
Day call for generally milder weathe_ around the
nation, but some communities were still digging
out from storms which struck earlier in the week.
The Middle East Peace Conference concluded its
opening phase with an agreement to have Israeli and
Egyptian military commanders begin talks to separate
their armies on the Suez front, but differences
cropped up between the United States and Russia
over participation of the super powers along with
Egypt, Israel, and the United Nations.
357 03 19 57 CC We've got about 30 seconds before LOS here at

Bermuda. We do have a pass following the next one,
which I can read you the rest of the news. The
next pass is scheduled to - AOS at Canary at 03:24,
and that's a med conference; so I'll give you a
call at Tananarive.
CDR Roger, Dick. See you then.
357 03 20 20 CC Okay.
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357 03 33 42 CC Skylab, Houston. Understand you're through with

the med conference. We're going LOS right here.
Tananarive comes up at 03:46, and I'ii call you
there.
SPT Okay, Dick; thank you. Talk to you then.
357 03 34 00 CC Okay.
357 13 47 57 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for about 2 or

3 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. A couple of notes for you

here. First of all, we don't have any data here
at Tananarive, but when we last saw you at Canary,
the ATM COOLANT LOOP was still ON. It's - If it's
bugging you with the noise, you're certainly wel-
come - your option - to turn the PUMP OFF this
evening and leave it OFF. Or you can leave it ON,
as you will. Also, for Ed. There is going to be
a checklist change to the JOP Summary Sheets that
will affect JOP 18 Delta. It does two things. It
adds a note and an option to the 52 experiment.
The note has to do with - And it's causedby
detector 1 sensitivity when pointing at the Sun,
and it appears in several places in the JOP. Also,
the option - the additional option in 52 is one
that will allow us to get background starfield
data and help us with our post flight evaluation.
The checklist change looks quite long; however, the
only portion of it that needs to be made in the
morning is JOP 18D, and I don't think you'll have
any problem getting in there in good order.
SPT Okay, Dick. I understand the intent of both of

those. I don't think they'll be any problem.
357 03 49 31 CC Okay. We - we only have about 30 seconds left prior

to LOS here at Tananarive. So - so we'll be giving
you in the call - a call in the morning; so you
guys get a good night's - good night's sleep.
CDR Okay, Dick. Thanks. And that shutting down the

COOLANT LOOP is on Bill's presleep checklist; so
he'll catch that before he goes to bed.
CC Okay. Well, I Just wanted to make the point to you

that it's your option. You're welcome to do it or
not, as you desire.
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CDR Okay, thanks. We'll see you.
357 03 50 04 CC Okay.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
357 12 O0 00 (Music: "The Little Drummer Boy")
357 12 02 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive. We

want to wish you a Merry Christmas from the silver
team here. And we're back - glad to be back working
with you. We'll talk to you through Hawaii in
42 minutes at 12:44 Zulu. Out.
CDR Morning, Bruce. Merry Christmas to all of the

silvers.
357 12 02 57 CC Roger; thank you.
357 12 44 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for 8 min-

utes. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jer. Couple of items for you all. I guess

first, the bad news. During the evening, we've
had a major telemetrymalfunction,and the net
result of it is that we've lost most of our insight
into the airlock module power distribution system.
But we do have valid data for monitoring the power
generation system. Right now, it looks like we've
at least temporarily lostthe low level multiplexer
associated with the airlock module; and we've got
some noise and low readings on the airlock module
high level multiplexer. We've also lost some of
our insight into the coolant loops and life support
systems. But so far, we still have enough valid
data that we can keep pretty much aware of what's
going on. By ground command we've switched to
secondary instrumentation units with no success.
The only onboard monitoring that you have lost at
the present time is the PCG battery amp hours
indicators. And the reason that you've lost these
is that we are powering down the multiplex and
telemetry systems during periods of LOS. And when
we power them down, that takes down the power
supply for the primary and secondary amp hour
indicators. And, if you need to get them back, why
you probably recall the procedure we used in train-
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ing. And, later on we'll have a list of parsmleters

that we'd like you to read out on hoard for com-
parison with the readings that we have down here,
Just so we can verlfy your onboard readouts are
still good. Over.
CDR Okay, thanks, Bruce.
357 12 46 43 CC Okay. Couple of minor ones for you, Jerry. On

your detail pad at time 00:09, we'd like to add
S019 PR-3 - or at S019 PR-3 we want to add canis-
ter 002 and tooth 2. Over.
CDR Okay, hit that again, Bruce. I was busy fumbling

for my papers.
CC Okay. On your details for today: at time 00:09

add S019 PR-3, prep 3 that is, canister 002 and
tooth 2, presumably referring to the focus gear
wheel. Over.
CDR Okay, I copy.
CC That goes right along with your S019K pad, which

you have independently, probably still in the
teleprinter. For the SPT and PLT, I have a couple
of changes also. Over.
357 12 48 12 PLT PLT. Give me about i0 seconds, Bruce.
CC Okay.
PLT PLT. Ready to copy.
CC Okay, Bill. The on-station time for your S019

Kohoutek maneuver shoud be 00 - This is on your
detail pad - should be 00:39 instead of 00:hl.
And that's it,
PLT Got it.
CDR Okay, and Ed's ready to copy his.
CC Okay, Ed. On your detail pad at 17:50, delete the

17:50 Nu z update 17:50 to 18:10. The on-station
time for your S201 Kohoutek pad should be at 14:56,
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instead of 14:58. And the on station time for

JOP 18 Delta should be 18:35 instead of 18:37.
Those are all on your details.
CDR Okay. He's got them. Thanks.
CC And on your J0P 18 pad, there is an error in

item 31, if you can dig that out, please.
CDR Can we get that a little bit later, Bruce?
357 12 49 57 CC Sure can. Tell you what. If Ed wants to just

write it do_n, it's fairly simple, and we can
check back with him later, also. In the coarse
maneuver, item 31 - the coarse maneuver, the
Z entry, that is Zulu, should be 50004 (plus 4.0
degrees ). Over.
CDR Okay. 50004 plus 4.
CC Roger.
357 12 51 53 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 22 minutes through the Vanguard
in port at 13:14. Out.
PLT Say again the good news, Bruce.
CC The good news is the Vanguard's in port.
357 12 52 35 PLT That's what we figured.
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357 13 15 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard in

port for 8 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump. Out.
PLT Bruce, PLT on the ATM. Is there any way the back-
room can verify my GRATING POSITION on the 55?
I think I got an 80 delta here; l'm set up for 108,
and I was wondering what they were reading.
CC Okay, we show 28 on your GRATING POSITION, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
357 13 18 32 CC Skylah, this is Houston. The solar activity update

is on board now in your teleprinter. And for the
CDR. If you could, we'd like you to take a second
and verify two switches for us up in the STS on
panel 204. They are the INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM
PROGRAMMER and ELECTRONICS switches and they should
be in the COMMANDposition. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Both the INSTRUMENTATION - Stand by.
CC Roger. That's panel 20h, INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM

PROGRAMMER switch and the ELECTRONICS switch.
CDR Yes, they're both in COMMAND.
CC And right next to it, the CONVERTERS rotary switch,

is that also in COMMAND?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC That's what we were afraid you were going to say,

Jerry. Thank you for checking.
357 13 22 43 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 58 minutes through Hawaii at
14:21. Out.
357 14 21 47 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're A0S Hawaii with - for

7 minutes. And good morning from the purple gang.
CDR Morning, Dick.

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PLT Hello to all the purple gang.
CC Good morning and a merry Christmas season to you.
CDR Thank you, Dick. Merry Christmas to everyone down

there.
357 lh 22 17 CC Thank you.
357 lh 24 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We guess there must be some

Christmas elves on board because our little tele-
metry problem that we were .telling you about earlier,
at least for this moment, has gone away. We got
good TM on all the parameters that we expected to
here at Hawaii. If there's anything that the crew
did on board in between the last station and this
one that might possibly have any bearing on the -
the telemetry or instrumentation systems, we'd
appreciate knowing about it. But at any rate for
now everything looks good.
CDR Okay, Dick. That's good news, but all we did was
eat breakfast. I don't know if that helped the
telemetry any.
CC Well, maybe it did. We'll think about that one.
SPT I drew a little blood out of these guys, too, Dick.

Maybe - Maybe that scared the system into shaping
up.
357 14 25 53 CC Ed, you were so far down in the mud that time that
I didn't - I couldn't read you.
SPT Dick, you were probably well off. That's okay.
CC (laughter) Okay.
357 lh 27 5h CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS Hawaii.

We'll see you down at the Vanguard at 14:53, and
we're going to dump the data/voice recorder at
the Vanguard.
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357 14 52 46 CC Skylab, Houston; Vanguard for i0 minutes. And

awhile ago I told you a story; I said we were going
to dump the data/voice recorder here. It turns
out that that plan was changed, and I wasn't aware
of it due to the telemetry problems we had earlier.
So we - there is no data/voice recorder dump here
at Vanguard. l'm standing by for i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
357 14 59 13 CC Skylab, Houston. For the friendly SPT, we see

that you've loaded good numbers into the ATMDC for
the upcoming maneuver. Bird looks good, so you're
GO for the maneuver. We still have about 3 minutes
left here at Vanguard; I'm standing by.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
357 15 01 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. Ascension

comes up at 15:08.
357 15 07 57 CC Skylab, Houston; Ascension for 7 minutes.
357 15 13 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Next

station contact is Guam at 15:53. That's a very
low pass, and Just in the event we have any prob-
lems picking you up there at Guam, the following
station contact is again here at Ascension, and
that time is 16:43.
357 15 53 30 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Guam for 2-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hi, Ed.
357 15 55 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS here at Guam.

Next station site is Ascension at 16:43, and we're
going to dump the data/voice recorder at Ascension.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIFTION
357 16 h3 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension for ii min-

utes.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the SPT, we believe we need

the STAR TRACKER SHUTTER CLOSED. And also, Ed, I
had three or four notes that I wanted to talk to
you on the JOP 18 Delta information after you've
filled it in. If you have a chance to discuss it
here at Ascension, that's fine with me. Otherwise,
it,s also okay to wait until the next Guam pass.
That'll be time enough.
SPT Okay, Dick. Could you just hold it up for a few

minutes, and I'ii be right with you.
CC Okay. No hurry at all. l'm standing - we're here

for about 9 minutes.
357 16 45 22 CC SPT, Houston. We're about - GNS is about to load

some biases for the upcoming JOP 18 Delta. We need
- for you to give us the DAS for - for a few minutes.
Over.
SPT Surely, Dick. It's all yours.
CC Okay. I'll let you know when we're through.
CC SPT, Houston. Another comment for you. We noticed

some - some pretty high counts in DETECTOR 3, and
the PIs in the backroom would - request a spectral
scan in that region.
SPT Roger, Dick. That's what I'm getting lined up to

do. I got some counts up around 40,000, and I was
just trying going to get back to that same location.
I think we've got a fluctuating bright point. I
was just trying to optimize the location and then
give them a GRATING, AUTO SCAN and a MIRROR, AUTO
RASTER.
CC Good show.
357 16 47 03 CC And, Skylab, Houston. For the PLT. I'm not sure
where you guys are in 509-2 Charlie preps and
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operations, but if you've got a couple of minutes

I had one note here; I'd like to talk to you about
tomorrow's Flight Plan.
CC SPT, Houston. The DAS is yours.
SPT Okay, Dick. Thank you. I believe the region we're

looking at is this region 05, which is right adja-
cent to 03/04. And it's by far the brightest thing
in H-ALPHA, and pretty much even with the active
region 00 in XUV; maybe it's even a - a little
bit brighter. Appears as though the bright points
in this area are fluctuating quite a bit. I just
got a GRATING, AUTO SCAN going when we had a INTEN-
SITY of almost 30,000. A little bit before that,
I was up to 40. That was at 16:40 if they want to
dig it back. We had about a 40,000 count there.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you.
SPT And why don't you go ahead and give the information
on 18 Delta if you would, please, Dick.
CC Okay. Before I start, Ed, have you - have you

entered all the information into your J0P Summary
Sheet yet ?
357 16 49 12 SPT Negative, Dick. I'm Just up through the building

block 30's. I have not work - put in any returns
on SI information yet. I'm still working on putting
the building block information in an understandable
format.
CC Okay. 0kay_ let me - I got three notes for you

here, Ed. Let me go through them kind of slowly
and - and I think we can get it okay. Bruce eater
read up an error in the JOP 18 Delta maneuver in
the pad. And it - it occurs - at the time you
didn't have the piece of paper, and I Just wanted
to remind you of it again. It is to be entered
in JOP 18 Delta in step 31. So it's the JOP 18
Delta pad to fill in the blanks under step 31.
The - it was - the Z-axis maneuver was incorrect.
The correct numbers - the DAS command is 5 three
balls 4, and the amount of angle was plus 4.0
degrees, and I just wanted to make sure that you
got that, because earlier they said you didn't
have the piece of paper.
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SPT Okay, Dick. I understand that step 31 in Z-axis

maneuver should be a 50004, which is 4 degrees.
357 16 50 35 CC Okay. Second note I had was - and you and i talked
about this last evening before you went to bed.
But we do want to make sure that that checklist
change number 14 to the JOP Summary Sheets that
came up while you were asleep last evening gets put
in prior - or at least that portion for 18 Delta
gets put in prior to the run today. I'm sure you
are aware of that. One more note, if you'll look
at the pad, the - the fill-in-the-blanks pad art
step 27, 27, you'll notice there that for the
information for that building block 30, where it
gives you some information as to how to point into
the tail at a C equal 0, T equals 0.5. That 0.5
is - we didn't put in - in there an octal. We
probably should have. That's T of 62. Also, I
have some information here from the backroom con-
cerning the orientation of the tail. Assuming that
the comet's head appears - assuming perfect point-
ing and the comet's head appears as we expect that
it will, the tail will be off to the right and at
an angle of about 12 degrees above the HORIZONTAL
as you look at it on the MONITOR.
SPT Okay; thank you, Dick. You have - these maneuvers

have put the - the coma at the location specified
and - not any other feature; that is, you haven't
tried to center it a little bit back of the tail
or anything. And we're really talking about the
coma all the time, are we not?
357 16 52 18 CC That's affirmative, Ed. That's correct.
SPT Thank you.
CC Thank you, sir. Those are the only comments that

I had on JOP 18 Delta. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS here at Ascension. Guam comes up at 17:27.
SPT Okay, Dick. Talk to you then.
CC Roger.
SPT Dick, if the people in the backroom, the NOAA folks,

have any updated information on 05, the magnetic
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activity and perhaps what they expect out of it,

I'd appreciate it. It looks like it might be the
better performer today.
CC Okay, Ed. We'll do some looking at that while

you're gone. And when we have some more informa-
tion or whatever information we do have, we'll pass
it up to you.
]57 16 53 22 SPT Thank you.
357 17 27 37 CC Skylab, Houston; hello at Guam for I0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. Got a couple of questions on 18D.
CC Okay. Go ahead, Ed.
SPT The building block 30, which is to be run from

20:49 - I do not know what the effective stop time
on that is. What is the h00 K time?
CC Okay - -
SPT Also - Also the pointing which is to be done on the

last building block where we move to 0.5 for the
tail, how was that pointing accomplished? What's
the scale there?
CC Okay, Ed, on the second one, that 0.5 was the one
that I'd mentioned earlier. That's 0.5 degrees,
and it's 62 in octal. And - and that was the rea-
son that I - in - just in case you couldn't see the
tail, that was the reason that I had mentioned to
you the business about we think that it should be
extending to the right and ab - at about a 12 degree
angle above the head, wherever that appears to you
' on your monitor.
SPT So, we'll take the point that we arrive at at that

time and then put in a maneuver of 0.5 to the right.
357 17 29 41 CC Stand by just a second on that.
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357 17 30 19 CC SPT, Houston; again on the second item. I guess

what we intended by that was that you get head of
the comet in view, and then, either by looking at
the tail or making your best estimation based on
our prediction of the fact that it's going to the
right and slightly above the HORIZONTAL, moving
out the center line of the tail a distance of half
a degree or 62 in octal.
SPT Okay, what this implies then is that once we maneu-

ver up to the comet, we then take - and before the
following pass, we maneuver back out to where we
think we can see it and then try that all over
again.
CC That's correct, Ed. That - that was the idea.
SPT Okay, is that true before each one of the three

observation periods? Yesterday it was not done
that way.
CC Roger. I - I think our intention was - is that

it would be only necessary just for this one point-
ing where we're - Instead of pointing at the coma
of the com- comet, we're pointing at a certain
point out the tail. Does that make sense to you?
357 17 31 31 SPT Yes, it does. I just wanted to clarify how we're

going to do it. And apparently, you'd like us to
have a go at it visually, and if we can - can't
get it visually, then we'll just maneuver right
back into where we were and maybe maneuver to the
right.
CC Roger; we concur with that. And let u_ get back

to you on your first question. Hang on.
SPT Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston; let me get back to you and clarify

what your question was. I assume it was on the
building block 30 that's scheduled in step 26
that - that is to be begun at 20:49. And say
your question about that again, please, sir.
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SPT Yes, Dick, I wanted to know how long we should

carry that building block out.
CC Okay, stand by.
357 17 34 ll CC SPT, Houston. On _nswer to that question, what

we'd suggest that you do - If you notice - if you
get the two 82 Bravo exposures, that'll put you
out to a time of around 24 - 21:14. And if you
do get to that point and those explo - exposures
are not complete, we would like you to truncate
at 21:14, which provides you 5 minutes to get set
up for the next building block, which is step 27.
Over.
SPT Okay, understand. We take it from 20:49 to 20:14

[sic] and then that gives us - I see - 5 minutes
to get set up for the next one_ Okay, thank you,
Dick.
CC That's right, 20:49 to 21:lb.
SPT I copy.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. For your information, in

preparation for the JOP 18 Delta that's coming up,
we have configured the APCS from EXPERIMENT POINTING
into SOLAR INERTIAL MODE.
357 17 36 38 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS. Canary

comes up at 18:28.
357 18 27 30 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through Canary and Madrid for

14 minutes.
CC And Skylab, Houston. For the SPT; Owen is standing

by here for the ATM conference. It was originally
scheduled when we handed over to Madrid, but it's
a pretty long pass; it's 13 minutes. So whenever
you get prepared to talk to him, he's standing by
and y'all can go ahead and get with it, maybe have
a few extra minutes to talk.
SPT Okay, 0wen. Why don't you go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed. How do you read. All right?

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SPT Yes, loud and clear, 0. Good to have you with us.
Go ahead.
MCC Okay. There's only a few items on my list here so

I suspect we can finish before we get to the end
of Madrid here. First item, I think you asked the
other day for a little bit more information about
the magnetic configuration on active region 05.
The configuration is really fairly complex, and
although I do have a sheet here which describes in
some detail Just how the neutral line runs, I rather
hesitate to try to either read or describe it to
you unless you had a picture - the display right
in front of you. And also I suspect your H-alpha
looks a little different than ours, which is some
7 or 8 hours old at this point. So unless there's
more detail required, I'd suggest I'd Just stop
with the general comment that we believe, as you've
described, the active region 05 is becoming more
interesting. It is getting more probable from
a standpoint of flare productivity. And if we
were to find the regions most likely to flare, it's
just the one you would're picked anyway, I think,
where the bright plage lies just to the northeast
of the peros - principal spot. The plage corridor
runs from the northwest down in more or less straight
line toward the southeast. And I think that's the
region where you found the brightest intensity in
ultraviolet and where I'm sure you would have picked
the flare probability to be the highest. Now if
that's an adequate description, I think it'd be
better for me not to go into much more detail.
Over.
357 18 30 13 SPT No, that's good enough, Owen. I was just busy here
getting something going on JOP 18D. Go ahead.
MCC Okay; fine. Are you up at the ATM panel now, Ed?
SPT Yes, I am, Owen;
MCC Okay. Active region 00, as you know, is declining

although our - although our NOAA prognosticators
do suggest that in the southern parts of 00 - There
may still be some complexity and some possibility
of growth in the southern part of 00, but it has
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been declining over what it's been showing for the

last couple of days. Now l've got two other words
for - one for Bill Pogue and one for Jerry Carr.
Are they still tied up on 509 or are they where
they could hear me?
SPT They're tied up on 509.
MCC Ok - -
SPT ... they could hear you, though, but they're kind
of busy.
357 18 31 02 MCC Okay. Well, let me go ahead. I'll make these

very brief and possibly Dick could relay them at
another pass, particularly the one for Jerry, in
case they miss it. But Bill Pogue had asked when
to truncate building block B0 in running JOP 18D.
Oh, sorry. I guess that was you, Bill - or you,
Ed, who had asked about that. And the intent was
to truncate the building block B0 5 minutes before
the next building block so that that 'd give you
an extra 5 minutes to get it - get set up for the
next building block. Is that clear enough?
SPT 5 minutes between the two building blocks is what

you had said. Is that correct?
MCC Right. That will be the standard routine unless

they put it on the pad otherwise. The 5 minute is
intended to separate the two building blocks.
SPT Okay.
357 18 31 56 MCC Now the next item is really for Jerry, although
I think you ought to know about it, as well. And
this is the one I'll leave with Dick in case Jerry
would like to have it read up a little later. But
the first cycle for tomorrow morning on tomorrow's
schedule is for Jerry, and it's going to be devoted
to eclipse observations by S052. The time of sun-
rise is 13:52 Zulu, which will occur just shortly
after you all get up in the morning. And at the
time that you get to the panel for the first of
this pass, in other words, at sunrise - ATM sun-
rise - the Moon will already partially occult the
Sun when you look at it on the 52 display. Now,
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S052 desires to initiate their FAST SCAN before

the line of sight to the Sun reaches 400 kilometers.
He wants to catch it while the Moon is still behind
the S052 DISK. So the pad is going to list the
time at which the observations should begin, and
the thing to note is that this time will be before
h00 kilometers is reached. And so it'll be impor-
tant to go ahead and start the S052 operations
at the time listed on the pad, even though it's
not up to 400 kilometers. These are going to
complement the unattended operations that will have
been completed during the two preceding cycles
before you get up for breakfast. And they'll
permit an accurate determination of the corona-
graph's vignetting function and the scattered light.
So that'll be accomplished for the two unattended
ops and then this one pass that Jerry will catch
first thing in the the morning. Is that reasonably
straight-forward, Ed?
357 18 33 35 SPT Yes, I think so, Owen. We'll just have to take a
look at the pads when they come up. We'll ask
... questions if required.
MCC Okay. That'll be fine. And I'ii leave this note

here with the - with Dick so that he could remind
Jerry of it again that when he's through with
509 we!d like to have any other infon_ation. That's
about all we have from the ground, Ed. If you
have any other description of zero - active region
05 or any other questions for us, why, let us know.
SPT Nothing in detail right now, Owen, other than we

got up to a count of about 40-some-odd-thousand or
so in oxygen VI at that point ... did do a grating -
or a couple of GRATING, AUTO SCANS, and a ...
tried to get to ... going ... in detail.
MCC Okay, Ed. I understand it was - that you've been

reading 40,000 on OXYGEN VI, and that on was -
was one other note I might have mentioned to you.
55 is particularly pleased with the spectra that
you've been getting for them over the course of
the last couple of days. They have confirmed
those hi@h counts on several occasions on oxygen VI -
over 32,000 I note here on one day. Magnesium X
in one case was a factor of 200 above the quiet
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disk flux. So they're very enthused about the

sort of spectra that you've been getting. Want
to thank you for that and appreciate any more you
can get them. Over.
SPT We'll keep hunting, Owen. Hope that it'll come up

with a Sun that looks a little bit like yours.
357 18 35 08 MCC Well, it's looking that way right now, Ed. I
think you're going to have a good spread of - of
variability there all the way from very quiet right
up to some active regions. And of course you got
all the other eclipse and Kohoutek, so you're in
good shape, it looks to us.
SPT We got lots of interesting things to keep us busy,

that's for sure. Might be able to go into things
in more - more detail right now - at another time,
0wen, but right now 18D has kind of got my -
preoccupied.
MCC Okay. You know one thing that I've been mentioning
in a couple of places recently is about the pre-
cision of the pointing, Ed. You might see if you
can confirm that. But for several of the pointing
exercises, like at the limb and so on, we'll want
to move by Just 1 arc second at a time. And the
way I was doing it was to actually look at the
display and then make the very smallest motion
that I could perceive on the H-ALPHA display. And
frequently that would show up as just 1 arc second
decrement in the FSS reading. Can you confirm,
really, the same thing I've been saying - that it
really does appear to he stable to that 1 arc second,
and we can see the motion of 1 arc second on the
disk?
357 18 B6 30 SPT Oh, yes. You can see the motion of i arc second
on the disk. You can tell when you've tweaked
it and obtained no change in the FINE SUN SENSOR.
I think you can tweak it to something less than
1 arc second - -
MCC Oka - -
SPT - - ... the problem.

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MCC Okay, fine, Ed. Thank you. And, we need to turn

the CMG bearing heaters off. If you would clear
the DAS please, and let us get the command in.
SPT Okay. You've got it. Tell me when it's free.
MCC Okay. We'll let you know.
MCC Hello, Ed. It looks like you've reloaded again.

We were wanting - Stand by. Let it go.
MCC Ed, the DAS is yours.
SPT Thank you.
357 18 40 12 CC SPT, Houston. We're looking over your shoulder.

And the ATM officer notices that at the moment
we have the number loaded for - for OPTICAL REFER-
ENCE and we're in MECHANICAL REFERENCE. And we
just want to make sure that there in step i, that
it was - we had MECHANICAL REFERENCE of 0678
OPTICAL REFERENCE of 0574. Over.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're 30 seconds to LOS. Guam

comes at 19:08. And, SPT, Houston; just to remake
that same call again, we'd like to make sure you
recheck step i, that MECHANICAL and OPTICAL
REFERENCE are loaded correctly.
SPT Yes_ Dick, I - I'll get it.
357 18 41 18 CC Okay.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTIO_
357 19 07 55 CC Sky!ab, Houston. Hello at Guam for 3-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, Dick.
CC Hi there. How'd the 509 go.
CDR It went real well; we just about finished on time.
CC Great, Jerry.
CDR Got all the way around to baseline maneuver with

the HHMU and no broken bones.
CC That's the good news.
SPT Hey, Dick, we're just sitting here waiting for

• comet-rise. We ended up with final attitudes
of 357.7, 349.3, 356.0; so in terms of roundoff
the second two are okay, but the first one, I
believe, should have been point 8.
CC Roger, Ed. And one configuration thing: Would

you check S052 to be TV position?
CC Thank you.
SPT Glad you mentioned that. We got it early.
CC Okay.
357 19 I0 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS. I'll give you a call about 5 or 6 minutes
from now at Honeysuckle.
sPT Dick, we ended up at plus 106 in X and 74 in Y.
357 19 12 05 CC Okay, plus 106 and plus 74. I'll call you at
Honeysuckle.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-G]]OUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
357 19 16 54 CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC SIT, Houston. We've got some commanding to do on

the CMG heaters; so we'd like the DAS. And I'll
let you know when you can have it back.
SPT Okay, Dick. I won't be needing it for about

another 8 minutes.
CC Okay.
357 19 19 ii CC SPT, Houston. We notice S052 is not running at

the moment.
CC And, SPT, Houston. The DAS is yours.
PLT Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston; for the CDR. I got a couple of

things to mention to you, if you're not busy and
can listen. Otherwise, it can wait.
CDR Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, Jer. First thing: We talked about this

last night, but again, onyour instrumented PT
today, the VCG and the blood pressure data is
what we request on that. And the MA data is
strictly your op - option and not a requirement.
There are two messages on board for you that you
might look at. One of them is a troubleshooting
procedure on the legbands for when you do your
M092 this afternoon. You ought to get a look at
that message and - and accomplish it during that
M092. And finally, there - there's a checklist
change for the EVA Checklist in which we have
uplinked a table of data to accomplish T025 during
the EVA. And you might glance at that prior to
the scheduled EVA conference with Rusty a little
bit later today.
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357 19 20 53 CDR Okay, Dick. And the schedule criteria that we

talked about last night, I put on tape at 05:00.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much. We're about

30 seconds from LOS. I'll give you a call at
Canary at 20:06. And we're going to be dumping
the data/voice recorder at Canary.
CDR Roger.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. One of tomorrow's Flight

Plans is on board and in the teleprinter now.
SPT Okay, Dick. Thank you. In the white light corona-

graph TV display, on the second time we looked
at it, we had a fairly large shadow which was -
looked like a very large occulting disk. Both
the - the pylon for the disk and the occulting
disk itself moved a little bit off to the left.
We're still able to see the comet, however. I
imagine it must be our attitude and something -
maybe light coming from the Earth's atmosphere.
357 19 22 03 CC Roger, Ed; copy.
357 20 06 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary and Madrid for

iB minutes. We see the DAS is clear. We are
doing some commanding here.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC I'll let you know when we're through, Ed.
CC And Skylab, Houston. I forgot to warn you. This

is a data/voice recorder dump site.
SPT Dick, could I use the VTR for around 30 seconds?
CC That's affirmative, Ed. Go ahead.
B57 20 08 15 SPT Dick, it all went fairly straightforwardly on this

past data-take period. The only thing we noticed
was that on the WLC minitor, when we turn it to TV,
we got a fairly pronounced shadow of the occulting
disk in the monitor; however, when we had the
comet out at the edge, it was still very visible.
But we did have the shadow all the way through.
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CC Okay, Ed. Thank you. Were you able to - to see

the tail on the monitor?
SPT A very brief hint of it. Since you told me it

was to the right, I was kind of biased. I'll look
a little harder next time. I think I saw something
going off in that direction, hut not very clear.
CC Roger. Understand. Well, I was - we were just

kind of wondering if we - I'm sure we should con-
tinue to try to keep you updated where we think
what orientation the tail ought to be in.
357 20 ii 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We certainly don't have any

immediate explanation of the shadow that you see
on the 52. One possibility is - is that it might
be oblique sunlight possibly bouncing off the
occulting disk in 52. We'd like you to take a
particular look at it this next data take and then,
of course, later on this evening at that last pass
that Bill has and keep us updated on it.
SPT Okay, Dick. Will do. You've got on the VTR a

little picture of the Earth going by and also a
picture of the shadow.
CC Okay, good. We 'ii probably wait until we get a

good look at that before we get back to you and -
and see if we can psych out what it is.
357 20 15 25 SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Dick, just a couple points. One is the information

which was sent up on 55 for the correction of
the JOP S_,mmary Sheet. I got them all down here ;
got them on the sheet. Then I noticed that the
MECH REF for Lyman-alpha, I think, is the wrong
number. Should be 678 rather than 676. _ I don't
think that'll be a problem because we usually set
it early in the game and won't depend upon these
references for setting that position. The other
is if it would be possible when we do a JOP 18
to try to keep - keep the period of about a half
an hour or so before the maneuver starts relatively
clear, because I was unable to do my discussion
with 0wen any Justice this morning and because I
really had my mind all keyed up on getting the ma-
_ neuver going here and the nominalH-CAGE.
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357 20 16 33 CC Roger, Ed. Roger, Ed. We copy. And we certainly

recognize that about this - about this morning.
I think the little problem we were having - having
at the same time with the bearing temps and commands
was also aggravated a little bit, but we'll try
to do better and make sure you have that half hour
completely free.
SPT No problem. I just wa_ sorry because Owen had

worked up lots of good information and I really
wasn't able to give him full attention.
CC Roger. Understand.
SPT Also, Dick, during this last data-take period, we

saw what we thought was a star out at position of
minus 50 in X and minus lll in Y. It was not the
artifact that we've seen on the scope before, which
is - which we were able also to see, but this one
also moved when we made the compensation maneuver.
CC Roger, Ed. Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Car-

narvon comes up at 20:46. I'ii give you a call
down there.
CC And $kylab, Houston. As we go over the hill, I

forgot to let you know we got all our commanding
done and the DAS is yours. We're all set.
SPT Thank you very much, Dick.
357 20 18 39 CC Okay. See you around Australia somewhere.
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357 20 46 21 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for 14 minutes.
357 20 49 48 CC SPT, Houston. We see 82 Bravo running in - with

LONG WAVELENGTH. What we'd like to do is ter-
minate this exposure and start one with a SHORT
WAVELENGTH.
SPT Roger, Dick.
357 20 51 42 CC Skylab, Houston; for Jerry or Bill. Not sure how

far you guys got through the M509 post procedure,
but we notice that the duct FANS are not ON, and
you might want to get the thermal control system
reactivated. That procedure is page 14-4 of the
EVA check - I mean the Maneuvering Experiments
Checklist.
CDR Thank you.
CC Roger.
PLT And, Dick, just a quick word of explanation. I

had to terminate early, and Jerry had to do my
work. And actually, l've already commented that
the 509 runs are really taking all the time that's
scheduled and Just a little bit more. And I had
to quite early and run up to help Ed on the ma-
neuver. But anyway, that's - our comments are on
tape.
CC Okay, Bill. Thank you. And, incidentally, we

have received the comments you made on the Flight
Plan, from last evening, Jerry, and we're in the
process of distributing them and absorbing them.
And we'll be getting back to you on that when we
are all pulled together.
357 20 55 27 CC SPT, Houston. We checked on that reported star

that you saw. Actually, that was the planet
Mercury. And for your information, the magnitude
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presently is a minus 0.5, if you'd like to com-

pare that to the comet's brightness, if you get
another opportunity or can remember.
SPT 0kay.
CC And, SPT, Houston. We need the DAS so we can

command the heater' s again.
SPT You have it.
CC Thank you.
SPT Dick, I'd like to make a suggestion for the for-

matting of our JOB Summary Sheet here.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I'd like to label these building block 30's Alfa,

Bravo, Charlie, Delta, and so on have them refer-
red to that way in the pad. We got so darn many
of them here that we're working with, that it's
very easy to get yourself looking at the wrong
one, which is the trap I fell into a little while
ago.
CC Okay, Ed. We'll do that.
SPT Thank you.
357 20 57 51 CC SPT, Houston. The DAS is yours.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston; for the PLT or the CDR. We want

to get the - both of the EXPERIMENT 1 and 2 RE-
CORDERS OFF as soon as you're through using them
for ED41, or we're going to get too much on them,
and we'll not be able to support the medical run
that's coming up later.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC Thank you, sir.

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CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

MILA comes up at 21:33, and, Jerry, that's where
we're set up to - for Rusty to come in and have
a little conversation with you about the EVA.
Haven't seen him yet, but he called me a while
ago and said he'd be here; so we'll be standing
by there at MILA, 21:33.
CDR Okay, thank you.
357 20 59 29 CC Yes, sir.
357 21 33 28 MCC Okay, Skylab, this is Houston through MILA and

Bermuda for the next ii minutes, and I got a little
call for Ed there.
SPT Go ahead, Rusty.
MCC Yes. Ed, we Just noticed that we gave you a con-

flict here. Coming out of the 18 Delta, you've
got a nominal CAGE scheduled at 22:12. That's
12 minutes into your M092 run, and we suggest
that either Bill or Jerry pick that up for you.
f-
SPT 0kay, thank you.
MCC Okay, and then we're standing by for any questions

on the EVA updates or anything else you've got.
CDR Okay, Rusty. l've done my drawing; l'm going to

bring it back and put it on exhibit down at the
Nassau Bay Bank when I get back, it's so beautiful.
MCC It would be competitive.
357 20 34 24 CDR (Laughter) I think I understand the whole situa-

tion. I - I can picture this aperture about
4 inches deep with multilayers of circuit boards
and shields and all that good stuff. The part of
the web that you can see in the back of the aper-
ture toward the - toward the axis of the filter
wheel, that you can see down through the aperture,
is that part of the straight edges of the little
elongated octagon you're talking about?
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MCC That's affirmative, Jet. _e point of closest

approach of the filters - that is, there - that's
about a third of the way out along the radius of
the filter wheel. That's where those elongated
octagons come closest together. And that's about
a distance of 3/8 inches. And of course from that
point out, it goes in a pieshape thing. That is,
it broadens as you go toward the edge of the fil-
ter wheel, and it's got a lightening hole between
the outboard sides of the filter wheel - the
filters.
CDR Okay, I think I've got the picture then, Rusty.

It's Just a matter of being able to see and all
that, I guess.
357 21 35 _5 MCC Okay, how about the procedures themselves? Any

question there on your - on your branches, the
two branches, depending upon whether the wheel
rotates with power on or not?
CDR Well I thought that Ed asked a pretty good ques-

tion. And that was, what do we do if it - if it
does turn, besides nothing? Does that strictly
become a ground problem then?
MCC No, the branch in your procedure, if you've got

page 2.2-31 updated, you - If the wheel rotates
when you put power on it there, you go do_-n to
step 7. That is, if you come with a "yes" out of
step 2, you proceed to step 7. And you give Ed
a GCA to bring FILTER 3 in. And from that point
on, you never come out of STORAGE again. That is,
we will leave it forever after in FILTER position 3.
CDR Okay, I see.
MCC The only diEference being that you don't have to

rotate it manually then. You just have to let Ed
know exactly what moment to go to - to STORAGE
on it.
CDR Okay. How fast is this filter wheel moving?
357 21 36 55 MCC Well, it takes about 3 or 4 seconds to get from

one FILTER position to the next; so if it - if
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it gets into RESET/I, which we're asking you to

do, then it should take something on the order
of 6 seconds to get over to FILTER position 3
when you put power on the wheel. So we've asked
for Ed to go on to - to put power on by going to
position i for 5 seconds and then back to STORAGE.
And from that point, you'll just have to tell him
to give it another half a second or something like
that and watch it.
CDR Okay, I see it's a - it's a pretty slow mover.

I had no feel for how fast that wheel was moving.
MCC Yes. In fact, the wheel - when jou first look

in there with a mirror, Jerry, you're going to
have a little uncertainty whether you're really
seeing the filter wheel or exactly what you're
seeing. As soon as you've moved it, either man-
ually or electrically, it'll be obvious to you
that you really are looking at the filter wheel.
357 21 38 04 CDR Okay. Well, I don't see any further problem then,
Rusty. I think I understand the problem, and the
next step is to get out there and see it in real
life and see what we can do about.
MCC Okay, I don't think you're going to have any

trouble. It's Just a matter of poking the screw-
driver down there and pushing it around.
CDR How much force did _ou find you had to put on
that screwdriver?
MCC When you've got the driver in place, Jerry, and

you put it over against the i0 o'clock - 9 or
l0 o'clock position on the ellipse, and then you
start pushing to the left on the handle, the
blade of the screwdriver will bend probably
i0 degrees or so; so I would guess you put on the
order of 8 to i0 pounds side force on that screw-
driver. And you can definitely feel the wheel
drag when it starts moving.
CDR I see. Okay. Okay, I see you got us pinning

open 82A door, too.
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357 21 39 07 CC That's correct. And the ot the other change is

that we're bringing 149 in but not putting it
back out again. That is, we're just doing it one
way this time.
CDR I see. Okay.
CDR Okay. That's about all the questions I have,

Rusty. You got any other words of wisdom?
MCC No, I don't think so, Jer. The - the tape on the
screwdriver can help you out in positioning it.
If you stick the screwdriver down into the bottom
of the tape, you'll notice from the dimensions
that the tip of the screwdriver will then be
below the metal protector. That is, the tip of
the screwdriver will be between the protective
plate and the filter wheel; so you can almost go
_own at 12 o'clock with the screwdriver until the
bottom of the tape and then lay the screwdriver
in at an angle, so that it angles to the back
left corner, and then Just punch straight down un-
til you go through the filter wheel.
357 21 hO 05 CDR Okay, and then when you're through the filter
wheel, you're at the top of the tape.
MCC That's - that's correct, You can go in too far,

Jerry, in the sense that - Welllet me put it
this way. Don't go in much past the top of the
tape, or your lever arm gets short. And you can
also scrape the screwdriver on a little shield
down below the filter wheel. You won't hurt
anything, but it may Just hang up the screwdriver
a bit.
CDR I see. Okay.
MCC And, Ed, we'd like to have you off the DAS for a
couple of minutes while we load some momentum
biases.
SPT Okay, Rusty. You got it.
CDR Okay, Rusty. Well, that's about all I've got then.
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MCC Okay, we'll be monitoring during your prep to-

morrow also, in case you come up with any ques-
tions between now and then.
357 21 40 57 CDR Okay. We might - might possibly ask you about the
rigging in the screwdriver or the penlight routine
there. But it looks pretty straightforward Just
reading it. We'll see what happens when we try
to do it.
MCC Okay. Fine. Also, we wonder whether there are

any questions about the CSM takeover there, for
the CMG-fail situation.
CDR No, Ed and I haven't had a chance to go through

that yet.
MCC Okay. We'll stand by for any questions you might

have on that, also.
CDR Okay. And who's going to be on duty tomorrow for

EVA? The duty CAP COMM.
MCC Well, tomorrow it'll be - Dick will still be on.

But then on - on Christmas Day, it will be Story.
CDR Okay. Good enough, Rusty. Thanks a lot.
MCC You're welcome.
357 21 41 54 MCC Jerry, just a point of information. We're having

you tape the screwdriver close to the tether end
of that mirror so that when you're holding it in
your left hand to look down in there, you don't
have a cylindrical object in your hand. You've
got something that's sort of figure-eight shaped,
and it's much easier to hold it.
CDR Roger.
357 21 43 56 MCC Okay, Skylab, we've got I minute left here. We're
going to have Madrid in about 4 minutes at 21:48.
And, SPT, the DAS is yours.
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SPT Thank you.
CDR We'll see you tomorrow, Rusty.
BST 21 _ 15 MCC Roger.
357 21 50 O1 CC _kylab, Houston. AOS Madrid for 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. I have a question for the SPT.

Something we marmot verify on telemetry, Ed, and
we'd llke to make sure. On the last building
block you - when you were scheduled - there was a
little, short 5-second exposure right at the tail
end you ,,ere scheduled to do on S082B. We'd Just
llke to know whether or not you accomplished that
because if you didn't, we'll have to take that in
consideration the next pass. Over.
SPT No, I did not, Dick, and I'll do it right now.
357 21 51 28 CC SPT, Houston. Stand by on that Just 1 second,

please. Okay, $PT, Houston. That's perfectly
okay with us now. If you'll just get that out of
the way, we'll appreciate it.
SPT Okay, Dick. You got it. One of the problems with
doing that is, you're usually trying to squeeze
as much exposure time as you can. And then as
soon as you get the last exposure in, you're con-
cerned about getting back to attitude. I think
maybe we ought to see if majbe couldn't put that
particular thing in somewhere else - maybe some
where else as we're moving back.
CC Okay, why don't you let us think about that one,

Ed, and maybe we can find a better place to slip
it in there.
357 2i52 26 SPT Okay. Also, your question about the relative
• brightness of Mercury and the comet. In the ma-
neuvering, I have both out at about the same
radius, and they look fairly comparable to me. I
could not distinguish one as being much brighter
than the other.
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CC Okay. Thank you.
SPT Also, as I was maneuvering the comet back in to

put the slit on looking at the tail, I lost sight
of the comet at around 70 and 70. That's plus 70
in X and 70 in Y.
CC Houston; roger.
SPT And, Dick, one last thing. When I was down - We

had the comet do_.n at the bottom of the display
before we moved in again. There was an exception-
ally bright source at the position of 140 in X
and minus 60 in Y. It was small but exceptionally
bright.
CC Roger, Ed. Thank you.
357 21 55 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

Next station contact is Carnarvon. It comes up
at 22:21. A couple of reminders as we go over
the hill. We - Ed, you've got a powerdown for
unattended that's listed in the pad there.
357 21 55 36 CC And also a reminder to get Jerry or Bill to make

up for our mistake there in that conflict in the
nominal H-CAGE in the last few steps of that
procedure.
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357 22 21 16 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for 15-1/2 minutes. And we'll be dumping the
recorder here at Carnarvon.
CDR Roger, Hank. You sound a little better today.
CC Yes, I think I'm over the worst part of it, Jer.
CDR Did you take your Dristan this morning?
CC What was that again?
CDR I said, "Did you take your Dristan this morning?"
CC Oh, had a little Actifed; that's _]most as good.
357 22 24 06 CC Skylab, Houston; for the CDR or PLT, whichever one

can break loose. At your earliest convenience,
we'd like to get 256 in a SINGLE on S054 - Make
it S056.
357 22 35 h6 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Texas at 07.
357 23 07 37 CC Skylab, Houston through Texas and Bermuda for

15-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
357 23 i0 44 CC CDR, Houston. Just for info, we have one small

change to your S019 pad. And any time it's
convenient in the next hour or so for you to copy
it, I can read it up.
CDR Okay, I'ii give you a call, Hank.
PLT Hank, PLT here. Do you have a call set up for

me today?
CC Stand by i.
CC That's affirmative. It's Canaries at 02:40, LEFT

to RIGHT.
357 23 ii 39 PLT Thank you.

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357 23 26 B5 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8 minutes.
357 23 32 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Carnarvon at 01, about 29 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank. If we got time, you can slip me that

S019 change.
CC Okay, Jer. The last exposure at 01:23 should be

90 seconds, unwidened instead of 120.
CDR Okay, 90 seconds, unwidened.
357 23 33 32 CC Roger. That's it. Thank you.
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358 O0 02 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through

Honeysuckle for 4 minutes, and we're in the nu z
window now. If - if it's convenient for one of

you to get the update, we'd like to take a look
at it to check our fine maneuver.
PLT Okay, Hank. I'll be right with you.
358 00 05 15 PLT Okay, Hank. You got it.
CC Thank you, Bill. And we -
PLT Take a look and see if that looks compatible.
CC Roger. Looks real good to us. And we do have a

change to your fine maneuver; we'll try to get it
up to you at Honeysuckle. And that'll be a real
short pass, only about a minute long, but it may
be long enough for us to do it. And it'll be
coming up here in about 6-1/2 minutes.
358 00 05 44 PLT Okay; I'll be ready to copy.
358 00 12 34 CC Skylab, Houston with a pad change for the PLT.
PLT Go, Hank.
CC Okay, I'll read them in order: X, fine maneuver

should be 51063, minus 0.51 degrees, for monitor-
ing. Y should be 50235, and that's plus 1.57 de-
grees. Z, 50223; plus 1.47 degrees.
PLT Roger. Quick readback: That's 5.1063 - or rather

51063, 50235, and 50223.
CC Okay, good readback, Bill, and we'll see you at

Texas at 42. And we plan to dump the recorder
there.
358 00 13 30 PLT Okay. Thank you.
358 00 h2 29 CC Skylab, Houston through Texas and Bermuda for

16 minutes. And we'll be dumping the recorder
here at Texas.
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PLT Roger, Hank. I think Jerry's using it right

now.
358 O0 42 48 CDR Hank, we're going to - I'm using the recorder now
to debrief M509, and we'll be using it again for
S019. I'ii terminate the debriefing. And can
you set me up with another recorder for S019?
CC Stand by. We'll get right back to you, Jer.
358 00 4h 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're in the process of command-

ing the recorder. We have a redesignate for you,
and you can go ahead and record as you desire.
CDR Thank you, Hank.
358 00 45 15 PLT Hank, would you have them take a look at that
Y rate?
CC Wilco.
PLT That may be a result of that change in the man-

euver, though.
358 00 h5 40 PLT It's no big deal. It's Just outside the limits
given, but we changed to the fine maneuver; so
that may be the reason.
CC Okay, Bill, it looks - it looks okay to us.
CC Just as a little reminder, Skylab, now that we've

redesignated recorders, a little RECORD light will
blink at you.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Hank.
358 00 55 18 CC Skylab, Houston. You might be interested in the

results of the pro-football playoffs today: Miam_
beat Cincinnati 34 to 16, and the Cowboys beat the
Rams 27 to 16; so the Cowboys will play the Vikings
next Sunday, and Miami will play the Oakland Raiders.
PLT Soulds like a couple of good games today and two

good ones coming up.
SPT You got a pool going, Hank?

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CC Roger. We had a little bitty one down here. And

we'll be off next - next Sunday; so we'll get to
watch a couple.
PLT Have a bag of popcorn for us.
CDR Have a Coors for me, Hank.
CC Roger. We'll - we'll tap a cool one for you.
$PT I'ii take a little of both.
358 00 57 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Madrid at 03.
358 00 57 34 PLT OkaY, Hank.
358 01 03 57 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank.
358 01 ii 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

Tananarive's coming up at 25.
358 01 ii 35 PLT Roger, Hank.
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Time: 358:01:18 to 358:02:h5
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358 01 24 16 CDR CDR.
CC CDR, Houston. Were you calling?
CDR Roger, Hank. How many exposures are there in an

SO19 film canister?
CC There should be 150 in the canister.
CDR Okay. Well, at about frame number 58 we had a

problem. It will not move into the SLIDE RETRACT
position, and I'm afraid we got ourselves a JAmmed-
up canister now. The blow-by-blow description is
on tape. I've asked on the tape if Karl would
respond and let me know if there's anything more
we can do.
CC Okay, Jer.
358 01 27 29 CC CDR, Houston. You did way that you cannot get
it to SLIDE RETRACTED, is that correct?
CC Okay. I think we had something similar to this

happen on the last mission, and the thing is
probably jammed up for good there. I guess you
can go ahead with a normal stow, and we'll have
_o put that one away.
CDR Okay. That's too bad.
CC In the meantime though, we're going to take a

look at - if there is anything we can do.
CDR Okay.
358 01 30 17 CC The other canister should have about 100 frames

on it, so I don't think we're hurting as bad as
we could be.
CDR That's good news.
358 01 30 46 CC Skylab - Skylab, Houston. I think we're about

to lose you here. We'll see you at Honeysuckle
at 50.
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358 01 49 40 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank.
CC And, CDR, Houston. Did you have any questions

on the S052 ops on the first ATM pass tomorrow?
CDH I haven't had a chance to look at them yet.
358 01 50 09 CC Okay, 0wen passed some words to Ed on that, and

I didn't know whether you all had a chance to
talk about it or not. Essentially what it is, is
welre getting a partial eclipse tomorrow with
the Moon and we're going to get two passes on it
unattended, and your first pass in the morning
wouldn't complete that sequence. And what we're
going to do is ask you to start your S052 ops
ASAP on the orbit, so you'll be starting below
400 K. And with this data, trying to catch the
Moon behind the disk, we're hoping to determine
in the vignetting function for the corona - the
coronagraph.
CDR Okay, Hank, I'll look over the pad and also get
a little briefing from Ed before I start.
CC Okay, good show.
358 01 54 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 50 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you at Goldstone at 18, and we'll be
planning to dump the recorder there.
PLT Roger, Hank. Would you hit me again with the

ANTENNA on the VHF?
358 01 54 38 CC Roger, Bill. It's LEFT to RIGHT.
PLT Thank you.
CC And that's at Canaries at 02:40.
358 Ol 54 47 PLT Thanks a lot.
358 02 18 i0 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 9 minutes,

and we'll be dumping the recorder here.
SPT Roger, Hank.

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CC And, SPT, if you got a minute,I'd like to chat

with you about something on tomorrow's Flight
Plan. We've been looking at it here, and I guess
we're not too satisfied with the way if looks
here in regard to JOP 14. You're the one that's
trained on this thing and we're doing a handover
right in the middle of the cycle there, and also
you've got a very short eat period there. And
we were wondering how it would work out if we let
you take the whole pass there and then, well,
during the 30 to 35 minutes of nighttime when
the comet is set during the J0P 18, to grab your
chow.
358 02 19 16 SPT Hank, this is the first I had a chance to look at

the schedule, let me do that and I'll be right
back with you.
CC Okay, and, CDR, Houston.
PLT He's listening, Hank.
358 02 19 39 CC Okay, we're - we noticed too that we've - in our

EVA preps we - we don't have them started together,
and what we want to try to do is perhaps flip-
flop - the - what we're goingto do is flip-flop
the EVA prep and the PT for the SPT so that the
colander and the SPT can get started out together
and get 2 - 2-1/2 hours of simul preps there. I
think that's the way it should be done.
CDR I tell you what, Hank, why don't you Just pump us
Up a new Flight Plan.
CC I think that's probably going to be the best thing

to do, Jet.
CDR Okay.
358 02 21 16 SPT Hank, would you say your reco_endation relative

to switching my Flight Plan around?
CC Roger, if - the way you look at it there, you've

got the part of an ATM pass there at around 16:30
and then you hand over the rest of it to the PLT.
And, in other words, we're splitting one daylight
cycle there on JOP 14, and you've got a very short
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eat period in there before the J0P 18 maneuver

and what we're suggesting is that you take the
whole ATM pass, since this is the one you've
trained on, the J0P 14, and then in the middle
of the J0P 18 during the dark cycle, or night
cycle of about 30 to 35 minutes, grab your chow
in the middle of that.
358 02 22 04 SPT Yes, that's crispy bar day tomorrow so I think I

could do that real easily. When is ED-41? Oh,
I got it, maybe I'ii knock that one out tonight.
One of the problems is Hank, today I was really
pushing it at J0P 18, right from the beginning
to the end. I still have yet to do the food
transfers and clean up the old J0P 18 Sl,mmsry -
J0P Surmnary Sheet. So that's a real long - real
long task and I'ii have to get started a little
bit more of it tonight and take your reco_endation
fo/ tomorrow.
CC Okay, I understand it, then you - you want to go

ahead and do it like I suggest that you run that
whole daylight cycle.
SPT That's right, Hank.
CC Okay, we'll do it that way then.
358 02 27 03 CC SI°T, Houston, we're going to go ahead and delete

ED-41 so don't worry about it tonight or tomorrow
either.
SPT Hank, it's already set up here. Why don't you just
let me try and take a few laps around it when I
get a chance.
CC Okay.
PLT Hank, I have an ATM frame count if you want to

copy.
CC Okay, Bill, we're ready to copy.
PLT 3060, 933, 540, 2756, 1523.
CC Roger; we copy.
358 02 25 16 CC PLT, Houston do you have the 82A frames?

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PLT 7 ; sorry about that.
CC Okay, copy.
358 02 24 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'li

see you again at Bermuda at 31 in 4-1/2 minutes.
358 02 31 34 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 5 minutes.

And for info, if the recorder for recording ED-41 -
if you do decide to do that - von't he available
from 02:40 to 02:50. We've got to dump it at
Canary.
358 02 35 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute _om LOS. We'll

see you at Canaries at 40. And a reminder to PLT,
that's his private comm.
358 02 41 ii CC Skylab, Houston, we're through Canaries for

8-1/2 minutes.
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Sk'YLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
358 02 48 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're coming up on a minute to

LOS, and we'll see you again at Tanarlve at 01.
And for the CDR, one quick question. Did the
film hatch close prior to your canister stow; did
you have any problem with that on S0197
CDR No, the film hatch works normally. I - I even

tried cycling the hatch in hopes that it might
clear something up, but it didn't do any good.
358 02 49 15 CC Okay, thank you, Jer.
358 03 03 44 CC Skylab, Houston through Tanarive, 4 minutes.
358 03 04 21 CC Skylab, Houston. As a reminder, we're in the nu Z

update widow.
CC SPT, Houston. We're in the nu Z update window.
358 03 05 02 SPT Thank you, Hank.
358 03 06 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS;

we'll see you at Honeysuckle at 25 and that's the
site for the evening status report.
358 03 25 12 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for

9-1/2 minutes. And we're standing by for the
evening status report.
358 03 26 00 CDR Be with you in a second, Hank.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We saw the C&W. It looked like

CMG SAT. We've fired a couple of mibs and it
looks like everything's okay.
358 03 26 h6 CDR Okay. Ed was just checking on them for me.
CDR Okay, Hank. You got your recorder on?
CC Ready to take it.
358 03 27 26 CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 5.5, 5 heavy, half light; SPT,
7.8, 7.8 heavy; PLT, 6.5, 6 heavy, 0.5 light.
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Volume: CDR, 1600; SPT, 1550; PLT, 2250. Drinking

water gun: 7 - CDR, 7699; SPT, 3188; PLT, 9422.
Body mass: CDR, 6.308, 6.307, 6.306; SPT, 6.360,
6.361, 6.356; PLT, 6.242, 6.239, 6.240. Exercise:
CDR, method Alfa, minus 5 minutes, minus i000 watt-
minutes. SPT, method. Alfa only was done. PLT,
no change. Medications: CDR, none; SPT, none;
PLT, Tinactin as directed. Clothing: CDR, one
pair of shorts, one shirt, one pair of trousers;
SPT, none; PLT, one shirt. Food log: CDR, salt,
11.5, deviations, minus one strawberry drink,
minus one tea, rehydration water, plus one; SPT,
4.0 salt, zero deviation, plus 16.0 water; PLT,
4.0 salt, zero deviations, zero water.
358 03 29 07 CDR Okay, the photo log: 16-millimeter, documentary

photos, Christmas activities, Charlie India 126,
24, Charlie India 125; Delta Papa-l, Charlie India 126,
10, Charlie India 125; M151 (M509) Charlie India 77,
92, Charlie India 71; M509 ops, Charlie India 77,
65, Charlie India 71; M509 ops, Charlie India 7h,
12, Charlie India 72; ED-72, Charlie India 77,
60, Charlie India 71. Nikon 1 and 2, no change;
3, Charlie India lll, 25; 4, no change; 5, Bravo
Hotel 05, h8. A footnote on number 5 is frame
count for yesterday should be 44 vis 43;
70-millimeter, Charlie X-ray 17, 160; ETC, no
change; EREP, no change. Alfa 1 - in the drawer
configuration: Alfa l, 02, Charlie India 75, 68,
Charlie India 73, film broken: Alfa 2, 05, Charlie
India 93, 12, ike Tango 06; Alfa 3, 06, Charlie
India 126, 10, Charlie India 125; Alfa 4, 08,
Charlie India 77, 60, Charlie India 71. Footnote
on transporter 8. The Charlie India 76 leader
was lost during the loading or before loading,
we're net sure which, and Charlie India 77 was
used from Foxtrot 7. In the back of drawer A, 07,
Charlie India 74, 12, Charlie India 72. Okay,
accomlishments: none. Inoperable equipment:
transporter 02, film broken at 68 percent remaining.
Bill has some comments on tape. We very much -
We feel pretty strongly that we probably should
not be testing the cameras in the time mode, be-
cause that's how transporter 03 got broken film
and now transporter 02 is broken and there was
one earlier that was broken that way. Unscheduled
stowage: none.
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358 03 31 59 CC Okay. We copy, Jerry, and got a couple of quick

questions, one for you and one for Bill. For you
first, in reference to your M509 run, back on
mission day 35. We apparently have los on tape
your description of your handheld maneuvering unit
ops. We'd like to get you, if you would, to record
what you can remember some time in your spare time.
CDR Okay. Is that the day that I did it following

Bill's pass?
358 03 32 30 CC That's affirmative.
CC And for the PLT, we're unable to find on the tape

the reference to the $201 film transport. Number i
being replaced by number 2, back on mission day 37.
Could you verify that that's been done?
358 OB 32 55 PLT That's affirmative. That's was replaced. Since

it was on the pad, I didn't report it.
CC Okay. Thank you, Bill.
358 03 33 15 CC And on the ATM console, we'd like to get the

S054 X-RAY IMAGE switch OFF please.
358 03 33 26 CDR Okay, that's in work.
CC And we're about a minute and a half from LOS; the

next station is Hawaii at 45. That's your med
conference. I also got a couple of things for
you here. For Ed, if he would go up into R-I in
the command module and look in the back of the
Entry Checklist, I think he'd find something of
interest there. Also, on side 2 of his tape
number 7, after an acoustic tone, there's something
he'd be interested in. And for all three of you
up in R-I3 attached to one of the APPK bags, there's
a little zipper bag that's got some things in
there you might be interested in.
358 03 34 12 CDR Okay, thank you, Hank. If you no - notice the

big momentum change in the spacecraft, that's
because all three guys Just clattered into the
con_mand module.
358 03 34 22 CC (Laughter) Roger. We copy.

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358 03 37 15 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 5-1/2 minutes.

This is the last pass of the evening; I thought
if you wanted to I'd give you a little rundown on
the news.
PLT Yes, hit us with a little news, current events

and all that sort of thing.
358 03 57 31 CC Okay. Pardon the expression, but the gulf between

Israel and Arabs remains just as wide as on the
eve of October war. But at the end the first -
of the first series of meetings Egypt appease -
appears pleased that the conferees tackled the
problem of troop pullbacks, and Israel appeared
happy that the conference agreed to reach decisions
by consessus rather than majority voting. And
Israel and Jordon independently will start negoti-
ating - negotiations next month on disengaging
forces along the full length of their confrontation
line. The Jordanians and Israelis face each other
along borders and cease-fire lines stretching
about 250 miles from the Sea of Galilee to the
Gulf of Aqaba. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger has returned to Washington from
the Geneva peace conference with considerable
optimism that the antagonists will reach agreement
on the separation of their armies along the Suez
Canal. Also, in the Middle East, the price of
a barrel of crude oil has skyrocketed. Persian
Gulf oil producers advised that they have raised
the price of their oil from $5.11 to $11.65 per
barrel, effective January the 1st. At the Swiss
border - border Sunday, huge traffic j_m_ formed
at many points on the French side, apparently be-
cause Swiss custom guards enforced a requirement
that foreigh-registered cars have their gasoline
tanks at least two-thirds full when they enter
Switzerland. Congress went home last night. They
adjourned until mid-January. But they didn't
pass the emergency energy legislation, and so the
emphasis has been put on voluntary fuel-saving
measures during the next month.
358 03 59 07 CC The President expressed regret at the inaction

but said he is confident we can get on with the
job without having the legislation. The President
today blended relaxation with a review of Kissinger's
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MiddleEast peacemissionsat the President's

Camp David retreat. Prices were higher this
year and lights were lower, but the Christmas
spirit has shone through as America put in the
final touches for the holiday season. Large
crowds were at the nation's shopping centers
yesterday. The weather has been moderated - mod-
erated good over the - the nation, and - but one
shopping day remains before the magic hour of
Christmas Eve arrives. In Nottingham, England,
Mrs. Shirley Turner will not eat Christmas turkey
this year. She can't because her Jaws are cemented
together. She had them cemented that way to help
her shed some of her 217 pounds. And there's
a big, gigantic brush fire in Argentina. It has
ravaged hundreds of square miles of land south-
east -or southwest of Buenos Aires and has
caused power failures of up to 3 hours in the
capital. Firefighters said the fire's 30-mile
front was approaching the border of La Pampa and
Buenos Aires provinces, about 450 miles from the
capital. Hey, you might look for that one here
next suitable opportunity.
358 04 00 22 PLT Yes, we've seen it.
CC I've already given you the football scores - the

big games to take place next Sunday. Last night
the Aeros won over Los Angeles 8 to 3, but the
Rockets were beaten by the Cavaliers, I believe
it was.
358 04 00 41 PLT Thank you, Hank, that's a good rundown.
358 04 00 56 CC And one last comment; Skylab, we'd like for you
to discard your Flight Plans and details that we
uplinked to you earlier; we're sending a whole
new set up to you with the Flight Plan, we think,
in a little better shape than it was. We'll say
good night to you now. Get a good night's rest
and we'll see you in the morning.
358 04 01 18 PLT Roger. Good night, Hank, and thatks for the tip.
We now have one present under our tree.
CC Hey, that's great.

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SPT Hey, Hank, are the tape recorders free to use now?
Affirm on the tape recorders?
CC That 's affirmative.
SPT Thank you.
358 04 02 01 CC Ed, we are going to dump your voice recorder at

Bermuda at 04:08, butif you run the experiment
recorder, we can get the voice off of that, if
that's what you're going to put on it.
358 04 02 Ii PLT Okay, Hank, thank you.
END OF TAPE
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CC (Music) "The Twelve Days of Christmas")
358 12 06 08 CC Good morning, Skylab. Merry Christmas Eve to you

all from us down here in Mission Control. Over.
358 12 06 22 PLT Good morning, Bruce.
CDR Good morning, Bruce.
CC And we're coming to you through Hawaii here about

2-1/2 minutes left in the pass. Next station con-
tact is 2h minutes away at the Vanguard at 12:31
with a data/voice tape recorder dump.
358 12 08 i0 CC i minute to LOS. We'll talk to you over the

Vanguard. And Just for our own information, did
the music get up to you all right this morning?
CDR Yes, it sure did, Bruce. It picked up right about

in the middle of the song.
358 12 08 29 CC Right, we noticed that down here.
END OF TAPE
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358 12 31 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

9 minutes. We've canceled our data/voice tape
recorder dump here. We would, however, like to
get one of you to con_nand the EXPERIMENT 1 TAPE
RECORDER to stop, please, from either of the two
control panels down in the workshop area itself.
I think that's 542 and 617. Over.
358 12 31 54 PLT That's complete, Bruce.
CC Okay. If you would, do you recall noticing last

night when you shut off EXPERIMENT 2, whether the -
the EXPERIMENT 1 RECORDER light was on or not? I
think that that's the recorder that has the inter-
mittent TAPE MOTION light on.
CDR Bruce, the EXPERIMENT 1 recorder light doesn't

even come on up here so we never know for sure
whether it's ON or OFF.
358 12 32 46 CC Okay. That's what we figured the situation must

have been.
358 12 39 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 16 minutes through Tananarive
at 12:55. Out.
358 12 59 h0 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 20 seconds to LOS at

Tananarive. Next station contact in 38 minutes
through Hawaii at 13:37, that's next station in
38 minutes, Hawaii at 13:37. This is Houston.
Out.
358 ].3 37 37 CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Hawaii for

9-1/2 minutes. Over.
358 13 38 19 CDR Roger; Bruce. Got a couple of questions for you.
CC Okay. Fire away, Jer.
CDR Okay. The first one, Bruce, is we're thinking on

this TV-81 of using two television sets. That is,
one hooked up at TVIS number 555 and the other one
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at 642, and we have a question. We don't think

it hurts anything to run them both at the same
time, but our question is, as we shift from one
to the other, is there any - any possibility that
we'll drop the VTR off the line? Our idea is to
use one - one television camera for a little
while, and then turn on the upstream input station
and that should essentially cut the input from
the downstream station and put the upstream sta-
tion on the recorder, and the question is, will
that cause the recorder to cut off?
358 13 39 19 CC That's negative, Jerry. The recorder will run

unperturbed. All you're doing is cutting into
the video line upstream. Over.
CDR Okay. Good enough on that one. And the other one
is on this morning, on JOP 12 Delta. Yesterday
there was on several occasions mention made about
starting S052 early and all that sort of thing and
not a word is on the pad this morning about it.
I'd like to confirm that you want me to start
S052 early on JOP 12 Delta. And I'd like to know
how early - you want me to do it at, say 2 minutes
early?
358 13 40 17 CC Okay, Jerry. On the solar activity pad, the SAP,

we've got the note for you that says, "Please
note early start of ops at 13:52, for eclipse cov-
erage." And that's the time we'd like you to
start S052. Over.
CDR Okay. Understand. That was a little - to me a

little bit vague. I think I'd rather seen some
note in the body of the schedule, right there at
13:52, noting that this is an early start.
CC Okay. We concur. Go ahead.
358 13 41 08 CC While we're talking to you, Jerry. We've got the

time for your phone call set up, if you copy.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. 03:34 Zulu on day 359 through Canary,

LEFT ANTENNA, shifting to RIGHT. Over.
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CDR Okay. 03:34, LEFT shifting to RIGHT.
CC And additionally, we - we show that the EXPERI-

MENT 1 TAPE RECORDER is still operating. If you
turned it OFF, or tried turning it OFF from down
below, as I think Bill did over Vanguard last
time, is there any possibility you could have
started it from up on panel 204? And in that case
you'll have to turn it off from up there. Over.
B58 13 41 59 CDR Okay. We'll turn it off from up here. Last time
he tried at 617.
CC Roger; we copy.
358 13 42 52 CC Thank you, Jerry. We see your recorder is stop-

ped now.
358 13 46 08 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute until LOS.

Next station contact in 23 minutes through the
Vanguard, in port, at 14:09. Out.
END OF TAPE
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358 14 i0 27 CC Skylab, Houston. A merry Christmas Eve to you.

We're at Vanguard for 8 minutes.
358 14 l0 B3 CDR Hello, Richard. Merry Christmas to you.
CC Thank you, sir. How y'all doing this morning?
CDR We're all bright eyed and bushy tailed.
CC Hey, Jerry; I've got a helpful hint from the INC0

about TV-81 and the management of the - of the
change in camera input stations. _at he suggests
is, is that immediately after you switch camera
inputs to the recorder, he suggests that you pause
about 20 seconds prior to commencing talking again,
and this'll allow time to get the video and the
voice all synced up and in good shape so we won't
lose any of it. Over.
358 14 ll ll CDR Okay. Thank them.
CC Roger.
CDR I think what we'll do is we'll waste a little video

tape, too, Just checking it out to make sure it
does work that way. Seems to me back weeks ago
we did have the VTR quit on us when we did some-
thing with the switches down below.
CC Okay. Probably good thinking. And, Skylab, I

forgot to warn you, but we're dumping the data/voice
recorder here at the Vanguard.
CDR Roger.
358 lh 13 33 SPT Morning, Dick, and merry Christmas to you and the
purple team. Got a question for you.
CC Roger. Merry Christmas to you, Ed, and go ahead.
SPT Okay. On the J0P 18D pad, all the way through we
talked about Lyman-alpha as being 57h or 676, and
yet the difference between MECHANICAL and OPTICAL
is 104. Shouldn't that really be 678 for MECHANICAL
REFERENCE?
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CC Stand by just a second on that, Ed. I'ii get

right back to you,
SPT Thank you.
358 14 14 50 CC SPT, Houston. I think I'd like to beg off. We

did recognize the question from yesterday. We do
think the numbers are correct, and Bill Lenoir is
getting prepared to discuss this particular point
with you at the ATM conference this morning. And
I'm afraid I'm not very prepared to discuss it,
so if I can put off an answer to then - until then,
I'd appreciate it.
SPT Okay, very good. I'll wait for Bill. Thank you,
Dick.
CC Okay.
358 lh 17 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We'ryabout a minute and a half

from LOS. You're getting ready to go the long way
around, Vanguard to Vanguard. I'ii call you back
here at a time of 15:47. And, Jerry, one more note
on the checkout of the TV. Whatever - remember,
whatever checkout that you do prior to the initial
starting of your TV-81, you can rewind the recorder
so that you don't lose any tape. Naturally, if
you do some checkout in the middle we'll chop that
out as appropriate. So I'ii give you a call at the
Vanguard at 15:47.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Dick. We - let's see, rewind it

at a one-quarter time interval, right? The factor,
one quarter?
CC That's affirm, Jerry.
CDR Okay. And by the way, looking at the WHITE LIGHT

CORONAGRAPH we got ourselves an extra - extra disk
in there.
CC Roger. Can you describe it any more as we go over

the hill? We still have about 30 seconds.
CDR Yes. It looks like it's about an inch in diameter,

and I'ii bet it's the Moon.
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CC How about that! I bet it is. We certainly hope

it is.
358 lh i8 33 CDR Me tool
END OF TAPE
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Time: 358:15:30 to 358:17:00
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358 15 46 39 CC Skylab, Houston. Merry Christmas at the Vanguard

for ll minutes, and we'd like you to stay off the
DAS here a little bit. We'd like to uplink momen-
tum bias commands and command the heaters, and
we'll let you know when we're through with it.
CDR Okay, we will.
CC And Jerry, if Ed's available, we're going to have

another long LOS here between Vanguard and Guam,
and I needed to talk to him about this upcoming
ATM pass and then one, - couple of short things
on the JOP 18 Delta.
CDR Okay. Go ahead. He's right here at the panel.
358 15 47 16 CC Okay. Ed, first of all on the ATM schedule pad,

that's this one coming up at 15:52, and also the
following one, there's a - that note in the right-
hand column about JOP lhset-up times is pretty
much con - succeeded in confusing us. Just make
sure there's no confusion on your part. The times
we would like you to operate by are the times listed
on the pad. For instance, the 2h minutes remaining
does include a couple minutes early operation.
So Just go by the pad and you'll be okay.
SPT You said go by the pad, but that does include the
early operations. Is that affirm?
CC That's affirm. If you'll use the times in the

pad that does include the early operation so you'll
- you'll get what we want.
358 15 _8 05 SPT Okay. Very good. I Just finished up step 2, and

maybe you want to take and look it over.
CC Okay. Also, Ed, I have a couple of comments on

the JOP 18D pad. I've succeeded in filling in my
blanks like I'm sure you already have this morn-
ing. There's a couple of things that are not on
there I thought I'd mention to you. First of all,
the orientation of the comet this morning in your
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field of view will be such that the tail again

goes to the right as you view, and it'll be orient-
ed about 19 degrees above the horizon. The - the
second thing that we wanted to let you know is,
is that we compensated in today's pad for the
pointing error. The error that we've seen in the
last two pads has been consistent in generally the
same direction and magnitude. We have compen-
sated for that this morning, so we have more hopes
that it'll appear right at the pointing that we
have on the pad. And so if you'll let us know how
it turns out, we'd appreciate it.
358 15 49 05 SPT Sure will.
CC Okay, great. That's all I had. l'm standing by

for 8-I/2 minutes. We'll let you know when we're
through with the DAS. Skylah, Houston. The DAS
is yours.
SPT Roger.
358 15 50 26 CDR Hey, Dick. We're all through with the VTR now if
you want it.
CC Roger, Jerry. Thank you very much.
CDR It'll probably need a little bit of editing to

take some of the rough spots out, but in general
it flows pretty much the way we had in mind.
CC Okay, Jet. We're looking forward to looking at

it and we'll - we will edit it if - if required
and we sure appreciate it. Hey, incidentally,
Jer, just for your information, due to the way the
orbits are running today, we're not going to start
dumping that for - until about 22:00 until we start
getting our stateside passes, but we haven't for-
gotten it.
CDR Okay. If you leave it up here we may Just add

something to it if we think of it.
358 15 51 22 CC Okay. Good show. INCO tells us that you still

have 14 minutes left on the tape, Jerry, so if
anything else comes up between now and 22:00, feel
free.
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CDR Okay.
CC Hey - incidentally, Jerry, ATM has requested a

Christmas present on some of those 14 minutes that
you put a little comet TV on there.
SPT We'll give him a short burst of it, Dick.
CC Okay.
358 15 5B O0 SPT ATM Just got a little short burst of a WLC with
another occulting disk added.
CC Okay, good. Thank you.
CDR Hey, Dick. Did you get any TV downlink on that

last ATM pass?
CC That's affirm, Jerry. We did.
CDR Okay.
B58 15 56 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

Your next station contact at Guam at 16:h4, and
Bill Lenoir has returned to the land of the living
and he'll be talking ATM conference with Ed there
at Guam. We're also going to d-_mp the data tape
recorder. And be advised, here in Houston today
we really are dreaming for a white Christmas, be-
cause it's raining outside.
CDR Is is cold enough to snow tonight?
B58 15 57 1B CC Well, we wish - but it's not. It may be cold

enough to snow somewhere, but not in Houston.
358 16 44 30 CC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference, and we'll

be turning OFF the CMG heaters here, so we need
the DAS for a while. Over.
CDR You've got the DAS, Bill, and hello. Go ahead.
MCC Good morning. Let me just give you a couple of

quick insights to the near future here. Coming
up on mission days 42 through 46 - and today's
mission day 39 - the ATM planning is fairly comet-
heavy. Mission days 40 through 46 - that's
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tomorrow through 46 - ATM operations on the Sun

itself are fairly light, mainly synoptic. There
will not be much other than that. Tomorrow we
will not have an ATM conference. You have one
synoptic pass late in the day. The following day,
Wednesday - Wednesday for us, I guess that's
mission day 41 for you - AI Krieger will talk to
about the status of SO54 and where they want to be
going on from here, based on the results from
tomorrow's EVA. One thought for your next JOP 14
pass coming up here, need to pass on to you that
the fact that the 2 minutes that you're asked to
allow for uncertainties in there, have already been
figured into the start times. So if you add in
another 2 then we'll just - everybody's putting
his 2 minutes in. If you operate on the times,
then that will be taken care of. Over.
358 16 45 55 SPT Okay. Understand.
MCC Okay. And the DAS is back to being yours again.

On the Sun you're looking at, we wonder if you
see any coronal connections between active regions
00 and 05?
SPT I have not this morning, Bill, but I've not had
much time to really look at it, however. I will,
maybe in this next orbit, I'll have a shot at it.
MCC Okay; good. If you see any, we'd sure be anxious

to know about it. Also, one other thing is on
our H-alpha photos here, we can see the old path
that P-59, which would now be F-59, used to take.
You might just look at that if you're interested
in seeing if it's going to reform or trying to
follow it. One word from - -
358 16 46 42 SPT What's it's location, Bill?
MCC Oh, it's the long streamer that begins at the

northern edge of fil:ment 60, sort of wanders, oh,
looks like northeast up through some of the fila-
ment bits that are i ft and then arcs back through
north to east ending on one bit of filament material
up around, oh, it looks like about 015 on the bear-
ing at about 0.7. You can see the channel in there
on H-alpha, or at least we can on the ground.
Pa_e 5 of 8/2293
SPT Okay, I will. Thank you.
MCC Okay. And 55 wants to thank you for the spectrum

of the very hot spot in 05. They wanted you to
know that all of the coronal lines that they see
are very hot there, confirming what you had
reported, and want to thank you for the good work.
While we're talking 55, let me try to explain the
grating and the references here. As I understand
it, and this is another thing that if you talk to
six people, you'll get seven different answers.
The main problem is only in MECHANICAL REFERENCE
and really, then, _'s only in extended MECHANICAL
REFER_CE. In OPTICA_ REFERENCE, there 's no
problems. You keep getting a definite reset every
time around. There's an elliptical cam that
rotates in there and this introduces certain
uncertainties, I should say --
358 16 48 06 SPT Could you say that first part again about the
uncertainties? One and not the other.
MCC Yes. OPTICAL REFERENCE, there's no problem. It's

extended MECHANICAL REFERENCE. There' s an elllp-
tical cam that rotates during the grating drive
that introducesuncertaintiesin exactlywhere it
is. And these apparently are cyclical over an
8-scan period, so when you've been off the optical
and scanned around eight times, you've gotten
about back to where you started. However, you're
not 100-percent sure. What the lob number is, is
that when you would have been at optical 0000 for
the polycrometer, in order to make sure that this
essentially plus or minus 2 grating position
uncertainty introduced by the elliptical cam, in
order to make sure this uncertainty doesn't take
the lines on DETECTOES 4 and 7, which are near
the edge, and push them off, which has happened,
we bias it by an extra 2 to move them more toward
the center so that we're better able to handle
the plus or minus 2. However, in general, you
would add 102 to the optical number to get the
corresponding mechanical. The 10b number is Just
a bias applied by us to the all balls optical
setting in order to make sure we don't lose two
lines. Did that help any?
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358 16 49 31 SPT Yes, I think I understand the situation and the

status of the problem, and it also tells me we
ought to use optical wherever" we can.
MCC That's right. It's mainly on the comet when we're

off, and, that 1 day when we did so much operations
off the limb and we had it MECHANICAL for quite a
few cycles. This is, I believe, where we started
seeing the problem.
358 16 49 63 SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. One comment here from 52 on the mirror

control for the comet. Prior to taking your fast -
your three 1-second exposures in FAST SCAN, just
after having looked at it, try to remember to flip
to theCAMERA position. On yesterday, apparently
you did not, and as you know, the mirror will auto-
matically flick the camera at the completion of
the first regular exposure. So, unfortunately,
all three 1-second exposures were at the back of
the mirror. No big problem. We did get the full
FAST SCAN sequence after that, but if possible,
just try to remember to go back to CAMERA.
SPT Oh, all right. I thought that after you completed

one it would go, and I thought - I realized that
at the time I at the time I probably should have
given it one more, realizing that, but - Okay.
358 16 50 4_ MCC Yes. What it is is not really the completion, or

rather your off; it's the normal timing out of the
first exposure. The same thing that turns the
OPERATE light on.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
358 16 50 56 MCC Okay. And one other word here from 52. They've
been seeing same PES changes here during comet
observations. They believe it's because they're
a little bit close to the Sun and we're getting
scattered sunlight in the PES. I mention this
to you only in the event that the PES should in-
terpret that as the 5-arc-minute signal, or 20-arc-
second signal, I should say, and shut down the
operation. You would not see an OPERATE light
come on at the completion of the first sequence,
and there will be no data taking. We really expect
you to do nothing about that, and we don't expect
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it to happen, but I want to tell you just in the

event that it does so that it doesn't surprise you.
SPT Okay. Thar_ you, Bill.
MCC Okay, and next time you're looking at the comet,

we'd appreciate as complete a description as to
what it looks like to you so that 52 may begin to
start homing in on whether they want you to opti-
mize it or to place it for a better viewing of the
tail. In particular, we're interested in how much
tail you can see.
358 16 52 01 SPT Okay. We'll try to do that, Bill. The unfortunate

part is you can't see it very well in the WLC when
we're doing the JOP 18 since the only other time
you really get a chance to get up there to the
window is when we're taking 233 pictures, au_ we
have the camera in - in our way. Times been pretty
tight and we just haven't had the time to get up
there. We'll try to do it whenever possible,
though.
MCC Okay, fine. We understand all the problems. And

one last word here from all the folks in the back-
room since we won't have a conference tomorrow.
Everyone wants to wish all three of you a merry
Christmas and remind you to leave the trash air-
lock unlocked so Santa Claus has a way to get in.
SPT A1, tell them thanks very much. I think Santa

might have another idea in mind. We'll - we'll
see.
358 16 52 45 MCC Okay. And we're 1 minute from LOS here. The
next call is Vanguard at 17:23. And we can either
stop talking or if you've got anything to say, we
can press on.
SPT Yes, Just a couple. Merry Christmas to all the

folks in the backroom who've been working so hard
on this, and I hope we can come back and give them
a few presents in another h0 or 45 days. And also,
I did have a question on the J0P 18D and that's
between the two periods at which the comet is
available. On at nightside, if you will, or after
it's set the first time, would they like us to move
so that the comet will be in our field of view
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again on the WLC and then try to move in and

repoint a second time, or do you want to just sit
where we initially pointed and hope that the drifts
are not too large?
358 16 53 35 MCC Okay. The original plan was to just sit and keep
your drift compensation going. We'll re-evaluate
that and get back with you if we want to change
that. But originally, we had thought we'd do the
one pointing and then keep our drift compensation
going.
SPT Well, we will keep the drift compensation going,

but then there's other errors which come in on
top of that because the pointing system, of course,
has its own internal drift.
MCC Roger. Probably is a better idea to repoint and

if you've got the time for that, I'd certainly
advise doing that.
358 16 54 05 SPT Okay. We can always make that small maneuver out
during the - after the thing is set and then as
soon as it comes up again, we've got well, quite
a few minutes there before we can start taking
data anyway.
MCC Sounds like a good idea here.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay, and AI Krieger will see you Wednesday. I'ii

talk to you again Thursday.
358 16 54 27 SPT Okay. Thanks very much, Bill. Merry Christmas

to you.
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358 17 23 50 CC Skylab, Houston. Merry Christmas at the Vanguard

for ll minutes, and we'd like the DAS. We're going
to do a DUMP INHIBIT and maybe even command the
heaters if they look like they need it.
SPT Okay, Dick. You have it.
CC Okay, Ed, and if you guys are near one of the

speaker boxes, I'd like to read to you a Christmas
message.
CDR Go ahead. We're all present.
CC All present and accounted for, huh? Okay. "To

Jerry, Ed, and Bill. We have been watching and
listening with admiration and with awe as you have
settled down to a routine of life in space. Mankind
is gaining fundamental knowledge each day as a
result of your activities, your observations of
the Sun, the Earth, and the comet Kohoutek, and
from your reports of your own adaptation to the
space environment. As we approach the holiday
season, we want to wish you a very Merry Christmas
and all the best for a happy new year." Signed,
James C. Fletcher and George M. Low. And we're
uplinking a copy of this so you can hang it on
your Christmas tree.
CDR Thank you kindly. That'll be Christmas card

number 2.
CC Roger. And Christmas ain't even over yet.
CDR Right.
SPT Sure appreciate the good words, Dick. Send our

Merry Christmas to them.
CC Roger, Ed. Will do.
PLT Thank you, Dick. George is a good man, and so is

Dr. Fletcher. And Merry Christmas to them both and
to everyone.
CC Roger. Thank you very much. We'll pass it on.

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358 17 25 45 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
SPT Thank you.
358 17 26 23 SPT Dick, we had a hangup in ACTIVE mode i in FILTER

number 3 on 56. Apparently, its the first one
we've experienced with this camera.
CC Okay. Copy.
358 17 29 30 PLT And, Dick, we're just passing over that area that's
on fire down here in Argentina. Looks like it's
still burning.
CC Roger, Bill.
PLT Next pass, if we have a chance, we ought to be

able to get a real good picture of that.
CC Okay. l'm looking at the map, and I guess you

caught me kind of short, l'm - I wasn't familiar
with it. And maybe the weather will be good and
you can get a picture. We'll take a look.
358 17 34 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS.

Canary comesup at 17:h4.
358 17 44 59 CC Skylab, Houston. Merry Christmas at Canary Islands

and Madrid for 12-1/2 minutes.
358 17 49 17 CC SPT, Houston. We show S082 Bravo in LIMB POINTING.

We think it should go to WHITE LIGHT.
CC Roger.
358 17 51 24 CC SPT, Houston. I guess we're going to have to ask

you to say good by forever to JOP 14 and go ahead
and start your termination here per the pad a
little bit early. We want to get started with
getting our acquisition Sun sensor updates in
preparation for the 18 Delta.
358 17 51 56 CC SPT, Houston. l'm not real sure I got up last

time. We're going to have to ask you to start
reconfiguring JOP 14 so we can start doing our -
getting our acquisition Sun sensor updates in
preparation for 18 Delta coming up.
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SPT I got you, Dick, but I won - wondering what the

ACQ SUN SENSOR'S going to do when it's looking at
an occulted Sun.
358 17 52 50 CC SPT, Houston. You get a Christmas "gotcha" for

that, I think.
SPT Okay. You want me to press on with the 18 or not.

Our strapdown may not be in good shape.
CC Stand by 1.
358 17 54 33 CC SPT, Houston. One thing we do need from you is

FINE SUN SENSOR DOOR to CLOSE. We do think you're
doing the right thing in going ahead in prep - in
preparation for this 18 Delta maneuver coming up.
We're not sure what the effect of the acquisition
Sun sensor is going to be on attitude pointing to
the comet; so you might expect some minor errors
there.
PLT Roger. We copy that, Dick.
CC Thank you, Bill.
358 17 55 28 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're about to go in a

keyhole here in Madrid. I'll give you a call
coming out of it. We'll have about another minute
of AOS following the keyhole.
358 17 57 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS. Guam

comes up at 18:23. I'll give you a call there.
CDR Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger. And all your entries in preparation for

18 Delta look real good to us as you go over the
hill. So we'll see you at Guam. Have fun.
CDR Will do. Thanks, Dick. See you then.
358 17 57 27 CC Okay.
358'18 22 5_ CC Merry Christmas, Skylab. We're at Guam for

7 minutes. And, Ed, when you get to a convenient
point, we'd like to have the DAS just for a minute
to command the heaters. And we'll give it right
back to you. No hurry.
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PLT Stand by on that Just about 30 seconds, if you

would, Dick. We're - -
CC Test -
PLT - - ... we initialize strapdown.
CC That's fine, Bill. You let us know when it's

convenient.
PLT Okay.
358 18 24 23 PLT Okay, Dick. You have it.
CC Okay. Thank you much. We 'ii let you know when

we're through.
PLT Roger.
358 18 25 25 SPT Say, Dick. If the star is not visible at all when -
at bright time, there's two options. One is to
just press on with the building block even though
we can't see it, and the other is to try to make
a correction, using the star tracker, and then
move out about i00 or so so that we could see it
and 52 could get some data on it.
CC Let me - let me make sure I understand you, Ed.

You - Understand you cannot see the comet. Is
that correct?
SPT Well, it's not rise time yet; not until 30. But
if 30 comes around and we cannot see it, then we've
got two options: Either to try to take data even
though we can't see it and be assured that we're
getting any data, or we can try to maneuver so
that we can have little better assurance, using
the star tracker. If we use the star tracker,
then we'd have to - That slides it to the center of
the WLC field of view, theoretically. What we'd
do then is to back out another i00.
CC Yes. Okay. Stand by just a second.
358 18 27 03 CC Ed, I guess we think the best approach would be

to use the star-tracker method that's already -
you know, that's listed in there - in the check-
list if you don't see it. We certainly would
recommend doing that in an attempt to get it.
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SPT Okay, Dick. That firstbuildingblock 30 which

we do is to try to get the star in the 52 - or
the comet in the 52 field of view, and that would
be underneath the occulting disk if we did it
correctly with the star tracker; so I recommend
going out with the star tracker and then Just
backing off 100, say, up or down.
CC Ed, we concur with that. That's a good approach
SPT Thank you.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.

Honeysuckle comes up about 5 minutes from now.
I'll call you there.
SPT Dick, should we be seeing a star about half of our

field of view in the WLC, to 45 degrees up and to
the right?
CC Stand by. It's - -
SPT Is that Mercury again?
CC We'll check it, Ed. If I can't get an answer here

before LOS, I'll have one at Honeysuckle AOS.
SPT If it is, I think we got ourselves a comet. And

we can also Just begin to see the tail.
B58 18 30 04 CC Okay, stand by.
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SKYLAE AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
358 18 3h hl CC Skylab, Houston; Honeysuckle for h minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick. We ma - maneuvered what we believed

to be the comet. It had a slight indication of
a tail sloping to the right and slightly upward.
And we also had, I believe, Mercury in the upper
right-hand quadrant of the field of view.
CC Okay, we concur with that - that, Ed, and we feel

sure that you are - were looking at the comet.
SPT Very good. Thank you, Dick.
358 18 35 20 SPT We made one maneuver, and that was to put it down
there on the X-axis at about 130 our. And we're
now on the first building block 30.
CC Okay.
SPT Started right at 33.
CC Okay.
SPT Dick, I have a question for 56. They are only

down for a 13-minute exposure. Would they really
like a 25-minute one?
CC Hang on.
358 18 36 04 CC SPT, affirmative. They would.
SPT Okay.
CDR Say, Dick, we had one Flight Plan come up here,

and Just at the very tail end, our teleprinter
failed completely.
CC Gulp. Roger. And Phil says to tell you that

you've got a 3000-word malfunction procedure.
You need to get a piece of paper and start copying.
CDR We feel a comm problem coming on.
CC (Laughter) Roger.
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Canary comes up at 19:22, and we're going to dump
the data/voice recorder there.
SPT Talk to you then, Dick.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. In case you didn't like that

first Flight Plan in the teleprinter, we Just put
another one in there.
CDR You're all heart, Houston.
CC Roger.
CDR Humbug.
358 18 38 52 CC Bah.
358 19 22 16 CC Merry Christmas, Skylab, at Canary Islands and

Madrid for the next 13-1/2 minutes. And, Ed,
when it's convenient with you, we'd like the DAS
for a little bit and - to do some commanding.
CC Skylab, Houston. Not sure you copied my last.

Merry Christmas at Canary Islands and Madrid for
the next 12 minutes, and we'd like to do some
commanding. So if - when it's convenient, Ed,
we'd like the DAS.
SPT Hello, Dick. You've got it.
CC Okay. Thank you very much. Incidentally, if

Jerry is close by, l'd like to - I have a mission
note here that I'd like to read up to him concern-
ing the upcoming T025 prep.
358 19 24 09 CDR Go ahead.
CC Hey, Jerry, when you do the T025 prep, we'd like

you to install a fresh battery in Nikon 02. We
think there should be two new batteries stowed
in F510-J in the film vault. What we'd like you
to do is swap one out so we'll be sure and have
a good one tomorrow and mark the used one with
tape and put it back in F510-J.
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358 19 24 58 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours. And, Jerry,

one more note. There was a question the other day.
on batteries for the gyro-stabilized binoculars.
We believe there are six batteries in S-908 and
three more batteries in W-719 [sic]. Over.
CDR Okay; thanks. We'll take a look.
CC Okay, and I'm assuming Jerry copied the business

about changing ou - out in Nikon 02.
PLT He got it.
CC Okay. As long as I'm talking, I can't stand to -

to stop. One question for Ed. When it's conveni-
vent for you, we'd appreciate an estimate of the
comet brightness as compared to Mercury, which is
still of a_gnitude of minus 0.5. Also, we'd
appreciate any estimate of the coma size and tail
length. Yeu're about the only observer with a
good viewing these days since the comet is in
such close proximity to the Sun.
358 19 26 l0 SPT Okay; Ed. In terms of Mercury, it's still not

quite as bright as Mercury. Yesterday, I thought
it was approximately the same. I'm not sure why,
but today it Just appears a little bit fainter
than that, although I'm sure it has not decreased
in brightness. A lot has to do with where it is
in the display. Even though I did have it fairly
far our from the - the radius of Mercury, was
perhaps - is a - in a little bit. I can give you
a better estimate of that when I can look at it
out the window with some binoculars, whenever
I can get a nightside free. Hold on, and I'll
see if I can estimate what sort of a tail length
that I can see in the WLC.
CC And incidentally, Ed, one of the thing - We are

interested in how it appears in - in S052 as well
as - as visually; so that - that information
does help us.
358 19 27 l_ CDR Houston, CDR.

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CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Hey, Dick, I don't think we were really overwhelmed

with response on the problem that came up on the
last EVA with the shutter-speed knob on the long
eye relief for T025. We haven't heard whether
anybody agrees or disagrees with us that our
problem is thermal, and there really hasn't been
a whole heck of a lot done to change the situation.
And so we're not really too - feeling too terribly
confident that that thing is going to work tomorrow
for very long.
CC Well, I tell you what, gerry. That's a good point.

That - that'll job is to talk about it down here
some more, and we'll get back up to you this
afternoon, later, I imagine.
CDR Okay.
358 19 28 28 SPT Say, Dick, I have to say that looking at it with

the 52, I'd be pretty hard pressed to see it go
beyond anything, say, past 0.05 to 0.08. That's
about the maximum I can see the tail. I think
we've just got a lot of background noise in the
tube or relative to that type of faint feature
that we're looking at. When you turn the
BRIGHTNESS and the CONTRAST up, you get a lot of
light noise which shows up, and you can't see
the comet unless you have things up at that level.
So I - I think we've got a good tool, perhaps, for
pointing and knowing where the nucleus is, but for
actually assessing the real details of the comet,
I'm afraid we're going to have to do that with
binoculars out the window.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you much.
358 19 29 18 SPT One other point just to - which made me feel warm
that we were really looking at the right object.
And that is, I looked at the drift rate or the
motion before we had made any compensation maneuvers,
while we were still doing that first building
block 30, and at 18:32 I had a Y of minus 3 - -
MCC With negative 3.6, frequescy 2534. That label

seems a bit high.
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SPT - - my estimate, that's just about the drift rate

that we're putting on the Y-axis. And the X-axis -
It was too far offscale to make any kind of
estimate.
358 19 29 59 CC Roger, Ed. Copy.
END OF TAPE
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358 19 3h 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. I'll

give you a call at Carnarvon at 20:02.
CC And all the Flight Plans for tomorrow are on

board.
CDR Can we take our choice?
PLT Tell Phil we're going to draw straws.
CC Phil says you can take your choice on St. Patrick's

Day.
358 19 35 20 PLT Thanks a lot.
358 20 02 38 CC Skylab, Houston. Merry Christmas at Carnarvon

and Honeysuckle for 14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger. Happy Hannkkah.
CC Roger. Incidentally, we have been getting a lot

of Merry Christmas wishes for you guys, and
there's a couple more Christmas cards coming
up on the teleprinter this site.
CDR Beautiful. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CDR We really do appreciate getting them, Dick.
CC Roger, Jet. Fun to let you have them. And,

CDR, Houston. I think I have a - a few words
in explanation on this T025 problem you all had
on the first EVA.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
B58 20 03 35 CC Okay. First of all, we have done some thermal

tests over at Marshall, and they have convinced
us that the problem was not a thermal problem
with the camera. We did send up a general message
to Bill - which he accomplished for us - on
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day 34, which was like 5 days ago. And based

on his report of - That was general message 3435,
which was a camera MAL. Based on his report from
that, we concluded that there wasn't anything
wrong with the hardware. We did change Nikon
today. You're going to use Nikon 02 tomorrow,
whereas you've used 01 the other time; so as far
as we're concerned, we don't expect any problems
tomorrow as long as you assemble the thing per the
prep procedures. And the long relief eyepiece -
I mean the long eye-relief viewfinder is on there
firmly; so we're - we're happy about it.
CDR Okay. Let's hope it works.
CC Roger that.
358 20 07 35 CC SMylab, Houston. Just an update for you, for

your planning on the VTR. You still have about
8 minutes remaining; so you can make your plans
accordingly. And the Christmas cards I mentioned
a minute ago are on board.
CDR Roger.
358 20 12 46 CC SPT, Houston. When it's convenient to you, we'd

like to command the heaters off. We'd like the
DAS.
SPT It's yours, Dick.
CC Thank you.
358 20 13 58 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
SPT Thank you.
358 20 15 38 SPT Hello, Dick. Let me tell you how the pointing
went on this last building block 30.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay. We maneuvered out in order to get the

comet down at the bottom on the display; that's
at about X plus 130. I have been making all of
the compensation maneuvers including the one at
2000, which is the third one which I had to make.
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Moved out to put it at 130 and figured the same

scale factor in that I used to move it up to
zero. I came out with it exactly at 130. However,
it was at a Y of about plus 4 or plus 5 - I'm
sorry - minus 4, minus 5. So I put a factor in
there of 5 in order to move it in with the
nucleus again right in the center. I'm not
sure that should have come right out even. That
is, it should have come right out on the X-axis
because I had Just gotten done doing a compensation
correction. You'd have some of it on the VTR -
that is, where it went out at 130 and then also
the maneuver in. You can see Mercury and the
comet both move up in your display.
CC Break, break.
SPT ... comet ...
CC Skylab, Houston. Thank you much, Ed. We're

going over the hill here at Honeysuckle. We're
looking forward to that VTR. Bermuda comes up
at 20:52.
SPT Okay. So long.
358 20 17 13 CC See you, Ed.
358 20 51 40 CC Skylab, Houston. Mery Christmas at Bermuda for

the next l0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Hello again.
358 20 54 44 CC SPT, Houston. We're still about 5 or 6 minutes

away from the upcoming maneuver time. We sure
would like to cycle the bearing heaters; so if
you'll stay off the DAS, real quickly we'll
do that and give it right back to you.
SPT Okay, Dick. Give me a call when you're through.
CC Okay.
358 20 55 55 CC SPT, the DAS is yours. Thank you much.

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358 20 57 ii SPT Dick, Just at the close of this last night cycle,
before I got started on the ATM, took another
look out at the comet, and l'd say that the tail
that I was able to see was about 6 or 7 degrees
long. But I think the reason there is that it
comes up - and it rises tail first and it's tough
to spot. So you've got a fair amount of scattered
sunlight already in your field of view so that
you really don't see it against a dark background.
However, knowing where to look, I think we might
be able to do a little better Job next time. Once
the head is up, you're so darn close to the Sun,
you've already got a lot of scattered light. You're
not getting a real true estimate of the length
of the tail. However, the coma certainly is a
heck of a lot brighter. It's very intensely
bright at the center. And the shape is not
completely spherical; it's - it's more of a
hemisphere with a - with a slight cone on the
back end, which gradually tapers into the tail
itself. And I see only evidence of one tail so
far; that's the dust tail.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you very much. Wh - Where were

you looking out? Out CM-I?
358 20 58 21 SPT That's correct, Dick. Out CM-I; that's a real

good view there.
CC Roger. I wish I could see it from there.
SPT I wish you all could.
CDR Hey, Dick, how does the 02 makeup look for now?
CC Hang on.
CC CDR, Houston. We're satisfied with 02 makeup

now, and we can secure - secure it.
CDR Okay.
358 21 00 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about I minute from LOS.

I'ii give you a holler at Madrid at 21:05. And
incidentally on transporter 07, which has
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f _ CharlieIndia film in it, there's about 12 percent

remaining. Tomorrow morning, we're going to
have to reload that so we'll have a fu - full
mag for the EVA; so you're welcome to use that
12 percent on transportter 07, if you like.
CDR Okay. Thanks, Dick.
358 21 00 30 CC Roger.
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358 21 04 56 CC Skylab, Houston, Merry Christmas at Madrid for

8 minutes.
PLT Merry Christmas, Dick.
CC Ho-ho-ho.
SPT Got some pretty good presents today, Dick. It

looks like we got ourselves some good data on the
eclipse and also some good comet data. Things
are coming along pretty well. I hope tomorrow's
as productive.
CC Roger that. It sure sounds like it's been going

good on all that, sure glad.
SPT Again ASC0 and all those troups down there have
been working hard because these 18 Deltas are
getting better and better.
CC Roger. Well they're listening and they appreciate

your words. Incidentally, a Christmas card from
the purp - purple gang is coming up on the tele-
printer now.
358 21 06 05 SPT Very good. I could tell by the sound of the

teleprinter they has to be good.
CC The purple woodpecker working again.
PLT Dick, I got a quick question on S020 prep.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
PLT Roger. Under S020 prep it says obtain the fol-

lowing and one of the items is SO20 EVA exposure
protocol decal (M as in Metro 126). Now there
was an exposure decal on the cue card which I
thought was the one we were going to install.
Would you check and see if the one that was taped,
Scotch taped to the SO20 cue card is in fact the
correct one to use?
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358 21 07 39 CC Okay, Bill, hang on.
CC PLT, Houston. One thing that will help us give

you a straight answer, would you look on that,
that decal that was taped to the cue card and
tell us if frame 1 is 60 minutes?
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay, Bill, that is the one we want to use.
358 21 08 29 PLT Thank you, sir.
CC Roger.
358 21 l0 40 CC SPT, Houston. We'd like to have the DAS to issue

a command.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. And I'll let you know when we're through.

Incidentally, I realize you're monitoring the
maneuver but be sure not to forget the powerdan -
powerdown for unattended ops.
SPT Roger, Dick. Will do. Thanks for the reminder.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. DAS is yours, thank you.
SPT Thanks, Dick.
358 21 12 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Carnar-

yon comes up at 21:38, and we're going to dump
the data/voice recorder at Carnarvon.
358 21 38 ll CC Skylab, Houston. Merry Christmas at Carnarvon

and Honeysuckle for 15 minutes.
CC And also Skylab, here at - down here, we're going

to take the VTR and rewind it so - in preparation
for dumping it so from here on out we got it.
SPT Okay, Dick; it's yours.
CC And one more thing I forgot, we are dumping the

data/voice recorder here at Carnarvon.
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SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston; request S052 TV off.
SPT You got it.
CC Thank you much.
358 21 40 33 SPT Say, Dick, maybe I really didn't make it clear

when we started out there but we ended up Just
about where you folks told us we were going to
be. I think we're about 100 and you predicted
for a ll0, and 50 and we got 54.
CC Roger. Sounded real good.
SPT Yes, I'm really impressed with the way the

ground has been able to come uo with solutions
for this. I - I think we've been doing maneuvers
/ with extreme accuracy much better than I'd expect
W we'd be doing, and also we're doing it on two CMGs.
We're doing it with a - probably a frequency much
greater than I thought we'd ever be able to be
doing on two CMGs and actually a little higher
frequency than we ever had anticipated using
f three CMGs. So peopledown there are really
getting smart and my appreciation to them.
358 21 41 31 CC Thank you much for the kind words, Ed. We -

have been a whole lot of people of working down
here to make the maneuvers good. Today's maneuver
we were a little - a little worried about because
of your gotcha on the occulted Sun and what
effect that would have. But we - in - in the end
I don't think I ever got back to you, but we
eventually decided that that would have very
little effect. So we do think that the better
pointing today was due to the corrections they
made overnight.
SPT Roger. I wasn't sure how fast that would be

updated there. And I think we called it a little
bit close there, but there's - you don't get
many times when you get a partial eclipse and
also a good opportunity to look at the comet.
So we had to take what it was. I think it all
worked out pretty well.
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358 21 42 18 CC Yes, I think you got the one chance of the

century.
SPT Now if you can just get FAO to schedule that again
next week.
SPT While l'm standing here, would 52 like a little

tweak to get themselves really Sun centered?
CC Stand by.
358 21 43 04 CC SPT, Houston. Negative. They're already oper-

ating in unattended ops and they're satisfied
the way they are. Thank you, anyway.
SPT Okay.
SPT It takes almost as long to erase a JOP 18 Sum-

mary Sheet, that's six of them, as it does to
fill them in.
CC Well, I guess that's something I didn't think

of. I've been making copies of mine each morning,
and filling in my pads and then just throwing
them away. I forgot you had to erase. We -
358 21 52 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS, Texas

comes up at 22:30 - correction 22:24. And in
between these two sites, the purple gang is going
to hand over to the bronze team. So we'd sure
like to wish you guys a very, very Merry Christmas.
Have a nice EVA tomorrow, and we'll see you the
next day.
CDR Thanks a lot Dick, and all you guys on the purple
gang have a nice holiday.
CC Roger. Thank you much; we sure will.
SPT Appreciate your good Christmas cards and all the

greetings. Enjoy the holidays. Good working
with you, and we'll see you again.
358 21 53 20 CC Okay.
358 22 23 54 CC Skylab, Houston. The bronze team is with you

through Texas for 15 minutes.
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PLT Hi, Hank.
CDR Merry Christmas, bronze team.
CC Merry Christmas to you. How's it going today?
SPT Been a real good day, Hank. We got a good look

at out personal eclipse and we got a good J0P 18D
p done, did it all with two CMGs. I think it's
been working out real well.
CC Sounds good.
CC PLT, Houston.
358 22 25 35 SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, this is really for everybody, but especially

for you since you do the preps. We don't want
M151 on the suit donning for EVA-2, so when you
get down to that place in the checklist, which
is on page 1.2-h, the DAC prep, omit that.
SPT Okay, understand. We'll omit the CAD for the -

for the prep for EVA.
CC Roger. No - no - no M151 on the suit donning.

That's the part we - we want to omit.
PLT Okay, I got that, Hank. No M151 on the suit

donning.
CC That's right, Bill, thank you.
CDR What? Did Rudy use up all his film allocation

on the ETC preps?
358 22 27 13 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, you many get a nominal

H-CAGE here. We're watching the gimbals and it's
getting pretty close.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROb_D VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
358 22 36 08 CC SPT, H_iston. A few more words on the MI51. In

answer to your question, the data that we had
preflight will better match the next two EAVs; so
we want to re - preserve the film that we have and
concentrate on those two EVAs for better correla-
tion with the ground data.
SPT Okay. Thank - Hank, thanks for the explanation.
358 22 37 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you at Madrid at h3.
PLT So long, Hank.
358 22 43 01 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank. Hank, I'd like to make a request

that we move the 133 ops tonight to tomorrow night.
It turns out I have to take the 133 cable out of
the SIA and the preps which we did today, and
that'll get us out of configuration. Also, it'll
save us a little bit of time tomorrow morning on
the PSA, so we can get going on time.
CC Spt, Houston. We concur that.
358 22 4h 30 SPT Okay, thank you, Hank. I'll write it in then at

the bottom of the flight plan we have up at the ...
35@ 22 49 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you at Carnarvon at 17, and that's about
27-1/2 minutes from now.
CDR Roger, Hank. See you then.
358 23 17 3h CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 5 minutes.

And if one of you is free, we'd like to - to
get another nu Z update. We missed that last one.
SPT Okay, Hank. Coming up.
358 23 19 ii CC And, Skylab, for info, we watched about the first

i0 minutes of your TV81, as it was dumped over
your last stateside pass, and we enjoyed it very
much.
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CDR Thank you, Hank.
CC And somewhere along through this pass, if it's

convenient, we'd like to get a progress report on
the prep.
CDR Okay.
PLT Roger, Hank. This is PLT. l'm on 1.2-5; in

process of doing the S054 tool prep.
358 23 20 17 CC Okay; we copy.
PLT And I have a question for the EVA troops.
CC Go ahead.
PLT On page 1.2-2, the comm is the - Yes, the comm

connector for the EV-3 is never connected up
here to 225. I thought that I had missed it
on the last EVA. I ended up with it not connected;
so we got it at the end. But I was very careful
this time, and there isn't a step in there to
connect up your comm-and,power 11_hilical to
225 connector. That's the power-and-comm umbilical
that's pulled out the bag at - below the ATM.
CC Okay, let us look at that a minute, Bill. We're

discussing it now.
CDR Hank, this is CDR. Ed and I are Just finishing

up page 1 of the cue cards.
CC Okay, we co - -
CDR That's page 1.1-1.
CC We copy.
358 23 22 37 CC Skylab, we're - we're approaching LOS. We'll

see you again at Honeysuckle at 29.
358 23 29 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We got you for about a minute

through Honeysuckle. And in answer to the PLT's
question about hooking up the CCU there, that is
done tomorrow. And it's on page 1.2-14 of the
checklist. If you hook it up tonight, it - it
will put power on the thing. And we don't want
to do that.
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PLT Roger, Hank. Thank you.
CC And it's - and it's not hooked into 217, Bill.

It's hooked into 225.
PLT Roger. I thought that's what I said.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. As we're going over the

hill here, we need a MPC INHIBIT.
CC We'll see you at Texas at 59, and that's about

28 minutes from now.
358 23 30 37 CDR Roger, Hank.
358 23 59 00 CC Skylab, Houston through Texas and Bermuda for

16 minUtes. And we'll be dumping the recorder
here at Texas.
END OF TAPE
Time: 359:00:00 to 359:01:30
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359 00 O0 35 CC Skylab, Houston; for info we had a optional HHI70

scheduled tonight, but we've got a lazy laser and
it's not lasing so you can forget about it.
359 00 01 36 CC Skylab, Houston, we'd like to be the first to wish

you Merry Christmas since you're operating on GMT,
the old clock Just rolled over to Christmas.
CDR How about that.
SPT Thank you, Hank, and Merry Christmas to all you

folks.
CDR Hank, we have a special greeting for the Skylab

Program Director Bill Schneider, if you're ready
to copy.
CC He's listening.
CDR Okay, we'd like to wish Bill a very happy birthday

or maybe we should say a merry birthday and a
happy Christmas.
359 00 02 26 CC He's grinning from ear to ear now and he appreci-

ates it very much.
CDR Roger.
CDR I hope he has many more years as successful as

this one.
SPT I wish he could be up here for a little while to

enjoy a little of the fruits of his labor.
CDR Hey, Hank, you got a little thunderstorm action

down your way?
CC I think the activity is a little bit east of us

now. We had some come through earlier in the day.
359 00 03 07 CDR We see some real rip - rip snorters going on out
there. I guess it's out to the east of you all
right.
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359 00 06 08 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Hank, in about the last i minute, we think maybe

there was something vented or something dumped or
something like that around the spacecraft because
righ% here just past the terminator we were sud-
denly enveloped in a - in a cloud of a million
little fireflies and it's really beautiful. We're
just wondering if one of the systems somewhere
along the line just dumped or burped.
CC Roger. We'll check.
SPT Must have been something impulsive, Hank, because

the first time we saw it they were really whistling
by, coming from the aft end and then they slowed
up. I guess it's just the slower ones coming by
now.
359 00 07 00 CC And, Skylab, for info, all three of your families

are in the viewing room now watching the playback
of TV-81.
CDR Very good.
SPT Very good. Merry Christmas to them all. Even the

little guy.
PLT And Merry Christmas to the Pogues.
SIT I bet they sure are Jealous of that tree.
CC How did you make that tree, Jer?
CDR Say again, Hank.
CC How did you make that tree? What did you use?
359 00 08 34 CDR We made it out of herring bones out of the food

cans.
CC That was a real neat tree.
CDR Thank you. Hey, the entire area - New England

area is clear as a bell. New York City, you Just
can't lose.
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SPT Not just New York City, Hank, but the old hometown
of Buffalo is wide open.
359 O0 09 26 CC And Skylab, Houston. I'm just informed that there's

some Christmas cards in your mail boxes.
SPT Say again, Hank. You dropped out in the middle

of the sentence.
CC Roger. I think there's a Christmas card in your

mail box.
SPT That's right, Hank.
CDR I heard the woodpecker a minute ago, if that's it?
PLT Are you reading us, Hank?
PLT Okay, I'm to the point in the checklist where I

ought to be stowing a DAC in the airlock module.
You mentioned something about using transporter 07
and shooting up the film. Were you planning on us
stowing that in the morning?
359 00 l0 22 CC What we're going to do, Bill, is thread up a new

magazine on that transporter and we were just -
wanted you to shoot up that film.
PLT Okay.
CC But that'll be done in the morning. That info

will be on your thread pad tonight.
PLT Okay.
SPT Hey, Hank, for the past few nights when we've been
going over the Great Lakes, we look up north, and
there's an awful lot of light up there. So I
figure the old guy has really been working hard
and he's got lots of help. So maybe my kids -
they've got some hope but they better keep in
line at least for another day.
CC I think they're getting the message.

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CDR Merry Christmas to all the Carr family.
359 00 12 ii CC CDR and SPT, Houston, could you give us a progress

report on your prep?
SPT Yes, Hank, l'm just finishing up doing a rather

meticulous job greasing up all the zippers and
the O-rings. I'm just about done with that now,
and I'll press on for the - ought to move fairly
quickly from here.
CDR Okay, and I just got finished sampling the fungus

that's among us.
CC We copy. (Laughter)
359 00 13 22 CDR Hank, I found a couple of tiny colonies of fungus

that we hadn't got before - the mildew. I sampled
those, and they're in vile number 15 Echo. And
we've got it stored ambient in the wardroom for
7 days.
CC Roger. We copy; 15 Echo.
CDR Right. And the location's on tape. Oh, by the

way, Hank, the suit I got it off of was the Weitz
su_ t.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Tell P.J. he was dirtier than most.
CC Okay, I will do. (Laughter)
359 00 14 24 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. We'll see you

at Madrid at 20.
359 00 14 34 SPT Okay, Hank. No real concern over the fungus on

the suits. We got the moths working on it. And
they're cleaning up great.
359 00 20 12 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 9 minutes.
359 00 23 32 CDR Hello, Hank.
CC Go ahead.
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CDR Yes, I'd like to thank you and all the bronze team
for the beautii_l Christmas card. Got some good
thoughts in there and it's very well done. Thank
Christie Hartman, too, for her work it, appre-
ciate it. Merry Christmas to you all.
CC Thank you, Jer, and she's listening.
359 00 25 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you now. We

broke lock there for a couple of minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank. I'm PLT. I,m on 1.2-7 and finished

activities for today on the EVA prep.
CC Roger. We copy, Bill; good work.
359 00 28 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you at Tananarive at 42.
359 00 42 12 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
359 00 47 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We may drop out a little early

here at Tananarive. We'll see you again at Honey-
suckle at 01:06.
359 01 06 44 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you use the VTR?
CDR Negat ive.
CC SPT, Houston. Did you get ED41 done last night?
SPT Negative.
CC Okay, we copy.
359 0! 08 02 PLT PLT, the CDR did. Also, I have some comments on
ED72 on tape.
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359 01 08 29 CC Okay, we copy and we're about 40 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you again at Goldstone at 35 and that's
about 26 minutes.
PLT All right.
SPT Okay, Hank.
CC $kylab, did you squeal?
SPT Hank, how do you read?
CC Okay, a little better now. Was getting a loud

squeal there.
SPT Yes, this MDA is kind of bad, too, when you got
three of them in here. The problem we didn't get
ED41 done last night is I was all set up to do it
and then we switched recorders around and I could
never get two record lights or at least even one
record light showing so rather than go through that
exercise and not get it recorded I just skipped it.
I'll be glad to do it though, the easy enough thing
to pick up.
359 01 09 27 CC Okay, we copy, Ed. We'll get back with you at

Goldstone.
END OF TAPE
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359 01 35 08 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we'll be commanding

the detectors off on S055.
359 01 35 50 PLT Roger. Hank, PLT; how do you read?
CC Reading you loud and clear, Bill.
PLT Roger. I'm working ATM here; I keep getting a

SCAN SPECT light which is apparently associated
with the door. However, I have a gray talkback.
I can get the SCAN SPECT light to go out by clos-
ing door and then opening it again. I Just thought
maybe you might let the people down there think
about it.
CC Okay, we copy, Bill.
PLT And that occurred in GRATING 3 SCAN. I moved it

around to GRATING zero and shut it down.
359 01 37 22 CC CDR, Houston. Are you and the SPT about through
with your EVA prep?
SPT Yes, we are Hank. We're Just having a little

dinner right now and talking over command module
procedures. And we're going to be thinking a
little bit more about the procedures tomorrow
after we get done here.
CC Okay, thank you. And one other question, have

you disconnected the VTR power cable?
SPT No, we have not, Hank. Is that in the check-

list, and is that function that should have been
performed?
PLT Yes, you disconnected it.
359 O1 38 18 CC Okay. I guess it's on the checklist this evening.

We thought maybe you might have been clearing the
hatches for tomorrow.
PLT They - that's been done, Hank. And that's why

there won't be any video downlink.
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PLT That was left over from the 557 prep the other
day, and it said not to go any further than step 6
in that completion procedure. So we left it
strung through there until the EVA today - our
prep for EVA today.
359 01 38 53 CC Okay, Bill. We got a small problem here. We still

have a little bit of data on the VTR that we need
to get down and - and - -
PLT Stand by. I think I can take care of it.
CC And, Bill, as a caution note there, after you

reconnect the cable, be sure you wait 15 seconds
before you throw the POWER ON.
PLT Thank you for the reminder. You should have

power now.
CC Okay, it looks good. And we'll clean it up and

let you know we're through with it.
359 01 39 53 SPT Say, Hank, is there any VTR time available tomor-
row at any time?
CC We'll check.
CC Roger, Ed. It should be available tomorrow. We

ought to get it cleaned off tonight.
SPT Okay, thank you very much, Hank.
359 01 41 17 PLT Hank, I have the ATM frame count, if you want
to copy.
CC Stand by l, Bill.
359 01 42 06 CC Okay, Bill, you can go ahead with the frame count.
PLT Roger. 1991; 8291, and it failed to decrement

on the last exposure; 527; 2219; 1233.
359 01 43 08 CC PLT, Houston. In regard to the SCAN SPECT light,

what we think happened here is we were running un-
attended ops. And it is possible that if you
came up and selected a MODE different from the -
what we had commanded and then went in parallel,
that it could cause the instrument to do funny
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things there - causes it - perhaps the detector

tripped off and gave you the ALERT light there.
PLT Okay. How do you avoid that when you come up from
unattended? I went through the little unattended
operation - powerup from unattented.
SPT Clear out the Mode.
PLT It's no big deal, Hank. You can get it squared

away and tell us later.
359 01 4h 18 SPT I think it might be the same command that we have

on the JOP S_,mmary Sheets to clear off the grating
advance by the START switch, 40134, or something
like that.
359 01 47 32 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 5-1/2 minutes.
359 01 47 57 CC PLT, Houston. Did - did you run your last pass
a rev early?
PLT It sure looks that way, Hank.
CC Okay, it Just had us confused here for a little

bit. And I think I about got my head straight
what happened here. That cue card powerup from
unattended is built for powered up after unattended
operations, and not during unattended operations,
which we were doing. The flare prep from unattended
brings you up, if we are running unattended. Now,
the difference is there's one - if - if - if - if
you do this - takeover there, you've got to enter
a DAS command to - to - to stop S055 and get it
configured properly. And Tha - I think that may
have been what caused the problem you had there
with the ALERT light.
PLT Yes, well that's a DS on me, because I'm Just a

flat hour off. That's what I'm - that's what was
wrong.
359 O1 49 05 SPT Can't say we're not getting ahead of the timeline,
Hank.
PLT Usually running so close there on time, Hank, I'm

Just looking at the minutes. Express my apology
to the guys in the backroom for screwing up their
observations.
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CC That's no problem, Bill. And we're talking about

now what we want to do here on the next rev.
359 01 49 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going into keyhole. Be in

about a minute and back out again.
359 01 50 53 CC PLT, Houston. We're back with you again. We were

wondering if you would mind running building block 1
over again on the next rev, and with the only
change being omitting the 82A ops. Looks like
we're about out of film on that one.
PLT I'd be delighted to do that, Hank. Again, tell

them I'm sorry about that.
CC No problem; don't worry about it.
359 Ol 51 34 CC And, SPT, Houston. I guess we don't want you to

bother with the ED41 this evening. If you do,
you'll have to re - undo some of the EVA preps
you've done. And we're trying to understand this
recorder thing a little bit. If you turn on the
recorders up at panel 204 like it calls for there,
when you take that switch up to the ZPN/EKG,
ENABLE, that disables the recorder lights down
in the workshop. And I don't know whether those
were the ones you were referring to or not, that
you couldn't get on.
SPT Yes, that's it, Hank. I guess I Just never under-

stood that thing, and I was trying to rush through
it, and I really didn't have time to psych it out.
Knowing that now, it is no problem. I could turn
them on from down here, but I should not expect a
light. Is that correct? That is, I could turn
them on from the OWS panel but not expect a light.
359 01 52 31 CC That's affirmative.
SPT - - them. Go ahead.
CC You're absolutely correct with that, Ed. That's

t rue.
SPT Okay. Tell old Kathy I'ii get her some data in
another couple of days or so.
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359 01 52 44 CC Okay, we'll schedule it. And we're about 20 sec-

onds from LOS. We'll see you at Canaries at 57
with a recorder dump.
359 01 58 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through the Canary Islands

for 8 minutes. And for the PLT, just to make clear
what I said awhile ago, we would like for you to -
I said building block l, but we would like for you
to do everything that's on that pass except the
82A ops.
PLT Roger. Understand, Hank.
359 01 59 02 CC And for the SPT, there's one more funny with those
recorders. If you turn them on down there in the
workshop, you got to turn them off down there.
And likewise, if you turn them on in the STS,
that's where you have to turn them off.
SPT Okay, Hank, thank you.
359 02 05 05 CC PLT, Houston. Since you got the nu Z update on

the last rev, we won't need it this rev coming up.
PLT Roger, Hank.
359 02 05 21 CC And we're about a minute from LOS; Tananarive at

17.
359 02 19 05 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive, 6 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. I just finished taking the 233 photos

and Kohoutek is not looking like our old, pretty,
graceful-looking, blue-white comet any more. It's
getting so close to the Sun now that the tail is
fanning out; it's very short. I think I can't
see the rest of the tail just because it's so
light. But what I can see behind the comet now,
the - the actual nucleus is getting quite large
and bright, and the tail, all we can see is a fan
behind it. And we're beginning to see some reds
and some yellows in it.
CC Roger. We copy.
359 02 20 30 CDR Let me change my terminology, Hank. The nucleus

isn't getting any bigger, the coma is getting
bigger.
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CC Roger. We copy.
359 02 21 17 CC Incidentally, CDR, that's the last $233 we'll be

doing until postperihelion.
CDR Roger, Hank.
359 02 22 18 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we've been pouring

over our data back here in regard to your comment
about the fireflies, and we can't find anything
wrong. We don't see anything on the momentum; we
don't see anything in the command module or in
the workshop. The only thing that we could find
that could possibly be related is that about
2 minutes approximately before your call the
mol be - mol sieve bed cycled and of course you
know that vents the new bed to the outside, and
it's Just possible there could have been something
from that you saw.
CDR That might have been it, Hank, because it was coming
from that direction, and it was very small particles,
and some of them stayed right with us. Some of the
slower ones ended up just following along with us.
And I think we were just - it was coincidental, we
were just at the right kind of Sun situation at the
terminator there where we could really see it.
359 02 24 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Honeysuckle at h2, and we'll be
standing by for the evening status report there.
SPT Okay, Hank. Hank, I got a question about the -

Hank, you still with us?
CC Roger.
SPT On page 2-2 - or 2.2-5 on the EVA Checklist talking

about the S020 exposures, are those supposed to
be above 400 K and also the one for 60 minutes we
could never get in one dayside. How do they pro-
pose to plan - how do we propose to carry that one
off?
CC Okay, I'll try to get an answer for you at

Honeysuckle.
359 02 25 07 SPT Thank you.

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359 02 42 07 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for

9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. It's coming at you with the evening

status report.
CC Ready to copy.
359 02 42 33 CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 5.0, 5.0 heavy; SPT, 7.0,
7.0 heavy; PLT, 7.5, 6.5 heavy, 1.0 light. Vol-
ume: CDR, 2000; SPT, 2250; PLT, 1800. Water
gun: CDR, 7720; 3256; 9453. Body mass: CDR,
6.292, 6.292, 6.294; SPT, 6.370, 6.370, 6.375;
PLT, 6.248, 6.247, 6.247. Exercise: CDR, Alfa,
minus 2 minutes ; Sl_f, minus Bravo and Foxtrot,
those are the methods ; PLT, no change. Stand by.
Okay, correction on the SPT exercise, it's minus
Alfa and all the rest is standard.
CDR Okay, medication: CDR, none' SPT, none; PLT,

Tinactin as directed. Clothing: CDR, one pair
of socks; SPT, one pair of socks, shorts, and a
T-shirt; PLT, none - correction PLT, one shirt.
Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping list:
none. Inoperable equipment : none. Unscheduled
stowage : none.
CDR Food log. CDR salt, 9.0; deviations, one - plus

one tea, plus one strawberry drink; rehydration
water, plus 1.0. SPT: salt packs, 5.5; devia-
tions, one grape drink and plus one tea; rehydration
water, plus 8.0. PLT: i0.0 salt, no deviations
minus 2.0 water. Okay, getting back to the SPT
food deviations, change the plus one grape to plus
one cherry drink.
359 02 44 59 CDR Okay, Photo log: 16-millimeter, we haven't done

it yet, hut we're going to shoot up that trans-
porter number 7 that's in the back. That's Charlie
India 74, 12, Charlie India 72; we're going to
burn that up so that'll be reading 00 when we're
finished, and it 'ii be under documentary photos,
Christmas activity. Nikons: I, Charlie X-ray 36,
15; 2, Bravo Echo 04, 43; 3, Charlie India iii,
30; 4, Bravo Echo 08, 38; 5, Bravo Hotel 05, 52.
The 70-millimeter is Charlie X-ray 17, frame count
is 157. ETC, no change. EREP no change. Drawer A
configuration: A-I through A-4 no change; the BACK,
07, Charlie India 74, 00 Charlie India 72. And that's
it , Hank.
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CC Okay, Jer, we got it.
359 02 47 01 PLT Hank, PLT here. Would you ask the ATM people if
they'd still like the VTR in 3 minutes?
CC Will do.
CC Yes,'we'd like to get that, Bill, and after we

get that dumped, we can - we'll let you know.
PLT But you would like to go ahead and do it. Okay.
359 02 48 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We've had our funny occur again

with all our multiplex system there. We'd - we'd
like to get someone up to panel 200 in the STS and
under INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM, that's on the bottom
row right, open the TRANSDUCER GROUP i, PLUS 5 VOLTS
circuit breaker. What we're going to do is leave
that OPEN for about a minute and see - and then
CLOSE it again and see if that'll cure our problem.
If it doesn't cure the problem, at least it'll give
us some insight into - we think it will - what's
happening.
PLT Okay, Hank. I copied 25 volts. I think you said

5 volts; is that correct?
CC That's affirmative, 5 volts, plus 5 volts.
PLT Okay, I'll go do that one.
359 02 49 36 PLT TRANSDUCER GROUP I, PLUS 5 VOLTS, circuit breaker's

OPEN.
CC Okay, thank you, Bill. And if you'll stand by,

we'll want you to CLOSE it here in a minute.
PLT Okay, I'ii go over there and wait. I can't use

the 131 box. I have it configured for EVA right
now.
359 02 50 21 CC Okay, PLT, you can go ahead and CLOSE the circuit
breaker again.
PLT Roger. That's complete. Oh, yes, this works all

right.
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359 02 50 41 CC And, Skylab, Houston. In regard the VTR, I guess

we might as well leave that hooked up tonight and
get it in the morning. We - we want to dump the
ATM stuff, and we also want to redump TV-81 to
make sure we got it. We're about 40 seconds from
LOS. The next site is Hawaii at 02 and that's
your med conference.
PLT Okay, Hank. And there's no reason to power down

that VTR. It - it was using the same power cord
or outlet that the 518 was using, a 512.
359 02 51 14 CC Okay, we copy.
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Time: 359:03:00 to 359:04:27
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359 03 13 5h CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 7 minutes.
359 03 lh 07 SPT Hello, Hank, we're Just sitting here waiting,

wondering when you've got some news for us.
CC Okay, I got a little news for you. I got a

couple of other items on the - first, if you
don't mind, on the ATM panel, we'd like to get
the H-ALPHA 1 to 2 FRAMES PER MINUTE. And
S056 HIGH VOLTAGE, the BERYLLIUM and ALUMINUM
OFF.
359 03 15 29 CC And, Skylab, Houston; I wonder if we could get

someone to support one little bit more of trouble-
shooting on that multiplexer problem we got at
panel 200?
PLT Yes, stand by Hank. I'll go right up.
CC While you're going up there, SPT, for you got

an answer to your S020 question. We - We're
only interested in day to - total daylight time
so you don't have to worry about 400 K. And in
the exposures we want accumulated time so you
can start an exposure and then Just count the
daylight time and when you go into darkness, of
course, that time doesn't count, and then pick
it up the next sun - sunrise. And if - if EV-3
would, we'd have him call out the exposure start
and stop times and the sunrise and sunset so we
can get the exact figure on the total exposure.
359 03 16 25 SPT Okay, Hank, thanks very much. I'll be EV-B, and
I was wondering whether they had to do anything
in the way of closing the shutter, but I guess
there's no way to do that unless you advance one
of the plates. So that makes it clear. Thank
you.
359 03 16 37 PLT Okay, Hank, PLT standing by to help you on the

multiplexer.
CC Okay, Bill, last time we opened that group l,

PLUS 5 VOLTS. This time we'd like to open group 2,
PLUS 5 VOLTS.
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PLT Okay. Group 2, PLUS 5 VOLTS, OPEN.
CC Okay, thank you, Bill.
359 03 17 58 CC Okay, Bill, if you're still there we'd like to

get group l, PLUS 5, OPEN now; that'll get both
of them open.
PLT Group l, PLUS 5, OPEN again?
CC That's affirmative; group 1 and group 2 now will

be open, PLUS 5 VOLTS.
359 03 18 13 PLT That's Just the present configuration, just did

it.
CC And for SPT, Just a few more words; Ed, you're

absolutely correct. There isn't anyway to close
the shutter. Go into the S position, Just move
the slide out of the focal plane there. And for
our purposes, we'll Just leave it at the frame.
and let the Earth do the occulting for us and
just keep track of the time.
359 03 18 44 SPT Okay, Hank, that's - that's very good, I'ii do

the bookkeeping tomorrow and let you know how
we're coming along. Thank you.
CC Okay, PLT, you can CLOSE both breakers now and

that'll do it for - for now; thank you very much.
PLT Okay, Hank they're going CLOSE.
359 03 19 21 CDR Hey, Hank, we can't stand the suspense anymore.

We're going to open up our Christmas present now.
CC Okay, if you really want to do that, huh.
359 03 20 01 CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Bermuda at 25 and for info, we
got the wrong message in the pool and sent up a
message on the 5-day forecast h033, and that
wasn't the final al - final version and we're
uplinking 4033 Alfa right behind it so you can
disregard the first one.
359 03 20 27 SPT Okay, Hank, will do.

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Got a few words of news, if you'd like to hear it.
SPT Hank, we opened up the little package we found

under the tree. And all I can say is never have
one when two will do. Never have one - never
have two. (Laughter) Let Jerry tell you.
(Laughter)
CC I don't know - but you - you - maybe you'd better

start over. (Laughter)
CDR No, we got two Christmas trees, Hank. We'll

put our new one on the downlink for you, on the
VTR.
359 03 26 00 CC Okay, good show.
SPT You'll have to tell Bruce that there won't be

any more room in here to run the 509.
CC All right, I'll pass that on.
359 03 26 25 SPT Sure would like to hear some news if you're ready,
Hank.
CC Okay, I'll shoot a little to you here. Shepherds

watched their flocks by night and the armed Israeli
troops patrolled the hills around Bethlehem tonight
as Christmas came to the town where Jesus was
born. Jewish security forces kept watch over
hilltop town - the hilltop town in case of Arab
guerilla sabotage as Christmas began with a mid-
night mass in the grotto where tradition says
the manger of Jesus was located on that first
Christmas. Here in the U.S.A., a 5-year backlog
of Christmas gifts awaits an Air Force Colonel
Vernon Ligon tomorrow.. The presents, clustered
around the family tree date back to 1968, the
time when his plane was shot down over Hanoi.
"There will be quite a few gifts for all the
family," he said. We have a 5-year backlog.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger spent some
time with President Nixon today reporting on the
opening of the Mideast talks. He said he and
Nixon had a full discussion on the Middle East,
and that he'll meet the President again on
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Christmas Day. Meanwhile, the first family are

back in Washington. They returned this morning
from Camp David. The President will spend a
quiet Christmas Day with family and friends after
exchanging gifts in the morning. Nixon is ex-
pected to spend at least part of" the day working
in his office.
359 03 27 41 CC The 750,000 residents of the District of Columbia

now have limited home rule. The President signed
legislation to that effect today. The District
now will elect city officials; however, Congress
still retains control of the spending budget.
And there's more bad news on the oil front.
Kuwait's oil minister warned that the Persian
Gulf nations that only yesterday doubled their
posted per-barrel oil prices, may hike them
again in the spring. "The decision taken in
Tehran on Sunday covers only the first quarter
of 1974," said Abdul Atiki, the Kuwaitoil min-
ister. The Northwood, North Dakota, City Council
has given its residents an unusual Christmas
present - free electricity. Every consumer in
the town received a $25 credit on bills due
January 1st. If the bill comes to more than
$25, the cost consumer pays the difference. The
city auditor estimated that the total deduction
would be approximately $7000 in savings to the
community residents. In tallahassee, Florida,
they bi - did a big pot bust down there. The
state and federal co - police confiscated more
than 25 tons of marijuana. Officials said it
was the largest seizure of its kink in this
country. Police place a $20 million value on
the siezed pot and arrested 13 persons in con-
nection with the raid. And there's very little
sports news today. But the odds showed up in
the paper. The Mi - Miami Dolphins are rated
favorites to win the American Football Conference
over Oakland. And they're saying Dallas and
Minnesota are a tossup. And that's about it.
359 03 29 31 SPT Okay, Hank; thank you very much.
CC Unless you have anything further for us we're

going to let you go for the evening here a little
early; that's appropriate. I want you to leave
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out your cookies and milk for Santa Claus now

and no getting up and peeping during the night,
or he won't come. We'll say good night to you
and Merry Christmas and we'll talk to you
tomorrow.
SPT Merry Christmas to you, Hank, and the whole team

down there. Thank you very much for - for stick-
ing with us today. And we'll see you tomorrow.
359 03 30 04 CDR Good night, Frank - Hank, and give our - our
regards to Fran, and Judy and Keelie.
CC Okay, will do. Thank you, Jerry. And as a re-

minder to you, you have a private comm coming
up here at - at Canaries at 3h. And it's left
to right.
359 03 30 21 CDR Okay.
359 03 45 26 PLT How's that multiplexer problem looking now, Hank?
359 03 45 35 CC Roger. It's still noisy.
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Time: 359:11:h5 to 359:13:00
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S_fLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
(Music: "Ring Christmas Bells")
359 ll 54 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard on

station off the coast of Argentina this morning;
to support your EVA, wishing you all a very Merry
I Christmasfor real this time. Since- although
we've been wishing you a Merry Christmas for a
couple of days, today's the day. Over.
359 ll 54 50 CDR Good morning, Bruce. Merry Christmas to you.
CC And we got a couple - couple of little messages

should be showing up in your teleprinter. I
guess they're there right now for you. No rush.
CDR Thank you.
359 ll 56 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 15-1/2 minutes through Tanana-
rive at 12:ll. Out.
359 12 12. 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

4-1/2 minutes. Out.

station contact in 37-1/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 12:54. Out.
359 12 53 h7 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

I0 minutes. There'll be a data/voice tape
recorder dump at the Vanguard, your next site.
Out.
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Time: 359:13:00 to 359:1h:30
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station contact in 22-1/2 minutes through the
Vanguard at sea at 13:25 with a data/voice tape
recorder dump. Out.
359 13 03 15 CDR Roger, Bruce.
359 13 25 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

10-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump.
Out.
359 13 32 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We got a little over

2 minutes to LOS, and we're in the Vanguard-to-
Vanguard cycle here so we have about an hour and
a half until the next site, so if you have any
questions to ask us about CMC powerup or anything
of that sort, this would be a good time to do it.
And for the SPT, we just want to remind you that
you're changing stars in the star tracker update
today. You're using a new star, Achernar. Over.
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
359 13 33 24 CC We see you were suc - successful in using Canopus

this time but later on today it won't be available.
359 13 3h 14 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 1 hour and 29 minutes through
the Vanguard at 15:03. Out. And Merry Christmas
to all, and to all a good night.
359 13 34 29 CDR See you, Bruce.
CC And looking at CMC and workshop data as you go over

the hill, everything's looking good. Out.
CDR Roger.
CC And for the SPT, the Canopus star tracker update

was satisfactory. We don't have to repeat it now.
SPT Okay, Bruce.
359 13 35 25 CC Roger; out.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 359:1h:30 to 359:16:00
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359 15 03 27 CC Skylab, A0S through the Vanguard for l0 minutes.
359 15 03 35 CDR Hello, Story.
CC Merry Christmas, Jer.
CDR Thank you. Hey, Story, we got a question for

you. Housekeeping 90A, I presume that's to be
done before and after the EVA. Is that affirmative?
CC Stand by 1.
359 15 04 24 CC Jer, could you confirm that that's housekeeping

90 Alfa? We show that as EREP powerdown; you
don't need to do that today.
CDR How come that came up in a general message for

housekeeping?
359 15 05 05 CDR Story, the problem is, we got a general message

4036 that just, as far as we can see, was non-
sense. The only reason we could see for doing
an EREP 90 - housekeeping 90A, the EREP power-
down, is Just a power conservation thing while
we're EVA.
CC Yes. Jer, that message is for general scheduling

during the mission and some of those housekeeping
things may appear in the pre and postsleep periods.
But, they're not to be done in every pre and
postsleep periods.
359 15 05 35 CDR Okay, tharlk you.
CC And, while I got you. How'd the - the work in

the commsnd module with CMC work and all go?
CDR No problem at all. How's it look to you folks?
359 15 06 14 CC Jer, it - it all looks good down here. We can't

see that BMAG number 1 POWER is ON. And, of
course, you're in P-20, so that we can't look at
Tephem. We would like a verification that you
did update Tephem.
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CDR BMAG POWER is ON and I verify the Tephem and it

checked out okay.
CC Okay; good. That's probably instrumentation; now

we're going to be bringing down the PRIMARY LOOP
here and then bringing on two pumps and you all
will get a CAUTION AND WARNING; also we'll be
turning the MDA WALT, HEATERS, OFF.
359 15 07 O1 CDR Story_ I Just looked out the wardroom window, and
we 're right along the Falkland Current. And it 's
very peculiar looking today. There's a lot of
red in it, a brownish red. Wonder if these folks
down here ever get anything like the red tide?
359 15 07 26 CC Thanks, Jer.
359 15 13 00 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and about 4 minutes

to Ascension. Be dumping the data/voice there.
359 15 13 09 CDR Roger, Story. And we're jumping in our suits

right now.
359 15 13 16 CC Okay, thanks, Jer.
359 15 17 ll CC Skylab, A0S Ascension for l0 minutes. Be dumping

the data/voice here.
359 15 19 09 CC Jer or Bill, I know you're getting in your suits,

but I got a question for you some time in about
the next 8 minutes.
359 15 19 18 CDR Go ahead.
SPT We're looking at INHIBITING a MOMENTUM DUMP here

and we're thinking you'll probably depressurize
the hatch somewhere around 16:30 ; that' s about
an hour and 15 minutes from now. And if you're
estimating about an hour and 15, too, I will not
INHIBIT the MOMENTUM DUMP at this time, I'll let
it get a dump in. If you think you'll get out
much before that, I will go ahead and INHIBIT the
MOMENTUM now.
CDR No, that's okay. Go ahead and - and don't INHIBIT

it this time. I think it'll take us probably an
hour and 15.
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359 15 19 55 SPT Okay, Jer.
359 15 26 18 SPT Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS and about 35 minutes

to G_1_m. SPT, Houston.
359 15 26 26 SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, when you get a chance you might Just check on

the EVA Checklist 1.2-11 that those switches on
panel 203 are in the right configuration. There's
some conflict with that and the housekeeping 90A
that Jer might have performed. That's Just those
panel 203 switches. And Just make them like the
Checklist says on 1.2-11. That's panel 203.
359 15 27 01 SPT Okay, Story. I'll do it now.
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359 16 01 27 CC Skylab, A0S Guam, 9 minutes.
359 16 Oh 27 CDR Okay.
PLT Yes, I think we're on. There we go.
CDR Okay.
PLT How do you read, Ed?
CC And Houston's reading you loud and clear, Jer.
CDR 0kay, good show.
PLT Okay. Let's press with this stuff. Helmet's on

and then go PRESSURE SELECT to BOTH. I'll watch
you.
CDR Here you go.
PLT Just a second - Just a second. Your comm. You

can move it back into ... okay.
CDR I can't see the alignment.
PLT Yes. Just a second.
359 16 05 l0 CDR I'll tell you what. You put my helmet on, I'll
put yours on.
PLT _ Okay.
CDR *** plate between mine and I'll lock it.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay?
PLT Now if you can Just hold my helmet.
359 16 05 2h CDR Got it.
PLT Okay; look, I'll get it, you Just - I can't see
the alignment Mark either.
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CDR Let's pop the visor in front of the SEVA there.
PLT Okay. Take that. Take this ... Okay, we're in

business and your - mine - -
CDR Do you want to put my SUIT PRESSURE to FLOW?
PLT Yes, I will, stand by.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, that's - -
359 16 06 22 CDR I believe it should be BOTH.
PLT Yes. Stand by.
CDR Okay?
PLT Okay. I'ii put your SEVA on now. You're - you're

slightly off alignment. Does it bother you?
CDR No.
PLT Okay.
359 16 06 38 CDR Put your foot back in there. Okay?
PLT Got a good snap on the helmet, Jer.
CDR Okay.
PLT It's in good shape. Okay.
CDR Okay.
PLT This one on my throat.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
359 16 07 58 CC Ed, Houston.
CDR Okay, I think you got a good one.
PLT Okay. That's it. l'm going - -
CDR It's a whole lot easier when you have the SEVA off.
PLT Sure is.

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359 16 08 12 CDR Okay. Just a minute. Hold still. There we go.

There.
PLT Okay. All right. Stand by 1.
359 16 08 _8 PLT All right. PRESSURE SELECT to BOTH, we've got.

Verify 02 FLOW; we have.
CDR Verified.
PLT Reg 1 LOW FLOW light, off.
CDR Mine 's out.
PLT All right. LOW VENT FLOW light, off.
CDR It 's out.
PLT Lower SEVA protective visor.
359 16 09 ll CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about B0 minutes

to the Vanguard.
CDR Roger.
PLT And PCU checkout.
359 16 09 22 CC And, Bill, your heart rate output is a little

erratic. You might try pushing through the suit
on to the sensors if you get a chance.
PLT Okay. I'll push on them right now. How's that?

Okay?
CC We'll take another look at them over the Vanguard.

It's no problem. And, Ed, no need to acknowledge,
on your SO20 ops and your T025 ops use the exposure
sequences that are in the EVA Checklist. Disregard
those that are in the cue cards for both those,
and I'll give you another reminder over the Van-
guard.
PLT Note, cuff gage in - can you read me, Jer?
CDR Yes, I can. You're a little weak, but okay.

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359 16 i0 07 PLT Okay. Cuff gage inaccuracy plus/minus 0.15 psig

max. Nominal plus or minus 0.04, psig. REG i,
LOW FLOW, and LOW VENT FLOW lights, have 5-second
delay. Okay. PRESSURE SELECT to REG 2, then we
will get a tone, REG 1 LOW FLOW and possibly a
LOW VENT FLOW. Okay; PRESSURE SELECT to REG 2.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay.
359 16 l0 37 CDR Mine's in 2.
PLT PEG l, LOW FLOW. There's REG l, LOW FLOW.
CDR I got mine.
359 16 lO 48 PLT No LOW VENT FLOW, yet.
CC And your heart rate looks good, Bill.
359 16 lO 50 PLT Thank you.
359 16 40 07 CDR Okay, I'm looking at your pressure too, Bill.
PLT And it's good, and I'm going to - got an SOP FLOW
and SUS 1 is open again. SOP is out.
CDR You want me to do the same thing, right?
PLT Okay, fire away.
CDR All right?
CDR No, I don't think you need to.
PLT Let me see, I don't think I can see your - Jer,

it's - -
CDR Probably can't. I think you're going to be on

the wrong side of me.
359 16 40 39 CDR Okay, this is SUS 202 supply that's going to come
off. Here it goes now. I got good pressure; gct
an SOP FLOW light. Going back to OPEN. And it's
opened and locked.
359 16 40 58 CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear through

the Vanguard for l0 minutes.
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CDR Okay, let me do you first, Bill. Can you move

to your right? We're JRmmed up. Move forward.
PLT All right.
359 16 hl 23 CDR If you'll Just do a pirouette toward me. Neck ring

looks real good. All right.
PLT Let me look at my rings here. Looks good.
CDR All right. Now let me check your PCU plugs. All
right the three are locked. Your water plug's in
good. All right, now the thing left to look at is
wrists. Okay, my right wrist is good.
359 16 h2 Oh PLT My wrists are good.
CDR Okay.
PLT Let me take a look at the back of your neck ring

Just to make sure.
CDR All right.
CC Ed, Houston.
PLT Okay, looks fine.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, on the S020 ops and the T025 ops, use the ex-
posure sequences that are in the EVA Checklist as
opposed to the cue cards. Don't use the cue cards.
SPT Roger, Story_ I have the cue cards here ...
CDR Okay, Ed, all of the neck rings, wrist rings have
been checked and the PCU valves are all checked
as locked.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, say again the pressure.
359 16 _30l CDR 3.6. Okay.
CDR Okay.
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359 16 43 38 CDR Okay.
CDR Roger.
PLT Now I got that.
CDR We got her..
CDR Notice what the bias is now, Ed. It's slightly

biased before you start. Yes. Just kind of men-
tally record that bias.
359 16 44 24 PLT In work; Ed -
PLT I'm still holding at 3.75. Jer, how do you read?
CDR Loud and clear.
PLT Okay.
CDR Still holding at 3.8.
PLT Okay. *** off.
359 16 45 O0 CDR Still 3.8.
CDR Yes, I'm sure - -
PLT It's in here right now. We'll Just wait and see
how it go ***
CDR That's quite clear.
PLT What?
CDR Did you say it's heavy?
PLT Oh yes, it's - it's pretty - pretty solid.
359 16 46 13 CDR I got the wrong light - oh yes, you're right.
PLT Do we still have right aroun*** not ***. Yes,

it's - it's still dropping.
CDR Oh yes, now it's solidifying. You should be able

to do it on a comm cable there. There - you should
have a comm cable routed from, I believe, 102 or
126 over to where you are, so that you don't have
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to reach over to a comm box to punch. That's

part of the kludge setup. Look at - look at the
drawing in there that shows the kludge, and I
think it'll show you where your mike key is and
wha - what it hooks up to.
PLT Okay, we're about 2.75. *** a good garbage collec-

tor doesn't it?
PLT Yes.
359 16 47 48 CC Skylab, we're hearing you discuss the comm manage-

ment and we think you should have a CCU for Ed
hooked up to 102 and then he can hit the transmit
part of that CCU to talk to us.
CDR Right. That 's what I thought. He 's checking that

now.
359 16 h8 05 SPT Roger. That's in work, Story.
CC Okay, if you need a page number, 1.2-3.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Okay.
PLT Actually it - it's sort of mounding up ***
CDR I'd say, what? 75 to 80 percent of it's covered

now.
PLT Yes, at least.
359 16 49 22 CDR It's about a 1/8-inch annulus all the way around
the outer edge of the screen that's still clear.
And one little hole about half way in. That's
about a quarter of an inch in diameter.
359 16 49 33 PLT Yes, it's starting to shrink away now. Look -
359 16 49 48 PLT At 1.7 now.
359 16 50 35 CDH How's the old Coolanol system looking, Houston?
CC It's looking good, Jer.

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CDR Boy, I sure can see how we could appreciate this

water cooling. I'd hate to be going out gas cooled.
CC Roger that.
359 16 51 08 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to L0S and about 6 minutes

to Ascension.
359 16 51 14 CDR Roger. See you then.
SPT Houston, how do you read EV-3?
CC Ed, that's good.
359 16 51 20 SPT Thank you, Story.
359 16 54 23 CDR Okay. Let's go.
359 16 54 40 PLT Verified, Ed. Did you read?
SPT Yes.
PLT Unlock. Stand by -
359 16 54 54 PLT Open.
359 16 55 O0 CC Okay, copy that, Skylab. And we're AOS through

Ascension, Canaries and Madrid here for about
14 minutes.
SPT That doing, Bill?
PLT-EVA Ed, did you read?
SPT No, you're going to have to talk louder, Bill.
PLT-EVA Okay. Go turn the VOX up. We fought this problem

last time.
CDR-EVA Okay. Now hold it open while he's engaged.
359 16 56 22 PLT-EVA Okay. EV-1 is complete. How are you reading me?
CDR-EVA Okay. EV-2 is complete and I'm reading 3.65.
359 16 56 31 PLT-EVA EV-1 is reading 3.5.

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PLT-EVA EV-I going EVA NORM now.
359 16 56 48 CDR-EVA EV-2 to EVA NORM.
PLT-EVA EV-1, verify; 3.6.
CDR-EVA Ev-2 is reading 3.65, lights out.
359 16 57 22 PLT-EVA l, 2, 3, 4, 5, h, 3, 2, 1 .... - -
SPT Sounds good now.
PLT-EVA l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Normal volume ....
SPT Okay. Sounds good.
PLT-EVA Okay. Good. Thank you, Ed.
359 16 57 37 CC Ed, you up in the command module now? If so, we

got a couple circuit breakers for you to check.
CDR-EVA Yes, he is. Go ahead. He's listening.
CC Okay. For Ed, that's on panel 8, to the left of

the commander's couch. In the upper lefthand
corner of panel 8, SCS, AC1, that circuit breaker
ought to be CLOSE. If it's not, go ahead and
CLOSE it. The next one is also on panel 8. That's
SCS SYSTEM MAIN A; that's right to the left of the
FLOOD LIGHT switch.
SPT ... slow down ..., Story.
359 16 58 ll CDR-EVA Stand by, Story. Let him get the first one first,
Story.
CC Okay.
CDR-EVA Start all over, Story. And read - give him enough
time in between each one of the separate -
359 16 58 22 CC Okay. On panel 8: SCS, ACI. Check if that cir-

cuit breaker's IN. If it's not IN, push it IN.
359 16 58 33 SPT It's IN.
CDR-EVA Okay. It's IN.

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CC Okay. The one other to check is SCS SYSTEM MAIN A.

That's on the third row Just to the left of the
FLOODLIGHT SWITCHES ; SCS SYSTEM MAIN A.
CDR-EVA Okay. He's checking that. The first - Right.
CDR-EVA Okay. Both circuit breakers were IN.
359 16 59 00 CC Thank you.
CC And that's all we've got for you in the comand

module, Ed.
CDR-EVA Okay. Are the BMAGs okay? Is BMAG 1 okay, Story?
CC We've still got indication that we've got no spin -

spin motor on BMAG l, but we're looking at it.
CDR-EVA 0kay.
CC And no need to acknowledge, but we're not planning

any troubleshooting on that. That's a backup to
the backup.
CDR-EVA Okay.
359 17 00 01 CDR-EVA Okay. This is the EV-2. When we opened the hatch,
we saw a lot of contamination move out, but I
don't see any now. Bill, do you see any?
PLT-EVA I just see a few bits and pieces around. I - I -

I thin - I don't think I've see over three par-
ticles.
CDR-EVA Okay.
359 17 O0 28 PLT-EVA That's in work.
CDR-EVA Okay. Just a minute, Bill.
PLT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA All right. Okay.
359 17 01 15 PLT-EVA Okay. EV-1 is in foot restraints. In work.

Okay. Stand by. 9 ...
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CDR-EVA There's i0 coming up. See it.
PLT-EVA Yes. - - what that 7 is for there?
CDR-EVA That's the number of your umbilical.
PLT-EVA Yes.
359 17 01 4h PLT-EVA Okay. My umbilical is connected and EV-1 has got

3.6 and all lights are out.
359 17 01 53 CDR-EVA Okay. EV-2 is 3.67 and all lights are out.
CDR-EVA All right, let me get 20 first and then read that
stuff again.
PLT-EVA Down by your left knee.
CDR-EVA Okay.
359 17 02 h2 CDR-EVA Okay, I have 20 in my hand, Ed. Now read me the

other words again. All right, that 's in work.
PLT-EVA Tell me when, I'll give you the 15 seconds.
CDR-EVA It 's in VENT.
PLT-EVA Okay. Stand by.
359 17 03 ll PLT-EVA MARK. 15 seconds.
CDR-EVA Continue on, Ed.
CDR-EVA Okay, stand by.
359 17 03 35 CDR-EVA That's verified. Okay. That's in work. Okay,

it 's in OPEN. In work.
CDR-EVA That little bitty knob is murder. Okay, it's

uncovered.
359 17 Oh 29 CDR-EVA In work.
PLT-EVA I will when I get it.
PLT-EVA Okay, Just a sec. Tether that.

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CDR-EVA There's a handle underneath for you. Let me turn

it over. There you go.
PLT-EVA Okay.
359 17 05 09 CDR-EVA Okay, he's got it tethered to him. Now what's

next, again?
PLT-EVA Okay, I'm going to have to change this.
PLT-EVA I want that on the other arm. That's in work,

Ed.
359 17 06 26 PLT-EVA Okay, I'm going to have to take it off. Now I

got it into position. Yes, Just a second. I'm
tightening it down. Okay, I can take the tether
off now. I got it tightened on the truss; I don't
want to loose this tether. All right, I - I want
to -
CDR-EVA Okay, what's next?
359 17 07 06 PLT-EVA It's in work.
CDR-EVA Boy, that thing really reflects the light, doesn't

it, Bill?
PLT-EVA Sure does. That's mean.
359 17 07 15 PLT-EVA Okay, Ed. I - may have to make an adjustment on

the clamp that's on the truss. But I tried to get
it in there as close as I could. But - Okay.
Okay, now Just - I'm going to have to come out
of my foot restraints for that, and that's going
to take me just a couple of minutes. So Just hold
on.
PLT-EVA There you go. All right, get it in the center.

That ought to do it. Let's see, I want to keep
it in *** another one out.
359 17 08 52 CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, we're hearing your S020 pointing comments, and

you got about 5 minutes of day remaining here.
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You'll be managingthe exposures on that and when

we come over stations, we'd like to keep up with
you on those exposures. Maybe we can help you
out some there.
B59 17 09 16 PLT-EVA I'm getting quite a bit of interference. You'll

have to move it again.
SPT Okay, Story. We'll try - sure try and keep you
posted where we go. I notice that the highest
priority exposure is the 60-minute one. And I
assume that that's the one, then, you want us to
start first. So I have the event timer set up in
here. And I Just plan to get the event timer
cotmt down at 60 - or counting down from 60 and cut
it off whenever we have to go into darkness and
pick it up again whenever we come into light. And
I plan to use the - the _0 K time, which we have
on the event timer as a gage for that. And I
wonder if that's satisfactory to those folks? Like,
right now, I show we have exactly 4 minutes -
B59 17 09 58 SPT MARK - remaining in day.
359 17 l0 28 CC Ed, that sounds like a good way to go on S020.
PLT-EVA Didn't get - doggone. Not quite enough movement - -
SPT Okay.
PLT-EVA - - on the ball Joint. I'm going to have to adjust

it once more.
CC And, Ed, in case you need to reconfigure the

PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP for any reason when we're
LOS; we're presently operating on INVERTER number 2
and PUMPs B and C, Bravo and Charlie.
359 17 l0 5h SPT INVERTER 2 and Bravo, Charlie. Thank you.
CC Yes, sir.
PLT-EVA Boy, I barely have the - I don't quite have enough

freedom of travel in that ball Joint to get the
thing exactly centered.
359 17 ll 31 CDR-EVA Ed. What's my next experiment to get ready? 25?

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359 17 ll 45 CC Skylab, we're 40 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over at Guam in about 27 minutes, at 17:38; be
dumping the data/voice there.
CDR-EVA Okay, Story.
PLT-EVA Okay, Just about got her. It's an awful lot of

spring in this thing.
CDR-EVA Sure is. It's really twanging.
359 17 12 05 PLT-EVA Just about got it. That's about what I had a
minute ago there.
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359 17 38 17 PLT-EVA Coil the umbilical around you.
CDR-EVA All right, there.
PLT-EVA Turn one 360 clockwise.
CDR-EVA All right.
PLT-EVA Get back and meet the - keep on turing clockwise.
CDR-EVA Okay.
PLT-EVA There you go. Easier said than done.
359 17 38 hh CDR-EVA Let's put it down under my feet.
PLT-EVA Okay. Okay. Now don't Jerk on it yet.
CDR-EVA Okay.
PLT-EVA There you go. Now you're clear. And I'm pulling
back. 31 feet you said, Ed?

Guam for 7 minutes.
PLT-EVA Now it's reading 5 square, Story.
SPT Roger, Story. We've got the S020 and T025 out,
not completely aligned, and Jer's working his
way now down to the VC, and we're going to have
Bill try to get the S020 and T025 taken care of
on this next dayside. And Jer's going to be
working down there at the VC when we get a spare
moment out of Bill.
CC Okay. Thanks, Ed.
359 17 39 hl CDR-EVA Okay. I'm in the VC foot restraints.
CDR-EVA Okay, It'll be done in a second.
PLT-EVA Okay, one thing we didn't do with the DAC is set

it.
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CDR-EVA Oh, that's right.
CDR-EVA Bill, can you swing my LSU so it will get me.
PLT-EVA Just a second.
CDR-EVA Okay. Got it.
359 17 40 29 PLT-EVA Give me the settings. Well, I made them last

night when we used this camera. No, it's only
the settings I want because this is not - this
is documentary.
CDR-EVA Are you eating in there, Ed?
CDR-EVA Oh, I see. I was going to say, if you're going

to eat in there, don't let us know, okay? Oh,
you dirty, rotten -
PLT-EVA f/ll, infinity, 500 and some.
CDR-EVA Boy, there's sure lots of light in this working

area, the center work station.
PLT-EVA Stand by. *** got the thing set right.
359 17 43 51 CDR-EVA Yes, it is, but it's not aligned. It's off about
6 inches.
CDR-EVA Okay. I think I'll do that. I'm going to turn

the POWER PRIM and SEC ON. Okay. All right.
ROLL is ENABLED.
359 17 4h 23 CDR-EVA Okay. It's in work. Okay. It's aligned now.

ROLL, INHIBIT. This one rolls nice and smooth.
Boy, these canister lock - big lock things are
sure heavy, aren't they? What are these - the
launch locks, I guess.
359 17 45 l0 CC Skylab, we're about a minute from LOS here and

about 7 minutes to Honeysuckle at 17:52. And,
Ed, did you get a CMG, RESET?
SPT That's affirmative, Story. I'm showing a q on

the ALERT code. We got a CMG light.
CC 0kay. Thanks.
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CDR-EVA Are we bumping TACS?
CC 22 mibs so far.
359 17 h5 39 CDR-EVA I'd like to see that sometime. I'll have to keep
_y eye peeled.
SPT Story, I was led to believe we ought to expect

that from time to time here.
CC That's affirm. No problem.
SPT Okay.
359 17 h6 h0 PLT-EVA Is it on? I'll get caught on the S020 as soon as

it's w_* I guess I can get the center moved past
that T025 all right. *** With the Sun end. I
think we have an interference problem.
PLT-EVA Okay. EV-1, all lights out and I'm reading about
3.6.
CDR-EVA Okay, EV-2. All my lights are out and I got 3.67.
PLT-EVA I think you had it much too tethered up.
359 17 52 27 CDR-EVA I was Just busy rubbernecking, looking at all the -

the - all down in the workshop. I see where the
wing's torn off I see wire bundles hanging out
there.
PLT Beautiful - beautiful. Now if I Just don't screw

it up. Tight because I don't want to bu - I got
her foresighted right on now. Just a second,
I've got to tighten it down.
359 17 52 58 CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear through

Honeysuckle for a couple of minutes.
CDR-EVA Roger.
PLT-EVA Okay. Okay, I'm going to leave it that way. If

I don't touch it, we'll be in business. Yes, I
know I - -
CC Jer, we're looking ahead for you here. Understand

there is an interface problem between putting the
S05h down past T025. We're thinking maybe you'll
bring S05h out early. We don't want it left out
in the Sun for too long.
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359 17 53 29 CDR-EVA Okay. We're not so sure there is an interface

problem. Looks like it might go by.
CC Okay, we Just didn't want the exposed S054 out in

the Sun for too long.
CDR-EVA Okay. Well - -
PLT-EVA 0kay.
PLT-EVA Yes, I got her right on almost - almost dead cen-

ter. Oh gosh. Just say close to dead center. 01n,
gosh, I Just - Just a second. As I look at it
it's biased slightly toward 51 XXXE, and it's
dead on in Y. And that's, say, about a half of
one graduation, which is, I think, one octal.
It's Well, well inside the - l'm real pleased with
it.
359 17 5h 4h CC Skylab, a minute from LOS; 25 minutes to the

Vanguard at 18:19.
PLT-EVA Stand by, I'll give you a mark.
359 17 55 30 PLT ONE. It's on storage now.
SPT Story, when you get a mark out of Bill we're

going to be starting the 60-minute exposure, and
I'll get the EVENT TIMER going simultaneously.
CC Yes, sir.
PLT-EVA Stand by, are you ready?
SPT Ready.
359 17 55 i0 PLT-EVA MARK. 1 and I want a recheck pointing.
CDR You better try to stop the rotation. No, that's

okay, it's got an hour.
PLT-EVA Oh, we're in good shape on the attitude - oh, I

mean on the alignment. It's just like I said.
PLT-EVA Okay.
PLT-EVA That's correct.

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CDR-EVA Okay, it's vibrating some, Bill. If you can touch

it, you might be able to stop it. I don't know.
PLT-EVA I don't think it makes any difference on S020, Jer.
CDR-EVA Okay.
PLT-EVA Okay.
SPT Okay.
359 17 55 44 CDR-EVA By the way, Bill, I snapped off those two initial
frames in that camera. So you're sitting on frame
number 1 right now.
PLT-EVA Okay, you're going to have to give me a few minutes

on this one too, Ed.
CDR-EVA All right.
359 18 18 46 CDR-EVA I feel liike I'm up in the crow's nest of an old

sailing ship.
PLT-EVA I've got your one-quarte r second. Charlie 2.
359 18 19 03 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for 6 minutes.
CDR-EVA Roger, Story. Loud and clear.
SPT Okay, Story. We've got 35 minutes remaining on

the S020 60-minute exposure, and we're working
right now on frame number 12 for 25.
CC Okay. We copy that, and that 60-minute exposure

on S020 is a high enough priority we would like
you to finish that up the next day side pass.
SPT Roger. We understand that, Story. Thank you.
359 18 19 48 PLT-EVA We're in Charlle 2.
CDR-EVA Okay.
PLT-EVA I'm ready. Got it. Stand by.
359 18 20 15 PLT-EVA MARK. CLOSED, Okay.

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PLT-EVA Charlie 3.
CDR-EVA Okay. We're coming up on the coast of South

America it looks like.
PLT-EVA Charlie 3, we have it. I'm ready -
359 18 20 46 PLT-EVA MARK.
CDR-EVA Okay. We're coming up on the Chilean coast.
359 18 21 00 PLT-EVA MARK. Got it
PLT-EVA Okay. I'm standing by. You Just give me the mark.
Got it. Got it. Now. Going to close now. All
right. Charlie 4, we have.
PLT-EVA ... we've got. What next?
359 18 21 52 PLT-EVA We've got it. Got it. What's next?
PLT-EVA Yes. All I've got to do is move the SHUTTER SPEED

knob and hit the switch to CLOSE. Okay, that'll
take me a few minutes. Stand by. Now once - I
got a good position here for changing that filter
- the shutter speed.
CDR-EVA I can see the whole Southern end of the Atacama

Fault out there. And I can't quite make out the
offset, where it - where it breaks.
CC Okay, Jar. I'd like to be looking at it myself.
CDR-EVA Man I'll tell you. It's really clear. I can even
see the little town of Antofagasta without even the
binoculars.
CC Okay.
359 18 22 49 CDR-EVA The Atacama Fault - the northern half of the

Atacama Fault is very clear.
PLT-EVA Okay, that w_s Bravo, was it, Ed?
359 18 23 29 CDR-EVA There's some hashed-up looking ground Just to

the east of hwere the northern part of the fault
zone drops into the ocean. It's kind of busted
up, and there. There's one - well, no, there's
three rivers or canyons that are almost
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perpendicular to it - look rather straight. I

suspect they're cross - faulting.
359 18 2B 48 PLT-EVA Bravo i is installed. *** by No, stand by, wait

a minute. Got to get everything - okay, l'm in
time, l'm ready to go, any time.
CDR-EVA Okay.
359 18 2h 25 PLT-E_A MARK.
359 18 2_ 33 CDR-EVA MARK.
PLT-EVA I'm ready.
PLT-EVA Got it.
PLT-EVA Quarter you have? What's next?
B59 18 24 55 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. About 15 minutes

to Canaries at 18:38. Be dumping the data/voice
at Canaries. And for Ed, you may get a CAUTION,
SECONDARY COOLANT TEMP LOW. You can Just punch
it off and ignore it.
PLT-EVA And, Story, you may tell the people there this
boom is very, very steady. I don't see any
oscillations at all. They were concerned about
it.
SPT Okay, Story, understand. And what about if we

get a RESET somewhere along here during one of
these long S020 exposures. Is there anything we
can do to - to terminate that exposure and pick
it up again later?
CC Stand by 1.
359 18 25 39 PLT-EVA Bravo 2. Stand by. Okay. I'm standing by.
359 18 25 49 CC Ed, we are not expecting a CMG, RESET. If you do,

Just stop the experiment and stop the clock and
pick it up after you're stable again.
PLT-EVA Well all I know is to go to stowage, but you told

me -
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SPT Okay, Story, to stop the experiment, though, do

we not have to advance to a new plate.
CC Yes. You want to go to stowage to stop the

experiment.
SPT Okay.
PLT-EVA Okay.
359 18 38 25 PLT-EVA You can Just stow it on that handrail, Just

inside the hatch.
359 18 38 38 CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear through Canaries

and Madrid for i_ minutes.
CDR-EVA Roger.
SPT Okay, Story, T025 ops are complete. The only -

think we got all the good exposures that they were
after. On frame number 28 though, they requested
a 1/16, we gave them a 1/15, but that's the only
thing the camera will allow. I believe that's
probably what they wanted initially also.
CC Okay, got it. Or you've got us.
359 18 39 21 PLT-EVA l'm taking the filter case in first.
SPT Story, Bill, is going to move the T025 assembly

into the airlock and then we'll be set up to
start the film transfer. And we still show 15 min-
utes remaining on the first S020 exposure.
CC Okay, confirmed.
CDR-EVA Hey, Story, what's our groundtrack over Europe.
359 18 39 54 CC Yes, looks like Spain, Southern France, and

Switzerland from down here.
CDR-EVA Okay, thank you.
CDR-EVA How much more nighttime? Yes.
CC We're showing 7 minutes from down here. It's

7 minutes more of day.
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359 18 h0 27 CDR-EVA Okay, let's not haveBill distracted so that he

can't close that shutter. Maybe you ought to
Just wait. Thought he said he had to go to
st owage.
PLT-EVA That's all right we go off attitude.
CDR-EVA Oh, okay.
SPT Story, again, I've been using the ATM clock here
which is a hO-K time. Is that ample accuracy
for them?
359 18 40 55 CC That's affirm. And you do not have to go to

stowage on that experiment. You can Just let it
point by itself during the night.
CDR-EVA Roger ; we copy.
CC Okay, we'd like you to go to stowage on S020.
SPT (Laughing) Okay, we copy, Story.
CDR-EVA Somebody changed Story' s story.
CC More than once.
CDR-EVA Variety is the spice of life, Story.
CC That's affirm.
CDR-EVA He's Just taking T025 off the strut.
PLT-EVA No, that was taped on, Story. And - -
CDR-EVA No, that's Ed, you're talking to (Laughter).
PLT-EVA I don't think I can. I - I'm -
359 18 42 37 CDR-EVA Ed, Just - Just let him stick it in there and
tether to the nearest handrail, and I'll take
care of it when I get back. Right. Just - Just
tether it nearby, Bill. Don't go thrashing
around in there.
PLT-EVA I will not.

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CDR-EVA Okay, it's about time. We're getting close to

sunset, Bill. Okay.
359 18 h3 06 PLT-EVA I think what Jerry's talking about is we got to

go to stowage.
CDR-EVA Yes, and Bill is - you know half way in the locker
right now.
PLT-EVA Yes, I'm--
PLT-EVA Okay, I'm standing by to go to stowage.
CDR-EVA Let's just wait and rest. Yes, you're doing a

very good Job.
359 18 4h 54 PLT-EVA Getting dark. See you've got the lights on.
That's affirm. To the aft compartment.
PLT Real good pointing. I 'm proud of that. Boy,

that was hard to get.
PLT-EVA He can tell me because if not - all I've got to

do is to twist this knob from 1 back to S.
35918 47 13 PLT-EVAGot it,stowage.
SPT Story, I show we have 7 minutes 59 seconds re-

maining on the 60-minute exposure?
CC Okay, Ed.
PLT-EVA Well, okay, would you read it once again? The

description of the 313 handrail and all that
business. All right.
CDR-EVA Yes, let's just get on with the transfer now.
359 18 48 14 CDR-EVA Well, don't you have to roll for 201?
CDR-EVA Well, your maneuver pad ought to -. Oh, it

doesn 't.
359 18 49 02 CDR-EVA Now see you can't do it this pass because we've
still got to go. I mean TO - S020. So, there's -
there's nothing we can do. We might as well get
on with this transfer. At least at the center
work station.
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359 18 h9 23 CC Skylab, you can press on with the maneuver right

now.
CDR-EVA Hey there, why do we want to do that? We still

owe S020 about 7-1/2 minutes, or 8 minutes.
SPT Yes, Story, we have quite a few exposures to go

on S020 and also, we've done a nominal H-cage.
359 18 49 58 CC Ed, we'd like you to follow the maneuver pad on

this - this pass, and we'll get 201 and then we'll
pick up S020 later.
SPT Okay. Do you want a nominal H-CAGE though at this

time?
CC That 's affirm. Per the pad, Ed.
SPT Okay. That's to be done i0 minutes ahead of time

and the ATT - ATTITUDE HOLD is to be done from
time remaining in night 7 minutes, so that says
we'd have to wait until 17 minutes remaining in
night to execute the nominal H-CAGE. Is that what
you are planning on?
CC Yes. That'll be fine, Ed.
359 18 50 39 SPT Okay. At 17 minutes remaining we'll start the

maneuver pad.
PLT-EVA That's complete. It's complete. That's in work.

In work. Just a minute. I picked up the wrong -
359 18 51 h5 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. About 30 minutes

to Carnarvon at 19:21.
CDR-EVA Roger, Story.
PLT-EVA You - You do use the last knob. Right? I'm trying
to get 5h out of here.
CDR Okay. You got to - you got to push the button down
and then you take the handle and rotate it to
UNLATCH. Rotate the handle.
PLT-EVA Okay.
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359 18 52 52 CDR-EVA There you go.
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359 19 20 30 SPT Houston, Skylab.
359 19 20 43 CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon for

minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. Let me tell you about our nominal

H-CAGE. At 17 minutes to go in night, we entered
a 52023 for a nominal H-CAGE. Around 1 minute
later, we got a warning for CLUSTER, HIGH RATE.
We were greater than 0.3 degrees per second in X
and increasing. We got out to around 20 degrees
and were not slowing down. I took a couple of
actions. One to TACS ATT HOLD for a short while
to bring our rates down; one to STANDBY; entered
a 20-minute maneuver time_ went back to SI. And
that's what we're returning to now. I show we're
16 degrees out and coming back at 0.033 degrees
per second.
359 19 21 33 CC Thanks, Ed. We're looking at it.
SPT And we've also got ACS MALF, indicating a - -
CDR-EVA Take it away, Bill.
SPT - - CMG SAT a couple of times during that maneuver.
CC Okay.
359 19 22 l0 SPT On the EVA, we're pressing on with the ATM film
retrieval. And I imagine when we get back to SI
here, we can pick up with the S020 operations un-
til we get squared away for that maneuver again.
CC Okay, Ed.
359 19 22 50 CDR-EVA Okay, Ed. The new H-alpha is in. I've got a
white flag. It's locked well. The lock button
has been pushed. And I'm closing the door.
SPT Okay....
CDR-EVA That's in and I've got a white flag on the door.
PLT-EVA Good work.

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SPT Okay. ROLL, ENABLE.
CDR-EVA Okay. Stand by.
359 19 23 40 CDR-EVA Rolling to the right.
CDR-EVA Okay. We're aligned with Sun end and ROLL is

INHIBITed.
CDR-EVA Okay. PRIMARY, SECONDARY, INHIBIT.
359 19 24 15 CDR-EVA I'm real clear.
359 19 24 17 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and 2 minutes to

Honeysuckle.
CDR-EVA Don't forget your visor, Bill.
PLT-EVA I got it. Thank you.
SPT Okay, Story. We're picking up on 2-2 - or 2.2-2]

on the checkout on one - panel 130.
CC Okay. We're with you, Ed.
SPT Okay.
359 19 26 00 PLT-EVA Good show.
CDR-EVA Ed, the solar _m_ge is starting to come in on

SO20.
CC We're back with you through Honeysuckle for

8 minutes, Skylab.
359 19 26 16 CDR-EVA Roger.
CDR-EVA ...
SPT ...
359 19 27 20 PLT-EVA Okay. Stand by. Got them ...
359 19 28 17 PLT-EVA I've got infinity at f/16.
359 19 29 32 PLT-EVA Looks like we're almost there, Ed. S020's almost
in there.
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CC Bill, Houston.
PLT-EVA Go.
CC Bill, how was the alignment on S020, when you went

to storage on it at the end of that last dayside
pass?
PLT-EVA It was precisely as I reported earlier, with the

very slight bias of the large circle out toward
the minus X.
359 19 30 26 CC Okay.
PLT-EVA And it looks like it's almost where it was now.

And Ed's telling me we're still Just a little bit
out.
PLT-EVA This is 83most where it was. Just looks real

close.
359 19 30 46 PLT-EVA Okay. I'll buy that. I'll wait for your mark.
PLT-EVA Okay. I'll Just spell it out there now. Okay.

Stand by.
359 19 31 15 PLT-EVA MARK.
CDR-EVA Okay. Story, we're Just crossing the southeast

coast of Australia?
CC That's affirm.
PLT-EVA Okay. Tasmania down there, I think. New Zealand

can't be far away.
359 19 31 38 CDR-EVA Right. What's new in New Zealand? I got to turn

around here and rubberneck for a little bit.
PLT-EVA Yes. It's a great time for it.
CDR-EVA Don't get to do this often enough. Holy cow:

What a view.
359 19 32 12 CC Skylab, we understood you started SO20 again and

until we get regrouped here on your APCS we'd
like you to proceed on with the Sun end film
r eplac ement.
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CDR-EVA Okay. Will do her. Any guesses as to why that

happened, Story? Bill, do you suppose New Zealand's
under those clouds right there?
PLT-EVA I've lost my sense of direction right along in

here.
359 19 32 44 CDR-EVA Well, - no, we're still too close to Australia;

it's right up there.
PLT-EVA Yes. It could he a head of us a little bit. It

does look like there's an awful lot of cloud cover
up there, though.
CDR-EVA Yes. Oh, I see it. There it is.
PLT-EVA Yes. i got it.
CDR-EVA Hello, New Zealand. Beautiful country.
PLT-EVA Yes, it is. It's an awful pretty place.
359 19 33 ii CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, and about 35 min-

utes from Bermuda at 20:09. Our best guess is
now, Jer, that we have seen the problem building
up momentum in X; that's how we think the m_neuver
was probably going all right and we didn't tough
it out long enough, but we're still working that.
CDR-EVA Okay.
359 19 33 32 SPT Okay, Story. We got pretty far out in - in X and

a pretty high rate, much larger than I'd expect
for a nominal H-CAGE, at least certainly in the
attitude deviation. And all of - of the cameras
check out real well that have been installed so
far and we're moving on to the Sun end.
359 19 33 57 CC Okay, Ed. We'll catch you over Bermuda on that

discussion of the attitude.
CDR-EVA *** gum! Aw, the mountains are all clouded over.
PLT-EVA Yes. Clouds are lying in some valleys in there?
CDR-EVA Yes.
PLT-EVA Very picturesque.

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359 19 3h 29 PLT-EVA Oh, wait a minute now. _nis is not regular EVA
DAC. This is documentary.
CDR-EVA That 's correct.
359 19 3h 5h PLT-EVA Okay, you see, I'm going to have to take it off
and hold it. I've got it all set up ...
359 20 09 27 CDR-EVA Hey, Bill, there's Puerto Rico out there, I be-
lieve. See up towards the - the end of the solar
panel?
PLT-EVA ...
CDR-EVA Story?
359 20 i0 O0 CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear through

Bermuda for 7 minutes.
CDR-EVA Roger, Story. We can see Puerto Rico and all

the Virgin Islands.
PLT-EVA That' s affirm. Okay. Frame 3.
CDR-EVA Story, you know what I feel like?

/-
359 20 i0 35 CC No, but go ahead.
CDR-EVA Do you remember the - Did you ever see the Cinerama
picture of the guy that was the wingwalker on -
on the top of the biplane flying through the
canyons ?
CC I can understand the wingwalking but where are

you finding the canyon?
CDR-EVA Well, there ain't any canyons up here, but man,

drop your handkerchief, Story, and I'll pick it
up with my teeth. Yes. I did. Yaw whoo! Man,
I'm standing up here looking at Hispaniola, Puerto
Rico, all the Virgin Islands.
359 20 ll 12 SPT Okay, Story, we finished up the ATM film work.

, We Just checkedout the Sun end 8ZA and it works
good. No problems; we've finished up the
60-second- or the 60-minute - 30-minute exposures
so far on S020 and we're going to pick up the
8-minute exposure on this side here. Then we've
got the 15-minute and the remainder to go.
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CC Okay, that's excellent, Ed.
359 20 ll 44 SPT And, Story, I've been doing a little thinking. If

we accumulated a lot of H and X probably we could
build up to some pretty high rates, but coming up
unexpected like that I - not having the time to
sit down and calculate anything I think I had no
other alternative. What does it look like down
there?
CC That's exactly right, Ed. We think you did Just

the right thing there. We do think the system
was working right, and we did expect it to have
a large excursion in that CMG reset due to the
build-up in X, and we're a little slow down here
not getting it up to you that that might happen.
359 20 12 19 SPT Okay, you want to give it a go the next time a-

round, 17 minutes remaining we'll hit another
nominal H-CAGE and this time I'll just run around
and push out warning lights and keep an eye on it
all.
CC Ah, we're working that, and we need the DAS now

to change some biases on X, Ed.
359 20 12 39 SPT Okay, it's yours.
359 20 12 59 CDR-EVA I'm sure enjoying it, I'll tell you. Okay. Okay.
Gollee!What'sallthat?
PLT-EVA I don't know. What did you do, Jer?
CDR-EVA I don't know. Did it come from me?
PLT-EVA It's radiating out from what appears to be the

center of the ATM- business end I think.
CDR-EVA I think - I think it's coming from me. No, it's

a bunch of pieces of something that looks like
rubber or - or maybe my hose is scraping it off
the side of the ... That's what it is.
PLT-EVA Well, it sure did go out every which direction.
359 20 13 hl CC Ed, Houston.
PLT-EVA Okay.
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SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, the DAS is yours again and the next nightside

pass here I'll go ahead and perform the nominal
H CAGE at the right time. You can delay the ATT
HOLD, CMG, until it's settled out.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story.
PLT-EVA Anyway, Ev-1 got - has 3.6 and no lights.
359 20 14 ll CDR-EVA Okay, EV-2's got 3.67 and no lights. Okay, let
me get to the VT station first.
CC And, Ed, the m_ueuver pad you got on board is good.

You'll need to reload the maneuver time at
lO minutes.
359 20 14 37 SPT Roger, Story, was Just getting to it. Thank you.
359 20 lh 59 CDR-EVA Okay, Bill, you can send the boom out.
PLT-EVA Stand by. It'll take me just a second here. I

was doing a little rubbernecking of m_ own.
CDR-EVA Okay.
PLT-EVA Okay. Stand by.
359 20 16 28 CDR-EVA That's good. Stop. Stop.
PLT-EVA Did it go too far?
359 20 16 35 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll see you

over Madrid in about 4 minutes. Be dumping the
data/voice there. Maneuver time looks good. And,
Jer, you might want to get a little more water
cooling as opposed to air cooling.
CDR-EVA Okay. Am I look - looking a little warm? I feel

quite comfortable.
359 20 16 54 CC Yes, sir, we're sure you're comfortable; we Just

like to see you cooling a little more with water
if that's okay?
CDR-EVA Sure. Be glad to. Okay, Bill, it's attached.

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PLT-EVA Ready to retract?
CDR-EVA Yes.
359 20 17 17 PLT-EVA Okay. Okay, I'm going to stop the boom and get
out here.
359 20 21 15 PLT-EVA Okay, the VS tree is stowed, up.
CDR-EVA Okay, Ed. What's next.

Madrid for 9 minutes. Be dumping the data/voice
here.
CDR-EVA 0kay.
PLT-EVA Why don't I? ... Hold on.
CDR-EVA 0kay.
359 20 22 04 PLT-EVA Jerry, just have to wait just a minute here.
CDR-EVA Okay.
PLT-EVA Yes, and locked.
359 20 22 31 CC Jer, Houston.
CDR-EVA Go ahead.
CC What was the status of the 82A door and have you
pinned it?
CDR-EVA That's affirmative. It was open and almost com-

pletely up on the ramp when I found it, and I have
pinned it open and fixed the latch. So it's open.
Open forever.
359 20 22 52 CC Okay, good. And Jet, when you finish up shut with
the Sun end work there, prior to pressing on with
S054 filter wheel repair, we'd like you to stow
the film back in the airlock. And we'd like to
get this maneuver and the 201 ops done prior to
starting the S054.
CDR-EVA Okay. I'll just head back for the VF and stay
there.
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PLT-EVA Okay, let me try and get a shot of this, Jer.
CDR-EVA Okay. Tell me when you're ready.
359 20 23 33 PLT-EVA Okay, I'm ready. Could you see the green light
flashing? Look around if you can.
CDR-EVA Yes, I can.
PLT-EVA Beautiful. Okay; start the transfer.
359 20 23 40 CDR-EVA On my way.
PLT-EVA Man, it's hard to hold this button down.
CDR-EVA Hello, Wilhe]m.
PLT-EVA Okay, I¶m grinding away; Just move right on up

into the field of view. That ought to do it.
CDR-EVA Okay?
PLT-EVA Okay. Okay, hold off Just a second. I've got to

put this DAC - DAC away. 5-minute operation right
there.
359 20 25 02 CDR-EVA Boy, it sure is. (Laughter).
PLT-EVA Okay, Ed. Press on.
359 20 25 19 CC And, Jer, we're still showing Just about 2 degrees

delta-T on your LCG. Have you got the diverter
valve open a little bit?
CDR-EVA Okay. We'll do it again. If I can find it.
359 20 25 48 PLT-EVA I've done that.
CDR-EVA Okay. Bill, as I go by, I'd like you to look me

over very closely. I don't know where all those
particles and things came from. But I think we
ought to look me over first.
359 20 26 17 PLT-EVA Okay. I will do. I think you're right, though.

I think it's the paint, because I noticed when I
was shuffling m_ feet down here there was an aw-
ful spray of particulates out of the - -
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CDR-EVA Well, it looked a whole lot like pieces of - of

a clear adhesive of some kind, or epoxy, or putty
compound.
PLT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA And I didn't think it was from me, but every time
I moved it would - it would float out. You see
anything?
359 20 26 44 PLT-EVA No, you look pretty good. I mean I can't see
any -
CDR-EVA Very strange.
PLT-EVA ... door.
CDR-EVA (Laughter) Why, Ed, I don't know how you can say
that. I'm as graceful as a gazelle. (Laughter)
CDR-EVA Where is it? Here it is.
CDR-EVA Oh, go away, Ed, and quit nagging. Nag, nag, nag.
I'm doing the best I can on what I got to work with.
359 20 27 58 CC We'll get him off your back a second here, Jer.
CDR-EVA (Laughter) Okay.
CC Ed, Houston.
CDR-EVA Ed, he wants to talk to you.
359 20 28 l0 SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, on the next maneuver we're expecting an

excursion somewhere around B5 to 40 degrees, and
you'll probably also get the - the CLUSTER HIGH
RATE CAUTION and WARNING. And we Just want you
to protect that 60-degree n_nber. So we're expect-
ing out around 40.
SPT Okay, Story. I don't understand your phrase,

"protect the 60-degree nl_mber."
CC We - it - we - from all we know you did the right

things the last time, but Just hold off until you
get out to around, oh, 55 degrees or so, approach-
ing 60 degrees.
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SPT Oh, okay. I see. Very good. Will do, Story.
359 20 29 O1 PLT-EVA Ed, Jer's inside and I'm waiting to hand him the
stuff for whatever it is.
359 20 29 06 CC And we're a minute from LOS. About 25 minutes to

Carnarvon at 20:54.
359 20 29 21 CDR-EVA Okay. Ed, if you - if you will, read me the

procedures on putting away T025 and I'll get that
out of our way.
SPT Okay ...
359 20 29 59 CDR-EVA Next to 323.
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Time: 359:20:30 to 359:22:00
Page 1 of 10/2393
329 20 5_ 31 CDR-EVA Look at the cloud shining - Sun shining into the
clouds.
PLT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA Yes/a, there's the star. I think Kohoutek's right

near that. Boy, sure popped out of there.
PLT-EVA Sure did.
CDR-EVA As I remember from taking my last Kohoutek pictures,

it was neam that star.
PLT-EVA The bright one that's Just rising?
CDR-EVA Yes.
329 20 5h 53 CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear through

Carnarvon and Honeysuckle, 15 minutes.
CDR-EVA Roger. Bill and I are Just standing here trying

to see if we can see Kohoutek rise. It ought to
beupbynow.
PLT-EVA Yes, I think the lights up here in the FAS have

kept us from getting night adapted.
359 20 55 22 SPT Okay, Story. I entered the maneuver but we did

not go to ATT HOLD, CMG. We tried it in SI and
I real quickly went back to SI, and the rates are
settling out. And as soon as we get back to SI
we'll be going there again.
CC Copy, Ed.
PLT-EVA That airglow sure undergoes some beautiful color

changes.
CDR-EVA Yes. I sure can't see Kohoutek.
PLT-EVA No. I didn't.
CDR-EVA Better get your visor down.
PLT-EVA Okay, try - -

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359 20 56 h3 CDR-EVA You got 201 properly shaded?
PLT-EVA Yes. No. No, it's not for the maneuver.
CDR-EVA Turn it any more?
CC Ed, Houston.
PLT-EVA How - how long we have to go for the maneuver, Ed?
PLT-EVA Stand by.
SPT Go ahead.
359 20 57 02 CC Ed, verify you never went to ATT HOLD, CMG.
SPT That 's veri fled.
CC Okay.
CDR-EVA See all that - that crud coming out?
PLT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA Everywhere I go it seems to be flying. There's

more.
359 20 57 50 PLT-EVA Like there's nothing abrading on your suit or any-

thing else; the only thing I didn't look at was
the soles of your shoes. Watch the cable there.
CDR-EVA There went another piece.
CDR Yes, they' re clean.
359 20 58 09 CDR-EVA Another big piece Just floated down into here - -
PLT-EVA Looks like ice.
CDR-EVA What ?
PLT-EVA Looks like ice.
CDR-RU/A Ice !
PLT-EVA Yes.
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/ 359 20 58 16 CDR-EVA Oh, it's coming from the ALSA yes,
PLT-EVA I don't know; I couldn't get any to come out of

mine. I keep getting the impression it's coming
from inside the spacecraft.
CDR-EVA True. It's kind of yellow ice, though.
PLT-EVA Yes, it is.
359 20 58 49 CDR-EVA Could it be a - wonder if it could be water leak-

age from- well, no.
CDR-EVA Yes, it could be LCG water. But it would have to

be leaking right at the ALSA.
PLT-EVA ..., 10ok at that huge hunk there.
359 20 59 32 SPT Story, we're getting back there pretty slow. How
about if I change the maneuver time and go STAND-
BY and then SI again?
CC Stand by l, Ed.
PLT-EVA He's turned on his terminator.
CDR-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA Australia?
PLT-EVA Yes.
359 21 01 18 CC Ed, from here, we don't think there's any way to

speed the maneuver up.
SPT Thank you, Story.
CDR-EVA Go ahead.
CC Jer, part of that - those ice flakes problem,

we're - down here, we're looking at an 02 inlet
temperature of about 35 degrees on you. And you' re
probably Just condensing some water out of the
system. Any excess LSU that you have out, you
possibly could restow.
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CDR-EVA Okay, it's all in the FAS with us now. Okay. Yes,
it's out, and it's pointing- - .
PLT-EVA - - to see if we got it pointed back in the FAS

to protect us. Got 15 degrees, right? We're -
we're well - well off with 15 degrees, but -
359 21 03 33 CDR-EVA Yes, that's what it is; it's ice. I'm surprised
it's not whiter, though; it's more yellow.
CC Okay, Ed, it's looking good from down here.
SPT-EVA Thank you, Story.
CDR-EVA Don't sweat it, Ed.
359 21 04 42 PLT-EVA Yes, we shouldn't have been distracting you, talking

about the 201.
CDR-EVA No, it was over the Virgin Islands. We ought to

probably come up over some place like Del Rio or
something like that.
CDR-EVA Bill, while we're waiting here, why don't you just
ease on out, and take a look around?
PLT-EVA Sounds like a good move. Let me make sure that

I'm on the right.
CDR-EVA Okay.
359 21 06 35 CC Jer, we don't see any problem down here, but could
you give us a feel for the gas the - your inlet
gas temperature?
CDR-EVA Oh, it's quite - quite comfortable as best I can

tell. And I can feel it clear to my feet. It's
ice and cool, and the LCG is good and cool. What
seems to be the problem?
CC We're Just reading - with you comments on the -

the ice flakes and we're reading 35 degrees on
your inlet 02 temperature. Has it changed any in
the last hour or two that you know of?
CDR-EVA I don't think so. I haven't noticed it.

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CC Okay.
CDR-EVA I'm trying to stow some of this hose back in the

umbilical. I - or in the sphere. I've got h0 feet
pulled out, so I'll put a few feet back in.
CDR-EVA That's been done.
359 21 07 h4 PLT-EVA You're going to have to wait to do all this, Ed,

because I - I have it in position. I have it
aimed back in the FAS. I'm waiting for the sha-
dow to come into the FAS. Okay? Yes. I haven't
done it, but I want to keep them closed here until
I get ready to use them.
PLT-EVA Okay.
PLT-EVA Okay.
359 21 09 15 CDR-EVA Yes, I can get - panel 316, right? Well, I'm right
here; I can get them. Okay, LIGHTING, AM and - and
DA, right? Okay. ATM's OFF DA's OFF.
359 21 09 45 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; about 32 minutes

to Texas as 21:41.
CDR-EVA Man, am I throwing out the ice crystals now.
PLT-EVA Are we waiting for night, or are we going to do

this in the daytime? Okay, I'm Just wondering how
I'm going to do the comet.
359 21 l0 51 PLT-EVA Yes.
359 21 40 40 PLT-EVA _** this question, but what is that thing that
hinges out from the command module? Optics don't
do that; they're in the cow,hand - I mean they're
in the - back on the service module, really.
CDR-EVA I don't know; I'll have to look.
PLT-EVA Might -
CDR-EVA I see a little antenna and I see a blade - the

scimitar antenna; is that what you're looking at?
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PLT-EVA No. Two little gold things on the command module?

Little hemispheres in that black area - black
hemispheres, right there by two ...? Okay, ready
to go.
359 21 41 43 CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear. Stateside

for 14 minutes.
359 21 41 h6 PLT-EVA MARK. Light flashing.
CDR-EVA Okay, we're on our third S201 exposure, and we

cannot see the comet; there's just too much light
up here.
PLT-EVA Okay, the way we did the pointing, Story - do you

re ad ?
CC Yes, we're here Bill.
PLT-EVA Okay. We got over to the attitude and we could

still see the Sun, so I sort of directed Ed until
we got shadow on the area here where the 201 is
located. We got shadow and we tweaked the maneu-
ver so that the Sun was Just occulted by the ATM
solar panel. And then I centered the S201 sighting,
and we looked and looked for the comet; there's
no way we're going to see it. So then I centered
the standoff eye sights there that - or sighting
mechanisms so that it was just off of tangency
with the ATM solar panels at the closest point to
the Sun, cud, of course, no Sun in the field of
view. And also I had to move it to get - get it
out of FAS to get the spurious reflections. I
didn't know if the FAS structure here would scrub
the exposure or not, but the way it is it should
have fairly pure exposure. But Just sort of a
rough guess as to where the comet should be. Now
we can't see stars here, either.
359 21 h3 23 CC Bill, we think that's excellent. We think that's

as good as you possibly could have done on the
comet.
PLT-EVA Oh, good. Because we've g - have Just finished

the third exposure here in sequence (laughter).
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SPT Story, we ended up with a net of minus 19 degrees

in X as opposed to the 15. We did a little tweaking
once we got out to minus 19 and found that to be
opt imum.
CC Okay, Ed.
PLT-EVA I sort of feel like Pigpen; I'm carrying around

my own contamination with me, these little parti-
cles flying all over the place (laughter).
359 21 h5 01 SPT-EVA Story, when we finish this exposure, we're going

to be moving back to SOLAR INERTIAL, and then
we're going to stow 201. Jerry's going to get
lined up for the S05h. And on the next stateside,
we'll also pick up on the S020 exposures.
CC Okay, Ed, that's great.
PLT-EVA And if you'll give me a little warning when this

sequence times out, I'll be prepared to move the
201 so it's pointed back at the FAS.
PLT-EVA Okay, the sequence - isn't timed out? Okay. Okay,

turning it away; you're in good shape.
CDR-EVA Turn your power off? Got you power off, Bill?
PLT-EVA POWER is OFF.
CDR-EVA Okay. All right.
PLT-EVA *** Back, it won't take me but a second to take

that off, and I'll Just hand it back to you, Jerry.
CDR-EVA Okay. MY trouble is that I've been robbing umbil-

icals; I've taken two umbilicals for the tools
I've got now. They're not umbilicals; they're
tethers.
PLT-EVA Tethers.
CDR-EVA All right.
359 21 h7 h0 PLT-EVA Okay, you can start maneuvering. I've got the
201 protected now.
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CDR-EVA Okay.
PLT-EVA 201's going back in the airlock now.
CDR-EVA Just a minute, Bill.
PLT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA If you'll hold that for a second I'll try to get

this cover back again.
PLT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA I did such a good Job at tethering it I may not

be able to get it off.
359 21 49 ll CDR-EVA I don't believe this.
PLT-EVA What's the matter?
CDR-EVA These nut - these screws are just something

terrible.
PLT-EVA Oh, yes. You know I - if you get two diagonally

opposite ones you'll be in business.
CDR-EVA ...
CDR-EVA Okay. Now, Ed, tell me again where this 201 goes.
CDR-EVA 313, huh?
CC Bill, if you got two screws in on that S201 and

they're on a diagonal, that'll suffice for now.
CDE-EVA Okay, we got them.
PLT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Okay, Bill, hand it in. I'm going to put it back

on 318 - or 390.
PLT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA That's more out of the way.

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359 21 51 07 PLT-EVA And we got utility power connector to go yet, too.

But you go ahead and tether it first, then get this
power connector.
PLT-EVA While you're doing that, I'ii get these other

S crews.
CDR-EVA I don't think it's worth fooling with, Bill.
PLT-EVA Oh, I'm sure we got a good enough seal. There's

no doubt in my mind on that.
PLT-EVA Ah, the sight's popped up again. Let me get those

or they'll break off.
PLT-EVA Can you push toward me on it?
CDR-EVA Sure can.
PLT-EVA Okay. Now okay, Just - Just another second. Okay,

it's locked now. Those things flip up pretty easy.
And I'll get this utility cable here. Let's see.
CDR-EVA Okay, it's back there.
PLT-EVA Okay.
359 21 53 05 CDR-EVA Okay, I've got my two tools. I'm ready to head
out.
PLT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA That 's done. That 's done. Okay.
PLT-EVA Okay, his umbilical, you mean? Yes. Right.

Okay. Man, he's moving fast today.
CDR-EVA Yes, indeed.
359 21 54 30 CDR-EVA Okay. I'm in position.
PLT-EVA Stand by 1. I'm sorting out the DAC here.
CDR-EVA Okay, 3.67 and no lights.
359 21 54 57 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; 5 minutes to

Madrid at 21:59.
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CDR-EVA Roger. Okay, POWER switches are going ON. ROLL,

ENABLE. I'll go to the RIGHT. Okay, I guess I
got to go LEFY; it stopped. That's what I'm
saying; I had to go RIGHT because apparently I
got to a ROLL stop.
359 21 55 36 CDR-EVA Yes, I was thinking I could continue going to the

right to get to it, but I can't. Okay.
359 21 59 40 CDR-EVA Okay, the - the shutter plates are not open. That's
right. Yes.
359 21 59 56 CC Skylab, we copied that. We're - have got you

through Madrid for 7 minutes.
CDR-EVA Okay. Tell him the shutter plates are not open
on S054.
CC Got that
359 22 00 lh CDR-EVA No. The - the blades are closed.
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CDR-EVA Go ahead. Go ahead, Story.
CC Take your screwdriver there and press down on those

buttons. They're quarter-inch diameter buttons.
They're about, as you view it, about ll and
1 o'clock. And the shutter plates ought to open
when you push down on either one or both.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT Story, after Jerry removed the camera, we got a

decrement by 1 on the frames remaining for S054.
We're now reading 5993.
359 22 01 59 CC 0 - Okay, Ed. And we think that's normal.
SPT Roger.
CC And could you verify that you do have the butterfly

on that new S054 camera?
CDR-EVA Yes, he does.
SPT That's verified. Jet and I both put it on last

night.
CC Okay.
PLT-EVA Where do I look?
CDR-EVA Okay, I got the shutter blade open now.
CC Okay, Jer.
359 22 03 01 CC And, Ed, we see a CMG RESET coming up here.
PLT-EVA And I can verify the butterfly's on.
CDR-EyA Okay, Just let me position myself again, here.

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CDR-EVA Okay, there - there appears to bea - I see a

silver - a silver filter down there and I can
see the lightening hole in the web next to it.
CDR-EVA So there's a - there is a silver filter down there

covering.
CC Okay, Jer. That's probably confirmation that you're

between a couple of filters and probably 5 and 6.
CDR-EVA Yes, I can see a - on the righthand side , I can

see about half of the lightening hole and the fil-
ter is not completely in place.
CDR-EVA Yes.
359 22 05 25 CC Okay, Jer. We suggest you press on to try to work

that around. We've only got about a minute and
40 seconds to LOS to discuss that with you.
CDR-EVA Do you want to work it manually or do you want to

try the electrical check first?
CDR-EVA All right. Go ahead.
CDR-EVA
Yes.
CC Yes. Follow the procedure, electrical check, first.
CDR-EVA Okay. I see nothing moving.
CC Okay, now go manually.
CDR-EVA Okay. No - no, the filter wheel does not rotate,

Ed.
CDR-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA Okay.
CC And, Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, and about

25 minutes to Carnarvon at 22:33.
CDR-EVA Okay, Story. It's apparently a definite mechanical

Jam. Ed is reading me the geometry and the tech-
niques and then we'll get going.
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CC Okay, fine, Jer.
CDR-EVA We're Just going to take our time on it. Okay,

Ed.
359 22 07 23 CDR-EVA Yes, I can see that.
359 22 32 56 CDR-EVA Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR-EVA Got bad news, Story. While I was in there maneu-

vering the screwdriver down to start moving the
filter, the shutter blades closed on me and they're
deformed now and they won't open.
CC Copy, Jer.
PLT-EVA Jet, you want to go back to 3? Wait a minute now.

I thought we only got 8-1/2 - 7-1/2 minutes.
PLT-EVA Okay. Tell me when. Okay.
CC Jet, what techniques have you used to try to get

the shutters open?
359 22 34 03 CDR-EVA Well, I tried pushing on the buttons again, but

it won't budge. I pushed both buttons and then
I reached in with the tip of the screwdriver and
gently tried to get ahold of the web and move it
to the side and it wouldn't move. It's J_-,_ed
solid. The shutter blade looks like it's pretty
flimsy material. It flexes quite a bit when I
touch it.
CC Copy.
CC And, Jer, you might try putting a fresh mag in

with - with the butterfly on it, of course, and
see what that does.
359 22 3_ 46 CDR-EVA Well, the thing is the - the shutter - the shutter
blade itself is bent. It's deformed. And I don't
think it's going _o open if it's supposed to stay
in one plane.
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CDR-EVA Relative to the plane of the shutter plate, Story,

I would say that the shutter blade is now bent
downward about 15 degrees.
CC Okay, Jer. We've got nothing to lose here by

forcing the shutter open. We plan to fly that
experiment with the shutter open all the time.
CDR-EVA Okay. I'll give it a bloody go. Which way should

I push it? Should I push it to the right or to
the left?
359 22 37 50 MCC CDR, Houston here. Looking at the shutter blade

in the closed position, there should be a rib -
a raised rib on the shutter blade and the question
is does that come down the right hand of the elipse,
as you look at it, or the left-hand side?
CDR-EVA It's coming right down the middle of it, Rusty.
MCC Okay, then you should be able to see the edge of

the shutter blade. Is that correct?
CDR-EVA That's right. I can fold the shutter blade back,

Rusty, and that would vignette the aperture, but
you would still have part of it anyway.
MCC Are you saying - CDR, that you cannot under any
circumstance push it sideways?
359 22 38 3h CDR-EVA No, its much, much too fragile. It just folds up.
MCC Okay, we've got a unit down here. We've just bent
the shutter blade the same way and stand by. We're
bending - we're trying to bend it a little further.
CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS here and about 6 min-

utes to Honeysuckle. 22:h5.
CDR-EVA Okay.
MCC Okay, CDR. We just bent the shutter blade on this

one down - in as far as we could and I'd recommend
you go on ahead and do that. It will actually
clear the aperture if you do that. So Just go
ahead and bend it down and up against the side.
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CDR-EVA Okay. Will do.
359 22 B9 24 PLT-EVA Yes, they sound like they're really on top of it.
CDR-EVA Boy, if I had a pair of long-nosed pliers, I could

reach in and get it and pull it out.
CC Yes_ as per your dental training, Jer.
CDR-EVA Yes.
MCC CDR, did you have any opportunity to try and move
the wheel at all?
CDR-EVA Yes, I tried to - well, no, it was on the first

thing, Rusty.
MCC Okay, fine - -
CDR-EVA I went in, los - I went in with the screwdriver,

lost my footing - had to pull the screwdriver out
again, and then got my footing and went back in
and that's when I hit the shutter blade. I've got
the shutter blade pushed all the way against the
back, toward the center of the canister, and it's
rotated about 30 degrees, and I'm looking at the
edge of it. And that's why I said if I had a pair
of long-nosed pliers, I could Just tear it out.
359 22 40 34 MCC Okay, is the shutter blade completely below the

plane of the shutter plate?
CDR-EVA Yes, that's affirmative.
MCC Okay, perhaps you could turn the screwdriver over

and use the handle and shove it - well, you've
got the tether on that end. That probably won't
work. But if you can Just push it - -
CDR-EVA Yes.
MCC - - to the side as far as you can, Jer. That's

as good as we can hope for and then I'd suggest
Just going ahead with the rotation of the wheel.
CDR-EVA Okay. I'll keep fiddling with it a little bit

here and try to get as much of that shutter out
of the field of view as I can.
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359 22 41 09 MCC Okay, if you are inclined, you might want to try
a finger.
CDR-EVA That's a good idea, I think I'ii try. l'm going

to find out.
CDR-EVA If you hear an ouch, Bill, you might have to come

out and extract me from the aperture.
PLT-EVA Yes, I'll tape you up good, too.
CDR-EVA (Laughter) Yes, bring some gray tape. We'll, no -

no way of getting the right hand in there. Now,
if I had Rusty Schweickart's arm I could reach
that.
CC CDR, you may be able to rotate the canister to a

more favorable location to try it.
359 22 42 O1 CDR-EVA Okay.
359 22 45 41 CDR-EVA Okay, what I've done now so far is I've centered
that filter.
SPT Yes, but it's got a hole in it.
CC Jer, we're showing FILTER 5 down here now; keep

on going until you get to 3.
CDR-EVA Okay, Story, 5 is now centered. I wondered

if there might be anything gained by trying to
move it to 3 electrically.
MCC CDR, if you move in that direction you go back

to the jam. That is, it'll go from the present
position towards 6 again. We prefer manually
slewing in on around to 3.
CDR-EVA Okay. Now let's - I got 5 centered up now. It's

got a hole in it. Let's see if I can get - get
us back to number 4.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, Houston.
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359 22 46 53 SPT Go ahead_ Story.
CC Ed, our momentum is building up in X again. We'll

need a nominal H-CAGE here. And you'll probably
get an excursion out to 20 to 25 degrees.
SPT Okay, would you like it right now?
CC Yes, sir.
PLT-EVA Okay, what about - -
CC Skylab, we're l0 seconds to Los. See you over

Texas in about 30 minutes at 23:15. Be dumping
the data/voice there.
CDR-EVA Okay. Do you see a new filter position?
CC We're looking.
PLT-EVA I'm ready to go to STORAGE.
MCC Still 5, CDR.
CDR-EVA Okay.
MCC You have to go way back into that left-hand rear

corner angling the screwdriver in order to get
it through position 4.
359 22 47 21 PLT-EVA ... STORAGE, Ed. Are we maneuvering now?
359 23 15 16 CDR-EVA I see some ground coming up. Do you recognize

it, Bill?
PLT-EVA I'm back in the FAS, Jer; I can't see anything.
CDR-EVA Oh.
359 23 15 21 CC Skylab, AOS stateside for 17 minutes.
CDB-EVA Hello, Story, what filter do you see?
CC It - -
CDR-EVA The filter I see is very, very shiny, silver shiny.

And I'm hoping that's FILTER number 2.
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CC It should be, and we show you between filters now.
CDR-EVA Okay. I'm going to try to get to 3 now.
CDR-EVA ... got problems; you'd better talk to him.
SPT ... H-CAGE. We got out to around 30 degrees.

Waiting for the TACS to kill off the rates. It
did. Waiting for the CMGs to take over. Stand
by.
359 23 16 37 SPT Just waiting for the CMGs to take over, and they
started to and then we got a second for an auto-
matic nominal H-CAGE. We got out to hO-some-odd
degrees and - with some fairly high rates, and
about that time I took it over. The TACS had
tried to fire and start bringing us back to
correct the large attitude error. I put in -
well, first of all, I cut off the TACS, which
were firing. They were Just really belching out.
I think we might have had some - some hard-ons
there. Then I went to stand by, loaded in
24 minutes and started to the maneuver back, and
we had to fire some TACS, of course, to get going.
We got close to being back fairly quickly because
the TACS had already turned us around in maneuvers.
Got a high rate coming back. At around 5 minutes,
I loaded a maneuver time around 5 minutes when
we were h degrees out, just creeping back. Because
I didn't want to build up any - as much gravity
gradient as possible or keep the gravity gradient
down as much as possible. So we're setting here
saturated now in Y. Would you like to try one
more nominal H-CAGE?
359 23 17 58 CC Copy that, Ed, and let us take a look at it for

awhile.
SPT Okay, I also show an INNER GIMBLE on CMG

number 3 tightened full scale low. I've not seen
that meter problem before and I'm not sure whether
it's an anomaly with the meter or a real one.
CC Okay, Ed, and we're showing filter 3 down here,

Jet.
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CDR-EVA Okay. I see a black hole down there.

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CC That's what you ought to see.
CDR-EVA You happy with that?
CC Yes, sir.
CDR l'm ecstaticl Whee'
CDR-EVA And I think I've got most all that shutter blade
out of the way, so it won't be too much vignetting
by that anyway.
CC Okay.
359 23 18 38 CDR-EVA Okay, Wilhem, let's have the film.
PLT-EVA In work.
CDR-EVA Hot dog! Let's get everybody in close to the c.g.

so Ed won't have so many problems.
CC Not a bad idea.
PLT-EVA On it's way.
359 23 19 07 CDR-EVA Okay, Bill's sending down the film now.
CDR-EVA We over the U.S., Story?
CC Go ahead.
CDR-EVA Are we over the U.S.?
PLT-EVA Say when, Jer.
CC Yes, sir. Over Mexico.
CDR-EVA Good show. That's fine, Bill.
CDR-EVA Take it back, Bill.
PLT-EVA Okay. RETRACT.
CDR-EVA Okay, Ed, before I do anything else, am I - before

I put the film in, am I supposed to do anything
else?
CDR-EVA All right. I'll Just freeze - I'll freeze until

you catch up.
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CC Ed, we show you close to SI now. We'd like

another nominal K-CAGE.
CDR-EVA (Laughter) Rots of ruck [sic], Ed.
359 23 20 _i SPT Okay, Story. Coming up now.
CDR-EVA Shall I hold on tight?
CC And keep the CMGs INHIBITed, Ed.
PLT-EVA Hear that Ed?
SPT Okay. Would you clarify that, Story? We're in

CAGEd right now. By inhibited, you want me to
go into the DAS?
SPT I think .they're having a little dropout problem.
CDR-EVA We now have FILTER 3 centered up, Bill - or Ed.
CDR-EVA Okay, that 's the way it 's supposed to be, yes.
CC And for Ed, we - like what we're seeing now, Ed.
SPT Okay, Story. Your call on keep the CMGs INHIBITed_.

I did not understand. You want me to go into
the DAS and INHIBIT CMG control?
359 23 22 06 CC Stand by 1.
SPT And also, in going through the MALF here for 5h,
I now have a setting of FILTER in STORAGE. Is
that the, I believe, the final configuration?
CC That's affirm, Ed.
SPT Okay, then is Jer cleared to put the camera back

in?
CC That's affirm.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT Okay, we got TACS l, 3, and 5 firing at 1-second

intervals here.
CC Copy.
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CDR-EVA Okay, the green flag says latched. The ....

White and black button is up and the alignment's
stripes are lined up. The film is in.
SPT And, Story, would you like us to cycle through

a 54 checkout, which involves a SINGLE, EXPOSUREs
16, or a picture rate of single and exposure rates
of 16 and watch at decrement 6.
359 23 23 17 CC That's affirm, Ed.
SPT Okay.
PLT-EVA Stand back.
SPT Okay, I'm back. Wait Just a minute. Let me

close the door first. Okay. The DOOH is CLOSED.
CC Ed, continue on with the nominal H-CAGE. After it

settles down, we'll give you a GO for CMG control.
359 23 2h 45 CDR-EVA No. No, I can't see out that way. I ought to be
able to see some - some sparklies though.
359 23 26 43 CDR-EVA How many more exposures have you got to do, Bill?
pLT-EVA Several. I don't know how many - -
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR-EVA Go ahead.
i CC After you get the S054 installed, we've got two

other EVAs to collect, S020 data, so we don't
want you to spend any time on that. Just complete
the EVA per the checklist and wrap up S020.
CDR-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA The 54?
CDR-EVA I hope so. You tested it didn't you?
CDR-EVA Yes, as best as I can tell, I'm complete.
SPT Story, the S054 is installed and from the inside

here. We've checked it out, and it looks good.
CC And it looks good down here.

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SPT Okay, what do you want to do with our momentum

configuration? We're still in CAGE, and we got
a reasonable rate going in X, .03.
CC Stand by i, Ed.
359 23 37 59 CC Ed, you can go back to CMG control at this time.
SPT Okay.
PLT-EVA Okay, Jer, I'll get pictures of you coming back.
CDR-EVA Okay.
PLT-EVA In fact, I think I'll Just take a good long

sequence of you right here.
CDR-EVAOkay. You readyto run? i
PLT-EVA Yes, just a second.
CDR-EVA Okay. As soon as the Sun comes up let's get one

of you.
PLT-EVA *** it is.
PLT-EVA Man, this is hard to push that button, I - I can't

believe how - -
CDR-EVA
Youready? t
PLT-EVA
Ready.
CDR Okay, here I come.
PLT-EVA Do you see the green light flashing first?
CDR-EVA No, I don't. I think it's on the side of the

camera where - -
PLT-EVA Now I got it.
CDR-EVA Now I see it.
PLT-EVA Come on.
CDR-EVA Okay.
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PLT-EVA ...
CDR-EVA Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 5 minutes to

Madrid.
CDR-EVA Roger.
CDR-EVA Okay. Give me the camera, Bill.
PLT-EVA Okay.
359 23 32 12 CDR-EVA You can hook that through my right - right tether
ring right there. Just put it through the metal
D-ring.
359 23 32 26 CDR-EVA Okay.
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359 23 36 55 CDR-EVA Trying to get there without losing the tools.
PLT-EVA Yes, that that's a sharp thing, too, that screw-

driver.
CDR-EVA It is. I'm worried a little bit about poking myself

with it. Now Just a minute while I disconnect this
tether from me now, and attach it somewhere in the
spacecraft.
PLT-EVA Yes, there's no sense in getting in any hurry, I

mean, we *** understanding.

Madrid for 8 minutes.
CDR-EVA Roger, Story. We're picking things up and coming

in now. We got the camera in, we're working on
S020, and we have T - S201 to go, plus a couple
of trees.
SPT Story, Just to let you know where we stand on S020,

we got a 60-minute exposure, a 30-minute - a 13
and _0 rather than 15 because of than nominal
H-CAGE put in. And a 7-1/2 minute rather than the
8 minute, so we don't have their priority 5 and
6 items done, but we got the first four.
CC Okay; copy, Ed.
CC And, Jer, prior to repressing the airlock, we'd

like you to remove your PCU deflectors and examine
the PCUs for any ice formation.
CDR-EVA Will do.
CC And also verify that the composite connector's

hard mated to the PCU.
CDR-EVA Okay. All right, Bill, I'm ready for your next
little present.
PLT-EVA Okay, let's see, I'll Just give you the VS tree,
here.
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359 23 38 58 CDR-EVA Okay, I got it.
CDR-EVA Okay, I haven't done that, but I will. All right,

it's a point; Just a second now. All right, I got
the VS tree in and latched. Let me go up here and
do what I can with S020. Okay, hit me with the
words again, Ed.
CDR-EVA Okay, that's in work. Okay. VACUUM VENT valve is

CLOSEd. Now I'll work on the boresighter. Oh,
that little bitty knob again.
CDR-EVA I'm afraid the boresighter is going to have to

stay open. Yes. That little knob, I Just can't
get a hold of it to lift it up out of the notch
and close the boresighter. Okay, what's next,
Ed? NO, Just the VS so far. Okay.
PLT-EVA Didn't work.
359 23 h2 23 CDR-EVA Okay, the VA - C tree is in place and locked. Rigk_.

201's in. 20 is in, yes.
CDR-EVA Oh - -
PLT-EVA 230 or whatever it was.
359 23 42 21 CDR-EVA The 201, next in.
PLT-EVA I guess perpendicular.
CDR-EVA Yes, T025 is in and latched down. Yes, tethers -

we're short of.
PLT-EVA - - FAS area are you talking about, or is it the -
CDR-EVA Where was it, Ed?
PLT-EVA Hey, it was a good point because here it is. Here's

Don Lind's cover.
CDR-_A Yes.
PLT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA All right, we sure will. Lighting flashes.

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PLT-EVA Yes.
PLT-EVA Oh, no, no, no. That's from the clothesline. Get
that out.
PLT-EVA No, it looks pretty clean out here. I ... forget

this one boom *** - - It's in the hatch. Before
we get back in, I think we have a little umbilical,
or does that come up next?
CDR-EVA Yes, let's get some of this umbilical out of the

way. We got a whole bundle of it out.
359 23 44 32 PLT-EVA Okay, now see this is mine here.
CDR-EVA Okay.
PLT-EVA Take yours. Let me unhook it.
359 23 44 41 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 15 minutes to

Tananarive at 23 :59.
CDR-EVA Okay.
PLT-EVA I'm going to hold mine down here. You can start
shoving yours back there in the aft airlock.
CDR-EVA Right.
CDR-EVA Slow and easy. That_way. Okay, Bill, let's get

yours in now.
PLT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Slow and easy.
PLT-EVA Let me get down out of the way.
CDR-EVA Got the great big metabolic load here Just trying
to stow umbilicals.
CDR-EVA That's right, Bill, do a 180 to the right. Very

good.
359 23 45 53 PLT-EVA Okay, I'm looking at all of the dogs. Back to -

Okay.
359 23 59 36 CDR Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

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

Tananarive for 4 minutes.
CDR Roger. We just opened the 0WS hatch.
CDR Home, sweet home.
CDR Yes, sir. And after you climb out of your suits,
Jer, we'd like you to leave the PCU connected to
the LSUs and leave the LSUs connected to their
respective panels in the airlock. Maybe after
dinner we'll" run through a little bit of trouble-
shooting looking for a water leak.
CDR Okay, we sure got ice on my connector, my composite

connector.
360 00 00 35 CC Okay, thanks, Jer. And also on - on Bill, we did

lose his ECG the last part of the EVA. When he
takes his suit off and all, he might be - might
take a look at his 0BS sensors.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, Story.
CDR Okay, Bill, I'mdown.
PLT Alrighty. I'm on my way. Excuse me.
PLT I'm watching it.
CDR You got to watch it when it grabs you.
PLT The great big magnet in there. Okay, do I look

clear now, Ed?
CDR Okay. Christmas tree coming up on your left.
PLT Yes, I'm going to stay high here. I'm just going
around.
360 O0 02 35 PLT Okay, is my umbilical clear?
CDR Yes, it's clear.
CDR Okay.
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CDR Okay. PRESSURE SELECT, OFF and doff one glove.
PLT Okay.
CDR Mine' s off.
PLT Mine is off now.
360 00 03 09 CC Skylab, we're a couple of minutes to LOS; about

20 minutes to Honeysuckle at 00:23.
CC And we got a feeling for how hungry you are. If

you have any trouble finding that fruitcake, in
A-2 locker behind the f_Im vault, it's wrapped in
foil and also stored in clear plastic. Maybe that'll
help you find it.
360 00 03 33 CDR Okay. Thank you, Story. I'm looking forward to

that.
CC So am I.
CDR Beter kill the umbilical power, Bi - Ed.
CDR Yes, we're all through. We got our helmets and

gloves off now.
360 O0 04 29 CDR Okay.
360 O0 23 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you for 1 minute

through Honeysuckle. And it calls out in your
checklist there to record on the recorder the PCU
number. We'd like in addition, which LSU was
connected to which PCU.
CDR Okay, Hank. LSU 7, PCU lO. LSU 12, PCU lB.
CC Roger. We copy. Thank you.
CDR And my PCU number 13 was the one that was throwing
the ice and inside here now there's sure enough a
lot of water around the composite.
CC Roger. We copy.
360 O0 25 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. See you at

Goldstone at 52.
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360 00 52 l0 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for ll minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Did you find your fruitcake?
CDR No, we haven't got to that yet. We Just got out

of our snowsuits, and we're kind of doing whst we
have to do before we can sit down and eat.
360 00 53 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got gimbals on the stops

and we're slowly losing attitude. We may get a
reset.
CC And, Jerry, you can disregard our earlier call about

the PCU/LSU. You can go ahead and disconnect it
per checklist.
SPT Roger, Hank.
360 00 58 16 CC Skylab, Houston. Just to sort of fill you in on

what we're looking at down here. We're - we've
got a list of things that we're proposing to delete
here this evening, to make your even - evening here
a little more relaxed since the EVA took a little
longer than we had anticipated. And also, later
on in the evening when you get down to the taking
the - taking the CSM back down to the quiescent
set again, we have a couple of things we want you
to do there in the powerdown over a STND site so
we can look at it. For one thing looking at the
computer while it's in PO0 and also looking at the
BMAG problem we had.
360 00 58 54 CDR Okay, Hank. We got the fruit cake locker out.
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360 01 02 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS. Be a dropout for about a minute and back
with you through Bermuda.
SPT Okay; thank you, Hank. Hey, I would appreciate

it - sometime tonight or maybe tomorrow - to
find out the situation we had there on the TACS
usage and the number of multiple resets we were
getting.
CC Roger. We're - we - -
SPT I kept up with most of it, but I'm wondering

whether we could have done something different to
avoid the - the TACS usage that we did experience.
CC Okay, we're interested in that too, Ed, and we're

trying to get all the data back. It will be a
while until we get it all back in and - and look
at it. We're - we're curious, ourselves, as to
exactly what happened.
SPT I think the ground rule which was given - wait

until it gets 50 degrees out of attitude before
we do something - I think that number, perhaps,
was a little bit high. I think if we had - might
have taken action when that - somewhere around
30 or so, we might have pulled it off with not
quite as much ...
360 01 03 24 CC That's a good point. We'll certainly reevaluate

our rules.
360 01 04 06 CC Skylab, we ba - we're through Bermuda for 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. _ minute to LOS. Madrid at 14.
360 01 14 31 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8 minutes.
CDR Hank, on your message about disconnecting the

LSU and PCUs, I was back behind the film vault
at the time. You said it was okay to go ahead
and follow the checklist, didn't you?
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CC That's affirmative, Jet.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. I - I don't - how - how you're -

what - what you're doing - I guess you're _ett_n_.
ready to eat - or if you - if you haven't already,
but you think we ought to go ahead and get our
proposed deletions out of the way so we know what
we're working to this evening?
CDR Yes, I guess that'd be okay.
CC 0ka - -
CDR All of our dinners were frozen, Hank; so their're

thawing right now. We've all had a little snack,
and now we're Just kind of messing around, _ettin_
things done while we're waiting for our _ood to
thaw.
CC Okay. Well, here's the - -
CDR We're getting multiple mibs now.
360 01 16 07 CC Roger. We're getting that reset we thought we

were going to get earlier, and -
CDR Okay.
CC The kind of thing we're looking at here is eor you

deleting the S149 stow; that will save you
30 minutes. And on the T025, Just do the cm_era
stow only and put the film in the film vault. _na
also, we - this applies to both you and the WL• -
we'll delete the housekeeping 2A, 2B, 2C, and ii^.
That'll save us some more, about 45 minutes. We'll
delete the ATM pass for the SPm, and we'll also
delete his M133. We'll do that later, nh, cor-
rection on that. We want to do that tonight, i_ -
if - if you - if he's willing. On the _Lm, we
would like to delete the filter stow _rom tlhe _0QO.
And we're going to have to put it - _hat _u_t saves
us having to put it right back in on the next _rA
since we'll be using that. And also, when you
get to the part where you stow the _Us, at your
option - PCUs, at your option you can _ust _ecure
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them to the floor rather than trv_n_ to put the_

back in the containers, if that makes thin_s a
little easier on you. Just be sure all the ea_s
are replaced according to the checklist.
360 Ol 17 36 SPT Hank, that M133 is no problem. And I think, on the

the ATM, maybe if we can Just pick them uD a
building block i, JOP 6, that would do it. Y
think that synoptic data is fairly important.
CC Okay, Ed. If you can work that in, that'll be

fine. Just a reminder. You'll have to recon_ig_re
the panel according to the _STA Checklist.
SPT Okay, I won't be doing that right now. It might

be another orbit or so before we get this nlace
squared away, but I will pick it up before we =.et
into the bed - into bed tonight.
CDR Okay, Hank, let's see if I _ot it all now. _Te're

going to delete housekeepin_ 2A, B, and C and llA,
the lh9 stow, the T025 sto_z - except for the e_m-
era, which we'll put away - the S020 filter stow,
and PCU stow, except we'll cap them off.
360 01 18 41 CC Skylab, how do you read?
CDR Read you loud and clear now. I guess you dro_ed
out. Did you copy what Y had?
CC Roger. And you read it back correct. And the

only other thing we have is, when you _et to the
part where we are powering down the CS_ to auies-
cent, we do have a couple of things we'd like to
do over STDN. And I guess it's best to talk those
through when you get to them. And - and - and
basically, it's when we get do_.m to step Q, there
on page 6-23, in the powerdown. We would like to
run a little cheek on the DMAC's, and we'd also
like to get a couple of minutes looking at the
computer while it's in P_O, to look at some para-
meters there on PU - They're not on the
P20 down_list.
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CDR Okay, Hank, and let's think about that. Y'll

probably get to that, in another hour or so, ms vbe
right after dinner, but let's s_end one of these
passes Just working at it.
360 01 19 33 CC Okay, Just give us a call when you Ret to that

and over a site, and we'll work .it out.
CDR Okay, Hank. And, Hank, T don't know if T made

it clear, out there on S05h, what I or_Rinallv
saw when I looked in there. But it aDDears that
that first camera-full of film that we had _as
taken through, I guess, three-quarters of filter _,
and the other 25 percent of it was occulted. T'd
say, looking in the aperture there, three-
quarters of filter 5 was - was showing.
CC Roger. We copy.
360 01 21 h8 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR I just disconnected the composite on _CU number 1R

and got a whole ball of water in the face.
The - It's yellow water out of the LCC,s, out o_
that system, and the electrical connection there
is completely soaked in water. I think we'd bet-
ter leave it open tonight and let it dry out.
CC Roger. We copy. And I _uess we'll leave it that

way for the time beinK. We'll think about it.
We're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll see you
again at Tananarive at 34, and that's about
ll minutes.
360 Ol 22 32 CDR Okay.
360 Ol 35 15 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive 7 minutes.
SPT Hey, Hank. Do we have some family comm setup 9or

this evening?
CC Roger, Ed. You are - have Hon@ysuckle at _g -

03:36.
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SPT Okay. What about Jerry and Bill?
CC Okay, Bill at 02:31 in Goldstone. CDR is at 03:56,

Hawaii. All of them RIGHT to LEFT.
SPT Okay, Hank, I copied for Bill - okay, I copied for

Bill, 02:31; for Jerry, 03:56; and for myself,
03:36.
360 01 37 02 CC That's correct. And, Ed, while I've got you,

there is one error in the checklist for the power-
up, the ATM panel. On page 3.1-9 on the white
light eoronograph, S052, after you bring the
MAIN POW_ to STANDBY, you'll want to go then to
ON because you're going to operate.
SPT Okay, very good. I think Bill's got that.
CC And, Skylab, also might point out to you that

we - we're stowing the S020 with the EVA bracket
on it, so the - in F-597. So the - the lid will
be partially open there; so you probably should
excercise a little caution in moving around that
area and not bang it.
PLT Roger, Hank.
360 Ol 41 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Honeysuckle at 59, and we're
scheduled to dump the recorder there. That's
about 17 minutes from now.
360 Ol 58 51 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 9-1/2 min-

utes. And we'll be dumping the recorder.
360 02 06 41 CC Skylab, Houston. Could you give us an idea where

you are now in the post EVA?
CDR Okay, the CDR is putting the suits back together

now.
PLT The PLT is in the UCTA draining, page 3.1-11.
CC Okay, I guess - Bill, we don't see the ventilation

back up again. And it could be that since we got
into that 90 Alfa this morning, we may Ha - we got
something out of configuration. We might ought
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CC Okay, understand you have ll-alpha, 54, and 56 in

the command module. And we'll check it out.
SPT Thank you, Hank. It's exactly as printed on page

3.2-2 of the EVA cue cards - post.
CC Okay.
SPT And also, S052 is going down to F-551.
CC Okay; we copy.
360 02 26 42 CC PLT, Houston. You - your next site's your pri-

vate comm, and you may acquire a little early.
It's scheduled for 30, but if you're ready,
you might - you might get VHF picked up about a
minute before that.
PLT Okay, Hank. Thank you very much.
CC And, CDR, Houston. Do you think you might be in-

to that CSM powerdown on the next CONUS?
CDR Say again, Hank.
CC Roger. We're about a minute from LOS. We'll be

seeing you at Goldstone at 30, and that's scheduled
for the evening status report. And right after
that, we got a 8-minute pass at Bermuda, and we
were wondering if - if, at that - that site, we
could run through the CSM powerdown?
CDR Well, there'll be no status report. I - l'm no-

where ready to give that. I'ii go on up there
at Bermuda, though, and we can do the CSM together.
360 02 27 55 CC Okay; whenever it's convenient. If - if you've

not - not ready, evening status, that's no big
deal. We could do it at Goldstone, if - for that
matter, if you want to do the powerdown there.
Are - are you eating now?
CDR No, uh-uh. Our foods not ready yet.

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CDR What's the next pass now, Hank? The next station.
CC Okay, we have Goldstone coming up right no_r in

about smother couple of minutes, and then there's
Bermuda after that.
360 02 28 39 CDR And will Goldstone be ... - -
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360 02 30 53 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 7 minutes.

And you're right, Jer. I forgot about PLT's
private comm. We'll have to wait until Bermuda,
and that'll be coming up at 42.
CDR Okay; fine, Hank. I'll meet you there at 42.
CC Hey, Jerry, the comm tech says he's having trouble

raising Bill. He is up in the command module,
isn't he?
CDR Yes, he's up there, Hank. He's probably trying

to figure out the reconfiguration.
CC Okay.
360 12 36 56 CC They got it going now, Jer. Skylab, Houston.

We're 1 minute to LOS. We'll be coming up on
Bermuda at 42. And for the SPT, the stowage as
outlined in your checklist there is correct for
the film.
360 02 37 lO SPT Okay, Hank. Thank you.
PLT Hank, this is the PLT. I Just checked the SUS-1

reservior, and I would say for all practical
purposes it is empty.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC And, CDR, we're standing by; as soon as you get

in the command module, give us a call.
CDR Okay, I'm there.
CC Okay, Jer, first thing we'd like for you to do is

give us PO0. We can go ahead and be looking at
those parameters on P20.
CDR Okay.
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360 02 43 24 CC And the next thing we'd like for you to do is -

up in the tunnel there - is ENABLE CAUTION/WARNING
i0 alfa.
CDR Roger ; i0 Alfa.
CC And while you're down that way, over on panel 229,

we'd like to verify that the EPS GROUP 2, MAIN A
is closed.
CDR Hey, Hank, see our problem. BMAG I is in WARMUP.
CC Roger. Copy; in - in WARMUP.
CDR So it was nice and warm, but it wasn't doing much.
360 02 h4 46 CC Could you turn it ON for us? And then we'll

Just take a look.
360 02 h4 49 CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. That's all we need then. You can

go ahead and do a normal powerdown.
CDR Roger, Hank. I'm glad that's all the problem

was.
CC So are we.
CC Skylab, Houston. Has housekeeping 90 Bravo been

accomplished, steps 6 and 8? We still don't see
the heat exchanger fans and everything going.
PLT It's in work right now, Hank.
CC Okay. Thank you, Bill.
CC CDR, Houston. I guess when you get through with

that powerdown, we'd want to go back and INHIBIT
] 0 al fa again.
CDR Okay; good enough.
PLT Hank, what fans is it that you'r e referring to?
CC The OWS heat exchanger fans, Bill.
PLT Okay.
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360 02 47 54 CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient for an

answer now, in regard to the PCU that you were
wearing, Jerry, that - that was leaking so bad,
I wonder if on the first EVA, whoever was wearing
that, did they notice any unusual amount of water
or ice or anything around that connector?
CDR Hank, I was the guy who brake those CDUs - the
PCUs down at the end of that EVA, and I don't
remember seeing any water around them at all.
CC Okay; we copy. And we're about i minute from LOS.

Next site is Canaries at 51, and that's scheduled
for the med conference.
CDR Roger.
PLT Hank, are you still there?
CC Roger; we copy.
PLT Check the fans now. They should be running, l've

rec on figured.
CC Okay, looks good.
360 02 49 29 PLT Thank you.
360 02 58 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you for

7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank. We're just sitting down to eat now.
CC Okay, I wonder if I could get one of you to

make a note on a couple of switches we need on the
ATM panel the next time you go up.
CDR Okay; go ahead.
CC Okay, on TV we need the XUV MON POWER to ON,

and on the S054 we need the IMAGE DISSECTOR to
ENABLE.
CDR Okay. Ed whistled up there to do it right now.
CC Well, he could have waited. We didn't - It

wasn't that urgent. I just didn't want to - We
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would need it - He would need it when - _f he did

this last pass. I don't know whether he's going
to do it or not. In any event, we would need
it tonight.
CDR Say again, Hank. We were talking on intercom and

missed you.
CC Nothing important.
CC How was that fruitcake?
360 03 05 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute form LOS.

The next site is Honeysuckle at 36 in about
29 minutes, and as a reminder, that's the SPT's
private comm.
360 03 05 43 SPT Roger; copied.
360 03 36 25 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. And when's the first pass after 04:00?
CC Roger; it'll be Goldstone at 04:08.
CDR Okay, I'll try and have an evening status for you
by then.
360 03 38 01 CC Skylab, Houston. For whoever's free, we'd like

to get a nu z update now.
360 03 40 06 CDR Okay. Bill's on his way.
CC PLT, you might try OUTER GIMBAL, minus 250 and

INNER GIMBAL, minus 580.
PLT Hey, Hank, I got it on minus 87. You might check

and see if I got the right star.
CC Okay, it looks good here, Bill.
PLT Inner, 584.
CC That looks good.
PLT Okay.
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360 03 43 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from

LOS. The next site is Hawaii at 56, _d that's the
CDR's private call.
360 03 56 48 CC CDR, Houston. You're coming down on S-band, also.
CC And, Skylab, we're with you through Hawaii for

8-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank.
CC SPT, Houston. It looks like it's going to be a

little late to try to get it in an ATM pass; so
fix us up for unattended at night. If you could
give us minus 5400 on the EXPERIMENT ROLL, we'll
be all set.
SPT Hey, Hank, l'm going to be up here for about

another 30, 40 minutes or so, cleaning up after
this EVA, and we'll probably be just coming into
the sunlight again. And there's no reason why
I can't give them a building block i, and then
I'ii set them up for unattended.
CC Okay. It's your choice, Ed.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
SPT It's going to be good for a change to be taking

some S054 data and know you're really getting
something good.
360 03 58 47 CC Hey, that's right.
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360 04 05 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about l0 seconds from LOS.

See you at Goldstone at 09 with a recorder dump.
360 04 05 42 PLT Okay, Hank.
360 04 08 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Goldstone for

about 8 minutes, and we'll be standing by for
evening status whenever you're ready, CDR.
PLT Okay. Standby, Hank.
360 04 09 50 CDR Okay, Hank. You got your pencil ready?
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 7.0; 6.5 heavy, 0.5 light.

SPT, 7.5; 7.3 heavy, 0.2 light. PLT, 7.5; 7 heavy,
0.5 light. Volume: CDR, 1750; SPT, 2200;
PLT, llO0. Water gun: CDR, 7786; SPT, 3347;
PLT, 9568. Body mass: CDR, 6.290, 6.289, 6.289;
f SPY, 6.350, 6.349, 6.352;PLT, 6.251, 6.251,
6.254. Exercise: none for anybody. Medications:
CDR, chloral hydrate last night, Sudafed tonight;
SPT, none; PLT, Tinactin as directed and Ornade
tonight. Clothing: CDR, one T-shirt; SPT, one
pair of shorts; PLT, none. Food log, CDR:
salt, 3.0; deviations, minus two coffees with
sugar, minus lemon pudding, and plus fruitcake;
rehydration water, plus 1.5. SPT: zero salt,
zero deviations, zero water. PLT - PLT: salt, 1.5;
plus one fruitcake; and rehydration water, zero.
Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping list:
none. Inoperable equipment: none. Unscheduled
stowage: none.
360 04 ll 57 CDR Okay, here's the phot log. 16-millimeter:

documentary photos, EVA; Charlie India 78; 60;
Charlie India 74. Nikons: We have a T025. We
owe you a reading on that, and we'll give that
to you tomorrow. 70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 171,
75. ETC: none. EREP: no change. Drawer A:
Alfa through - Alfa 1 through Alfa 4, no change.
And the back, 07, Charlie India 78, 60, Charlie
India 74. All the rest of the Nikons, no change.
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CC Roger. We copy, Jer.
CC CDR, Houston. I understand that you didn't f_nd

all the Christmas goodies. The - the presents
were right in the same PPK with the Christmas tree.
CDR Oh, we're supposed to open the whole bag, huh?
CC Well, l'm not exactly sure how they were stowed.

The little Christmas tree was in there with the -
in the little zipper bag attach, and there should
have been three small presents in there with it.
360 40 13 13 CDR Okay, I think I know what you mean then. We found
a bag with a zipper bag on the side, but we did
not open the big bag. We Just opened the zipper
bag.
CC Well, we understand that's where the present's

supposed to be - in the zipper bag.
CDR No, the zipper bag only had the tree in it.
That's about all there was room for in that little
zipper bag. We'll go conduct a search, though.
CC Okay, what you're looking for is about, I'd say,

dime size.
CDR Dime size?
CC Little tiny things. And GNS says go easy; he

don't want his momentum messed up again. And
we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We could say
good night to you here, or if you want a little
news, Bermuda will be coming up in about h minutes.
CDR Why don't you give us some news at Bermuda?
360 04 14 13 CC Okay.
360 04 18 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through

Bermuda for lO minutes.
CDR Hey, Hank, there really is a Santa Claus.
CC Hey, did you find them?

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CDR Yes, that rascal left us some goodies.
CC How about that.
CDR All gaily wrapped with Christmas paper and ribbon

and the whole bit.
CC Yes, I was a little puzzled the other night when

you called down and said you hadn't one present
to put under the tree. And then I was a little
puzzled why - why you said only one.
CDR Yes, we didn't even see this other one. It was

laid right back in the pouch, and it didn't pop
out when the other one did. And we didn't look
in it for any more. I really don't think it
was here before, Hank. Someone must have put
it there.
CC Maybe it was a midnight skulker.
CDR Hey, Hank, that Nikon is 02, and the film in it

is Bravo Echo 04. And there's two frames left.
CC Roger. We copy.
360 04 21 57 CC Are you ready for a rundown on the news?
CDR Roger, Hank. Hey, tell my wife I'm delighted with

my present and you're authorized to give her
one hug.
CC Okay, I'll take you up on that.
CDR No more. Just one.
360 04 22 15 CC Okay, today President Nixon spent part of Christmas

Day working in his office. He talked by telephone
with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on
possible future moves in the face of the continued
Arab embargo on oil shipments to the U.S. The
First FAmily exchanged Christmas gifts in the
morning and had turkey dinner in late afternoon.
He had the same shcedule I did. Pope Paul VI
exhorted men to follow the infant Christ as their
saviour Tuesday and then gave his traditional
Christmas blessing in languages. Television
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carried his annual message acros_ western Eurepe.

An estimated 30,000 Romans and tourists crowded
into St. Peter's Squareto hear it in person.
Two of the Skylab astronauts made a Christmas
Day space walk and focused cameras at the colorful
Kohoutek comet in a quest for knowledge of
creation. Astronaut Gerald P. Carr and
William R. Pogue worked outside Skylab while
Edward G. Gibson stayed inside to relay instruc-
tions and control the space station. During the
record-setting 7-hour space walk, the astronauts
aimed special cameras at Kohoutek, changed film
in Skylab's telescopes, and fixed a stuck filter
in one of the cameras. Personnel at Mission
Control were extremely pleased with the results
of the day's activities.
360 Oh 23 23 CC Government weathermen reported Tuesday that

astronomical conditions would generate unusually
high tides on Earth on January 8 and February 7.
If the feared Atlantic storms combine with these
conditions, extreme flooding might strike low-lying
areas along the east coast. On those two days,
the Moon not only will be full, thus causing high
tides, but also will be closest to the Earth.
Also, the Moon and Sun will be in a relatively
rare alignment. Whipping winds continue to
spread the biggest brush fire in Argentine
memory. The blaze has destroyed more than i
lO00 miles of rich pampas, grasslands, in the
last lO days. Hundreds of cattle and wild
animals have perished, but only one human death
reported so far - a rancher suffocated by smoke.
Some fire fighters said only a thunderstorm or
change in wind direction could control the fire.
Back home, General Motors has quietly conceded
that the Wankel rotary engine will not be avail-
able under a Chevrolet hood in September but should
be ready for 1975 models. General Motors has
invested close to lO0,000,O00 dollars on
research and patent rights.
360 0h 24 28 CC As Israel: troups stood guard, some 4000 pilgrims

and tourists celebrated the birth of Christ with
song and prayer Christmas Day in Bethlehem, the
small village where Jesus was born. Millions of
Christians throughout the world gathered at
religious services to pray for peace and good will
in a world racked with conflict. The Arab states
1
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promised to increase the flow of oil by i0 percent

in January to Japan, France, Britain, and Belgium.
But they said the United States and the Netherlands
have remained too friendly to Israel; so their
announced reductions in oil shipments still
stand. The gasoline shortage allowed most service
station operators to eat turkey at home instead
of pumping gas for Christmas. Many motorists
decided today it was better to stay home them-
selves rather than risk running out of gas. Auto
traffic was light. And some motorists found them-
selves stranded on the highways, and traffic ac-
cidents seemed to be fewer than usual for a
holiday. That's about all the news I have here.
I guess from our viewpoint you guys did a real
great Job there today.
360 04 25 27 CDR Well, thanks a lot, Hank. We appreciate it.
PLT Hey, Hank, how about passing the word along to

Helen that I got the present and I appreciate
it very much.
CC Okay, I'll do that, Bill.
SPT Say, Hank, the same for me. And tell her what's
on it goes double.
CC Okay.
SPT Hey, Hank, no hugs are authorized, though.
CC Okay; I copy.
360 04 26 28 CC FAO is bugging me to tell you I've started the

countdown on my rocket. They really slipped one
up on me last night. This is the last shift
for the bronze team this year, guys. It's sure
been fun working with you this week, and we'll
say Happy New Year to you and see you in January.
CDR Thanks a lot, Hank and all you guys on the bronze
team. We appreciate all your hard work.
SPT Good working with you. So long.
PLT Yes, and have a good time off or vacation or

whatever you're going to call it.
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CC Thank you.
CC Hey, if you want to, I guess you can take tomorrow

off.
360 04 27 29 CDR We'll have our answering service up tomorrow.
CDR Ed's going to go fishing for a flare tomorrow.
CC I sure hope he gets one.
PLT Yes, we do, too. He's a lot easier to live with.
CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Good night

to you.
SPT Good night, Hank.
PLT Good night, Hank.
360 04 28 35 CDR Good night, Hank.
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360 14 34 40 CC Good morning, Skylab. Got you through Ascension

for 9 minutes.
360 14 35 19 PLT Good morning.
CC Good morning.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and about

35 minutes to Guam at 15:19.
360 14 44 06 PLT Roger, Story.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TPCtNSCRIPTION
360 15 19 35 CC Skylab, AOS through Guam for 7 minutes.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go, Story.
CC Bill, I got an update to your film-thread pad,

when you're ready to copy.
PLT Okay, ...
CC Okay. Download BH05 from Nikon 05 and stow it

in F-510. That's a J bag.
PLT Roger. Download BH05 - that's Bravo Hotel 05 -

and put it in 510, and that's - okay, in the
J bag.
CC Yes, and that's from Nikon 05.
PLT Roger. Nikon 05.
CC And I got a couple of other small chores here

for anyone that's free.
PLT I'm ready to copy them down, Story. We're sort

of getting up and getting around. I'm eating
because I have PT fairly soon. Press on, Story.
I'll copy them down.
360 15 21 47 CC Okay. I got Just one. We can delay the others.

Transfer urine trays, numbers 9 and 10, from the
return container - that's F-519 - to the ward-
room 2 freezer, W-756. And the reason for that
is, we're preconditioning those heat syncs prior
to putting them in the urine freezers.
PLT Okay. That's transfer urine containers, n_mhers 9

and 10, from F-519 to the wardroom 2 freezer,
W-756.
CC Yes, sir; that's it. And in case today you - you

try to get caught up on any of the things that
we delayed from yesterday, things like the
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housekeeping 2A, 2B, 2C, and IIA, we're going to

schedule those for tomorrow; so don't do those
today.
PLT Okay, Story.
360 15 23 58 CC And while I got you, one other change here. We

don't have a Vanguard pass today, and we will not
have Vanguard until we let you know; so we'll be
delaying the med science conference until some time
later. So we won't have that Vanguard pass at
15:56. We'll pick up the other science confer-
ences as scheduled.
PLT Roger; understand. You'll let us know when the

med science conference is coming up.
CC Yes, sir.
360 15 25 28 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We don't expect

to see you at the Vanguard at 15:56. We'll see
you over Ascension at 16:10 for the Kohoutek
conference, and we are running unattended ops on
the ATM. We do see someone at the panel up there.
360 15 25 45 CDR Roger. Understand, Story.
360 16 i0 44 CC Skylab, we got you through Ascension here for

8 minutes, and here's Bill Snoddy on Kohoutek.
MCC Good morning, fellows. Want to try to bring

you guys up to date on things in terms of the
comet and in terms of the observing program -
some of the philosophy we have there. First of
all, I Just might say the - all the comet Pls
are Just simply delighted with the way the opera-
tion's been going. As far as the status of the
comet is concerned, you're the only people getting
much data right now; so I can't really report to
you very much in terms of new information since
you're the only guys getting it, almost. As you
know, the comet is in a dynamic period as it
approaches perihelion. The tail should be fanning
out. As a matter of fact, Jerry, I believe the day
before yesterday you reported that you were observ
ing this. During the next several days the tail
will be trying to, in effect, move around in front
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of the comet. This will take a - quite a few days,

in fact, for this to occur. The tail actually more
or less reforms so that it is in front of the comet.
The gas tail does this much faster than the dust
tail does.
360 16 ii 52 MCC So you may - In the photographs that you take, we

may see the blue gas tail out in front of the
comet and the dust tail still lagging behind it.
As a matter of fact, there's a period of time
around the first of January when the dust tail
will probably be both in front of and still, from
our point of view, appear to be behind the comet
as well; so this is a rather dynamic period. As we
go through perihelion and - we will, of course, be
in the period where we have the maximum excitation
of the molecules and the free atoms; so the metal
lines, if they show up, should show up at this time.
They've only been observed in two other comets and
never in the UV; so we're quite anxious and hopeful
that on 82B and 55 and so on, we'll get some of
these metal lines - especially 82B. And this is
also the time when the comet might split, if it's
going to, and this would be quite interesting
because this would expose the interior surfaces of
the comet. And - and we'd like to see what kind
of spectrographic data we get there. So we're
hoping to get data at regular intervals so if the
comet does split, we'll have that data automatically.
I'm not sure how quickly we would know from the
time it split until it would be observed; so if
we just take data every day that we can and if
this does occur, we'll hopefully have that data.
360 16 13 i0 MCC There's a meeting up at Smithsonian this morning.

Professor Kohoutek will be there. They're going
to be meeting with some of the scientists to
look at the data that's been gathered so far, and
they are going to let us know the outcome of that.
And, in fact, Kohoutek, himself, will be here the
day after tomorrow, and he'll be able to bring
us up to date on the speculation and things that
are occurring. And we'll naturally pass on to you
any interesting developments that we get out of
this. I don't believe you - -
SPT .8.
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360 16 13 38 MCC Okay. I don't believe you'll believe you'll be

able to see the comet out of any of your windows,
I'm afraid, because of the obstructions and so
forth, until maybe around January the eighth.
But you'll get a good view at that time because
the comet will be quite near Venus and Jupiter.
As a publication of one of the highly concerned
groups about this comet-coming placed it, the
comet will be seen to consort brazenly in the
darkness with Venus and Jupiter; so you'll have
a good view of that. Then let's see. On ATM -
this is, of course, their prime per - their prime
period of operations - tomorrow evening, the
comet comes into the field of view of S052 and -
while it's in a Sun-centered position, and so
they'll start operating unattended tomorrow
evening and operate continually for 24 orbits as
the - first the nucleus passes through the field
of view and then as the tail comes through it
behind it. They'll be looking at the dynamics
between the Sun and the comet, especially the
interactions with the tail.
360 16 14 39 MCC On the morning of mission day 42, we'll be at

a period of minimum elongation, when the comet will
be within the field of view of 82A, which you'll
be observing it in the far UV and looking for
things such as helium. And so that'll be a very
important period. That's the only time 82A will
be able to get data on the comet. Also, 82B and
55 will be observing not the nucleus but the coma
at that time. After you've gone to bed that -
tomorrow evening, we'll pass through perihelion.
That'll be about 10:30 GMT, where the comet, of
course, will be given a good thermal kick. And
we'll be wanting to see the results of that kick
during the EVA on mission day 44 and - with T025
and 201, compare that results with the results that
we got yesterday, which, by the way, the PI's are
Just delighted with - the way things seem to have
gone, and if later in the day there - time allows,
we hope that perhaps we can schedule an observation
with 82B and S055 to try to catch the comet as near
perihelion as possible. Since perihelion occurs
after the min - minimum elongation, our chances
of looking at the comet near perihelion are better
after perihelion than they were before perihelion.
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360 16 15 _8 MCC The corollary airlock instruments will start ob-

serving again around the first of January, and
there'll be a different mode of operation now.
The comet's on the other side; so we'll have the
situation where the Sun sets first and then the
nucleus and then the tail. This will make things
perhaps not quite as hectic. You won't always be
worrying about the Sun coming up and messing up the
last exposure. We'll have the Sun out of the way
before you start looking at the comet. And then
we'll also get a good fix on the tail, and we ex-
pect to start trying to make some of our observa-
tions on the tail. We haven't really been doing
too much up until now, but we'll be making obser-
vations after the - the head of the comet sets.
Interest in the comet is still quite high. In
fact, you can even get a Kohoutek T-shirt, if you
want to. SA0 Smithsonian reported to me this
morning - (laughter) - Smithsonian reported this
morning that the most popular question they get
from the public in their discussionsis - one of
th most popular questions is - in connection with
the comet - is, "What are the astronauts doing?"
So you fellows are certainly in a central role here.
That's about, I guess, the report I have. I'll
give you guys a chance to talk.
360 16 16 52 SPT Thanks, Bill, for the update. I was trying to look
for it this morning, and I could not see it. And
I was wondering whether it had moved behind the
solar panel or not, or whether it's just because
of the - the light scattering that we just can't
dark-adapt enough in order to see it. If that -
it has moved behind the panel, I'm wondering
whether, anytime we make a maneuver, you can tell
us at what point during that maneuver we might have
a chance to see. We'd certainly like to make some
visual observations and give you some real-time
information if at all possible. And secondly, as
far as using the ATM, we'd like to make sure that
we don't miss any opportunities up here in order
• to get that done; so if you'll Just tell us what
time certain observations are best performed and
let us try and work out what can be done -
360 16 17 37 MCC Great. We really appreciate that attitude. Yes,

I'm afraid that it is behind the panel now, and
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that's the reason that I don't believe you'll have

a really good view of it until around January the
eighth or so. But we're reworking that right now
to see if there's any possibilities at any time
that we can get a good view of it. And if we can
come up with anything during any of the maneuvers
or anything of that sort, we'll certainly pass it
on to you.
SPT Okay. And appar - apparently, we're going to be

hearing more about which type of JOPs - J0P 18
Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, or so forth - we're to be
doing over the next few days. It would be interest-
ing to get a summary of that and start thinking a
little bit ahead.
MCC Okay, we'll sure do that. Bill Lenoir will be talk-

ing about these things to you daily, too, as well,
but we'll get that to you.
CC And, Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. About 2 min-

utes to Canaries and Bill Lenoir with the visual
ops. And when we con up - come up over Canaries,
I'ii need someone at the STS for some switch
throwing.
SPT Okay, Story. Thanks very much_ Bill.
360 16 18 39 MCC Thank you, fellows.
360 16 19 47 CC Skylab, AOS Canaries/Madrid for i0 minutes. And

someone up in the STS?
CDR On our way.
CC Okay.
CC And while you're on the way up there, what we're

seeing is - on 1-minute cycles, 5 seconds before
the even minute - we're seeing a decrease in the
ATM C&D coolant flow.
PLT Okay, Story, l'm up here.
CC Okay, Bill. Panel 203, ATM COOLANT P_, C, OFF

and then B, ON.
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PLT That's complete.
360 16 20 34 CC Okay, and did you hear any noise - any change in
the noise when you did that?
PLT Negative.
CC Okay. Here's Bill with visual ops.
MCC Hi, guys.
SPT Good morning, Bill.
MCC Okay, let me Just start off here with a couple of

quickies about the Falkland-current area. Want to
emphasize what we said last time, and that is that
the observations you're giving us are very good data.
It's new information. The ground experts here are
presently analyzing all of the words and details
that you have passed down to see what we ought to
do next. We don't yet have a good total answer to
your question yesterday on the red coloration that
you saw. We'll include that with the regular
analysis, and you will certainly be among the first
to get our answers. A word - -
SPT Tell them we didn't see it as heavily today but

there's still sort of a tint of it.
360 16 21 32 MCC Okay. Good. I hope you voice record your total
observations on that because those are really ex-
cellent descriptions you're giving us. The TV show
you gave us was excellent. We're sorry, as you
are, that the tape ran out when it did. We'll be
trying again. It looks right now like we're going
to be getting a Z-LV EREP pass on your next day off,
New Year's Day, that primarily is for the African
drought area up over the inland delta in Mall and
Niger. And we will be going early into Z-LV. And
we will be taking the full complement of EREP instru-
ments over the Falkland-current area, hopefully with
TV on the VTS. So that's something I wanted you
to be aware of, to know that that was coming.
Shortly after that, like a week or so, we'll be
losing Sun in that area, as the precession of the
Beta angle causes your Sun line - sunset/sunrise -
m to move further up in the ascending part of your
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orbit. We will be returning in Sun to that area

late in the mission.
360 16 22 39 MCC In general, any comments that you have on southern

hemispheric currents, in particular the circum-
antarctic current, are more than welcome and al-
most certainly fill a void where very little is
known at this time. And here again, we will be
losing Sun in that area and not picking it up again
until late in the mission, and by that I mean late
January. Some general thoughts - the low Sun angles
and ascending tracks I have Just mentioned. We have
apparently lost most of our opportunity for the
Okavango Swamp until later in the mission - not so
much by Sun angle but because that your passes over
that now occur early in the morning prior to your
getting up. So we'll be concentrating on looking
at the inland delta region now, up by Niger and
Mall, coming back to the Okavango Swamp later in
the mission when we can catch it on descending
track.
360 16 23 34 MCC The comparisons and contrasts that you should be

thinking about now - and, again, we'll get you a
better pad on this later - would concern the vege-
tation, water, and things that you can see that
are apparently different or would matter when you
will be looking at the swamp later. One very good
thing that Ed has been doing, that we'd like to
encourage everyone to do, is to estimate distances,
compared to how you see the distance between a fixed
landmark - between two points on the ground. I
know this doesn't work out over ocean, but it cer-
tainly works in when you can see the - see land.
We also want to say that the scheduling that we
pass up, both the scheduling and the optionals, are
really totally your option. We don't object strongly
when you miss a schedule any more than when you miss
an optional or anything. We're getting far more
than we had in our best moments hoped for, as far
as your targets of opportunity. So when you miss
an opportunity of this nature, don't feel bad. We're
getting an awful lot and realize that it's like
taking a drink out of a fire hose here.
360 16 24 39 MCC The film situation is that we have plenty of film;

so don't hesitate to shoot up film - we're giving
you lots of observations - only, mainly to
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concentrate on the verbal description rather than

the film. And l've got Bob Parker here looking
over _ shoulder, saying it's corollaries time;
so l've got about 14 seconds here if you've got
any questions.
SPT No real questions, Bill. Just a comment that the

past couple of days, we've not been able to pick
up as many of the optionals as we'd like, but that's
not because of lack of interest but because we have
been running pretty hard; so keep them coming up
and don't slow down on that score.
360 16 25 20 CC Okay- -
PLT One quick point, Bill, on the Okavango Swamp. That

thing's going to have to be taken early in the morn-
ing, local time, because every time I look at that,
it's cloud covered, and we get over there about
the middle of the day or late aft - -
MCC Okay, Bill. We copied that on the downlink before.

And again, Ed, don't feel bad about missing them.
We'll pass you up a pad on Elmina a little later.
And here's Parker.
360 16 25 44 MCC Good morning, gentlemen. Let me start off by talking

about S02G. I've got about 3 minutes here; so I
may be a little bit rushed. The PIs are extremely
pleased to have their science data, particularly -
It,s sort of a classic case of overcoming the loss
of a solar SAL. On top of that, they're extremely
pleased to let you know that it looks like they got
the rise portion of a small flare yesterday during
their observation; so it's sort of a super bonus
on top of everything else. They would be interested
in you letting them know sometime how easy the point-
ing of S020 was and also whether S020 was shaded
when you made the maneuver to shade S201. This
might have implications for extra viewing time on
the other EVAs.
360 16 26 26 MCC $201 wants to answer one of your questions about the
exposure when you had sunlight flooding in the ward-
room window, and the answer to that is that the
calcium fludorlde window for half of the exposures
is essentially solar blind. So for this reason, to
get as long a solar comet-viewing-time as possible,
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they have been running, sometimes, a couple of

minutes into the sunlight portion of the orbit.
The other day, you were forced to terminated one
of the targets - P-I4, if you remember the number -
early, to get on to the next target. That, indeed,
is the way we need to have you operate. A lesson
to be learned, which the PI intends to follow from
now on, is to allow more time for tilt and rotation
changes; so we're trying to - constantly down here
to work in such things and to straighten ourselves
out. I know you know about S019, the problems we
had the problems we had the other day. I think I
should pass up to you from Karl that_ presently,
he doesn't hold out much hope for straightening out
that magazine. The experience down here on the
ground seems to be that once one jams, it's jammed,
essentially, for good; so we'll be only using the
other magazine for the rest of the mission. As far
as the week ahead, let me point out that, as you
well know, we're primarily concentrating on Kohoutek
for the next week or so.
360 16 27 45 MCC We don't really have too much in the Flight Plan
except for a few corollaries sprinkled here and
there and medical runs and ATM, both from the Sun
and on Kohoutek, and that's really just about the
total substance of the week ahead. There was a
TO20 which we were planning to run on mission day 45.
However, that has a possible conflict with J0P 18
Delta in that we've got extra crew motion going on
that we're trying to avoid; so it looks like T020
will be slipped, at least temporarily, because of
this conflict on that day. Bill mentioned the EREP
pass over the Falkland current and the Mall drought
area on your next day off. That indeed is the next
EREP pass we're looking at and the first one as the
EREPwindow begins to open up for January. I have
about 30 seconds here, if you have any comments down.
Over.
360 16 28 40 SPT On S020, at what point - which exposure was that

flare? And also, would they want longer exposures
next time in addition - along with the ones they
got this time, or do they want to finish up with
the 5-minute one?
MCC Okay. We'll talk to them and get an answer for you.
Thanks,Ed.
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CC And we're 20 seconds to LOS. About 25 minutes to

Guam at 16:54. Be dumping the data/voice there.
8PT Okay. Let me reemphasize the point I made before

about being able to see Kohoutek during the maneuver.
If there is any time during the maneuver where we
can get a look at it, we sure would appreciate hav-
ing that time and information.
360 16 29 18 MCC Okay. We're sure they'll look at that. I might

Just let you know that we aren't anticipating any
very large maneuver except for some 18 Deltas towaras
the end of the month, in about 4 or 5 days from
now. Other than that - Of course, we won't be
going to EREP or rolling for the corollaries.
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360 16 55 50 CC Skylab, AOS through Guam for 9 minutes. And, Jer,

when you get up to the MDA, we got some switch
throwing in the STS.
CC Skylab, AOS through Guam for 8 minutes. And, Jet,

let me know when you're up in the MDA.
CDR Roger, Story. Will do.
360 16 59 01 CDR Houston, CDR. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Up in the STS, Jer?
CDR Affirmative.
CC Okay. This'll be on my mark. I will be turning,

on panel 203, ATM COOLANT PUMP B, OFF. And at
30 seconds later - I'll give you a mark on that -
we'll turn it back ON again.
CDR Okay. That's pump - PUMP Bravo. Right?
CC Yes. Now, I'm looking at the display. Wait for

my mark. I will be turning it OFF on my mark and
then about 30 seconds later, back ON on my mark.
Okay - -
CDR Okay.
CC Stand by.
360 16 59 39 CC MARK. Bravo, OFF.
CC Any time will be fine here for OFF on Bravo.
CDR Say again, Story?
CC Did you get that COOLANT PUMP, OFF? If not,

stand by, and I'll give you another mark.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. Right now'll be fine.
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360 17 00 50 CC That's panel 203, ATM COOLANT PUMP Bravo, OFF now.
CDR Okay. It 's OFF.
CC We're seeing it.
CC Okay. In about 5 seconds, I'Ii give you a mark

for getting it back ON.
360 17 01 24 CC MARK. Back ON.
CDR Okay. It 's ON.
CC Okay. Thanks. And I got two other circuit break -

ers for you to check. It's on panel 200, and it's
the lower right-hand corner of panel 200. CONTROL
PROGRAMMER COMMAND and CONTROL ELECTRONICS COMMAND.
Check that they're both CLOSED.
CDR That's affirmative, Story. They're both CLOSED.
CC Thanks. That's all I got for you now.
CDR Okay. Does the collant pump look okay on B?
360 17 02 04 CC Pump looks good. We're just checking this - this

little drop in flow that occurs on 1-minute cycles,
just 5 seconds before the minute.
CDR It does it on B and C, huh?
CC Yes, sir. Have you noticed - Can you hear any

sound up there, any cycling once a minute?
CDR No. I'll listen for it, but I haven't heard any
yet. Actually, it's kind of hard when you're in
the MDA to hear it because you got the rate gyros
right behind you and they're kind of noisy, too.
CC Roger.
360 17 03 44 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. See you over

Canaries in about 53 minutes at 17:5h. And the
medical science conference has been rescheduled
for Canaries at 19:34.
360 17 04 58 CDR Roger, Story.

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360 17 35 07 CC Skylab, the Vanguard'_; b_'k with u_. Wt_ got you
AOS for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Story, I got the ETC working, and it's - We don't

have ... the film light; all seems to be working
real well. We're supposed to be taking some
pictures of Paraguay, but we got an awful lot of
clouds. You people want me to continue and press
on, or - There'll be just a few isolated spots
where there might be something. It's mostly cloud
cover.
CC Ed, press on. It's a high-priority pass for you.

Get what you can.
SPT Okay. And the other information on the ETC check-

out is on tape.
CC Okay.
360 17 42 _7 CC And we're a minute from LOS. About 12 minutes to

Canary; 17:54.
360 17 55 05 CC Skylab, AOS Canaries and Madrid 14 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. Would you check and see how much
time is left on the VTR?
CC Okay.
CC It's clean, Jer. About 30 minutes.
CDR Okay. We never did get that TV picture of the

Christmas tree present we got from the guys on the
ground.
CC Okay.
CDR That'llonly take about 3 minutes or something -

maybe even less. And I'm taking _ome VTR now off
the monitor 1.
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CC Okay.
360 17 57 23 PLT Story, PLT here.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Roger. I have a task at 18:15. Stand by i.
PLT Has to do with the timing check. And my question

is, mark at time of opening and what does opening
mean? Is that when this thing starts motoring and
making noises?
CC That's affirm, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
CC And 18:25:26 is a nominal time for that.
PLT Okay. Thank you very much.
CC Bill, if you got a couple of minutes here, I got

some questions pertaining to the EVA. If you're
busy, we can get them some other time.
PLT I Just finished my workout. Fire away.
CC And, CDR, could you verify that H-ALPHA is in

AUTO?
CDR That's verified.
CC Okay. Bill, did you find it necessary to - to

dry the suits? Are you drying the suits?
360 17 58 57 PLT Jer started that last night. We went ahead and -
He thought he'd go ahead and dry them anyway.
CC Okay, and the - the DAC film you got yesterday,

did you do the DAC documentary?
PLT Yes. That's what I was trying to do. I did 24

frames a second, and I tried to get Jer on his
transfers. It was - The reason I didn't shoot it
all up is, it was extremely difficult to hold the
button down in a suit. And I could have used the
mount, but I didn't think I was getting - get
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near as good a pictures of the transfer.
CC Okay. Do you think we need to reschedule that for

Saturday's EVA or the - or the final EVA?
360 17 59 42 PLT Yes. I think we ought to get some more of the other
two guys and - on one of their EVA's. I don't
think I got enough really to satisfy the requirement.
CC Okay. And did you evey get the cover - the bore-
sight cover on S020 closed?
PLT Yes. That was after we got back inside.
CC Okay. And did you find an electrode off on your

operational bioinstrumentation system?
PLT I found one where the sponge was awfully cruddy

and it sort of crushed up, and that was FC. I
don't know if that was the one that was causing
the problem or not.
CC Okay, thanks. That's all I got for you now.
B60 18 00 30 PLT Roger.
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CC Go ahead, Jet.
CDR Hey, Story. My hat's off to Rusty and whoever the

guys were that worked with him on those
S054 proeedures. Boy, if they hadn't been written
so well, I'd never have been able to figure out
what was goingon out there.
CC Okay, Jer, good. We'll pass it on. And while

I got you, what configuration did you leave the
T025 in? Did you do a normal stow on it?
CDR No, we Just put the camera away last night.
CC Okay, if you get a chance today, we'd like a normal

stow on it.
CDR Yes. We'll go ahead and get the rest of it

put awayshortly.
_ CC And per your request,we did send up some ATM,

some optional passes there. They are optional.
If you are going to run them, let - let us know
so we won't be running our unattended ops. And
that ought to be in the teleprinter now.
360 18 Ol 50 CDR Will do.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Jer, we still don't show H-alpha operating. Is

the EVA AUTO DOOR switch in STORAGE?
CDR No, it's ENABLED.
CC And did you get an ENABLED prior to sunrise?
CDR Negative. I didn't.
CC Okay, that's it.

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CC And on future revs, Jer, if you get that switch

ENABLED after sunrise, yo u need to give H-alpha
a start, because it doesn't get the data ...
CDR Yes. I knew that, darn it, and I forgot it.
360 18 05 55 CC Okay.
360 18 08 29 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. About 35 minutes

to Honeysuckle at 18:42.
360 18 08 41 SPT Roger.
360 18 43 13 CC Skylab, AOS through Honeysuckle for 8 minutes. And

if you're not using the ATM, we shall use it.
SPT Story.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Story, go ahead. What I'd like to do is to pick

up the two after the two that I have scheduled.
CC Okay. We did send up an optional pad for you,

and we'll go ahead and run it at unattended
this pass.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Story. And then I can use those -
the pad you have for this one for the first
one after my two scheduled?
CC That 's affirm.
SPT Thank you.
360 18 50 34 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. About 35 minutes

to Bermuda at 19:26.
CDR Say again, Story.
CC That's Just the LOS call. See you over Bermuda

in about 35 minutes.
360 18 50 53 CDR Roger.
360 19 26 44 CC Skylab, AOS through Bermuda 7 minutes.
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• .: SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
360 19 32 h8 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and about 2 rain-

• _:i" utes to CanariesMadrid, where I'ii be giving
- you the reedscienceconference.
360 19 35 lh CC Skylah, AOS CanariesMadrid 12 minutes. And when

you're ready, I'm ready with the med science
conference.
CDR Go ahead, Story. We're listening.
CC Okay. And as usual, Story's got a different

story: I got Just a couple add-ons. Could you
say something about what you consider to be the
validity of the center-of-mass measurements? In
other words, how accurate do you think you're
getting those? Give us a feel for that. Are
you having any difficulties getting that data?
SPT No, we can get it all right, Story. I would say

at the outside, plus or minus 1/2 a centimeter -
maybe I/h or so. I think that's about the best
you could expect out of that. We really don't
have a long enough distance over which to - to
pull the other crewman to actually see very slight
rotation, and I think that's what's your limiting
fact or.
360 19 36 16 CC Okay. I got a lot of smiles down here on that

one. I guesspeople are very happy that you can
get it in that close.
SPT Again, that's Just an eyeball estimate. I guess

we get that by seeing how much we moved it - the
string around your waist - and still get a
noticeable deflection.
CC Okay. And on the leg blood-flow measurements,

the data looks good. In general,we've had a
'.- slight increasein the blood flow. Two crewmen,
up - that'sCDR and SPT - and the PLT down a
•little bit. But it looks like right now you' re
moving back towards the baseline.
SPT That's good to hear, Story. Thank you.

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360 19 36 52 CC And the most important part of those venous ob-

structs - venous-outflow-type experiments is
probably the venous compliance data that we're
seeing. And of course we're correlating that
with the data you're getting from the - the
lower-body negative pressure. And a very important
thing seen in your flight and on SL-3 was the
change in venous Compliance - that is, how much
does the - how much do the veins _ and other spaces
in the leg - How much fluid or blood can they
hold with a given distending pressure? And in
fllght versus preflight, we're seeing changes like
three or four times as much.
SPT Okay, Btory, in ca_e sense that might be good, but

in terms of the LBNP, it puts a much greater stress
on us.
CC Yes, sir. And what we're looking at - Those

Qhangee correlate pretty well with orthostatic
tolerance. NoW what we're seeing the last - the
last run in that, it looks like we may have some
adaptation_ to your lower total blood volume now.
And we're seeing those curves tend to shift down
a little bit, which shows some kind of adaptation.
360 19 38 0_ SPT Well, that's good to hear. What's the prophecy

whenyouget back to one g?
CC Oh, I think you got us - you got us pretty well

stumped on that _e right now,
SPT Okay.
CC And this is really interesting data because one

of the best simulations we've got of the physiology
that we see in space flight is bed rest and all of
those Studies do not show significant changes in'
in the amount of blooa or fluid that's pooled in
the legs in response to some form of delta pressure
like this. _
SPT Wouldyou start lth&t last sentence over, Story?

You dropped out right in the middle of it.
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360 19 38 47 CC Okay. All the bed-rest studies we have and other

studies, hypodynamic studies, have not shown tre-
mendous changes in the venous compliance or the
amount of fluid which is pooled in the legs in
response to something like a venous cup or lower-
body negative pressure; so this is - this is
really a new finding and appears to be peculiar
to space flight as opposed to other simulations.
SPT Very good. Still, do lots of head scratching and

see if there's any way we can improve our conditions
when we get back into one g.
CC Okay. It appears that exercise in itself is not

enough to change this pooling of fluid and blood
and that some other stress or - like lower-body
negative pressure, which has been sho_-n to be
protective in bed-rest studies, may be the only
way to do it.
SPT How much time would it take per day?
360 19 39 44 CC It's really not - not pertinent here because the

studies on the ground have taken, oh, between
3 and 5 hours.
SPT Yes, you' re right. Okay.
CC M093, the vectorcardiogr_ma, which of course you're

enabled to see in flight, but there in the M092
and on the one - M171, what we're seeing in your
flight is very parallel to previous missions at
this stage. We see nothing unexpected. We've
not - seen no significant arnhythmias. The only
things we've seen in flight compared to preflight
are an increase in the QRS, which means a stronger
ventricular contraction during the M171, and also
an increase in the PR interval, which is the inter-
val between atrial and ventricular contraction,
but nothing really significant there.
360 19 h0 36 CC On the M133, again the data is - is pretty much

the same as I reported to you on the medical con-
ference 2 - 2 weeks ago. You do have an increase
in total sleep time over the last 2 weeks. The
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total sleep now is averaging about, oh, 6 hours

and 58 minutes, and total rest about 7 hours and
18 minutes. And again, you have an increased
amount of time in stage 3 and stage h.
SPT I'm sleeping harder.
CC Yes, sir. And one other point Dr. Frost would

like to mention is that he would like to get two
runs at the end of the - at the end of the mission.
So you're the best one to Judge how the electrolyte
is going, but he would like two runs toward the
end of the mission.
360 19 41 22 SPT Okay. We'll make sure he gets one.
CC The }4151 data, they appreciate the times you've

given to them. They - At the end of the second
run in flight, you had a better efficiency, a
better time than the best preflight time. And
also, you're still improving on that.
SPT We' re trying.
CC That's the 92/M171.
SPT Okay.
CC As far as the exercise go, you know that you're

getting a lot more exercise than the previous two
flights, both on the ergometer and on the other
devices. As far as the ergometer goes, you're
running, say, on the average on watts - watt-
minutes per kilogram per crewman. The CDR's
running about 74, SPT about i00, and PLT about 69
for an average of 82. SL-3 averaged 64, and SL-II
averaged 31. We'd like you to discuss your feelings
about the quantity of exercise you're getting. Do
you feel a fatigue from it, and how does any fatigue
that you do feel from this exercise relate to the
amount that you were getting preflight?
360 19 42 39 CDR Story, we're not feeling any fatigue at all. I

think we all feel like we're getting adequate
exercise and probably wouldn't mind taking more
if we could, but it's a matter of time.
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SPT And, Story, the reason we're doing this, of course,

is to try and stay in reasonable condition for the
extra long flight. We know we've got an awful lot
of other things to be doing up here. It's a
question of how you divide your energy and your
time. If we're - If anyone feels we're pushing
too much on the exercise, let them speak out, and
we'll think about it again. But again, the reason
we're doing it is not in any way a personal finish
at all. It's strictly to try and keep ourselves
in good shape for the long duration flight.
360 19 43 19 CC Okay, that's really why I raised - raised the

question here. Up until your mission, in the
smount of exercise you're doing, we always thought
the more you did, you're better. Now we're starting
to - to raise the question what is an optimal
amount of exercise, and we wanted your inputs on
this.
SPT Well, right now, none of us are complaining of any

muscle soreness or overfatigue or anything like
that from the exercise. Most of us find the exer-
cise is a good cobweb clearer. It makes us feel
a lot better when we're finished.
CC And understand you don't have a lot of fatigue

even after a h_rd workout.
SPT Well, immediately after work, yes. But it's not

one of these things where you can hardly wait to
get to bed that night.
CC Okay. And you think maybe it's increasing your

alertness of performance during the day?
360 19 _h 06 SPT I think so, very definitely.
CDR I think the greatest factor in fatigue is what

kind of sleep you get during the night and not how
hard you worked during the day. And I think if
you can get yourself a couple of hours before you
go to bed to sleep, to let the motor slow down,
then you get yourself a good night's sleep and
you're ready to roar into it the following night.
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CC So in general, you like the amount of exercise

that you're proposed to run from here on?
SPT Yes. That' s affirmative, Story. I think the

bigger problem as far as fatigue is concerned is
mental activity and busy work that keeps you up-
tight and moving until late into the evening.
That's the sort of thing we'd like to - to get
rid of and try to have a - an unwinding time.
But I relax very well at the ATM panel.
360 19 hh 57 CC Okay. And how would you feel about a temporary

reduction in - in the amount of exercise?
SPT We would not be for that.
CC Okay. We were thinking about it Just as a - as a

means of gathering some other data points here.
SPT Well, we'll go along with it for a while, but I

don't think we should let anybody cap that in
concrete.
CDR Story, if we were going to do that, I would pro-

pose that, essentially, we work out as hard as we
always do on the particular feature but maybe not
do that each day. That is, like I would work the
bike every other day and do the - the other exer-
cises on alternate days, as opposed to Just de-
creasing the exercise you do on both. I think
you really need a hard workout when you do it.
360 19 h5 51 CC Okay. Well, we were real interested in - in

getting your inputs on that. We've been thinking
it over down here, and I got about 20 seconds here
to LOS. Enjoyed talking with you. We'll pick
you up over Carnarvon in about 25 minutes at 20:ll.
CDR Story, I've got one for you to pass on to the

medical people, and that is urine sampling situa-
tion. I got an uneasy feeling about urine sample
bags; so I took an inventory last night, and I
put it on tape at 05:00 Zulu. But it appears to
me that we've only got 87 sample bags left. And
that runs us about 16 days short.
CC Okay, thanks a lot, Jer. And another item, not

related. Was your LSU still connected, the
restraint hook on your PCU, when you came in
yesterday?
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CC Okay. And while we go over the hill here, Bill's

got a family conversation coming up at MILA at
22:36.
CDR 22:36. Thank you, Story.
360 19 46 49 CC Yes, sir.
360 20 12 05 CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon/Honeysuekle 15 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And for Ed, active region 05 has produced several

surges and type 3 radio burst in the last 3 hours.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Jet, did you get that M509-F7A started this morning?
CDR That's affirmative. It's running now.
CC Okay. Do you think it's too noisy to let it run

during your sleep period?
CDR No, it's not making - not making any noise at all.
CC Okay. And a question on the urine bags. We' re

wondering if that count 87 that you gave us, if
that included 20 bags that were transferred at
about mission day 20 in two utility bags from
command module A-6 into D-4267
360 20 23 45 CDR That's affirmative, Story. We've already used

those half sample bags up.
CC Okay. Thanks. And be pleased to know that here

in the MOCR we're enjoying some fruitcake from
Mrs. Corr.
CDR 'Hey, that's great.
CC That's in honor of the people that had to work

on Christmas.
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CDR Very good. You guys deser - deserve a little bit

of config - consideration there. You all did a
great Job, I think.
360 20 2h 14 CC Thank you. And I'm about to work on mF third

piece.
CDR Hey, Story. MY friendly stowage book, looking up

urine sample bags, it says in Delta 426 there's
150 of them. In Hotel - H-2B, there's _8 of
them. And then our old nemesis, Echo 699 Charlie,
there's ll_ of them.• And I wonder if maybe the
people who stowed urine sample bags got fooled
by that like we did and don't know that that's
the trash airlock, although I don't understand
why sample bags ever went down the trash airlock.
CC Copy, Jer.
CDR It's on page 1-3 of the Stowage Checklist.
CC Thanks, Jer.
360 20 26 32 CC Skylab, we're about h0 seconds from LOS. About -

30 minutes to MILA at 20:58, and we're learning
something about the stowage book down here. E-69 -
E-699 and that C there means that 114 bags had
urine in them and those samples were brought home.
CDR You finally broke the code, huh?
CC Yes, we broke that one. We'll probably work on a

few others later.
CDR Got a new code for you: W-799.
360 20 27 13 CC We'li work it.
360 20 59 08 CC Skylab, AOS stateside 13 minutes.
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360 21 00 15 SPT Hello, Story.
CC Hello, Ed.
SPT Hey, I've been looking at the limb where active

region 05 is in the H-alpha. It looks as though
we can see some material rising up above the limb.
I wouldn't want to say it's at the base of a loop
structure, but it does have that general configu-
ration. It extends maybe, oh, 15, 20 arc seconds
off the limb. Bother running to the south, there
is a fairly large H-alpha signature and then a
wider one, but not quite as extensive, going off
to the north. When I get some observing time on
the following orbits, I think I'll be looking for
the structure in the corona - loop structure,
using neon or another line suggested by 55.
360 21 01 09 CC Copy, Ed. And we need the DAS here.
SPT Say again.
CC We need the DAS here.
SPT Oh, okay, Story. You've got it.
360 21 01 53 CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Bill, when you get to the M560 ops scheduled

around now, it's nontime critical, but you'll need
to go through MDA Experiment Checklist, 9-8.
PLT Roger. And I'll be hooking up the VTR with that

other rig; so I'll be sure and turn the power off
before I hook it up.
360 21 02 30 CC Okay. And I'll remind you prior to your pass, but
on your family comm, the ANTENNAS are RIGHT for a
minute or 2 and then LEFT the rest of the pass.
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PLT Okay. Thank you, Story.
360 21 ii 45 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and about 4 min-

utes to Madrid. And, Ed, you'll be having your
ATM conference with Dr. Krieger at that time.
362 21 ii 56 SPT Thank you, Story.
]60 21 16 14 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Madrid for 8 minutes

and the ATM conference with Dr. Krieger.
SPT Hello, A1. Good to talk with you. Go ahead.
MCC Hi, Ed. First thing I'd like to do is thank you

guys for the Christmas presents that you gave to
S054 and invite you all up to Cambridge for lob-
ster after the mission.
SPT We'll take you up on it.
360 21 16 41 MCC That's good enough. The - One of the first things
I wanted to discuss was the scientific implica-
tions of the - of the 54 repair. The first point
is that - the fact that we're now in FILTER 3.
This means that from now - from here on in, we
will be getting good data on the active regions,
large scale structures, the bright points, the
holes, and everything, essentially. We'll be able
to use the shorter exposures for the active
regions, and we'll be able to use the GRATING IN.
The grating works for any compact bright source,
not only for flares. Also, it's now our only
means of getting spectral information; so in ad -
dition to using it for both flare wait and for all
flares, as it's on today's pad, we'll start to use
it extensively for nonflare observations. Watch
the pad for this kind of thing, and some permanent
changes to building blocks, like building block l,
may come up on a general message.
360 21 17 50 SPT Okay, we understand that, relative to the grating.

And you're also saying that the EXPOSURE RANGE will
probably be dropping down; so, we'll probably be
doing a lot more 64's rather than 256's.
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MCC That's right.
SPT Okay. Very good.
360 21 18 05 MCC Okay, the next thing is the shutter override. The
shutter overri - the way the shutter override works
is that right after each exposure, the next frame
is moved into position; so it's being exposed in
between exposures. When we're in the HIGH mode or
the SINGLE mode, that means that every frame gets
a 3/10-of-a-second exposure plus whatever the time
of that exposure is supposed to be. Now in the
LOW mode, however, where there's a 12-second inter-
val between exposures, we wind up taking a sequence
of 12-second exposures - at least until we get to
the 4 and so on. In other words, we take 12, 12,
12, 12, 12, 16, 28, 76, 268, and so on. The re-
suit is that what we'll be doing is, we want to
start using the LOW mode, 12-second exposures to
obtain time resolutions - to obtain time resolu-
tion data on rapid changesin the core of active
regions and also on things like coronal bright
points. During - In the BB18 - BB18 data from
JOP ll, of the last mission, we saw some events
taking place that - were we think that that high -
time-resolution data can maybe buy us a lot. We'll
be doing that tomorrow; so I just wanted to warn
you that you'll see it on the pad even before the
general message comes up.
360 21 19 20 SPT Okay, I'm glad you explained that. Looks like a
good opportunity to get time resolution. And the
explanation will help because if we were going to
study high time resolution with LOW mode, I think
we all would have wondered.
360 21 19 52 MCC Yes. Okay, well, now you know how it works. One
thing I wanted to mention. The procedure should
be, I guess, to use the 12.8-MINUTE position on the
54 TIMER. Now if the building block is long
enough, we'd like a reinitiate. So when the READY
light comes on ON the 54 TIMER, hit the STOP switch
to clear the logic, Just in case the mode hasn't
quite timed out, and then hit the START switch
again.
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SPT Okay, we 'ii do that.
MCC Okay, now the - the next topic I wanted to discuss

- It was the shutter override. Well, it was the
fact that the shutter allows long exposures because
of that fact the shutter is always open. Now the
idea here is that by taking long exposures we're
hoping to get data all the way out - with good
microdensitometer - of both density - all the
way out to l-l/2 solar radii, where we can get
into the 52 field of view. The point is that
X-ray intensity varies in filter 3; goes as - about
T to the - T 3, N 2, whereas the white light corona-

graph goes like NE linearly, with no dependence on
temperature. Therefore, you compare the data
from the two experiments and that gives you NE
and - and TE independently.
360 21 21 17 SPT That's very good. Did you say you can get out
to 1-1/2 of that if we point off as far as We can?
360 21 21 23 MCC Well, what we're going to do is, we're going to

put a long - we' re going to put a mode called
54 long X into things like the NRL mini-limb-scan
and maybe one or two Other building blocks. The
procedure is as follows: What you do is, you con-
figure 54 for M, STORAGE, OUT, SINGLE, i; M, S, O,
S, 1. Then you hit the START switch. This takes
four exposures and advances the film to a fifth
frame. Then at the end of the building block, you
hit the START switch again, and it ta - and it
bounces off another three - three blank frames; so
what we'll see when we look at the - at the film
is three blank frames, then a long ex - then a
50-minute exposure, a 45-minute exposure Of some-
thing else, and then another three - then another
three blank frames.
360 21 22 19 SPT Okay. I understand that. Would it be of advan-

tage to you to take some relatively long, like 5,
10, 15 minutes, if we pointed as far off as possi-
ble and did it above an active region where we
would expect and could see a streamer?
MCC As a matter of fact, that's me - that's another

one of the modes we're thinking very seriously of;
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is to put a 15-minute exposure into building

block 5 and try that when there's a region at the
limb.
SPT Okay. If you send that information up on the

general message and send also some information
along on what could be done in the shopping list
along that line, since it doesn't use very much
film, we'll try and get some of that for you.
360 21 23 04 MCC Right. That's exactly the - that's exactly the

kind of thing we were doing to do. Now I do have
one question that I'd like you to sort of think
about. The question is how to remember to hit the
second START command at the end of the chip. I see
two alternatives. If it were before the mission,
I'd strongly recommend rewriting all the building
blocks the way it was done for 50-1 for the
56 SINGLE FRAME mode. However, that's a little
tedious. The alternative might be a reminder on
the pad.
360 21 23 38 SPT Yes, I like your second alternative, and I'll

think about some other ways we might be able to do
it here. But for the time being, let's stick with
the second alternative.
360 21 23 47 CC And we're lO seconds from LOS. See you over

Carnarvon in about 25 minutes at 21:49. Be dump-
ing the data/voice there, and you can continue.
SPT Okay, one thing, A1. I think you owe an awful lot
of thanks to Rusty Schweickart because, of all
of the work he put into it. And also, being right
there on the spot with the right equipment yester-
day, that really made it all work. We appreciate
his efforts, and I think everybody should.
MCC Absolutely, and I agree with you 100 percent.
SPT Go ahead. Do you have anything else, Al?
360 21 24 18 MCC Yes, there was - The planning committee noticed

your comments about the desire to shorten the re-
sponse time gor changes in solar conditions.
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_60 21 49 34 CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for 9 minutes. Be

dumping the daSh/voice hc_'c.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Any plans yet for PCU number 13 or the umbilical

that it was hooked to?
CC Stand by i. And while we're working that, W-799 is

the plenum.
CDR Okay, that's kind of what we had in mind.
360 21 51 14 CC Jer, on tomorrow's Flight Plan, you'll be re-

servicing the SUS and getting out some spare equip-
ment. We're not going to use PCU number 13 or its
LSU, and no more troubleshooting on that.
CDR Roger, Story.
360 21 51 43 CDR Story, also I Just put away TO25 completely, and
I - now I'm beginning to have second thoughts.
I'm wondering - If we don't have any other air-
lock activities with T025 before the next EVA, I
think I Just wasted a lot of time.
CC Okay, we'll get you an answer.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Story, in looking at the white light coronagraph,

we see a large streamer which has evolved over
the past day or so - or a couple days. We've not
had too much chance to - to follow it recently.
But it's right above active region 05; it's at
around 4 o'clock or so. We have a very faint
streamer at 2 o'clock, one at 3, and then over
there on the east limb, we have an exceptionally
large one, which is pretty much at 9 o'clock,
very broad at the base and Just tapering as we go
on further out. The one at 2 o'clock looks as
though it's multiple streamers superimposed. On
the XUVmonitor we see the normal XUVbrightenings
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associated with the active regions on the west

limb, which we understand, but there is also a
slight brightening over on the east limb at about
260 or 250. And there's also a couple Of bright
points on the disk, which - One is at around 200,
radius of 0.2, and another one at around 160,
radius of 0.3.
360 21 5h 41 CC Okay; copy, Ed. And we'd like to update your

TACS thrust and pulse width here.
SPT That's understandable after yesterday.
CC And let me - -
SPT Story, are they putting the - -
SPT Say again.
363 21 55 01 CC Go, Ed. We'll be using the DAS for that.
SPT Okay. I was hoping that the folks were working

on trying to figure out where we ran into the
high usage yesterday and how we can avoid that on
subsequent EVAs or in sub- or in subsequent CMG
resets.
CC Okay, we've been working that now for about

2h hours.
CDR • Go ahead.
CC Jer, could you ver - verify that the stow you did
on T025 was the back side of the T025 cue card?
CC Okay, and we'll be using T025 for the S073 tomorrow.

We think you did the right thing.
CDR Okay. Just wanted to make sure we were going to

use it in the SAL.
360 21 56 22 CC Yes, sir; we're going to tomorrow.

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360 21 58 06 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS; 2 minutes to

Honeysuckle.
360 22 00 26 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Honeysuckle

for 4 minutes.
360 22 03 26 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS; about a half an

hour to Texas. And we will have handed over to
the purple gang - Phil, Dick, and company.
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360 22 32 34 CC Skylab, Houston. The purple gang's back with you.

We're stateside for several minutes.
SPT Howdy, purple people.
CC Hello there.
SPT Good to have you with us. Are you ready for the
TV downlink?
CC We're ready. And I have a note for you, Ed, on

the Sun. NOAA has reported a group of type 3
radio bursts beginning at 22:05 Zulu. That was
about 25 minutes ago, and they had another recent
report at 22:2h. And wanted to - for you to be
aware of this, so you could look at the W - the
WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH TV and take - see if any
coronal effects and if so, take data for S052 at
your discretion.
SPT Okay, we just gave them a STANDARDMODE, and I'ii

take a look and I'll give them the TV downlink
on them.
360 22 33 24 CC Okay.
CDR Why, it's the lavender over the hill mob.
CC Yes,_ sir, back with you. Incidentially, when you

guys were down at Honeysuckle, you made a couple
of calls to us that we did not receive due to a -
a line problem, so if there's anything important,
we're listening.
SPT What I was remarking was that what I had thought

that was the bases of perhaps coronal loops or
loops out of the activation 05 must have been a
series of small surges, because it's changed quite
a bit from the last orbit and during this past
one. And I've spent some time out there looking
at it trying to get some time resolution on it.
And I was coming back to Sun center to see the
effect on the corona, and I didn't know anything
about the radio burst.
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360 22 34 15 CC Okay, Ed, copy. Thank you. And one reminder

here fol* the PLT, family comm is coming up when
we get AOS at MILA, and that's about a minute
and a half from now. Start on the RIGHT ANTENNA
for about a minute and then go to LEFT.
CDR He's up in the command module now.
CC Okay, Jerry, thank you.
SPT Comparing what I see on the WLC with what - a

picture I Just took 2 hours ago, I don't see any
real changes at all, right now, Dick, but I'll
keep looking.
CC Okay, Ed, thank you very much and Just keep an

eye.
360 22 38 08 SFT Dick, would you ask the 8052 people if they would
like to get a shopping list item 2h concurrent
with any type 3 bursts which they could call up
real time?
CC Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. In talking to the 8052 folks, they

said affirmative. They would like a - a shopping
list 24 under those circumstances, and we'll keep
close eye for type 3 bursts and keep you informed.
BPT Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
CC And, SPT, Houston, Just for your information,

we've got a line up and continuous con out to
Boulder, so we should have real quick response
to you in the event we need it.
8PT Very good, thank you; Dick.
CC Roger.
360 22 49 59 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 15 seconds from LOS.

I'll give:you a call in Madrid 4-1/2 minutes from
now. See you there.
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360 22 53 49 CC Skylab, Houston, Madrid for 7 minutes.
SPT Roger. Hello, Dick. On the next ATM pass, I

sould plan to pick up what they originally sent
up for 18:46, if that's fine with them.
CC Let me check, Ed, stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. The answer to your question, affirma-

tive. We would like you to use that cycle of in-
formation we sent up for 18:46, and if you'd like
to change that time, the time will be 23:25 in
place of 18:46.
SPT Thanks very much, Dick.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS Madrid.

Tananarive comes up at 23:17; see you there.
SPT So long, Dick.
360 22 59 44 CO So long.
360 23 17 14 CC Skylab, Houston. Tananarive for 5 minutes.
360 23 40 23 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Honesuckle. We're

very -we're Just about a minute from LOS, very
short pass. Goldstone comes up at 8 minutes after
the hour.
SPT Roger.
CC And SPT, Houston. On S054, requests a GRATING,

OUT.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC Thank you.
360 23 41 16 SPT Can that be moved in the middle of a mode, would

I have to wait for the one to time out?
CC We'd like you to finish the mode, Ed. And then

do it.
SPT Thank you.
CC Roger.
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SPT Say, Dick, there was a fair amount of brightening

in H-alpha in the region at 00, northeast of the
leader spot. Nothing of any major significance
showed up in XUV monitor, but it certainly flared
up rather brightly in H-alpha.
360 23 42 l0 CC Okay, Ed, thanks for the input.
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361 00 08 45 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello, stateside for ii minutes.
CDR Hi, Dick.
CC Hi, Jer_y. How're you all doing?
CDR Doing fine, thanks.
CC Hey, Jerry, I got two or three mission notes here,

and the sooner I get - get them out of the way this
evening, the sooner I can stop bugging you and a
couple are for you. You got a minute?
CDR Sure, go ahead.
CC Okay, first one is reference a ques - reference -

a question you asked earlier on the M509 battery
low voltage. We do not think that the battery
has been damaged and - but we are still looking
at the data, but we don't want you to start charg-
ing it until we schedule it on the Flight Plan.
So we'll take a - keep looking at the data and
keep you advised.
CDR Okay. Are those NiCad batteries?
361 O0 09 40 CC Stand by. Well, I'ii tell you what, Jerry, while
we're getting an answer to that one, I got a couple
more. This really is for most anybody. We haven't
seen the TV selector switch in the PORTABLE posi-
tion today. However, that's - it's quite likely
it went there while you were LOS. And earlier,
you said you were going to take some extra TV of
the Christmas tree - have you already done that?
We're going to be dumping that here in about 2 or
3 hours?
CDR No, I haven't done it yet. We'll get on the stick

and get it done.
361 00 i0 16 CC Okay, fine, we'd - we'd appreciate it. _id here's

one more that has to do with some 02 manacemenl,.
First of all, let me explain what the situation
is and then ask you a question. Presently, we're
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engaged in M509-FTA to reduce the N 2 content of

the cluster atmosphere. This'll either require
use of AM FILL valves which are controlled by
5 P S_ pressure switch for termination of this
procedure during the sleep period. In other -
in other words, it's likely, if we continue this
procedure, that we'll automatically input 02 to

the atmosphere when the pressure goes down to 5
ps - 5 psi. A couple of days ago, you added 02

to the cluster atmosphere, and what we were won-
dering is do you think the noise produced by this
addition of 02 would interfer with sleep if - if
the 02 were automatically added? We're kind of

in a bind as to decide whether to inhibit this
procedure during bedtime or not.
361 O0 ii 31 CDR That's pretty noisy, Dick. What other options do

we have? With that oxygen flowing up there in the
MDA, when you're in there, you can hardly hear
yourself think.
CC Okay, stand by just a second, Jet.
CC Jet, we definitely do not have to - to leave this

procedure in work during sleep period; so probably
the best thing to do would just be inhibit it, and
we can still do atmosphere management under those
circumstances. No problem.
CDR Okay, you mean you want to inhibit this FTA?
CC Jerry, what it'll involve is before you go to bed

this evening, we'll - we'll have you do one step
which is - close the dump valve for us and then
reopen it in the morning. So, later on this eve-
ning, I'll give you a call when we want you to do
that, so it's not a big deal. Incidentally, on
the answer to your question on the 509 batteries
is that they - they are NiCad batteries.
361 00 13 15 CDR Okay, that's good - that makes us feel better.

Because they're pretty hard to hurt.
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CC Hey, incidentally, Jerry, one thing that I haven't

researched completely, because I haven't read
through all the air-to-ground notes when - when
we're gone, but the other day they - we sent up
that message on selected housekeeping. And what
that was intended to be was an answer to your
question abo_t flight scheduling, about all the
individual selected hi - housekeeping items that
appear from various times. Are you squared away
and - and understand that - that's what was in-
tended by that message.
361 00 13 53 CDR Yes, Dick. It's just when we got it, we were -
we were just in another kind of mental mode. And
when it - when it hit us, we thought we were sup-
posed to do it then.
CC Okay, no problem. I - I could have taken some

time to - before I asked you to read through the
whole thing, but I just hadn't done that yet.
Thank you very much, Jer. That's all I had for
you.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC I did have a couple of questions for Ed. However,

I notice we're still in daylight, so if it's - if
it's - this - this is not a good time, I can get
it anytime.
SPT No, go ahead now, Dick.
361 00 14 28 CC Okay. The - the question has to do with the sleep

experiment, Ed. First of all, about 5 or 6 days
ago on mission day 35, you used a sleep - new
sleep cap. And the question is, is this the only -
is this only the second cap that you've used during
the mission. Over.
i
SPT That's right, Dick. They're more comfortable when

they're broken in.
CC Okay, and next question. What was the fix that

ended up giving you good test lights for M133 on
that same day?
361 O0 15 06 SPT Well, two things. One I - I think l'm not getting
a proper ground initially. I tell you, l'm not
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sure which one of those electrodes is the ground,

but if I ground myself against something, I get
good test lights. And if I leave it on for about -
have the cap on for around 15 minutes or so, then
it seems to work properly. So, I'm not convinced
what it is yet, but apparently they've been getting
good data.
CC Okay.
PLT Dick, are you still there?
CC That's affirm; go ahead.
361 00 16 50 PLT Roger, PLT. I was Just cranking up the heater on

the M560. My details sa_ 560 ops ll through 13.
CC Bill, you were kind of garbled there Just a second.

I got the part that you were cranking up the heater
on the M560, but I didn't get the part about ll
to 13.
CC PLT, Houston. We got caught in the middle of a

handover from station to station. I got the mes-
sage about cranking up the heater on the M560, but
I didn't get the part about ii and 13. Say that
again please.
PLT Roger. My details say do steps ll through 13 and

I only have ll and 12.
CC Stand by.
PLT I don't have a 13th step listed.
361 O0 17 49 CC Okay, stand by.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go.
CC Yes, there is a step 13, but it came up to you

on one of the changes to the checklist that - and
we'll be sure and figure out which one that was
and reuplink it. Let me read it to you real fast.
It says, "At any time during the soak period, ro-
tate cartridge TD4P switch to each position, and
voice record temps, if possib]e." Over. --
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PLT Okay, now, read the first phrase first, again.
CC Okay. At any time during soak period.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay, got it? And we'll figure out which of the -

which numbered checklist change that is. There
are only two that are made to this book; we'll
figure out which one that is and reuplink it to
you.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
CC Yes, sir.
361 00 19 32 CC And we're about l0 seconds from LOS. We'll Just

have a short dropout here, and then I'll call you
at Bermuda.
361 00 21 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Bermuda for 4-1/2 min-

utes, and I got a quick question for the SPT.
CDR Go ahead, he's listening.
CC Okay, it seems like we get to do plenty of talking

this evening about checklist changes. Our spies
in the ATM backroom were watching you doing that
building block 35 - 34 and 35. And we uplinked
a checklist change to the J0P Summary Sheets that
changed that building block for S056 about 2 days
ago. And we suspicion that - that it is not enter-
ed in your books yet. It was checklist change 15
to the JOP Summary Sheets, and if you don't have
it, we'll be glad to reuplink that one also.
SPT Dick, was that the same one with the - 18C changes?
I looked at it and believed it all was - went with
JOP 18. And maybe I was wrong. I had not planned
on doing that or had not got around to making those
because I thought they were all J0P 18. I had
planned to do that sometime tonight.
361 00 22 27 CC Well, I tell you, it was interspersed with a

bunch that were J0P 18. But, no his particular
one had to do with JOP 21.
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SPT Yes, I understand, but it was interspersed with

the 18's. Okay -
CC Well -
SFT I didn't see that in there, so I'll go ahead and

make that change right now.
CC Okay, no problem. Well, I mean it was uplinked

at the same time as the 18's. It was not on the
same message, but as long as you're aware of it.
If you have trouble finding it, Just let us know.
We'll give you another copy.
SPT Oh, okay, if it was not with the same message then -
perhaps I have not seen it yet. Hold on. Let's -
let me look around a little.
361 O0 23 Ol CC Okay, fine. No problem.
CDR Was it change number 157
CC Yes.
SPT Okay, we've located it.
PLT And this is PLT. Would you say again the nomen-
clature on the switch I'm supposed to rotate to
check temp?
CC It's the cartridge TEMP switch, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
CC And for the SPT, we need an MPC INHIBIT. That's

a M - MPC ROLL INHIBIT, Ed.
SPT You got it.
CC Okay, thank you, sir.
361 00 24 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds to L -

to LOS. Madrid comes up 6 minutes from now. And
Madrid. See you there.
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361 O0 30 51 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Madrid for 8 - 9 minutes.

And we're dumping the data/voice recorder here.
CC And, Skylab, Houston, for yours - for your infor-

mation, no response required, that we're uplinkimg
another copy of that MDA experiments checklist
change, number i for Bill at this site.
CDR Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
361 O0 37 48 SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Yes, will you folks be through with the recorder

pretty soon?
CC Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. We're going to be dumping for less

than another minute. I'll let you know when we're
through.
SPT Okay, thanks very much.
CC Okay.
SPT Looks like we got it. Thank you.
CC That's affirm; dump's over.
361 00 38 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Tananarive

comes up at 00:50. See you there.
361 00 52 18 CC Skylab, Houston at Tananarive for 6 minutes.
SPT Roger. Hello, Dick. Hey, we're through with the

VTR if you'd like to have it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're liable to go LOS here at

Tananarive about any time. Honeysuckle comes up
at 01:16.
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SPT Thank you, Dick. Talk to you then.
361 00 59 01 CC Okay, Ed.
361 01 16 00 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle for 6 minutes.

And, $PT, Houston. We've got a report from NOAA
that some surge material has been mat - seen rising
from active region 00, when you get an opportunity
we'd reco_end you go Sun center and take a look
in S052.
SPT Okay, Dick, I sure will. I've been looking at the

region right above 5, which is right next to 00.
And I think I can faintly see some material in the
corona and I was going to take a look at that. I
did look Sun center Just a few moments ago and did
not see anything, however, I will - I will go back.
CC Okay.
361 01 20 41 SPT Dick, at the time you called, I had just given 55
three MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs truncated down to line 20,
and I was POINTING slightly off the limb. So, if
there was anything moving out, I'm sure they would
have seen it with those. I did see - very
faintly, something in H-alpha and I was just about
to explore it at the time you called. So, I think
I'll be going at - going back there after I get
finished with the STANDARD, MODE in 52.
CC Okay, Ed, thank you.
361 01 21 40 SPT And, Dick, again I cannot notice anything - any

change at all in the corona, compared with what
I've seen a couple of hours ago, or the picture
that I took around 3 or h hours ago.
CC Okay, Ed, thanks anyway for looking. We're about

30 seconds' from LOS. I'll give you a call at
Hawaii at 01:37, see you then.
361 01 22 01 SPT So long, Dick.
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Time: 361:01:30 to 361:03:00
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361 Ol 37 2h CC Skylab, Houston AOS Hawaii for 7 minutes.
CC ...
CC SPT, Houston. We observe you - that you're

pointed off the Sun and you're in optical
reference.
SPT Roger, Dick. I understand.
CC Roger.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. In this next stateside

pass, when we're in receiving range of - receiving
facility up at the McDonnell Douglas East
plant of St. Louis, we'd like to get some more
data, and we're still trying to troubleshoot
this telemetry problem that we've been having
and if one of - if it's convenient with one of
you guys at about 01:53, l'm going to ask some-
body to go up to panel 200 and pull a couple of
circuit breakers and wait a couple of minutes
and then push them back in for us. If it turns
out not to be convenient, we can pick it up at
another stateside pass.
PLT Roger, Dick.
360 01 h3 08 SPT Dick, we got a pretty good surge going here

right above active region 05 and I'm trying to
pick up with the 55 truncated down to line l0
in PATROL, SHORT for 50 seconds.
CC Roger, Ed.
CC And SPT, Houston. ATM requests you turn the

HIGH VOLTAGE, OFF on the S055. We think you
got a false GRATING POS _ION indication. And,
Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We're
going to drop out in Just a couple of minutes
and I'll call you at Goldstone.
SPT Dick, could you explain that one. We're missing

some pretty good data here. I went back onto the
Sun and pickedup the zeroREF.
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361 01 44 23 CC Okay, stand by. Roger, Ed. You're okay Just

as is.
361 01 47 49 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Goldstone for 7 minutes.
361 01 50 21 PLT Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Roger, Dick. I'm stand by at the STS.
CC Okay, Bill, it'll be about another 2-1/2 minutes

before we want them. But let me tell you what
the circuit breakers are now. They are TRANSDUCER
GROUP 2 PLUS 24 VOLTS and MINUS 24 VOLTS. They're
on the bottom row, kind of to the right, on
panel 200, and I'll let you know when we want -
want them OPEN. And we - about 2 minutes later
we'd like to have them closed.
PLT Roger.
361 01 53 O1 CC PLT, Houston; we're ready for those two circuit

breakers OPEN. I'll read them again, TRANSDUCER
GROUP 2 PLUS 24 VOLTS and GROUP 2 MINUS 24 VOLTS,
OPEN.
PLT Roger. You got both of them OPEN now.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from

LOS. We're going to drop out about 3 or 4 min-
utes and I'll call you at Bermuda. And, Bill,
about 1 minute from now, we may have lost voice
with you_ but we'd like those two circuit breakers
closed, and then you can forget them. We want
them closed about a time of 01:55 and thank you
very much.
PLT Okay, will do.
361 01 54 18 CC Thank you, Bill.
361 01 58 44 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Bermuda for 7 minutes.
36102 02 34 SPT Houston,

SPT.
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CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Dick, I'd like the food people to check into the
legality of me giving my fruitcake to Bill or
Jer.
CC Bill - didn't, I mean, Ed, I didn't quite copy -

copy. It had to do with food and fruitcake, but
that's about all I got. You were kind of low.
SPT Yes, I got a fruitcake up here which I'm not

too hot on. And I figure I'll make a good friend
in Bill if I give him my fruitcake, and I'm
wondering what the food people think of it.
CC Okay, Ed, we'll get back with you.
SPT Thank you, Dick. His eyes are getting bigger

all the time.
CC (Chuckle) Roger.
361 02 03 32 PLT Ed's giving me a piece of fruitcake for some

ATM time.
CC Roger. I wish I could give you some of the

fruitcake I've eaten over the last couple of
days. You'd probably gain 15 pounds.
361 02 04 40 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 30 seconds from

LOS. Canary Islands comes up at 02:08, and we're
going to dump the data/voice recorder there.
361 02 09 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary for 8 minutes.

And SPT, Houston. You are GO to give the PLT
your slice of fruitcake, if it isn't too late.
The biomed officer would suggest that he deletes
two salts, however, that's a preference item
and not mandatory.
PLT Roger. I'll delete two salts.
CC Okay, Bill; thank you.
361 02 16 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS at

Canary Islands. We have a very low elevation
pass scheduled at Tananarive at 02:31. Just
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in the event we miss that one, I'ii call you at

Honeysuckle at 02:52, and that's the station
for the evening status report.
SPT Okay, Dick. Talk to you later.
361 02 17 01 CC Okay, see you there.
361 02 32 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive for Just

a couple of minutes.
CDR Check.
CC And, Skylah, in case we have a early LOS, next

site is Honeysuckle at 02:53. And I'll be
standing by there for the evening status report.
361 02 32 36 CDR Okay, Dick.
361 02 52 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Honeysuckle for

8-1/2 minutes. Standing by for evening status
report.
CDR ...
CDR Okay, Dick. Sleep: CDR, 8.5, all heavy; SPT,

8.0, 8 heavy; PLT, 7.5, all heavy. Volume:
CDR, 800; SPT, 1650; PLT, 2200. Water gun:
CDR, 7849; SPT, 3370; PLT, 9597. Body mass:
CDR, 6.312, 6.311, 6.312; SPT, 6.348, 6.329,
6.346; PLT, 6.244, 6.246, 6.245. Exercise:
CDR, no Alfa today; SPT, no change; PLT, no
change. Medications: CDR, none; correction,
Sudafed last night. Ha - hang on Just a minute.
CC Okay.
361 02 54 12 CDR Yes, I reported that last night, so none tonight.

Clothing discarded today: one pair of socks,
one pair of shorts. SPT, no medication; one
pair of socks, one pair of shorts, one T-shirt.
PLT, Tinactin as directed; one pair of shorts,
one shirt, one pair of socks. Food log: CDR,
5.5 salt, zero deviations, zero rehy - correction,
1.5 rehydration water; SPT, 1.5 salt, zero devia-
tions, zero water; PLT, 6.5 salt, plus fruitcake,
and zero rehydration water. Let's see, Flight
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Plan deviation: the SPT's HKTJ and the DC9 have

been delayed. We'll get them later this evening.
Shopping list accomplishments: none. Inoperable
equipment: none. Unscheduled stowage: none.
CC Okay.
361 02 55 13 CDR Okay, the photo log: 16-millimeter, Mh87-h

Alfa, Charlie India 93, 00, Mike Tango 06.
Nikons, i, Charlie X-ray 36, 03t all the rest
of them, no change. 70 millimeter, Charlie
X-ray 52, 001. ETC is Bravo Whiskey 03, 0h3.
EREP, no change. Drawer A: Alfa l, no change;
Alfa 2, 05, Charlie India 93, 00, Mike Tango 06;
and all the rest, no change.
CC Okay.
361 02 58 09 CC CDR, Houston. One question on the evening status

report. You reported a deviation for yourself
today in water of l-l/2 ounces. Was that a plus
or minus?
CDR That's a plus.
CC Okay, Jerry, thank you much, and we'd Just as

soon go ahead and put the - our dump valve closing
to bed here for the evening on the environmental
control systems. We'd like somebody to whiz
into the head on - on p_nel 831 WATER D_
valve to CLOSE. And let us know when you did
that.
SPT It'll be done in less than a minute, Dick.
CC Okay.
361 02 59 07 SPT MARK. It's done.
CC MARK. Thank you.
361 02 59 56 CDR Dick, you'd like Australia, it sure is a beautiful

country.
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SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
361 03 O0 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

I'll give you a call at Hawaii at 03:13, and I've
got some news here that I can read up there if you
like.
CDR Great, Dick.
CC Incidentally, on the subject of all those hugs that

you guys authorized yesterday for the Christmas
present, the CAP COMMs have collected them all.
CDR Very good.
SPT What do you mean? I didn't authorize any.
CC Well - (laughter).
PLT That was your own idea, huh?
SPT The only ones I authorize are the ones you can
give to each other.
CC No, wasn't that kind.
PLT That's the trouble with TDY, you can't trust your
buddies back home.
361 03 01 37 CC Bye!
361 03 12 36 PLT Dick, PLT. I can give you a quick ATM film frame
count if you want.
CC Okay, Bill, go ahead.
PLT 15713, 5678, 195, 527, 7777, 5810.
CC Okay, Bill, I copied that. And in return, if you

guys are listening, I'll be glad to read you some
news.
PLT Go ahead.
361 03 13 15 CC Okay. Two Soviet cosmonauts returned safely to

Earth today after an 8-day flight, the third
longest in Russian space history, the Tass news
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agency said. Flight Co_nder Klimuk and Engineer

Lebed - Lebedev, two 31-year-old space rookies,
floated to Earth on the parachute in their Soyuz
13 craft on the plains of Central Asia, Tass said.
The flight was a warmup for the Soviet-American
joint space flight in 1975. Since the Soviet
manned space program began in 1961, it has been
exceeded in duration only by the 24-day flight of
Soyuz ll in 1971, and the 70 - 17-ay flight of
Soyuz 9 in 1970. So you guys - we're now back
down to three men in space. Israeli and Egyptian
arm_ officers met for 90 minutes Wednesday in
Geneva, Switzerland, to negotiate troop withdrawals
from territory captured in the October Middle East
war. Negotiations were previously conducted in
a tent between Cairo and Suez on the cease-fire
line, but have been snagged for a month. The talks
were transferred to Geneva after the opening of
the Middle East peace conference last week. Traffic
fatalities over the Christmas holiday weekend ran
below advance estimates of the National Saf -
Safety Council. Counts showed 520 deaths on the
nation's roads between 6 p.m. Friday to midnight
Tuesday. The Council's previous estimate was 550
to 650. Bad weather, which kept motorists off the
road, the economy, as well as the energy crisis
may have helped to reduce fatalities. Dollar -
gallon gasoline became a reality for a few drivers
on Christmas Day. At one service station in
Chicago, you could by $5 worth of gasoline if you
were also willing to purchase a $3 trinket. At
a few other stations, motorists frustrated in
their search for service stations that were open
on Christmas Day were forced to pay 99.9 cents a
gallon. That's the highest price at present -
present pumps will register. President Nixon,
reportedly heartened by a shift in Arab oil policy,
said Wednesds_v he was working to make certain we
won't have to ration gasoline this winter. Pres-
ident Nixon secretly boarded a commercial airliner
Wednesday evening and flew to California for a
post-Christmas vacation. The White House said
Nixon's trip to Los Angeles aboard a United Airlines
jet was kept secret for security reasons. Mrs. Nixon
and a party of about 20 aides and Secret Service
agents accompanied the President. Nixon, like all
recent presidents, has made his past trips aboard
Air Force Jets. Gerald Warren, the assistant
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White House press secretary, said he decided on a

commerical flight this time to set an example for
the American public during the energy crisis. For
the second time the wife of Canada's Prime Minister,
Pierrre Trudeau, gave birth on Christmas Day to a
boy. Mrs. Trudeau, wife of the 55-year-old Prime
Minister, and the child are in good health at a
Ottawa hospital. Their first son, Justin, was born
two years ago on Christmas Day. Here are some
suggestions for saving energy, submitted by liste-
ners to radio stations around the country: Sleep
with a friend or - or a St. Bernard dog, enjoy
candlelight, or wear long hair and beards. You
guys sure ought to qualify for that third one,
except for Ed. As the new year approaches, the
country's largest calendar maker, Brown and Bigelow
in St. Paul, Minnesota, reports: pinup calendars
have kind of gone down the drain. Sales are way,
way down. Scendry - scenery and endangered species
calendars are today's best sellers. One final note:
if Johnny and his teacher don't spell some words
the same way, the reason may be that they're using
different dictionaries. The National Council of
Teachers of English say that the five desk dic -
dictionaries most widely used in schools and offices
in the United States disagree on no less than the
spelling of 2400 words. So that's it for this
evening.
361 03 17 h6 CDR Thank you, Dick.
361 03 21 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Gold-

stone comes up at 03:25.
PLT Roger, Dick.
CC Roger. And during this next stateside pass, when

we hand over to - well, I take it back. I started
to say when we hand over to Bermuda, that'll be the
med conference. However, I see now, there's a gap
between those two stations. So the next one's mine;
it's Goldstone. See you there.
361 03 22 12 CDR Okay, Dick.
361 03 26 53 CC Skylab, Houston; Goldstone for 4 minutes.

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PLT Dick, one quick question on my details for tomorrow,

PLT. It's sort of vague in my mind as to whether
or not they want me to do the 561 on the materials
processing? It's listed 561 and - only listed
it once. And I didn't know if they wanted me to
do the 561 ops or if it was a typographical error
and they want me to terminate 560?
CC Okay, Bill, stand by 1.
361 03 29 26 CC PLT, Houston. The intent of that was to get you

to terminate M560, which is running now, and start
up 561. Is that clear?
PLT It is now; thank you very much. I thought that's

what it meant, but I wasn't sure.
CC Yes, that's right.
361 03 30 _6 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS.

Bermuda comes up at 03:35, and you'll be talking
to the doctor there. And ATM wants me to give you
an A plus on your ATM closeout this evening. He's
satisfied with it all. Thank you much.
361 03 31 01 CDR Thank you.
361 03 52 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary for

10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Roger, Jerry. And, Bill, if you've still got your

detail pad for tomorrow handy, I've got one change
to it - one addition to it.
PLT Stand by just a second.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, Dick, go.
CC Okay, on the - on the Flight Plan there's an entry

in your column that says S073 PR-1. What I'd like
to do is at a time of 13:50 on your details have
you Jot down a little note there that says when
you get ready to do S073 prep l, you need to look
at the SPT's S073 pad for the camera inform - and
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set-up information. That pad is not on board yet,

but he has the operate pad and the prep information
is on that - his pad.
PLT Okay, I got that, Dick.
361 03 53 36 CC Okay, Bill, thank you very much. And incidentally,

you asked a question the other dayon the dump
tapes that I'd like to answer by sayig that it's
perfectly okay to use the wet wipes in the head-
that you asked about.
PLT Thank you.
CC Roger.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Dick, I'm looking at some new HH sites here and one
they point out is HH124 Alfa, Pikelot Island.
I get the impression that it's a very small island,
and there's an awful lot of small islands in the
Carolines. I wonder if we could have the folks
down there teleprinter us up a little picture of
the shape of the island and the reef. And it - I
think it will help us find it.
CC Okay, Jerry, why - let us spend some time seeing

if we can fix up some kind of aid that'll let you
find that one.
CDR Okay, great. Maybe make the island out of I's

and the R - reefs out of R's or something like that.
CC I'm sorry Jerry, you were cut out. Say that last
question again.
CDR Roger. I said maybe they could do something like

make the island out of I's and the reefs out of
R's or something like that.
CC Okay, we'll try.
361 04 01 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS for the

last pass of the evening here at Ascension. We'll
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give you a call tomorrow morning at 12:00 Zulu

through the Vanguard. The next station pass in
the morning is a little over an hour after that -
that one, so it might be a real good idea this
evening if you set your portable timers as a
backup to the wake-up call. You guys have a very
good night's sleep and we'll see you in the morning.
CDR Okay, Dick, good night.
CC Good night.
SPT Thank you, Dick, good night.
CC Good night, Ed.
PLT Good night, Dick.
CC Good night, William.
CDR Good night, all you purples.
361 04 02 17 CC Roger. Good night to you. See you later.
END OF TAPE
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361 12 00 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston calling you this morning

and asking you to rise and shine. We're talking
to you through Vanguard, and we'll be with you for
the next 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. Good morning.
CC Good morning.
361 12 06 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS. We'll

see you in about i hour over Hawaii at 13:05.
PLT Roger, Karl.
PLT Or is that Bill?
CC This is Karl. How are you doing?
PLT Great, how are you doing this morning?
PLT Just getting a picture of a new iceberg I've seen.

Big ice island about 20 miles.
361 12 07 h3 CC Great. Sounds like a good view from up there.
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Time: 361:12:30 to 361:ih:00
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361 13 06 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston for the next 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Karl, and I'm ready to open the waste man-
agement compartment vent valve again.
361 13 06 42 CC Okay, let's hold up on that one, and one of the bits
of information I want to send up to you is please
do not open those - the WATER DUMP valve. This is
the one on panel 831 you're referring to?
CDR Yes, that 's affirmative.
361 13 06 59 CC Right. We'd like not to open that. And also if

you get a chance today - Well this is connected
with performance of the 509 which is going to be
post - and T020, which is going to be postponed at
least a week. And also if you get a chance today,
you can perform the M509 F7B to set you back up
for a normal waste management - water - water mAn-
agement dump operation.
CDE Okay. Then I assume our pressure's okay and our -

our partial pressure of oxygen is where they want
it and all that?
361 13 07 40 CDE Very good. It all took care of itself overnight,

huh?
CC Eight. The - the message I get here is that we

have a normal atmosphere and we don't want any
special enrich - enrichments since the M509 and
the T020 will be postponed for some time.
CDR Okay. Good enough.
361 13 08 17 CC And while I'm talking to you, got a couple more

messages. To the CDR, it says here, that in refer-
ence to your urine sample bag inventory, the total
of 37 bags in locker }{-823 is not consistent with
our expected numbers and would you please verify
all four sample bag rack locations inside of that
locker.
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361 13 09 32 CDR Karl, there are indeed four racks in there. One
is full, two are empty, and one has six in it.
CC Okay. Thank you very much. And, Jerry, while we

still have a good contact with you, we have some
wheeling and dealing to do with you on your next
day off; that's New Year's Day. And in the good
words of Nell Hutchinson down here, he says - No,
it's - it's a good leadoff for here, Neil. It says
that New Year's Day is the next planned crew day
off. Mission Control is also going to try to keep
our own workloads light, although our vigilance in
systems monitoring will continue unabated. That's
the good news. The bad news so far as you're
concerned is that there is a very good African
EREP pass that we would like to pick up that day,
and, unfortunately, it cuts into that 2 hours extra
sleep period we - we generally give you in the
morning. We'd very much like to get the pass, and
we'd like to trade sleeping time with you and either
give it to you in the evening of your day off or
in the evening of - or in the evening before your
day off. So we'd - we'd like your opinion on that,
and if it gets shifted into the evening before your
day off, a couple hours of that science needs to
get moved into the day off then.
CDR He's a tough horse trader, I'll tell you.
361 13 ll 17 CC Nell - Nell says that - Neil says to chew on that

for awhile and let us know later if you'd like.
CDR Okay. Maybe he could throw in a couple of fruit-

cakes and a ham slice, too, or something.
CC He says he'll see what he can arrange. How about

a little eggnog?
CDR How about a lot of eggnog?
361 13 ll 39 CC Roger.
361 13 ll 55 CC And, guys, we've got 1 milit [sic] - minute to LOS.

See you over Vanguard at 13:36, and we will be
dumping the recorders over Vanguard.
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361 13 12 hi CDR One question for you while you're going over the
hill, Karl, is what would be the possibility of
slipping the day off to the next day?
CC Okay. We'll chew on that one down here.
361 13 12 54 CDR Okay.
361 13 37 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston standing by for the next

i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Karl. And on this proposal for adjusting

the day off, I think our first choice would be to
slip the day off 1 day to January 2. And our second
choice, if we have to bite the bullet, would be to
get the 2 hours extra time the night before.
CC Oh -
361 13 37 34 CDR Now, the reasoning here is, Karl, that one of the
nicer aspects of the day off is the opportunity to
F sleep in an extra 2 hours. And when you get the
extra 2 hours tacked on to the end of a day, you're
not as likely to go to bed 2 hours early.
CC Righto, Jerry. I guess that's fairly evident to

us down here. There is a strong feeling here that
we would like to keep January the 1 as the day off.
That's - that's partly due to not wanting to re-
Juggle schedules too much, and also to a problem
of distributing - distributing the holiday load
and manpower management the right way down here.
We - we will chew it over and let you know.
361 13 38 27 CDR Okay.
361 13 46 04 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We have 1 minute to LOS.

We'll see you at 13:52 over Ascension.
361 13 52 37 CC Skylab, AOS Ascension, 7 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR That you, Story?
CC Yes, sir. Good morning, Jer.

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361 13 52 54 CDR Good morning to you.

from Guam at 14:35.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 361:14:00 to 361:15:30
Page 1 of 2/2511
361 14 36 28 CC Skylab, AOS Guam for 5 minutes.
SPT Morning, Story.
CC Hi, Ed.
SPT Looking at the white light coronagraph, I can see

a good comet in there. It's still not the bright-
ness which I would hope to see later and would
give abetter definition but even at the present
relatively low level you can see the tail standing
out quite a bit, and it's got a very strong coma.
CC Copy, Ed.
361 14 39 30 CC Skylab, we're reading you down here, but slightly

weak.
F CDR Houston,Skylab. We weren't transmitting.
CC No, sir. I Just wanted to let you know that we

were picking you up in the background.
CDR Roger.
361 14 hl 20 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. About 32 minutes

to Vanguard at 15:13.
SPT Story, have you heard us in the background over

the past 1 minute?
CC Say again.
SPT Anybody able to pick us up in the background over

the past 1 minute?
CC No. Not the last 1 minute. Just when I gave you

those two calls. Just prior to those two calls.
SPT Okay. We've been searching for an open link and

we've been unable to find one.
361 lh hl 59 CC Okay. If you've been talking the last minute,

you fixed whatever it was.
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361 15 13 55 CC Skylab, AO$ through the Vanguard for ii minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
361 15 20 28 CC Ed, from down here we showed you missed S054 in

the first building block. Would you hit it a
lick in this one?
SPT Say again your last sentence, please?
CC Could you get us an S054 in this building block?

From down here we showed you missed it on the last
one.
SPT Okay.
• 361 15 24 46 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and about 2 min- -

utes to Ascension.
361 15 25 03 CDR Roger, Story. We'll see you.
361 15 27 28 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Ascension,

Canaries, and Madrid for 13 minutes.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 361-07/T-492
Time: 361:15:30 to 361:17:00
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361 15 45 l0 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. About 25 minutes

to Guam at 16:ll.
CDR Story, housekeeping 60 Echo is complete. I think

you can tell FAO that he can reduce the time allowed
for that to an hour and 15 instead of an hour and
45.
361 15 45 4l CC Copy, and thanks, Jet.
361 16 ll 48 CC Skylab, AOS through Guam for l0 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CC And here's Bill with the ATM conference, Ed.
SPT Okay.I'mready.
361 16 12 lO MCC Okay, Ed. I Just got actually a couple of things

for you here this morning. A quick update on the
Sun, which you have probably noticed already, the
00 is very nearly on the - on the limb. The
brightest portion of it is the northeast plage,
that's northeast of the big spot. When it surges
it tends to surge in a northwesterly direction.
The next brightest is the southeast plage, which
surges southwest. That was the good news. The
bad news is that the most interesting longitude
that you have to look forward to its return on
the east limb, is now transiting the west limb.
In other words, there isn't anything on the back
side. So it's going to be a long, dry, quiet Sun
for us here. To - tomorrow we have three early
solar ATM passes followed by three later 18 Charlie
maneuvers for the comet. Tomorrow will be about
the best chance of actually seeing something on
S055 since this is nearest perihelion. Let me
pause here and see what inputs you've got for
planning, in particular for the three early ATM
orbits based on what you're looking at now.
361 16 13 26 SPT Okay, Bill. From what I've been able to see over
firstly yesterday, and I took a quick look this
morning, was a surging on the limb. I tried to
get a littleof that yesterdaywith 55 and some -
some of 56, although I did not see much change
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in brightness associated with the surging. I

think we ought to go after that and maybe get
into a mode where we're ready for a flare. But
also looking at the events on the limb, start
off each orbit with some Sun centered operations
or maybe finish up each orbit that way. And then
go on out there and look for interesting activity.
Most likely surges.
361 16 lh 06 MCC Okay. Sounds good. I'll make those inputs for
you this afternoon.
SPT What I was able to - what I did yesterday was to

roll so that the Sun was tangent to the horizontal
cross hair, and then go down, maybe, oh, four or
five steps or so. And that Just - just truncated
MIRROR, AUTO RASTER, so that they - it's like - oh,
maybe i0 MIRROR, line SCANS, if you will, stacked
on top of each other, or one-fifth of a MIRROR,
AUTO RASTER, one right after the other. Gave the
whole spatial resolution and time resolution.
I thoughtthat would be a good way to cover those
surges.
MCC Okay, and I know 55 does like that type of data,

so they're very happy to get that.
361 16 14 52 SPT Okay. Looking at the XUV MONITOR - the active

region which I've discussed on the west limb,
we pretty much know what's happening there.
There's one over there on the east limb, which
I got a report on this morning was not one of the
old active regions, so we're not sure what it is.
It's relatively small but it might have something
interesting in it. At least it'll keep us
occupied for 2 weeks, I hope.
MCC Yes, okay. It looks, like you say, small to us

and so far we do not see any spots in it.
361 16 15 25 SPT Okay. I want to ask a couple of questions.

Seeing as we do have the quiet Sun coming around
again, what about the line profiles? I did one
on - on 55 a little while ago and I was wondering
how that came out. Whether it was worth repeating
something of that type? Also, could we see - we're
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361 17 12 08 CC Skylab, AOS Canaries and Madrid for 14 minutes.

Be bumping the data/voice here a Canaries. And,
Ed, Houston.
SPT Go.
CC Ed, we'd like you to turn the STAR TRACKER POWER,

OFF. We may have an encoder failure on the OUTER
GIMBAL indicator.
CC And we'll be inhibiting nu Z updates from the ground.
CC Thanks.
361 17 13 00 CC And for the next nu Z update coming up at 19:37

with Bill, we'll catch him over a ground station
for that.
SPT Okay, Story.
CC And we need the DAS here, Ed, for that.
SPT You've got it.
CC Okay.
361 17 lh 48 CC The DAS is yours, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Story, it looked like nearly 24 minutes or so on

those last two exposures.
CC Okay, it makes everybody very happy, Ed.
361 17 25 09 CC We're about 40 seconds to LOS. See you over

Honeysuckle in 35 minutes at 18:00.
SPT Okay, Story. And would you say again the problem
with the star tracker?
CC It looks like we've got an encoder problem. In

other words, the output from the outer gimbal angle
that's going back into the feedback loop may not
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be correct, and we were worried about it's driving

itself up against the stops. At 19:37 we'll be
putting the power back on and - and taking a look
at it then.
361 17 25 45 SPT Okay, thank you.
361 18 00 29 CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 7 minutes. And, Jer,

we'll need the DAS for dump inhibit.
CDR Okay. You got it, Story.
CC Okay.
CC Go Jer.
CDR Roger. The special S054 procedures that are listed

here for 18:05 Z, is that to start at exactly 18:05
Z, or is tha lJust the four asterisked 54's that
are in the building block?
CC Stand by 1.
CDR I'm a little confused as to whether 18:05 Z is just

designating that particular ATM pass or whether
it's a precise time.
CC Jer, you can start any time. It's 18:05 now, and
you're correct. General message 4236 Alfa applies
to this pass. Jer, that general message applies
to where the asterisks are on your ATM schedule
pad.
CDR Okay. Thank you.
361 18 06 51 CC And we're a minute from LOS. Bermuda in about 40

minutes at 18:45.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 361:18:30 to 361:20:00
Page i of 3/2521
361 18 51 09 CC Skylab, AOS through Canaries and Madrid for 12

minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. This is CDR. I'm still not con-

vinced that S05h is getting what they wanted. When
you add up four 13-minute passes of this special
operations, that comes to 52 minutes, which is one
whole pass, and there isn't time to do two M, 3, 0,
S, 256's or whatever those are. And so it seems
to me that we're still not really where we want to
be.
CC Jer, we show you running it right right now and I

think that's one on me. I didn't - didn't under-
stand your question so good the last pass. Now
what we wanted was all M, S, O, L, 6h's.
CDR Okay. Well, I'm sorry. You didn't get it this

time. You got two 256's and then about two and
a half 64's.
CC Yes, sir. I think that's one on me. I didn't

understand your question and didn't get up to you
in time.
361 18 53 57 CC Jer, since we'll be running these about three more

revs today, wanted to make it - make it sure that
you did understand them now. And that's at - one
M, S, 0, 6 does take 13 minutes, or as it states
on there, about 12.8.
CDR Yes, that's right. So it's going to take 52 minutes,

and, in other words, the whole pass to do all four
that they want.
CC Yes, sir, and the whole pass is four of those and

and none of those M, 3, O, S, 256's.
CDR Okay. I'll make note on all the rest of the ATM
pads so that nobody else does that.
CC Yes, sir.
361 19 02 15 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. See you over

Carnarvon in 19:29, about 27 minutes.

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361 19 29 54 CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon and Honeysuckle, 14 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC Bill, sounds like you're up at the ATM.
PLT Yes, I'm all ready to go.
CC Okay, at your convenience I want you to turn the

STAR TRACKER, POWER, ON and go ahead and drive
to the desired star angles, and we'll watch it from
down here. We're checking out that outer gimbal
encoder.
PLT I have a little bit of a problem here. I Just

looked up there and noticed that I have an OPEN
talkback on the SHLFI'YERand I can't get it - I'm
not able to select MANUAL.
CC Copy.
PLT Just so that I can make it clear, the switch I

normally used to select MANUAL is got a barberpole,
and the other one - the SHU'I'r,:H
talkback is in-
dlcating open - o-p-e-n.
CC Have you turned the STAR TRACKER POWER ON, Bill?
PLT Negative. That was it.
361 19 34 16 PLT I can't drive the outer gimbal, but I'm indicating
a STAR on the talkback.
CC We're looking at that, Bill.
PLT ... should have been. I'm not getting an indication

on the OUTER GIMBAL monitor.
CC That's affirm. We're seeing the same thing down

here, Bill. We think there's an encoder failure
on the outer gimbal.
CC And, Bill, we'd like STAR TRACKER POW._;_ OFF, please.
CC And CLOSE the SHUTTER.
PLT STAR TRACKER POWER OFF.

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CC CLOSE the SHD'I'I'_.'H

and then POWER, OFF, Bill.
PLT Okay, that's confirmed.
CC Okay, Rill.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Roger, Story. Looks like I've picked up about an

hour this afternoon that I'm going to have free.
Unless you folks have anything special you want
me to do, I'm going to go into the shopping list
and pick up a few items.
CC We'll get with you on that, Jer.
CDR Okay, I've got half of my PT done and housekeeping

60 Foxtrot is complete.
CC Beautiful.
B61 19 h2 50 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; about 35 minutes

to MILA at 20:17. Jerry, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Jer, at the moment the only additional thing we

got for you is an M07h cal plus a wardroom small
mass measuring device using zero masses and the
one 500-gram mass you have.
CDR Okay, zero mass and a 500 gram.
CC That's affirm, Jer. And at present we've - have

had an encoder failure on the OUTER gimbal of the
STAR TRACKER and we have no way of knowing what
the OUTER gimbal is, which at present precludes
locking on to a star so we're working that problem.
CDR Roger. Sounds like a Job for the command module

G&N.
361 19 h3 hl CC Could be, could be.
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Time: 361:20:00 to 361:21:31
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361 20 17 Oh CC Skylab, AOS through MILA and Bermuda, 12 minutes.
CDR Roger.
PLT Story, PLT on the ATM. 55 people probably wonder-

ing why I'm still on GRATING, ZERO, and that's all
I can select right now. The GRATING no - none of
the numerals on the - above the units, that is -
excuse me - the 10's digits are operable right now.
All I can get is zero through 99 and it keeps
cycling continuously. I went back to OPTICAL
REFERENCE, and got an 80, but I went ahead and
set up MIRROR, AUTO RASTER, and I'm doing MARs
there.
CC Copy, Bill.

I-
PLT Go, Story.
CC Well, for the rest of this daylight pass here, we'll

go ahead and select the grating from the ground.
PLT Great.
CC Bill, could you turn the S055 HIGH VOLTAGES, OFF

for us?
PLT Roger. And have them look at the west limb. I

seem to detect a little action taking place over
there.
CC Okay.
PLT Go.
CC Bill, we got the GRATING at 2665. You can turn

those HIGH VOLTAGE DETECTORS back on.
PLT Thank you.
CC And we also have seen a surge at active region05;

at 20:08 we saw that.
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PLT Okay. That's not a flare or anything, but I did

notice quite an increase in activity.
CC And Bill, on the HIGH VOLTAGE we want l, 2, and 3

only. l, 2, 3, and h.
PLT Okay, l, 2, 3, 4 you have.
PLT Incidentally I'm reading 2744 on my GRATING, Just

for ground info.
CC Okay, copy, Bill. And you can start the S055 now.
361 20 28 16 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, 4 minutes to

Madrid.
361 20 33 55 CC Skylab, back with you through Madrid for 7 minutes.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go, Story.
CC Bill, we know you're taking some photos but we

think - work out this S055 is a little more im-
portant right now. Could you repeat the - the
symptoms you had on the grating indicator?
361 20 35 35 PLT Okay, I was trying to set the second grating-2665,

and I was approaching and I think it's incre -
incremented 80 on me. So, I said, well not to
worry, I'll go back and do OPTICAL R_gEHENCE Zero -
went back to OPTICAL REFERENCE Zero and as soon
as I got there it gave me an 80. And so I thought
well, I'll go ahead and set 2665 and add 80 on to
it. And as I started counting up, the hundredth -
lO0's digit and above failed to show anything. It
just kept cycling from zero through 99. And the
hundredths digit and above wouldn't even register.
So, then I went back to OPTICAL REFERENCE Zero
again, in order to do AUTO RASTERs at OPTICAL
REFERENCE zero, and I did. But when I got back
there I got an 80 again, and I continued to do
MIRROR, AUTO RASTERS, at what was probably OPTICAL
REFERENCE Zero with a spurious 80, until the ground
selected it. And_when they selected it I also
got a funny. I - I've got a - it's on the tape
but right now I'm showing what what's either a
27h_ with an extra lower horizontal stick or it's
a 279h with the missing upper horizontal stick.
In other words, the third digit I'm - I'm seening
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here is not - not easily interpretable. So, I'm

sitting here with that thing in the green indicator
right now, and am in a MODE to off position.
CC Okay.
361 20 38 14 PLT Now, I'm showing a 2884, 2884.
CC Okay, Bill, we got 2765 down here.
PLT 2984.
CC Okay, we're going to be commanding 2999 here, so

you can get that last MIRROR, AUTO RASTER that
we missed the last pass, Bill.
PLT Okay, I'll leave that alone.
CC Yes, sir, that'll be fine. And while I got you,

I got an update to your detail pad if you got it
in front of you.
PLT Stand by.
PLT Okay, Story, go.
361 20 39 lO CC That's at 00:34, and replace all you got there

with - Just do general message 4237 Delta which
is on board now.
PLT Okay, the way I read that is at 00:34, I will do

the general message 4237 Delta, and I will delete
everything indicated here on my details at 00:34.
CC That's affirm. And pertinent to that, there's a

change to the SWS Systems Checklist, you won't
have time to get that change before getting into
that. But all it says, is that anytime you hook
up the PCU composite disconnector, that is, any
time you hook up the LSU to the PCU be sure to hook
that restraint hook on the left-hand side to take
any loads off the composite connector.
PLT Okay, Story, I got it.
361 20 40 22 CC And we're a minute from LOS; about 25 minutes from

Carnarvon at 21:05; be dumping the data/voice at
Carnarvon.
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361 21 06 14 CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon for i0 minutes; be dumping

PLT Roger, Story.
CC And, Bill, I got a little update here to your

building block 30.
PLT Okay.
CC Go ahead and run this GRATING 2999 that we got in

there for you. And then run those other three
MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs, all three of them, and go
ahead and space them out throughout the pass as
you see fit.
361 21 06 49 PLT All of them at 2999?
CC No, as per the pad, run the last three at all balls,
0162, and 1042.
PLT Okay.
CC And we're thinking that those - the surge that you

saw on the Sun, that the HIGH VOLTAGE DETECTORs
were picking that up, mR ybe causing the MI and that
was part of your GRATING problem. That's the
theory we have.
PLT Ah so.
361 21 09 04 CC Bill, we'd like DETECT - HIGH VOLTAGEs 6 and 7,

OFF, please.
PLT Roger.
361 21 15 02 CC Skylab, 30 seconds to LOS and about a mini - minute

and a half to Honeysuckle.
PLT Roger.
361 21 16 41 CC Skylab, back with you through Honeysuckle for

4 minutes.
CC Skylab, we see the VTR running. You got 4 minutes

left on it.
PLT Roger. Thank you.

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361 21 19 34 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 30 minutes

to Texas at 21:h9.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC And, Bill, when we get to Texas, you got a TV

downlink. And there you got 2 minutes of WLC if
convenient. We'd be very interested in seeing the
comet on the WLC if you could get it for us. And
also when we get there, some kind of commentaryas
to the position of the comet that - with respect
to the pylon.
PLT Roger. Will do. It's very visible. I don't know

if it's been reported. It's very bright and in
the right position, at least according to this
chart. So I'm pretty confident that it is the
comet that we're seeing.
CC Okay. Well, we're real anxious to see it down

here, so let's put some priority on the WLC TV
downlink over Texas. And I'll remind you on the
A0S call.
361 21 21 25 PLT Okay, thank you very much.
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361 21 49 39 CC Skylab, AOS stateside for 16 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story, I'll set up the WLC. And Story

if you will tell me when you're getting the TV
downlink, I'll try to desribe it. It won't
take long, and I think it'll be rather obvious
as soon as you see it.
CC Okay. Unfortunately, Bill, it's - it's real-time

to the site only. It'll b_ a while before we get
it back here to Houston.
PLT Okay, I'll go ahead and put it on tape.
CC Bill, we're getting good quality TV at the site,

and you can go ahead and give us your comments
real time if you'd like.
361 21 51 50 PLT All right, Story. Okay, because of the other

instruments that are observing, we're ROLL minus
5400. So the pylon is on the, of course, on
the left on the screen. The comet is in the
upper right view on the screen, moving over to
the - from lowr right to upper left. But
course maintaining a trace above the Sun, as it
were, if the left were down and the right were
up as you view the ATM monitor. And I've not-
iced movement during the two orbits since I've
been here. It's slightly perceptible. Now
there's no tail visible, although there is a
trace that appears to be one. I think it's
merely a smear on the vidicon. However I'll let
somebody else take a look at that and see if
they can sort it out and tell whether it's noise
or actually a short tail. There's no trouble
identifyng it. It's quite bright. It appears
on the screen as a very small object about
1-i/2 millimeters in diameter. And I can't say
much more about it than that. That we're very
pleased that we're able to pick it up on the WLC.
CC 3 kay, thanks.
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361 21 53 53 CDR Looks like you got pretty clear weather down
there, Story.
CC Maybe we do. I've been in - been in this window-

less building so long I couldn't tell you, Jer.
CDR (Laughter) Ah, looks like a pretty strong wind

out of the north blowing, a lot of smoke blowing
south.
CC The team coming on says it is a beautiful day.
CC And, Bill, we don't want to interrupt your ATM ops

here, we Just were interested in how your GRATING
select went this pass.
PLT Pine, no hitches at all. In fact, I got an extra

one in at 2665, the one that I missed on last one.
CC Understand you did the 0162 on 1042's?
PLT That's affirmative, and right now in a 2665,

DETECTORS l, 2, 3, and _.
CC Beautiful, Bill.
361 21 56 09 PLT And, Story, if you still read. I think we're

going to lose the comet on our monitor in prob-
ably another hour and a half.
CC Why is that, Bill?
PLT Well, it Just - it's moving pretty fast, and it's

within about a quarter of an inch of the edge of
the scope, the CRT. So at the rate it's moving,
probably another hour and a half it'll be out of
the field of view, at least of our monitoring
instrument. But of course it'll still be in the
field of view of the instruments.
CC Okay, understand. Thanks, and you got ll minutes

left on the VTR.
PLT Roger.
361 21 59 17 CC And, Bill, when you're done with the TV downlink,

you might pick up with the WLC CONTINUOUS MODE
again.
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PLT Okay, I think you probably had enough. And I

think that probably you'll be able to detect some
motion in the first of the sequence to the last,
the thing is really moving.
CC Okay, we can't wait.
361 22 05 03 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, about 5 minutes

to Madrid at 22:10, be dumping the data/voice
there.
361 22 lO 28 CC Skylab, AOS Madrid for 7 minutes, dumping the

data/voice here.
PLT Roger.
361 22 16 42 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, 30 minutes to

Carnarvon 22:47.
361 22 47 36 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello from the purple gang.

Short pass at Carnarvon for 2-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, purple gang.
CC Hi, Jer. How y'all doing today?
CDR Real well, thanks.
CC Well, it's been a beautiful daydown here in

Houston today. Clear as a bell.
CDR Yes, we jus flew over the Gulf about, oh, 15,
oh, I guess 30 minutes ago and it looked real
nice.
CC Boy, it really has been pretty.
CDR Got a pretty good wind going?
CC No, it's a nice little breeze, but it's not

really blowing. It was kind of blowing a
little more yesterday.
CDR I noticed all the smoke all over on the Gulf

Coast area wasall blowing pretty straight to
the south.
CC Roger.
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CC Skylab, Houston. Wr're i minute to LOS. We're

going to drop out about 6 or 7 minutes and I'll
call you at Honeysuckle.
361 22 49 30 CDR Roger.
361 22 56 49 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Honeysuckle, another

real short pass. We're 1 minute from LOS here.
Goldstone comes up at 23:26.
PLT Roger, Dick. We're about to lose the comet off

our white light coronagraph presentation here.
Got a nice fat coma behind it.
CC Roger.
SPT Good afternoon, Dick and purple gang.
CC Hello, friendly SPT, how are you doing today?
SPT Very good. Dick, I'm wondering if you could get

some information for me, please.
CC Sure, go ahead.
361 22 57 24 SPT I'd like to find out when we will be able to see
the comet visually through one of the windows.
We get a close look at it here - a very short
look I should say at the white light coronagraph,
and we're obscured by the solar panels right now.
It looks as though all of the interesting things
are about to happen, and we're blocked by some
solar panels. I'm wondering if - if you can
tell us when we'll get solar inertial we'll be
able to see it. And if it turns out to be a
pretty long time from now whether there's a
way we can make a slight attitude maneuver so
that we can see it.
CC Okay, let us talk about that one, Ed, and I'll get
back to you when we get up to the States.
361 22 58 04 CC Okay.
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B61 23 26 18 CC Skylab, Houston AOS stateside for 16 minutes.
CDR Hello, Richard. You ready for some downlink?
CC Stand by about 30 seconds. I'll let you know.
CDR Okay.
CC And I have a note that I need to get up here to

Bill Pogue, if he's available, prior to him start-
ing this S073.
PLT Go ahead and talk, Dick. I'm fixing it up now.
361 2B 26 54 CC Okay, Bill, on your details pad we sort of sent

up a - a bad couple of lines there telling you
what to do in regard to the - the S073 stow
following this ops. Why don't you Just ignore
that. It - it tells you to look at some - a
certain number of lines on the cue card. What
we want you to do is - or, all that's required
is a c_mera and filter stow. And then tomorrow
morning Jerry will do a camera and filter installa-
tion, and we'll have that on his ops pad. So
after the S073, just stow the camera and the filter
and ignore that remark on your pad at 00:24.
PLT Roger.
CC Okay. And we're ready for TV downlink.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Jerry, for your information, this is not real

time to us here in Houston. It's going to take
us a little while to see this.
CDR Okay, it's almost gone.
CC Okay.
361 23 31 13 CDR Dick, the comet's right at the edge of the screen.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you.

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SPT The coma is very bright, Dick. But it is very

hard to see the tail Just because of background
noise on the vidicon.
CC Roger.
SPT You can tell its general orientation, but no

detail.
CC Roger. We're really itching to get some of this

TV back here in Houston, so we can look at it too.
CDR I think the TV that Bill got for you is probably

the best you're going to get.
CC Roger.
CDR Yes, does anybody have any idea whether -what's

going down on the downlink - has a larger field
of view or not than what we see?
CC Stand by i.
B61 2B S2 S4 CC Skylab, Houston. All we ca_ say now is that we

have been receiving good downlink TV at the sites.
But we really can't answer you as to the content
of the frames.
SPT Right now it's right at the very edge of the

field of view. You have to mover your head over
underneath the metal rim that we have in order to
see it. the tail itself looks as though it's -
it's not radially oriented. It - it still appears
to be at its grow - old orientation. Maybe it's
moved slightly, but it's very hard to - to tell
because the faintness of the detail.
CC Roger.
B61 23 41 B4 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. Madrid

comes up at 23:47.
361 23 47 33 CC Skylab, Hoston Madrid for 9 minutes.
361 23 52 17 CC Skylab, Houston. Curiosity question on our

part - with regard to status, we see EVA C&D
reservoir pressure up some, and wondering if
you're doing, or have commenced HK83 Victor?
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CDR That 's affirmative, Dick.
CC Okay, Jer, thank you.
361 23 55 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're _5 seconds from LOS;

Tananarive at 00 :08.
362 00 08 29 CC Skylab, Houston. Tananarive for 9 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. If you're got a second to listen

prior to getting ready for this upcoming ATM
pass -
SPT Sure do, Dick, go ahead.
CC Okay, there's a nuZ update that's scheduled at

01:50 to 02:00 on the ATM schedule pad for a later
- I guess it's the next daylight cycle for you.
We'd like you to delay that nu Z update until we
get AOS Honeysuckle, which is going to be at a
time of about 02:10. After we get AOS Honeysuckle,
we would like you to try to get a star tracker
lockon while we're looking at our data Just for
drill, and see if we can watch you do that.
SPT Okay, you want me to follow nominal procedures?
CC Yes, we will hae to power up the star tracker

prior to doing that, but we might as well wait'll
do dat [sic] - wait to do that until we get A0S
Honeysuckle also.
362 O0 12 23 SPT Okay, Dick, I'ii wait for your call.
CC Okay, one more thing for you, Ed. We checked on

the comet visibility and it turns out that it's
not going to become visible from underneath that -
that ATM wing until January 8, which is a long
time away. We have however, had some - a couple
of more glitches on the CMG number 2, one of them
occurred during the EVA and another one occurred
today during the solar-inertial steady-state
period. The only difference being is this one
f
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that occurred today occurred in the upper half of

the region of temperatures in which we're control-
ling that - that bearing. So there's not anybody
down here that's real anxious to do any extra
maneuvers of any kind. And since we don't have
a specific requirement for the visual ops or the
233 during this period, doing the m_neuver to
take a look at that comet seems pretty far out.
362 00 13 30 SPT Dick, I take it the answer is no. (Laughter)

But we agree with you.
CC Well, as a matter of fact, Phil and I have been

debating about this for quite a while. But, yes,
it looks like that's undoubtedly the smartest thing
to do.
SPT Dick, what is the GRATING POSITION you're reading

down there on the ground?
CC We don't have any data here, Ed. Tananarive is

S-band voice only.
SPT Okay, I'm reading 2897 up here, and I was wonder-

ing whether that was the last value which was used
or whether that's a incorrect value?
CC 2897 is the last value of the grating we saw, Ed.

So that sounds right.
SPT Thank you.
B62 00 15 36 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're 2 minutes from LOS.

Just in case we drop out early here, Honeysuckle
comes up at O0:BB.
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362 O0 3h Ol CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. l've got a comment here for you

on the urine sample bags, if you've got a minute.
If you're busy doing your PT or anyhing right now,
if can come up any time this evening.
362 00 36 31 PLT He's listening, Dick, if you want to go ahead and

talk to him.
CC Okay, Jerry, we've racked our brains to trj to

figure out where the missing urine sample bags are.
And I talked to Paul Weitz the other night, and -
and we're trying to get ahold of the crew to try
to get a hint as to where they might be. All we
can think of now is - is that they are on board
somewhere, and it's just a matter of us finding
them. Sometime we'd like one of you guys to check
the dome locker 426 and make a recount in there for
the urine sample bags and also describe the con-
tainers that the bags arc in that are up there.
Be sure when you do that that you look in the lid
of that same locker. And whenever you do this -
do this, it's okay to record the information on
channel A or air-to-ground, of course, and let us
know. The reason I addressed this to you, Jerry,
was because you did the inventory for us the other
day.
CDR Eureka! There's one more rack of them in the lid.
362 00 38 l0 CC Ah-ha! How many are in thatone? Is that a -

is that a set of 25 or what?
CDH Yes, that's a set of 25. Let me really tear that

dome locker apart.
CC _ kay, why don't you take your time sometime this

evening and do that, and maybe that'll help the
whole thing for us. And, SPT, Houston. I've got
a note here for you on the Sun. We've monitored
a type-1 radio storm on the southwest - or off
the southwest limb at about 1.3 to 1.5 solar radii.
So you might be aware of that. We're about 30 sec-
onds from LOS. Hawaii comes up at 00:54.
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SPT Thanks very much, Dick.
362 00 B8 58 CC Roger.
B62 00 5B 45 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. The sample-bag count now is 106,

counting today's. That's four fall racks and
six loose ones. Got any more of those good ideas?
CC No, but we're still thinking. Just so I don't have

to ask you again, because the question will pro-
bably come up, where are the four full racks and
six loose ones stowed now?
CDR Okay. The - There's three full racks in D-426.

And I got six loose ones and one full rack down
in 82B in the WMC.
362 00 54 38 CC Okay, Jerry. Let us continue to think about it.

And I assume you ransacked through D-h26 and that's
what you found.
CDR ±es, I did. I clawed the cardboard off the walls

and got all the way to metal.
CC (Laughter) Okay; thank you.
CC CDR, Houston. The count you Just gave us makes us

20 short, which sounds suspiciously like the box
of 20 that you counted you carried up with you
in A-6. Would you verify once again that you have
or have not used that particular box this mission?
Maybe that's it.
CDR But that wasin two utility bags, and those were
all half samples. And we've already used those up.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you much.
362 00 55 51 CC CDR, Houston. Let me ask you one more question

about your experiences as you've taken out these
new boxes of - of - of urine sample bags. Has it
turned out that the - that the - that the number
of urine sample bags in the cardboard containers
has turn - Has it turned out that they were - there
were 25 sample bags or 24? You could tell real
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easy because they should - if there were 24 and

they came out in even sets of three. If there
were 25, when you got to the end, you would have
one extra that you'd have to combine with the next
box. Over.
CDR Yes, I've - I've counted all the ones that we've
got, and there's 25 in each rack. There's 12
on one side and 13 on the other.
CC Okay; thank you.
CC Yes, Jerry. That last question wasn't to bug you.

But if it turned out that they have been mispacked
and only had 24 in each of those instead of 25,
it -it would have turned out that that was also
a total of 20. And that - We thought maye that's
where the discrepancy was, but we'll continue to
think.
CDR Okay.
362 01 O0 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds until LOS. We're

going to drop out a couple of minutes. I'll
call you at Goldstone.
362 01 ll lO CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds to LOS, Goldstone.

Bermuda in 4 minutes.
362 01 15 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. Bermuda for 6 minutes.
362 01 16 56 CDR Hey, Dick, are there any calls scheduled for to-
night?
CC Yes, Jerry, and that's yours. And it's at a time

of 03:09 at Ascension. I'm sorry about that; I -
I thought you had been advised of that earlier this
morning. I'd set it up for you yesterday afternoon.
CDR Okay, 03:09. And what about the antenna?
CC Hang on. Let me check that. I think it's - it's

LEFT to RIGHT, Jerry. I'll remind you ju_ before
that pass.
CDR Okay. LEFT to RIGHT. Thank you.
CC Okay.
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CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Say, Dick, I'm wondering whether you folks have

been doing any thinking down there about control
modes for the next EVA or some things that we can
do to circumvent some of the difficulties we had
last time. Needless to say that last EVA was
rather taxing.
PLT Oh-h-h.
362 01 21 i0 CC Wow. Roger, Ed. Let me get back to you. We're

about 15 seconds from LOS. And Canary is coming
up in about 3 or 4 minutes. Let me get back to
you there.
SPT Roger, Dick.
362 01 21 26 CC Incidentally incidentally, Ed, that last trans-

mission, you were way down in the mud. I barely
could read you; however, I did copy it, and I'll
get back to you at Canary.
362 01 25 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary for about 7 min-

utes. And, Ed, if you'll give me about another
minute or so, I'll get up to you here. And have
some words on the control modes for the EVA.
SPT Okay, thanks very much. If - if we can get some

words on that today or early tomorrow, then Bill
and I can sit down and talk a little bit about it
and make sure we all understand.
CC Okay, hang on, and I'll be right back with you.
362 01 27 21 CC Skylab, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Dick.
CC Jerry, let - let me describe a little - First of

all, let me preface this by saying that we have not
chosen a control mode. We are still looking at
several items, and I thought real quickly I might
just run down the different modes that we have
and are still looking at and some of the su - some
of the things that are being thought about and
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researched. There is an awful lot of work going

on now, and a - a decision I'm sure will be reached -
probably early tomorrow, I guess. And at - and at
least as soon as it is reached, you'll be brought
up to speed. But I think I can go through these
items here and you can get an idea of what we [sic]
looking at.
SPT Sounds, Dick - sounds good, Dick; please do.
362 01 28 ll CC Okay, first one that we've looked at is a - a

CSM control during H-cages and a CMG control during
other times. There's a couple of complications
with this one. First of all, it's procedurally
complicated, which invites errors and confusions
when things don't go exactly as we had thought of,
which seems to happen in cases like this. And also,
it - it makes EV-3 do a heck of a lot of shuttling
between the CSM and ATM; so that one, at the moment,
is not in much favor. Second one we've looked
at is strictly of - naturally is TACS only. This
one - The disadvantage - disadvantages here are -
is, it - it's extremely expensive in TACS and,
furthermore, the deadband in TACS only is simply
too wide to accomplish good data takes on the
Kohoutek experiment.
362 01 29 07 CC The - the third choice is CSM only. Here, the

deadband is - is marginal, but it is acceptable.
And I guess if that's the only thing we had at
the moment, we probably would use it; however, it
introduces contamination problems that we'd Jus
as soon not have. And it - and it als would
require some shuttling in between the CSM and
ATMDC - I mean the ATM control panel. A fourth
item, that is a mixture, that we're looking at -
and frankly, right now, it - it's beginning to look
like it might have some merit, but we have some
more work to do - and that is to have a control
mode that would be CMG controlled during data takes
and then when we're not taking data, go to TACS
only in between times with a continual H-cage in
progress, which will reduce the TACS cost by allow -
allowing the CMGs to hel - help hold us in inertial
mode there, and then reserving the CSM-only control
as a backup. At the moment this looks most favor-
able, and we're continuing to look at it. To
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bring you up to speed, it turns out that most of

our problems occurred not so much when you were
in the FAS area but when you were either out on
the Sun end or the center workstation. Furthermore,
the system response that we have seen, as we have
dug out the data and looked at it, when we built
up a high X-momentums is very similar to what we
saw in the early stages of Pete's mission - as a
matter of fact, even before Pete got there, when
we were operating in the EGIL special attitude;
so this is making us go back to that data and go
through it carefully to make sure that we've learned
all we can. And we are doing that We have been
doing that, and we are continuing to do that. So
to review, the one that looks most favorable at
the moment but we have not chosen as of now is
one that is CMG controlled during data takes and
then a TACS-onlj mode in between, using a continuous
H-cage, and reserving the CSM-only control for some
contingency backup control mode. Over.
362 01 31 26 SPT Okay, Dick. That last one does sound pretty good,
also. We will not be out at the center workstation
or the Sun end. So we'l I bedoing most of our
work in the FAS; so that might lighten the load
here a little bit. For the last EVA, where we do
have to go out to the Sun end, I'm wondering if
anybody has thought about the - the torque which
we've induced on the vehicle and how that depended
upon our body attitude out there. Apparently, it
must be from the venting from the PCU. And if we
could figure out when we're building it up in a
given direction and take the time to reverse it,
we might be actually able to put ourselves in a
good posture about X by Just rotating - rotating
our bodies.
362 01 32 ii CC Tell you what, Ed. I forgot to tell you we have

done a good bit of thinking about that. There
is a message, I think, that's coming up tonight
about some of that. We are going to remove the
deflectors for this upcoming EVA; I forgot to
mention that. So there are some hard - hardware
things and some body orientation and expriment or -
orientation things we've been thinking about. So
we are chasing all those things, and they are being
pursued. We are about 20 seconds from LOS here at
Canary. Tananarive comes up at 01:_6.
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- SPT Thanks very much for the good update, Dick. One
question remains in my mind is that when we had a -
some nominal H-cageswere performed, right after
that cage, we got a - went right into an automatic
nominal H-cage. And I was wondering what brought
that on. And I think that one or two instances
when that happened is when we had a high TACS
util - usage.
CC Roger, Ed. We think that was brought on by the

gimbals being on the stops at that time and that's
what brought on that series of cages. I'm about
to lose you here at Canary, and I'll pick you
up at - at Tananarive.
362 O1 33 26 SPT Thank you.
362 O1 47 32 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Tananarive for 3 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Two things here this pass. One

is, I thought I'd take another hack at giving you
an answer again to the question you asked about
the auto resets, Just prior to LOS. I'm not sure
you got that - what I said at the last, but let me
say it again, possibly in a different way. It
turns out, Ed, that we - we felt like - at the
start of that series of events - that we were in
a position in X-momentum; that it was so high,
that after the first reset, the gimbals ended up
on the stops - the outer gimbals. So then we did
another one, and that happened three times in a
row. And after three times, that automatically
put us into TACS only. So it was really a situa-
tion where - where the input condition almost -
althought we didn't realize that at the time -
was going to end up with us in TACS only, almost
no matter what we did.
SPT Okay, the first time that occurred, that we had

a nominal H-CAGE automatically or - I'm sorry -
I should say that we put it in, we got some pretty
high rates out of it. And what I did was go to
STANDBY and put a reasonable maneuver time in, hit
the SI switch, and I think we got back there and
without expending very much TACS. However, we
were out about 30 degrees or so in the X at the
time. I asked whether we should continue to do
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that if we got that far out, and the reply was to

wait until we got to around 50, which I did. And
I believe that's where we really ran into a - a
high TACS utilization. And I'm wondering, if we
run into that situation again, whether we might
not be best off doing a maneuver similar to what
I did the first time.
362 01 49 56 CC Skylab, Houston. I think we're going to have an

early LOS here at Tananarive, which is probably
good for me because it' ll give me some time to
give you a straight answer to that question, Ed.
We are about 45 seconds fr_n LOS. Next station
contact is Honeysuckle at 02:29. And when we get
to Honeysuckle, we'd kind of like to have a status
of where you are in the PCU check that you were
doing. We're particularly interested in step 6,
which had to do with pump noise and bubbles in
the LCG.
PLT Dick, we're Just now getting ready to do the

confidence checks, and we will give you a pre-
reading on that.
CC Okay, Just give us a blow-by-blow account as you

get to the point where you understand it, Bill.
Thank you very mu - much.
SPT Dick, you want to work the star tracker at that

location or a subsequent pass?
CC It will be at the Honeysuckle, Ed. We'll be pre-

pared to watch it when we get there, and I'll -
I'll give you a GO when we get there.
362 01 51 05 CC Okay.
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362 02 09 27 CC Sky!ab, Houston. We're A0S Honeysuckle for the

next 9 minutes. And we're ready to - for the
nu Z update attempt, Ed.
SPT Okay, Dick. Power going on now.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. Ought to clarify what I Just said.

We actually have nu Z updates to the ATMDA INHIBITED
now. We do not want to actually remove that
INHIBIT. But we do want you to attempt the pro-
cedures of getting a lock on them. I think you
understand that. Also, when you get a chance, Ed,
could you tell me what the FRAMES REMAINING on
S082 Bravo is?
SPT That's 524.
CC Okay, thank you very much.
SPT Okay, Dick I powered it up and went to MANUAL.

l've got the indication of a star. l'm still in
MANUAL but my gimbal readings are plus all balls
for the OUTER and minus 0011 for the INNER.
SPT Would you like me hold there?
CC Okay; stand by just a seocnd, Ed.
362 02 12 38 SPT Dick, another piece of data on S055 GRATING read-

out. At the end of last orbit I jumped up to
our reading of 80 even though I knew I was in
zero. So I ran this one the first MIRROR, AUTO
RASTER by Just adding 80 onto it. As soon as I
started the GRATING, AUTO SCAN, I got only the
first or the last two digits counting. I gave
it a trusty rap on the panel and it brought
the other digits into count. And apparently
from where we ended up I think we - I think that
must have done it. In other words, I think I
was getting an accurate reading after I hit the
panel and the three other digits started counting.
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CC Roger. ATM says he appreciates that and sounds

like you've got a more positive malfunction pro-
cedure than we're working on.
SPT It's positive.
CC Roger. And, Ed, the star tracker pad calls for

INNER GIMBAL of 631. We incidentally - we are
reading the same gimbal angles that you reported
Just then.
SPT Okay, I'll go ahead and try to work it manually.
CC Okay.
CC And, SPT, Houston, I got a note for you on 82 Bravo.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. We'd like for you - it turns out today

that your pad did not have a short exposure to
clear the comet data. So we would like you not
to take any exposures on 82B from here to the
end of this daylight cycle. Then when you - on
this upcoming nightside, we'd like you to take
one 5-second exposure at a SHORT WAVELENGTH, and
that will clear the problem for us.
SPT Okay, I sure will.
CC Thank you, Ed.
362 02 15 26 SPT Okay, Dick. I have not driven the OUTER GIMBAL
yet. But right now I am getting a flag which
is oscillating between STAR and OPEN. I've got
the INNER GIMBAL driven to approximately the
right location. I'll drive the outer now.
CC Okay.
CC Incidentally, Ed, that first time it looked

to us like you might have been locked onto some-
thing that was moving, a piece of contamination
or something the way the INNER GIMBAL was moving.
SPT Okay, Dick; that shouldn't have happened because

I did not go to AUTO. It should not have tracked
it. I noticed that it did change in the INNER
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GIMBAL also. But I was in MANUAL, and that

shouldn't have drifted. Or it must have been
all drift.
CC Roger.
362 02 16 57 SPT Okay, Dick; I have no change in the indication

here with movement in either direction of MPC for
the OUTER GIMBAL. I did get a - we do have a
STAR indication when I drive it hard over to the
right. The star indication oscillates between
STAR and OPEN. When I drive it hard to the left
it Just stays STAR.
CC Roger; we're ready to close the shutter and power

down. And also we're wondering what the status is
on the M518. We feel like M561 should have been
started by now and we don't see that.
CC And - -
SPT Bill Just hit the switch.
362 02 17 45 CC Roger. And we're 50 seconds from LOS. Hawaii

comes up at 02:30, and we're going to dtump the
data/voice recorder at Hawaii.
SPT Talk to you then, Dick.
362 02 18 00 CC Okay. And I just noticed Hawaii is the - the

station for the evening status report, so I'll
be standing by there.
362 02 29 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for the next

9 minutes. We're taking the VTR here so we can
rewind it and dump it at the upcoming stateside
pass. And l'm standing by for the evening status
report.
SPT Jerry will be right with you, Dick.
CC Okay, Ed.
CDR Okay, Dick; the new PCU/LSU combination passed

with flying colors.
CC Okay; good. Thank you much.

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CDR Everything's nice and dry. The bubbles worked

out of the LCG real quickly and everything seems
to be in good shape.
CC Good.
362 02 30 16 CDR Okay; evening status report. Sleep: CDR, 7.0,

6 heavy, 1 light; SPT, 7.0, 7 heavy; PLT, 7.5,
7.5 heavy. Volume: CDR, 2000; SPT, 950; PLT,
1850. Water gun: CDR, 7851; SPT, 3385; PLT,
9658. Body mass: CDR, 6.316, 6.315, 6.317; SPT,
6.379, 6.378, 6.382; PLT, 6.248, 6.250, 6.247.
Exercise: CDR, Alfa, minus 2 minutes. I'd like
to have - change n_ standard to 28 minutes rather
than the present 30 and then I'll quit calling
you minus 2 minutes every night.
CC .Okay.
CDR SPT, exercise Alfa only; PLT, no change. CDR on

medication, none; SPT, none; PLT, Tinactan as
directed. Clothing: CDR, T shirt ; SPT, trousers,
Jacket and shorts; PLT, none. Food log: CDR,
salt 6.5, plus one cherry drink, minus 1.0 re-
hydration water; SPT, salt 10.O, plus one tea,
no hydration water; PLT, plus 6.0 salt, plus one
coffee, minus 2.0 water. Flight Plan deviations:
none. Shopping list accomplishments: CDR did a
wardroom SMMD calibration with zero and 500 weights.
Also CDR did an aroma test, and partial taste
test. The results of both of these shopping list
items, all three of them actually, the SMMD cal,
the aroma test, and the taste test are on tape
at about 00:00 Zulu. Inoperable equipment: none.
Unscheduled stowage - stowage item location: one
food canister and - that's overage and S052 film
were transferred from 551 to 552. Urine trays
number 9 and l0 were transferred from 756 to 551.
And - so that leaves for - freezer 553 empty at the
moment and freezer 756 has one frozen food canister
in it, which will probably be gone in the next
3 days. Photo log is next.
362 02 33 06 CC Okay.
CDR Okay. 16-millimeter: Delta Papa 9, Charlie

India 126, 05, Charlie India 125; Delta Papa 19,
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Charlie India 127, 65, Charlie India 93. Nikon

i, Charlie X-ray 36, 01; 2, Bravo Victor 48, 32;
3, 4, and 5, no change. 70-millimeter: Charlie
X-ray 52, 020. ETC: no change. EREP: no change.
Drawer A: Alfa i, no change; Alfa 3, 4, and
back, no change. Alfa 2, 05, Charlie India 127,
65, Charlie India 93.
362 02 34 Oh CC Okay. I got all of that, Jerry. Anything else?
CDR No, that's it, except I'm wondering what happened

here with this DP-9. That should be shown as a
no change. I'll look that one up and correct
that drawer A configuration.
CC Okay. Let me confirm one thing, Jerry that you

were talked to about earlier this morning so we
can decide whether we need to schedule it or
not. We know that you CLOSED the WATER DUMP VALVE
on panel 831 this morning. Did you get a chance
to perform M509-F7 Bravo today?
CDR Yes, I did. I did that this morning about i0:00

and I should have put that on the shopping list or
unscheduled work.
CC Okay. So it's done. Very good. Also, if the

SPT has a moment to listen, I need to - I have
a short note here for him.
362 02 35 00 SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Ed, 2 days ago, on mission day 41, day 360, you -

during an ETC prep, you recorded a message on
inspection of ETC magazine and camera interface.
And I went in the back room just a minute ago and
listened to it and it's - it's a beautiful record-
ing, I think, of the bicycle in the background,
but it really was garbled. We did pick up some -
some interspersed comments on it and I've got a
couple of questions - specific questions on it.
First of all, please confirm or not that there
was no contamination either on the plug or the Jack.
SPT That's correct, Dick. I've looked it over pretty

thoroughly and I could not find any contamination,
not only on the plugs, which they said we'd find,
but on all of them.
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CC Okay. Also, you mentioned something about a

problem you ahd with the tolerance on the vacuum
seal and that was just about completely unreadable.
Do you recall what that was? Could you help us
out there?
362 02 36 02 SPT Yes. I was speculating. We had put the new seal
on and I still had that buzzing noise and I was
wondering what it was. What I - what I tried to
do was to move the seal up a little bit, but it's -
Just leave it at the very top of the shaft and
then put it on so it would buck hard up against
the opposing surface, and that seemed to make no
difference at all either. I was considering
putting washers underneath it, but I elected not
to because the time was running short and it really
didn't slow anything down at all. We can tolerate
it; it's not real problem on our side. But if
there's any way it degrades the data then we'll go
ahead and troubleshoot it some more.
CC Okay, thank you very much. I don't have any other

specific questions on that piece of tape. If you
can remember anything else that you think was on
there and we might oughtto have, you might put
it on the voice record anytime you like. Just
turned out that the background noise on that
particular segment Just - Just about completely
wiped you out. I've still got about 2 minutes
left here at Hawaii, so I'm standing by.
362 02 37 32 SPT The only other thing I put on there, Dick, was
the clock time. I can pick that up give it to
them any time they like if they need it now or
we can pick it up at the next ETC usage.
CC Ed, that's one of the things we did already get.

So, I - I guess we have it all now. Thank you
very much.
CC And, SPT, Houston, we noticed you're off the

solar disk in - in OPTICAL REFERENCE.
SPT Roger, Dick. I'm just going to let it run around

here again until we get close to ll:00 and I'll
move on the disk and pick up the optical signals.
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362 02 38 01 CC Okay. Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute

from LOS. Goldstone comes up in about 3 minutes.
I have some news that I can read you there, or
I - I can - we still have some other passes later
on, if you'd like to wait.
CDR I think we'll be ready for it then. And l've got

the change for you. In drawer A configuration,
Alfa 3, should read 06 Charlie India 126, 05,
Charlie India 125.
362 02 38 38 CC Okay, thanks for the update, Jer.
362 02 42 ii CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 6 minutes.

And I have some news, if you'd like it.
SPT Very good. Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. An artificial Earth satellite, Ariel 2,

was launched in the Soviet Union on Wednesday as
a part of a French-Soviet program of exploration
and peaceful uses of out - outer space, Tass
reported Thursday. The satellite is for research
of the physical phenomena in the Earth's upper
atmosphere at high altitudes and for studying
the nature of polar lights. After a string of
17 air crashes, Aeroflot, the Soviet Union's
giant national airline and the largest in the
world, has openly recognized its safety problem.
Aeroflot, a state monopoly, flew 82 million
passengers last year. For comparison, America's
United Air Lines, the second largest in the world,
flew 30 million passengers in 1972, and had one
accident. South Vietnamese reinforcements and
armored vehicles have moved into the lower Mekong
Delta to protect the rice harvest, field reports
said Thursday. The government dispatched the
troops after a Christmas Day ambush in the Delta
by the Viet Cong inflicted about 30 percent
casualties on a 500-man battalion. "It is a
struggle for control of the rice crop," one
source said. Israel's chief of staff has said
that agreement on disengagement of Israeli and
Egyptian forces along the Suez front cannot come
before mid-January or February. "Israeli negotia-
tors at the military disengagement talks," he
was quoted as telling troops, "have been ordered
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to deal only with preparatory details, pending

the outcome of the December 31st election." The
Swiss horse cavalry has completed the switchover
from hay to diesel, spelling the end of Switzer-
land's mounted combat force. This month the last
of 3000 soldiers of three cavalry regiments com-
pleted training on American-built Mll3 armored
personnel carriers.
362 02 44 18 CC The changeover did not come easy for the Switz
Dragoons. Picture post cards showing their fare -
farewell review were selling by thehundreds at
newstands. Elusive billionaire Howard Hughes was
indicted by a Fedral grand Jury on Thursday in
connection with his takeover of Air West Airlines.
He is now reported to be in the Bahamas. Hughes
was charged with wire fraud, conspiracy, stock
manipulation and other charges in his 1969 take-
over of the regional airline. It was the first
time that criminal charges had been brought against
him, despite numerous investigations of his finan-
cial empire. Vice-President Gerald R. Ford ran
ahead of Democrats Senator Edward Kennedy and
Senator Henry Jackson in a recent poll including
potential 1976 presidential candidates, the Harris
Survey reports. Federal Energy Chief William L.
Simon announced today establishment of a standby
system for gasoline rationing, but he still
believes its actual use can be avoided. Simon
said he has ordered the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing to begin printing a 3-month supply of
gasoline ration coupons just in case they're need-
ed. He said a rationing system would not be
ready for operation until March the first, and
the trends in gasoline supply and demand over
the next 6 weeks would determine whether ration-
ing is really needed. He said the system being
developed now looks toward a basic - a basic ration
avering - averaging about 32 to 35 gallons per
month, per licensed driver with coupons to be
distributed to each licensed driver above 18 years
of age. The annual retail cost of a market basket
of U.S. produced food rose $14 in November, even
though prices declined at the farm level, Agricul-
ture Department figures showed today. Unless there
is a sharp setback in trade in December, the
United States should finish 1973 with its first
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trade surplus in 3 years. The November surplus

of exports over imports totaled $85.7 million,
which put the overall surplus for the first
ll months of the year at $65.9 million.
362 02 46 47 CC We're about 1 minute from LOS. Your next station

is Bermuda at 02:52, which is the med conference.
Ed, you get an A plus again this evening on closing
out the ATM. And we'd like a frame count.
SPT Thought you'd never ask. 15170, 5526, 188, 523,

7203, 5177.
362 02 47 19 CC Okay, Ed. Thank you very much. The pass after
Bermuda is a Canary pass and I'ii be calling you
there at 03:03.
362 03 03 13 PLT Houston, Skylab; PLT.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
PLT Roger. A question about the housekeeping i0 Alfa

that was scheduled after all this SUS work and it
is essentially the cycling of the SUS loop 1 pumps
that I - or have already performed in the process
of doing the - the reliability check or the confi-
dence check on the SUS 1 loop. And what I'm asking
is, does - was that intended to be a part of the
confidence check? Or do you want me to do that
again - repeat that test, in fact?
CC Okay, hang on just a second, Bill.
362 03 04 04 CC Bill, what you've already done is okay. We do not

need to repeat housekeeping i0 Alfa.
PLT Thank you very much. That's all complete; every-

thing looks fine. The - I'ii get you some temp
readings on 561 before I go to bed.
CC Okay, Bill; thank you very much. Sounds like you

all did good work on that for us tonight.
PLT That SUS loop - that took an awful lot of time

but I think we're pretty happy with the results.
CC Good show.
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CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR We've had a pin failure at J-3 of television input

station 642. Had a pin break off and come floating
out. So, I don't know if there's anything we can
do about that particular input station but we'll
be powering up our camera from the one up in the
forward compartment.
CC Okay; thank you for letting us know.
CDR Do you know if we have any spare J-connectors or

anything?
CC Well, as I recall we can swap the input stations

around but not individual connectors. But we'll
certainly check it out and let you know.
CDR Okay.
362 03 07 17 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 2 minutes to LOS

Canary. We're going to have a very short break
and I'll give you a call at Ascension. And, Jerry,
a reminder for you, this upcoming Ascension pass
is your family comm and the ANTENNA is T.k_T to
RIGHT. And incidentally, we have gone back to
our original schedule on crew day off, it's going
to be day 49, which is January 3.
PLT Roger; day 49, January 3. Copy that and Jer's

up there. Did - you did say left to right?
CC That affirm.
PLT Thank you very much, Dick.
362 03 lO 06 CC Skylab, Houston; Ascension for 9 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We've been uplinking on

VHF and so far have heard no response.
PLT Stand by, I'll check.
CC Okay, Bill; thank you.

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PLT Dick, Jer says they're reading him but they're

cutting in and out.
362 03 ii 33 CC Okay, thank you, we'll see if we can work on it.
PLT And, Dick, I got out of sync there on that 561

where I'm working that SUS loop and got the
heater on late. _o I'll give you a temp as late
as I can, I'm not sure I'm going to hit the soak
period or not.
362 03 12 05 CC Okay, Bill; copy.
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sure, of type 3 bursts? I'm ready. And I've

spring loaded to do shopping list item 24 at a
moment's notice, so don't have them feel hesitant
to call that up.
MCC Okay. We won 't.
361 16 15 57 SPT Okay, on S05h, when I do have a free orbit, would

they like a 256 exposure in the way of synoptic
data and the same as 56 with the PATROL, NORMAL
now in - realizing the situation they're in now?
361 16 16 15 MCC Okay. I'm sorry; I didn't understand that. Say

that again, now?
SPT Okay. Before we had the film changed and worked

on the 56 filter, we were trying to get them a
256 exposure each orbit for synoptic purses -
purposes. Now that we have a little different
situation with their instrument, l'm wondering
whether, they would still like that, and, if not,
what would they like in it's place?
361 16 16 _3 MCC Okay. Let me hand that to them and get an answer
up to you on a later pass. What we were doing
previously was trying to map the active region
structure on a once per orbit basis. In the event
anything did go off we would have had a before
and after picture. So let me get back to with
the answer to that one.
361 16 17 01 SPT Okay. In looking at the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH, '

we still have a very prominent streamer structure
on the east limb and over on the west limb, of
course, the interesting thing is the comet.
Although it is a - relatively faint yet, and it's
relatively sm_ll, but I can't see any tail. And
I would say that the - it comes out at maybe
I0 to 15 degrees or so from the axis on either
side of it. But that's a very rough estimate
because the tail is still very faint, and we -
as you know, we don't have the resolution in that
display for something that relatively small. The
pointing this morning for the tracking - when we
were doing the 82A in building block 30 - the
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first one was a little bit ragged, but I think

the second one came out with a mean deviation of
plus or minus 2 arc seconds from what would be
the optimal. So the second one I think came out
pretty well, and I anticipate the third one along
here will also.
B61 16 18 l0 MCC Okay, Ed. Thank you for the comments on that.
A reminder here from Owen, who's interested in
getting extinction data from 55 at the sunrise
terminator to configure properly at sunset, which
I believe you've been doing, but Owen would like
a reminder there. And let me ask you a question
on the upcoming JOP 18, Chsmlies and Deltas, which
we'll be getting back to tomorrow and succeeding
days. On the motion compensation, we've been
saying do such-and-such a maneuver every so _mny
minutes. Would you like a table of times at which
to do this, much like 18 Alfa, so that you can
check these off and bookkeep them, or do you want
to Just go the way it is?
361 16 18 53 SPT For 18 Delta, it worked out, seeing as we only

did it every 20 minutes, and I made up my own
table. And the time at which I maneuvered to it
was the time at which I started, and that was
something you cannot estimate from the ground
well enough beforehand. So I think I can carry
that one out by myself best. And for A, I think
you're doing it the right way here now for - for
C, I'll Just have to take a look at it and think
a little bit about it. Why don't you let me do
that and try and get back to you sometime later
toaay.
361 16 19 25 MCC Okay. Sure will. 18C is much like D, so there

probably won't be any change, but if you want us
to change it. you can get back with us. One
other thing here, on the 18 Charlies for tomorrow,
several experiments will be taking very long
exposures. There's an open question here on the
drift stability and whether or not repointing
will be necessary in order to stay on top of the
comet even though we make motion compensation.
In the - On the ACQ SUN SENSOR updated strapdown
there's a fear that the drift here may be wiping
us out. We' ii be studying that, hopefully getting
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an answer tonight. And I'm mentioning this Just

to warn you that if the pad has you during expos-
ures, maneuver to acquire the comet in 52's field
of view and then repoint to center it, not to be
surprised. Leave all the appropriate shutters
open, maneuver up, take a quick look at it and
maneuver back. We hope that won't be necessary,
but there is a chance it might.
361 16 20 23 SPT I see. Okay. I would anticipate that might be

necessary from looking at what we did with Delta.
However, here we have - we still have the ACQUI-
SITION SUN SENSOR updated strapdown, so we'll ...
J61 16 20 37 MCC Right. On the Alfas. Now tomorrow on the

Charlies, you won't have that. And that's why
we mention it. We're 1 -we're 1 minute from
LOS. Vanguard is next at - in BO minutes and
Canaries is after that, 50 minutes from now.
We will be working 54 changes, and I warn you
this so that - probably for several days now,
_ you'llsee changesin the pad regarding54
operations. What I'd like to do is to spend the
time on the ground to get our JOP and building
block changes right the first time. And then
send you up a salvo that brings them all up to
date. So for a couple of days we may be on a
temporary basis, filling in with changes - if
that's all right with you.
B61 16 21 18 SPT I think that's a good way to go, Bill. I'd much
rather that you do get it all straightened out,
have a couple of days to think about it, and let
us work it a little bit too, the way you like,
and then do it all in one shot. I think that's
best.
B61 16 21 29 MCC Okay, Ed. That's all I've got for now. And I'll
be talking to you tomorrow then.
SPT Okay, Bill. Looks like the next couple of days

we've got comets and a little bit of activity on
the limb. And then - then we got a little dry
spell. I hope people are thinking about some of
the interesting things they'd like to do on the
quiet Sun, because we've got at least 2 weeks of it.
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361 16 21 48 MCC Okay. You better believe we're looking at that.
361 16 21 52 SPT0kay. Thanks very much, Bill.
361 16 51 53 CC Skylab, A0S through the Vanguard, 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
361 16 58 51 Sl_Story, on these exposures I could give them ..

longer than l0 minutes on the second set if they'd
like it to be closer to 20.
CC Okay, Ed. We'll get with you.
361 17 00 12 CC Ed, could you tell us what experiment you're

referring to?
SPT 82A, 82B.
CC Okay.
361 17 O0 43 CC Ed, that's a good call, 20 minutes will be fine,

right down to 400 K.
361 17 00 58 CC And we're going LOS here. See you over Canaries
in about l0 minutes. Be dumping the data/voice
there.
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SKYIAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
362 03 42 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle, and we got you for about 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. Hey, Dick, how much longer you guys
are going to be on tonight?
CC Oh, we - we're going to be around here until about

midnight. We - Your last pass of the evening is
the next, which is Guam.
CDR Okay, I'm working up a little special message for

J you and Phil. It'llbe goingon tape,probably
in the next 15 or 20 minutes.
b CC Oh, my goodness! Okay,we'll certainlybe looking

for it.
362 03 51 Ol CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS

at Honeysuckle. I'Ii give you a holler at Guam
for the last pass of theevening at 0B:57.
362 03 51 II CDR Roger, Dick.
362 03 57 21 CC Skylab, Houston. Guam for 6 minutes.
CDR Roger,
Dick.
I 362 Oh 01 48 CC Skylab, Houston. Incidentally, this evening at

i0:2_ Zulu, the comet is going to pass perihelion.
It's going to be going at a speed of 251,h00 miles
per hour, and the distance from the Sun at that
J time is 13,240,000 miles. So you guys have a hap-
py perihelion this evening. We're 1 minute from
LOS. Your wakeuo station is Hawaii, and it's about
20 minutes after 12:00 Zulu, so you might he sure
and set your alarm clocks. So everybody get a
good night's sl - sleep and say, "Good night,
I Dick."
MCC Good night, Dick.

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CDR Good night, Dick.
SPT Good night, Dick.
PLT Good night, Dick.
CC Good night.
CDR Stop giggling, Dick.
CC Everybody in here is. We get that way this late

at night.
CDR You're as bad as Crippen.
362 02 03 Ol CC (Laughter) Not only that; he's on the back row,

f and he's worse.
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362 12 22 07 CC (Music)
362 12 23 06 CC Good morning, Skylab. Crippen and Don Puddy with

the crimson crew back with you.
CDR Good morning, Crip.
CC How are you gents doing today?
CDR Well, as soon as we get our marbles gathered up,

we 'll let you know.
CC 0keydoke; I saw that Truly's comment, getting you

to set your alarm clocks, worked and you were up
and about.
CDR Yes. Could old GNS tell what time we got up?
CC Well, I imagine if he goes back and looks at his

data, he can; but he can tell me when you come
over the hill if you're awake.
362 12 28 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We' re i minute from LOS. See

you again over the Vanguard in 25 minutes at 12:53,
and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump
there. And old Sol's been so quiet, we aren't
even sending you a - a SAP update; nothing to
update you on.
362 12 28 45 SPT Roger, Crip.

p
362 12 53 02 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Vanguard for I0 minutes,
and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump
here.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CC And, PLT, if you've got a moment, I'd like to give

you a little reminder for this housekeeping
70 Yankee you've got coming up today.
PLT Fire away, Crip. I'm listening.

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CC Okay. If you remember, we've got that little

problem with CBRM 5 such that the - the relay
that stuck closed in the ATM C&D makes that - any
co_nand you send any other CBRM go to - go to
that one; so be sure and check your BATTERY and
CHARGER STATUS lights. If they go out after
you've done any commanding of things back onto
other CBRMs, you need to turn the CBRM 5
CHARGER OFF.
362 12 54 20 PLT Okay, Crip. I got it. Thank you very much.
CC Also, when you conclude those operations today, we

ma - need to make sure that the POWER SYSTEM,
C_M SELECT does go to OFF. And we'll - we'll
make a note to give you a reminder on that one a
little bit later today.
PLT Okay.
PLT We've got those duly noted, Crip.
CC Okeydoke.
362 12 58 23 CC SPT, Houston. Good morning, Ed. You got time to

jot down a note for me?
SPT Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay. On that M092 run today that you're - you're

running on Jet. Because his legs are getting
nice and thin, we need to change legbands. It
appears that they've dropped down below the
13 inches, and we want to go to Charlie Sierra
now, with a backup of Charlie Tango.
SPT Is that the same information which came up on the

med status pad?
CC That's affirm. We Just wanted to remind you of it.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Crip.
CC Okeydoke. And that will be from - from now on,

I guess.
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SPT We'll have to fatten him up so we can all use the

same legbands again.
362 12 59 27 CC (Laughter) Roger.
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362 13 02 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again in 6-1/2 minutes over Ascension at
13:08; 13:08.
SPT So long, Crip.
362 13 02 18 CC Bye, bye.
362 13 08 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension. We have

you for 6 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. Would you send up another copy of

4340 Bravo, the 6-day forecast? Days 48 and 49
and - Well, 48 and 49 got kind of garbled.
CC Will do, Jer. You got a moment to note a couple

items for me, please, sir?
CDR Sure. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Because we got that M561 started a little

bit late yesterday, we want to delete the M518
terminate that you've scheduled at 00:40 today.
And that's in your details and on your s_,mmary,
also.
CDR Okay. I'll do it.
CC And EGIL's been doing some looking ahead at our

Beta angle and worrying a little bit about tempera,
tures, knowing that it is probably going to get -
get warm with increasing Beta. In fact, right
now we're looking like it's going to go up to
around 80 degrees again. And we were pondering
some things we might be able to do, and one of
the items that was under consideration - Can you
give us an idea of how many lights you noramSly
have on during the day?
362 13 l0 05 CDR Oh, we usually turn Just about everything on.
CC Okay, I - Specifically, I'm asking about the OWS.

And you're saying Just about all of them are on?
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CDR Yes, and we can get along with half or less,

probably.
CC Okay. That's - we're - We'll talk about it a

little bit more, but that'll probably help the
heating problem when - when the Beta starts get-
ting up higher.
CDR Okay.
CC That's all I had for right now. Thank you.
CDR Okay. I've got one for you - for the camera
folks. And that is that Bill and I question the
wisdom of loading Nikon 01 for EVA. Now we've
had trouble with that - on the first EVA with
that rascal, and Nikon 02 worked beautifully
last time. I'm for sticking with the going
system instead of going back to the one that
gave us trouble.
CC So noted; we'll look into it.
362 13 ii 26 CC And, CDR, Houston. I guess one other item I should

let you know - what we're doing regarding the star
tracker problem. For nu Z updates, we'll be doing
it from the ground, using the outer-gimbal backup
commsnd; so that'll be taken care of from here,
and I guess the prediction is that we can handle
it fairly accurately, probably down on the order
of 3/10 of a degree.
CDR Roger.
CC We periodically may be using S019 to check it,

but for the most part, we'll be doing it all on
the ground.
CDR Okay.
362 13 14 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Next

station contact is Vanguard again in about an
hour and 16 minutes, and that's at 14:30; 14:30.
We have got you a new copy of the 6-day forecast
on board. And you'll probably have a new team
by the time they see you over Vanguard again.
CDR Roger, Bob. You guys have a good day.

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CC Same to you, gents. We'll see you manana.
SPT Crip, I've got a question.
CC Try to get it answered. Give it to me right now.

We'll get you an answer next time.
SPT Okay. It's day 49; we're not doing a JOP 18D.
Is that because the - the comet is too faint?
CC We're - we're still checking on that.
362 13 15 32 CC You have to take those latter days on that forecast

with a little grain of salt.
362 lh 30 41 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for ll minutes.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Good morning, Story. Go ahead.
CC Morning, Ed. We're showing HIGH VOLTAGE

detectors 6 and 7 on. We'd Just like 1 through 4,
please.
362 14 31 46 CC Thank you.
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362 lh 33 13 SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Story, our teleprinter message for the JOP 18C be-
ginning at 23:12, the last half of that came out
garble. Looks as though it was displaced a half
a line all the w_y down. Wonder if you could re-
set that portion of it, the part that begins with
the fine maneuver, steps 13 on all the way to the
endof that pass.
CC Copy, Ed.
SPT Also, Story, we show a little conflict here. Ap-

parently, we are to begin a M092/171 run on the
CDE, and yet I'm still up here at the ATM. Could
you clarify what the scheduling is there, please?
B62 lh 34 53 CC Ed, on your summary Flight Plan it - it looks

like a big Jump there, but really it's only about
a 5-minute difference.
SPT I show 34 minutes remaining in day here. What

time are we to begin the M092?
CC Ed, we show you leaving the ATM at about 14:40.

It's not a whole daylight pass.
SPT Okay, Story. I hope they can avoid that kind of

operation in the future because we're paying an
awful lot of overhead Just to get up here and work
it. And while we got everything up and running,
it seems like a shame to leave the panel.
CC Our only other choice, Ed, was not to schedule

any - any ATM at this period at all, and we're
trying to get all we can.
362 14 36 26 CC And, Skylab, you Just passed the halfway mark in

your mission. You've been 607 orbits and about
18 million miles.
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CDR Roger. Thank you, Story.
CDR Hey, Bill wants to know what the mileage allowance

is up here.
CC You guys owe us money.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, I'd like to get a verification on that tele-

printer page you need up again. It's good down
to the point of 23:15, the fine maneuver?
362 14 41 00 SPT That's right. It's down to line - or step 13,

which is outlined. The last part which is really
legible is the part that says "fine Maneuver 51060"
and "50100." The paragraph before it starts
off, "if 5 arc second [sic] discriminator closes,"
and so forth. After that it says, "continued
after header," and even the "continued after
header" is misplaced. And all the way there to
the end of the orbit is - needs to be sent up
over again.
CC Okay. And the next orbit's okay?
SPT That's correct; that looks good.
CC Okay, got it.
CDR Story, it looks like a transmission problem. It

looks like the - It's the same problem we had on
the 6-day forecast that I asked them to resend up
this morning. Looks like it's been shifted over
left about a third of a column and up about two
or three lines.
362 14 4B Ol CC Okay, Jer, and we're going LOS here. See you
over Ascension in a minute.
362 14 43 52 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Ascension for

i0 minutes.
CC Bill, Houston.
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SPT Go ahead, Story. He's listening.
CC Okay. On initiating housekeeping 70Z, for looking

at the condition of battery in PCG6. He won't
find a 100 percent state of charge; the amp-hour
integrator's a little bit behind. But press on
with it.
CDR Roger.

to Guam at 15:28. Be dumping the data/voice there.
362 15 28 15 CC Skylab, AOS through Guam for l0 minutes. Be

dumping the data/volce here.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Roger.
CC Bill, we'd like a BAT VOLT readout on CBRMs l0

and 18 and a verification that you did get the
test started on PCG-6.
PLT Stand by. I have not started PCG-6.
CC Okay, Bill. We'd like to slip that test on PCG-6

one rev. We'll let you know.
PLT Roger.
PLT BAT lO is reading 28.
CC Okay.
PLT And I'm not getting a reading on BAT 18.
CC Okay.
362 15 32 23 PLT But I am showing a discharge of 9 AMPS.

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CC Okay, Bill.
PLT Okay, I Just got a BAT-VOLT-talkback barberpole

on 10.
CC Copy.
PLT And I'm going to step 6 on page 2-20 Bravo.
CC That's good, Bill.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go.
362 15 35 34 CC We still got that cross-talk in the CBRM SELECT

switch. We'd like you to SELECT 5 and go CHARGER,
OFF.
PLT Yes. Roger. I was Just getting ready to do that.

Thank you.
CC And, Bill, we'd like you to SELECT 18 and give us

a VOLTAGE readaout.
PLT I don't have a VOLTAGE readout on 18 on the BAT.
CC Okay, Bill.
PLT I don't have a temp readout either. Both of those

parameters are full-scale low.
CC Copy, Bill. And we don't - still don't have an

answer for why on that.
362 01 37 20 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and about 30 min-

utes to the Vanguard at 16:07.
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SKYJ_AB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
362 16 08 02 CC Skylab, we've got you through the Vanguard for

I0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Houston.
PLT Right, Story. I have a little information on

18 now. The read - (mechanical tone) volt reader -
the VOLT reading and the temperature reading sud-
denly returned. Just about before sunrise, I got
down to 29 and ii AMPS on the BATTERY 18. And
then soon as we hit sunrise, it went to discharge
of 1 AMP. And now it's reading Just about 30 VOLTS.
CC Thanks_ Bill. And that is a common relay that

goes to both - to BAT temp and VOLTS.
PLT And it's reading about 30.5 - 30.5 VOLTS on BAT 18.
CC And, Bill, that relay does not power the talkback.

The talkbaek should be valid.
PLT Okay; then I'll press on with this.
CC Okay, and we'd like you to start PCG-6 at about

16 :33.
PLT Okay, that's when I got my timer set for.
CC Gre at.
362 16 l0 03 CC Bill, we're really keeping you busy here. We'd

like the GRATING OUT on S054. We're showing it
IN down here.
PLT Thank you, Story.
362 16 13 44 PLT Story, PLT.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Yes. I'm going to put a full story on the

debriefing tape on ATM debriefing, but I seem to
have a little problem with the - the LIMB POINTING
feature on 82B. I finally ended up using the
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FINE SUN SENSOR to get to 40 ARC SECONDS off the

limb because when I went to LIMB POINTING feature,
I couldn't get a stable indication on 82B MONITOR 3
reading. So I'm doing it that way, but they may
start thinking about that now. It - it was un-
stable. It was - it would not do the LIMB SCAN
feature and hold steady on a particular OFFSET.
It kept jumping around as much as l0 - 5 to
l0 ARC SECONDS.
CC Copy, Bill.
PLT And I tried LIMB SCAN and LIMB POINTING.
CC Okay.
362 16 17 41 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; i0 minutes to

Canaries.
362 16 18 O0 PLT Roger, Story.
362 16 28 21 CC Skylab, AOS Canaries and Madrid for 14 minutes.
362 16 33 ii CC Skylab, we'll be dumping the data/voice here at

Madrid.
CC Bill, Houston.
* PLT Go,Story.
CC Bill, we're expecting you on - to get a talkbaek

on 18 this next night pass. You've got a GO for
PCG-6. And lO's completed. We'll be commanding
the REG, ON here.
PLT Okay. And I'm just going to be standing by here ;

so I'll be in the STS if you want to make any
further comments.
CC Okay. And I've got a sh - a little update to

your PLT details here at 18:10.
PLT Go.
CC Okay, at 18:lO, that's housekeeping 70 Yankee.
PLT Roger.
SPT Houston, SPT.

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CC Go ahead, Ed.
362 16 39 35 SPT Okay_ Story. I Just wanted to report that we got

a pretty good photo and some observations on that
fire down in Argentina. The smoke plume, itself,
carries almost all the way across the east side
of South America and comes out right about
Mar del Plata cape. Pretty consistent, fairly
straight. We could see two relatively large
areas which were burning. I was really surprised
by the lightness of smoke, though.
CC Copy• Ed.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. See you over

Guam in 17:08. It's about half an hour until
your ATM _conference. And, Bill, we see you rotated
the pot on PCG-6. You probably put it where you
had it before. You'll need to do the FINE ADJUST
after sunset.
362 16 _l 46 PLT Yes. Thank you, Story. I just got a little

ahead of myself.
__ 362 17 08 30 MCC Good morning, Skylab. Houston with the ATM

conference. Over.
SPT Morning,Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. First thing I've got for you here this
morning is, I got a hunting license for the
three of you, regarding the operations of ATM.
The things that we would like to suggest here
is - One is that you continue making inputs to
our planning as you have been doing through me.
To the extent that you can, you record or over
air-to-ground mention whatever it is you're
thinking or what you see as you observe the
various displays you have. And then the real
part of it here is that you've got license to
change whatever you want to on the ATM schedule,
unless we have indicated "please do not interrupt"
or "do not change," something of that nature, like
we have done on some of the JOP 12's, where we say
"do not interrupt" for flares. Other than that,
any time that you - who by that time should know
what the ATM schedule for the day is about, what we
had intended to do, both from the SAP and from
talking with me - any time, in your opinion, there's
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j._
something more interesting on the Sun to look at -

whatever it is; be it a better target for what we
had selected, an emerging flux region, a prominence,
a bright point, or whatever - go ahead and do it.
Tell us about it afterwards, and we would encour-
age you to seek help and guidance from us to the
extent that we can help you out. And this is
just trying to take advantage of the fact that
by the time you start in the morning, the plan
that you're looking at was based on a Sun that
is now 24 hours old. By the end of the day, the
planning was on a Sun about 36 hours old. And
we'd like to take advantage of you being up there
looking at the Sun right now. How about any
thoughts you've got on this? Over.
365 17 lO 21 SPT Well, Bill, we appreciate that very much. I

think we'll - probably will not plan to exercise
that option very frequently, but I think the few
times that we do - I hope we get much better
data frem it. I know you are really at a dis-
advantage in trying to plan 24 hours in advance
from the Earth - things such as large surge
activity on the limb like we've just seen, or a
active region start to r@ally come alive or a
large prominence appear on the limb, like we -
we saw before. And then you try to catch it a
day later, and sometimes you've missed a better
observation. But we certainly appreciate the
option there, and we'll try to make good use of
it.
362 17 ii 02 CC Okay. Good. We want to encourage you to -

whenever you feel that this is the case - to go
off and do it. We're with you i00 percent.
The experimenters feel that they get their best
data when you're off doing things that in real
time look like the interesting thing to do. Okay.
We don't have too much going on ATM solar-wise
here over the next few days. The plan for
tomorrow has a late pass with a prime target of
an 18 Delta, a backup to that of a synoptic solar
orbit, depending on the EVA length and things
such as that. So that there's not too much
happening there. We will not have a conference
tomorrow, being an EVA day that's full. We're
still trying to get one scheduled for Sunday.
Right now, it looks like we're trying to get
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8 pounds into a 5-pound bag, but I'm hopeful that

we'll pull some time out somewhere here so that
we can have one Sunday. That's about the time
frame when we'd be ready to start talking S054
changes. We're, on the clock here, about
l0 seconds from LOS. Honeysuckle is 5 minutes
from now, and apparently, we'll be able to talk
here somewhat over the hill. Go ahead with any
comments you have.
SPT One is on 18 Delta after the EVA. I hope we can

finish the EVA up in time enough to get - get in
and get a good look at the Delta information,
because it's - that takes a fair amount of plan-
ning and thinking on our part in order to pull
it off. And we will need that time. Secondly,
I - in looking at the Sun, I do not see anything
significant coming around the corner except for
that one plage which was mentioned. In the corona,
at the area right above zero zero, it seems to
have a very enhanced streamer. The rest remains
pretty much unchanged. ETC - I also think we ...
a little bit of forethought on ... part, because
it would clear some ... misunderstanding some of
the details which are called out there. I've
been pleased so far, though, the way sixt -
18 Delta is going to come off, and 18A, I think
... got some real good information ... so far.
CC Okay. Break, break, Ed. You're disappearing in

the static here. We'll talk to you on Sunday,
and the - Of course, the regular route here with
the CAP COMM is always available.
362 17 13 23 SPT Thank you, Bill.
362 17 17 48 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Honeysuckle

for 5 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story. And I got a barberpole on BAT 18

at 17:14, and I reconfigured according to step 6.
CC Okay. Looks good, Bill. And the re-do - -
PLT And that brings up a gues - a question on

18:10 70 Yankee. If l'm reading the procedures
correctly, we have completed 70 Yankee.
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CC That's affirm, Bill. We're Just pressing on with

70 Zebra right now.
PLT Roger. Understand.
CC And the re-do on that ATM schedule pad that didn't

come out so good the first time is on board now.
PLT Roger. I was just looking at it.
SPT Roger, Story. Thank you. I took a look at it,

and look - all looks good. Thank you very much.
CC Okay, Ed.
362 17 20 03 PLT By the way, Story, I've got one more glitch on
the - that relay that's sticking on BAT 18.
I - It was about - it was Just after I reconfig-
ured according to step 6. I went back to check
BAT 18 again and didn't get anything on VOLTS
and temperature. And I changed - switch - flipped
the switch to 1 through 12, to 13 through 18
again, and it came back.
CC Copy, Bill.
PLT I don't think the switching had anything to do

with it _ it was just a little time delay before
I got it.
CC Okay. We've seen that in the past.
362 17 21 52 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; about h5 minutes

to Canaries at 18:06.
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362 18 06 58 CC Skylab, AOS through Canaries and Madrid for

13 minutes. Be dumping the data/voice over
Madrid at 18:12.
CC And, Bill, we're showing 32.8 vOLTs down here on

BAT 6. We'd like an onboard confirmation.
PLT Well, I'm reading a little over 33, but I'm going
to use your number and I'll go ahead and terminate.
CC Stand by on that. We'd like to use your number,

Bill.
PLT Okay, I'm Just standing by here waiting for it to

get to 33, and I'll tell you.
CC That's Just what we want.
PLT Incidentally, that battery's hanging in llke a

mule. I set it at 15 AMPS discharge and it in-
creased to 17. I set it back to 15 once then I
let it go. It's now still showing 16 discharge
AMPS.
362 18 08 28 CDR Houston, CDR. How do you read on the special

audio hookup?
CC That's loud and clear, Jet.
CDR Okay, looks like we got a good system.
CC Okay.
CC Bill, while I got you there and not too busy, I'd
like to discuss shading of the Sun with the ATM
solar arrays like you did last time. Of course,
this time we'll be rolling beyond where we did
last time and will be shading the Sun on the
trailing edge of the solar array. And we need to -
we're a little more critical this time because
the c_et's closer to the Sun. And we want to
shade all of the Sun, but Just barely shade it,
so that we don't cover up the comet as well. We're
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wondering, you did so well last time and you had

a good perspective and all that on the problem;
We're wondering how much procedures that you -
you'd need or like in this area.
362 18 09 35 PLT The only thing that really bothers me - what I

was doing, I was Just sort of guessing and Ed was
putting the maneuvers in. All - all I would like
to know is the confirmation that all we need to
do is make some very small adjustments in ROLL,
and also your recommendation on the incremental
changes that we should make. In other words, the
sort of minimum or maximum incremental changes
we should make to follow eyeball instructions
from the EVA crewman directing us.
CC Okay.
PLT That way we'll have a - you know, we'll feel like
we're making an intelligent approach to the
problem.
SPT Story, I can give you a few more words on that.
CC Go, Ed. You'll be doing it.
SPT Okay, last time we went out an extra 2 degrees

above what was recommended, and then we tweaked
about there. We went out in increments of 1. We
went out 2 more additional degrees and ended up
tweaking back in increments of l, 2 degrees. So
the net result is that we ended up 2 degrees
further out than what was called for, and I think
we ought to use that as a starting point. And if
Bill can show me exactly where he put the 201 on
the truss, then I think we've got at least a logi-
cal starting point.
362 18 ll 01 CC Ed, you did understand that we will be using the

other side of the ARRAY. We'll be rolling be-
yond where we were and you'll be catching the
comet on the - the trailing edge of the array
this time.
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SPT Okay. Yes, I haven't had a - I didn't hear you

because we had all the speakers off here. Okay.
Well, I guess we'll have to -to start on the
first whack - fresh. What you gave us last time,
I thought, was a - a reasonable approach to the
problem, and we got there in a reasonable length
of time. And I don't see any real problem with it.
CDR Yes, Story, I think you ought to Just go ahead

and - and use the same format you shipped up to
us last time. That was easy to understand and
easy to use.
CC Okay, We'll do that, Jer. The only real differ-

ence here is, of course, being on the other side
of the array. And also that this is more critical.
The comet is closer to the Sun. We need to cover
up the whole Sun, but Just barely.
SPT Well, I think that's pretty much what we did last

time, too. We had the Sun Just tangent to the
leading edge.
CC Yes, beautiful. We - -
SPT Do you think 1-degree increments are small enough,

Story?
362 18 12 22 CC Stand by i.
SPT I think that can be figured out rather easily

by knowing the distance between the - the
array and 201. And the distance out from the
comet.
CDR Might not be a bad idea to go for half-degree

increments, Story.
CC Okay. We'll - we'll work that one over and get

an answer to you. We're settling down on the
control mode of - of CMG for the data takes, CMG
control for the data takes. And for the nondata
takes, TACS ONLY and CMG INHIBITED. And with the
CSM only as a backup.
CDR Roger.
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CC Bill, I've got a change to your handling of cameras

here which will allow you to use Nikon 02 in the
EVA.
PLT Roger. Stand by, and I'll copy.
PLT Okay, Story. Go.
362 18 lh 15 CC Yes. This change is because you know the - the

cameras better than we do and you think Nikon 02
is a better camera. During the S073 stow, download
Bravo Victor 48 from Nikon 02 and load Bravo
Echo 05 for the T025 prep. And leave a leader on
Bravo Victor 48 for future use.
PLT Roger. Understand. During S073 stow, download

Bravo Victor 48 out of Nikon 02, leaving a leader
for reuse in the future; load Bravo Echo 05 for
T025 prep.
CC Yes, sir; that's it.
PLT And I'm sure that they've already seen I've

discontinued the seep discharge on PCG 6.
CC Yes, sir.
362 18 15 21 PLT As long as I've got you here, I might as well

give you the numbers. I went down to 33 VOLTS
at which time I was reading 16.5 AMPS. After I
turned the BATTERY, OFF I have a reading of
35.5 VOLTS and zero AMPS, of course.
CC Got it.
PLT And I'll be waiting for the next sunrise to

continue the procedure. That's step 3 on
page 2-22.
CC You can do that right now if you'd like, Bill.
PLT Beautiful; thank you.
CC And, Bill, no need to acknowledge. We're putting

18 back on; the light will go out.
PLT Okay, stand by.

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362 18 16 58 PLT Okay, Story. That was at 17:14 when I got the
talkback barberpole, at which time the reading
was about 28 VOLTS and ll AMPS discharge. And,
of course, that went to about 1 AMP discharge
after I - after I reconfigured for ground - future
ground activiation of the REGULATOR. And right
now I'm reading 34 volts.
CC Okay, Bill, we'd like the first line of step 4

performed also.
PLT Stand by.
362 18 18 08 PLT Oh, I'm sorry; I thought you were still tasking
about CBRM. Roger. I was Just interrupted there.
I'll get on with that.
PLT Okay, Story. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that -

that completes 70 Yankee and 70 Zulu with the
exception of re-enabling the CAUTION AND WARNING
on PCG 6 BATTERY LOW.
CC That's correct, Bill, and getting the STATUS LIGHTs

OFF.
PLT And I'll get that as soon as we get above

50 percent.
CC And, Skylab, we're going LOS here. See you over

Carnarvon in about 28 minutes at 18:46.
362 18 20 l0 PLT Roger, Story.
362 18 47 43 CC Skylab, A0S Carnarvon and Honeysuckle 14 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
SPT Roger. Hello, Story. How is the clarity of this

transmission?
CC That was about 5 by &, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
CC It was 5 by 5 then.
SPT Okay, I got the secret.

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CC Jer, on a noninterference basis, of course, with

your present ATM ops, I've got a rather lengthy
change to the JOP 18C pad that's there at 23:12.
So we've got some time to get that up to you. And
it's a result of a SLS run we- we Just finished.
We got that SLS just about 2 hours ahead of you
guys.
362 18 49 14 CDE What was the time on that again, Story?
CC That's the 18C starting on the orbit of 23:12.
CDI_ Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. And don't - don't let me interrupt your ATM

run here. Go ahead and turn me off when you need
to.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, opposite 23:15, the fine maneuver. Change

that to 50315, which is 2.05 degrees.
CC And 50664, 4.36 degrees.
CDR Okay, 50315 for 2.05 and 50664 for 4.36.
CC That's correct. And a couple of lines below that,

"expect comet at" - that'll be minus ii0, minus 40.
CDR Okay, minus ii0, minus 040.
CC Okay. And skip ahead down toward the end of that

page 4 to beyond "the nucleus in step 10" to that
fine maneuver. Let me know when you have it.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, that fine maneuver should be 51110, which is

minus 0.72 degrees, and 51040 for minus 0.32 degrees.
362 18 51 51 CDE Okay, 51110 for minus 0.72 and 51040 for minus 0.32.
CC That's correct.
CC Then stepping on to page 6 of the ATM schedule pad

mud that's at - -
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CDR Okay, I'ii have to cut you off for now while I get
going on this building block.
CC Okay. Let me know when you got some more time.
362 18 54 40 CDR Houston, CDR. How do you read?
CC Loud and clear, Jer.
CDR Okay. We got a couple more minutes now.
CC Okay. Page 6, the ATM schedule pad, opposite 00:57.
CDR Okay.
CC Instead of - perform reverse of maneuver made at

23:15 Z," Just say "perform maneuver to reacquire
the comet in the WLC."
CDR Okay.
CC And moving on down to the end of that section to

that fine maneuver there, and let me know when
you have it.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Change that 51060, minus 0.4, change that

maneuver there to 5110 for minus 0.72 degrees and
51040 for minus 0.32 degrees.
362 18 56 06 CDR Okay. 51110 and 51040 for minus 0.72 and minus
O. 32.
CC That's correct. And Just got one more maneuver

change for you here.
CC Okay.
CC That's on page 8 down at the end of that section,

Just prior to "39 minutes remaining." And that's
a fine maneuver of 51060 for minus 0.48 degrees.
Let me know when you've found that.
CDR l've got it.
CC Okay and that change is to 51110 for

minus 0.72 degrees and a 51040 for
minus 0.32 degrees.
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CDR Okay. 51110 for minus 0.72 and 510h0 for

minus 0.32.
CC That's correct. I'm sorry to trouble you, but we

want to get SLS outputs up to your mission.
CDR No sweat.
362 19 00 08 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and about 35 minutes

to MILA at 19:34.
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362 19 34 23 CC Skylab, we're AOS through MILA and Bermuda for

ii minutes.
SPT Hello, Story.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Story, back on 359 a message was sent up, h051

Alfa, about TV-77 plans. We looked it over, and
if you got something in mind, I think we could
probably do it in the time constraints laid out.
And anytime you want to schedule it in the next
couple of days to a week, that's fine with us.
CC Okay, Ed. Is that TV-777
SPT That 's affirm.
CC Okay. And, Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Jer, we're seeing a surge of active region zero

zero. And if you could give us a STANDARD on
S052, it'll be fine.
CDR Coming up.
362 19 h5 03 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. See you over

Madrid in 3 minutes.
362 19 h9 30 CC Skylab, got you through Madrid for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Jer, let me know when you got a minute to talk.
CDR Okay.
CC Jer, we'd like the S05h GRATING in OUT for the

unattened ops.
CDR Say again, Story.
CC We'd like the S054 GRATING, OUT for our unattended

ORS.
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CDR Okay.
362 19 53 12 CDR Okay, Story, go ahead.
CC Jet, with the Beta angle increasing and the work-

shop picking up a little more heat, we'd like to
know what the condition of the twin-pole sail was
that you observed on your Christmas EVA and, if
possible, is there any kind of adjustment we could
do to it to provide more shade?
CDR Well, Story, it's still wrinkled up in the back.

I don't know what sort of an adjustment you could
make on it without putting a - a stiffener bar or
something across the back, and that way you could -
you could widen it out. But I Just wonder how
brittlethat material is. I would almost be afraid
to fool with it for fear of breaking it or cracking
it and then losing everything.
CC Okay. But it - otherwise, it looked like it was

alined pretty straight, and you didn't see any
obvious adjustment that could be made or improve-
ment to it.
362 19 54 05 CDR Well, the only obvious one would be to stretch it

out, get the accordion folds out of - out of the
end of it. I shouldn't have said back; I meant
the end that faces us. You know, the two straps
don't really have enough separation in them to
completely spread the sail, and you got accordion
fold along the - the near edge. And if you'll
put a stiffener pole in there, you could probably
straighten it out. But I would first want to know
from somebody that it - there's no danger of
cracking the material and losing it.
CC Okay. Thanks, Jer.
CDR Story, Bill suggested a little notation here on

the coloring of that sail. It's got to the point
now where it's sort of a light brown or beige
color; it's - it's done a lot of darkening.
CC Taking on a tan, huh?

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362 19 56 IB CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. About 25 minutes

to Carnarvon at 20:21. Be dumping the data/voice
there.
SPT Story, I have a question about the 18 Charlie

that's coming up. On the first one, they say to
terminate with 2 minutes time remaining and on the
second one, with 6 minutes time remaining. I -
Is there a reason for that difference there?
Naturally, we'd like to run these things down
as far as we possibly could, and I'm wondering
which one was really the correct one.
CC I'm afraid you're going to have to say that again.

You're too far down the mud for me to understand
it. We got about 20 seconds here.
SPT Story, it's on the 18 Charles which we're going

to do later today. The first one has us running
it down to 2 minutes time remaining. The second
one, we truncate at 6 minutes time remaining.
Which one is correct? We would like to run it as
far as possible.
CC Okay. Got it.
362 19 57 39 CC We'll get that to you at Carnarvon.
362 20 22 13 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Carnarvon and Honey-

suckle 15 minutes. Be dumping the data/voice
here at Carnarvon.
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to stateside at 21:08. At that time, your con-
ference with Dr. Kohoutek will be coming up. And
your Flight Plans for tomorrow are on board.
362 21 08 18 CC Skylab, we're AOS stateside for about l_ minutes.

And be picking up MILA in about 1 minute for a
real-time TV with your conference with Dr. Kohoutek,
and let us know when you're ready to go.
CDR Roger, Story. We're ready to go now.
CC Okay. In about a minute from now, also, we'll be

handing over to MILA; so you may break up for about
15 seconds, but she's all yours.
CDR Okay.
MCC Afternoon, Skylab. We have a special science con-

ference scheduled today, as you know, to celebrate
the perihelion passage of Kohoutek. And we have
here in the MOCR to carry on the usual Kohoutek
Science Conference with you today - Standing in
for the other Kohoutek PIs, we have Dr. Lubos
Kohe - Kohoutek, the discoverer of the comet, and
he'd like to ask you a few questions when you're
ready. Over.
CDR Roger, Houston. We're ready to go. Good after-

noon, Dr. Kohoutek.
362 21 09 15 KOHOUTEK Good afternoon. I am very glad to have an oppor-

tunity to following the comet 1973, askew [?] in
its most critical day during its perhihelion
passage, and from the place where most research
of that comet is concentrated. Especially it is
a great pleasure for me to greet you, Mr. Gibson,
Mr. Carr, and Mr. Pogue, as the first human beings
studying a comet from outer space. Your mission
is indeed very important for astronomy. I have
the following questions. You observed the comet
visually last Sunday and Monday. You compared it
with - in brightness with Mercury and suggested
that there were color features in the coma. Do
you have anything more to say on those observations?
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CDR Not too much to add to that, sir, because we have

not seen much of the comet vis_Sly since those
last observations, the one time at which I was the
one who observed the color. I have not seen the
comet since. The next time I saw the comet was
on the S052 white light coronagraph.
362 21 l0 38 KOHOUTEK Oh, yes. Oh, yes. And how about the tail, for
example?
CDR The tail we have found, as it becomes more fore-

shortened to us, became much wider. And let me -
let me give you the figures that are relative to
the display we have on the ATM. I would say that
the - the coma - the bright coma was approximately
3/16 - 1/8 to 3/16 of an inch in diameter. And I
would say that the tail that we could see, however
foreshortened, extended only about 1/4 inch away
from the coma and spread like a fan to approxi-
mately 3/8 of an inch at its out - outermost end.
KOHOUTEK Have you glimpsed the comet since Monday? I mean

visually.
CDR No, sir, we have not.
KOHOUTEK I saw a transmitted picture of the comet you got

with coronagraph yesterday. There's a certain
indication of the tail on the copies available
down here. I wonder how much of the tail were
you able to see up there?
CDR Dr. Gibson made that observation and took a Polar-

oid picture that we have up here with us, and I'll
let him speak on that.
361 21 12 08 SPT Dr. Kohoutek, it looked to us that the tail fanned

out, as Jerry said. And it was about 20 degrees
as far as the fan from the axis. And we were able
to see it back to a distance of around three times
the size of the coma. After that, it was lost in
the noise of the white light display.
KOHOUTEK How is the brightness changing from day to day?

You are the only people who see this comet at
present, and, therefore, your information is very
valuable.
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SPT Well, unfortunately, we are not able to see it by

eye; we can only tell by what we see on the white
light coronagraph display. That display has in-
dicated that the brightness certainly is increasing.
The display itself has a filtering function which
allows the - allows you to see the corona much
better, so that its a factor of 100 from edge of
the occulting disk all the way out to the edge of
the display. So we were only able to see it, at
the very beginning, very close to the edge of the
display. Now we can see it pretty much right up
next to the - fairly close to the occulting disk;
so I'm sure we're at least up a factor of l0 from
that when we first saw it and perhaps greater than
that.
KOHOUTEK Yes. Calculation suggest that the comet may have

a sort of sunward spike around the New Year Day.
Could you watch for this phenomenon?
362 21 13 49 SPT We certainly will; we'll be watching for the sun-

ward spike and also for two tails and for - perhaps
for a breakup, which, if that happened, would
certainly be dyl%am_c. And we'll be looking for
it. Why don't I hand it over to Bill Pogue and
let him discuss the brightness, also.
362 21 lh 13 PLT When we first starting making - when we first

started making visual observations of the comet -
I suppose about the first week in December. It
was not visible up until that time - we were able
to find it visually by using, first, binoculars
until - in order to get the location proper, be-
cause the observation visually, by eyeball, is
somewhat awkward because of the windows we have
to use and the - the angles at which we have to
look. We, also, not only have awkward angles
inside the spacecraft looking out, but we also
have intervening structures - large solar panels.
And although it may sound like we're hedging some
part of your questions, we're giving honest an-
swers, because sometimes it's Just hard to see it
and we do have problems with intervening structure.
And this is going to also compromise our ability
to see some of the more potentially dramatic events
that are going to occur in the next few days, be-
cause it's still behind some of this intervening
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structure. About the first week in December we

picked it up visually, and it became brighter and
brighter. I was able to see it visually and then
point it out to the other crewmen. And we started
monitoring it objectively from day to day. And
then it didn't seem to change for about l0 days,
and then there was a very dramatic increase in
the brightening - the decrease in magnitude or
increase in - in brightening. And - and it was
appearing to grow quite dramatically the last few
days that we were watching it. I estimated the
length of the tail one day; 2 degrees. And about
a day and a half later, Dr. Gibson estimated it
about 4 degrees; so it was growing very rapidly.
And then, of course, we lost it behind the struc-
ture, but we will be making every effort to re-
acquire it visually° And of course as soon as
we're able to see it, we will resume photographic
data taking.
362 21 16 15 CDR Dr. Kohoutek, we have a question we'd like to ask

you.
SPT Well, first let us say that we're very appreciative

of you coming down and talking with us. And I
think everybody interested in comets is very appre-
ciative of your early discovery of the comet, so
that we could marshal all the forces which we are
putting to bear on the problem and get very organ-
ized and go about it in a very systematic way. I
think we'll learn an awful lot now because you
were able to pick it up so early. I have a couple
of questions. And that is, What have you seen in
it so far, in terms of the chemical composition,
and what would that indicate to you, as far as its
origin? And also, what is its eccentricity, and
how does that reflect on its origin?
362 21 17 17 CC The answer'll be coming right up to you, Ed.
CDR We thought we'd gone LOS, Story.
KOHOUTEK Yes. Yes, it is very probably a new comet, and

the determination of the orbit - the exact - exact
determination of the orbit is very important be-
cause if it is a new comet, it could release some
information about - not only about comets but about
the origin of the solar system. And it's very
important.
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KOHOUTEK Oh, yes, to - back to your question about the

composition. Of course, all observations about
composition are very valuable, but especially
observations made during the perihelion passage
are very important because, as I said already, you
are the only people who can see the comet now.
SPT When you were able to see it and you were looking
at some of the visible emissions, were you able
to detect any molec_les?
362 21 18 57 KOHOD_EK One question. Ground-based observation of the

H-alpha emission was reported some time ago.
Have you ever detected the comet's H-alpha emission?
SPT No, we've not. We have certainly tried to see it.

We've looked for it with both H-alpha display,
which of course is geared for a much higher emis-
sion - solar emission, and we've also looked for
it on our extreme-ultraviolet monitor. And we
have not been able to detect it so far at - at
its brightest point. That is what we're working
on this afternoon, and we may be able to see it.
KOHOUTEK Yes. Thank you very much for a most interesting

talk. Let me congratulate you up - upon accom-
plishment you achieved so far and wish you the
best of success in your further observations and
flawless splashdown in February. Thank you very
much.
CDR Dr. Kohoutek, on behalf of the S - Skylab 3 crew,

I'd like to tell you that we're honored to have
this opportunity to speak to you, sir. And we'll
do our best to get the best data we possibly can.
Good day, sir.
362 21 20 31 CC Skylab, CAP COMM's back with you for 2 more minutes.
We've handed over to Bermuda, and there is no more
live TV.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 5 minutes to Madrid.

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362 21 27 53 CC Skylab, AOS Madrid 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. We're hustling on with the EVA

pre-prep now.
CC Okay, Jer. And you might check with Bill and see
if he did ge the CAUTION & WARNING on PCG-6
enabled.
CDR Roger. He hadn't, but he will now.
CC Okay. And all those BAT tests came out Just fine.
There's no big surprises, and EGIL passes on many
thanks to Bill for a good Job on that.
CDR Okay.
362 21 33 ii CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go, Story.
CC Bill, could you verify, on panel 225, the CABIN

PRESSURE REGs are both OPEN?
PLT That 's affirmative.

to Carnarvon at 22:02. CDR, Houston.
PLT He's listening, Story. Go.
CC Okay, on the matchup between PCU and LSU, Just a

reminder to keep 16 to 16 and i0 to 7. That's
PCU-10 and I_U-7. And keep the other two 16's
together.
PLT Roger. We have that. And note on configuration:

The 02/N 2 SOLENOID VALVE is selected to OFF.
However, I think that was done because of the
enrichment problem.
CC Thanks, Bill. And that's where we want it - in OFF.
PLT Okay. And, Story, I know you're going over the

hill, but do - you had planned for us to use the
16-millimeter, EVA tomorrow?
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CC That's affirm.
362 21 34 56 PLT Thank you.
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SKYLABAIR-T0-GROUNDVOICE TRANSCRIPTION
362 22 02 36 CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for h minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC And for Ed, he can t_ke a second JOP 18 Charlie,

right on down to 2 minutes of TIME R_4AINING.
SPT Okay, Story, thank you. I saw that the first

one had 2 minutes, the second one 6, and the
last one 14.
CC Yes, sir. That's a good call on the second one.

The reason for 14 on the third one is - is to
get back to SI and let Jer get to bed,
SPT Okay.

Honeysuckle.
362 22 13 33 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Honeysuckle Creek

from the purple gang. We're - got a very short
pass here, about a minute from LOS. Texas comes
up at 22:43. And we're going to dump the data
recorder there.
CDR Hello, Richard.
CC Hello, Jer.
SPT Hello, Dick and purple gang.
CC Hello, Ed.
SPT Hey, Dick, I wonder if you could come up with

an answer for me. I'll give you a real quick
question.
CC Okay.
SPT As we're looking out minus or plus Z at the Sun,

and we have our heads along minus Y, like we might
on EVA, what direction - or how many degrees clock-
wise from minus Y would we see the comet tomorrow
during the EVA?
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CC Okay, Ed. That - if I can figure out the question

I'm sure somebody else can figure out the answer.
I got it, and we'll get you an answer.
362 22 14 26 SPT Okay, thank you. We're Just trying to come up

with a real sh - real quick way to make sure
we're looking at the right place, because we
won't have long to look.
CC Okay. And as we go over the hill, Ed, incidentally,

I'm going to spend some time this evening putting
together some technical information that we've
learned on the comet this evening. And that'll
be coming up to you before you go to bed tonight.
SPT Hey, that'll be most useful; thanks very much,

Dick.
362 22 14 51 CC Okay.
362 22 44 ii CC Skylab, Houston. Hello, stateside for 15 minutes.

We're dumping the data/voice recorder here. And,
SPT, Houston. When you get a second, I have an
answer to your question about the comet location
tomorrow.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. If a person should stand looking towards

plus Z, right at the Sun, with his head towards
minus Y, the comet will be clocked 80 - approx-
imately 85 degrees clockwise from the top of the
Sun as that guy looked at it. And another piece
of information for you is, during the EVA the
elongation is changing quite rapidly, but during
the EVA tomorrow the elongation will be some-
where in the - on the order of 6-1/2 degrees,
if you'd like to estimate the distance by looking
at the diameter of the Sun.
SPT Okay, thanks very much. 85 degrees out and

elongation of 6-1/2 degrees.
CC Or something like that (Laughter).
SPT I'm going to peer out of a few more windows here

and think about solar panel shading the Sun and
just where we would actually be seeing it then.
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362 22 50 15 SPT Dick, got one other relatively simple question

for you.
CC Okay, Ed. Go ahead.
SPT Which direction are we planning on rolling the -

on X in order to get the solar panel occulting
the Sun?
CC Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. The X rotation is minus 54 degrees,

which is the same direction as we went last time
except about 3 - or 3-1/2 times as far.
SPT Okay, very good; that all makes sense. Thanks

very much, Dick.
SPT One last one, Dick, and I'll leave you alone for
a little while.
CC Roger.
SPT When's my private comm set up for?
CC Well, as a matter of fact - let me tell you here.

It's 02:19, Canary and Ascension, Ed.
SPT Thank you very much, Dick.
CC Roger.
362 22 52 38 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We still got about 6 minutes

in this pass. No big hurry here, but we'd appre-
ciate a status on how you guys are doing on the
EVA pre-preps.
CDR We're Just about all complete, Dick.
CC Good show. Everything going good, I hope?
CDR Yes, it went very quickly today. Bill's still

got to get the digital thermometer out and get
it stowed. And I'm trying to get the checklist -
all the updates put into the checklist.
CC Okay. Good, Jerry. Thank you.

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PLT Say, Dick, on that digital thermometer, would it

hurt to put a little dab of that thermal grease
on the back? I think that'll get us a little
more accurate reading and also make it a little
easier to take.
CC Stand by. Let us think about that one.
CDR Dick, I got a question on the - the change sheet,

the very last item.
CC Okay. Stand by, and let me get it in front of me

before you ask it. Okay, go ahead.
CDR Okay, it says, "EVA 3 (M143) stow meteoroid cover."
CC Yes, I'm looking at it.
CDR Shouldn't that be EVA 4? I thought we were not

bringing in any of that stuff on 3?
362 22 54 36 CC Jerry, the answer to your question is negative.

We've changed - orginally you were right ; however,
we've changed this item. We do intend to bring
in the AM meteoroid coves on EVA 3, and that
change was made to - to balance the general work-
load between the EVAs. So we do want to bring
it in tomorrow.
CDR Well, I Just canceled - deleted all that stuff

out of - the stuff up above, didn't I? On
pages 2.3-15, 16, 17, and 187
CC Okay, hang on, Jerry. Let me make sure.
CDR It's the area between two lines. It says, "Note:

do not mark through the following items as they
will not be done on EVA 3 but will be done on
the last EVA." Then is says, "Do not perform
DL24 ops, $230 collector retrieval, $228, and
sail sample retrieval."
CDR That's up about 8 inches above the one we were

just talking about.
CC Yes, Jerry. I was looking at - at it when you

said, and we're having a discussion here as to -
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really as to how best to explain it to you. We -

we think the checklist is right. We'll Just talk
it - about it a little bit, and I may get Rusty
on the phone here, shortly, either here at Madrid,
and straighten it out in your and our minds.
CDR Okay.
362 22 57 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS

here at stateside. Madrid comes up at 23:0_.
And, Jerry, we're getting an answer together for
you and we'll have it, probably, at AOS Madrid.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC And, SPT, Houston. In answer to your question

about the digital thermometer, it is okay to use
the thermal grease.
362 22 58 31 SPT ThAnk you, Dick.
362 23 04 lO CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for about 9 min-

utes. And I'll give you Rusty - Jerry, if you're
listening, I'll give you Rusty for a minute or
so and let him explain this discrepancy.
PLT He's listening, Dick. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, CDR we - we goofed on the pad we sent up

to you there and generated a little confusion.
Jerry's sharp eye there picked up our inconsis-
tency. We do want to retrieve that SEVA sail
material that was deployed on Skylab 2, and it's
located on a DA truss - the DA strut near ATM
deployment real. And we do want to bring that
in and stow it on this one. Our intent was to
simply strike that out of that section for the
next EVA when - when we got to it, but you caught
us ahead of time. So we do want to bring it in.
The other thing that - that we want to clarify is
that the piece of meteoroid cover that we want to
bring in is the one located _mmediately over the
EVA hatch hinge line. That is, if you partially
close the EVA hatch, it's the piece of material
that's l0 inches wide and_ I think, 50 inches
long, that covers the hinge line of the hatch.
It's got - it should have at least two snaps on
it and the rest of it is Velcro.
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SPT What color is it, Rusty?
362 23 05 41 MCC It's - it's white. It's the same meteorite shield
material that's all over; it's the cloth that
lines thw whole FAS.
SPT Okay, this was not something specially deployed,

then.
MCC That's - that's right. This was not deployed.

This was Just a piece of the meteorite shield
there, with that thermal paint on it, that's -
that covers the wholeinside of the FAS area.
And this particular one should have one little
section that's had Sun on it the whole mission
and the rest of it inside of the shade of the
FAS. And we wanted to bring it home to analyze
it.
SPT Oh, okay. Very good. What's it got, about a

doz - dozen or so snaps on it?
MCC No, it has two snaps and the rest Velcro.
SPT Okay; very good.
MCC Okay. And it - it is the one lO inches wide,

50 inches long, that physically covers the hinge
line of the hatch.
SPT So what you have to do it go on out and partially

close the hatch in order to get to it?
362 23 06 31 MCC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay.
MCC Don't let anybody close it on you.
SPT Not all the way.
CDR Don't worry about a thing, Rusty. I'll be in the

airlock module.
MCC It's not me that's worried.
CC Everybody say goodby to Rusty.

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SPT Good night, Rusty.
CDR Good night, Rusty.
362 23 06 59 PLT Good night, Rusty.
362 23 26 56 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Tananarive for 7 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jerry.
CDR Hey, while I'm picking at your pad, I might as

well pick at details 2350. I think they got the
tray numbers all reversed.
CC Okay, let me pull that one out. Hang on.
CC Skylab, Houston. Say again?
SPT Yes, Dick. I wanted to give some information

i- to the FlightPlanners.
CC Okay. Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay. For the next lO days, I'll be cutting my

PT back to 1 hour. I'd like to try it for l0 days
and see how it works. Just plan to ride the bike
on every other day, and then work the weights and
the Thornton device on alternate days.
362 23 31 02 CC Okay, Ed, got that. Thank you much.
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362 23 33 20 CC Skylab, Houston. Is - We're about to go over the

hill at Tananarive. Honeysuckle comes up at 23:50.
And, Jerry, I'm not going to have a straight answer
for you here on that details pad, on the trays.
362 23 51 38 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle for h minutes.
CC And, CDR, Houston. I have an answer for you on

the urine trays.
CDR Go ahead, Dick.
CC Roger, Eagle Eye. This is your day to catch us.

You're absolutely correct. The locations are re-
versed on your details pad. And you've probably
already done it, but if you haven't, here's what
we'd like to have this afternoon. We'd like to
move trays 9 and l0 from F551, where you put them
last night, to H810 in the head. And we would
like to move trays 7 and 8 from H810 in the head
to F551. Okay?
CDR Okay. That's all been done, and I'm showing the
location of 7 and 8 in 551, in the unscheduled
transfers.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thanks - -
CDR - - ... stowage location.
CC Roger, Jerry. Thank you very much.
CC And, CDR, Houston.
CDR Roger. Go ahead.
362 23 53 lh CC Roger, Jerry. I - I wanted to say this to you

when - on our first AOS pass here this evening,
but things have been kind of hectic around here,
even for this place on a detail shift. And we've
been snowed with paper. Late last evening, Just
as Phil and I were leaving, we did get that tape
that you put on cued up and we listened to it.
We are working on it. You asked some good direct
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questions and we're going to give you some good

direct answers, some of them possibly later this
evening; I'm not sure. We are working on a - on
an overall snmm_ry for you. What we intend to do
is get that pulled together and Bob Parker and
company are working on that during the night to-
night What we plan on doing is, for the general
s_mmary, we - we hope to get it in a - in a form
where we can uplink it to you so you can have
something to kind of soak in and - and understand.
And then probably - Phil and I have two more detail
shifts, one tonight and one the next night. And
probably later on tomorrow night, or more likely
the next evening, we can sit down and talk about
it for a while.
CDR Okay, that'll be great, Dick. Thanks a lot.
CC Roger.
362 23 54 37 SPT Okay, Dick, I'm working away on 18C. I picked up

the comet at minus 140 and minus 20. It's excep-
tionally bright now in the coma. The tail appears
to have fanned out to around 20 degrees half angle
or 40 degrees across. It's up - the tail is up
in my display. And I think I can see some slight
evidence of a tail or some - some emission into the
end of the display anyway. It's going off to the
right, which I believe's the sunward direction, but
it's very faint. And I'm going to try and get a
better look at it, and maybe get a picture of it.
CC Roger. That sounds like a - a fun display to be

looking at right now. And we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Ha - Hawaii comes up at 00:12.
SPT Wottld you like any on the VTR, or is that for sub-
sequent passes?
362 23 55 35 CC Roger, Ed. We got about 5 minutes on the VTR you

can have. And we would like to have it.
SPT Okay.
CC And, Ed, about 5 minutes is about all we have, so

you might - -
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SPT I'ii just keep it down - keep it down to around

i or so.
CC Yes, okay. That's what I was going to suggest.

One or two here, and then if something comes up
later you'd like to put on again before we're
dumping it, have at it. We'll let you know when
we have to take it to start our dump cycle.
SPT Okay. I think just a couple of quick looks at it

now and then might show you more than one long one.
362 23 56 17 CC Okay. Concur.
363 O0 12 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for B minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. We notice that there's about a min-

ute or so of something on the VTR and the switch
was in portable when we saw - last saw it and it's
still in portable. And we assume that you switched
over to ATM to put the comet on the VTR.
SPT No, I didn't, Dick.
CC Okay, you might take that under consideration.

Next time you have a good view of it, do that
again. We still have 3 or 4 minutes left. And
for Jerry, there's - in the teleprinter, sometime
in the last couple or 3 hours - there's a permanent
general message 019 Alfa that replaces n_:,,1_er 19,
which has to do with EVA/CMG fail. And, Jerry,
for your details pad that we uplinked a while ago
for tomorrow, there's a mistake on it that has to
do with that number. At the time of 13:50 on your
tomorrow's detail, you should change PMO19 to
019 Alfa. One more thing on that, here in the
next half an hour to an hour or so, Rusty's going
to be in and - to answer any questions you have
on that particular general message. And also
there's one in the work that's on the way about
maneuver monitoring for tomorrow. Incidentally,
we have chosen that hybrid-type control mode that
we talked about last evening, but Rusty'll be here
L to fill you in on all the details about that here
short ly °
363 00 14 2_ CDR Okay, Dick. We'll go out and check our mailbox.
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CC Okay. And, Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS.

Goldstone comes up at - about 4 minutes from now.
CDR And, Dick, do we have a evening status report

time? I don't see it in my details.
CC Well, as a matter of fact, we're going to have a

guest evening status reporter in - in the form of
a PLT this evening. It is scheduled in his details
because of your late ATM run. It's scheduled at
Goldstone at 03:37 and then the latter part of
that stateside pass, we're going to hand over to
the doctor for the last pass of the evening for
the med conference.
CDR Good show.
363 00 15 13 CC Roger.
363 00 18 50 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S stateside for 9-1/2 minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
363 00 20 59 SPT Okay, Dick, let me describe the Polaroid which I

did get of it, and which shows it a little bit
better than I was able to view it by eye. Rela-
tive to my display, there is the one tail going
up which has fanned out quite a bit, and that is
around 12 octal units or maybe a tenth of a degree
or so that I could see in here. I also see a
spike which is moving almost in the opposite direc-
tion. It's inclined - if you want to take up as
12 o'clock, maybe down to around 5 o'clock. It's
a very faint spike but I believe it is discernible.
There is also - that spike is around - oh, twice
as long as the other one, maybe 0.2 or so of a
degree but, it's much fainter. The coma is not
herical; it also has a - a very tiny spike going
off at say 3 o'clock, very small, though. But I
have seen it by eye and it does show up very faintly
on the photograph.
CC Rog - Roger, Ed. I copied all of that.

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SPT I have looked it - for it in H-ALPHA as well as

XUV MONITOR and with no success.
CC Okay.
363 O0 27 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Bermuda comes up about h minutes from now, and I'll
call you there.
363 00 34 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. Bermuda for 3 minutes.
SPT Roger, Dick.
SPT Dick, I'm looking at the next pad for this up -

next pass coming up on 18C, and I think this
building block 30 they want me to perform is
building block B0 Bravo, rather than 30 Charlie.
It's called out at 41 minutes.
CC And Roger. We'll check that one, Ed. And one

thing for you, we'd like to CLOSE the H-ALPHA 1
DOOR. And we'd - on S056 we'd like a START and
then a STOP to close the shutter. Over.
CC Roger.
363 00 37 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about B0 seconds from LOS.

Canary comes up at 00:41. We Just uplinked page 1
of a page - of a three-page message into the tele-
printer. So leave it in the teleprinter, and we'll
uplink the - ne - the second - the second and
third pages of it at AOS Canary. That message is
the maneuver monitor message. And Rusty will be
standing by at Canary, Jerry, to discuss briefly
that message and the permanent general message 19
A1 fa.
363 O0 37 46 SPT Okay, Dick.

And, SPT, Houston. I've got an answer for you on
18 Charlie.
SPT Okay, Dick. Go ahead.

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CC Okay. As you have discovered, we got clever with

the letters because in the - in the JOP S1_mmary
Sheets there are only two building block 30's -
Alfa and Bravo. And during the day, we - we're
going to do a total of four of them, the second -
the third one and the fourth one got named Charlie
and Delta. Both of those two, one of which is in
your upcoming daylight cycle and the other one is
in the - in Jerry's daylight cycle later on in the
day, are step 17 in position Bravo. So - so both
of those should really be a BraVo.
SPT Okay. I thought that's what it was, but I wanted

to make sure. We had changed the JOP S,immAry
Sheets, and I wanted to make sure nothing got -
escaped us. Thank you, Dick.
CC Yes, it's a good question; glad it came up.
363 00 43 04 MCC Okay, CDR. Rusty here.
CDR Go ahead, Rusty.
MCC Okay. I'd like to talk with you and Bill regarding
message 4433; that's the EVA/CMG fail message.
That's permanent general message 19 Alfa, which
replaces 19. You got it there?
CDR Sure do.
MCC Okay. If you've had a chance to smoke it over,

you'll note that there are very few changes between
this and what we gave you for the last EVA. I want
to call your attention to the fact that because of
the star tracker fail, when you activate the CSM
tomorrow morning, you'll have to do CSM optics P51,
Pfif - or rather Just P51, rather than the star
tracker.
CDR Roger.
MCC Okay. And we got that in the note there in the

first part of it. Also we should have -with the
timing we've got in the Flight Plan - some station
coverag_ about that time. And if you want to check
with us, we can probably update your clock - your
CMC clock and TSM if you want us to do that. And
it looks like the timing is good. That's your
choice, and we'll stand by on your call; otherwise,
you can just follow what you did the other day.
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CDR Okay, very good. I'ii probably need as much time

as I can get to find the stars.
363 00 4_ 28 MCC Okay, going down into the body of it there - for
Bill, who's going to be monitoring during the EVA.
Of course, we don't expect any problems with the
CMGs. However, if we do have a problem, you'll
have set up the CSM in P20 there. And you'll note
that the differences here are that we're specifying
all three registers of NOUN 78. If you go to
step 2 there, where we talk about the cluster ROLL
for the 201 camera shading, you'll notice that we've
called out a VERB 25, NOUN 78 and specified all
three. I want to call your attention to the fact
that R-2 has a discontinuity in it at 180 degrees.
If you - if you go on down to the caution note,
you'll notice that if R-2 is greater, if - in the
tweaking maneuvers, if R-2 is greaterr than 180 de-
grees, that you need to tweak over there. We need
to make sure that we change R-3 to 358.93; that is,
it's 180-degree change in R-3, depending on which
side of 180 R-2 is. Now that - that sounds pretty
confUsing. I'd like you to look over that caution
note and if you have any questions about it come
down to us again with it.
CDR Okay, I think I understand that, Rusty.
CC Okay, the consequence there, if we - if we do not

change R-3 there, as we go through 180 on the - on
the R-2, is that the - the CSM will try to yaw
that big moose 180 degrees in orbit there. That's
that Omicron definition.
362 00 46 12 CDR Right. I kind of had a hunch that's what was tied
up in there. And I was wondering why the shift in
numbers, but your explanation now pretty well an-
swers the question.
MCC Okay, fine. If you grab the APCS control message

4434 then - stand by Just i. Okay, the total
message is up there in the teleprinter, if you
haven't already ripped it out. And while you - -
CDR Okay, we're going to go get it now.

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MCC Okay, I'll tell you what_ I'll Just go ahead and
tell you what we're doing here. What we're doing
tomorrow, is during all of the fine pointing,
either for alignment of the telescopes or the data
take periods, we're running in CMG control, either
in SI or ATT HOLD, for the 201 maneuver. However,
when we're not taking data - that is, through the
night passes, we are INHIBITing CMG control which
turns it over to the TACS and then we're calling
a nominal H-CAGE. Now what that does is put - put
us in TACS control, but the CMGs track nominal H
all the time, This way we keep our momentum state
to a very nice condition. Just before the data
take we turn it back over to the CMGs, which gives
us a nice fine pointing and also a control momentum.
CDR Roger. Understand.
362 00 47 52 MCC Okay. If you've got the message, what I'd like to
do is - you'll notice down there where we say,
'_rhen ready for the tweak maneuver?"
CDR Roger.
MCC Okay. You'll have been going through a night pass

there, which means you'll be in TACS control, CMGs
INHIBITed, and when you're ready for the tweak
maneuver we go ahead and put in the 201 maneuver,
still in TACS control. That is, it says, "When
ready for 201 maneuver," we Just go ahead and put
in a maneuver time and maneuver under TACS control.
That means that you can be anywhere within the
3, 2, 2 deadband when you command the 201 maneuver.
Since the maneuver is from your present attitude,
that means when you arrive at the 201 attitude you
may be 3, 2, 2 off of where we plan to be. But you
guys can take care of that during the tweak. So
in other words, we're saying that maneuver to the
201 attitude may leave you up to 3 degrees off in
ROLL.
CDR Okay. Understand.
363 00 _9 07 MCC Okay, going on to the second page of the message.

I want to make sure that - to let Ed know, here,
that we considered going to the half-a-degree
increments or less by allowing you to tweak, using
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a FINE maneuver rather than COARSE. However, in

looking at 2-1/2 degrees or something like that,
that's 250/100 of a degree, which you got to con-
vert to octal. So we figure 1 degree granularity
is good enough, since the elongation of the comet
should be about 6 degrees.
SPT Yes, I agree with you, Rusty. I didn't realize the

elongation was moving out that fast.
MCC Okay, fine. And that saves you converting all

kinds of things to octal for those tweak maneuvers.
Okay, down another few steps, Jerry, where it says
when 20 - S201 data take complete to point the
camera away from the Sun, and then we're going -
we cycle the ACS MODE switch to ATT HOLD, CMG.
CDR Okay, we found it.
MCC Okay, fine. Now, the reason that we're cycling

the switch there is, in case there's any small
attitude error, it centers the deadband right
where you are and - and then you go ahead and
INHIBIT CMG control, and the TACS maneuver back
to the SOLAR INERTIAL attitude is nice and smooth.
What we want to make sure of is that you don't
get confused there. You are at that time calling
ATT HOLD, CMG, even though you are about to INHIBIT
CMG control. And that's no problem. You will be
actually in TACS control, but we do want you to
cycle the switch as listed.
363 00 50 50 CDR Okay. Understand.
MCC Okay. On the last page of the message we have a

caution note in the attitude monitor scheme. Let's
see, we are going LOS here and we're picking up
Tananarive in about ll minutes, in case we go over
the hill while I'm talking. Okay, during the mon-
itor scheme, that caution note should apply before
the DAS entries. That is, if we are in the 201
attitude and we have a problem that you have to
take over with TACS we want you to - Bill should
let Ed know as soon as possible to repoint 201 to
keep the Sun from blinding it.
CDR Good point, Rusty.

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363 00 51 38 MCC Okay. That's about all we got.
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_363 01 03 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive for 5 min-

utes. Rusty has one more small point he'd like
to make to you on the conversation you were having.
So I'ii turn it over to him.
363 01 04 03 MCC Okay, Jerry, you there?
MCC Hello, Skylab ; Houston.
363 01 08 08 MCC Okay, Skylab. Houston in the blind in case you're

reading us. What we're talking about is the
caution note there for $201, in case we run into
an attitude problem during monitoring. Our sug-
gestion, rather than Just point it away from the
Sun, is to go POWER, OFF and point it away. That
will save the remaining frames in that sequence.
Then after you get back in attitude, we'll do
POWER, ON and RESET to initiate the next sequence.
363 Ol 08 36 MCC See you tomorrow.
363 Ol 26 07 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello, at Honeysuckle for 9

minutes.
363 Ol 26 23 CDR Hello, Dick.
CC Hello there.
CC And, CDR, Houston. We had a problem in - in

acquiring the spacecraft at Tananarive. We never
did get a good acquisition until Just about LOS
time. Rusty made one other minor point on general
message 443_ in the blind, and I'm not at all sure
that you heard him at all, did you?
CDR Negative; we didn't, Dick.
CC Okay, do - sometime this evening - now if you got

it out - but sometime when you got that message
in front of you, I can make the same point. Rusty
has left, but Ithink I understand it.
363 O1 27 17 CDR Okay, go ahead.

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CC Okay, Jerry, down there toward the - right toward

the tail end of the message, oh, I guess maybe
15 or 20 lines from the bottom where it talks
about if the gimbals approach their stops, and -
and/or the attitude error exceeds 0.5 degree in
any axis, and lists some DAS con_nands. And then
there is a caution note about S201 right below
that.
363 01 27 53 PLT Dick, you dropped out there. Would you say again?
All after, "if gimbals approach their stops."
CC Okay, I was Just trying to get you to look at

that - that part of the message. It's toward the
tail end, it's little - some little DAS com_uds.
And I want to make a note about that caution note
concerning 201 - -
PLT Houston, Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston, how do you read?
PLT Roger. You dropped out there, Dick. Say again

all after "if gimbals approach their stops."
CC Roger.
CC I want you to be looking at that caution note

concerning 201. That's what I want to make a
point about.
PLT Okay, I'm looking at it.
B6B O1 28 BO CC Okay, the caution note, when we uplinked it, Just

said point the instrument away from the Sun to
prevent damage. After we uplinked the message,
Just here in the last hour, we got some addi -
additional information. And what we would also
like for you to do is turn the POWER, OFF S201
at the time that happens. And then, following
the point where the Sun could damage the S201, do
a RESET and I_)WER back ON.
B6B O1 29 08 CC Just to make that clear, I want the RESET and the
POWER, ON after you've accomplished the repointing.
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PLT Roger, understand. Do a RESET and then go turn

the POWER back ON.
CC Roger. It's POWER_ OFF when it happens, and then

after you repoint it POWER, ON and then RESET, in
that order.
PLT Roger, after repoint, POWER, ON and then RESET.
CC Right, Bill. Thank you much.
363 01 30 O0 CC And SPT, Houston, one configuration. On S055 we

desire GRATING, AUTO SCAN and no INTERLOCK.
SPT Yes, Dick. You also had included in the step

where we were supposed to try to find it with the
mirror. At least that's what I was led to believe
by the pad. If you want me to - not to attempt
that I'ii Just press on with the grating - GRATING
SCAN, no INTERLOCK.
363 01 30 28 CC Okay, Ed. I guess that was a premature call. We

didn't realize exactly where you were. We would
like for you to continue, so Just ignore my last
call.
PLT And, Dick, I erased a llne here. I Just want to

confirm now, after repointing, POWER, ON and
RESET, or is it RESET and then POWER, ON?
CC It's POWER, ON and then RESET, Bill.
PLT Okay, I got it right. Thank you.
363 01 31 07 CC Roger, thank you.
363 Ol 33 18 SPT Dick, would the S056 people like a long exposure
as possible or the one specified?
CC Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. We'd like it 20 minutes, as

specified.
• SPT Thank you.
CC Roger.
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363 01 3h 12 SPT Dick, in our look for it on S055, we occasionally

see a 2 or a 3 flicker up, but we cannot ever go
back and find it. I think the drift has got us.
I 'm not sure we really were right on the nucleus
with the 55 although we did see a couple of 2's
and 3's. But as I say, we can never go back and
relocate them. I suggest we try just a little bit
longer and then go on with the GRATING, AUTO SCAN,
no INTERLOCK.
363 01 34 53 CC SPT, Houston, we agree with that. We don't want

you to try too much longer, and then go ahead and
press on. We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Hawaii
comes up at 01:46.
363 01 45 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for about

l0 minutes. And we're going to take control of
the VTR here to start our dump cycle.
363 01 46 05 SPT Okay, Dick. I think it might be a little more

interesting this time. In looking at the pictures,
we took two more this past time and moved it right
out to the very edge of the field of view to
around minus 140 in X. And it took pictures on
both scopes. And it does show a definite but
still very faint spike from the coma going off to
about 5 o'clock in our direction. I can see it
out to around 0.4 degrees. I believe that's
probably the solar direction but I'm not - I know -
that's the general direction, but I wouldn't want
to say it's pointed exactly solar. The other tail
is more diffuse, perhaps a little brighter, but
it doesn't extend back as far, at least not in our
ability to visnAlize it or see it. There still
is that very small symnetry of the coma going off
to around 3 o'clock. It's very faint but still
noticeable. It's Just the coma being, oh, about
say6 0.03 or 0.04 of a degree and the other asym-
metries maybe being one-sixth or one-eighth of that.
363 01 47 26 CC Roger, Ed. Sounds real interesting. We're look-

ing forward to taking a look at it ourselves.
And, PLT, Houston, I've got two or three miss -
a couple of mission notes this evening I'd like
to start working off so I can get my work done
here - and a couple of them for you.
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363 01 h7 5h PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, tomorrow morning you've got the first ATM

pass, so you're likely to be the one that activates
ATM/C&D loop and we'd like to turn on pump Charlie
vice pump Bravo in the morning.
PLT Roger, understand. Pump Charlie.
CC Roger. And that'll - we think - we think that

will be our normal procedure from now on. I have
another question that's really kind of for anybody
and sort of dealer's choice. You reported last
night that that TV input station had the pin come
out of it. We've got two choices, and it's kind
of up to you. We do have a spare that we can
swap out for that one that failed down there in
the experiment compartment. If you'd like us to
do that we'll schedule it; it's HK80 Mike. If
you'd rather just go ahead and it's not too much
trouble to use either the forward - one in the
forward compartment or the one in the dome, that's
okay with us too. So let us know.
363 01 h9 06 PLT Hey, Dick, would you putthat on the shopping list?
CC PLT, Houston. I guess - We've had a little con-

versation down here - and I guess we prefer - it's
no problem for us to schedule it. It's about a
20-minute task and we'll - so if it's okay with
you, we'll just block out the time in one of these
upcoming days and put it on somebody's flight
plan rather than go through the trouble of the
checklist change to change the - the shopping list.
In any event -
PLT Sounds good, Dick.
CC Okay, good. Also, when Ed gets off the ATM -

some time this evening, Ed - we haven't heard
much on the gypsy moths and if you get a chance
some time before the evening's out, you might fill
us in on what our moth friends are doing.
363 01 51 28 SPT Not - not too much action in the moth world right
now, Dick. I'll go on down and take a look, but
I've been looking for the past 2 nights - 2 or 3
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nights. And even the moth carcasses, if you will,

are pretty hard to find except for one or two of
them. I'll keep looking, though, and give you a
little further discussion tonight.
SPT Dick, I have a question for you.
CC Go ahead.
363 O1 52 29 SPT On the next pad for the next JOP 18C that Jerry
will be running, at 02:33, they say, "perform
reverse maneuver made at ...", is that supposed
to be crossed out as it was in mine and go ahead
and reacquire it the same way we did this orbit?
CC That's affirmative, SPT. You're right.
CC Okay.
363 01 53 24 PLT Just passed over the Hawaiian Islands, Dick, and
I got a picture of the entire string with the
exception of Kauai. They're reasonably good.
Had some cloud cover.
CC Roger, Bill. Thank you much, and SPT, Houston;

we're wondering if you were able to see cycle -
daylight cycle to daylight cycle changes in the
comet?
363 01 56 53 SPT Dick, that's very hard for me to estimate, because

of the faintness of all the features. The only
thing I can say is that maybe it's my photography
and the fact that I moved the comet out a little
bit further so that the magnetic function was not
quite as strong for the 52. But I was able to see
the sunward spike a little more plainly. I be-
lieve it's probably my positioning and photography,
though. Any changes, I think, would be down in
the noise level of my ability to see it.
CC Okay. Copy. Thank you much. We're about a minute

from LOS. We're going to drop out just a couple
of minutes, and then I'll call you at Goldstone.
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363 01 58 20 CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 6-1/2 minutes.
363 01 58 27 SPT Roger. Hello, Dick. One thing I did forget to

mention is that - and again it's just a very sub-
Jective look at it, and that's the brightness of
the coma appears to be about the same brightness
as I saw in Mercury the other day. Perhaps a
little brighter.
CC Okay. Thank you.
363 02 00 02 CC And, CDR, Houston. A reminder of you on the HKCM7.

We see the OWS HEAT EXCHANGER is OFF, and the
secondary glycol roop - loop still running. Just
be sure, prior to going to bed this evening, that
you finish squaring away that procedure.
CDR Good point, Dick. Thanks.
CC Roger.
363 02 00 h0 CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Bermuda in

5 minutes. I'll call you there.
363 02 09 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for about

8 minutes. And two things here. Bill, I have an
explanation, I believe, for your problem earlier
today about unlocking on 82B and then, since there's
very few opportunities this evening to get the
three of you when you're not doing ATM or something
this evening, I've got a little bit of news.
363 02 l0 22 PLT Go ahead. I think we can listen.
CC Okay, Bill, on the deal with S082B and the limb

pointing when you lost lock at about 16:00 Zulu
this - this morning, we looked back at the data
and the loss of lock occurred when you were about
h0 arc seconds off the limb. Turns out the point-
ing reference system's limb pointing mode outer
limit is 45 arc seconds, and it will not hold at
that point. Between h0 and h5 arc seconds, the
system is pretty marginal and may break lock if
the XUV slit is not absolutely parallel with the
limb. And so we think probably what caused you
to break lock and it wasn't any hardware problem
or anything like that.
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PLT Okay, I accept that. I was out there originally,

but I went back to the limb too, and tried to get
out there and step it out, and I couldn't do that
either. So I did recognize there were problems
of limitation there. I can't recall the exact
chain of events, but I did go back toward the
limb using the white light, and then shifting back
to limb pointing, but I couldn't manually step.
363 02 ii 30 CC Okay, well, I tell you what, if - if we learn any-

thing different than the explanation that I just
told you, we'll get back to you. And we still got
about 6 minutes here if you guys - We have some
short news here I can read up to you.
_S ...
SPT - - on that same problem bill had, I reported on

tape about the operation maybe 3 days ago that I
did have some problem when I was only around i0 or
15 arc seconds off the limb and it did have a little
instability in it; that is it was jumping around
plus or minus 3, 4, 5 arc seconds. The exact
details have been reported on tape.
CC Okay. Well, perhaps we have been a little hasty

in doing this. At any rate, we'll take another
quick - another look at the data and - and get
back with you.
363 02 12 29 PLT Okay, Dick. Hit us with the news.
CC Okay, the dollar improved on most European money

markets Friday for the second straight day. The
price of gold also rose. Dealers attributed the
advance of the American currency to a widespread
belief that the United States would suffer less
than Europe from oil price hikes. U.S. Steel and
Armco Steel announced on Friday that they were
imposing higher prices on certain heavy steel
products. U.S. Steel said in November the prod-
ucts involved are used in the manufacture of
everything from bobby pins to railroad tracks.
Israeli and Egyptian officers negotiated the prob-
lem of troop pullbacks around the Suez Canal,
appeared to make progress in their talks here
Friday. Then they broke off their sessions to
i_ui:ed _,,
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........ _,ere so _'-_=" :_w9.'-;." Dr. Kohoutek said the = ....
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363 02 19 37 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canaries for 6-1/2 minutes.
363 02 19 42 CDR Roger, Dick.
363 02 25 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds to LOS.

We're going to dropout just for 20 or 30 seconds,
and then I'll give you a call when we're locked
up at Ascension.
363 02 29 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We got you at Ascension for

6 minutes.
363 02 29 _4 CDR Roger, Dick.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUNITVOICE TRANSCRIPTION
363 02 31.53 CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Houston.
CC Hey, Jerry, we think we're in a funny situation

here, and we still got about 3-1/2 minutes prior
to LOS. And I'm talking about the maneuver that -
for pointing that you're going to have to make in
order to accomplish this next ATM J0P 18 Charlie.
What we believe has happened is, Ed hit the SI
switch after his last pass, which took the bird
from EPC pointed at the comet and moved it back
to SOLARINTERIAL. This - And we shouldn't have
done this. We shouldn't have removed the SI off-
sets, and we should have stayed in EPC. This prob-
lem now is we don't readily have a maneuver
because - to take you to point at the comet,
because Ed's final attitude there was his original
maneuver, plus the necessary comet motion compen-
sations that he made. Very shortly here, I will
have, I think, some numb@rs that should take you
_ and - and point you back. But I think you're prob-
ably going to need some assistance from Ed there
to make sure you find it.
363 02 33 06 CDR Okay. I guess if I don't see the comet on your

maneuver I'll have to sort of set up a square
search?
CC Roger. Ably assisted by the SPT. (Laughter)
CDR Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. I do have what's our best guess at

the maneuver. And if you'd like to copy this
down I'll read them to you, X, Y, and Z, and the
first number will be an octal number and then the
decimal equivalent.
CDR Okay, go.
CC Stand by. Okay, Jerry, here's the maneuver. And

we think that this maneuver will put the comet
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square in the center of the occulting disk, so

then you'll have to get Ed to help you move it
out so you can find it. Okay, here we go:
X-ray 50221, 1.454 degrees; Yankee 50405,
4.05 degrees; Zulu 5 plus 4 balls, 0.7. Over.
CDR Okay; that's a fine maneuver. 50221, 50405, and

50O000.
CC That's affirm, Jerry. It's a good readback; so

try that one. And, again, that will put the
comet in the center. And then you'll have to
offset from there to get it from behind the oc-
culting disk.
CDR Okay. That shouldn't be any great problem.
363 02 35 30 CC And, Skylab, Houston; we're going LOS Ascension.

Carnarvon comes up at 03:01.
363 03 01 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon and Honey-

suckle for 8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. We finally got it located. I'm

getting ready to move it into the center.
CC Okay, Jerry. And, SPT, Houston; for your infor-

mation the - there's a general message that we
put together about the comet that's in the tele-
printer - we just uplinked it - that has in it
the spectral lines that have been reported today,
that you asked Dr. Kohoutek about this afternoon.
And he did not have that information right at
his finger tips, but it is listed on the message.
SPT Okay; Thanks very much, Dick. Appreciate getting

that information. Hey, I'm sorry I was on private
comm at the time when the discussion came up on
how to maneuver back, here. The way I did the
previous orbit was to use the same maneuver. And
the thing had only moved around 20 units in octal
and it would probably move around 20 or so again.
And that was well within the range of our ability
to pick it up, because it started out pretty far
out. And even if it did move in a little bit
close, you know which direction it is and we can
very easily have made an maneuver back out. I
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think that's a convenient way to do it in the

future unless you want to sit at this offset. I
thought there was a disadvantage in sitting at
that offset any longer than you had to, so that's
why I got rid of it.
CC Okay. We don't think it makes a whole lot of

difference. As matter of fact, I'm not sure that
we realized that you had gone back to SI in between
the last two. And in any case, the 18 Charlies
are over, so it's kind of academic now.
SPT You're right.
363 03 lO 27 CC Skylab, Houston; we're going LOS Honeysuckle.

Hawaii comes up at 03:25.
363 03 l0 53 CC And CDR, Houston. As we're going over the hill - -
363 03 25 27 CC Skylab, Houston; we're A0S Hawaii for about 4 min-

utes. And, Bill, it might be a good idea if we -
if you could get prepared to go ahead and start
giving me the first part of - start giving me the
evening status report for this evening, if you are
prepared to do that. That might get us out of a
• bind at Goldstonein casewe have any questions
about it prior to the med conference.
PLT Okay, I'm ready to start, then. Sleep: CDR, 6.5,

excellent; 6.5 for the SPT, very sound; PLT, 6.5,
excellent.
CC Roger; and, PLT, Houston; request you speak up.

You're very, very weak.
PLT Roger; disregard the previous comments.
CC Okay; why don't you start over. That one was

very loud and clear; that was good.
PLT Okay. Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6.5 heavy, 0.5 light;

SPT, 7.5, 6.5 heavy, 1.0 light; PLT, 7.5, 7.5
heavy. How are you reading me?
CC Roger. I'm reading you clear, but still it got

a little bit weak toward the end. But I - I'm
reading you, go ahead.
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363 03 26 53 PLT Okay. Urine: CDR, 850; SPT, 1850; PLT, ii00.
Water gun: CDR, 7893; SPT, 3519; PLT, 9741.
CC Okay.
PLT Body mass: CDR, 6.320, 6.320, 6.320; SPT, 6.363,

6.369, 6.369; PLT, 6.258, 6.258, 6.256. Exercise:
CDR, no change; SPT, no Alfa done today; PLT, no
change. Medication: CDR, none. And clothing:
shorts and socks. SPT, none; PLT, Tinactin as
directed and one shirt. Flight Plan deviations:
None. Shopping list accomplishments: PLT, aroma
and taste test on the tape; CDR, completed the
taste test. Inoperable equipment: None. Un-
scheduled stowage: urine trays 7 and 8 stowed in
F-551, that's Foxtrot 551.
CC Okay.
363 03 28 03 PLT Yes, let's see. Food log: CDR, salt, zero;
deviations, minus coffee with sugar, minus tea;
rehydration, plus 1.0; SPT, salt pack, 4.0; jam -
deviations, minus a jam, minus bacon bits we
couldn't find; rehydration, water minus 2.0;
PLT, salt, no; rehydration water, minus 2.0.
CC Okay.
PLT And if we still have enough time, I have the film

log ready. Film log - okay, and the DAC, no
16-millimeters used today; 35-millimeter: Nikon 1
is Charlie X-ray 37, 66 is the count; Nikon 2,
Bravo Echo 05 with a count of 43; Nikon 3, 4, 5,
no change. 70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 52,
a new load. Count is 040. ETC, no change; EREP,
no change; and drawer A configuration, no change.
CC Roger, Bill; and why don't we stop right there.

We're about 15 seconds from LOS. I'll give you
a call at Goldstone at 03:37 and if there's any-
thing else, you can complete it there. As I go
over the hill, Jerry, it's okay with us if you
ahead and close the 82 Bravo shutter. We've
accomplished the - the objective of that short,
final 82 Bravo exposure.
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CDR Okay, I'll terminate.
363 03 29 54 CC Okay.
363 03 37 05 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Goldstone. I'll have

you for 7 or 8 minutes prior to the handing over
to the Bermuda for the medical conference. And,
Bill, I need one item of information to complete
the evening status report. Bravo Victor 48 was
downloaded today, and we need to know how many
frames were remaining at that time.
PLT Okay, Dick, I wrote it on the little tape tab.

I'll get that and give it to you later. I'll have
to dig it out of the film vault.
CC Okay, we would appreciate that. And I need an

ATM frame count from one of the guys. And that's
the end of what I need for this evening.
PLT Okay; while we're squaring that away, i got a

couple for you.
CC Okay, go ahead.
363 03 37 57 PLT Subject S020, in particular, the film magazine

that's desired for tomorrow's activity. I, in
the absence of any other instructions, I went
ahead and loaded the same mag we had in it the
other day. I think it's mag 3. And my question,
is that correct? And the thing that motivates
it is that the protocol has been changed. And it
appears as though one may be able to go through
the entire - one entire mag out there if we lucked
out tomorrow. In a different vein, the instruc-
tions - special instructions for maneuver moni-
toring and attitude rate monitoring tomorrow is
referred to - there is referred to the gimbal
limits you know, if the gimbals approach the limits.
And my question is: does this merely apply to the
outer gimbals or does it apply to inner and outer
gimbals limits?
CC Okay, Bill; let me - let's talk about that one a

second. Hang on.
CDR Hey, Ed. You ready for the frame count?

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CDR Okay, 14993, 5433, 185, 510, 6583, 5035,
CC Okay, thank you.
363 03 39 38 CC And, PLT, Houston, in answer to your two questions.

First of all, in S020 film magazine, magazine num-
ber 3 is okay. Secondly, on the maneuvering -
maneuver monitoring, the gimbal limits as described -
the monitoring of the gimbal limits as described
in that message do apply to both the outer gimbal
and the inner gimbal.
SPT Okay, Dick; thank you. We copy that. We'll pick

up on S020 then, on frame number 5.
CC Okay.
PLT Roger. And, Dick, the Bravo Victor 48 was down-

loaded at a frame count of 26.
CC Thank you, Bill.
PLT Hey, Dick. Does that fill all the squares?
CC l'm sorry. Say again, Bill.
PLT Does that fill all the squares?
CC Yes, sir, that fills all the squares for the

evening status report. Sure appreciate it.
PLT Roger; thank you for the info.
363 03 41 03 CC And, Skylab, Houston; again you guys get an A plus

on ATM closeout. We're very satisfied with it.
And we just uplinked a picture map into the tele-
printer of the S - $201 field of view, the position
of the comet and the Sun with respect to a couple
of sections of ATM panel that Bill and Ed might
like to take a look at now. We - -
SPT Hey, that'll be very useful. Thank you very much,

appreciate it.
PLT Yes, those have turned out to be extremely useful

in the past.
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363 03 42 l0 CC And, Skylab, Houston; we're close to handover

where you'll be getting the medical conference.
The wake up site in the morning is Vanguard at
12:09. So if you'd like to wake up exactly on
time, you might set your alarm clocks.
SPT Thank you, Dick; so long.
CC Roger; goodnight.
CC Skylab, Houston; it does turn out that I've got

about 45 seconds more here at Texas prior to
handing over to Bermuda for the med conference.
A final reminder; since this is the last time
I'll be seeing you this evening and won't get to
talk to you again, probably, be sure and get the
ATM COOLANT loop turned OFF prior to going to bed,
and in the morning, pump Charlie. See you in the
morning and have a nice EVA. We'll - I guess
we'll be seeing you tomorrow afternoon.
SPT Thank you very much, Dick. Who's going to be on

for the EVA?
CC Story. And Rusty'll be _ere, also.
SPT Okay; very good. Talk to you tomorrow afternoon.
363 03 44 46 CC Great.
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363 12 i0 04 CC (Music: "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night)
363 12 13 20 CC Good morning, gents. That ought to put th - put

you in the mood for an EVA. We're with you for
6 more minutes through the Vanguard, doing a
data/voice recorder dump.
CDR Morning, Crip. Nothing like a little Christmas

music to start the day off right.
CC Roger. Sorry we were getting that a little bit

late here. We're slow, but we get there
eventually.
SPT Morning, Crip. Thanks for the good music.
CC Yes, yes. That ought to get you up swinging.

Really, we played that for our benefit down here
to wake us up after all night.
363 12 18 30 CC Skylab, Houston; i minut@ until LOS. We'll see

you in 7-1/2 minutes over Ascension and that's
at 12:26.
363 12 25 40 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Ascension, 4 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip and crimson team.
CC How's all you guys doing this morning?
SPT We're up, warm, and our eyes are open.
CC Figured you were getting that way. All ready to

go outside and take pictures of the comet?
SPT Sure are, Crip; looking forward to it.
CC That's good, you guys have been doing some good

work. We're here in the middle of the night get-
ting to see some of the TV and the stuff that you
did on the previous day.
SPT Were you able to see the spikes out front about
5 o'clock or so?
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CC I haven't had a chance to look at that particular

one, yet. Read your description of it though; it
sounded pretty good. Sounded like it might even
had a - a third tail perpendicular to all to those.
SPT Well, it was just a very faint hint of it and I

think I gave the faintness as the size of it. We
just don't really have the resolution l'd like to
see it.
CC Roger.
363 12 28 07 CC SPT, Houston. In case you're starting to look

at pads this early in the morning, we have a
JOP 18D pad already on board, but we changed a
couple of little items, like the maneuver time
and asking you do a nominal cage. So we're going
to uplink an entirely new pad up over y()_ next
site. So - so you can - you can forget about the
one you're got there and we'll - we'll be sending
that. I bet you're not going to have a chance to
look at it until - until you get back in from your
EVA. And as we've said previously, I'd just like
to reemphasize that doing the JOP 18D, of course,
is dependent upon how long it takes you on that
EVA today.
SPT Okay, Crip. Is there a way of just slipping in a

rev? Has he got some alternate times that we
could Just slip in there in case we do get back
in and want to run it off?
CC No. No, it would occur too late. We're going

to be getting lots of comet observations though
in the upcoming days. We got lots of JOP 18D's
scheduled.
SPT Unfortunately, our friend is going to start to

fade out.
363 12 29 20 CC Yes, we're - we're concerned about that also.

We're i minute from LOS now. And we'll see you
again over the Vanguard at 13:47. That's about
an hour and 17 minutes away. One little reminder
is - I think maybe they've already mentioned it
to you, Ed - on your ED41 they do want to make
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sure that - that you turn that off and disconnect

it after the AM run is completed so it won't inter-
fere with the data later on - well, if we're in
the EVA.
SPT Okay, Crip; sure will. Thank you. So long.
CC Okeydoke.
CC One item that we put on that JOP 18D, by the way,

Ed, is that nominal cage right at the beginning,
because that assures us that we'll have a good
momentum profile for the JOP 18D, no matter what
occurs during the EVA.
SPT Understand, Crip.
363 12 30 21 CC Take care.
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363 13 27 31 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for ii minutes.
CDR Hello, Story.
CC Good morning.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We'd like ACCEPT on the updata switch. Get your

state vector updated.
CDR Okay, I'm on my way to the co,and module now.
363 13 48 30 CC Jer, if you can get turned around in the middle

of your float there, we see you're not powered up
on the CMC yet, so we can wait on that.
PLT He's on his way, Story.
363 13 51 35 CDR Okay, Story, you got PO0 and ACCEPT.
CC Okay, Jer.
363 13 57 56 CC Skylab, we're 20 seconds to LOS and about 2 min-

utes to Ascension at lh:00..We got your clock
synced, your vector in now. You can go back to
BLOCK and press on with your TSM update.
CDR Roger.
CC Jer, I guess, all that's left for you is a P51 on -

during the next night pass.
363 13 58 26 CDR That's right.
363 12 00 58 CC Skylab, AOS through Ascension for ll minutes.

We'll be dumping the data/voice here. And we need
the DAS - DAS to give you a nuZ update, and your
new JOP 18D pad is on board.
CDR Roger; we got it, Story. Thank you.

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363 14 03 16 CC And, Jet, we think we see you bringing your clock

up. Your clock is synced.
CDR Just checking your work, that's all.
CC Okay.
CDR I'll give you guys an A-plus for that.
CC Okay.
363 14 09 50 CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half to LOS. About

35 minutes to Guam at 14:44.
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363 lh 47 33 CC Skylab, AOS through Guam for 7 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, we'll be bringing up a second pump

in the PRIMARY LOOP. You got Bravo ON now. We're
bringing ON Charlie, and you're going to get a
caution and warning.
363 14 h9 40 CDR Hey, Story, what's a good nu Z to use on this

NOUN 78?
CC Minus 1.07, Jer.
CDR Roger_
363 14 50 08 CC Skylab, I'm not sure I got up to you the first

time, but we're bringing on a second pump in the
PRIMARY LOOP. You'll be getting a caution and
warning; Just punch it off. You'll be in Bravo
and Charlie.
/ CDR Roger, Story.
363 14 52 02 CC Skylab, your CMC's looking good.
SPT Roger, Story. The stars on 51 were 12 and 14.
CC Okay, got them.
363 i_ 53 52 CC Skylab, we're about _0 seconds to LOS; about a

half an hour to the Vanguard at 15:24. Primary
coolant loop is looking good. We're all done now
with the VTR recording, and at your convenience
you can power that down and remove the cable run-
ning through the airlock.
SPT Okay; thank you, Story.
363 15 24 57 CC Skylab, AOS through Vanguard for i0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Story.
CC Hello, Ed.
363 15 27 30 CC Ed, Houston.

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CC Ed, the - your ATM JOP 18D at the end - end of

the day is based on hatch closure at about 21:00,
so we did put considerable pad in the EVA prep.
And if you do get ahead, you got a GO for an early
hatch open, up to an hour. If you get more than
an hour ahead, we'll have to think about that.
SPT Okay; thank you, Story. I've already reviewed the

pad, and I got to put it in the JOP Summary Sheets.
So I really won't need too much time once we get
back in. Pretty much - just enough time to get
out of $he suit and get squared away and get that
nominal H-cage done.
363 15 28 14 CC Okay, and while I got you, one other thing. When
you're operating S201 out there, there's a pos-
sibility that you may get a gimbal on the stop
and a reset, something like that. If you go off
attitude during $201 ops, turn the POWER, OFF,
point the instrument away from the Sun. After
you've gotten stable and - and back in attitude,
repoint the instrument, put the POWER, ON, and
hit RESET. That'll get you another sequence going.
SPT Okay, Story; I sure will. To what offset can

they tolerate? I forgot that particular figure.
I know it's in the EVA Checklist, however. That's
angle from the Sun, before they start seeing
instrument damage.
CC I'll get you an answer on that.
SPT Thank you.
363 15 29 09 CC And the answer to that is 15 degrees.
363 15 34 33 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 6 minutes to

Ascension. And no need to acknowledge, Ed; just
like to clarify your previous question. If the
S201 instrument sees the Sun at all, there is a
possibility of damage. If you get the instrument
pointed at least 15 degrees away from the Sun,
it is protected. So you want to go at - at least
that far away for protection, and the more the
better.
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SPT Roger; I understand, Story. We'll be as conser-

vative as possible.
363 15 34 59 CC Okay.
363 15 42 34 CC Skylab, AOS through Ascension for 2 minutes.
B63 15 43 56 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and a minute from

Canaries.
CDR Roger, Story.
B6B 15 46 2B CC Skylab, AOS; Canaries and Madrid for about 12 min-

utes. Be dumping the data/voice at Madrid at
15:50. Is anybody up near the STS or MDA?
PLT Roger, Story; I'm up here.
CC Okay, Bill. We'd like MPC ROLL, INHIBIT on the

ATM panel.
PLT Roger.
CC And somewhere along - -
PLT You need anything else?
CC Just have a few things, about 2 or 3 minutes of

discussion here prior to the EVA. When you're
ready.
PLT Fire away.
363 15 47 06 CC Okay, in case there's any problems with the

PRIMARY or SECONDARY LOOP, which we're not antici-
pating they're looking real good now. PRIMARY
LOOP, we're running that INVERTER 2, PUMPs Bravo
and Charlie. SECONDARY LOOP is also INVERTER 2,
and that's PUMP Bravo. Same as last EVA. And
during the S201 TACS maneuvers, you can expect
oscillations about the - the rates that we put in
your monitor pad. And about Y and Z, maybe plus
or minus about 0.005 in X; they'll be small in Y
and Z. So there will be oscillations about those -
those rates.
PLT Roger.
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363 15 47 58 CC And also during the S201, we're showing that you
may get some gimbals approaching the stops or on
the stops during the data take. Particularly,
that'll be the OUTER GIMBAL in CMG number 2. And
that's due to 50 degrees ro - roll. So expect
possibly having to do a nominal H cage during
that data take as per your pad.
PLT Roger. And you said most likely occur during the
201 data take?
CC Yes, and that'll be the - the OUTER GIMBAL of CMG

number 2.
PLT Okay, I'll be watching it.
363 15 48 42 CC During the last EVA, we used most of the TACS in

going back to a - a deadband attitude - in going
to TACS only when the vehicle was out of the TACS
deadband attitude. And we're not expecting to
get out of - out of attitude due to the monitoring
techniques you got and all that. If you do find
yourself out of attitude, what we want to do is
go to some attitude hold, either CMG or TACS, and
do a controlled maneuver back to attitude. And
also, we can reduce momentum problems by keeping
the CDR and the SPT in the FAS as often as we can.
SPT Roger, Story.
PLT Roger; understand.
CC And that's it for now.
PLT Okay, would you hit the SECONDARY LOOP configura-

tion again, Story? I am not - I didn't write
that down.
CC SECONDARY's INVERTER 2 and PUMP Bravo.
363 15 50 27 CC And, Bill, did you understand that - that $201

shading pad that we sent up to you all right?
PLT Yes, Ed; and I looked at it. We - I drew the

picture the way I looked at it, and we had under-
stood the previous verbal description. But this
was - sort of nailed it down. It was very helpful.
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CC Okay, and the important thing here, as I said

also yesterday, was to just barely shade the Sun.
The comet's a lot closer to the Sun now this time
than it was when you did it.
PLT Okay.

to Guam at 16:23. And, PLT; Houston.
CC Bill, we don't think you're this far ahead, but

on your APCS control pad here, the reconfiguration
you do just prior to lock compartment depress, we
don't want you to do that umtil we complete the
momentum dump this nightside pass, and that'll be
completed about 16:35 •
PLT Okay. I know what you're talking about. I -

won't - I don't think I'ii be there anyway yet.
363 15 57 59 cc Okay.
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363 16 23 43 CC Skylab, A0S through Guam 7 minutes. And we'll be

using the DAS here.
CDR Roger, Story. We're nearly suited.
363 16 27 30 CC Skylab, the DAS is yours.
SPT Story, we may have grown an inch and a half but

our suits haven't.
CC Okay. Jet, that's a confirmation of what we saw

on the anthropometric data. And most of that
growth from the middle on up to the shoulders?
CDR That's sure where it feels like, Story.
CC Okay.
363 16 29 46 CC And we're a minute from LOS. About 6 minutes to

Honeysuckle at 16:35. Be dumping the data/voice
there.
363 16 35 29 CC Skylab, got you through Honeysuckle for 3 minutes.

Dumping the data/voice here.
b
CC And we need the DAS, Skylab.
PLT Got it, Story.
' 363 16 37 37 CC DAS is yours.
CC DAS is yours.
PLT Okay, thank you.

to the Vanguard at 17:04.
363 17 04 i0 SPT Watch your feet, Jer - or Bill.
SPT Yes.
CDR Okay. I got it, Bill.

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SPT Okay, Bill. Why don't you just move on back to

the MDA and we'll be all set.
SPT Okay. Are you clear? Okay, ... Jer?
CDR Okay. We'll start -
SFT Yes, let me Just get clear of your umbilical.
CDR Okay. It looks clean as a hound's tooth.
363 17 05 05 CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear. Through

the Vanguard for 2-1/2 minutes.
CDR No, Ed. We're not stuffing it in the sphere.

We' re putting it in the aft lock here.
SPT Yes. Well, I just thought I'd get a little extra

out of the way because you don't need all that
today.
CDR All right. Okay.
SPT A little more working room for us.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Bill, we need the DAS here.
CDR Stand by, Bill. I'm not even in yet.
SPT Okay. I'll Just wrap this - I guess I'll just

have to pull it in then, and coil it in the aft
if you're going to have to come over it.
CDR Yes. All right. Let me get myself headed in here.

Better release the hatch first.
SPT ... Yes.
CDR Okay. The RELEASE HANDLE is to the UNLOCK position.

The HATCH HANDLE is OPEN. Done. Okay. That's
in work.
SPT Just watch the gear down, to your left.
CDR Okay.
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SPT Yes. Right.
CDR Okay. All right. RELEASE HANDLE's UNLOCKed.

Okay. That's done. All right. It's closed.
363 17 07 13 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS.
CDR Locked.
CC About 15 minutes to Canaries. The DAS is yours.
SPT Okay, Just back, and towards your - -
CDR To the right. Right? Okay.
SPT You're looking over my shoulder; now watch the 201

right here. That's back by your shield ... - -
CDR I can see it, Ed.
SPT Okay. You got the DAC and the - here, I'ii lay
down flat here. Try and -
CDR Okay. We're in.
SPT No. No.
CDR That's on the other side, Bill.
SPT Just take your time, Bill, and make sure you don't
miss a step.
CDR Okay. The cap is off and - and anchored, Bill.

So you're in good shape.
363 17 08 49 CDR Looks good on the hatch.
363 17 22 21 CDR 3-1/2.
SPT Yes. We'll give it a little bit longer here.
SPT Okay. We got about 80 percent of that covered with

ice so far. Up pretty fast from that first half
a drop of psi. It looks like 60 percent or so of
that thing was covered.
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363 17 23 ii CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear. Canaries and

Madrid, 14 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
PLT Roger, Story. How do you read PLT?
CC Reading everybody loud and clear.
PLT Great.
SPT That's going down pretty slow. We got a fair

amount of ice on there now.
CDR Yes.
Sl°T Got an Annulus on the outside, maybe i0 percent

of the radius or so, that's still open.
SPT 3.75 and holding for EV-I.
SPT Pretty solid chunk of ice, too.
CDR Sure is.
SPT Hey, there you go. That string's a good idea you
have on there. Should've done more of that, Jer.
363 17 24 36 CDR Yes. You put a couple pieces of string under there
and let the ice collect on it; you can just pull
that string up and the ice pops off and you're -
off and running again.
CDR - go. Just pop it off with the wrist tether.
363 17 26 16 CDR I psi.
SPT Okay, I'ii take the screen off.
363 17 27 35 CDR 0.5.
SPT EV-I, 3.75. 3.78 - It's close to 8.
CDR EV-2' s 3.92.
SPT That 0.037

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CDR Yes, it's about 0.3 right now.
SPT Okay.
SPT Ready. Go ahead.
363 17 29 i0 SPT Okay. That's spring loaded to engaged. Lock.

Right. HATCH HANDLE going OPEN. Fully clockwise.
CDR Dog's are retracked.
SPT Okay. That's in work. Can you move back a little

bit, Jer?
CDR Okay.
SPT So I can pull that retainer in the p - in the

hatch. Okay.
363 17 29 54 SPT-EVA There it is. The great outdoors again.
CDR-EVA Right.
363 17 30 01 SPT-EVA It's in work.
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Time: 363:17:30 to 363:19:00
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363 17 30 31 SPT-EVA Okay. That's in there.
SPT-EVA Okay. Okay. Looking at 3.85. Going to ABSOLUTE.
CDR-EVA Okay. I was at 3.98 before I started. Now I'm

looking at 3.68.
SPT-EVA 3.6 even for EV-I.
CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA Verified for EV-I.
CDR-EVA Verify 2.
SPT-EVA 2VA/NORMAL for EV-I. 0.6 and no lights for EV-I.
363 17 31 30 CDR-EVA Okay. EV-2's at EVA NORMAL. I got 3.7 and no

lights.
363 17 32 30 SPT-EVA Yes. We can - we can get that once we get out
there and stabilized.
SPT-EVA Roger. Will do.
CDR-EVA Okay, that's complete.
SPT-EVA Okay, and I'm in the foot restraints. Go ahead.
CDR-EVA Your right foot's not in, Ed.
SPT-EVA Yes. I'm getting it.
363 17 33 05 CDR-EVA There you go. I 'm going to fix your umbilical at
9 feet, Ed.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA EV-I is 3.6 and no lights.
CDR-EVA EV-2, 3.7; no lights.

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SPT-EVA All right, press on.
363 17 34 17 CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Bill, we don't have any lights out here, and the
switches are on. I think the breakers are prob-
ably open.
363 17 35 33 SPT-EVA Hey, I can see the comet. Yes. Look it - right
out there. See it? Okay. I can see the - the
tail behind.
CDR-EVA Holy cow_ yes!
SPT-EVA Yes, I think - turn the lights off, Bill.
CDR-EVA Oh, yes. Beautiful.
SPT-EVA You sure can.
363 17 35 54 CC Skylab, we're enjoying your comments. We're

30 seconds from LOS here, about 28 minutes to
Carnarvon at 18:03. All your systems are good.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Okay. We can see the tail, which is antisolar,

but I cannot see the spike which showed up yes-
terday on the photography.
CDR-EVA Okay. It's just going into the airglow now.
SPT-EVA Just going into the airglow.
CDR-EVA Very wide, broad tail. Not very long, as well as -

as well as we can see.
SPT-EVA Yes, we were not too well dark adapted there.

Jer, we'll have to make a note of that next time.
CDR-EVA Yes.
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SPT-EVA Okay. That tail - I guess I was looking at

5 degrees or so when I first spotted it.
CDR-EVA Okay, it's into the airglow now.
SPT-EVA I suspect that's the reason you couldn't see it

the other day is because it was always in the
airglow.
CDR-EVA Yes.
363 17 36 36 SPT-EVA We got a better elongation now. I suspect we ought

to see that out the window. I looked at that yes -
looked for it yesterday out window 3 and couldn't
see it. Okay, let's press on. You can turn the
lights on.
363 18 03 03 SPT-EVA They got some beautiful thunderstorms down there.

Okay.
SPT-EVA Okay, that's on there. And wer'e coming up with

a - coming up with a lock.
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear. Carnar-

von and Honeysuckle for 14 minutes.
SPT-EVA Roger, Story. Okay, that's locked. Go ahead,

Bill. Read on.
SPT-EVA That's affirmative.
CDR-EVA Okay, it's already stowed and attached to the tem-

porary restraint hook.
363 18 0_ 07 SPT-EVA Okay, just stand by. Let me get back in my foot
restraint here.
CDR-EVA Okay, there it is and safety tethered.
SPT-EVA Very good.
PLT Are you getting Alfa 1 out?
SPT-EVA Just a minute here, Bill. Got to make sure I

understand the orientation here.
CDR-EVA That looks pretty good.

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SPT-EVA Yes. Okay, get our tether put away, _nd we'll be
all set to go.
CDR-_VA How much more nighttime, Bill?
CDR-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Want a tether for that, Ed?
SPT-EVA I tell you what. There's no way to do it_ Jer.
363 18 05 07 CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA You can't tether it. That's a fo_Jl - that's a

drawback on this thing. You got to put the only
tether attach point in that you have.
CDR-EVA Why don't you put it in the other way?
SPT-EVA Never tried it the other way.
SPT-EVA Okay. Alfa i position. And let me check something.

Sometimes Alfa_s not always in the Alfa bag. Yes,
that's Alfa.
CDR-EVA Okay, go ahead.
363 18 06 03 SPT-EVA Okay. What about 2017 Can we get out that - get
that out and point at plus-X?
CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA Oh, okay.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA That's right.
SPT-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Tell you what we do, let's get S020 up and running
first, because that's the one we've got the long
exposures. Then we'll start working T025.
CDR-EVA All right.

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363 18 07 39 SPT-EVA Start off with frame number 5 with our highest
priority, which I believe is 5.
CDR-EVA Okay, Ed. I wonder, would it be any help for me

to get in that - those restraints and hold you
while you fiddly with the experiments?
SPT-EVA It may well, Jer. I was Just thinking about that,

because it looks as though l'm - even though l've
grown a little, l'm still about a foot too short
to make my head over there.
CDE-EVA Yes. Well, I could hold you like a sausage, a

loaf of bread under my arm, you know, and you could
just kind of go where you wanted.
SPT-EVA (Laughter) All right. We'll give it a go. Let

me - -
CDR-EVA All right.
SPT-EVA Let me get out of the restraints here and get up

at approximately the right position.
363 18 08 31 SPT-EVA My, that blue is a pretty blue.
SPT-EVA Right now, Bill?
SPT-EVA Okay. And what - do you know what we're over?
SPT-EVA Oh, you don't have the slider out, do you?
PLT We're coming up over tip of Australia and headed

for New Zealand. We'll be over New Zealand in
lO minutes.
SPT-EVA Okay. I was just looking at the thunderstorms

here. I notice when one - one bolt goes off, it
tends to propagate, and there's a whole chain of
them then go off.
CDR-EVA Yes.
363 18 09 37 CDR-EVA Putty, purty [sic].
SPT-EVA That it is.
CDR-EVA How about an _ check?

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SPT-EVA 3.6 and no lights for EV-1.
CDR-EVA 3.7, no lights, EV-2.
SPT-EVA Star that is that's rising right there. That's

almost the same intensity as the comets isn't it?
CDR-EVA Yes. It's a pretty bright star.
363 18 i0 16 SPT-EVA Story, there's a star right above the horizon now,
just about where the Sun's going to be coming up.
CDR-EVA Could that be Mercury?
SPT-EVA About 20 degrees - or - no, about 15 degrees right

now, rising pretty fast. And it's about the same
intensiby visually as the comet. If anything, it
might even be a tad dimmer.
CDR-EVA Could it be Mercury?
CC We're working on an answer to that, Skylab.
CDR-EVA I think it's about - only about 5 degrees up off

there now. It's only one finger above the airglow.
SPT-EVA Okay, there's the Sun. Okay, let's start working

on S022. l've got - -
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA - - I think I need to get my - my head up here.
CDR-EVA All right. How's that?
SPT-EVA - ... I'ii tell you what, l'm going to have to

try and sight it in coarsely, without the - without
using their sighter. Just trying to - -
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA - - square that - -
CDR-EVA I got you by the knee, here.
363 18 ii 25 SPT-EVA Okay, Jerry. Now let me go hack down here.

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CDR-EVA All right.
SPT-EVA The trouble is, though, we got T025 right in there

now. I can't get my head over far enough to see
the darn thing.
SPT-EVA Oh, back knob is hitting D-7. I'm going to have

to loosen this up and move it up a little bit.
Goldang it.
CDR-EVA Yes, I see what you're doing.
SPT-EVA See D-7, that - -
CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA - - that back knob is - happens to be shuttering

the small image. Okay, that's up a little.
Tighten her up again. Gosh!
CDR-EVA You got it tight.
SPT-EVA Now let me - let go of my legs again.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Back up in here.
PLT Story, are you looking at the outer gimbal angle

on gimbal 3?
363 18 12 42 CC Yes, we are, Bill.
PLT Yes, I just came out of nominal H-cage. Should I

do another nominal H-cage, Story?
CC Stand by i.
363 18 13 17 CC Stand by i on that cage, Bill.
CDR-EVA Easy with your head, Ed.
PLT I am standing by.
CDR-EVA Just don't rear back to admire your work, or you're

liable to knock the camera off of T025.
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SPT-EVA Okay. Thank you_
CC We don't think we need to cage right now, Bill.
PLT Beautiful; thank you.
CC And while I've got you, I've got a comment on when

to start that $201 maneuver.
PLT Go ahead, Story. I'm ready to copy.
363 18 13 59 CC Okay. Don't start it prior to 25 minutes of night

remaining on your next nightside pass. That'll
save us a few TACS by not exposing the vehicle to
those gravity gradients for longer than we need to.
PLT Roger. Or to state the contra-positive, you want

to start after 25 minutes -
CDR-EVA Get it?
SPT-EVA I got her centered, I think, pretty well, but the

trouble is, l'm afraid l'm going to do just what
Bill said.
CDR-EVA Yes, you are. I wouldn't fool with it, Ed.
SPT-EVA Yes, I think you're right. Hold on -
CC That's correct, Bill.
PLT Roger.
CDR-EVA I can see it clear back here.
$PT-EVA Okay. That damps out when it does. Okay. I

guess the words are, you want the - the larger,
faint circle inside the square.
363 18 14 57 CDR-EVA Right.
SPT-EVA Well, that it is.
CDR-EVA Good show.
SPT-EVA And when it stabilizes out, I'ii give you a - a

number. Unfortunately, every time we get the ex-
posure going, we're going to have ourselves a - a
transient for a little while.
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CDR-EVA That's all right.
SPT-EVA Okay, Bill. Go ahead with the S020. Read on and

I'll -
PLT All right....
SPT-EVA That 's right.
CDR-EVA That's good, Ed.
SPT-EVA Yes, okay. Would you get the timer set and give
me a start? I'll go from storage to frame 5. Okay,
standing by for your mark.
363 18 15 38 SPT-EVA Okay, there we are. On 5. Okay, now let me - hold

on and let me give you the numbers when it damps
out here.
CDR-EVA Go ahead.
CDR-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA Yes, on the next night pass right after sunset.
CDR-EVA On a daylight pass. Okay. Okay, I'll try to

remember it.
SPT-EVA Okay, I'll give you a number here.
CDR-EVA You might go back to ingress there, Bill, and Just

write a note that says, "Did you do the temperature
measurement?" 0kay.
SPT-EVA Okay, on the vertical. Now on - bottom is on the

minus 2, and the top is on plus 4. That's the
large disk. And in left/right we're at just about -
just about centered. Looks like 3 and 3.
CDR-EVA Here comes New Zealand.
SPT-EVA 3 and 3, so we're centered pretty well left/right

and only slightly off in vertical.
363 18 17 23 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. About 38 minutes

to Bermuda at 18: 52. All your systems are looking
good.
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CDR-EVA Thank you, Story.
CC And, Bill, those gimbal angles you're looking at.

Whenever you enable CMG control, until the attitude
becomes stable, you'll probably see some diversions
like that.
PLT Okay. Thank you a lot for that information.
SPT-EVA Okay, what am I shifting up against in the back

here? I don't want bump into anything.
CDR-EVA That's just the boom. You're okay.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA You want your feet over here, Ed, or where?
SPT-EVA Yes, I want them back. I don't want to be going

where I'm going.
CDR-EVA Oh, okay. I got it. Let me steer you in.
SPT-EVA Yes.
363 18 18 ll CDR-EVA Hang on just a minute, Bill. We're busy adjusting

Ed's position here. Okay, now if you roll left,
Ed, you got it made.
SPT-EVA T025 .... Looks like l've got to rotate this way,
Jer.
CDR-EVA Yes. You're in good shape. All right.
SPT-EVA Now ... next year.
CDR-EVA How's that?
363 18 18 30 $PT-EVA Well, I've got to move my - go to my left to get I

my head turned here.
363 18 18 44 SPT-EVA ... to line 25 now.
363 18 51 59 SPT-EVA Okay, it's set there. Let's see if it's oscillating
and all.
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CDR No, that's - -
SPT Looks pretty quiet. Okay, let's go.
CDR-EVA Okay, it's done. All right.
CDR-EVA Okay, how's S020 doing? Okay. I'm ready. Okay.

All right.
SPT-EVA Okay, Just a minute here.

Bermuda for i0 minutes.
SPT-EVA I guess the way they made this - Just let me come
back down there, I Just want to look at something
here. No, okay, I see what they did. Okay, aqua -
one quarter? All right. They're getting good
spectral information and good time resolution, too,
and - in spatial. These guys are sharp.
363 18 53 19 CDR-EVA Here we go. Stand by. OPEN and CLOSEd. What's
next? Good show.
SPT-EVA I'll tell you, that's going to be some good infor-

mation right there.
CDR-EVA How much more nighttime we got - or daytime? All

right. Let me get inside - -
SPT-EVA Hold on.
CDR-EVA - - then hand in T025 and then I'ii get some movies.
SPT-EVA Stand by. Let's get the filter out of here.
CDR-EVA All right.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CC Bill, we got a couple of REG ADJUSTS for you on

panel 206.
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CDR-EVA ... now.
CDR-EVA Oops! Stay back out of the way. Or was that you
just drifting?
PLT Okay, Story. Say it again, please.
CC Got a couple REG ADJUSTS for you. Rotate counter-

clockwise - rotate clockwise 20 degrees both BUS 1
and BUS 2.
363 18 54 31 PLT Clockwise 20 degrees, both - REG ADJUST BUS 1 and

BUS 2.
CC That's affirm. And we'll carry a little more load

on the airlock module by doing that.
SPT-EVA Okay, Jer, maybe you can reach out here and get
these filters while l'm working on -
CDR-EVA Sure can.
SPT-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA You going to make it?
CDR-EVA l'd better be able to; l'm the guy that put them
in there.
SPT-EVA I was thinking that. (Laughter)
363 18 54 57 PLT And we're coming right along, Story. We just

finished T025 and we have about 5 minutes to go
on the 45-minute exposure on S020.
CC Beautiful, Bill.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CC And the REG ADJUST looks good, Bill.

!
PLT Thank you.
SPT-EVA And that alignment still looks good at the end of

it.
CDR-EVA Good.
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363 18 55 36 SPT-EVA Story, I think we had good alignment all the way
through the T025 operation. There - had ourselves
a good orange disk right in the center.
CC Copy, Ed.
SPT-EVA Well, I'd still like to get this thing nailed down
a little here.
CDR-EVA Yes. I don't think that'll work though.
SPT-EVA Okay, let me Just take her off.
SPT-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Got a - the lock valve here has got ... turns and
I'm working on it.
SPT-EVA How long are you going to he with us, Story?
CC Oh, at this point here, another 5 minutes.
SPT-EVA Okay, how much time do we have left, Bill?
SPT-EVA Oh, okay.
363 18 57 03 CC But the LOS is only h minutes.
SPT-EVA Okay, we were thinking we'd like to get another

good look at that comet.
CDR-EVA Good.
SPT-EVA Okay. Was that their next priority?
SPT-EVA What I'm going to do is hook up my chest tether

here first. Okay.
CDR-EVA Okay, Bill, what are the day settings here? Hey,
f - it was f/ll, wasn't it?
SPT-EVA It's - you've got yourself a spot in the checklist

there - callout; you got to thumb through a little
bit there, Bill.
363 18 58 2h CC Bill, Houston.

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CC Bill, if you could, we'd like for you to load the

20-minute maneuver time here, so we can take a
look at it here, or over Madrid prior to maneuver-
ing. We still want you to hold off on that maneuver
until 25 minutes of night remaining.
PLT Roger. Will do.
SPT-EVA Okay, Jet. I've got the T025 waiting for you here.
CDR-EVA All right.
363 18 59 01 CDR-EVA Well, I just can't seem to get organized here to -

to get a good flitck.
PLT How's that look, Story?
SPT-EVA We can get it next time around. There.
CC Good maneuver time, Bill.
SPT-EVA It's in the - in the oper - EV operations somewhere.

The ones for EV-2, EVA-2.
CDR-EVA Okay, Ed. Would you hand me in that monstrosity?
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA If you can swing it around the other end first, it

might be a little easier for both of us.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA All right.
363 18 59 58 SPT-EVA Do you mind - let me get - Jer, to grab this?
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363 19 00 03 CDR-EVA I've got it, Ed.
SPT-EVA Okay, let me get my tether off it.
SPT-EVA Off of it.
CDR-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Okay, and I'm ready with -
SPT-EVA Well, do they have any 1-minute exposures in

there, towards the end of their priorities?
CC That's on page 2.4-14, Skylab.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Okay, we're at storage. Now, I thnk they've got

some short ones there we can pick up.
SPT-EVA All right, let's do it Chat way.
363 19 O0 59 CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Jet, why don't you turn on the EVA lights, there?
CDR-EVA All right. Right now I'm a little busy, but I'll
get to it in a second.
SPT-EVA Okay. Can I help you?
CDR-EVA Not that I know of.
SPT-EVA Oh, you took the waist thether?
CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA Uh-huh.
CDR-EVA Yes. I had it on my chest, originally - -
SPT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA - - I got the other one on the DAC now.

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363 19 01 29 SPT-EVA I'Ii tell you what. if you'd like that - this
waist thether, I probably will not be needing it.
I can use the wrist tether on 201.
CDR-EVA All right, fine. Why don't you give it to me?
CC Skylab, 30 seconds to LOS. 4 minutes to Madrid.

Be dumping the data/voice there.
PLT Roger, Story.
SPT-EVA However, this is an extra one which I had, which

was not the one that was passed out on us.
CDR-EVA Yes, the one - the one that was on it I put on -

on the DAC.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA So we wouldn't lose it.
SPT-EVA Ah: Try it again here.
363 19 02 05 SPT-EVA I'Ii come out of the shoes.
CDR-EVA Now, that's all right. I can get it. Swing it

again.
CDR-EVA I got it.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA How much time we got, Bill, before sunset?
SPT-EVA Okay.
CC The 5-minute exposure on S020 might be good,

Skylab.
363 19 02 24 PLT Well, Story if we did a good calculation, we would

have put it in low voltage(static).
r
363 19 05 20 SPT-EVA I don't want to go out there and look, Bill.

I'm trying to get dark adapted.
CDR-EVA I think I can look.
CDR-EVA No, it's not centered any more.

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

Madrid for 8 minutes. Be dumping the data/voice
here.
363 19 06 59 CC Skylab, if you're interested in taking some pictures

of the comet with the DAC, the best settings we've
got for you is just to open it wide up.
SPT-EVA Okay, I was going to try _ and 1/250 for a begin-

ning, and then close her up - open her all the
way up.
CC That's good - a good idea.
SPT-EVA Okay, because it's fairly bright at first, and

then as it dims down, I thought I'd open it
further.
CDR-EVA Hey, Edward, could you yank me down into the hole,
there?
SPT-EVA Ah.
CDR-EVA Next to you. If we can wedge together?
363 19 07 36 SPT-EVA Uh - where the heck are you? I'm stuck.
CDR-EVA I'm by your right shoulder.
SPT-EVA ... , Jet.
CDR-EVA Huh? How's that?
SPT-EVA Well, I've been trying to get dark adapted here.
CDR-EVA Okay
SPT-EVA And you're a pretty big shiny bright body - -
CDR-EVA Sorry about that.
SPT-EVA There you are. No, you're not.
CDR-EVA That you coming?
J
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SPT-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA Okay.
363 19 08 41 SPT-EVA Give us a time remaining, would you please, Bill?
SPT-EVA There it is.
CDR-EVA Say, there's - there's the spike.
SPT-EVA It sure is. There's a spike running - going -

yes, it's going straight towards the Sun and you
can see it fanning off a little bit to the -
relative to the horizon. And it looks like it's -
CDR-EVA Ed, if you can hold me and keep me from drifting,

I'ii try to get it.
SPT-EVA All right.
SPT-EVA Okay. We've got the sunward spike and the tail is
fanned out again around 20 degrees. Very good.
And that sunward spike was very evident just at
the beginning. It's starting to fade out now.
And it looks as though there's a - a very faint
amount of material which is just rotated all the
way from the - the tail round to the spike. The
spike is not 180 out from the tail. It's more
like 160.
363 19 09 31 CC Can you say something about color, Ed?
SPT-EVA Yes, it's - appears primarily yellow.
CDR-EVA Yes, yellow and orange, just like a flame.
SPT-EVA Primarily yellow.
CDR-EVA Okay. I got some footage of it. I hope it worked

out. I took the first part at - at an f-stop of
4 and then closed her - opened it out.
SPT-EVA I tell you, Story, when you get yourself dark

adapted and the comet is far enough above the
horizon to where you really got a black darkground, -
dark background, then you can see that spike quite
well. And it protrudes - it shows up to be almost
the same distance out as the tail. But then there
is a very small, diffuse amount of material which
goes around about 160 degrees where it finally joins
up with the tail.
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CC Copy.
PLT And, Story, you can see it from S-3.
363 19 i0 40 CDR-EVA Okay, Ed. I'll go in and get some lights on now.
SPT-EVA Okay. Then we'll get 201 all set here. I'll tell
you. That certainly is a beautiful sight.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go, Story.
CC Bill, you probably won't have another dayside

pass for S020, but the 5-minute exposure is your
second priority on that. You do have that update,
don't yeu?
PLT That's affirmative. And sorryabout that, but

I didn't have 5 minutes of good daylight between
the termination of the 45 minutes and going
below h00 K, and since that's a high energy short
wavelength Job, I decide not to try the 5 minute.
CC Yes, sir, and if you do get another daylight pass,

just a reminder, if you get to nighttime and you
do have one still running, you can go to storage
and pick up when you get back in day.
363 19 ll 33 CDR-EVA I Just had to - -
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CDR-EVA - - I just had to reach out there and grab the -

that knob and turn it to the stop and I was hoping
I was - pretty sure I was in the right direction
and I did. It's 1.8.
SPT-EVA Very good.
CDR-EVA Okay. So what we've got, Story, on the movies of

the comet, if they can be seen, was some footage
at 4 and 1/25 and 1.8 at 1/25.
CC Got it.
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SPT-EVA I tell you, Story. That's one of the more

beautiful creations I've ever seen. It's very
graceful. Too bad it doesn't last longer in
our visual line here.
363 19 12 16 CDR-EVA I'll bet it's going to be pretty when it comes

into view in the - in the dawn or in the dusk.
SPT-EVA Story, when do you folks down there get to see

it?
CC Oh, about another week or so.
SPT-EVA Very good.
CDR-EVA Okay, Ed, there's a sliver of Moon out there.

Why dontt I see if I can't get a picture of
you looking at the Moon and baying. (Laughter)
S_T-EVA (Hoooow.)
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. About 25 minutes

to Carnarvon at 19:38. All your systems are
looking good including the APCS.
CDR-EVA Thank you.
SPT-EVA That's a - that's a switch.
36B 19 13 18 CDR-EVA Thank you, Story.
CC But we are standing by for the maneuver.
CDR/
SPT-EVA (Laughter)
SPT-EVA Roger. Understand.
CDR-EVA I think he meant something by that.
CC He did.
CDR/
SPT-EVA (Laughter)
SPT-EVA Yes, we will, yes - -
CDR-EVA Something - Just a moment. How much time we got

left in night? Got time up the cazoo.
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363 19 13 55 CDR-EVA Okay, Ed. If I can regain erontrol of the camera

now, and then myself - -
363 19 38 05 CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Yes, well, essentially you got - your - your

up/down is controlled by - above the panel and
your left/right, is by being centered on the Sun.
Centered above the line, where the Sun would
project above the panel.
363 19 38 37 CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear] Have you

through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for 15 minutes.
CDR-EVA Roger, Story
SPT-EVA Yes. Elongation right now.
CDR-EVA Got S201 out, Story, pointed in a safe direction

and we're Just waiting for sunrise.
SPT-EVA Story, is the elongation about -what, 6 degrees

now?
CC That 's affirm.
SPT-EVA Thank you.
CC And, Ed, while you - -
CDR-EVA It's ... - -
PLT If you're watching the rates there, well, we've

been - I've been watching us build up very, very
slowly from about 270 instead of the nominal 370
and that's - and it's just continued to build up
very, very slowly. I'd like for you to take a
look at it.
363 19 39 36 CC Okay.
PLT I'm getting TACS firings now. I think it's starting

to ramp it down.
PLT Okay, it's looking like it's [sic] knows what it's
doing now, Story.
CC It's ramping down now, Bill, and still good.

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PLT All right. Thank you.
CC Ed, while you all are out there and got a moment,
I'd like - got some questions concerning the comet.
SPT-EVA Okay, go ahead, Story.
CC We'd like again the tail orientation with respect

to the Sun, and is the tail straight or bent?
And are there two tails?
363 19 40 37 SPT-EVA Okay, Story. The only - let's talk first about
the sunward spike. That one appears to be projec-
ted straight towards the Sun, as best I can tell.
I'll try and get a better look at it, this next
time around. From there going - as I look at it -
the sunward tail is at - the sunward spike is at
around 5 degrees - 5:30, I'm sorry. 5 or 5:30,
we then go up to about 12 o'clock and that's the
axis of the primary tail which spreads out around
20 degrees on either side. I cannot see any evi-
dence of a second, well - distinct tail. There
is the sunward spike, the tail would be a 20-degree
spread and then there is a diffuse material - very
diffuse between the spike and running from 5 or
5:30 all the way up to the tail - of the primary
tail itself. Colors: primarily yellow. I cannot
see a second tail. I know what they're looking
for, the difference between the gas and the - -
CDR-EVA Dust. Dust.
SPT-EVA - - dust. But I cannot - cannot distinguish it.

We'll take another look this next time.
CC Okay.
363 19 41 59 SPT-EVA We don't have very long to look at it, Story,

and what you've got to do is get dark adapted and
then get right'n here behind the FAS and let the
FAS occult the airglow. And, you've then got
yourself around 30 seconds or so to get a good
look at it.
CC Okay. Later on today, when you get back inside

an settle down, I will have both you and Jer
draw a picture of the comet and we'll get that
on TV at a later date.
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SPT-EVA Sounds like a very good way to do it, Story.
CC So, I - -
SPT-EVA We'd like to get - -
363 19 42 30 CC Next time she comes up, both of you get a mental
image of it and think about putting that on
paper.
SPT-EVA Okay, we certainly will.
CDR-EVA Will do.
PLT And, depending on the attitude, I - I saw it on

the last pass. I may be able to see it next time;
I'd like a recon_nendation on setting. I have the
Hasselblad up here in the MDA, if they think it
would be of any value to get a frame with that.
But we're normally in the SI attitude. We can't
see it out the MDA windows.
CC That's good, Bill. We'll get some exposure

settings up to you.
PLT Okay. Looks like the maneuver is settling down

fairly well here.
SPT-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Okay, we've got it pointed off towards the plus-X

direction.
363 19 43 26 CDR-EVA Here comes the Sun.
SPT-EVA Okay, let's hear the procedures there, Bill.
CC Bill, stand by on the CMGs until we give you a

p GO.
PLT Wileo.
SPT-EVA Okay, you're going to have to do some more

maneuvering, Bill.
SPT-EVA Okay, we have - we're looking at too much Sun.

We're - -
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363 19 44 32 CC Okay, Bill. You're GO for CMG control and the

tweak maneuvers.
CDR-EVA Okay, he's on his way.
SPT-EVA Okay, Bill, put in an additional 2 degrees.
SPT-EVA The axis you've been maneuvering about, yes, X.
CC Bill, let it settle out a little more.
SPT-EVA Okay.
PLT Roger, Story. I'm waiting - I'm holding off.
SPT-EVA Yes, that's okay, if that's what you mean. You

mean shaded?
SPT-EVA No. No, not at th - not at this moment. No,

let's not play with that.
363 19 45 32 CC Bill, you're GO for CMG control and then wait a

little while to settle down before the tweak
maneuver.
PLT Okay.
CDR-EVA Wonder how long this cue card has been out here?
CDR-EVA Story, there's a cue card out here in the FAS

called comm loss between EV-1 and EV-2. Why
don't you ask them if they'd like us to bring
it in with us when we come in on our last EVA?
363 19 46 18 CC Copy, Jet.
CDR-EVA It's obviously been out for some time. It's

all brown looking.
CC The words we're getting is it's glued in place,

Jer.
CDR-EVA Oh, okay.
CDR-EVA Bet we can get it up.
SPT-EVA Tell me when you're going to make that maneuver

because we're still looking at that Sun.
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363 19 46 49 PLT Okay.
CC CMGs are still taking the attitude error out.
SPT-EVA Hold on, let me - let me take a look. Jer, I'm

going to ...... too.
PLT Roger, Story. I'm holding off.
SPT-EVA I envision that panel's got to come up, which

to me is a right-hand rotation pointed towards X
rather than the plus-X.
CDR-EVA That's what it says to me. Yes.
CC Bill, you're GO for the tweak maneuers.
PLT Okay.
SPT-EVA Plus 2.
363 19 47 38 CDR-EVA I think plus will do it.
SPT-EVA Try a plus 2.
_- CC Bill, your zero-minutemaneuver time's confirmed.
PLT Right. Stand by for an ENTER on the tweak maneu-

ver, Story.
CC Okay.
SPT-EVA Okay.
PLT Well ... -
CDR-EVA What'd you have?
PLT Well.
SPT-EVA Just a minute, let me tell you.
CDR-EVA Yes, we guessed right; it's moving.
SPT-EVA I don't think we guessed enough, but we

guessed the right direction.
CDR-EVA That's what I thought, yes.

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363 19 49 02 SPT-EVA I'd put in a 5 next time. I don't think we

went anywhere near enough.
CDR-EVA Okay, you through, Bill? You'd better put in

5 degrees. Well, get spring loaded for 5 and
when it damps out, go.
CDR-EVA Yes, it's hardly moved at all.
SPT-EVA It's enough that I can now shield - when I move

way down here, Jer, that I can at least occult
the Sun with the solar panel, which I could not
do before. So we're going in the right direction
but we got quite a ways to go.
CDR-EVA Yes, yes. I can see that. l'm sighting through

a wire bundle here. It moved down a couple of
ties.
SPT-EVA Okay, give her 5, Bill.
363 19 49 47 PLT I just put another one in, Story, 5 degrees this
time.
CC Okay.
PLT That's doing a little better job.
CDR-EVA Yes, it's moving.
SPT-EVA It's still not going to be enough. Nope. Looks

like it needs another 5.
SPT-EVA Well, let;s just take a look here, Jer. Hold on.
CDR-EVA It hasn't moved halfway from where it started.
SPT-EVA Well, I - I don't know, Jer, I moved my head

from here 2 feet along here and it looks we got
about another foot to go.
PLT Front. Yes.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA I think we're going to be pretty - pretty close

on this one, Jer.
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363 19 50 58 SPT-EVA How're you doing in - get in the wire bundles?
CDR-EVA Yes, we're going to need more.
SPT-EVA How about - how about another two, what do you

guess, Jer?
CDR-EVA I'd say three or four.
SPT-EVA All right, make it three.
CDR-EVA We moved down about three wire bundle units; looks

like we got about two to go.
SPT-EVA I started with my head right down here, Jer. It

moved essentially up to here which is like 3 feet
and it looks like we got another foot to go.
363 19 51 53 PLT Maneuver in plus-X another 2 degrees, Story.
SPT-EVA 2 degrees?
CDR-EVA Should have been 3.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA That's all right. Let's Just see what it does.
SPT-EVA You also get a little reflection off the struts

for the solar array.
CDR-EVA Yes, a little bit.
SPT-EVA Tell us when we're there. Tell you what, let's

put in another 2.
CDR-EVA Yes, at least. That only moved us about halfway.
363 19 52 h2 SPT-EVA I was getting ready to bet you some butter cookies
I'm glad I didn't.
CDR-EVA (Laughter )
SPT-EVA Glad we worked this orientation out at night, I'd

hate to be trying to do all that at this point in
the game. Let's see now, th - the camera is going
to actually be a little bit below this.
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CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA So I think we're doing it. Are we ramping down?

- - ..., Jer.
SPT-EVA Think we can probably go back one?
CDR-EVA Well - -
363 19 53 32 CC Skylab, we're about 40 seconds from LOS, about

30 minutes to Texas at 20:24.
CDR-EVA I can't tell, I'm not in position - -
CC Your momentum's looking good.
CDR-EVA - - now where I can see.
SPT-EVA Okay, tell you what, you get down there and take
a look.
CDR-EVA Okay.
CC Bill, I got some Hasselblad settings for you.
PLT Good, go.
CC Wide open, and the speed, 1/30.
PLT Copy.
CDR-EVA Yes, may be back one or - oh, no, let's see. Let's
just see what it does.
363 19 54 01 SPT-EVA Story, one thing we do have a scissors arm, which

is in the field of view. So you will get a
scissors which is in the field of view although
it won't take out very much of the picture.
CC Copy, Ed.
CDR-EVA I think one ought to do it, Bill.
CDR-EVA Tell us when that's in and stable and we'll set

her up.
SPT-EVA Okay, I don't see any comet. I'm holding the Sun
right at the tangency of the panel, and you don't
see anything.
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CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA It's Just black.
SPT-EVA Well, that Sun coming through that crack in the

panel is not helping.
CDR-EVA Yes.
363 19 54 45 SPT-EVA There's too much light structure here. The clouds
down there are very reflective.
363 20 24 19 SPT-EVA Okay, I got to turn power back on here too. Does
the pointing look good?
SPT-EVA Okay, I've got the -
CDR-EVA Looks good.
SPT-EVA Okay, you want to move out of the way, Jet?
CDR-EVA Yes, I'm well out of the way.
SPT-EVA Okay. Okay, Bill, I'ii give you a mark here.

How's the attitude - you know, I Just saw the
thing blink. It's kicking up where it was before.
Let's wait until this sequence, whatever it is,
settles out.
CDR-EVA Well, you can just hit RESTART, and it'll start
over. Do that.
SPT-EVA All right.
CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear stateside

15 minutes.
SPT-EVA Okay, now it starts.
CDR-EVA Okay.
363 20 25 14 CDR-EVA Roger. Story - -
SPT-EVA Out °
CDR-EVA - - we had a problem with attitude. We got started

with our first 201 exposure, and the attitude
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started drifting off, so we had to terminate and

get back on the attitude again. And we're just
starting a new exposure.
CC I understand this is a second sequence, Jer?
CDR-EVA Yes, we're starting a new sequence now.
CC Copy.
CDR-EVA Hey, we're going up over - the Yucatan peninsula

is coming up.
SPT-EVA Story, would you tell me what the exposure protocol

is here - or what I'd like to know is whether we
got a few good ones off on the first one before
we started drifting out.
363 20 25 55 SPT-EVA Take a few short duration ones first?
PLT Yes, that's right, Ed.
SPT-EVA Okay, I think we got a few good ones off initially.

However, when you do this, Story, you've got about
2 seconds of jitter in here while you're hitting
the RESET switch, and then it calms down.
CDR-EVA Okay, the attitude's holding steady and the shadow's

very good. It's only about a half inch from the
aperture the - in the end of the canister.
SPT-EVA Very good .... - -
CC Okay, did you have to go POWER, OFF and get the

instrument off the Sun?
SPT-EVA Say again, Story.
363 20 26 32 PLT Negative, Story. We had both outer gimbals on the

stop. I had to do a nominal H-cage and reacquire
attitude.
SPT-EVA The drift was taking us, Story, so that we were -

got more occultation of the Sun by the solar panel.
So we had no worry there. We did turn the instru-
ment off before we finished the first sequence and
pointed it towards plus-X.
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SPT-EVA I think we're getting a good one this time though,

St ory.
CC And about how far into the 3-minute sequence were

you when you had to do that, Ed?
363 20 27 l0 SPT-EVA Well, we started drifting out probably around -

what - about 30 - 40 seconds, maybe a minute or so.
PLT ...
CDR-EVA About a minute, I would say.
SPT-EVA Okay, then I imagine somewhere around on 2 minutes

is when we hit RESTART - -
PLT 2-i/2.
SPT-EVA Probably hit the POWER, OFF. Do you think we can

get something if we try for a fourth sequence? Is
there any film in there under those conditions,
St ory?
CDR-EVA Bill, these are 3 3-minute or 6-minute sequences

we're doing?
PLT That's 3 minutes.
CDR-EVA 3 minutes and 24 seconds or so.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go, Story.
CC We'd like l0 degrees clockwise on REG BUS 2.
PLT Roger.
SPT-EVA How's the attitude errors looking, Billy
363 20 28 28 CDR-EVA Looks great up here, Ed.
CDR-EVA I've got the best - the best angle here to tell
you what they are. It hasn't moved a fraction of
an inch.
SPT-EVA Okay, very good.

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CDR-EVA Shadow's very, very stable acros_ the corner of

the camera.
SPT-EVA Okay, I'll give you one on my mark and I'm going
to see if I can start this thing with a little more
stability.
CDR-EVA Okay, we're coming out just over the southern end
of the Yucatan peninsula - southern side of it.
SPT-EVA Okay, I'll give you mark. Stand by.
363 20 29 17 SPT-EVA MARK. Okay, that was a little better that time.
Story, I'd say we got pretty good pointing on this.
We can see exactly where the Sun is relative to
the solar panels. So I think we know where we want
it. We've got the Sun just - or the solar panels
just slightly - just tangent and slightly inside
the field of view. Unfortunately we do have a
scissors arm which is in there, but it's only in
the top portion and does not obscure very much of
the total field of view.
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Page 1 of 9/2687
363 20 30 03 CC Okay, copy, Ed. And we'd just like the three
normal sequences on $201.
SPT-EVA Okay, Story, will do.
CC And, Bill, for your return to SI, we'd like to

see the 20-minute maneuver time in there.
PLT I just finished it.
• SPT-EVA The problem is we probably had rates building up

in that first one.
CDR-EVA Hey, we're over Miami, looking right down on the

Florida Keyes, and Miami - the while southern
end of Florida.
CC Maneuver time's confirmed, Bill.
SPT-EVA Boy! I'll say. Look at that.
PLT Roger.
363 20 31 07 CDR-EVA Story, for the Earth observation guys, I saw no

indications of the Yucatan current. The area
there is quite clear and neither in sunglint nor
in area of plankton blooming was there any in-
dications of the Yucatan current.
SPT-EVA Boy, look at those cloud streaks going across

Florida, just east to west all the way from the
southern tip all the way to theall the way up
to the about the Florida boundary.
CDR-EVA How's our - How much daylight have we got left

Bill?
SPT-EVA Okay, how we doing in terms of time on this thing?
CDR-EVA Okay, your attitude's very good, shadow hasn't

moved.
SPT-EVA Okay. Should I see anything upon completion?
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CDR-EVA I don't think so, Ed.
363 20 32 31 SPT-EVA Nor have we been getting any white flashes at

the beginning of the sequence. We did.
CDR-EVA 0kay_ there's Cape Lookout, Cape Fear, Pamlico

Sound, and Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point.
Okay, Bill, you'd better point 201 in a safe
direction, or Ed. I'm sorry.
SPT-EVA Yes. Will do. Let's turn the power off.
CDR-EVA All right, let me get down out of here and - -
SPT-EVA POWER's OFF. Let's put it over here to minus or

plus X. Okay, it's pointed. Go ahead. Sure am
glad we've got these photos with this one. This
one's going to give you some good information.
Pretty sensitive instrument. There's a good
hydrogen halo there. We'll see it. Yes, sir.
Okay?
CDR-EVA Go ahead, Story.
CC Could you verify that you got the $230 clip?
CDR-EVA That's negative, Story. The $230 clip was missing.

About the only thing we can think is that the clip
must have gotten knocked off on the last EVA while
we - by an umbilical or something. And we never
saw it. But we can verify that the clip was there
up until just about the last EVA - up before that,
because we've seen it out the - oh, golly, I
can't remember which number window it is, but one
of the STS windows you can - we can see the clip.
But apparently on the last EVA, one of the umbili-
cals must have brushed it off.
CC Copy.
363 20 35 06 PLT And we'll be able to tell, Story, because I took

the contamination photographs of the $230 out
the MDA - STS window.
CC Copy, Bill.
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PLT Before the first EVA and after the first EVA.
So we should be able to pin it down pretty well,
for Don.
PLT Okay, ...
SPT-EVA Have you got the power cord disconnected, Jer?

The power off and the cord disconnected?
CDR-EVA Stand by; it's in work.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Okay, the power is off and the cord's disconnected.
SPT-EVA Very good.
363 20 36 12 SPT-EVA Okay. I'll tell you what, why don't you take
the instrument and I'll try to get the power cord
squared away for you.
CDR-EVA Okay. Bill, we got a fire sensor light on in

here.
SPT-EVA Yes, we - that's - nominal, Jerry.
CDR-EVA
Okay. !
SPT-EVA If you get ahold of it, I'll take my wrist tether

off.
CDR-EVA I got it.
CDR-EVA Okay, has that been on for a while; I don't think

it has.
CDR-EVA Yes. I think it came on in the last half hour.
363 20 36 h9 SPT-EVA *** on. Let me get the cable out of the clip.
CDR-EVA Okay, there's no rush on that cable. It's going

to take me a minute to get over here.
SPT-EVA I want to take a look again at that part where

we pulled the covering off up here.
SPT-EVA Story, the part which we pulled off above the

hinge line on the airlock hatch - was part of that
believed to be originally in the Sun?
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CC That's affirm; part of it in the Sun and part

of it in the shade.
363 20 37 55 CDR-EVA Okay - -
SPT-EVA Well, the whole thing has a pretty uniform color.

We did that at night, Story., but I could see
where it was. We're not in SOLAR INERTIAL now,
but it looks by projection that it's going to
be pretty close, if even the tip of it was in the
Sun. You know we ought to get ; this would be a
beautiful one right here.
CC Ed, 3 inches out of that 50 inches was supposed

to be in the Sun.
SRT-EVA 3 inches? Tell you what, I can see it now. I

can see the graduation where that - where the
sunlight is and there's a miscalculation there
somewhere, Story, because that was not in the Sun.
Probably missed it by about an inch.
363 20 39 57 CC Okay, we're 40 seconds to LOS, 5 minutes to Madrid.

SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Now S020.
363 20 39 18 SPT-EVA Story, there is another place right above there.

It's between F-9 and where the hatch locks or
snapped into. That has got about 3 inches worth
of Sun, 3 inches not Sun. And it's got covering
underneath it. I think if we had a pair of scis-
sors, we could very easily snip along a distance
of around 6 inches and bring you back the kind of
sample you want.
363 20 39 48 SPT-EVA And underneath it is more insulation, so it

doesn't look to be a theremal problem.
363 20 43 54 CDR-EVA Okay, Bill must have the breakers pulled again.
SPT-EVA Bill, would you put the breakers in so we can

turn the lights on, please.
PLT Wait a minute. All right.

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SPT-EVA All right let's - Okay, that's got it. Hello,

Story.
CDR-EVA Bill, read the thermometer instructions, if there

are any.
363 20 44 3_ CC Go ahead.
SPT-EVA Okay, Story. We did not have $20 [sic] pointed

at the Sun during this last sequence because we
moved it out of the way for working 201. Do they
want a temperature measurement now at the end
even though we have gone into dark or would they
prefer to wait until the next orbit?
CC Stand by i.
CDR-EVA Yes, I know that, Bill. But we just didn't have

time. This is a non-interference thing. I suspect
we're going to not end up doing it.
SPT-EVA Well, we could give some S20 [sic] exposures this

next orbit and get - get that done and be all set
then.
CC Ed, you can go ahead and get the temperature on

the S020 right now.
363 20 45 38 SPT-EVA Thank you.
CDR-EVA Okay, Stor, are you going to want to leave us out

to do some more S020 exposures?
CC No. No more exposures on that and leave that

thermal cover. If we do anything on that at all
we'll do that the next EVA.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Okay, he's got it.
SPT-EVA All right. Okay, Story, I take it we're going

to be wrapping it up pretty soon and m_ybe get
some more S020's the next time around.
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CDR-EVA That's it, Ed. Is it on?
SPT-EVA Is what on?
363 20 46 42 CDR-EVA The temperature.
SPT-EVA No, you don't hold it on. You put the thing on
and then - then put it up.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Okay, l've got it -l've got it on there, Bill.

Why don't you just tell me how long 30 seconds
is - -
CDR-EVA 30 seconds, I'ii tell you when it's up.
SPT-EVA Hold on. l'm rotating off with this thing, l'm
going to have to go at it again.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go, Story.
363 20 47 18 CC Bill, after getting back to SI and prior to

enabling CMG control, we'd like a nominal H-CAGE.
That's just a- -
CDR-EVA Is it on, Ed?
CC - - 52023. That's after getting back to Sl and

prior to your CMG control enable.
PLT Roger. Nominal H-CAGE after getting back to SI

but before reenabling CMGs.
CDR-EVA About 5 more seconds, Ed.
CC Yes, sir.
CDR-EVA Okay, Ed, 30 seconds.
363 20 47 55 SPT-EVA All right. I want to read this thing before it

changes. 99 - It was 102 when I first pulled it
off of there. Unfortunately I can't read it and
put it on there at the same time. Let me try
it though. Okay, 104, and Story I cannot - Just
because of the difficulty of working this thing -
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hold it on there at the same time I get the read-

ing. So as soon as I take it off, it starts de-
creasing in temperature and it was decreasing
at, oh, a couple of degrees per - per second, and
I got it around 2 seconds after I took it off and
I was reading 104.
CC Ed, that'll be Just fine on that.
SPT-EVA Okay.
363 20 49 06 CC And under - understand the EVA is about complete

and your're about to enter the airlock.
CDI_-EVA That's right. We're going to stow S020 now. We

just finished the temperature measurements. And
soon as we get S020 in, we'll be finished.
CC Okay.
CDR-EVA Got it.
SPT-EVA Okay. Okay, it's tethered.
SPT-EVA I tell you, Story, you kind of hate to go inside.

You kind of get to enjoy your work. I'll say one
thing, though, all the training we've gotten and
all the facilities through NASA has really helped
makes us feel very at home out here. Pretty
familiar with what you're doing.
363 20 50 46 CC Yes, sir. We're about 30 seconds to LOS;

see you in about 20 minutes at Carnarvon at
21:18.
SPT-EVA Okay. All the folks at Marshall and at Johnson

have done a great job on this EVA.
CC And, Skylab, all your systems are looking

good.
PLT Thank you_ Story, and I got 5 pictures of

the comet with the Hasselblad, right on
down into the airglow.
CC Great, Bill.
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363 20 51 31 SPT-EVA Okay, we'll check around here and see what
else we got.
363 21 18 17 CC Skylab, we see you're repressurized. We've

got you through Carnarvon for 5 minutes.
SPT-EVA Roger, Story. We're climbing out of the

suits now.
CC Okay.

to Honeysuckle. Is anyone available to go
to the STS?
CDR-EVA Give us about 3 minutes.
CC Okay, I'll catch you over Honeysuckle.
363 21 24 19 CDR-EVA Okay, Story. Go ahead.
CC We're going LOS here. We'll catch you at

Honeysuckle.
CDR-EVA How long?
CC 7 minutes.
363 21 24 37 CDR-EVA Okay.
363 21 30 22 CC Skylab_ A0S Honeysuckle for 3 minutes.
CDR-EVA Roger, Story. I'm in the MDA.
CC Okay, we'd like a REG ADJUST. Both BUS i

and BUS 2, rotates counterclockwise 25 degrees
each.
CDH-EVA Okay, that's complete.
CC And, then we'd like EXPERIMENT POINTING APCS

MODE.
CDR-EVA It's already there. You want another one?
363 21 31 34 CC No, that'll be fine and -

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363 21 31 _3 CC Okay, we're going LOS here. We'll see

you over Texas about half an hour, at 2]:59.
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Time: 363:21:59 to 363:23:30
Page I of 7/2697
363 21 59 47 CC Skylab, AOS stateside, 16 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC And, Bill, did you ever INHIBIT the TACS switches?
PLT Negative. I did not.
CC Okay, we're just looking at the ATM DC firings

and want to be sure that that's a correct tally.
PLT Okay, when I got back to attitude after ingress,

I got back to solar inertial. I did the nominal
H-cage, waited the 5 minutes and put it back to
CMG ATT, excuse me, CMG control, and stopped right
there.
CC Okay, nowhere during the EVA did you INHIBIT TACS

switches, though?
363 22 00 32 PLT That's affirmative. I did not.
CC Okay. And have you got the elapsed time on the

EVA. What time did we close the hatch?
PLT I've got it written down up there, Story. 03:2_

was the total elapsed time.
CC Okay.
CC Is everybody eating now?
PLT PLT and the CDR are eating right now and the SPT
is up in the ATM panel, I think.
CC Okay.
SPT Yes, I'm up here looking at 18. What's up, Story,

you need some work up here?
CC Since you're looking at 18, I've got a change for

you.
SPT Stand by.

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363 22 02 07 CC And, Bill, we need the EXPERIM}]NT _W_CORDERS, OFF.
PLT Okay, stand by.
SPT Okay, Story, go ahead.
CC Okay, that's the final attitude to expect. Let

me know when you've got that and all we're going
to do is reverse the sign here. We'll have it go
the other way.
SPT Ready to copy.
CC Okay. XF, plus 2.29 degrees; YF, plus 7.28 degrees;

and ZF, plus 0.21 degrees.
SPT Plus 2.29, plus 7.28 and plus 0.21.
363 22 03 03 CC Yes, sir, and now we're real interested in getting

some TV down here of your sketches of the comet.
You suppose you and Jer could have some 4-inch
sketches by - for real-time TV at around 23:35?
That's about a hour and a half from now.
SPT Yes, I think we could do that, Story. We'd have

to delay some of the post EVA, however.
CC Okay, you've got an extra - you'll have to delay

that but you've got an extra block of time in
there on your summaries - on your Flight Plan
between post EVA and eating.
SPT Okay, l'm wondering if ASCO could give me a reading

of - when we did the J0P 18C's yesterday with the
BOLL of minus 480, when we looked at our display,
what direction was the Sun relative to, say,
straight up? As how many degrees from zero being
straight up on our display as it was the Sun?
363 22 04 09 CC Okay, try to get you an answer there.
SPT Thank you.
CC And, Ed, on that TV of your sketches of the comet,

about a 4-inch sketch is - is optimum. In the
TV Ops Book on page 84 - it'll give you a setup
for closeup pictures that might save you some time
in terms of setting up lighting, camera position
settings, that sort of thing. That's page 84.
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SPT Thank you.
CC One other thing, Ed. Did you see any on the

$230 - any scratches or - or deformation of the
collector foil?
CDR That's negative, Story. We didn't see any at all.
363 22 05 2h CC Okay.
CDR I specifically looked for that. Didn't notice

any.
CC Thank you.
363 22 13 18 CC Ed, in answer to your question, the Sun was

160 degrees clockwise about - make it 63 degrees
right of up.
SPT ... it was 60 degrees - 63 degrees from the -

straight up?
CC Story's story's changing again. Make it

163 degrees to the right.
SPT Okay, that's pretty much what I thought it would

be. Thank you.
CDR And, Story, did you ever find out what that star
was or planet that we saw earlier? We're guessing
that maybe it was Mercury.
CC Stand by i.
CDR This was the star or planet that we pointed out

that was preceding the Sun during sunrise. Ed
estimated 15 degrees lead. I estimated about 5.
CC We had a discussion. We still don't have an an-

swer yet.
363 22 15 34 CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS, 5 minutes

to Madrid at 22:20. Be dumping the data/voice at
Madrid. Bill, your phone call's at Ascension at
03:20. It's a LEFt to RIGHT and we'll remind you
the pass before.
SPT Thank you.

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CC And for now, Mercury's our best guess.
363 22 15 56 PLT All right, thank you.
363 22 21 22 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello from the purple gang.

We got you at Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes. And we're
going to be dumping the data/voice recorder here.
SPT Hello, Dick and purple gang.
CC Hello, Ed. Sounds like y'all had a lot of fun

today.
SPT Yes, we sure did, Dick. It's the most enjoyable

part of being up here, I think. I wish we had
an EVA every other day.
CC Roger. Phil says the ground couldn't stand it.
363 22 21 54 CDR Just think, we could have an EVA every other day,
and then in between, we could have EVA preps and
posts.
CC There you go. That - that'd make the schedules

good. Hey, I got a piece of technical information
for you that I guess the CDR's going to win a
little bet on this. Mercury is rising about
4 to 5 degrees before the Sun.
CC Roger.
CDR That'll cost you a can of butter cookies, Ed.
363 22 28 56 CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS Madrid.

Tananarive at 22:43. See you there.
CDR Roger, Dick. Where did you want to get this TV

thing? Is that going to be over Goldstone or
Texas or MILA?
CC Roger, it's 23:35, Jerry, at Goldstone.
CDR Roger.
CC And, Jerry, I'ii remind you again the last pass

before then and update you.
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CDR Okay, I think our - our picture is big enough so

that we're not going to need a close-up lens for
the TV. I think we can Just do it with the
normal lens.
363 22 29 h9 CC Okay.
363 22 h3 21 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Tananarive for

7 minutes.
SPT Roger. Hello, Dick.
CDR Hey, Dick, I'm ready to power down the con_nand

module any time now. Do you folks want to watch
it for awhile, or is it okay to get started?
CC Hang on.
CC CDR, Houston, it's perfectly okay with us for you

to go ahead and secure it.
CDR Okay.
363 22 44 27 CC Roger.
363 22 47 5h CC Skylab, Houston. It's possible we may have an

early LOS here at Tananarive. We should have
you for 2-1/2 minutes longer, but if we don't,
Honeysuckle comes up at 23:07.
363 23 07 14 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Honeysuckle for

2-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, Dick.
CC Hi, Jer. And if Bill is - has a moment I have

a - something l'd like to talk to him about.
CDR Okay, he's listening.
CC I don't know how well you guys have looked at

tomorrow's Flight Plan or not. But we're - had
to shorten up on PT, or at least on the s_immary
schedule, we had to shorten up on PT for both the
CDR and PLT tomorrow because of conflicts with
the JOP 18 Delta data take. And what - we'd like
to open up that conflict both for tomorrow if we
can, and any other time by allowing &omebgdy to
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run on the treadmill durirJg that data take. We

have a feeling that that will mot upset the vehicle
so much that it ruins the 18 De!ta's data. And,
Bill, you have a PT period that's scheduled on
our Flight Plan at 23:45. l'm not sure exactly
how you're doing on you time line, but what we
were going to suggest is is that - is that if you
could schedule - if it's convenient for you to do
the treadmill portion of that during one our
our A0S periods with the exception of Tananarive.
We'd like to look at the vehicle response with you
running on the treadmill. And our suggestion for
a time is Canary at 23:58. However, as I say,
any of these passes that we have data, it might
help us out and I think in the end it'd help you
guys out, too.
363 23 09 ii CDR Yes, Bill says that he can do that.
CC Okay, one more piece of information for you there.

The LOS at Goldstone is 23:45, which is right at
the start of your PT. I don't know if you're going
to be ahead or not but either one of those places
will be just fine for us, and we only need to
see you a couple of minutes. We're getting close
to LOS here at Honeysuckle. Goldstone comes up
at 23:35, and that's where we plan to be set up
to copy the TV of the drawings of the comet.
CDR Okay, Dick, we'll be ready to go. And another

item - the thought just crossed us a few minutes
ago. We're wondering how Fred Haise is doing.
We haven't heard much about him in sometime and
wonder if you might give us a status report.
CC Well, in a word I can tell you he's doing great.

But I'ii - I'ii - amplify on that a little later
this evening.
363 23 09 58 CDR Okay, thank you, just whenever you get a little
slower pace.
CC Roger, he's getting meaner and meaner every day.
CDR Good. He's being himself, then.
CC Roger.
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CC And, Skylab, Houston. As we go over the hill,

you might want to get the VTR plugged in properly
so we have some kind of backup for this live
downlink at Goldstone if you have a chance before
then.
CDR Roger.
363 23 i0 38 CC Thank you.
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363 23 35 24 CC Skylab, Houston, We're A0S Goldstone for about

Ii minutes, and we're looking at TV.
CDR Roger, Dick. We got the VTR coming on now.
CC Roger, Jerry. Very good.
CC Who's that guy standing beside you two guys - he's

got - with the big white suit on?
CDR That' s Frosty the Snowman.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, as you can see things aren't very tidy

right now as we're finishing up our EVA and get-
ting - getting the post done. And Bill'll be
down in Just a minute as soon he gets finished -
gets the VTR on. But what we did is we took a -
a piece of the JOP Summary Sheets, the Chronopaque
and we've done some sketching on it. And I guess
it's about - what ii deep, it's a double 8 by i0.
So I'm going to turn the mike over to Ed now, and
we'll fire up the closeup camera and then get over
there and start showing you what we saw.
CC Okay, Jerry, great.
363 23 37 26 SPT Okay, Dick, how does it look to you down there?
CC It's a good picture, Ed, and we see we're centered

on your right-hand little drawing and we can see it.
SPT Okay, the one on the right is the way we've been
seeing it primarily for the past 4 or 5 days when
we've been looking at it in the white light corona-
graph, except for yesterday in which we could see
a few more features. When we went out today, we
got a much better picture of it and that's the
one we have on the left.
CC Okay.
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363 23 38 01 SPT Jerry will move that over now.
SPT Okay, what we're showing you here are primarily

three features: first the nucleus or the coma rather
which is the bright region surrounding the nucleus;
the tail, which again is the amplification of the
one which we previously saw and is the brightest
feature other than the coma. And it fans out and
again about a half angle here of 20 degrees or so
maybe 15 degrees.
CC Roger.
SPT It's very bright close to the coma itself, primarily

yellow in appearance, maybe a little gold. Jerry
claims that it tends towards orange even in one
location_ So that's the primary tail which is
coming off, you'd like to think of behind it or
away from the Sun although in this instance it's
not completely. The feature, which we picked up
on the white light coronagraph display last night,
is a sunward spike going primarily towards the
Sun, and we can see it out about as far as we can
see the other tail. It's a little fainter, but
it's very sharp. We also see just some very -
hint of light features over here. Yesterday we
said then there was a small, a very small series
of spikes or single spike if you will over here.
Today when we looked at it, it appeared to be just
a series of uniform but very faint streamers or
feathers.
363 23 19 56 SPT In looking at the geometry, we felt this is pri-

marily towards Sun center. This is as we see it
now, the direction in which the comet is moving
from right to left and up a little bit, showing
that the tail is not completely oriented away from
the Sun. It still is - got a little catching up
to do. It's had to swing around essentially as
it went by the Sun. So this represents that little
lag that we saw. And this 160 degrees or so
which we quoted outside and ASC0 verified today
that we're really looking at about 163 was the
direction to the Sun and that just about corresponds
with what we estimated. There is this definite
lag between - angle between the spike towards the
Sun and the tail at the other side. Now we did
not see any double tail. That's one picture we
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did look for. We saw only what we would interpret

as a dust tail, because of its yellow - relatively
yellow appearance. There is a little bright -
very bright white light - light down in here which
Jerry thinks that maybe he saw a little blue in
there, also. That's hard to say, but predominantly
it's - it's a yellow cast to it.
363 23 41 16 CC Ed, let me ask you - Ed, let me ask you a couple
of questions while you're looking at the picture
there. First of all, what is in - what's your
estimation of the angular distance that you were
able to see the tail in the sunward spike? And
also one that I have, l'm not sure I understood
you. In the material to the - on the right-hand
quadrant of your picture, is [sic] that material
appear to be in rays or is it uniformly distributed
between the sunward spike - yes, there.
SPT That's fairly uniformly distributed. But because

it's so faint, we cannot see any fine detail in it.
It may very well be a series of very small rays or
feathers, if you will - or streamers - very small.
But because it's so very faint, your eye can Just
distinguish that something's there, but you can't
see the details. As far as the size, we've esti-
mated - and this again is a very rough estimate,
4 to 5 degrees. And this, of course, is going
to depend upon how dark adapted you are or just
essentially how faint the feature that you can
see really is. We know that this tail certainly
goes out quite a bit beyond what we've drawn here.
When I was dark adapted and looked at it the first
time, was probably the best view I had of it. I
saw it quite extensively, as l've pictured it here.
The second time, I was not very well dark adapted
and could not shield my eyes from the bright air-
glow and I only saw something like this with Just
a very hint of a spike. So a lot is very much
dependent upon the dark adaptation you have when
you see it. l'm certain that the instruments we
had out there with us today, though, give a very
revealing picture when we bring it back.
363 23 43 00 CC Roger, Ed. Let me ask you another question here.

It looks like you have shown a sort of a
necking-down effect, but - Just behind the com -
the coma as it goes out into the tail. Is - is
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that - and on the right-hand view, I - I can't

see that. Is that artist's license, or did it
actually appear to neck down a little bit?
CDR I think that's just artist's license, Dick. We

got the sketch in there and we probably should
have shown it. Let me reiterate here that what
you see on this side over here, the small one, is
what you see at first glance. And then after your
eyes begin to accommodate to the light and you
begin to pick up the details, then you begin to
pick up this faint part of the tail back here.
And then you begin to pick up this and then very
last, but not least, you begin to get this little
sort of a cloud area over here. But this is cer-
tainly what you see first. And this is - like
Ed was saying - this is like what we're used to
seeing. But when you really got a chance to look
at it, then you can really see that spike and this
faint part of the tail here. The source of our
measurement here of 4 to 5 degrees was me holding
my index finger in my glove out, and it - it
covered, I think, about from here down to here on
the comet. And so we figured it's about 4 to
5 degrees.
363 23 44 19 CC Okay. Thank you, Jer. Let me see if there are

any other questions here. And then if you've got
anything else you'd like to add, go ahead.
CDR The big thing is, is this coma here looks pretty
much the same size - maybe slightly larger now
than Mercury, and it's nice and sort of a - a
white. And I - I claim kind of a blue-white, but
it's good and white. But it's - the - this tail
moving out behind it really starts turning yellow
and it does it very quickly.
CC Roger.
PLT Dick, a sort of a quantitative gauge is that during

the last orbit when I took that, I could see the
spike down into the airglow. And that was after
the nucleus of the coma had actually gone into the
airglow. Of course, I lost it shortly after that,
but that must be a pretty bright spike to be able
to see it in the background of the airglow.
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CC Roger, Bill. Understand.
CDR And, Dick, we got a little bad news to go along

with the good news. And that is that the - the
DAC that we took out with us Jan_ed and it doesn't
look like we got a single frame.
CC On, no.
363 23 45 35 CDR Yes, it looks like the - the claw Just pulled
the - the sprocket holes to pieces. You got any-
thing else, Dick?
CC We're about 30 seconds to LOS, and we - we'll -

I'll tell you what. During the - during the LOS
period, I'll poll the folks and see if we have
any other questions. But it was certainly a
fascinating discussion and we got real good TV
picture. We sure appreciate it from you guys.
CDR Okay, and I guess you got the same thing on the
VTR for reference, if you want to look at it
again.
CC Okay. We're just going to drop out for about a

minute and half or 2 minutes, and I'll call you
at Bermuda.
CDR Okay. We're going to kill the VTR now.
363 23 46 19 CC Okay, Jer.
363 23 48 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for about

5 minutes. And I have one question that we're
interested in. You mentioned the color in the
tail very close to the coma. Was there any
noticeable color in the sunward spike?
PLT Dick, we don't believe so, not to first appearance;

it was primarily white. We could not see any
yellow cast or blue.
CC Okay. I have an evening question here that has to

do with EVA. As long as it's fresh on your mind,
I thought I'd get it out of the way. It's from
corollary, and it has to do with the S020 orienta-
tion during the second daylight pass of the $201
ops. The - the question is, how was S020 oriented -
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referenced to $201 during the 201 ops? And what

portion, if any, of the S020 canister was sunlit
during the S201 ops? Over.
363 23 49 h8 PLT It was sunlit. Essentially what was done was to

point it away from the Sun in the up direction.
By up, I mean the - well, I'll have to give you
something in reference to the - the canister which
I could do in a few moments. But it was pointed
about 20 degrees off Sun center.
CC Okay, and so the Sun - so then whatever's sunlit,

whatever that angle caused - would just cause
that portion of the canister to be sunlit, is that
right ?
CDR That's affirmative. But remember there's a lot

of backlight from the Earth and the spacecraft,
so as far as we could see the canister - the S020
canister was fully lit on all sides. But it was
from - it's - it's regularly pointed position
which - from solar inertial we just pitched it
up about 15 or 20 degrees, so that it was looking
at black sky.
CC Okay. And one other question on the same subject.

We'd like to have any comments on any differences
in the S020 alignment between EVAs 2 and 3, if
you recall them. Incidentally, the reason that
these questions have been generated is, is that
the temperature that you reported was a little
bit higher than we had expected and we just wanted
to - to make sure that that was due to sunlight,
possibly, rather than somekind of hardware problem_
363 23 51 28 CDR Dick, I don't think we pointed it any differently

between the two. I did not get to see the pointing
on the EVA 2; I did see it on EVA 3. But in both
cases that large circle was inside the square and
I remember Bill saying on EVA 2 that it was
slightly out in X and right on in Y. And with
S-pointing it was slightly out in both, but in both
cases well within the square. And in both cases
the canister was out in full sunlight for the whole
time.
CC Okay, thank you very much; appreciate that. Next

time somebody goes up towards the STS section -
we watched you do a good bit of the preps, but
one of th - one portion of them that we couldn't
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verify that would make us feel warmer if you could

confirm sometime is on panel 200. The 02/N 2 GAS
FILL, PRIMARY and SECONDARY circuit breakers, two
of them, we'd like to confirm that they're CLOSED.
CDR Okay, 02/N 2 FILL, PRIMARY and SECONDARY breakers.
CC That's right.
CDR Okay, Bill's on the treadmill now. Is this the

pass that you wanted?
363 23 52 26 CC Yes, we're looking at our data now.
CDR Okay. Here's - here's some things on the tread-

mill, Dick. I think the walking and the toe lifts
will probably be no problem. But I can guarantee
you that the springs are going to do it to you,
because when we do springs in here on the treadmill
it makes the condensate holding tank wiggle on its
shock mounts.
CC Roger.
CDR Well, when you're ready, let us know and we'll

have Bill do some springs, so you can see what
sort of magnitudes we're talking about.
CC Roger, Skylab. We're about 30 seconds from LOS

here at Bermuda. We' re going to drop out for
Just about 5 minutes. And I'll give you a call
at 23:58 at Canary, and maybe we can get our data
there. That's - -
CDR Okay. Bill's been walking so far about 4 minutes.
CC Okay, fine.
SPT Dick, the answer to the S020 question is that is

was pointed 20 degrees off Sun center so that the
side called top or what you normally call top when
it was pu - was to be put in the SAL was receiving
sunlight.
363 23 53 _3 CC Okay, Ed. Thank you.

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363 23 58 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary for 8-1/2 min-

utes. And we're letting our data get locked up
now, and I'ii tell you when we've got it good.
CDR Roger. Here's the way we'd like to do it. Bill's

still walking now. When you get your wslking
data would you give him a mark and he'll give you
i minute of toe rises, and then you give him
another mark and he'll give one - give you i min-
ute of springs.
CC That sounds like a good approach. I'ii let you

know when we can tell you to start.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay we got good data now, Jerry. So I'm assuming

we're looking at the walking data and I'll give
you a mark when we're satisfied with it.
CDR Okay. You got the helm.
36h 00 00 13 CC Okay, Skylab. Bill you're GO to do some toe

rises.
CDR Gee, Dick, you ought to give him a little

Jack LeLane exercise music or something to go
with it.
CC I guess I could hum.
CDR Is the world ready to hear you hum?
CC (Laughter) I don't think so.
CC PLT, Houston. We're satisfied with that. Show

us some springs.
CC Skylab, Houston. While Bill is doing his springs,

we got a couple of other things. One is, we'd
like to know what the CDR and SP do - SPT have
been doing during this same period. And also, if
possible, Bill, after you get through with the
springs, we're wondering if you could just stop
for 1 minute and let us look at just some still
data.
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364 00 02 17 SPT We've both been relatively quiet, Dick. We've

not been moving around. I Just moved from the
film vault over to the SIA over by the minus-Z
SAL. Jerry's been working on the suit. Both
relatively quiet.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, Bill's quiet now.
CC Okay, real fine. Let us look at this for about

a minute and we'll be satisfied.
CC Skylab, Houston. We really appreciate it, and you

guys can go back to doing as you please now. We -
we have our data and as soon as we've looked at
it enough to let you know how it came out, I'll
do that.
SPT Okay, Dick; thank you.
CC Roger.
364 00 06 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS Canary;

Tananarive at 00:18.
364 00 19 h9 CC Skylab, Houston. Tananarive for 6 minutes.
SPT Roger, Dick.
36h 00 2h 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We have about a minute and a

half left at Tananarive, Just in case we get a
early LOS. Honeysuckle comes up at 00:43, and
Honeysuckle.
CDR Roger, Dick. And the MDA locker number lh3 is

really too full to be putting the meteroid shield
in. I've stowed it in MI41 and I'll put it on the
evening status report on a stowage shift.
CC Thank you, Jerry.
CDR And this SEVA sail sample looks as good as the

day it was put out there.
36h O0 25 04 CC Great.
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364 00 43 3h CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. During the time today that we had

the command module platform up, we got a good look
at - a good determination of what nuZ is. And it
it has changed enough to cause us to have to
change the fine maneuver and the final attitude
you should expect on your JOP 18 Delta pad. So
sometime when you - shortly here, when you can
get that 18 Delta pad and it's convenient, prior
to the 18 Delta coming up, I'd like to read you
the numbers.
364 O0 h5 31 SPT Okay, Dick. Do we have a pass in about another

20 minutes?
CC Yes, as a matter of fact, 17 minutes from now we

have a pass at Hawaii and that'll be plenty enough
time.
SPT Okay, let's get it then. Thank you, Dick.
CC Right.
364 00 51 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS_

Hawaii comes up at 01:03.
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CDR Roger, Dick.
SPT And, Dick, I'm standing by to copy the changes in

the fine maneuver.
CC Okay, here they are. I'll read you the numbers -

the new numbers. X, 50222, and that's 1.46 degrees,
plus - excuse me - plus 1.46; Y, 51106, minus
point 66 degrees; Z, 50112, plus 0.74 degrees.
Now I'll read you the correct final attitude that
you should expect, Ed. X, plus 3.46; Y, plus 6.31;
plus 0.71. Over.
SPT Okay, Dick. The fine maneuvers: X, 50222; Y,

51106; Z, 50112. And l'd expect a plus 3.46,
plus 6.31, plus 0.71, and they correspond to
1.40 and a minus 0.66 and a plus 0.74.
364 01 05 30 CC Roger. One correction, Ed. The X number corre-

sponds to 1.46, not 1.40. One other minor change
that!s happened, and I can explain it to you. Just
after the EVA, we loaded new biases and did an
H-cage and the momentum has been tracking since
then Just like it should have, so that's going to
allow us to delete the nominal cage that's listed
there in your procedure in step 5. Over.
SPT Okay, that's the one at 01:36. Roger. Thank you.
CC That's correct. Thank you much.
364 01 ll 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from LOS.

Goldstone comes up about 3 minutes from now. I'll
give you a holler there.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Roger. And incidentally, a note - no answer

required from - for the CDR and PLT. In going
through the dump tapes, the corollary folks
noticed that you reported a dent in one of the
specimens for M161 - correction M561 preps the
other day. They appreciate your taking a look and
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would like for you to continue to inspect those

before each op.
CDR Will do it.
364 01 12 15 CC Roger.
364 01 17 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. I don't think I ever gave you

an AOS call here at Goldstone about a minute or so
ago. We still have about _ minutes left in this
pass.
SPT Roger, Dick.
364 01 21 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS,

Goldstone. We're going to have about a 5-minute
dropout, and I'll call you at Bermuda.
36_ 01 25 43 CC Skylab, Houston; Bermuda for 8 minutes.
36h O1 33 02 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Canary at 01:35.

Out.
364 Ol 35 29 cC Skylab, Houston. We have a nice long pass between

Canary Islands and Ascension for 16 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC And, Jerry, I was going to ask you way long time

ago to confirm those two GAS FILL circuit breakers
and you never got back to me. Did you confirm
that they were closed?
CDR Yes, that's right. They were closed.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR Hey, Dick, we never got chapter 1 of the Shaffer/

Truly "Lonely Hearts Book." When you going to
fix it?
CC Well, we're working on the book. But I'm going

to get back to you this evening on a couple of
things, and then - and then we're going to block
out some time tomorrow evening several passes in
a row and talk to you about it.
CDR Okay.
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36h 01 43 49 CC SFT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Ed, we've discovered another thing that may or

may not be obvious to you in the JOP 18 Delta
procedure today, which is caused by the fact that
the star traeker's belly up. And if you look at
step 36 in the JOP 18 Delta, I'll show it to you.
SPT Okay, Dick. Go ahead.
364 01 4h 23 CC Okay, we're about to have a handover here, Ed.

Let me wait 30 seconds and then - so I won't drop
out. Hang on.
364 01 44 51 CC SPT, Houston through Ascension. The change we

want to make today is to delete the first four
DAS entries in step 36 for the obvious reason
that the star tracker is not working, and we do
not want the updates enabled. We will be getting
a checklist change up to you to permanently delete
those steps.
SPT Okay, Dick. We'll do it. Thank you.
CC Thank you.
36h 01 47 04 CC CDR, Houston. A reminder for you. On your Sl,mmsxy

Flight Plan for today at a time of 00:30, there's
listed an entry there - M563 ops, and we don't see
563 running yet.
CDR I'm headed up that way now.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you.
364 01 50 58 CC Skylab, Houston. 30 seconds from LOS. Carnarvon

at 02:18.
364 02 19 06 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for 8-1/2 minutes. And PLT, Houston. If you've
got a moment any time during this pass, I've got
a couple of evening questions I'd like to ask you.
PLT Fire away, Dick.
CC Okay, the first one has to do with the fire warning

light that was reported during the EVA today. Turns
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out that we got an indication of a fire from one

of the subunits but not both, as we - shoui_ hq_e
been the case and also we did not get an indication
of a warning indication. The question is _<_icm
fire light was it that came on_ and di_ jo_ g_
a warning and or a klaxon with it.
PLT Okay, Dick, it was one of the aft airlock warning

lights and those - both of those are inhibited as
the part of the pre-EVA checklist for the PLT.
So I did not get any klaxon or warning - siren,
rather.
364 02 20 09 CC Okay, Bill. Let me ask you a dif - another one on

a different subject and if EGIL has any more back
on that fire light I'ii get back to you shortly
here. This one is onthe M518 ops. We're - We're
interested in having an approximate time that it
takes the chamber to get down to vacuum. Spe-
cifically, is it taking more than i0 minutes to
get it to vacuum? We need to know for our sched-
uling purposes.
PLT About 45 minutes at least, and maybe an hour and

a half. I don't go up and watch it, but it's
well over l0 minutes. And after the first time
I sort of Just checked it every time I went by.
And it does take a considerable length of time
to get down to this pressurethat's specified
in the checklist.
CC Okay, Bill. Thank you very much.
PLT That's the - that's the reason we end up being

late on those things.
CC Yes, I understand.
364 02 21 31 PLT By the way, Dick. I do appreciate the calls in

the details to do steps such and such through
such and such and no more and that sort of thing.
That is very helpful.
CC Okay, Bill, thank you. We'll - we're just trying

to get as much data as we can so we can sort of
improve the efficiency of these details and
Flight Plan and so forth.
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PLT And since that is sort of indefinite, that pres-

sure thing, I'll try to make a - a special effort
tonight; when - when Jer cranks this up, if he
can't watch it, I'll try to go by there and check
and just see when we get down to that pressure.
CC Okay, we would appreciate that. But it's - even

this information helps us a lot because it's
obviously taking a whole lot more than we had -
we were thinking.
PLT Yes, I thought it was broken. I mean I thought

there was something wrong. I kept checking it
the first time through and then I finally Just
left it alone and went by there after, oh, this
was - it was over an hour and, lo and behold, it
was down there.
CC Roger.
364 02 22 B5 PLT I don't know if it's outgassing from inside, or

what.
CC Say again, Bill.
CC SPT, Houston. Absolutely no hurry on this, but

when you get a moment I'd like - like to tell you
something - take about a minute or so - concerning
the message that's coming up •in the teleprinter now.
CDR Okay, Dick. He's pretty busy right now.
CC No hurry at all.
CDR Okay.
B6_ 02 26 57 CC Skylab, Houston. BO seconds from LOS. Hawaii

comes up at 02:41, and we're going to dump the
data/voice recorder at Hawaii. And also I'll be
standing by for the evening status report.
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Time: 364:06:30 to 36h:04:00
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36h 02 41 06 CC Skylab, Houston. Hawaii for 8 minutes.
36h 02 43 37 CDR Houston, CDR. Ready for evening status?
CC Yes, sir. Sure - sure am Jerry. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, I'm going to give you everything but the

photo log right now. We're still sorting that one
out.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 7.0 - 6.5 heavy, 0.5 light;

SPT, 7.0 - 6.0 heavy, 1 light; PLT, 7.0 - 6.0
heavy, 1.0 light. Volume: CDR, 1900; 2050;
1950. Water gun readings: 7918; 3538; 9757.
Body mass: CDR, 6.316, 6.321, 6.318; SPT, 6.351,
6.361, 6.354; PLT, 6.238, 6.239, 6.242. Exercise:
CDR, none; SPT, none; PLT, no change to standard.
Medication: none; none; and Tinaetin as directed.
Clothing: none; _ was shorts and socks; PLT,
shorts and socks. Food log: CDR, 3.5 salt, plus
one tuna spread, minus one coffee with sugar,
minus one lemonade, rehydration water 1- plus 1.0;
SPT, salt 1.5, zero deviations, zero water; PLT,
zero salt, zero deviations, zero water. Flight
Plan deviations: none. Shopping list: none.
Inoperable equipment: transporters 08 and 02 have
both broken film. We used our last Mike Tango
takeup reel on transporter 08. And we have no
new - no empty transporters - -
PLT One more.
CDR Stand by.
CC Okay.
36h 02 h5 30 CDR Okay. We have one more Mike Tango. We used our
next to last on 08; we have one more left.
Unscheduled stowage: Airlock module meteoroid
shield samples to MI41 vice Mlh3.
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CC Okay.
CDR And we'll have a few amplifying remarks on the

photo pad to - or the photo log on that report.
CC Okay, Jerry.
36h 02 48 15 CDR Okay, Dick. We got time for a photo status?
CC Sure do, Jerry. We're about a minute away from

LOS. And Ha - Goldstone comes up 5 minutes from
now. Shoot.
364 02 48 25 CDR Okay. 16-millimeter: transporter 02, we had

film breakage on that, and that was Charlie
India 75, 68, Charlie India 73. Which means we
got no film shot. Transporter 08, M151 EVA prep
and post, Charlie India 77, 15, Mike Tango 09.
Nikons: l, no change; 2, Bravo Echo 05, 01; 3,
4, and 5, no change. 70-millimeter: Charlie X-
ray 52, and the frame count is 059. ETC: no
change. EREP: no change. Drawer A configuration:
Alfa l, transporter 02, Charlie India 75, 68, no
takeup reel; Alfa 2, 3 and the back, no change;
Alfa h, 08, Charlie India 77, 15, Mike Tango 09.
CC Okay. Thank you, Sir.
CDR All right. I'll give you the marks when we get
over the next station.
CC Okay, I'll be standing by for them at AOS, and

I'll give you a call.
CC Okay.
CDR Is Bill on net for his call at the next station?
364 02 49 54 CC Let's see; Bill's call comes up not at the next

station, but at - at Ascension at 03:20. And
I'll remind him there.
364 02 54 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We' re AOS Goldstone for 5 minutes.

And, Jerry, standing by for your remarks on the
evening status report.
CDR Okay, stand by.

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CC Okay.
364 02 54 29 CDR Okay, let me go over it carefully. Transporter 08

was used this morning for M151 EVA prep and post.
We had film breakage on that before we even got
started, so Charlie India 171, which was the takeup
reel, w_s stowed and replaced with Mike Tango 09.
And we've got all of the MI51 EVA prep and post on
that. Transporter 02 film breakage -we reported
that to you earlier, which means we lost all that
EVA documentary. That was Charlie India 173,
which is stowed, and at the moment we have no
takeup reel installed, and we have one takeup reel
left. And somebody probably better start thinking
about some other reels to use for takeup reels.
And it looks to me like we got ourselves a real
problem here with transporters, and I wonder if
the film folks would like to think it out again
and try to see if we can find the different
procedure. But there's been an awful large, or
long rash of - of the feed pawls Just tearing the
perforations right out of the film. And I can
assure that all three of us are strictly adhering
to the procedures that were sent up here, the
special procedures for initiating camera usage,
and it just doesn't seem to be working. CDR out.
CC Okay, Jerry. We copy. And we will rethink that

one.
CDR Okay.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT On step 33 here they specify a ROLL. I assume

that's an EXPERIMENT ROLL of minus 5400?
SPT Thank you.
364 02 57 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

We'll pick you up at MILA 4 minutes from now.
And we'll - when we hand over from MILA to Bermuda,
during that pass, that'll he the ned conference.
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364 03 01 25 CC Skylab, Houston. :,,s'_ A'Y _4...... r

for about i0 minutes. _id _bod_
now we're going to hand you o_-,_r _ _kc
doctor.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Ed, we've seen CANISTER PRESSURE a little bit

higher than normal. It's - that's not too abnormal
for a post-EVA situation, but we think the better
part of valor on the S056 X-RAY HIGH VOLTAGE
POWER, ALUMINUM and BERYLLIUM switches to OFF
would be a good idea.
SPT You got them.
CC Okay, and we're about to have a keyhole here at

MILA, and I'll give you a call when we're out of
keyhole.
364 03 02 46 SPT Okay.
364 03 04 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of keyhole here.

And, SPT, Houston. One other short note for you
if you've got about 30 seconds to listen.
SPT Yes, it's kind of quiet time now, Dick. Go ahead.
CC Okay, awhile ago, we uplinked a message in the

teleprinter. The name of it - and it's called
general message ArM note. What it is - it's -
it's a long series of proposed things that you
and Bill Lenoir are going to get to talk about
tomorrow on the ArM conference that may or may
not, depending on your discussion, end up as
checklist changes on S054 in the JOP S_ary
Sheets. There are two things I want to m - mention
to you now. Number one, you might take a look at
• these prior to the ATM conference;that might
help you out. And number two, whatever you do,
do not put them in the JOP Summary Sheets until
a regular JOP Sun_nary Sheet checklist change
shows up.
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SPT Okay, very good, Dick. I'll take a look at them

tonight. Thank you.
CC Okay, real fine, Ed. And we're about 30 seconds

from handover and - for the med conference. The
next station is Ascension at 03:20 and that's
the PLT's phone call.
36_ 03 05 25 CC And that's ANTENNAS, LEI_T to RIGHT.
36h 03 20 lh CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension for 9,1/2 minutes.

And like an ATM frame count when somebody could
give it to me, please.
CDR Okay. 14940, 540?, 183, 500, 5440, h948.
CC Okay, Jerry. And if you and Ed, I'm - I'm sorry

there's - I've got several things I wanted to
talk to you guys about. Sorry Bill is on his
phone call, but I thought I'd - I'd - thought I
would cover them for you here at Ascension, and
we could save the Carnarvon pass later on for the
news.
•SPT Okay, sounds good. Go ahead.
CDR Yes, we're available.
CC Okay_ hang on Just 1 second. I think there's

some ATM eloseout things that we want to read up
to you, and then I'll get to this other stuff.
CC Okay, Phil's going to get me that list, so I'll

go ahead. One thing, before - before we go to
bed this evening we'd like for you to hook up
the VTR again. We need to be dumping that, so
we can get the TV dump that's on there. And,
Jerry - -
CDR Okay, we'll string our cable.
B64 03 21 35 CC Okay, that's great. Jerry, let me get to you -

you and Ed a little bit on the conversation that
you read down to Phil and me. There's Just one
specific question that I wanted to answer tonight,
and then I wanted to tell you a little bit about
what we were going to talk about tomorrow night
and sort of what that plan was. First of all -
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and the question I wanted to address here this

evening was a comment that you made concerning
your willingness to talk about mission planning
and so forth on a private comm. We think that
there's absolutely nothing that requires privat,_
comm, and, as a matter of fact, l'm delighted that
you chose Phil and me to talk to you about this
stuff, because it's kind of fun to work on. As a
matter of fact, I think exactly the opposite is
true, and - and Phil agrees with me. I think when -
when either something happens that - where some
mistake or something is caused that causes a
problem in the Flight Plan, or when you think that
we've made some kind of boner on one of the pads
or generally in flight planning, I think the
place to talk about that is on the air-to-ground.
Even -even the voice record sort of puts a barrier
between your immediate problems and the right
people to solve it, we think. So that's something
you might take into consideration. The reason
for that is - is that Just the mechanics of
getting the voice transcripts transcribed involves
some delay and also, naturally, there's a few
mistakes built in. And one thing that we certainly
miss is emphasis that you get from just talking
to each other. So - and another problem there is
the time involved in getting the transcripts
transcribed is - usually the people that get the
job of answering your questions is usually a
different team than the quest - than that one that
either caused the problem or knows the straight
answer.
364 03 23 33 CC So - so we in summary, no private comm required,

and we'll talk about the whole thing tomorrow
night. Now what we're planning on doing in a
cc_bination of a status message and also several
air-to-ground stations is - we're planning on
putting together, if we can, a status of accomplish-
ments and so forth as of the midpoint of the mission.
We're also - also going to look especially hard at
areas that - where we think possibly that you can
help us or look for ways on orbit that - in
particular areas that you may not be aware of where
it will help us in scheduling. And - and,
finally, try to point out to you there are some
special areas that give us particular fits because
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of the constraints in the flight planning. And

I think there's two or three of those that are
worth pointing out to you in a little bit of detail.
I think it'll help you understand our problem a
little bit better. So after this shift is over
Phil and Pleddie Baker, our FA0, and I are going
to sit down for awhile and try to decide which
of these things are worth putting in a message
and which are worth talking about. And for your
planning purposes, we've blocked off a set of passes
tomorrow evening between - starting about 02:15
snd going to 02:_5 or 3 o'clock to - to talk about
all this Junk. And if that isn't sufficient, we'll
schedule whatever time is necessary.
CDR Okay. That sounds fine, Dick.
36h 03 25 12 CC Okay. While Phil is getting together the other

stuff with the ATM - as a matter of fact, he's
got it right here. Her'e a couple of things on
the ATM we'd like to make sure that you can close
out for us. S - -
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. S056, ALUMINUM DOOR, CLOSEd. I'm sorry;

I'm sorry. S056, AIRLOCK DOOR, CLOSEd; H-ALPHA
TVs and MONITORS secured; S055, OPTICAL REFERENCE
and .MIRROR, LINE SCAN. And turn off the C&D loop.
SPT Say, Dick, I have never gotten the chance to go

on up there and put it into the unattended
configuration after the - the med conference, and
I had planned to do that. That's why it was in
the con - that configuration.
CC Okay, we won't worry about it then. Why don't you

do that when we go LOS. And there's a couple of
more things I'd like to talk to you here, and we
still got about h minutes. We used a bunch of TACS
today during the EVA, and what I thought I'd do was
explain it to you guys and when Bill gets off the
phone if you would explain it to him, and then if
you have any questions at Carnarvon we can talk
about them. But what we think we did was in the -
in one of the messages that we passed up, mainly
for Bill to use inside, we think possibly we - we
built a little trap and Bill fell into it: a
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combination of letting the attitude erro{: build

up to what we - more than we desired m_ then _'_
lowing the checklist verbatim.
36h 03 26 50 CC We looked at the data, and the problem occurr__:

during the tweak maneuvers and also during LOS.
The attitude built up to the numbers that are about
like this: it was minus 3 degrees in X, plus 7 de-
grees in Y, and plus i0 degrees in 2. So when Bill
inhibited CMG control, we were way outside the TACS
deadband which result - and about 22 full on for
the thrusters and ended up spending - well the to-
tal expenditure for the day was about 3900 pound-
seconds. What we should have told you to do was,
if you exceeded the half a degree air limit by a
bunch, we should have had you reselect ATTITUDE
HOLD CMG at that point to recenter the deadbands
before inhibing - inhibiting CMG control and then
make a maneuver back to the nominal attitude.
CC So in essence when Bill did notice that he was

outside of the dead - of the outside of the number
of half a degree, he was way outside - outside of
it. He did exactly what the message said he should
have done, and it just cost us a bunch of TACS.
CDR Okay. Understand that, and we'll pass it on to

him.
364 03 28 19 CC Okay. One more note, and we got about a minute

and a half and then I'll call you at Carnarvon.
And this one is Just something that Phil and I
thought you might be interested in, and it's -
has to do with the effect of the loss of the
star tracker. It turns out that we can update
nu z during your sleep periods, when you're all
very still, to an accuracy of about 0.2 and 0.3 -
to 0.3 degrees because the mementum dumps begin
to take nu Z corrected down to about that level.
However, during the day the Z-axis drift degrades
such that when we're doing the SAL work in SOLAR
INERTIAL, we will add a reference star. and the
difference between our prediction of rotation and
your observed angle will allow us to update nuZ
and will also allow you to update the rotation.
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Obviously the star tracker work for JOP 18 Delta

and JOP 13 can't be done, and essentially there's
nothing more that we can do now to update gamma RR,
as we have been before. The impact of these things,
real briefly, on the science is as follows: The
JOP 13, we can't point S055; the JOP 18 Delta
doesn't really matter because - as long as you
can see the comet. The e - the effect on the
EREP we think is fairly insignificant. We think
the effect of corollary is fairly insignificant
because - as long as we can get you a reference
star. And finally on the general ATM ops, the
main problem is a post flight one of reconstruct-
ing gamma RR. So that kind of sums it up as to
what - what effect the star tracker loss has on
a mission.
CDR Okay. Thanks a lot. That's good to know, and

we can try to think up and do whatever we can to
help the situation.
SPT Dick, have they looked into - on the ATM side

of the house -trying to use visual features on
the solar surface to get some sort of a roll
alignment from time to time?
CC Ed, let me get back to you with that one on

Carn arvon.
36h 03 30 34 SPT Thank you.
364 03 52 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon for ii minutes,

and, believe it or not, I don't have any mission
notes to read up to you except for the news,
unless you have something.
CDR Press on with the news.
CC Okay. Travelers with New Year's travel plans

will probably find themselves involved in the
great gasoline hunt. One survey showed at least
75 percent of the service stations in most areas
plan to close both Saturday and Tuesday for the
holidays. Some stations have closed already
because they have run out of gas. Here's an
interesting one: down in Nogales, Arizona, the
U.S. Border Patrol set up electronic devices
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along the Mexican border to scan for illegal

entries. The equipment is designed to emit
a beeping sound when persons cross certain areas.
But the unit was silent Wednesday night. Not
one peep. Turned out an investigation diclo -
disclosed that it was stolen, general Motors
says it's indefinite layoff of 38,000 workers
should result in a total production cut of 530,000
passenger cars by next fall. The layoffs and
production cuts are hitting plants which turn out
the larger gas-guzzling cars. Output of the
nations's largest auto maker is expected to be
from 8 to 12 percent below this year's level.
President Nixon signed a bill today naming the
U.S. courthouse and Federal Building now under
construction in New Orleans for the late Represent-
ative Hale Boggs. The Israeli team quarters in
the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany, scene
of a Palestinian attack that cost the lives of
ll Israeli athletes, has been purchased by the
games' organizer as a memorial guest house. The
two-story building will be donated to the Max
Planck Institute for use as a memorial residence
and meeting house for foreign scientists and
delegations.
36_ 03 54 26 CC The National Safety Council's estimate of between

470 and 570 persons who may be killed during the
102-hour New Year's holiday weekend takes into
account the gasoline shortage. During last
year's 3-day holiday weekend, 438 persons died
on the nation's roads. An aval - an avalanche
tumbled down a little-used ski slope in Park City
West, Utah, today, killing one ski instructor
and slightly injuring another. Scene of the
avalanche was a back portion of the resort and not
one of the regular runs. It had been snowing
heav - heavily out there for 4 days. In Tel Aviv,
Premier Golda Meir's Labor Party campaigned for
Monday's crucial election on the issues of
security against the Arab enemy and peach in the
Middle East. Opinion polls showed her party,
which has dominated Israeli politics for years,
was running only a fraction ahead of the newly
united right-wing opposition. President Nixon
signed into law a $375 million measure designed to
encourage the formation of health-maintenance
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organizations or group health plans. The bill

requires employers of 25 or more persons to offer
the option of such health plans in addition to
private insurance in negotiating health benefits
with employees. Here's a few football scores for
bowl games today. The Sun Bowl, Missouri 34,
Auburn 17. Here at - in Houston at the Bluebonnet
Bowl, the University of Houston h7, Tulane 7. At
the East/West Shrine game, East 35, West 7. And
at the Gator Bowl in the third quarter Texas Tech
21, Tennessee 13.
36h 03 56 31 SPT Sounds like the University of Houston did it to

them.
CC They really did, Ed. Hey, Ed, Phil says you get
an A-minus tonight on closing out the ATM. We
need the _C ROLL to INHIBIT.
SPT I'm planning to get that tomorrow morning, Dick.
CC (Chuckle) Okay, well, we'd appreciate it tonight.
CDR Dick, I've got POWER to the VTR now. You might
check it - have them check it quickly and see
if it is the way you need it.
CC Good show, we'll do that. Thank you. We like

it, Jerry.
36h 03 57 30 CC Skylab, Houston. When you check that MPC, also

we need to get the ATM C&D loop off.
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364 04 Ol 06 CC Skylab, Houston. One final note on - when we did

the test awhile ago with Bill walking and then
doing the Jumps and also the toe lifts on the
treadmill, we concluded - well, first of all, there
was a dramatic difference between doing
nothing and doing anything. That was - was really
the biggest difference of all. However, we do feel
like, since we do have five J0P 18 Deltas scheduled
tomorrow, we do feel like that if you - if, Jerry,
you and Bill would like to, during the open house-
keeping that's next to the J0P 18 Delta data takes,
if you want to use - utilize that for the treadmill
exercise as long as you do either the walking or
the toe lifts but not the jumps, we think that's
okay with us. And if you have a choice there, do
the walking.
CDR Okay. And what do you think about Mark I? Why

don't we run a little test on that one of these
times soon?
CC Jerry, we believe we've already seen data on that.

And we think it's worse than the - than the walking
and them - and the toe lifts that we were talking
about a minute ago.
364 04 02 30 CDR Okay. That hard to believe, really, because it's

sort of an isometric. All you're doing is pulling
a rope around a pulley.
CC Well, I tell you what; maybe your suggestion of

taking another look at it is a - is a good one,
and we'll - we'll think about that one.
CDR Okay.
CC Incidentally, we're about to go LOS and I haven't

checked the wakeup time for in the morning. So
maybe you should set your clocks Just in case it's
not real close to 12 o'clock. But I'll give you a
call as early - as close to 12 as possible.
CDR Okay, Dick; thank you.
CDR Goodnight, Dick.

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364 04 03 19 PLT Goodnight, Dick.
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364 13 04 32 CC (Music: "On Top of the World" by The Carpenters)
364 13 05 49 CC Good morning, Skylab. You guys still on top of

the world today?
CDR Good morning, Crip. Yes, we're still around.
CC Very good. The - this song was dedicated to you

from your daughter there, Jet.
CDR Roger. That 's great.
CC And for the PLT. Bill, you've got to GO to - to

turn on 56's ALUMINUM/BERYLLIUM HIGH VOLTAGE POWER.
PLT Thank you.
CC (MUSIC)
364 13 07 00 CC The CDR. Jet, is this a convenient time to t-]k

to you a little bit about the high temperatures I
told you the other day you might be able to expect?
CDR Better do it next pass. I'm about ready to get

even with Ed on the MIIO here.
CC Okay, have at it.
36h 13 12 29 CC PLT, Houston. Bill, we copied those two 82A ex-

posures in building block IA taken at a ROLL
of 5400. And we'd like you to repeat those at
any time you're convenient through this stateside
pass at a ROLL of zero, if you would, please.
PLT Okay. Sorry about that.
CC No, we got plenty of time to get them again.
CDR Hey, Crip, the deed is done. How much time we got?
CC Oh, Jer, we got a - got about a minute left here

before we go LOS. Probably be worthwhile to save
it. I was Just going to give you an idea of what
kind of temperatures we could expect and what
turning off lights would do for you. And we can
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catch that either nex5 pass or a little bit later

in the day. No - no big rush on it. I - I
assume the SPT survived the - the operation?
364 13 13 43 CDR Oh, he's sniffling a little bit, but he'll be all
right.
CC 0keydoke. It - what might be worthwhile to invest

the next pass in, if he's got time - in discussing
a few of the JOP 18D first run that we've got
coming up. There's a couple of little - little
items that bear some discussion. So if he has a
chance prior to Ascension, which is about 3 minutes
from now, to grab that pad and I can - would like
to run over a couple of steps on it with him.
SPT Crip, can you hold off? I'm in the middle of ii0.
CC Roger. Don't believe I'm gonng to have another

pass aft - after this to do it, but you might -
you can probably just listen to them. That's
about 3 minutes from now. We' re going to go LOS
in about l0 seconds. And I'll see you at Ascension
in 3 minutes. You really don't need the pad. I
can tell you about them.
CDR Okay, Crip.
364 13 14 40 CC See you there.
364 13 17 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension for

10-1/2 minutes.
CC And, Ed, if it's kind of your convenience here.

I was going to discuss these items on - on 18D
before you started entering them in your pad so
you'd understand them. I'm going to see you again
at Guam at about 14 - 14:01 - or 14:02, and I can -
I can discuss them with you there if - if it's
really inconvenient; or I can Just talk to them
and you can kind of listen here.
SPT Hold on, Crip. We're getting the pad now.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are doing a data/voice recorder

dump through Ascension here.
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SPT Okay, Crip_ go ahead.
36h 13 18 45 CC Okay, Ed. First thing is that on steps 12 - on

step 12 we have you go to a ROLL of minus 1900.
• And then before you ever take any data on step 17,
we have you rolling to minus 6900. And that was
done down here because of calculations of- of
the maneuver that ASC0 required due to the coning
involved in the - in the CANISTER at different
ROLL positions. And we knew where it was at
minus 1900 and we didn't - didn't at the other,
so, Just didn't - wanted you to understand that
that was done purposely.
SPT Okay, Crip. I - I guess I could set up the overlay,

though, to the latter position initially. Is that
correct ?
CC Well, you - it should be set up at - at a minus 1900

for the initial values that we gave you on step lb.
Or - and with the 300 bias, that's minus 1600.
If you just go down the - the steps like we've
got them written, Ed, I believe it'll bother you
at all. All I'm saying is that if you go through
it, it appears as an extra ROLL there are the
really wasn't required, and the reason was for
our ground calculations.
SPT Okay. What I was thinking, though, is that I put

the overlay itself so it's minus 6900, and I -
I should have no problems. Okay, go ahead.
36_ 13 20 16 CC Don't - don't do that until after you have put in

the correct ROLL. On step 12, where you ROLL to
minus 1900, that's fine, and then when you acquire
the comet - and if you - on step 14, we mention
where it's supposed to be in it's - on the overlay,
a minus 70-X, plus 70-Y. That assumes the overlay
is set at a ROLL of minus 1600. Following all
that, you'll go ahead and ROLL the CANISTER again
to the - to the new position of minus 6900 and
then change your overlay. And then do your re-
pointing.
SPT Okay. I got you, Crip. The only reason I'm a

little hesitant there is that overlay positioning,
Just takes a whale of a lot of time; to get it
back there ... oossible. But I - I see a way.
I'ii use both monitors on it. Go ahead.
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CC Okay, fine. Actually that - that overlay is just

so you - you know where it comes out right to. It
really is not going to be - end up being pertinent
to - to your data take. The other - -
SPT All right.
CC The other item was on - in step 25 we - on 54 we

had you do a little bit different change from what
building block calls for. We had you do a 54 long.
You've done a few of those and Bill Lenoir's going
to talk to you a little bit later in the day about
perhaps making that change and a bunch of - a
permanent change in a bunch of your JOPs, and
all -the only item I wanted to do was just call
it to you so you could remember the procedures,
since we didn't give you the procedure here.
364 13 21 54 SPT Is that what was sent up once as a general message?
CC Okay. On the general message we sent last night,

which is - was only meant to be a - a discussion
item for the ATM conference today, that is what
they're talking about; yes.
SPT Yes; okay. On that one, Crip, that thing came

up las - late last night, and I was up until 5
doing other things and never had a chance to look
at it. And I'm off and running full board this
morning, so we're going to have to delay that for
a day. And, I don't mind them putting ... and
... get in their 54 as we go along here but I'm
going to have to delay our discuss - discussion
a day.
CC Understand. You want to delay the discussion

on 54. But you can - you can still go ahead and
do that 54 long exposure for us in this building
block. Is that correct?
SPT Yes. Sure can. We'll deliver what they - what

they want as we go along here, but I'm Just going
to have to delay that discussion.
364 13 22 45 CC Copy that. The other item was on step 26. We

have worded it such that what we're after is
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the point to a particular place in the tail.

Since we didn't think the tail was going to be
very visible on your monitor, we have told you to
place the nucleus at an offset position in the
maneuver. And I just wanted to call that to your
attention to make sure you understood that.
CC And, of course, when you get to that offset posi-

tion, since the offset position itself is behind
the disk, you will not be able to see the nucleus.
SPT Okay, Crip. I got it.
CC Okay. Very good. That was - that was all I had.

I'll have turned over this position, probably,
time you get back, to - to Karl, who's sitting
in with the silver team today. But I'll - I'll
be around in case there are any problems on it.
And it'll be before you initiate it.
SPT Okay. Thank you very much.
CC Okay. Thank you. We still got about 3-1/2 minutes

here. And if CDR's available, I can discuss those
temperature items that I was mentioning earlier.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
364 13 24 31 CC Roger, Jer. We - in discussing it down here, and

talking about - you know - means of lowering the
temperature, the prime one is apparently is - is
the lights. And if - we can either give you some
direction how to do it here or we can more or
less Just turn it over to you. And I was going
to try to give you an idea of what the - the pre-
dicted temps were going to be and what effect
turning - turning off lights were and let you
make the - make the decision on that. On mission
day 56, which is day-of-year 10, we anticipate
about a - a 71 degree average temperature. And
on mission day 64, we anticipate about an 83 degree
average temperature. Right now it's running about
75 in the workshop. And all of these temperatures
I'm giving you are for the workshop. If you turn
off about 50 percent of the OWS lights during your
wake period, we predict that'll decrease the
temperature approximately 4 day - 4 degrees in
about 5 to 6 days. If - if you turn off 50 percent
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of the li@hts ahead of time fox' that day 64 -

correction - yes, on day 64, it'll bring that max
temperature down to about a 79 degree average.
Okay. And that was - there's one other item we -
we had that we could bring it down another degree;
and that is, we could turn on the secondary
RS loop.
364 13 26 19 CDR Okay. Well, I tell you, on the light situation,

why don't you put it on the pad as a reminder to
power down for high beta and - or power down the
lights or something like that, and we'll go ahead
and just start powering down early as far as the
lights are concerned and get ourselves prepped
for it. I don't think we need any special callouts
from you other than just a reminder that now is
the day that you ought to start going with half
your lights in the workshop.
CC Okay. Well - I guess, the problem is if you go

like right now with half your - half your lights,
you're going to cause - on mission day 56, you're
going to drop that what is go - now going to be
a 71 degree average down to around 68 or so, or
67, which might be a little bit chilly. So you
might want to hold up on that and get them after
that period so we can correct for the max beta
condition.
CDR Yes, that's what I mean.
CC Okay.
CDR Send us a - a note on the pad then and we'll start

doing that.
CC Okay, that's fine. Okay. We'll - that'll minimize

the delta excursion between those two. And we'll
send you a reminder of that so that you can turn
it off about - start turning them off about 5
to 6 days prior to that - that max. And, - -
CDR Okay, sounds good.
CC Okay, very good. We're about 15 seconds from

LOS; next station contact is over Guam in 34 min-
utes. And we'll say good morning here.
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CDR Roger.
PLT So long, Crip.
364 13 27 48 CC Bye, bye.
364 12 02 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston standing by for the next

9 minutes.
CDR Roger. And good morning, Karl.
CC Good morning. Looks like you got a lot of fun

with the comet today.
364 14 02 32 CDR Affirmative.
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364 lh hl 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for the

next ii minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Say again.
SPT Karl, we've got a white talkbaek on 82B. Other-

wise the experiment is operating nominally. I 'm
going ahead with the exposures. Maybe you want
to take a look at it.
364 lh h2 19 CC Okay, we copy.
36h 14 43 56 CC And, Jerry, we'd like to send up a reminder on

the S19 [sic] prep to use canister number 3 and
to reset the FOCUS on tooth i.
CDR Okay, Karl.
36h 14 47 30 CC Ed, concerning your 82B glitch, we'd like to have

you turn on the WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY for the XUV SLIT
and see what you see on the monitor there. The
indication we get down here is that that door might
be half open, half closed.
SPT Karl, I see a completely blank white screen, except

for on the left where there is a dark bar of
1/h inch, and then about another 1/2 inch, which
goes off the screen, of a lighter gray. If I were
to guess I was looking at the edge of the door,
I'd say we've got almost the full field of view.
364 14 _8 43 CC Roger. It - it sounded as though you said it was

mostly blank. That makes us think that it's
mostly - mostly closed.
SPT ...
CC Would you repeat that again?
SPT Okay. Should I be able to see the fiducial marks

without the sunlit background?
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CC That's a good question. We're not sure.
SPT Okay. I see a display which is almost all white,

except on the left. About 1 inch in from the left
is black. The first part, coming from right to
left, is a very dark bar of 1/4 inch, and then a
lighter bar continuing off the screen.
CC Okay, Ed; thanks. I think that's clear.
CC Ed, we're going to try to cycle that door from

down here.
364 14 49 49 SPT Okay.
CC Ed, we weren't able to recycle that door since

you were working with the DAS. We'd like to try
it at Ascension, if you'll give us the DAS at AOS.
SPT okay. Sorry, Karl.
364 14 50 42 CC That's oohh - that's righto. And we have a little

over i minute to LOS. We'll see you over
Ascension at 14: - oop, back up on that. 14:58 is
Ascension.
364 14 58 25 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Standing by for 14 min-

utes through Ascension and Canaries.
SPT Roger, Karl. Let me make one more compensation

maneuver, and the DAS is yours. Take about
20 seconds here.
CC Okay. Let us know when you're free.
SPT You've got it.
364 14 59 00 CC Thank you.
364 15 00 06 SPT Karl, could you please tell me when you're through
with the DAS, as we have a reacquisition maneuver
coming up here fairly shortly?
CC Okay. We will.
CC Okay. The DAS is yours, and our indications down

here is - is that we now have the door open.
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SPT Sorry, Karl. I didn't understand you. You do or

do not have the door open?
CC We do have the door open now.
SPT Oh, okay; very good. Yes, we've got an indication

up here. We got a gray.
CC Great; thank you.
SPT What did you do?
CC Say again.
SPT Say again.
364 15 01 34 CC We enabled. We tried the other motor, Ed, and it

worked.
SPT That 's good.
CC I'll take that back, Ed. We en - enabled primary

and turned it on, and it worked. And that was
the same one we were on.
SPT The white light display has not changed in appear-

ance, Karl.
362 15 02 O0 CC Okay. That's good information for future reference.

Incidentally, we will be dumping tape recorders
over Ascension starting Just about now. That's
over the Canaries. Pardon me.
36_ 15 03 3_ CC Ed, we'd like to check the GRATING setting on S055.

It should be in 575; we see it in 572.
364 15 06 00 CC Ed, could we doublecheck that the MPC ROLL is

inhibited?
CC Thank you. I guess we'd like to have that locked

at improve stability.
364 15 08 51 CC Ed, our indication down here is that 82B isn't

running. Could you doublecheck that it's on?
SPT Karl, I had it running. Apparently, when you

closed and reset the door, it stopped.
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CC Okay, that's just _ _. _:'_ _
364 15 12 20 CC Skylab, Houston_ _4_ h_/,_ _ :........ _-

see you over G_ _ _ :_!
364 15 39 22 CC Sky!ab, this is Houston through _ .._.raoo_c

7 minutes. We have our - have cur A±'M conference
coming up, but like to let you know that we expect
you'll be off the DAS and we'll be - we'll be turn-
ing the heaters on for the CMGs' normal operation.
CDR Roger, Karl. We got one question before we start

the conference, and that is the film threading pad
this morning. It appears they ignored all of our
comments that we gave them last night on our prob-
lems with transporters and I wonder if you might
try to find out if they intend to update the thread
pads in the near future or what.
CC we note that, and we'll let you know.

4
364 15 40 13 MCC Okay, Ed, l'm ready here with the ATM conference
whenever you are.
SPT Good morning, Bill; go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed, and incidentally, we realize you're busy

here at the night pass. Anything that you need to
interrupt our talk here to do, just let me know
and we'll stop talking for a while. The Sun -
obviously you're not looking at much right now,
and we've got more of the same coming. There's
just not much expected on the east limb for quite
a while. Tomorrow's operations, we'll be looking
at four passes of solar activity. And we're tenta-
tively looking at synoptics i Delta and a 4 Alfa
on the west limb prominences. And in addition to
the four solar passes, there will be three JOP 18D
comet passes. And that's really about the size of
today's Sun and tomorrow's plans from our point
of view. We're interested in any inputs you've
got to tomorrow's planning.
364 15 41 14 SPT Well, Bill, to tell you the truth, l'm having a
tough enough trouble keeping up with today right
now with the - well, I won't go into the details,
but things did get a little tight here. We did
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get the first one, building block 30, carried off

pretty well. One thing though, when I did go on
out to reacquire, I found myself a little bit
further off than I expected when I made the maneuver
back out. I'm going to try and take a look at it
again. I'll try and put the for - the information
on tape, which is what I had Just started to do.
We did get a look at the comet out the window.
It turns out we can see it now through the open
part in the structure on the solar panel. And the
sunward spike is not as near as - nearly as pro-
nounced as the tail. I think the angle between
the tail and the spike remains about the same.
The tail itself is, I think, larger than I was
able to see it yesterday, although I was looking
at it through binoculars tonight - or in this last
day pass. It's exceptionally bright nucleus, and
it is almost orange in appearance now, yellow
and - nearly orange, a little bit more so than I
think as I saw it yesterday.
364 15 42 35 MCC Okay, Ed; thanks for the observations here and
information. The DAS is yours now. Let me divert
here for a minute, a couple of thoughts on the
S05h. We'll be hopefully discussing the procedure
changes tomorrow, if you're ready. If not, we'll
Just do it the following day. We're more interested
in doing it right than doing it fast. So if you're
not ready tomorrow, just letus know again. We're
hoping that you'll get a chance to talk it over a
little bit with Jerry and Bill. And we can ta]k
about it and see what changes, if any, we need to
do. One thing I'd like you to think about is the
MODE switch on 54 that we don't want to touch.
You might give some thought to how we might go
about safing that. We've talked about taping it;
we've talked about getting an Allen wrench and
removing the knob itself. We didn't like that
for fear that it would be very easy to click it
one position, and then we're really back in trouble
again. You might give some thought to what safing,
if any, we might want to do to that switch.
SPT Bill, we got that thing taped down on either side,

and there's no way you can move that switch unless
you deliberately take the tape off, which none of
us will do. I think it's adequately safed.
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364 15 43 50 MCC Okay, good. I had a feeling you guys had probably
already solved that problem and we were just wor-
rying about it needlessly down here. And obvi-
ously, from now on, S054 cares more about the
roll than they used to. The message that we sent
up was intended to - the tail end of it - be a
cue card, if you desired, to augment some infor-
mation in the ATM Experiment Reference Book where
we never really worried about the film axis and
the grating axis. That's for information. We'll
worry about scheduling rolls and things, but I
thought you'd want to know how things are oriented
with respect to everybody else. And in response
to a question you asked me 2 days ago, during
synoptic-type observations, when you're doing
orbit-long obs on the Sun of your own choosing,
S054 does prefer the M, S, O, S, 64 as opposed to
the previous 256. Now - on a once-an-orbit basis,
or whatever fits in. And that's about all I have
for today. We'll be here ready to talk to you
tomorrow. And you can talk as much as you want
now for a minute and a half. Honeysuckle is next
in 8 minutes. Over.
364 15 45 05 SPT Okay; thank you very much, Bill. I - I think I'd
better get cracking on a few things here or I'm
going to be further behind. Thank you very much,
and I'll try and look at that 54 stuff for tomorrow.
364 15 45 14 MCC Okay, no problem. And we'll talk to you tomorrow.
364 15 53 15 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Karl.
CC Say again.
SPT Karl, I've got a request for the folks who are
planning the 18D 's.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT If they could put the initial pointing - or ini-

tial location of the comet somewhere other than on
a line which is horizontal and the same width as
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the spot in the white light coronagraph display.

It turns out we have a black bar which runs across
the display, and the comet, this morning, was
positioned underneath that black bar. I think if
•they worked to try to put it in the lower right-hand
quadrant, that would probably be better and easier
to work with.
CC Okay, we - we copy that. And we're going to have

LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll be seeing you
over Vanguard at - at 16:19.
SPT Thank you, Karl.
36h 15 55 31 CC Sure thing.
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364 16 19 59 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for trhe next

6 minutes.
36h 16 21 13 CC Ed, a quick note on that black bar business and

the comet. No need to acknowledge. We are sorry
that we got the comet under there, and we - we are -
we're working on the problem. We'll try to do
better this afternoon.
SPT Okay, Karl; no problem. It's bright enough now

to be able to see it. It'd also help if you could
move it a little bit further out so you got a
radius of maybe 100 or ll0. As it gets a little
dimmer, it's going to be harder to see it, and I
won't be able to locate it, I think, if it's in
as close to - as it was this morning. Second
plane is a little drift formation. At the - at
15:19, the position, on the overlay, of the comet
before we - just when we stopped the exposures,
the 32 Bravo building block - 30 Bravo building
block was minus a 120 in X and zero in Y. At
15:59, it was minus ll4 in X and plus l0 in Y.
What it shell - tells me is we're m_king our
drift corrections inthe right direction, but
not in the right m0gnitude. It looks like
every l0 minutes we ought to make an entry of -
of 0001 in X, and every 4 minutes of 50001 in Y.
364 16 22 31 CC Okay, Ed; we copy that. And thank you for the in-
formation. Incidentally, I do understand that you
were able to see the comet even though it was under
the black bar today?
SPT Yes. That's affirm, Crip. I knew roughly where

you were trying to put it, so I could just barely
see it under there when I looked hard. And then
we made a maneuver and brought it out from under-
neath it.
CC And, Ed, could we have the DAS for a minute?
SPT Sure can.
CC Ed, we have S - S082B not operating on out read-

outs down here. Like to have you check that, and
also I'd like to get HIGH VOLTAGE 1 on S055.
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364 16 23 34 SPT Okay, Karl. I did show that S055 HIGH VOLTAGE i
was on. The switch was up. I did not have a
SCAN SPECT ALERT light. I've cycled it, however.
And 82B ! did have running, and somewhere we must
have a transient because I'm positive I had that
running around - starting ii minutes ago.
CC 0 - Okay, we understand that. And the DAS is yours

again.
364 16 25 31 CC Skylab, we have i minute to LOS. We'll see you

again over the Canaries at 16:39.
364 16 39 20 CC Skylab, Houston is with you for the next 13 minutes

through the Canaries and Madrid.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Ge ahead, CDR.
364 16 40 13 CDR Karl, yesterday evening in a chat with Truly, they

discussed the possibility - no, I guess it was
yesterday morning anyway. Some time yesterday,
with either Crippen or Truly, we talked about nu z
updates and what we were going to do in order to
keep our nuZ squared away. One of the things that
were going to be done were to take a look at some
reference stars out the minus Sun - the antisolar
airlock. I notice today we have three S019 operate
pads and no - no mention made of reference stars in
these pads. It would seem to me a good idea that
maybe we should consider taking a look at a refer-
ence star. Or is our nu Z in good enough shape that
we don't need it today?
364 16 41 12 CC Roger, Jerry. And the word we have down here is

that we are able to keep track of nu z if - as - as
long as we're very careful about it. We are able
to keep track of nu Z to the required accuracy for
S19 [sic]. We also have a complication is that
we're confined to using the 003 canister now, which
doesn't have a reticle.
CDR That's right; we forgot about that. Is there any-

thing we can do about swapping reticle or the lights
or anything from 3 to - 2 to 3?
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CC There's two possibilities, Jer. If - if the system

Just wanted a nu Z update, we could always put the
002 canister on and simply use that eyepiece. For
for the use of S19 [sic], though, there is some
possibility, if we wanted, to put a bright star
over there on the left cross. But the question is,
do you feel without a reticle you know where that
position is fairly well now Just by sighting in
there without a reticle.
CDR We probably do, but what's the possibility of

swapping reticles?
CC Well, the - well, the problem is, swapping a bat-

tery there. That's something that could be looked
into. Yes.
364 16 42 24 CDR Okay.
364 16 43 14 CC Jerry, the people down here feel quite confident

that we can hang on to our nu Z correction fairly
carefully as long as we keep a close eye. Aft -
after a night's momentum stabilization, we know
what nu Z is, then we integrate angles through the
day. And we feel that we - as long as we keep do-
ing this carefully, that we're fairly confident.
CDR Okay; fine, Karl.
CC Incidentally, Jerry, concerning the f_Im thread

pad, the pad we sent up to you is simply a status
report. We do realize that you've got n,_ber 2
and number 8 not functioning, and they're not re-
quired today. And one of our problems is we need
a couple of new reels, takeup reels, for those,
and we're going to have to un - unreel some of the
Skylab 2 film to get them. And that's something
that we expect to get done tomorrow.
364 16 44 l0 CDR Roger; copy.
364 16 46 03 CC Ed, concerning the 82B problem with it cutting off.

We've been chewing on that, and the only thing we
can possibly see to cause that is - is the possi-
bility that you've got the EVENT TIMER running, in
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which case about once every hour it'll automatically

turn 82B off. Is it possible that the EVENT TIMER
is running?
SPT Yes, I had it running at - at that time_ and that

may have happened. I had it timed for something
else.
CC Okay; fine. That might solve that problem. Was

the SLIT ENABLED
SPT Affirm.
CC Roger. Okay.
CC Ed, we'd be pleased to have you go to - to INHIBIT

on the- on the SLIT.
SPT Okay. I don't have it running now, Karl. I've

got it set up for the first exposure next orbit,
so we're okay.
364 16 47 13 CC Okay; fine.
36h 16 52 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We have i minute to LOS. We'll

see you over Honeysuckle at 17:26.

about 7 minutes. And we'd like to have the DAS
for about 30 seconds.
SPT Roger. You have it, Karl.
CC Thank you.
SPT Could you - could you, please, go over again what

was the situation with the 82B door this morning?
CC Standby.
CDR There was no time to do the 93rd - 30-second ex-

posure on the last field. I can get it in if I
do it before the 30-second exposure.
CC Say again, please.
364 17 27 33 CDR Skip it; it's too late.

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364 17 29 15 CC The DAS is yours.
CDR Okay, Karl, what I was trying to get to you on was

the last star field in S019 here. I didn't have
enough time to get a 270 and then a 30 and then
a 90. I could have just about gotten a 90 in if
l'd skipped the 2 - the 30-second one. But I went
ahead and played it straight, since I really didn't
get any time to think about it.
CC Okay. That's fair enough, Jerry. And we didn't

respond there because we - we missed the first few
words. We had some sort of site drop-out there.
364 17 30 01 CDR Okay.
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364 17 30 02 CC But I think you did good.
CDR I guess for that 90-second exposure, we got about

40 seconds of it.
CC Great; thank you. Ed, concerning the S082B doors.

What we can see down here, it indicates that on
your first ATM operation this morning, that was
back on rev 680, when you or the computer closed
that door, it - it didn't close all the way. And,
in that state, it refused to answer the open com-
mand when you flicked it ON for the 80 - -
MCC Motor had timed out.
CC - - The - because the motor had timed out. And

that seems to be the origin of most of our problem.
364 17 30 42 SPT Okay I did cycle it though. I went to closed and

did get a white talkback on the WAVELENGTH. And,
DOOR - DOOR remained white, and then I hit it
open again.
CC Ed, they say that when that motor is timed out in

that mode that the only way to get it running
again is to - is to, first of all, INHIBIT it and
go back through that cycle.
36h 17 31 31 SPT Okay; yes, I remember that now. Thanks, Karl.
CC That seems to be the first time we've run into

this glitch; let's hope that it doesn't happen 0
again. At least on this door, yes.
SPT Okay, are you using the primary motor and the pro-
cedure with me to INHIBIT the motor and turn it
back ON?
CC Affirmative.
SPT Thank you.
364 17 32 22 CC And, Bill, I have a message here that says that

T053, that's the handheld 170, has been scrubbed
because of weather.
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PLT Thanks, Karl.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Karl, I've took another look at the reticle in this

camera carrousel, and it probably is definitely
the battery, because - probably is definitely,
beautiful. Anyway, I turned on the reticle switch,
and I got the reticle for about 3 seconds, and
then it died out. So, it looks like it's probably
our battery.
CC Okay, thinks -thanks for that information. And

we have LOS in - in 30 seconds. We'll be seeing
you over Bernu - Bermuda at 18:09, about a half
hour from now.
364 17 34 23 CDR Roger.
364 18 i0 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston through mer - Bermuda

for 7 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston.
364 18 14 47 CC Jerry, Houston. We're sending up our humble apolo-

gies concerning that film thread pad. We've just
been discovering what you were complaining about,
the - the fact that we had bad numbers for the
takeup reel on the 02 and the 08 transporter.
We've got updated on that, and we realize that the
02 transporter has no takeup reel, as we under-
stand it. The 08 transporter has MT09, after you
repaired both of them. Thank you.
CDR Roger, Karl.
CC Somehow or other we - -
CDR We - we are concerned about future instances of

this. We're wondering if the photo guys feel
there's any other possible changes we can make
procedurally that might help ensure that we tear
less of this film.
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CC Negative. We discovered your detailed explanation

of this in last night's tapes, and we don't under-
stand how it happened. We're sorry.
CDR Okay.
364 18 15 50 CDR The procedures I was talking about, Karl, are the
procedures for threading. I'm wondering if they
want to modify the thread procedures in any way
to help us.
CC Okay, thanks for the suggestion, and we'll think

about that.
CDR Okay.
CC I'm told that there is concern and thinking going

on already. We think that that film is rather
brittle after being in - in orbit for so long
and that we're thinking about what might be done.
CDR Roger. Another thing too, Karl, while we're

talking film, and that's in the documentary photo
area. Today's pad was a little bit hazy in some
areas as to who ought to be the subject and who
ought to be the observer. I think it would be
helpful to us anyway if the folks down there
would very clearly specify who's to be the subject
and who's the observer.
364 18 16 h8 CC Okay, we copy.
CC Ed, in closing up from the JOP 18 - Ed, in closing

up on the JOP 18D, we notice that the - the S082B
door is not completely closed again, but this is
something that we'll handle from down here. And
we have 1 minute to LOS, and we'll be seeing you -
we'll be seeing you over the Canaries at 18:20, a
couple of minutes.
SPT Okay, Karl. I'm wondering though if then someone

could explain to me a little bit about what the
pointing was this morning. Apparently it was to
look at the plasma tail. And that, as I can tell
from what I saw up here, you were thinking was
not anywhere near the dust tail.
364 18 17 59 CC That's an interesting cn_ment, and we'll check up

on that.
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364 18 21 05 CC Skylab, Houston; standing by for 9 minutes. We're

talking through Canary and Madrid. And when we
reach Madrid, that's about 18:21, we'll be dumping
the tapes. And, Ed, your - your surmise concerning
the plasma tail was correct. We were aiming out
there to get the plasma tail today on that - on
that 18D.
SPT Okay, I'd be kind of interested in knowing how

the people on the ground know where the plasma
tail is.
CC I guess therers a question, do you - do you - you

have any visual indication?
SPT Not on the plasma tail, I certainly don't.
CC Right.
SPT ... not put that tail anywhere near the - the
slit or the center of the display. And I'm won-
dering how they know at what angle the plasma tail
is coming off from the nucleus.
CC Roger; we're - we're trying to get the rationale

on that.
364 18 22 17 SPT Hey, Karl, I can give you some more drift informa-
tion. Over the last nightside, at 16:55, the
position on the overlay, after I had done the roll
on both the canister and the overlay, was a
minus 123 and a plus 26. At 17:32, over the
nightside with no drift compensation, it ended
up at minus i17 and plus 36. So that's over
36 minutes, it went plus 4 and plus 10. Previous
estimate doing 40 minutes gave me plus 4 and
plus i0 also. So that's consistent, but it's not
consistent with the drift we're - we are putting
in. During this last part of the maneuver where
I could actually monitor it, when 55 was not op-
erating, let me give you some more coordinates.
In other words, this is where drift compensations
were made. 17:46, minus 6_, plus 60; 17:54,
minus 63, plus 63; 18:02, minus 62, plus 65;
18:07, minus 62, plus 66; 18:09, minus 62, and
plus 66. So ypu see, our drift compensation didn't
hold it in there.
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364 18 23 36 CC Okay, Ed; thanks a lot.
CC Ed, we're anxious to get the _TM closed out so

that we can start the dump.
36h 18 26 05 SPT Karl, can you explain that little momentary glitch
there aften I had initialized and strapped down
and gone to SI? We went off attitude and are
coming back now.
CC Stand by.
CC Ed, we saw that too, and we don't have a good

explanation at the moment.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Hey, Karl, would the S055 people like me to assume

the MECHANICAL position - the difference between
MECHANICAL and OPTICAL is 10b - so I really ought
to be setting it up on MECHANICAL ll4?
364 18 27 39 CC Ed, the - the data we get back on that is we'd

like to have you on 102 MECHANICAL.
SPT Okay. My pad is telling me they want the MLS set

up on OPTICAL REFERENCE of 0010, and I can't get an
OPTICAL REFERENCE pulse right now, and the only
way I can - if I have to work it off MECHANICAL.
Do they want still that delta of l0 in there above
the OPTICAL REF, which would make it ll2 then, or
do they want 1027
36h 18 28 28 CC Stand by.
B64 18 29 42 CC Ed, the word we get down here is we don't under-

stand the delta of 10; it's been a delta of 2.
And for clarification, we do want mech - mechanical
setting 10h at the present time.
SPT Okay, I'll give you 10b. If you look on the pad,
step 33 says, "Power down unattended roll, 055
MLS, GRATING 0010," and that's what I was speaking
of as far as the delta above REF 0010.
36h 18 30 14 CC Okay, and we're going to be LOS in about 20 sec-

onds, and we'll see you over Carnarvon at 18:55.
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364 18 55 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle for the next 15 minutes.
SPT Hello, Karl.
CC Hi. How are things up there?
SPT Oh, pretty good. Little peaceful.
CC Great.
36h 18 56 17 CC Ed, if you got a spare minute while you're eating

there, we'd like to make a small change in your
detail plan, and tha's starting the 18D maneuver.
We have it 21:58 in your detail plan; we'd like to
change that to 22:01.
SPT Okay, 22:01 it is. Thank you.
CC Righto.
364 18 57 33 CC Ed, we're still trying to find out the theory of

why we pointed so far ahead of the comet. I think
that's what happened to us this morning. And
we'll - we'll tell you more about the details of
that when we can run down Teller who is the expert
who decided to go ahead that far. I take it we
were completely off the visible tail. Is that
true?
SPT That 's true.
CC How many deg - how many degrees would you estimate?
SPT Stand by.
364 18 58 12 SPT Well, let's Just say at that last one, we were at
a position of minus 60 or so in X and minus 7 - or
plus 70 in Y. The tail was running straight up.
If - if you have an overlay there, I think you can
picture it. The tail was running straight up and
down, and I had a roll - minus 1600 for the overlay,
that is, minus 1600 was right at the top. So we
were out in front of it and - well, to the left
of it, if you're looking at it coming at you.
CC Okay, thank you.

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364 18 59 12 SPT I see we have a similar thing lined up for this

afternoon. Maybe we can get it straightened out
before then, Just what really people want. And
if nothing else, you might be able to work it by
eyeball and give them a better Job than what we
were doing this morning.
CC Roger. Flight's keen on getting it solved before

the next one, so we'll do our best.
SPT Okay, and I hope they're working on that drift

also, because if you're - want to look at a nucleus,
which I think we can do, if we get fairly close to
it, we're not going to come out with very good
long time exposures, with the drifts that we are
working with.
CC Right, I'm - I'm hearing discussion of that prob-

lem right now. And we'll be coming up with some-
thing improved pretty soon, I hope.
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364 19 i0 12 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. We'll see you

over Texasg 19:41, 30 minutes from now.
SPT Roger, Karl. So long.
36h 19 i0 27 CC So long.
364 19 hl 52 CC Skylab, Houston, standing by over the U.S.A. for

about the next 14 minutes.
SPT Hello, Karl. I'd like to ask a question, if I

could.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Houston, SPT. Do you read?
CC Go ahead, SPT. We're listening.
SPT Okay. It's - Were the 82 folks trying to put the

slit in what we have visually sighted as the dust
tail?
CC We don't -
MCC - don't understand him now is -
CC Ed, we haven't got the complete confirmation

from the guy who decided where to point, but it
was beginning to look as though we did want to
point somewhere in your visible dust tail.
SPT Okay. I think it'd be possible for us to position

the comet out on the very edge of the field of
view. And we can then tell the direction of the
tail in that maneuver so that the tail is or the
nucleus is a certain distance from the Sun and
out along that same radial line. All we really
need to know, though, is what distance they want
it from the nucleus in terms of octal units. That
would be useful.
364 19 h3 h0 CC Would you repeat the last couple of sentences?

It didn't come through clearly.
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SPT Okay. In order for us to point to the heading

position of the tail, we could do that visually
by moving the nucleus out to the very edge of the
field of view where the vignetting function is
not very strong for the white light coronagraph.
We can then see the tail, at least the direction
it's going. The next step would be to find out
how far they want the slit from the nucleus in
terms of octal units, say i00 units or 50 or
whatever it be, then we Just move the nucleus
in towards the center with the tail of course
going through the center, along that same radial
line. I think we could do that pretty much by
Just sighting off the display.
CC 0 - Okay. We'll kick that one around, and it

depends on our finding out for s_re whether or
not we were off or not on our pointing this
morning.
364 19 4_ 42 SPT Okay. Thank you.
CC And can you doublecheck - clear us up, please, on

the problem this morning with the initial pointing
on the comet being on the black line. One - One
of our problems on the next pass - we're going
to want to take data with the comet Just about
on the black llne. I understand that you can
still see the comet. Is that correct?
364 19 45 03 SPT Yes, that's correct, Karl. There was no problem

today when we were only operating with 52 in that
position. One question I do have, though, is it
looks as though they're still operating relatively
close to the Sun center where their vignetting
function is rather strong. Would they not want
to be a little further out, or are they trying
to get the details of the tail, which would be
further out?
CC Ed, we can confirm that the reason we're interested

in the outer tail there that'll be up near - near
the edge of the field.

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CC Ed, one last question about that - that black

line there. There's some controversy down here.
Does the comet image actually appear fainter when
it's on the black line?
SPT Yes, it does, Karl.
CC Okay. Thanks.
36_ 19 50 22 CC Ed, we've got some information on the 82B DOOR,

and a - and a plan of attack for it. We'd -
we're planning to open the 82B and the XUV MONITOR
DOORs and then disable the POWER and leave them
open from now on. We're afraid that the - one
of the doors is sticking, and we don't want it
to get stuck sort of in the halfway position.
And the main impact on you is going to be the
loss of the READY/0PERATE light up there.
SPT Okay. Will we lose the OPERATE light as well,

or Just the READY light?
CC It'll Just be the READY light that you lose.
CC These are the outer doors, of course. You'll

have to hit the DOOR, OPEN switch to get the inner
doors.
SPT Okay. It'll Just be like 82A, and llke a number

of the other experiments; it's getting to be the
norm.
CC Affirmat ive.
364 19 55 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We have 1 minute to LOS. We'll

pick you up over Madrid in about _ minutes.
364 20 00 33 CC Skylab, Houston, standing by over Madrid for the

next 7 minutes.
CDR Hey, Ed ...
CC Ed, one further effect of our opening those doors

and turning off the power means that you won't
have a - your talkback on the UV MONITOR DOOR;
it'll stay white from now on.
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SPT Roger, Karl.
364 20 02 56 SPT Karl, I Just got another good look at t_he comet,
and it's pretty much as we ex - had looked at it
before. The sunward spike is greatly diminished
in intensity relative to the following tail and
almost nearly aligned, and maybe a little bit
more than yesterday, with the - the - they're
pretty much along the same axis, only still just
slightly out. The colo{ is orange, a yellowish
orange. And I do not see any of the material
which we noticed yesterday at - between the spike
and the following tail.
CC Okay. Did I understand that the color of the

spike was orange?
SPT I hate to guess on that. It was just barely

v_sible right now even with a pair of glasses.
The coma itself is very bright, and I hate to
give you a color on that. I think it's more
white than orange. But the tail itself is a
yellowish orange.
CC Right. Incidentally, I'm personally interested

in the direction of that spike. You indicated
it's not directly pointed at the Sun, or can
you tell very well?
364 20 Oh 07 SPT I'ii have to try and get a better look at it again.
Yesterday it had the appearance that it was point-
ed at the Sun. I'll go ahead and try and get
another look. The problem is you try to dark -
get yourself dark adapted, and then you - so you
don't look where the Sun is, and then you start
looking as soon as Sun's gone down. But I'll
try and get an answer the next couple of passes.
CC Right. I'm not trying to get you to spend any

time that should be spent otherwise. But yester-
day in our discussions - I guess people have told
you that that's probably the old tail that curves
back behind the Sun. And if it's really the old
tail it should - it should sort of aim a little -
a little bit north of the Sun, probably. But
that's - some theories say that.
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SPT Okay, Karl, I'll try and get a little better

estimate for you. Yesterday it looked like it
was pointed right at the Sun.
CC Okay, good. Glad to have that confirmed.
CC Incidentally, you are seeing this through one of

the STS windows in SOLAR INERTIAL ATTITUDE? Is
that correct?
364 20 05 27 SPT That's affirmative, Karl. Apparently the people

who gave us the estimates of what we could see
forgot that there was part of the panel cut out
at the bottom. There's a few sections of that
panel missing except for the support structure.
CC That's great, because these eyeball observations

you're making are very important to us down here.
SPT From the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH pictures which

we've set down, there was one day there, maybe
two days ago or so, where that one spike did show
up quite prominently, at least it did on our
DISPLAY up here and I was able to photograph it
with the Polariod. I'm wondering if you have
done the same down there and been able to correlate
the ROLL and see whether that spike is pointed
directly at the Sun.
CC Roger, Ed. We're not sure that we've recorded

that on the TV down here, but we're double check-
ing on that.
SPT Okay. We sent it down on a couple of occasions

when we were doing an 18C, I believe it was.
CC Okay, fine. We'll check to see whether we got

any data down here.
364 20 07 00 CC We've got 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you over

Carnarvon, coming up about 20:3h.
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364 20 34 13 CC Skylab, Hous - - Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon

for the next 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Karl. I wonder if you'd take a quick look

at the GRATING and ensure me that it's at 0000
OPTICAL.
CC We'll doublecheck that.
CC Jerry, we like it the way it is. It looks good.

And - -
CDR Okay, I'm showing 103 up here, MECHANICAL, so I

just wanted to make sure.
CC Righto. That's - good. Our readout down here

shows it's where we'd like for it to be.
CDR Very good.
CC And we'd like to read up a correction to the JOP

18D pad, basically for Ed, but we know that Jerry's
there at the console at the moment. We'd llke
to take the drift rates indicated by Ed this morn-
ing and we'd like to change X every l0 minutes
and Y every 4 minutes.
SPT I got you, Karl.
CC Right. And I trust you know where that is. If

you want to know, I'll tell you.
SPT No, I got it. Thank you.
CDR Is that the SO ...
364 20 37 40 SPT Yes, it is, Jerry. They opened them both up and
turned the POWER off.
CDR Okay....
SPT That's right. I don't think you have to do any-

thing XUV MON. Just 82A and B.
CDR Okay.
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CC We're reading you loud and clear, Ed.
CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Pick you up

over Honeysuckle in 6 minutes.
364 20 39 28 CDR Roger.
364 20 46 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for the next

l-i/2minutes.
CDR Roger, Karl.
CC Skylab, Houston. 30 seconds to LOS. We'll pick

you up over Texas in about a half hour_ We will
be dumping tapes over Texas:
364 20 47 31 CDR Okay.
361 21 17 16 CC Skylab, Houston over Texas for the next 15 minutes.

And we'd like to have the DAS if possible, please.
CDR You have it.
CC And, Ed, we found an explanation to that excursion

we had at the end of the JOP 18D this morning.
SPT Okay, Karl. What was it?
CC Seems as though the outer gimbal drive logic

called for OUTER GIMBAL drive to reposition
itself in an or - more optimum position and
this gave us something of an attitude excursion,
but that was more or less a normal operation.
SPT All right. As soon as I hit the SI switch it

cuts this OUTER GIMBAL logic back on.
CC What'd you say again? We had a background sq -

squeal.
36h 21 18 30 SPT Karl, I was just remarking that when I hit the
SI switch, that's when we activated the OUTER
GIMBAL drive logic for a minute,
CC Okay, fine.
CC Ed, we werentt exactly sure when that glitch

would have taken place, but it would have taken
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place sometime within - within 60 seconds of

when you hit the SOLAR INERTIAL switch.
SPT Yes, that's exactly when I noticed it, Karl.

Right after I hit the SI switch, I started check-
ing things and that's when I noticed it.
CC Okay.
CREW ... looking.
364 21 22 16 CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Go ahead; Houston listening.
CC Skylab, Houston.
SPT We're right on top of y - the comm; just say hello.
CC Righto.
364 21 24 36 CC Ed, we've got a note on the door problem. We're

worried about _ we're worried about the XUV
MONITOR having thermal problems. And we're going
to CLOSE the Door from down here for the course
of the JOP 18D.
SPT Karl, you cut out on that. Would you repeat the
whole thing, please?
CC Roger. Concerning our door problem on the XUV

MONITOR, we're concerned with thermal problems
on it. And for the next JOP 18D we're going
to keep - control that from down here and keep
it CLOSED for you.
SPT Okay, Karl, that's fine. I really hadn't found

anything on it, anyway even, if it -
CC Okay.
SPT Hey, Karl, the weather folks might be interested;

I just saw some good overshooting clouds tops
right in the panhandle of Florida. There was -
there are three large cells ... which left and
overshooting cloud tops. There were three - two
more which were toward the east which did not.
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CC Okay, thanks for the observa_:i_,:. ?in_.iy

figured out that you buzz_:_ : :_i_.:_,::: ou went
by. Sorry you _idn't i_st _ lit_ _ :::_c.
SPT l'm glad we're right where we are.
CDR FAA wouldn't let us get away with that.
CC They wouldn't like that at all. Neither would

Flight; he says he's happy where you are.
364 21 26 06 CC I have some - some updates for the JOP 18D maneu-
ver. Can somebody copy down a few numbers?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Right. They - the new fine maneuver for JOP 18D:

X equals 50072 (that's 0.58 degrees); Y equals
50025 (0.21 degrees); Z equals 50311 (2.01 degrees).
The new final attitudes; X equals 4.58; Y equals
8.07; Z equals 2.02.
CDE Okay, here comes the readback. Fine maneuver:

50072 plus 0.58; 50025 plus 0.21; 50311 plus
0.201. Final attitude: 4.58, 8.07, 2.02.
CC The readback's okay except for the degree - the -

the degree of amount on the - on the Z maneuver,
and that is 2.01.
CDR Okay. That's 50311, 2.01.
CC That's correct.
364 21 28 49 CC And just one point of clarification on the last

data that I sent up. That was step 7 in the
JOP 18 pad; that's the maneuver end. And for
Bill Pogue, I need to make a small change in
your pilot details and that is that we begin
the JOP 18D monitor time at 22:01, not at 21:58.
PLT Roger.
364 21 32 09 CC Skylab, Houston, we have i minute to LOS. We'll

see you in - in Madrid in about 5 minutes.
364 21 39 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for the next

6 minutes.
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CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for the next

6 minutes.
CC Ed, we've got - -
SPT Roger, Karl.
CC Right. We've got a pad change on the JOP 18D,

if you've got a pencil handy.
SPT No, I don't Karl. Could you hold on for a few

minutes, please? Jerry's de - Jerry's debrief-
ing and Bill's tied up with S019 and I'll be
with you in a minute.
CC Okay.
364 21 h2 l0 SPT Okay, Karl, go ahead.
CC Roger. First of all, the JOP 18D p.m. pad. And

step 18 - -
SPT Okay.
CC At step 18. We - in order to get to that position,

1.25 degrees out in the antisolar direction, we
would like these values of X and Y. For X,
minus lO0, minus 100; for Y, minus 153.
SPT Minus 100 and minus 153. Thank you.
CC Roger. And step number 28.
SPT Go ahead.
CC In order to get, in this case, 5 arc minutes out

in the antisolar direction, we would like this
position: X, minus 4; Y, minus 7.
364 21 _3 00 CC And if you need to make slight adjustments visually

to hit these positions in the antisolar directions,
you're welcome to do so.
SPT Okay, thanks very much. Did you confirm that we

somehow had a transformation wrong somewhere
along the way or - -
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CC We goofed this morning. And your visual observa-

tions were indeed correct, that we were in the
wrong position.
SPT Karl, what about the drifts? Were you able to

confirm that those would be the proper ones?
CC We haven't understood why your drift differs from

ours, but we've accepted your drift and given
that to you for this for this next JOP 18.
SPT Okay, thank you, Karl. I'ii try and check it

again if possible.
CC We also - we also have one more update. That's

the - the J0P 18 a.m. pad. And that's at step 7
where you're monitoring vehicle rates. The Z-rate
value - the value for Z is plus.
SPT ... Karl, did you say the a.m. pad?
CC The JOP 18D a.m. pad, step 7.
SPT A.m.? Is that tomorrow's?
CC Roger. You - your - I'm sorry; we're on the p.m.

• pad and the Z rate, step 7 -
SPT Okay.
CC Is plus 0.006.
SPT Plus 006 for Z. Thank you.
CC That - that's it; thank you.
364 21 45 18 CC Ed, we're not - we're not sure that another cor-
rection got up on the p.m. pad. And that's under
step number 25. Could you doublecheck that?
SPT Is that the drift, Karl?
CC Right. Lines 14 and 15; we changed the drift -

we changed the drift every i0 minutes in X and
every 4 minutes in Y,
SPT Got it.
CC And that's emperically adjusted to suit what you

gave us this morning_
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SPT Thank you.
364 21 h5 55 CC And we've got 30 seconds to LOS and we'll pick

you up over Tananarive in about l0 minutes.
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364 22 O0 35 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for h to

5 minutes. We'll drop out early because of the
antenna problems at Tananarive, probably.
SPT Roger, Karl.
364 22 03 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We expect LOS sometime in

the next 1 to 3 minutes. We'll see you over
Honeysuckle at - in about 20 minutes from now.
364 22 22 08 CC Skylab, Houston; hello from the purple gang.

We're back with you at Honeysuckle for 2 minutes.
CDR Hello, purples. Welcome aboard.
CC Thank you, sir. We're glad to be here. I bet

you're wondering where our little message I
promised you from Phil and me is, huh?
CDR I've been looking all day for my Ann Landers

col1_n and I never got it.
CC Well, I tell you what, Jerry. Right now it is -

the message is approved and it's sitting here.
We're looking at it on the tubes. We are taking
a computer check-point right now, so we are un-
able to uplink it - unable to get it into the
teleprinter load table and can't uplink - uplink
it here at Honeysuckle. But as soon as we get
AOS stateside, it'll be coming up in the tele-
printer. And then about 02:10 this evening for
about three passes in a row we've blocked off
to - to talk about it. So that ought to give
all three of you guys some time to read it over
once or twice.
CDR Okay, that sounds fine, Dick.
362 22 25 12 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We'd like the DAS, please.
SPT You got it, Dick.
CC Okay, we're going to command the heaters real

quick. I'll let you know when we're going. We're
about 30 seconds from LOS, and Goldstone comes
up at 22:52.
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CC Skylab, Houston; we're through commanding. The

DAS is yours.
364 22 25 52 SPT Thank you,
364 22 52 21 CC Skylah, Houston. We're AOS stateside for the

next Ii minutes. And we're up - going to uplink
two copies of the - the general message I was
talking about while ago starting here at the
States. One item for you guys is, when you read
them, we have deleted the page headers for the -
the thing is 4 or 5 pages long, but we've taken
the page - page headers out just so it'll be a
little easier to read.
SPT Okay, Dick; thank you.
CC And one other note you might be interested in

knowing final score: the Vikings 24, the Cow-
boys i0; and in the third quarter the Dolphins 17,
the Raiders 3.
364 22 53 40 SPT Say, Dick, the numbers you gave me this time to
put on the overlay look pretty good. And I think
we're actually getting some good data on the
tail now. One thing I would request, though,
and that is when you give the initial pointing,
try to place the comet somewhere outside of a
radius of ll0 on the octal. I had to make a
maneuver of around 80 degrees along Y in order
to actually see the comet, and I saw it come in.
And then it disappeared somewhere around i00 out,
and I had to maneuver it back out again in order
to get a - a pickup on it.
CC Okay, Ed. We got the input, and we'll certainly

try to do that.
SPT Thanks, Dick.
364 22 55 21 SPT Dick, I got a question on S052. They say to

truncate at 6. I presume that that's 6 minutes
TIME REMAINING in the orbit?
CC Stand by.
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CC SPT, Houston. Negative. The intention there

was, on the S052 one expos - we want to take one
exposure, and we want to truncate at 6 minutes
into the building block.
SPT Okay, Dick. I assume that for tracking the

location of this that they really wanted to
follow it all the way. Thank you.
CC Okay.
364 22 58 02 CC SPT, Houston. Request - since 82A is not par-

ticipating in this JOP 18 Delta, we suggest that
we CLOSE the 82A DOOR and also on your next - on
the remaining 18 Delta, your next Sun-side prep,
don't open it during that prep. Over.
SPT Roger, Dick; good point. Thank you.
SPT Dick, and there's a pretty good shadow of the

occulting disc in the 52 display. It's a little
displaced from center, however. And the edges
of the shadow, which are very pronounced, are
in X, plus ll8 and minus 150 and Y, plus 104 and
minus 150. That's in the octal readout.
CC Okay, Ed; thank you.
36h 23 02 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

We' re going to drop out Just a couple of minutes,
and I'll call you at Bermuda.
364 23 04 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Bermuda for about

5 minutes. And one copy of the message is on
board; the other one's on the way.
SPT Roger, Dick.
364 23 09 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS;

Madrid comes up at 23 six - correction - 23:15.
SPT Roger, Dick. Say, Dick, you can see a pretty

good sunset on the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH
DISPLAY. It's not very intense at all. I'm
wondering whether they'd like a couple of shots
of it.
CC That's affirm, Ed. And we got some - a little

bit of time on the VTR. We appreciate it.
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SPT Okay, would they like anything on film? Some

1-second exposures or - or longer?
CC Either 1 or 2 seconds, Ed, and they would. And,

incidentally, the next pass is Canary, and we'll
du - dump the data recorder there; it's not Madrid.
CDR How much time you got, Dick?
CC We're Just going over the hill, Jerry.
CDR Okay, I owe you some comet comments. I was out

there watching it for sunset. And I'll give
them to you at the next pass.
364 23 lO 34 CC Okay, I'll be standing by. Good.

We're going to dump the data/voice recorder.
And, Jerry, I'm standing by for your comments.
CDR Roger, Dick. How do you read now?
CC Loud and clear, Jer. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. I heard what sounded like a handover going

on there. Okay, on the comet today, or Just a
few minutes ago, it - to the unaided eye it ap-
pears to me that we can now see four, maybe
five times as much tail as we could yesterday.
What I'm referring to now is - you remember the
little quick look picture of the comet we showed
you with a very stubby tail?
CC Yes, sir; I sure do.
364 23 16 33 CDR Okay. Using that as a basis, you can extend

that by four to five times now and say, "Okay,
that's what you can see now, quick look." And
then as your eyes begin accommodate more and
more, you can see more and more of the tail.
And the coma, rather than being a big bright
dot like - like was in our sketch yesterday, I
see it as a brighter dot but smaller and with
more of the tail billowing out behind it. And
with binoculars you can very definitely see the
sunward spike. And it's pointing right directly
at the Sun; and it's also quite orange. And I
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could not see this - the sunward spike with the

unaided eye, only with binoculars. And with
binoculars the tail Just about doubled in length
from what I could see quick look. And it's -
the tail is essentially yellow and orange; there's
not much white left. And the coma is more of
a white-yellow.
CC How about the material that you saw yesterday

between the tail and the sunward spike? Can
you still detect that in the binocs?
364 23 17 40 CDR That's affirmative. I can see a - a brightening

on that one side, but not on the other side.
PLT Dick, real quick; PLT. Do you have the recorders?
CC Jerry, one question concerning your estimate

as four to five times as much tail as you'd
described yesterday. You gave the estimate
yesterday, as I recall, that the total distance
between what you could see from the end of the
tail to the point of the sunward spike was like
4 to 5 degrees. Is it - is it four to five times
that distance of what I think I remember as
4 to 5 degrees?
CDR Oh, no, Dick. Now, what l'm re - what l'm com-
paring to is that little stubby thing we were
looking at - -
CC Yes.
CDR - - And I would probably - guess that's probably

only about a degree or less.
CC Okay, good.
CDR That's the quick look.
S64 2B 18 B2 CC Sure, yes. I - okay, I Just - we had a question

there, and I wanted to get that cleared up. As
long as we're talking about the comet, l've got
a mission note here that - that gives some data
about a - if - in case you get another chance to -
to see it getting some handheld photography of
it. I wonder if I could read that up to you and
let you Jot it down.
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CDR Ready to copy.
CC Okay. If you get a chance, you can use the

last frame in Nikon 02, and then load it with
Bravo Victor 22. We'd like you to use the
visible lens f/l.2 and exposures between 1 and
l0 seconds, focused at infinity.
CDR Okay, Dick. We've already used that last frame.

Bill used a 300-millimeter lens on it and - and
used that last frame on the one that's there.
So we will load it with this new film and try
to get some pictures as specified.
36h 23 19 40 CC Okay, Jerry. And can you stand by Just a

second, please. I got one more piece of in-
formation to give - give you. Hang on.
CDR Okay.
CC And one more piece of information: that Bravo

Victor 22, the location in the film vault is
Foxt rot 31.
CDR Copy. Foxtrot 31.
CC Roger.
364 23 22 39 CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS; Tananarive

at 23:34.
CDR Roger, Dick.
364 23 23 06 CC See you there.
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364 23 35 55 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Tanansmive for 7 minutes.
36h 23 36 03 CC And, Skylab, Houston. I have some information here

for you on the momentum state I'd like to pass up.
It appears that we've been firing more TACS than
we anticipated very recently and the Z-axis momentum
is higher than we expected. There is some potential
of an auto reset occurring, and if it should
happen while we're LOS or - or AOS either, we prefer
that you do not take any action. Just let it happen.
Over.
364 23 36 34 SPT Dick, could you give me those last few sentences
again, please? I was coming through the airlock
and couldn't hear you.
CC Okay, I'm sorry. We're using a little more TACS

and the Z-axis momentum is higher than expected.
There's some likelihood that we may get an auto
reset. If we do, Just let it happen; we need it.
SPT Okay.
CC Thank you.
364 23 37 ii CC And, Skylab, Houston. Looks like it'll be Miami

and Minnesota in the Super Bowl. Miami 27, Oakland
i0, the final score.
OC Roger.
364 23 37 27 CDR Hey, Dick; say again that Vikings/Cowboy score,

please.
CC Okay. I read it up wrong I think. It was 24 for

the Vikings and l0 for the Cowboys. Same score
both games. I'm sorry, 20 - 27 to l0 Vikings over
the Cowboys. It was the same score both games.
CDR Roger.
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364 23 38 30 CDR CDR, Houston. If you got a second, I'd like to

make a change to the med conference time that's
on your details pad.
364 23 38 46 CDR Okay, Dick.
CC Okay, we're going to slip it one site, Jerry. It's

presently scheduled for Guam at 03:23. And you
might jot down these other AOS times for the ops
conference when we - that we can talk. Goldstone
A0S is 02:09. And, incidentally, on that one you're
going to be at the tail end of a ATM pass. We've
scheduled at the end, just about at AOS, so we'll
give you 5 minutes or whatever it takes to get
squared away prior to talking. But at any rate,
the AOS at Goldstone is 02:0 - 09. Following that
is an Ascension pass at 02:36 and a Carnarvon
pass at 03:09. And whenever you and Phil and I -
you guys and Phil an/I get through shooting the
bull, we'll pick up the next pass to get the eve-
ning status report. It's presently scheduled on
your details at Ascension 02:36, but it's kind of
flexible; so we'll Just kind of play - play that
one by ear. I'm not sure whether anybody reminded
you or not about the f_ily comm, but it's set up
for you this evening at Goldstone at 03:48.
364 23 40 04 CDR Okay, 03:48 on the family comm and give me that
med conference again.
CC Okay, Guam at 03:23.
CDR Okay.
CC And we've still got about 3 minutes here. l'm

standing by.
364 23 41 29 CC Skylab, Houston. In case we have an early LOS,

Honeysuckle comes up at 23:59. We show still a
minute and a half here. So I'ii see you at
Honeysuckle.
364 23 41 44 CDR Roger.
364 23 59 30 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Honeysuckle for

9-1/2 minutes.
365 00 00 05 CDR Hello, Dick. We're doing our show biz right now,
documentary photos.
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CC Okay, Jer; have at it.
CC Go, Ed.
SPT Tell the S052 folks that the READY light has
mysteriously reappeared again.
CC Okay, I will.
365 00 05 31 SPT Say, Dick, that CMG reset looks _mminent. What's
it look like down there?
CC Stand by. Ed, GNS thinks now that the gimbal

angles are looking okay. We'll probably get a
couple of desat firings, but we do not expect an
auto reset in the immediate future.
SPT 0kay, very good. I was looking at Hz and that

one has been climbing all the way along here.
Thank you.
CC Roger. Well, the momentum is ff nominal, but

the gimbal angles are looking in good shape.
365 00 06 08 SPT Good to hear_ thank you.
365 00 06 56 CC SPT, Houston. We notice youire in MIRROR, AUTO

RASTER which is okay with us. We would like to
remind you to get us some - a couple of GRATING
SCANS before 00:36.
365 00 07 18 SPT Okay. Dick, I'm afraid I shouldn't have said

anything. Our READY light has disappeared again
on the WLC.
CC Just as mysteriously, I presume.
SPT That 's right.
CC Okay, I'll tell them that also.
365 00 08 09 CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS, Hawaii at 00:19.

And we're going to dump the data/voice recorder at
Hawaii.
365 O0 19 19 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Hawaii for i0 minutes.

We're going to be dumping the data/voice recorder
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here at Hawaii and we're aiso taking a VTR. So

it'll be in it's dump cycle.
365 00 28 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS;

Hawaii/Goldstone comes up in 3 minutes. I'll call
you there.
365 O0 31 37 CC Skylab, Houston; hello at Goldstone for 7 minutes.
CDR Hello, hello. You want to hear a real heartbreaker,

Dick?
CC Yes, Jerry; go ahead.
CDR Okay. One of the big spirit breakers up here is

when you're busy Just pouring your heart out to
the tape recorder. You got your face right down
to the mike and you getting through loud and clear
and you know you're doing a good job and you finish
and you lookup and the green light's out because
the ground stole it from you.
365 00 32 28 CC Roger. Are you speaking here or at - back at Hawaii.
CDR Back at Hawaii.
CC Roger. I guess th - other heartbreaker from down

here is when I warn you about it, but the guy I
need to warn is - is - is listening to the voice
record channel.
365 00 32 49 CDR Right.
MCC Sorry about that.
CDR (Laughter) I was illuminating the whole world on

the San Andreas Fault and didn't get anywhere.
CC (Laughter) Okay, sorry.
365 00 33 52 CC Skylab, Houston back to our conversation yesterday

about testing these various PT modes and seeing
what kind f vehicle motion that they called. Jerry,
you mentioned the Mark I, and I claimed that we
had tested it before. I notice Bill is coming up
on his PT period, and if it's convenient we have
a - an A0S at Canary at 00:52. And any time during
that long A0S period if Bill would like tell us and
give us a Mark 1 we'd be glad to look at the rates.
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PLT I'll do it_ Dick.
CC Great.
PLT At 52 you say.
CC That' s right. 00 :52 and I' ll give you warning

there and that pass is - it's a Canary/Ascension
pass. So it's a pretty long one. Shouldn't be
any problem.
365 00 34 45 PLT Okay.
365 00 37 42 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. Bermuda at 00:h3.
365 O0 42 39 CC Skylab, Houston. Bermuda for 7 minutes.
365 00 42 48 SPT Roger. Hello, Dick.
CC Hi there, Ed. Hey, Ed, can I ask you a question

that has to do with ops on the ATM C&D panel?
SPT Sure can; go ahead.
CC Okay, our ILCA temp indicates that MAIN INVERTER

ILCA number 1 has shut itself OFF. And we're
wondering if you've had the switch to BUS 2 to
continue ATM C&D panel operations lately.
SPT No, I haven't, Bill. I - Dick. Yesterday - or

maybe it was early this morning, I did have to
cycle that breaker in order to get the displays
back, however. I think it was the first thing this
morning after Bill operated.
CC Okay, I guess we'll have to look at our data a

little more. That was - the next part of the call -
is in the event that you were on BUS 2, I was going
to remind you that you can't cycle a breaker but
you obviously already know about that.
SPT Yes, I'm sure that we must have it up and running

now because I got all the displays on BUS 1 and
they're all working.
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365 00 43 57 CC Okay. Thank you.
365 00 46 59 PLT Dick, PLT here.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Roger, I Just had a good check on the comet here

from the command module window, a very good look
through the binoculars. And I can confirm Ed's
sketch of yesterday after really watching it
closely today. In fact, there was almost a hint
that the forward spike actually - almost fanned
back into the sort of gossamer, fuzzy area that
he's sketched in between the two tails. But the
angle he drew was correct and the length of the
tail and so forth. You get a sort of a suggestion
of Almost a complete ellipse of the tail rather
than a wide fanning it down - out at the extremity.
I followed the comet all the way down into the
airglow. The airglow consists of three distinct
layers as you're looking here, a sort of a lower,
cloudy layer and then two upper layers that are
rather distinct to people that have studied it.
And I followed the comet right down into about
two-thirds of the way through the lowest level
before I lost sight of it in the binoculars.
365 00 48 05 CC Okay, Bill; appreciate that. Incidentally, we

appreciate your guy - you guys giving us these
verbal descriptions. It's amazing the amount
we've learned and enjoyed by listening to them
and we'd appreciate it as long as you have - have
a good view of it visually to Just keep it up.
SPT I hope there's a good piece of it left over when

you folks finally get to see it. It really is
beautiful.
CC I'm sure it will be. We're looking forward to it.
365 00 _8 36 PLT And Jer got three pictures of it - one 3-second

exposure and two 5-second exposures on that new
film mag you gave us a few minutes ago. And he'll
pick up the 0-second exposures next time.
CC Roger.
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PLT And I'll be all ready to go on the Mark 1 when

we come over Ascension/Canary.
CC Okay, good.
PLT Okay, just - I'll be over in exerciser, so you

Just give me the instructions of what you want me
to do and don't expect an acknowledgment.
365 00 h9 03 CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. We're about h5 seconds from LOS.

We saw a indication of a C&W and also a computer
reject. When you get time, we'd appreciate your
letting us know what happened.
SPT Okay. " C&W was the SAI, CMG SAT. I think we've -
we've gotten that a couple of times during the
d_y here throughout, as you told us we ought to
expect occasionally. And reject, I'm not sure
why we got that. They call it the SPT activity
light. I Just cleared it with a 52h0 and pressed
on.
365 00 h9 55 CC Okay, Ed; thank you. We're going over the hill
and I'll give you guys a call at Canary at 00:52.

Bill, what I'm going to ask you to do when we get
our data all locked up good here is to Just be
still for a few minutes until it's obvious that
we have some sort of a baseline and then do Mark
I's until I tell you to quit and - for like a minute,
and we'll get hack with you at the end of the
results. So stand by, please.
365 00 52 29 CDR Okay, he heard you.
CC Okay.
365 00 53 h7 CDR Skylab, Houston; we have our d - data now. If

everybody will be still here for Just a few sec-
onds, we can get a good baseline and then I'll
set the PD - LT [sic] loose on a Mark I.
365 00 5_ 17 CC PLT, Houston. We've got enough data here now;

you can go ahead with the Mark I.
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365 i0 55 07 CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, no re-

sponse required, we're going to command OPEN the
82 Bravo and XUV DOORs. And we'll leave it with
the POWER, OFF and the doors OPEN. You will have
a - a white indication on the talkback. But the
DOORS will be OPEN.
365 O0 55 49 CC PLT, Houston. We're satisfied with the data we

have now. You can go ahead and do the rest of
the PT protocol as you like. Thank you very much.
365 00 56 25 CC And, PLT, Houston. We don't need an answer right

now, but when you get a chance you might let us
know which of the Mark I A through E exercises
you were doing during that period.
PLT Dick, those were combination Alfa Bravo. You pull

it up and then push it up above your head all in
one motion.
CC Okay, thank you very much. Appreciate the info.

We figured that was worse case and that was prob-
ably what you were doing. Thank you.
365 00 57 33 CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, the XUV

doors are all squared away now. No response re-
quired. We've still got abo_t 3-1/2 minutes left
here at Canary.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO=GROUND VOICE TRANS<_RIPTION
365 01 01 45 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Ascension for 6 minutes.
365 01 06 l0 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute from LOS at

Ascension. Carnarvon comes up at 01:35.
365 01 36 58 CC Skylab, Houston; Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
365 01 37 hl CC Skylab, Houston. In about 30 seconds or so it's

possible we may have a keyhole that lasts up to a
minute. I'll give you a call when we're" out of
keyhole.
CDR Roger.
365 01 39 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of keyhole. We still

have about 6 minutes left here at Honeysuckle;
I'm standing by.
365 01 h4 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOB.

Hawaii comes up at 01:57; I'll call you there.
365 01 44 12 CDR Roger.
CDR Roger, Dick.
365 01 58 26 CDR Houston, CDR. Give me a call when you're ready

for your downllnk.
CC Okay, we're ready now, Jerry.
CDR Okay, I've got ATM MON 1 up right now, and I'm on
the limb looking at the prominence; and I'll give
you about 2 minutes of that, then I'll shift you
over to ATM MON 2 and do some XUV.
CC Okay.
365 02 05 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS

at Hawaii; Goldstone comes up in about 4 minutes.
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And, Jerry, we - the Goldstone pass is the first

pass we have that's set aside for the ops confer-
ence, and I'm sure at the start of it you'll prob-
ably be busy with ATM. So - and we do have a good
bit of additions/ information or amplifying infor-
mation to give you, so after we get AOS Goldstone,
as soon as you guys are parked around a speaker
box and ready to listen, Just give me a holler.
I'll see you there.
365 02 05 51 CDR Okay, Dick; we'll see you then.
365 02 09 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for the

next 6 minutes. Ready to talk when you are; no
hurry.
SPT Okay, Dick, go ahead.
CC Okay. Y'all must have been awful swift on getting

squared away on the ATM there, but let me get
started here.
CDR Stand by, Dick; I'm not back from the ATM yet.
CC Oh, okay, fine. I'm ready to talk whenever you

get a chance, Jerry, so no hurry.
365 02 13 07 CDR Hey, Dick, would you have them check the GRATING
for me ?
CC Okay, Jerry. We're showing 113, Jerry.
CDR Yes, that's MECHANICAL. They want 000 0PTICAL,

don't they?
CC That 's affirm.
CDR Or do they want 00107 My pad says i0.
CC The pad's correct, Jerry, 0 - it's i0, 0010.
CDR Okay. Now another question is the difference

now between OPTICAL and MECHANICAL, 102, 103, or
i04?
CC Stand by. CDR, Houston. The difference, we

believe, is 102.
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CDR I was afraid of that.
365 02 14 24 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from

LOS Goldstone. Bermuda comes up in 5 minutes;
CDR Okay.
365 02 19 22 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Bermuda for l0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. If you'd like to start off with a

frame count, then we can go ahead.
CC Go ahead.
CDR 14830, 5344, 179, 483, 6067 and 4833.
CC Okay, I got that, Jerry. Anything else before we

get started?
CDR No that's it. I've got things powered down here

and ready to go.
365 02 19 50 CC Okay, I'll tell you what. We have - I guess you've

had time to take a look at the message we sent up
there and I'd - what I suggest that we do, I've
got some preamble remarks and then I'd like to give
you some amplifying information, and most of it
comes right at the start; so I guess I'll do a
little talking here to start with. First of all,
you addressed your questions personally to Phil and
me, and we appreciate that ; and Phil is here and
plugged in, and if I get in trouble in explaining
something, he can certainly help me. However,
we'd like to make the point that had you addressed
them to another temm, Flight Director and CAP COMM,
the answer probably would come up worded a little
differently but the essence, I'm sure, would have
been just the same. One other thing that I'd like
to point out is I'd like you to be assured that the
message we sent up there was - also speaks for all
the teams, and Dr. Kraft and Deke are here listening
to us, so I'd like you to be sure that this - even
though Phil and I made up the response, it's one
that represents the whole grotu_d team here.
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365 02 21 00 CC A second big point to make is is that we've tried

not to be very subtle; so we've tried to answer
your direct questions directly. So if you've
found any areas in our response that seem confus-
ing, that's probably our poor English; so bring
up any questions, and we'll talk them out.
Thirdly, before I get started I got a bunch of
supporting data here and times and so forth to
answer any questions; so if we go through there
and something is unclear, you want to talk about
it some more, let's do that. The major point
that we'd like to make comes right here in these
first couple or three paragraphs which lists the
accomplishments and specifically goes down through
the paragraph - the second paragraph below those
listed accomplishments that starts off saying,
'tOur prelaunch - our prelaunch plan for SL 4 and
et cetera". Since the accomplishments listed at
the first appear somewhat low compared to the
"premission plan," we think there's two very im-
portant points that need to be made about this
plan, and I'll be very honest with you, they have
not been completely discovered until the last
couple of days when we took the trouble to get a
bunch of numbers out. And I think you'll be in-
terested in them.
365 02 22 15 CC First of all, there've been a whole number of

changes between the pre - the "premission plan"
and the real-world SL 4 mission, and I'd like to
tick some of them off for you. After the plan
was made, we instituted an intensified Kohoutek
program. Our TV requirements are much heavier,
it's turning out, in the mission than they were
listed in the plan. Only in - in a couple of
places in the premission plan did we allow the
crew a 30-minute pad review for each 18 Delta
run, which was simply a mistake. There were no
science demos scheduled. There were no handheld
photos and observations. There was no ATM con-
ference scheduled each day. The effect of these
things is kind of hard to pick out. It may or
may not make any difference in the total hours
planned, but it's quite obvious that the premission
plan is - is a poor one to go to any level of de-
tail to compare how far you guys _re here at the
midpoint.
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365 02 23 21 CC The second question that I'd like to address that

has to do with the premission plan is an answer
directly to one of your questions that I'd like
to quote your question back - back to you. You
told us the other night, "We'd all kind of hoped
before the mission, and everybody had the message,
that we did not plan to operate at the SL-3 pace."
l'd like to answer that one directly, and that
is that everybody did not have that word. Exactly
where the communication broke down or the misunder-
standing broke down i'm not sure, and we're cer-
tainly - feel now that it's not important. But
we took the trouble, but - but since we did base
this premission plan somewhat on our estimate of
the SL-3 mission, I think it's necessary that we
tell you some facts about SL-3 and -4 missions,
and I think these numbers - although they're -
these numbers and discussion will be interesting
to you.
365 02 24 20 CC Specifically, we pulled out days 15 through 30

for the SL-3 mission, and we pulled out days 15
through 30 for your mission. Now your PT, you're
getting an hour and a half per man versus an hour
per man that those guys were getting. And it
turns out when you add up the hours committed to
science plus the PT each day for all three guys
on - on the two crews, they're almost identical.
And I'm talking about days that are science days,
not odd days like days off or EVA preps or anything
like this. Those numbers turn out to be almost
identical during that period of time. Furthermore,
there's another signif- significant difference
that has only just now dawned on us as to the way
the missions were accomplished during those -
that 2-week period which was a critical one. During
Al's mission, he - we essentially were scheduling
Flight Plans and increasing the workload on those
guys as they asked for it. Because we remembered
the latter part of SL-3 mission, we - we planned
to up your workload to 28 hours after about 2 weeks.
And so essentially, we were scheduling A1 for a
workload that he was accomplishing and then in-
creasing it as he asked for it. For you, we were
asking for 28 hours and due to lost events or
being late here and there we were getting a little
bit less than what we were asking for. But the
two missions essentially, the - the total that
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we're getting from each of you was - turned out

to be almost exactly the same. This - the summary
of this is - is that using a great deal of hind-
sight, it's apparent to us that our thinking was
biased by the last SL-3 results and the scheduling
during this time was too ambitious.
365 02 26 25 CC At that time, which was about i0 days or so ago,

maybe 2 weeks, we'd been scheduling you for 24 hours
of science per day, that does not include PT -
And incidentally, the numbers that we took out
of the two missions were - were based on the same
kind of tally. We didn't use different ground
rules. And since the last 2 weeks, you've stayed
completely up with our Flight Plans or ahead of
us, and as far as we're concerned, these last
2 weeks have been just going smooth as glass with
regard to getting done what we scheduled. And we
think it's a lot smarter flight planning. That's
all I had to say here on this first part. I do
have some other things we can talk about as we go
through the details. I thought at this point,
guys, we still have about 2-1/2 minutes at Bermuda,
I thought I would turn it back over to you and
see if that portion of the - of the conversation
you asked us about is clear now.
365 02 27 23 CDR Okay, Dick. Thanks a lot. It makes me feel a

little bit better. I understand now why we went
off at such a fire-house pace there. I really
thought I'd made it plain to people that we did
not intend to operate at that kind of pace because
for a mission that was going to be a extra 28 or
so days longer it seemed to me we had to go for
endurance, not for max performance right in the -
in the - at the beginning. I think one other area
that you did not mention that was not preplanned
or not in the mission plan and that was all these
medical tasks that we had, the limb volume, the -
the girth measurements, and all that stuff. We -
And the facial photographs, the stereo photographs,
the IR photographs, all that stuff we received
little or no training and had never seen the stuff
before. So - that really turns into a time user.
I might also add, too, that we very definitely felt
the pressure come off about i0 days ago when you
guys shifted gears down there. And I'Ii tell you,
it was a very welcome event.
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r- 365 02 28 26 CC Well, I tell you what, Jerry, there's an interesting

thing there. We - even though we started asking -
we started scheduling a few hours less, we're get-
ting the same output as we were before. And that
was the point I was trying to make, which was a
difference between you and Al's crew. That was
essentially what we were - the way we were handling
that mission those first few weeks, and so that
was Just an extra burden and we didn't really ap-
preciate at that time.
365 02 28 57 CC We're about _5 seconds from LOS. We're going to

go - the next station is Ascension at 02:36. I'll
go ahead and use this 30 seconds to touch on the
next subject, which is the next paragraph or so
which talks about the number of accomplishments
which we think is important for the hours invested.
The message is real simple there, and I think the
paragraphs say that. When - as you guys feel that
the prep or post times for any of these science
endeavors can be shortened, we want you to feel
good about them, but if you find that you have
the free time, naturally that - that ends up
allowing us getting us more science per unit time.
I think that's obvious and really doesn't need a
- whole lot more explanation. I see we're going
LOS here very shortly, so I'll give you a call
at Ascension.
365 02 29 47 CDR Okay, Dick.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROL_D VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
365 02 35 56 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for Ii minutes.

You guys still there?
CDR Roger, Dick. Let me run back a couple of things

at you real quick that we've had a chance to talk
about, and then we'll pick up the pace again.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Number l, I wanted to let you know that since

we felt the pressure come off about l0 days ago, we
feel like we're doing a more efficient Job up here.
We feel like we're making less mistakes per man-hour
than we were when we - were under the gun earlier.
And I think that's an important point. Another
thing in your - in your blurb here, you talked about
EREP prep time biting you pretty badly and we're
kind of surprised about that, and I'll talk about -
to you a little about that later on. One thing -
two things preflight that - that came into mind
was this hour and a half exercise thing. That was
recommended by the SL-3 crew, and I still think it's
a darn good idea. Another thing prelaunch that we
lost, and I'm very, very sorry we lost it, and that
was the day 4 day off. Whenwe lost that day off,
we had no way, we had no slack left to catch up
and the whole mess started snowballing on us, and
as you can see, it took us nearly 2 weeks to get
back up on the step. And so let's go ahead.
365 02 37 21 CC Okay, the next thing that I was going to - well first
of all, Jerry, these next few paragraphs I'd like to
make just some very brief points, but the points
are made in the message I think. The next one down
there, which you mentioned was the PT; and quite
frankly, Phil and I talked about the hour and half
verses an hour, and we really don't think it's our
business to debate that point. We think that's
between you and your feeling of what you need and -
and your medical advice. We did want to make the
point though about the unbroken PT and what that
does to us. Picture, if you will, building a Flight
Plan starting with - with nothing in it, with the
requirement of giving a guy his - let him eat a meal
at a reasonable hour, then adding on at least 1 hour,
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and then adding on another hour and 45 minutes, and

then trying to conflict that hour and 45 minutes
against all the lists of things, mainly vehicle
stability and ergometer conflicts. And it just
turns out that that is really hurting us. It - We
have talked about this several times before; I know
you guys have been bugged about it because we've
asked you six or seven times, and I'm sure you've
wondered if we were never getting the word. But
the simple reason that we've kept asking you is
because it's given us so much trouble.
365 02 38 48 CDR Okay, Dick, let me cut in on this one. Picture, if

you will, a guy who's just had a big breakfast, who
has to get on a bicycle and pump 5000 or 6000 watts;
and he's got to do it in - in jig time, and then
he's got no time to clean up afterwards. And so
you can see we're in the same kind of box here.
However, Dick, I think we can give you relief in
the PT area, and we'll get back to you on that.
CC Okay. The reason we brought it up was you asked

us what our problems were, and that's one of them.
CDR Right.
365 02 39 19 CC And, frankly, I've - I know - I know just of what

you speak about the PT. We did want to mention
though that - that on the surface it may look like
paying the extra 15 of 20 minutes for personal
hygiene after PT is - is a bad thing for us, but
there are - there are, believe me, there are days
when we'd be glad to pay that extra 15 minutes in
order to get - some some opportunity - some
corollary opportunity or something that Just happen-
ed to pop up at a particular time. Secondly, the -
the next paragraph talks about free time and you
specifically asked about that. I'd like to assure
you that nobody down here has any argument at all
with giving you the free time you think the crew
needs to get your heads together, get prepared for
the day that you're getting ready to work or the
the next day. I would like to point out to you
though, which we did in a message, that there are
opportunities for specific events that are correlated -
pointing events that are correlated with the corol-
laries or ATM or - or something that occur in pre-
and post sleep. And if we could - if there were
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times, and I'm :lot talking about every night, but

if there were times that. we cot_ld stick a specific
one in there, for instea_.e at 08:30 at night of
half on hour or 45 _:_nutes duration and pay you
back at another t_nle of day, there very definitely
are some advantages to the science gain for that.
And -
365 02 40 48 CDR Yes, we can appreciate that too, Dick, and I think
the reason why we started hollering is there was
Just getting to be too much of that. Almost every
night we were running almost until bedtime.
CC Okay. Well again, you asked us what some of our

Flight Plan problems are and that has been one of
them. So we thought, you know, we'd give you the
o_portunity to consider that again. But I want to
r@iterate that we have - we do not have any argu-
ment with the amount of free time that you feel
like the crew needs. That's your business and your
call.
CDI_ Okay.
365 02 4l 23 CC I guess that's about all we had to cover about

these flight planning problems so far. We did
want to bring up, however, what we're looking at
at the future, which we've listed there. And I'll
Just tick them off real quick and give you a couple
of thoughts on them. Starting at 59, when you
guys are going to be spending - you guys will have
been in space longer than anybody else, obviously
the medical experiments are going to become more
important, and we're going to schedule the - change
•• the scheduling requirements on the major medicals.
So you'll - you'll be seeing more major medicals
and you'll, that's something you expect. We also
have a - Excuse me, I've got to find myself in
the - in the message. Okay. The EREP work that's
coming up as the Kohoutek work declines is some-
thing that is going to cause us to have some odd-
ball days.
365 02 22 21 CC And in order to get them accomplished and to push

to get as much done in that area, it's quite obvious
that the only people we have to push on is you. So
there are going to be some early wakeups and some
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]ate sbayups. I might mention one thing that I

think is going to help mo_t of this EREP business
though, is th!_ on t.llc(;t,hoff .January, we're going
to be changing - the natiom is going to continuous
daylight savings time. And so the early EREPs,
which are most of the problem, are not going to
be quite so much problem by i hour there. The one
to get the Japanese - or the opportunity over Japan
late at night in that one occasion - but that only
happens once, I think - will be worse naturally.
CDR Okay. We've got no quarrel whatsoever with early

or late EREP. We're acquainted with the problems
there, and we've been ready from day i to play
that game.
365 02 43 14 CC Okay. Another place we think has been somewhat

inefficient just by the - by the - the nature of
the way we've had to do the Kohoutek observations
is the fact that we've been shuttling - shuttling
experiments in and out of the scientific airlock
like crazy. And we think just by the nature of
that, that that'll become a little more efficient,
and so toward - toward the tail end here, that will
improve somewhat. There's one little paragraph
in there that mentions M509 and TO20 being delayed.
I don't think there's anything else to be said
there. One thing that I wanted to mention to you
that's not in the message, however - however we
did just uplink a very short message about it, is
the scientific demos. Basically as a premission
guideline, we were - we are constrained now to the
SPT being the only crewman that we're allowed to
schedule for the science demos. We have taken a
look at each one of them and have uplinked a recom-
mendation to you to change that slightly in letting
the SPT give way to the CDR or PLT in some of those,
if you guys think that's a reasonable thing to do.
This is not a real - -
365 02 44 29 CDR We concur with that, Dick, i00 percent.
CC Okay, I guess you've already looked at that mes-

sage then, and we'll just take that as a GO to do
it in case we get the opportunity.
CDR Right.
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365 02 44 41 CC I tell you what, Jerry, if you don't have any

more questions, we got about 2 minutes left here.
I'd like to s_mmarize real quickly, and I - and I
think we're satisfied, if you are.
CDR Okay. I got a couple of items to pass on to you,

too. Maybe we can get that the next pass. So go
ahead Dick.
365 02 44 58 CC Okay. We've done a good bit of thinking about

this lately_ and we've tried to answer the questions
straight, and when you get any more we'd like to
hear them. I think it's important to know - for
you to know that we realize that these last couple
of weeks, the workload that we've been putting on
you is a level that you very obviously have handled
with no problems. You're ahead of us and that's
the way we want you to stay. The best demonstra-
tion of this to us is that you've been Just about
completely on time for all the time-critical events,
and as - as you mentioned before, the mistakes are
way, way down. We naturally would like to continue
to ge more science per invested hour as we go, and
thatdepends on you letting us know, as the little
prep times and so forth can be shortened, if you
see fit. Any time you see a consistent gap in the
flight planning that provides you a little extra
time, believe me, it will help us to know about
it, and we can do a little better job too. Along
this line again, when we go to talk about flight
planning like I mentioned to you yesterday, we
think it's a lot better to talk about it on the
air-to-ground than on - than on the voice dump.
365 02 46 06 CDR Okay. We'll sure do it that way from now on.
365 02 46 08 CC Right. And at the time - and at least on the day

it's bothering you so you'll be talking to the
team that did it to you, and you guys can have it
out. I tell you what, we're very close to LOS,
about 15 seconds. I'ii give you a call at
Carnarvon at 03:09, and maybe we can get your
quick comments there, Jerry, and then pick up
the evening status report.
CDR Okay, Dick.

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CC Okay, see you there.
B65 02 46 37 CDR Okeydoke.
365 03 09 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon for i0 minutes.

And, CDR, Houston. This originally was the site
for the evening status report, but we'd like to open
it up to you for any conlnents, more questions, or
whatever you'd like about our previous conversation.
l've been told by several people that I kind of
hogged the mike there, so l'd like to hand it to
you for a while.
365 03 09 29 CDR Okay, mike; it's my turn. Okay, first of all, I

want to just philosophize just for a second here
and then give you some recommendations here. Of
course; it's been my feeling that we really do up
here need to work at the fastest and most efficient
pace. And it looks to me now like we're approaching
it from the right direction. I think our problem
in the beginning was we started too high, and what
we need to do is just ramp up to it until we get
to the best level and then maintain it. And like
I say, I think we're headed in the right direction
now. I also think, as I mentioned in my little note
to you, that a guy needs time - some quiet time to
just unwind if we're going to keep him healthy and
alert up here. And if you keep him healthy and
alert, you're going to keep him efficient and
that's going to help. i want to also mention that
there's two tonics that really do a lot for us up
here for our morale.
365 03 i0 19 CDR One of them is just look - having time to look out
the window and seeing things that you recognize and
haven't time to think about it, write something
down about it, or record something about it. And
the other big morale booster that we have up here
is our CAP COMMs, Dick. I want you to pass the
word to all the rest of the CAP COMMs that we're
greatly appreciative of the - the attitude you
guys take and your cheery words and your occasional
bits of music and all that really help make our
day. And we want to Just tell you to keep up the
good work. You're doing a heck of a great Job.
Also I just wanted to say hi to Phil. Phil and I
promised each other before this mission that we
were going to talk straight whenever possible, and
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I'm sure happy to see we're doing it. And I

think it's going to benefit the whole mission.
Now let's talk about what I think we can probably
do.
365 03 ii 08 CDR Number i, I think we can give you relief in the

PT area. I think we can give you relief in the
major medical area, in preps, definitely in EREP
preps. In the colollaries, I think we can help
out by proposing a shopping list, which we'll get
to you. In housekeeping, I think we can probably
change our mode of operation in housekeeping and
save you a little work down there, and in PSA also
I think we can do some modifications in that. I'd
like to promise you now that we will have definite
proposals down to you within about 24 hours on
how these things can be done, but I think we better
think about them a little bit and firm them up
real well for you. But I think we can give you
relief in all those areas.
365 03 ii 50 CDR Now as I see it now, the only small areas that we
have a couple of problems in right now is the
photo equipment. This film breaking thing is
about to drive Bill up the wall and I'm right
along with him. It's a real pain to have to have
film breaking on you all the time. Number 2, a
minor irritant to us is the tape recorders. I
think I gave you sort of a facetious little in-
sight on it about 2-1/2 hours ago when I told you
about how we have more than once lost the recorder
while we're in the middle of a s_ance with it. If
there's any way that INC0 can tell that a re-
corder's in use, how about asking him to Jig the
CAP COMM who, in turn, can pass the word to the
guy using the recorder that he better get off of
it pretty quick or you're not going to get it
dumped. And I think maybe that would help that
situation quite a bit. Okay, Dick, that's all I
have, and I'm ready with the evening status report
unless you have any other rejoinders.
CC Okay, stand by Just a second, Jer.
365 03 iB 46 CC CDR, Houston. What we were talking about were the

voice recorder dumps. Our problem here usually
is - is that we need to make some decision as to
whether to start the dump in the first minute of
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the - of the thing and off the top of my head, I

can't think of a quick way other than the way
we're doing it of trying to remember to remind
you at the start. But we'll think about that
some more. We sure appreciate your good words,
and I certainly concur with - with the 24 hours
to think about each of these specific proposals,
so if you don't say - have anything else right
here, I'm - we've got 5 minutes, and l'm ready to
copy your numbers. Jerry bef - before - let me
say one thing, that Dr. Kraft and Deke have been
here and listened to all these passes and they're
very happy with the way you - you're doing business,
and I think and - and they think we've made about
a million dollars tonight. And with that, I'ii
shut up and let you read me the evening status
report.
365 03 14 46 CDR Okay, we'll put that million dollars in the bank
and save it for Shuttle. Evening status report.
CDR Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6.5 heavy, a half light; SPT,

7.0, heavy - 7.0 heavy; PLT, 8.0, 8.0 heavy.
Volumes: 1700, 1200, 1850. Water gun: 9804,
3594, 7949. Body mass: CDR, 6.320, 6.319, 6.327;
SPT, 6.360, 6.369, 6.357; PLT, 6.248, 6.246, 6.244.
Exercise, all three crewmen no change. Medica-
tions: CDR, none; SPT, none; PLT, Tinactin as
directed. Clothing: CDR, none; SPT, shorts,
socks, and a T-shirt; PLT, none. Food log:
CDR, zero salt; deviations, plus one grape drink,
plus one catsup, plus one lemonade, plus one tea;
rehydration water, zero. SPT, salt 9.0; deviations,
plus one tea; water deviations, zero. PLT, salt,
0.5 ; food deviations, plus tuna and plus coffee;
water deviations, none. Okay, the Flight Plan
deviations: none. Shopping list accc_plishments:
none. Inoperable equipment disposition: the
changeout of the TVIS-642 has been complete per
the - the pad. Unscheduled stowage: none. And
the photo log is next.
365 03 16 31 CC Okay, go ahead. You still got 3 minutes, Jerry.
CDR Okay, i can slow down then. 16-millimeter:

Delta Papa 5, Alfa, Bravo, and Charlie, 6 and 7,
Charlie India 78, 46, Charlie India 74; Delta
Papa 14 Alfa, Charlie India 126, 00, Charlie
India 125. And I think there was only about
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4 or 5 seconds of film left there instead of

5 percent. So I put Delta Papa 14 Alfa on the
next transporter which was 05, Charlie India 127,
63, Charlie India 93; Delta Papa 10, Charlie
.India 127, 60, Charlie India 93. The Nikons:
number l, Charlle X-ray 37, 44; 2, Bravo Victor 22,
41; Nikons 3, 4, and 5, no change. 70-millimeter:
Charlie X-ray 52, 086. ETC: no change. EREP:
no change. Drawer A configuration: Alfa l, 02,
Charlie India 75, 68, no takeup; Alfa 2, 05,
Charlie India 127, 60, Charlie India 93; Alfa 3,
06, no supply, 00, Charlie India 26; Alfa 4, 08,
Charlie India 77, 15, Mike Tango 09; Back, 07,
Charlie India 78, 46, Charlie India 74.
365 03 18 13 CC Okay, Jerry, got that. Anything else?
CDR No, that about covers it.
CC Okay, Jerry, we're about a minute from LOS. The

next station is Guam at 03:23 and that's a reed con-
ference; you'll be talking to the Doc there. And
the next station after that, Jerry, is your phone
call_ it's Goldstone at 03:h8, and it's LEFf
ANTENNA, 03: 48.
CDR 0kay, 03 :h8, LEgT.
365 03 18 51 CC Jerry, we have about 30 seconds here, I have one

note on the takeup reels that I've been meaning
to read up to you. We know of two h00-foot takeup
reels that are available at this time, they're
Mike Tango 04, and Mike Tango 08. The first one's
in India 2, and the second one is in F524. Also
we're working on a method of obtaining three more
by stripping some old film - some that's bad now
because of radiation off some SL-2 reels, and
we've been working on a procedure that we hope
will help fix that up. So I'll talk to you guys
stateside. Next pass is the doctors.
CDR Okay, that's real good, thank you, Dick.
365 03 19 32 CC Roger.
365 03 48 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside, I under-

stand Jerry's phone call is going okay. And for
one of you other guys I got two or three notes
and then the news.
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SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, one think is the teleprinter paper's a

little low. We have enough in there for the
scheduled uplinks this evening, but in case the
next team has something that we don't appreciate
right now that might have to get up to you during
the evening, we'd sure appreciate it before you
go to bed, if you have the time, to change the
roll for us.
SPT We'll do it.
CC Okay, we also notice ATM C&D loops still on. Also

just a reminder there, before you go to bed, be
sure to - to get it off.
SPT Okay.
CC And the last thing, we've been talking about the

tape recorder dumps. This is something that I've
been in a million discussions with from before
SL-2. We've got a proposal, it' s completely pro-
cedural, that we think that might help to - to
help insure that we don't steal the tape recorder
from you when you don't know about it. If - and
I thought I would - might bounce it off of you,
and y'all can talk with Jerry, and if it sounds
good to you, we'll start doing it.
Sl°T Okay, Dick, very good. Let's hear it.
365 03 50 08 CC Okay, it turns out the first command that INCO

sends to start the dump cycle is a stop - tape
recorder stop command. And the first indication
that he has that that tape recorder's running is
that when he stops the command, the recorder
doesn't stop. Another - now one of the - the fea -
features of the system is is that normally we get
data down here before we get a good lockup and a
GO for voice. So generally, by the time that we
get AOS and I can give you a call to tell you
that we're going to dump the data/voice recorder,
in - in most instances the INC0 will already know
whether or not the recorder is running or not. In
any event, what I - what we propose to do is, in
every instance, give you the call that we're going
to dump the data/voice recorder. If in fact we
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see that - and if it's not running we're Just

going to go ahead and dump it and leave it at
that. However, if we - if he issues the stop com-
mand, we see the recorder's running, we're going
•to ask you for - we're - we're going to tell you
that we need the recorder there so we can keep
up with our dump schedule. And the only way
that - what - then what we're going to have to
depend on is one of the other guys hitting the
CALL switch on the - on the box informing the
person who's making the voice recording that
we're going to dump and then informing the ground.
In other words, we're going to start treating it
Just like the DAS. Over.
365 03 51 38 SPT Yes, I think that'll work real well. It - it

might delay your dump on a co - on a couple of
occasions a few times, and we're going to make
sure that the other two guys who are not on the
air are going to have to be responsive at the
time. But I think that'll work out real well.
It'll certainly save everybody I think a long
time - a good bit of time in the long run.
PLT CALL switch is a good idea because ground will

know what's going on too.
CC Yes-
SPT Dick, yes I think that's a good idea. I think

that will work real well.
365 03 52 07 CC Okay. I guess the only thing that we need you to

appreciate is is that in most cases we wait - we
have a full dump that takes most of the state -
most of the site pass. So we need some kind of
an answer like in the first - very early in the
pass, and furthermore with very few exceptions
the answer we need is is we can have it or we -
because if we don't get to dump the recorder at
a given site, the - what's going to happen is not
Just an inconvenience. We're going to end up
possibly losing some data. We're going to need
it, because we're going to lose data at a succeed-
ing pass for, you know, some other kind of data
we're going to put on that recorder. But I think
you appreciate that.
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SPT Okay, I - I think one of the problems has been

is that the thing starts dumping and then the guy
goes on, and he might take an extra 4 or 5 minutes
going on before he realizes that the record light
has gone out. So even if you do have to take it,
at least we'll have a procedure here where the
other two guys will make sure that the - the third
one know that it's being dumped, and we won't -
he won't lose so much time.
365 03 53 14 PLT If the call comes up like that, we'll know you're
aware someone's recording, right?
CC I'm not sure I understand that one. I'm going to

make the call anyway; however, very early it's
going to be apparent to me that you're on the re-
corder, and if necessary, I'm going to make the
second call. At any rate, we're not going to
dump until we get a response.
PLT Okay, that will work.
CC Okay, I guess the toughest part now is for me to

get five CAP COMMs to understand this but I - I
think I can hack that off, certainly take a hack
at it.
SPT Very good. Thanks, Dick.
PLT Thanks a lot.
365 03 53 51 CC Okay, tell you what, I have some news here -

that's all I have except for the news. We're
going to have a little short break here between
the handing over between Goldstone and - and Texas
to MILA, I'm not sure which. When we get locked
up - go for voice there I'll give you a call and
then I'll have some news if you guys would like
to hear it.
PLT Yes, I would.
SPT Yes, sure do. Appreciate it, Dick.
365 03 54 23 PLT Dick, are you still there?
365 03 55 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We - I think we're locked up

good. We got about ll minutes here. How do you
read?
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PLT I read you 5-square, Dick. Go with the news.
CC All righty; here we go. Britain tomorrow begins

working a 3-day week as part of an austerity pro-
gram designed to save electricity. Power is in
short supply because of a coal miners' slowdown
and the Arab oil cutback. Press estimates say
that about 15 million of the country's 25-million-
strong work force will feel the pinch directly
of the economic crisis. Concern over the poten-
tial for disastrous nuclear power plant accidents
is unwarranted accord - according to the chairman
of the Atomic Energy Commission. In a television
interview, Dr. Dixy Lee Ray said that the nuclear
power plant industry is more rigidly controlled
than any other kind of industry in this country.
In Alaska, the energy crisis is proving to be a
boom for the dog mushing busi - business. Dog
sledder Joe Redington says that up until now
Alaska's trail - trails were used mostly for snow
machines. Now there's lots of people using dogs
on them too, he reports. "Dogs are coming back
all over the Yukon and everywhere they had practi-
cally disappeared." With 100 dogs of his own,
Redington says he would "chuck his truck" in a
minute and use dog sleds if Alaska were to run
out of gas. The Beatles, famous - biggest rock
gr - music group of the 1960's might get together
for one more album. At least John Lennon, has
altered his long-held opposition to a reunion of
the group and says that it is possible. "It's not
like it's in the offing or anything," he said,
"but I just think anything is possible now." Re-
union rumors about the group have persisted since
they broke up in 1970. President Nixon prepared
to hold a series of conferences on foreign appair -
affairs in San Clemente, California, with Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger.
365 03 57 31 CC I think we're going to handover here, so I'ii let

the handover go by and then pick up.
365 03 57 44 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Bermuda. We still

have 9 minutes, and I'ii just continue here. On
the trip out to talk to President Nixon, following
Pres - the President's example, Kissinger and two
aides boarded a regularly scheduled commercial
airliner in Washington today, for the flight to
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California. Kissinger is expected to hold a

series of meetings with the President during the
better part of a week. U.$. District Judge John
J. Sirica was named "Man of the Year" today by
te - Time magazine for his work in trying to get
to the bottom of the Watergate affair. Time said:
"One Judge stubbornly and doggedly persuing the
truth in his courtroom regardless of its political
implications, forced Watergate into the light of
investigative day." Time began choosing its Man
of the Year in 1927. And that's it for this
evening.
365 0B 58 40 CC Roger.
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365 04 06 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds to LOS.

Wakeup call in the morning is about 11:55 at Hawaii,
about 5 minutes early. And we'll give you a call
at LOS there. One reminder: We see the ATM C&D
loop still on. If you'd - We'd like to get it off
prior to sleep. And purple gang's going off for
a while, so this is the last shift we do for 1973.
It's been a fun year. Hope you guys have a Happy
New Year, and we'll be talking to you then.
CDR Same to you, Dick.
PLT Thanks a lot, Dick, to all the purple gang.
CC Roger, good night.
SPT Good night, Dick.
CDR Good night, Dick. And you and Phil - I do appre-

ciate all your hard work on this little session
we had tonight. I think it did a world of good.
365 04 06 56 CC I do too, Jerry. I feel real good about it. Thank

you very much.
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365 !i 52 37 CC (Music: "Come Back My Love")
365 ii 53 i0 MCC Skylab, this is Houston, and we wish you a very

good morning. Crip has been so busy all night
working for you that he asked me to wake you up
while he would have a little nap at his console.
So it's time to get up gentlemen 8/id to enjoy the
voice of n_f favorite singer, Brigitt Bardot. She
sings "Come Back My Love" while all the people of
France wish you a very, very Happy New Year.
CC (Music)
365 ii 54 50 CC Vanguard at 12:20.
CDR Roger. Good morning, Crip.
365 ii 55 O0 CC Good morning.
365 12 20 26 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard, 10-1/2 minutes.

And we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump here.
CDR Roger, Crip. And we'd appreciate it if you'd play

that wakeup song again.
CC You liked that, huh? We'll see if we can accommodate.
CDR Okay, great. We didn't really hear all of the

dialogue there in the middle, either. None of us
had gathered up our marbles enough,
CC Got you kind of quick on that one.
CDR Also, Crip, would you send up a quick test tele-

printer message?
CC Will do. Having a little more problems there,

Bill?
365 12 21 05 PLT Roger. I think we had a little problem there on

the seating, and we didn't get any of our pads
last night.
CC Copy you got no pads last night?

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CDR You copied correctly.
CC Okay, that got our attention.
CC We've got one coming in now. Is anything - is your

woodpecker tapping at all?
CDR Bill is on his way to check now.
CC Okeydoke.
PLT I don't hear anything, Crip; and I'm checking all

circuit breakers here. Give me some help if you
will.
CC Okay, we're checking.
365 12 22 28 CC For your information, everything was looking good

to the INC0 here like it was all going in. We're -
we're taking a look at it for you though.
CC Bill, on panel 200 on the middle of the right-hand

side there, you've got one teleprinter circuit
breaker.
PLT It's closed, l'm going to take it out and put it

back in again. I mean the teleprinter head.
CC Okay.
PLT I'ii be turning the COMMAND switch off for about

15 seconds.
CC Copy.
365 12 24 35 PLT Okay, Crip. Try a test message again.
CC It's in work.
CC Bill, would you try slewing some of the paper out

for us, please?
CC Bill, would you try slewing some of the paper out

for us, please?
PLT l'm sorry, Crip ... Yes, I did. It's already been
done.
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CC Okay.
CC I wonder while I'm - we're pondering this problem

here with the teleprinter if Ed or somebody has
• got time to copy down this first ATM pass.
PLT Okay, the woodpecker's working now.
365 12 26 01 SPT Stand by Just a minute on that, Crip. I'll be

right with you.
CC Well, okay; we may have it solved here.
PLT Some old stuff is coming through, Crip. I noticed

I had a piece of what looks like a JOP 18 -
Delta 18 here. But it Just picked up in the middle
here and so forth. That's when I came up here a
minute ago. I came up early this morning and there
was nothing but black paper. And after I told you
about the problem I came up here and there was a
piece of a message in there which I assume you
could not have sent from the time I told you about
the problem until I got up here. And now some
more stuff is coming out but I don't think it's
your test message.
CC Okay, we had a JOP 18D handy and we were Just

using that, Bill.
SPT Okay.
365 12 26 59 CC Okay. And we had sent a portion of a message up

there between the time you reported it to us and
before you got up there, and that was an 18D also.
SPT Okay. And Crip, we do have the ATM scheduled,

that's 4611A-1. We got that last night.
CC Okay. I guess we probably need to understand what

you've got on board then. Can you give us an idea
what the last thing you got on the teleprinter was -
in the way of indentifying that?
CDR Okay, Crip; we've got a 4633 Charlie, a 4636, and

a 4637.
CC Okay, we copy that. 333 - -
CDR And we've all - each of us have got our snmmaries

and details.
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CC Roger.
PLT Crip, 4614 Bravo i is coming through good.
CC Okay, that's what we're loading now.
365 12 28 43 CC Okay, I guess we've got it working again, and we'll

have the INCO busy here trying to - trying to get
the rest of the pads up to you.
CC Bill, can you give us an idea of what - what changed

or what might have corrected the problem?
PLT Okay, Crip; what happened was the paper roll was
put in upside down. And I wasn't sure we got any
printing or not. It looked like we did not on - on
all those messages that came in last night except -
for the exceptions of the ones they've told you
about. So the paper roll was inserted upside down.
I'm sure that was the problem.
CC Okay.
PLT 4614 Bravo i came through loud and clear.
CC Okay. We're with you and we're - we're sending.
365 12 30 ii CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds frc_ LOS.

We're going to see you again in 4 minutes over
Ascension. That's 12:34.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC We even have some music for you then.
365 12 30 33 CDR Neato!
365 12 34 13 CC (Music: "Come Back My Love")
365 12 34 45 MCC Skylab, this is Houston and we wish you a very

good morning. Crip has been so busy all night
working for you that he asked me to wake you up
while he would have a little nap at his console.
So it's time to get up gentlemen and to enjoy the
voice of my favorite singer, Brigitt Bardot. She
sings "Come Back My Love," while all the people
of France wish you a very, very happy New Year.
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365 12 36 21 CDR (Music) Thank you, Crip. Do you read?
CC Say again.
CDR _I said, "What a pleasant way to wake up." We wish

to reciprocate in kind to the people of France.
CC Roger. Understand. That's kind of tough after

h6 days.
CDR You better believe it.
CC You guys got a little song you want to sing back?
CDR Not over the loop.
365 12 37 55 CC Great.
CC And good news for Edward. Since we haven't got a

med status pad up there for him, I think probably
the significant thing we ought to tell him is that
he gets to take two potassium pills this morning.
I'm sure that'll make your day, Ed.
SPT Crip, you cut off just as you were telling me the
good news.
CC You shouldn't (laughter) - you shouldn't have told

me that. I was telling you the good news was that
you get to take two potassium pills today.
PLT Cut out again, Crlp.
CC That's what I thought.
SPT Why all the kindness all of a sudden, Crip?
CC Just - Just trying to help you out, Ed. Hey, you

know, you haven't told me anything about my favorite
subject in quite a few days.
365 12 38 50 SPT Crip, they all must be rest - resting for the big
show coming up. I'm not sure what's happening
but they're all dormant.
CC All dormant, huh? Oh, well. I guess maybe they're

all resting over the holidays.
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CC If the CDR's got an ear open, I can tell him that -

what I hope is some good news. We now have sched-
uled you day off as day 48, which is tomorrow, and
we did that because our early EREP for that day went
away.
SPT They're going to let us rest after the New Year's

Eve celebration. Is that right?
CC No, I'm sorry. I've got you over - I got my days

all mixed up sitting down here doing Flight Plans.
Day 48 is day after tomorrow.
CDR Roger. Copy.
CC One item in addition to that, we're currently plan-

ning on having a live press conference on your -
on your day off. Setting up a little TV and sending
up some questions from the press for you.
365 12 40 06 CDR Roger. Understand, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston. Just so I didn't confuse the

issue, the way we'll be handling that press confer-
ence is that whoever's sit - has the pleasure of
sitting on CAP COMM that day will be reading them
up - reading the questions to you.
CDR Roger, Understand.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Guam in 37 minutes at 13:20. For
your information, we should now have on board both
J0P 18D pads for today and the film-thread pad.
365 12 43 33 CDR Roger, Crip.
END OF TAPE
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365 13 20 02 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Guam, 6-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger, Crip.
CC Ah, it sounds like our woodpecker's already pecking.
CDR We've had it for 30 seconds, now.
CC Roger. Ed, does this - I know you're getting -

getting ready to go to work there. But, is
this convenient to talk to you a little bit about
a couple of items on your 18D?
SPT Yes, I'm Just filling in the summary sheet now.

Go ahead.
CC Okay. I think it's obvious, but if you notice

from your suramary sheet, we showed you eating in
the one - one night period there. And we don't
see anything wrong with you leaving the panel and
going back and having chow when you're off in the -
in the attitude, pointing at Kohoutek and I -
assuming that you concur with that.
SPT Yes, that's no problem, Crip_
CC Okay, very good. Also, call your attention to a

note at the end of that pad, where you've only
got 2 minutes between end of maneuver time and -
and dump, so it's kind of - kind of skosh [?] on
getting you strapdowns initialized and selecting
SI and so forth.
SPT So, the absolute time I can add 2 minutes on to

the maneuver time and add that on to the time in
which the maneuver began and get the time in which
the dump's going to start? That's the thing that'd
be most useful to me, Crip, so that I - really have
a good gauge to make sure I know when I got to hit
that SI switch.
CC Okay, the way we calculate it is, we take your

time that says ATT HOLD - to go ATT HOLD, add
your maneuver time on to that, and - and - and
add go ahead and add 2 minutes, and that'll be the
time dump starts.
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365 13 22 08 SPT Okay, that'll be at 19:19, then. Thank you,

Crip.
CC That's correct. And, while I've got you here,

Ed. Might mention your phone ca]] is set up
this evening at 23:16.
SPT Very good, thank you. 2B:16.
CC And, Ed, also regarding that dump commence, if -

if it's getting tight on the time it has to start
and you're attitude error hasn't gone all the
way - exactly to zero, it's okay to go ahead and
initialize the strapdowns with a small amount
of error in there.
SPT Okay, Crip. That 's what I was thinking in the

back of my mind. Will do.
365 13 23 18 CC And, if the CDR is - is available, I might -

and also you, Ed, we might talk a little bit about
maneuver monitoring, which I think we - they
brought up yesterday.
CDR Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay, Jer. I know - I think last time - night

when I relieved Richard, he was getting a little
bit hoarse because he talked so much, but one of
the items that had been sent up in the message,
kind of buried in there a little bit, was that
we're ready to take you off of the monitoring
the Z-LV maneuvers and the corollary maneuvers
to go - go look at Kohoutek. And we - we're
planning on doing that, if you agree with it.
I guess, we're confident enough now from the
modification we made in the program where it
doesn't go to TACS only automatically when you're
maneuvering and the fact that we've learned a lot
about it down here from studying it that we don't
believe it's really required, if you feel comfortable
with it.
365 13 24 23 CDR Okay, Crip. I think we're willing to go along

with that too.
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CC Okay. You can probably see that in tomorrow's

Flight Plan then, where you - you guys - you and
Bill will be initiating the Z-LVs and so forth.
CDR Okay.
CC One other item there while I got you, Jer, is

we talked a little bit yesterday about turning
off lights and we promised to send you a - a
little note to - as to when - when you need to
start that to catch the high beta period. If
in the meantime you do go ahead and initiate
turning off more lights during the - when you're
up, during the day, than - than you told us about
previously, we would appreciate knowing it. So
it - sort of helps us keep track of what's happening
thermally.
365 13 25 14 CDR Okay, we sure will.
CC Appreciate it.
CDR Anything for the boys back home.
•CC You're so sweet to us.
CDR Well, when you get us up with that nice French

music I guess we got to do something nice for you.
CC We appreciate it. I am informed, although it's

definitely too technically complicated for me to
understand, that you guys are now in Year 1974.
And, very shortly you're going to go - get to come
back into 1973. And, throughout the day, I
guess, you're going to get to go in and out of
New Year about 16 times. So celebrate with
everything you got on board to celebrate with.
CDR We'll never be able to walk home.
365 13 26 04 CC I didn't think you were doing much walking up

there. We're about 45 seconds from LOS. Next
station contact is over Vanguard in 31 minutes
at 13:58, and we'll be scheduling another data/voice
recorder dump there.
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CDR Roger.
CC By the way, Happy New Year.
CDR Happy New Year to you, Crip, and all the crimson
troops.
365 13 26 47 CC Thank you.
365 13 57 57 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for

ii minutes.
SPT Morning, Karl.
CC Good morning. And we are dumping tape recorders

at the moment or during this pass, and we'd also
like to have the DAS.
SPT Okay. You've got the DAS, and Jerry was doing
the TV session with the tape recorder right now.
Would you like him to press on?
CC Yes, press on.
CDR Karl, if you dump the tape recorders right now,

you'll wreck TV-78.
CC I understand.
365 13 58 40 CDR How much VTR have we got? A full roll?
CC Press ahead, and we do have a full roll.
CDR Okay and I'll call you just as soon as I'm

through with the recorder.
CC Okay. Thank you.
365 lh 01 41 CC Skylab, you can have the DAS back. That was
a nu Z update. Nu Z looks good.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Karl. That must have been a

very small update. EXPERIMENT ROLL was changed
by only 2 ARC MINUTES.
CC Okay.
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365 14 06 38 CC Skylab, we note that you have a FIRE SENSOR kicked

out up there.
CDR Roger. We're checking it out.
PLT It was the one pointed at the trash airlock.
CC Say again.
PLT Roger, Houston. Looks like a spurious alarm. I

switched to BUS 2 on the 619 SENSOR and it's
gone away.
CC Okay. Thank you.
PLT Okay, and just for confirmation, I'm going to

switchback to BUS 1 momentarily and then back
to BUS 2. So you'll probably see the alarm
reinitiated.
365 14 08 01 CC Okay, Bill. Thank you. We got 1 minute to LOS.
PLT Back on BUS i and nothing's happening. I get a -

I have an idea that it may be a good idea to go
down and look in the plenum area. That thing is
pointed to trash airlock. I don't know how a
UV could get to that metal, but it's a thought.
CC Okay. We have about 20 seconds to LOS. We'll

see you at Ascension in about 3 minutes. And
at Ascension, we would like to dump the rate -
tape recorder if we can.
SPT Roger, Karl. Jerry's all through with it. Thank

you.
CC Okay.
PLT Roger. And ground, that's 619-1. The previous

pointing I gave you was incorrect.
365 14 09 21 CC We read that.
365 l& ll 18 CC Skylab_ Houston with you over Ascension for the
next 8 minutes.
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CDR Roger, Karl. We have no more indication - there's

no indication of any problem at all. We'll keep
looking.
CC Thank you very much for the news.
CC Did you - -
CDR This is the sensor that's pointed over toward the

metabolic analizer, and there's nothing in this
area that looks like there's any problem.
CC Okay, and the people down here note that we are

in the South Atlantic anomaly, which might have
something to do with the problem.
365 14 ll 51 CDR Okay, we thought maybe it was Just Bill pedaling

too hard.
cc (Laughter)
PLT I stopped pedaling mighty fast, I'll tell you that.
CC Yes.
CC And we will be taping - dumping tape recorders,

unless you have a conflict up there.
PLT Roger, Karl. No conflict.
CC Thank you.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Okay, on the tail end of this tape I was recording

is the fire alarm, if you're interested in
listening to it. You can hear the CDR come -
become completely discombobulated and forget what
he was talking about.
CC Okay, that'll be an interesting sequence (laughter).

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CDR I was busy waxing philosophical about sunglint

and glitter on the ocean and all of a sudden the
alarm went off.
CC We understand your concern. We felt that way

down here too.
CC Is the Humboldt Current beautiful this morning?
CDR Karl, for the Earth observation people, the con-

fluence of the South Equatorial and Falkland
Currents was very weak today. I found sort of a
vestige of it, and I hope it's discernible on
television. But it was nowhere as good as the
opportunity we had earlier.
CC Righto. Thanks for trying.
CDE And the - the west coast of South America, the

Chilean coastal islands was completely clouded
over so we missed our opportunity to show the
Humboldt Current.
CC Okay, we copy that.
365 14 18 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to have a 1-minute

dropout between Ascension and Canaries. We'll
be with you again in about 1 minute and - and
a half.
365 14 20 23 CC Skylab, Houston. With you through Canaries and

Madrid for the next 9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
365 14 2h 01 CC Ed, I hate to interrupt you, but if you've got

a pencil, I've got some instructions on XUV MONITOR
DOOR, which we'll have to have you handle this
time around.
SPT All right, Karl; go ahead.
CO Okay. We're not able to handle the door down

here during the J0P 18, so we'll have to have
you do the following. This is at the end of
your 13:48 pass. Configure - configure, the
one you're in now, configure the XUV MONITOR
DOOR as follows: DAS 40005 82B pri - primary monitor.
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MCC That's what that does.
CC Okay. XUV MONITOR DOOR CLOSE. Wait for the

barber pole, about l0 seconds, then DAS 40026.
This will inhibit the 82B door.
SPT Okay, I guess what we first do is turn the door

on with the h0005, CLOSE the DOOR and get a
barber pole, and then a h0026, cut the motor off.
365 i_ 25 2_ CC That's correct. And, be sure this is performed

after _0 K so that computer signal does not close
the 82B door.
SPT And you gave me a time of 13:48. What is that in

reference to?
CC This is Just at the end of your current ATM pass.

That's - The pass you're in - -
SPT Okay.
CC - - right now is the 13:48 pass.
SPT Okay.
CC And just a reminder, of course, the 82B door and

the XUV monitor door are operating together and
that's the reason we want you to wait until after
the 40 K.
SPT Okay, Karl. Will do.
365 14 28 58 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. We'll pick

you up over Guam at 14:55.
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365 14 55 43 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 9 minutes.
PLT Roger; Karl.
365 14 58 28 SPT Hello, Karl. I have a question for you on the

J0P 18D pad, step 27.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT 52 option A, truncate at 13. Yesterday I made the

assumption that 13 meant whether that time was
after the building block began. And, now I inter-
pret that's the only way it can be. Yesterday, I
think I was wrong. Yesterday the truncate was for
GMT; would you tell me explicitly what that 13 is?
It must be after the building block began, but
I'd like to make sure.
CC Okay. Stand by.
365 15 02 08 CC Ed, the S052 truncate means stop at 13 minutes

after you've started it, which was the beginning
of this data take.
SPT Okay, and that's the format that it will always

be in from now on, I assume.
CC Okay.
SPT Thank you.
CC How else do I control my volume, on the one I'm

punched up on?
CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

over Vanguard at 15:35, about 30 minutes.
SPT Roger, Karl. So long.
365 15 04 47 CC So long.
365 15 35 57 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for the next

8 minutes.
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CDR Roger, Karl. And for scheduling purposes, on the

JOP 18 Deltas tomorrow, if your details folks
haven't got too far along, I think - Ed and I
think that he can probably drop the maneuver moni-
tor out of JOP 18D as well. That'll pick up about
3/4 of a man-hour.
CC Excellent. Thank you for that news.
CC Go ahead, Jerry.
CDR Okay. I see we also have an EREP coming up to-

morrow and pursuant to our discussion last night,
I think that you could probably drop the EREP prep
down to one hour instead of l-l/2 hours.
CC Excellent. Thank you again.
365 15 43 20 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. We'll see you

over the Canaries at 15:55.
365 15 43 30 CDR Roger.
365 15 55 53 CC Skylab, Houston. Standing by over Canaries and

Madrid for the next - for the next 13 minutes.
We will be driv - we will be dumping recorders
over Madrid, but this will not interfere with
' 183 recording.
PLT Roger, Karl.
CC And, Ed, if we could get the DAS for about 30 sec-

onds, we'd like to have it.
SPT Roger, Karl. You have it.
CC Thank you.
CC The DAS is yours, Ed.
SPT Thanks, Karl.
CC Ed, we'd like to have a GRATING POSITION of 678

on S055.
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SPT Okay, Karl.
SPT Karl, that was not an oversight. They really had

not gotten that much time at 77 because it took
•a little time to get the maneuver at TIME R_4AINING
at 25 squared away to make sure we were at the
right point or reasonably close to it.
365 15 58 29 CC Okay, Ed, we understand.
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365 16 02 54 MCC ,Jerry, if you can listen for a moment, I got a

comment on scheduling in the future.
CDR Go ahead, Karl. We're listening.
MCC Okay. The first point of logic is that we have

early EREPs on day 47, that's tomorrow, and day 49,
1 January and 3 January. Second point of logic
is that daylight savings time is starting down
here in the good old USA on the 6th of January.
And we do plan that both we and you will go on
daylight savings time. Since we have the early
EREP starting tomorrow, a couple of them in a row
there, it seems logical to us to start daylight
savings time - tom - effective tomorrow and work
on through the schedule that way for the next week.
And for - for the rest of the mission, of course.
And this would mean that your workday would begin
at ll:O0 GMT and end at 03:00 GMT, 1 hour early
going to bed and getting up. You have any - -
CDR That's okay with us, I don't see that it makes

any difference.
MCC Okay, thank you.
365 16 08 57 CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

next over Honeysuckle in about 35 minutes.
365 16 43 46 MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference for 8 min-
utes. And we need the DAS here for a couple of
seconds.
SPT Good morning, Bill. The DAS is yours. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed. Got a couple quick things here for you
before we talk S054, if you're ready for that.
The - -
SPT Sure am.
MCC Okay. The Sun that you're looking at, obviously

is quiet Sun and will be for quite a while. Our
forecast for the next 7 days reflects that, where
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we will be doing some comet ops - synoptic ops

and quiet Sun operations _. Starting day after to-
morrow for 3 consecutive days, we will take two 82
Bravo limb exposures, essentially an entire orbit
long, taking advantage of the fast 101 film that
they have, before chat is gone. And other than
that, we'll be just normal quiet Sun operations
and the DAS is yours again now. A word from S055
on comet operations and observations here. To
date, they have seen only Lyman-alpha. They find
it on the order of 3 to l0 times lower than they
expected, indicating that it is not optically
thick. They see no indication of any other lines -
that means no counts at all. They do have slightly
increased detector noises due to the increased
heating being 5 to l0 degrees off the Sun. So
the message there is they see only Lyman-alpha,
not very much of that, and when they do see that,
that's the entire 5-minute by 5-minute field.
And let's see - that concludes what I had, other
than S054, so let me turn it to you for a minute
here. Over.
365 16 45 _h SPT Okay. First, back on 55. Were they able to see
in the MIRROR, AUTO RASTERS that the source was
pretty much isolated so that they felt we were
really looking at the nucleus from one time to
another?
MCC Negative. My understanding is that when they see

the comet, it's in the entire field of view. That's
5 arc minutes by 5 arc minutes, and they have to
compare ll8 Delta with another one in order to see
that they do have an increase as the comet was
getting hotter.
SPT Okay. In all of the pointing which I've been

doing, I've been getting a feeling that the un-
certainty in the pointing towards the nucleus is
something like 2 to 3 units in octal. So I would
not be surprised if some of the times they're
really looking at the coma and not the nucleus.
MCC Okay, and we may never know until the mission's

over, and we get to look at the film.
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SPT Yes. The WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH display is -

will get you close to it, but we can't do any real
fine tuning.
MCC Understand.
365 16 46 52 SPT Okay. Let me talk about 54. I read over them
all, and we're all - think that they're good ideas
as far as the intent, and we're willing to give
them all a go. But there are some things which we
ought to think out a little bit more though; and
that is, first of all, the use of the timer. And
a lot of that depends upon what is the accuracy
required in these exposures. If we could use the
event timer, we could get a very good - high degree
of accuracy of course. But a good part of the
time, that's tied up with 82A or B. If we end up
using either the egg timer or the wristwatch,
writing down the numbers, then the uncertainty or
the accuracy goes way down, like a 17-minute ex-
posure could come up to be 18, 19, or 16. I think
that's the biggest thing. And the second one is,
how do we make all these building block 30 changes?
We have to figure a streamlined way of doing that
or there's going to be a lot of crew time misused
there. The thing about the grating axis - I think
I need a little further explanation on Just what
we really need to be doing in that pointing. And
I understood what came up in the way of a photograph
or in the way of a picture, but I'm not quite clear
that we need even a picture rather than just a
double-headed arrow indicating the direction of
the grating axis. And also, I noticed that most
of the exposures specify at least 17 minutes. And
I'm wondering whether something on the order of
l0 minutes, if we happen to have a shot at it -
say in a shopping list item like I did this morn-
ing - whether it might not be useful to give it
to them. I did not this morning, but I certainly
could have.
365 16 48 37 MCC Okay, Ed. Thanks for your comments. Let me an-
swer a few of them here. On the timer, we realize
the potential problems there. Right now, I don't
have a good answer for whether 16 to 18 - 19 min-
utes is good enough. I guess I had thought that
we would probably operate that similar to the way
we would operate the 56 long exposures when 82 Alfa
or Bravo are using the event timer. The technique
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that I used in training was to write down the start

time based in orb phase timing, since I found I
kept referring to that time to see how I was doing,
and then to compute the time that I needed to stop
it. Wrote that down and found that I was referring
to that orb phase timing often enough that I didn't
miss the off times very much. That's one thought
to think about. Our thoughts on actually imple-
menting the changes in the building blocks, we
tried to construct the little things that are in-
side the stars for you to cut out to be three lines
long, feeling that this was the right length that
you could cut out, take your tape and tape it over
on top of the JOP sheet itself, and then wind up
with a consistency much like the Chronahaque
for writing on and erasing after the fact. We
thought we would send up for a given building
block - for instance, that might appear on four
or five JOP pages - we would send up four or five
of these little cutouts for you to paste on each
page. And it would take more time to begin with,
but once the changes were implemented, then we
felt we would be done with it forever. Over.
365 16 50 18 SPT Okay. My thought on that one is we're running

low on tape up here. We only had two rolls to
begin with. I think it'd be useful if you could
make that so that - as small as possible and we
could cross out the remainder of what is not covered
up and so we could use the smallest amount of tape
as possible. In other words, make it so that one -
the width of the tape will cover the total thing
which we tape up. It's a small point, but it's
going to get to us.
MCC Okay. Understand. We'll be working on that today

to see how we can pretty these up. Would you like
us to prepare another preliminary message and
send it up for you to talk about or Just to put
it into final form and send it up? Over.
365 16 51 05 SPT As far as the content of what's being done here,

I think we all agree with it. I don't think you
need to go through another whole long series like
that. However, if you want, you can send up a
trial - in other words, just for one building block,
a couple of samples, and - before you go on off
and do the 100 or whatever is required. And then
we can talk about that.
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MCC Okay, Ed. We'll do that and we're about i0 seconds

from LOS here. Bermuda is next in 36 minutes.
Over.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Bill. I've got a corona - a

comet back in the display here and I'm going to
get back to work. Thank you.
MCC Good enough. We'll talk to you tomorrow. And

it'll be tomorrow at about 24:00 is the only time
we can work in. See you then.
365 16 51 46 SPT Thank you Bill. So long.
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SK_LAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
365 17 33 25 MCC Skylab, Houston. We have i minute to LOS. We

pick you up over the Canaries in a minute and a
half from now.
365 17 35 38 MCC Skylab, Houston standing by for ll minutes. Sky-

lab, Houston standing by for ll minutes. And we'd
like to have the DAS as soon as possible.
CDR You've got it, Karl.
365 17 37 04 SPT Hey, Karl. I inadvertently Just started an entry

re - forgetting you guys had the DAB. Are you
still working with it?
MCC Yes, yes we are, Ed. Hang on a moment if you can.
SPT Okay. Better give it a 5240.
MCC Go ahead and finish your job, Ed.
•MCC Ed, we're standing by for you to finish your work

up there, and then we'll get in again.
SPT Okay. I'm done, Karl. Thank you.
MCC Okay. We'll take it over again.
MCC The DAS is yours, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
MCC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

at Carnarvon at 18:12.
365 17 46 126 SPT Talk to you then, Karl.
365 18 12 24 MCC Skylab, Houston. Standing by over Carnarvon for

the next 15 minutes.
365 18 16 21 MCC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to have the DAS, if

possible, please.
SPT Roger, Karl. You have it.
i- -
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MCC Roger.
MCC The DAS is yours, Ed.
MCC Ed, we've noted a little conflict in your detail

Flight Plan there, and we'd like to point out to
you that item at 19:13 is non-time-critical. And
that we certainly don't want to caught - cut into
your JOP 18 maneuver. You can put that off until
19:17, 19:18, something like that. Whatever you
need.
SPT Roger, Karl. I've been trying to take a whack at

it already, and as soon as I get the recorder,
I'll be going on it.
365 18 19 00 MCC Right.
365 18 27 01 MCC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

over MILA at 19:00. And we will be wanting to
dump voice tapes at that location.
365 19 00 34 MCC Skylab, Houston through MILA for the next 12 min-
utes. We will be dumping the recorders here, and
we'd like to get the DAS for about 30 seconds
before you start the maneuver, Ed.
SPT Okay, Karl. You have it.
MCC Thank you.
SPT Karl, could you tell me how much time we had avail-
able on the VTR at the last site? I did some re-
cording on it, and I ran out before I got finished,
and I'm wondering how much I actually got accom-
plished.
MCC We'll figure that one up, Ed.
MCC We're also dumping the voice recorders and the

VTR on this pass. And you had 15 minutes of re-
cording on the VTR.
SPT Thank you.

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MCC The DAS is yours.
365 19 01 34 SPT Thank you, Karl. And I'm running the 82B exposure
down a little bit further past 30 minutes. I assume
:that that is what they would want.
MCC Okay.
MCC Ed, like to remind you that the time line is rather
tight at the end of this JOP 18, and that the drop-
dead time for starting the maneuver is 19:10. We
need to be in solar inertial and all stabilized by
19:19 if we're going to do the momentum dump this
evening.
SPT Okay. If I terminate at 19:07 here, I could get

that maneuver going a little quicker. Would that
be okay?
MCC We're in - we're - we're in no rush, Ed. That was

Just a reminder, and we'd rather do it on the time
line.
SPT Okay. Will do it.
SPT Karl, could you please tell me when the VTR will
be ready for use again?
MCC Okay, Ed. We will.
SPT Karl, what I was asking is if you could give me an

estimate now so it would help in planning some of
the TV we're going to do today.
365 19 04 56 CC Okay. I under -
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MCC Skylab, Houston. We'll get to you with that nnmber

pretty soon. You sent us down more than we ex-
pected, and we've got to do a little figtu'ing
before we're sure how long it'll take to dump.
SPT Thanks, Karl.
MCC Ed, are you free for a couple minutes to - for

a eomment on J0P 18D?
SPT Go ahead. I'll be working along here, but -

terminating and getting the maneuver going, but go
ahead.
MCC Go - go ahead, Ed. We'd rather not bother you

right now.
365 19 12 lh MCC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS. See you over

Madrid in 4 minutes.
365 19 16 52 MCC Skylab, Houston's with you for the next 7 minutes.
MCC SPT, Flight sends its congratulations on a good

Job getting that DAS work done in time. It looks
like everything is going to be squared away.
SPT Very good. Thank you, Karl.
365 19 19 18 MCC Ed, could we doublecheck with you? You took that
last 5-second exposure on 82B?
SPT Yes, I did, Karl. I opened the doors again on the

way back and got it for them.
MCC Great, thanks a lot.
MCC Ed, if you got a moment, le's - lets get back and
cheek up on the - on the 82B entry. Pardon me,
I mean the J0P 18.
SPT Go ahead.
MCC This morning we noticed that you missed a couple

of steps in the checklist at step lO. The first
two steps. And this is required to completely
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disable the ACQUISITION SUN SENSOR. It didn't

give us any problems this morning, but it could
potentially give us problems in the future. First
two steps of step 10.
SPT You mean the 0002?
MCC No. The commands are 52014-E and a 50002-E, yes.
SPT Okay. I guess that must be the first time.

That's a surprise. I'll get it next time. Thank
you.
MCC Okay. That could pull us back out of the J0P 18

attitude if a couple of other conditions happen to
be just right.
365 19 20 59 SPT Karl, a note on the drift compensation again.

0ver this last nightside, I used a drift compen-
sation of every 8 minutes in X and 4 minutes in Y,
which is the same one we had yesterday. And again
I ended up by putting it all in one lump sum
over 40 minutes. I get no change in the position
of the comet. I also suspected that the one we
were working with previously was wrong when I
made some of those maneuvers at 25-minutes TIME
REMAINING out, and then back. And I found myself
not really where I thought I should have been.
And had I used the drift compensation I Just
mentioned I think we would have been closer to it.
So, for the last half of, not this orbit but the
previous orbit, I did use that drift compensation.
On the first orbit, I did use the one that was
specified. Somewhere between where they calculate
that and what I observe here, there's something
else creeping in. But I thought that the display
was the most accurate way to gage it.
365 19 22 03 MCC Okay, Ed, thanks for the information.
MCC Ed, using your own Judgment is what we like there.

And this afternoon we'd like you to go ahead with
your own numbers.
SPT Okay, thank you, Karl. I'll pass them on to Jerry.
MCC All right, thank you. We'll scratch our heads down
here for a while to see why we can't come up with
the right numbers.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We have i minute to LOS. See

you over Carnarvon in about 30 minutes.
365 19 24 25 CC Skylab. We'd like to get the TVs off, please.
365 19 50 Oh MCC Skylab, Houston. With you through Carnarvon for

the next - for the next 9 minutes.
SPT Hello, Houston.
MCC Hello, Skylab. We're with you through Carnarvon

for another 8 minutes.
MCC Skyla - Skylab, Houston. Concerning your question

on the VTR availability, it looks like it's not
going to be available to you before 23:00. And
at that time, we have about 20 minutes' worth
available to you.
SPT Okay, Karl. I'll have to finish up some of that

tomorrow, then. Thank you.
MCC Righto.
MCC Ed, could you tell us - finish up what?
SPT Say again, Karl.
MCC You - you talked about finishing up. What was it

you' re referring to?
SPT TV-77.
365 19 53 48 MCC Ed, you've got us puzzled down here. The TV-77
today was a prep, and we weren't expecting any
TV-77. Could you give us further clarification?
SPT Yes, Karl. When we discussed it last time, as far

as performing TV-77, it was my understanding that
we were going to break it into two segments. One
was at the ATM and one down - one was down by the
scientific airlock. You really can't set up both
of them simultaneously then do them both simul-
taneously the next day. You've got to do them in
segments like that. I had Just finished up the
ATM portion today, although I think I've lost
probably the last third to a half of it when the
recorder ran out. So I'll have to either try to
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pick that small part up again tomorrow and then

pick up the remainder dump on the scientific
airlock.
MCC Okay. We understand you were doing TV-77 during

the J0P 18 today, then.
SPT Yes, during one long exposure.
MCC Righto.
365 19 56 l0 MCC Skylab, Houston. Thinking more about TV-77, we're

glad to see that you're getting ahead of us down
here. And for your - for your information, we
will have an hour for two crewmen operating
tomorrow on TV-77. We'll check over what you've
got done for us already and let you know where
you should cut in tomorrow.
365 19 56 37 SPT Okay, Karl. Thank you. I'd appreciate knowing

where in the discussion of the X - the ATM instru-
ments I left off. And I could pick that up real
quick and then press on with the work at the SAL.
MCC Right. We'll let you know.
365 19 58 29 MCC Skylab, Houston. We're going to have a 1-minute

dropout between Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. See
you in about a minute.
365 20 O0 48 MCC Skylab, Houston. We have - we have togetherness

for the next 4 minutes.
MCC Skylab, Houston. We have 30 seconds to LOS. We'll

pick you up over Texas at 20:32.
SPT So long, Karl.
365 20 04 33 MCC Adios.
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365 20 33 0& CC Skylab, Houston with you for the next 16 minutes
over theU.S.A.
CDR Roger, Karl.
365 20 49 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We have 40 seconds to LOS. We'll

see you over Madrid in about 5 minutes.
365 20 54 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston over Madrid for the next

6minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to OPEN the XUV

MONITORDOOR here and inhibit POWER.
CDR Okay, Karl. Go ahead.
CC Just noting that we were intending to CLOSE the

XUV MONITOR DOOR and inhibit the POWER. Pardon
me, we're going to OPEN that DOOR and inhibit the
POWER.
CDR Okay.
365 21 00 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We have 1 minute to LOS. We'll

see you over Tananarive at 21:17.
365 21 00 29 CDR Roger, Karl.
365 21 18 14 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

4 minutes.
CDR Roger.
365 21 19 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to note that your

description of the comet this morning has got our
comet experts all excited. There's obviously been
quite a change in it's structure, which more or
less confirms what we expect.
365 21 20 29 CC We had a dropout there in the keyhole and I was

saying that the change in structure this morning
has got people very excited, and if you could
possibly find time today to record what you saw
in terms of a drawing for future reference, we'd
very much appreciate it. The sketch you sent down
a couple of days ago was - was highly useful.
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SPT Okay, Karl.
365 21 21 ii SPT Say Karl, we'd like - a - a clarification on your

statement. Could you state the change which you
folks think we have recorded. We have seen some
change, but not a - not a great amount ... - -
365 21 40 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ca - through

Honeysuckle for about 1-1/2 minutes. We are now
commsnding the DAS.
SPT Roger.
MCC And Ed, you were asking questions about the comet
description. You sent one down this morning that
sounded as though it had changed significantly.
We would expect it to, even if you haven't seen
it and any sketches you'd make would be most useful
for future reference and if there were any time for
sending it down on a TV, it would be very - very
good. The DAS is yours_ Skylab.
CDR Roger, Karl.
MCC Also, any visual estimates relative to Jupiter

would be most useful. The people down here are
wondering how bright it will be.
CC And we have about 15 seconds to LOS. We'll see

you over Goldstone at 22:09. Silver teams leaving
you and wishing you a Happy New Year.
CDR Thank you, Karl. Happy New Year to you.
365 21 42 02 MCC Thanks a lot.
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365 22 09 18 CC Skylab; AOS stateside for 16 minutes.
CDR Hello, Story. Happy New Year.
CC Yes sir, same to you, and hope it's a good one.
SPT Happy New Year, Story.
CC Hello, Ed. Same to you.
SPT Thank you. I guess all you folks are unlucky; you
end up celebrating with us tonight.
CC Oh, there's no better place to be than right here.
PLT You sound like you really believe that, Story.
CC Hey, I just caught a lot of frowns from saying that.
SPT I bet you there were five teams fighting to get in

the door.
CC In fact, if I'm not around next pass, you'll know

what happened to me.
365 22 i0 lh CC While I got you, in answer to your VTR question,

we're unable to dump the VTR at Goldstone like
we'd planned to. You'll have a total of 15 minutes,
and Jerry'll need five of those for your J0P 18D.
CDR Roger.
365 22 12 13 CDR Looks like a beautiful day in southern California.
CC It's almost always a beautiful day in southern

California.
CDR You said it, Story.
CDR I can just barely see my hometown of Santa Ana.
CDR A lot of snow on the Rockies; I bet there's some

good skiing.
CC I guess you're a better Judge of that than us, Jer.

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365 22 22 39 CC Jer, before you get away from the ATM panel, I've
got an add-on to step 14 of your JOP 18D TM pad.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and about 5 minutes

to Madrid. Be dumping the data/voice there. And
as soon as I pick you up over Madrid, if you're
still at the ATM, I'd like to pass up a couple of
changes to your J0P 18D pad.
CDR Hello, Houston, Skylab.
CC Yes, sir.
365 22 26 33 CDR Okay. I've been answering all your calls. Do you
have that change for me?
CC We're about to go over the hill here_ now, Jer. I

missed your calls before, and we're about 4 minutes
to Madrid.
365 22 26 45 CDR Okay.
365 22 31 45 CC Skylab; AOS Madrid for 8 minutes. Be dumping the

data/voice here.
SPT Hello, Story. Jerry's recording right now.
CC Okay. Press on.
SPT Hey, Story. There is a - a planet very close to

the tail of comet Kohoutek, either a planet or a
star. Looks something - looks more like a planet.
Could you identify that for us and tell us how
far back it is in angular degrees?
CC Okay.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Houston, CDR. I'm ready to copy those changes.
CC Okay, Jet. And we'll dump the data/voice here.

That's JOP 18D TM. Start on step 7, change to the
fine maneuver.
CDR Ready to copy.

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CC X, 50072 for plus 0.58 degrees; Y, 50101 for plus

0.65 degrees; Z, 51057 for minus 0.h7 degrees.
CDR Okay. I copy 50072 for plus 0.58, 50101 for

plus 0.65, 51057 for minus 0.47.
CC Correct. And here comes the final attitude to

expect: X, 6.58; Y, 9.70; Z, 359.60.
365 22 3_ 03 CDR Okay. Copy 6.58, 9.70, and 359.60.
CC Okay, and monitoring vehicle rates maneuver to the

AH attitude is as follows: X, plus 0.013; Y,
plus 0.021; Z, minus 0.001.
CDR Okay. I copy no change to X and Y, and Z is

minus 0.001.
CC That would have been a better way for me to read

it. And right after step 14, add 5 minutes VTR
available for comet TV at your convenience.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Story. I got it.
CDR Story, we're guessing that bright planet behind

the comet is Jupiter, but we'd like to get confir-
mation on that.
CC We're still working that, Jer. And I guess you

and Ed were worried about running out of tape.
There's a roll and a half of tape in the data card
kit that's in W-744. This is left over from the
last two missions. That's W-744.
CDR We've used that too.
CC Okay.
CDR We're big on tape up here. I guess wrapping all

those Christmas presents is what really used it up.
365 22 37 01 CC Okay.
365 22 40 01 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds from LOS and about l0 min-

utes to Tananarive. Ed, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Story. He's listening.

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365 22 40 29 CC Okay. He's got a family call over Honeysuckle at

23:16. The ANTENNA's RIGHT. And we think what
you're seeing out there is Venus, about minus
4.2 magnitude, and it's about 15 degrees from the
nucleus of the - of the comet. And JuPiter's out
there at about minus 1.5 magnitude about 18 degrees
from the comet in the same direction.
365 22 53 26 CC Skylab; AOS Tananarive 6 minutes.
365 22 59 35 CC Skylab, we're 2 minutes to LOS, the next one will

be Honeysuckle at 23:16. And, Ed, your family
comm is coming up then, it's antenna right.
CC And Ed, also on your TV-77, the last words we

copied on a dump through Bermuda was that you were
ta!king about the one camera that has a narrow
slit 1-arc-minute long and divides up the UV. You
were probably talking about 82B then.
SPT Yes, that's right. Looks as though I got cut off

in the middle of the thing, I'ii have them pick
it up somewhere around there.
CC Okay, and you got - if you're going to pick about

now, you got i0 minutes left; we got 15 in total,
and we'll need 5 for the J0P 18.
365 23 17 36 CC Skylab ; A0S Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And we see you're recording on the VTR, Jer.
CDR Roger. We're killing it now. We just moved in to

center the comet.
CC Okay. You got about 9 minutes total to hand over

to Ed if he wants it. And for all of you, that
9 more minutes is not till the end of tape. If
you exceed that you'll be recording on top of
previously recorded TV-77.
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CDR Okay, Story. And the initial position that the

fine maneuver got me to was a minus 120 and a
plus ll4.
CC Got it, Jer.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; about 16 minutes

to Hawaii at 23:38.
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365 23 37 27 CC Skylab; AOS Hawaii for about 8 minutes. And

Bill, I've got a couple small add-ons to your
detail.
PLT Roger, Story. Go ahead.
CC Bill, at the very end there, you got a A_M at

02:01, and you got a handheld optional photo
at 00:53. Those are out of order but those
times are correct.
PLT Okay.
CC And you might add at the end at 03:30, but it's

not time critical, just any time prior to sleep,
M518 BULKHEAD VENT VALVE to VENT.
PLT Roger. That's noted.
CC Okay, that's it.
PLT And, Story, if there are no objections, I'm

going to go ahead and do the 518 terminate and
start on the 566 ops right now. Would you clear
that?
CC That's fine, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
365 23 h3 18 CC Bill, Houston.
CC Bill, on your M566, Just a friendly reminder:

You'll - you haven't done it this way in the
past, and you'll only be setting up. That's
going steps i through i0. You'll not be going
to start tonight.
PLT Will not, you say?
CC No, if you Just follow the - your details there,

it Just says that O0:10 _66 ops, steps 1 through
10. You won't be going on to step ll tonight.
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PLT Thanks a lots Story. I appreciate it.
CC Okay.
CC And we're about a minute to LOS, about 4 minutes

to Goldstone.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And Jer, if you're not too busy there, other-

wise we'll get it later, could you confirm that
you found the comet at minus 120 and plus ll4?
CDR That's affirmative. Minus 120, plus ll4.
CC Okay, we showed that a little bit off the

overlay.
CDR It was on the hairy edge, all right.
365 23 45 37 CC Okay, we'll probably give you some windage for -

for the next one.
365 23 48 30 CDR Houston, CDR. Do I have enought time when I

truncate this building block 30 to check and
see where the comet comes out again?
CC Get you an answer, Jer.
CDR What I mean is - I guess I'd like to truncate

a little bit early and see where it comes out.
CDR I answered my own question, Story. I look at

the pad a little more here and I've got 4 minutes
to do that.
CC Okay.
365 23 54 52 CC Skylab, a minute from LOS and about 5 minutes to

Be rmuda.
CDR Roger.
365 23 59 39 CC Skylab, back with you through Bermuda for 6 min-

utes. Your maneuver time looks good, Jet.
365 23 02 38 CDR Roger.

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CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jet.
CDR Can you see if we've got ourselves in auto reset.
CC We 're looking at it.

to Canaries. We've got nothing more for you on
the APCS right now. We'll have some answers over
Canaries and your clocks have been updated; you
can reset them to OO1.
CDR Roger.
CC That's the day-count set, Jer.
001 00 05 53 CDR Copy.
001 00 09 24 CC Skylab; AOS Canaries, 8 minutes.
•CC Go ahead.
SPT Have a question about S063 on the pad. The remarks

say that frames 3 and 2, 5 and 6, and 7 and 8 are
to be shot at the same ground target, which I
understand. However, they also change the time,
or the exposure duration, from 2 seconds to
1 second. That requires not only changing the
timer, but also the position of the microswitch.
Do they want all that done while you're tracking
one target? That's in addition to changing the
filter and recocking the shutter. Check - the
shutter is electric, but - the other three func-
tions all have to be done.
CC I'll get you an answer, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
001 00 16 20 CC Skylab, we're a l-l/2 from LOS, about 15 minutes

to Tananarive at 00:31. And, Jer, we think your
APCS is looking good. You may possibly get a - a
reset at sunrise - when the acquisition Sun sensors -
take out the Earth.
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CDR Okay, Story. Thanks. The altitude looks good

here now.
CC Yes sir. We're quite certain that you're in SI.
001 00 17 51 CC 'Ed, we're going over the hill here. You do not
have to reset the microswitches on S063, Just
change the filter and reset the timer.
001 00 18 02 SPT Okay. Thank you, Story.
001 00 33 02 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Tananarive for about a

minute and the next station's Honeysuckle in
20 minutes at 00:53.
CDR See you then, Story?
CC I'll be here.
CDR They got you chained to the console tonight?
cC No, the console's chained to me.
CC You guys aren't contemplating any local flying

tonight are you?
CDR No. We thought we'd stay in tonight.
SPT Every hour and a half, Story; we get a 2 minute

show.
001 00 34 31 CC We're only getting one every 24 hours today.
001 O0 53 31 CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.
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utes to Hawaii at 01:13.
001 01 01 42 CDR Roger.
001 01 13 10 CC Skylab; AOS Hawaii, i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
001 01 16 41 SPT Hello, Story, could you tell me what are the future
plans for S063, which is sitting in a ... in a
window?
CC Okay, Ed.
CC Ed, you got an ozone pass tomorrow morning at 13:00,

the same as you're running this evening. And we
go back to S073 about - 16:45 tomorrow.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story. I was not able to copy

all the information you gave on the two planets
which were close to the comet. Can you give it
again, please?
CC Okay. The best we got is that Venus is about, oh,

15 degrees east-northeast of the - the comet nucleus.
And it's a magnitude of minus 4.2. And Jupiter
was about 18 to 20 degrees east-northeast of the
comet and its magnitude is minus 1.5.
CC Jer, if you got a couple of minutes, I got evening

questions on your latest viewing of the comet.
SPT Go ahead.
001 01 18 31 CC Is the spike centered on the nucleus or is it slid

off to the side of the nucleus?
SPT It's my own feeling right now that the - the spike
is so faint that it's just barely discernible and
you really have to get dark adapted, and I don't
think we can answer a question like that with any
degree of certainty at all. It's still at the
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nucleus. I mean, it's not completely detached as

for - it's still coming off from the coma. But
whether it's slid off to one side or not is -
it's Just too faint to tell.
CC Okay, I guess that answers m_ next question, which

is how much brighter is the spike than the diffused
brightness on the right side of the coma?
SPT Okay, that diffused brightness on the right side

I have not been able to see again. Hold on Bill -
Bill says he saw it today.
PLT ... very faint ...
SPT Okay. Bill - Bill, apparently, on one viewing,

was able to look away from the comet itself, the
nucleus of the coma and see that diffused material
and feels that it's roughly about the same intensity
as the spike itself.
001 01 20 08 CC Okay, and one last one. Are both sides of the
spike equally sharp or is it diffused on one edge7
And I guess, since you're not seeing it that
clearly, that one may be a hard one to answer.
SPT Okay, Bill has the impression that the spike really
is diffused, Just almost leans all the w_y around.
It's Just a series of - it's sharp - relatively
sharp on one side and then becomes diffused. And
the material then is diffused all the way around
to the - the dust tail.
PLT It reminds you of a fin on a dolphin.
SPT Fin on a dolphin, I guess, is the word that Bill

comes up with. But it's very, very faint. We're
going to continue trying to get really dark adapted
and then look - look at it, hut you don't have long
before it ...
CC Okay, that's it.
001 01 21 02 SPT One thing we certainly have noticed, though, is

that the tail appears much longer. The tail has
swn/ig around so that we're getting more of a
perpendicular angle on it than - on it relative to
its axis - than we were before. But it certainly
is beautiful as the tail gets longer.
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CC Okay.
SPT Why don't you ask the TV folks if they think that
there'd be any possibility of getting handheid TV
out the window and actually see something of that
magnitude. I suspect the answer might be no, but
it'd be worth asking the question.
CC Ed, we've pursued that possibility earlier, and

the answers we got were that it was - was next to
impossible, but we'll take another look at it.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story. It's a shame that you

folks down there can't get to see it. I hate to
hog it all; it's certainly a beautiful sight.
CC That's correct; it would be real nice if we could

do that.
001 01 22 35 CC And we're 30 seconds from LOS, and 3 minutes to

Goldstone at 01:25.
001 01 27 18 CC Skylab; A0S Goldstone, 5 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
SPT Story, I got a comment for you on my 1-hour PT.
CC Okay. Go, Ed.
SPT Okay. When I originally dropped back to 1 hour,

it was my - I made the assumption that if I cut
my PT into about a factor of - by a factor of 2 or
so, essentially one-half of what I was doing before,
every other day I'd work on the gire, and every
other day I'd work the other exercises, that using
the onboard equipment and procedures, we'd be able
to monitor any significant change that___took place.
I'm told that this is not true and that, therefore,
I think I better stick with the hour and a half.
However, Jerry will be coming down to you pretty
soon with some guidelines on PT as well as a whole
host of other things. And I think that'll open
up the flight planning quite a bit for you. So
me going back to as hour and a half I don't think
would - is going to cause a real problem there.
And also, I'd like to stress that if there's any
significant data that would be lost by me having
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an hour and a half rather than an hour a day for -

for a given day, then go ahead and give me an hour
and I'll either drop some of the PT for that parti-
cular day, or find a way of squeezing it in. So
I'm Just recommending that I get an hour and a
half. I'd like to see that where possible, but
it's not a hard and fast rule.
001 01 29 19 CC Okay, Ed. Well, thanks very much for thinking

about getting us some more data. We did kick that
around as soon as you came down with it. And look-
ing at, you know, the various tolerances on the
experiments and the subtleties of the experiments
and all, we weren't really sure that you would be
getting something new for us, so we didn't want you
to press on with that in mind, if indeed, we couldn't
get some new data.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Story.
001 01 31 08 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 5 minutes to Bermuda.

001 01 36 20 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Bermuda for

_m l0minutes.
001 01 h5 13 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and about 7 minutes

to Ascension at 01:52.
001 01 52 55 CC Skylab, AOS Ascension, l0 minutes.
001 02 02 58 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds from LOS and about 21

minutes to Carnarvon at 02:25.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And in the Sugar Bowl being played tonight, it's

Alabama 7, Notre Dame 6.
CDR I'll bet that one's going to be a wrestling match.
001 02 03 30 CC Yes sir, it sure is. Alabama's been ranked number

1 and Notre Dame, n1_mher 3.
001 02 26 06 CC Skylab; AOS through Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, we see 7-1/2 minutes left on the VTR. If

you're going to use it any more tonight, you'll
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need to use it prior to Goldstone at 03:05 when

we start our nightly dump of the VTR.
PLT Roger, Story. I put the 3 minutes on it already

for the ATM.
CC Okay, Bill.
SPT Story, it doesn't look as though I'll be able to

get to the conclusion of the ATM. I'll have to
pick it up sometime tomorrow.
001 02 27 09 CC Okay, Ed.
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SKYLAB AIR-%K)-GROUND VOICE T}(ANSCR[PTION
001 02 35 i0 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 5 minutes to

Guam. And we'll be ready to copy the evening
status report over Guam.
001 02 41 00 CC Skylab, we got you through Guam for 7 minutes,

and we are ready when you are.
CDR Okay, Story, here it comes. Sleep: CDR, 7.0,

6.0 heavy, 1.0 light; SPT, 6.5, 6.5 heavy; PLT,
7-5, 7.5 heavy. Volumes: 1750, 1350, 1500. Water
gun: CDR, 7991; 3711; 9865. Body mass: CDR,
6.311, 6.314, 6.315; SPT, 6.349, 6.350, 6.354;
PLT, 6.254, 6.258, 6.253. Exercise: no change
for anyone. Medications: none for anyone.
Clothing: CDR, shorts, socks, and T-shirt; SPT,
none; PLT, none. Food log: CDR, zero salt, minus
one lemonade, minus coffee with sugar, plus 1.5
water; SPT, ii.5 salt, plus one biscuit which was
packed and labeled but not on the menu; PLT, salt -
correction, let's go back SPT, no water, no extra
water; PLT, 5.0 salt, plus one biscuit, minus one
grape drink; rehydration water, zero_ Flight Plan
deviations: none. Shopping list: none. Inoperable
equipment: SPT, urine collection bag rubber split
at the separator inlet; he used a new bag this
morning. Unscheduled stowage: none. Okay, the
film log: 16-millimeter, one 40 mag, Uniform
Alfa 04, 80, NA. Nikons: l, Charlie X-ray 37, lO;
02, Bravo Victor 22, 27; 3, 4, and 5, no change.
70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 52, ll5. ETC: no
change. EREP: no change. Drawer A configuration:
no change. That's it.
001 02 43 25 CC Okay, thanks. And at the balftime it was Notre Dame

14, Alabama lO.
CDR Sounds like the Irish are up for this one.
CC Looks like everybody is.
CC And Jer or Ed, on that urine bag split, was there

any loss of urine, and if so, have you got any
estimate how much?
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SPT The estimates already included in the urine volume,

Story. And I estimated it to be around lO0.
001 02 44 35 CC Okay, 100 cc.
SPT Right.
CDR Story, l'm beginning to get worried about urine

collection bags too, just like I was sample bags.
I'm going to - one of these days when I get a few
minutes I'm going to run an inventory, make sure
we got enough to finish the mission. As I under-
stand it, we're still running about 20 sample b_Es
short. And I haven't heard any further words on it.
CC Stand by i, I think we got an answer here.
CC Skylab, regarding urine collection bags, l've got

two locations if somebody could look in.
CDR Go ahead. I'm available.
001 02 46 37 CO Okay, D-410 and H-823.
CDR Okay, I've already looked in H-823. There's

two racks in there now. I've transferred one rack
down from 426; I'll go up and look at 410.
CC Okay, and we're getting a general message up to

you on possible places to look for the sample
bags and a plan of attack on that.
CDR Okay.
CDR Story, we got collection bags spread out in about

three lockers up there. I think I'Ii Just go
ahead and make a regular inventory at my own
speed rather than thrash around now looking for
that stuff. And H-823 is the normal working lo-
cation on both collection bags and sample bags,
001 02 47 58 CC Okay. We're about 30 seconds to LOS, about

18 minutes to Goldstone, 03:05.
001 03 06 13 CC Skylab, we got you stateside, 17 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story. I got the ATM frame count, if

you're ready to copy.
CC Go, Bill.
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PLT 14540, 5250, 175, 460, 5814, 4737.
CC Got it, Bill, and Nikon 01, which has got CX film
in it, we're going to be reloading for S063 tomorrow;
l0 frames isn't enough. So maybe you'd want to
shoot up those l0 frames if you get a chance some-
time tonight; it's your option.
PLT Roger, thank you, Story.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Story, last night I promised some scheduling pro-

posals from the crew up here. And if you got your-
little recorder going, I've got them ready to read
out.
CC Okay, go ahead, Jer.
001 03 07 51 CDR Okay, the first two, I think you already have. Bill
and I have indicated that EREP prep can be dropped
from 1.5 to 1 hour. And we've agreed today that
no monitor is need - needed for JOP l_, which is
no big deal after tomorrow, I guess. And looks
like we can probably get along - both the ground
and us feel that we can get along without a maneuver
monitor. On PT, ve'll go along with the split,
hut it looks to us like th_ only logical split is
as follows: a 3/4 hour PT wh - along with a 1/4
hour PH. And that would be the ergometer run
because that's the one where we all really work
up the sweat. And then the second part of the PT
could be 3/4 of an hour, and what we'll have to do
is Just try to find a way to get cleaned up after
. that. We usually don't work up as much of a sweat
lifting the weights and doing the treadmill.
001 03 08 50 CDR Okay, all I'm saying is it's okay to split; let's
not be planning on splitting it all the time, Just
as a matter of course. I think we all still prefer
a full session if ve can get it. But _e'll lift
the constraint that it'd have to be that. Okay,
_ on PSA post and presleep, we would propose that
the morning postsleep be reduced from 1.5 down to
1 hour, but that during that 1 hour that we be left
• completelyalone so that we can take care of our
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morning toilet and weigh ourselves and get our

breakfast eaten and be ready to go to work 1 hour
after wakeup. In the p.m., we would recommend that
the presleep be reduced from 2.5 down to 2 hours.
We would suggest that we have dinner at around 23:00
Zulu, which is 18:00 CDT. We would figure on work-
ing from 7 o'clock CDT, 19:00 until 21:00. And
then we would like to be left completely alone at
9:00 o'clock. We could leave the voice loops up
if you want to, and we could call you if we need
to talk to you. But we would not - we would suggest
that we not be bothered at all after 9:00 o'clock
and then you go ahead and pull the plug at 10:O0.
Okay, under housekeeping, we would suggest that we
go kind of a modified SL-3 method. We kind of like
the idea of a separate message listing the house-
keeping that's due for this day. And we'll rep -
we'll report what was done at the evening status
report. So a little general message would be very
good. If that really rubs people the wrong way
down there, then I guess we could go ahead and put
it in these summaries in the remarks. But I frankly
would rather see it on a separate message. Okay,
in the area of major medicals, M092/171, we would
propose reducing the time on that from 2:15 tO 2
hours. M092/93, we would propose 1.5 shifting down
to 1 - 1 - I beg your pardon, 1 hour and -
001 03 ll 21 CDR We end up with the medicals impacting us and the

rest of the daily schedule down the line more than
anything else.
CC Jer, we - we lost you in the handover there. Could

you pick up again from M092/937
CDR Okay, M092/93, l:h5 we would reduce to 1 hour and

30 minutes. We'll try to get you more time out of
the major medicals, but right now, I think we better
to with that. We have found that since it takes
two guys to run a major medical, if one guy gets
hung upsomewhere and can't get there on time, the
other guy has to sit and twiddle his thumbs. And
we lose time, and it ends up dominoing all the way
down the line. Are you still with me?
001 03 12 03 CC Yes, we're here.

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001 03 12 04 CDR Okay. Next item is film thread. The PLT would
like to get the film-thread pad up the evening
before, whenever possible. And if he can't get
the whole thing, he'd like at least a partial. And
he can get a leg upon the film thread. The shopping
list, we would propose that you put some of the
corollaries on the shopping list, like T002 and
some of the others that you can think of. We wuuld
suggest that some documentary photos be put on
the shopping list, and some science demos, and
anything else you can think of. I think we ought
to boost up the shopping list. When you sit and
look at the shopping list we got up here, it really
doesn't have too much on it. Okay. That - that's
all our suggestions for now. We welcome any com-
ments you might get on it, and if we can think of
any other ways to cut corners we'll keep feeding
them to you.
CC That sounds good, Jer. Thanks.
001 03 22 51 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; and you're about

lO minutes to the medical conference over Ascension
at 03:32. The score is now Notre Dame 21 to
Alabama 17.
CDR Roger. What quarter are they in no_, Third?
CC They're about a minute away from the fourth quarter.
CDR Man, that sounds like a great game.
001 03 23 17 CC Yes. The lead's changed hands five times.
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001 04 03 26 CC Skylab; A0S through Carnarvon for i0 minutes, this

will be our last pass for the night. The score
is now Notre Dame 24, Alabama 23 with about a
minute and half to go.
SPT Story, you don't have to sign off before the -

before the game's over.
CC We were expecting that.
001 04 09 05 CC Skylab, the final score in the Sugar Bowl game

was Notre Dame 24, Alabama 23. Changed - the
lead changed hands seven times.
CDR Hey, Story, thank you very much.
SPT Sounds I_ the video tape of that game is m_n-

datory for our debriefing.
CC Yes, sir.
CC Skylab, we're a couple of minutes from LOS. This

will be our last call for the year. If you want
us, the next station is Guam, 04:16.
CDR Roger, Story. Good night.
CC Good night, Happy New Year.
CDR Same to you, and what time will we hear from the
folks in the morning?
CC Wakeup, it'll be - at Hawaii at 11:06.
CC Set your timer for ll:00 if you like.
SPT Happy New Year to you, Story ...
001 04 ll 38 CC Okay, Ed.
(Music: Auld Lange Syne - Guy Lombardo)
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001 ii 06 45 CC (Music: "Auld Lang Syne")
CC (Music: "Paralyzed" by the Stardust Cowboy)
001 ii 09 ii CC Happy New Year, guys.
CDR Happy New Year, Crip.
CC Boy, what a wild party we've got going on down

here.
CDR Sounds awful.
CC It's lots of fun. I figured you guys had been

having one.
CDR Oh, yes. We've been up here ripsnorting around.
CC Terrible way to wake you up on - on your early

day off.
001 ll 12 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over the Vanguard in 25 minutes
at 11:37. We'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump there.
CDR Roger.
SPT Play our song again, will you Crip?
CC We'll save it for you for auother good time.
CC Did you like the one better yesterday?
CDR I don't know. The one this morning's got a

pretty catchy tune.
CC Got a good beat.
CDR Yes, if you're a rhythm and concussion man.
OO1 ll 13 13 CC I'm about to think you been up there too long,

Jer.
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001 ii 37 08 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard, i0 minutes. We'll

be doing a data/voice recorder dump here.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Okay, Jer. And I know -got you in a little bit

of rush here but there're a couple items I need
to - need you to get for me. I need you to get
pump Charlie on the C&D loop and I need you to
add a couple of items to that C&D powerdown and
I need a reg adjust. And I can give you those
whenever - whenever it 's convenient.
CDR Okay. Bill's on his way.
CDR Slip the reg adjust to me.
CC 0keydoke. If you've got your initial position

marked, we need ADJUST REG BUS l, 45 degrees
clockwise; BUS 2, 40 degrees clockwise.
001 ll 38 41 PLT Okay, take a look at that.
CC Okay. We're taking a look at it, and we show -

show that you've got the C&D pump on now. Bill,
if it's handy, on - have you got your details
with you now?
PLT AfFirmative.
CC Okay. At 14:30, we have you doing the powerup

after the EREP housekeeping 90 Bravo. We need
you to add steps 3 and _ to that. And I want to
add some to Jer's details to have him do some
extra powerdo_n to catch those.
PLT Got it.
001 ll 39 25 CC Thank you, sir.
SPT Jerry' s listening.
CC Okay, fine. For his ll:40 coming up here, house-

keeping 90 Alfa, I need to add steps 5 and 6.
With that - -
SPT Okay.
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CC - - With that, I'ii get off your back and let you
get set up for your maneuver that's upcoming.
CC And for your info, the REG ADJUST looks good to

US.
O01 ll 46 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS; see

you again in 6-1/2 minutes over Ascension at
11:55. And we can verify that your tau looks
good for the maneuver.
001 ll 53 08 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Ascension.
001 ll 59 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS; next

station contact is Guam in 37 minutes. And that's
at 12:37, 12:37.
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OO1 12 36 37 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Guam, 5-i/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, Hello.
CC Howdy, howdy. You guys got time to hear a little

briefing on what you're going to anticipate on
weather for this _EP pass?
CDR Sure. Go ahead.
CC Roger. !The tip of South America coming across Chile

and Argentina is going to be pretty cloudy. And
day there is somewhat questionable. Right after
you clear the Atlantic coast, though, you pick up
the Falkland Current in the clear. And then coming
up the South Atlantic, there are actually three
frontal systems which I would like to, after I go
through Zhis, tell Bill where he might be able to
pick up !several places to ge_ that special 05.
We've only got - listed it once. But you come
across the - correction, the - the special 02.
After you cross somewhat Just below the Equator,
it's going to clear off pretty good, and then you'll
of course cloudy up again when you come to the
ITCZ. And the whole northern portion of - the
whole portion of North Africa is clear today.
CDR Roger. We Just took a look at that out the wardroom

window on the last pass. Looks nice.
CC Roger.
001 12 39 lh CC Bill, do you have time to copy down three times I

can give you that would give you a chance just to
catch those frontal systems for that se - second
special 02? We copy - we copy a CAUTION and
WARNING right now.
PLT ACSMALF. I'm checking it out.
CC Copy. ACSMALF.
PLT CMG SAT.

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CC Copy. And we're showing right now that you exe-

cuted the - the second fine maneuver to go into
actual Z-LV attitude, the one that was supposed
to be in - been done at 13:06.
PLT Yes, that's affirmative. I did that at 12:06.
CC Copy.
001 12 41 14 PLT Can I take that one out, Crip?
CC We're talking about it right now.
PLT Okay.
CC Bill, we suggest you go ahead with the 5-minute

tau, and put the reverse of the signs of that
second fine maneuver in.
PLT Yes. That first statement of yours, you did say

a 5-minute maneuver time.
CC That' s correct.
PLT Okay.
CC And I need to give you three DAS codes going over

the hill. 30015, 30103, 30141. That's HEATers,
OFF. HEATERs, OFF, CMG 2. If you didn't get that,
you can get it out of your book, systems - on your
ATM Systems book.
PLT Okay.
001 12 42 54 CC See you at Vanguard, 13:14.
001 13 14 18 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through the Vanguard. We have

you for about ll minutes.
SPT Roger. Read you loud and clear, Crip. Be on -

frame number 2 coming up for S063.
PLT There we go. Okay, Crip. I got a couple of ques-

tions.
CC Go.
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PLT Okay. We both - or all three of us copied orally

a - an instruction on CMG 2.
001 13 15 01 SPT HACK.
PLT But the numbers you gave me were consistent for

CMG 3 configuration.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 15:13. Stand by -
001 13 15 13 CDR MARK. 190 to AUTO.
PLT Anyway, Crip, I did 3 - 30001, 30103, and a 30141.

Like to verify that that was correct.
CC Was the first one a 30015?
PLT Negative.
CC Understand you gave -
CDR Okay. The S - the S191 READY light came on at

15:26, right on time. We're in REFERENCE, 6.
CDR On my mark, it'll be - be 17 a minute from now.

Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay. We're just going to say - verify that you -

the first command you loaded was 30001.
PLT That's affirm.
CC Okay. We'll go ahead and - and take care of the

CMG thing. First command was supposed to have
turned all the heaters off and then turn them back
on for CMG 3, and that was certainly not clear to
you when - when the info that I gave you going over
the hill.
001 13 16 24 SPT HACK.
SPT Coming up on S063, frame number 4.
CDR Okay, on my mark, it'll be 13:17:00. Stand by.
001 13 17 00 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, OFF.

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CC If somebody gets a chance, we'd appreciate verify-

ing that the COOLANT LOOP is in FLOW.
CDR That' s verified.
CC Thank you.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 17:30. Stand by -
001 13 17 30 CDR MARK. The ALTIMETER's ON.
001 13 17 53 SPT HACK.
001 13 18 55 SPT HACK.
SPT That was frame number 5 for S063. Coming up on

number 6.
CDR Okay.
001 13 20 07 CDR MARK. At 20:06 SHUTTER SPEED to FAST on 190.

Coming up on 21.
PLT ... What are you taking pictures of, I wonder?
CDR Oh, let's see. Could be the Falkland Current.

Actually, we're not doing anything yet.
SPT SO63, frame number 6.
PLT Oh, I thought that you'd - that's just the shutter.

Yes, Falkland Current coming up next.
CDR Okay. We're coming up on 21. Stand by -
001 13 21 00 SPT HACK.
001 13 21 00 CDR MARK. At 13:21 ALTIMETI_R, STANDBY. RANGE being

changed to 92, MODE to 5. 21:20 is coming up next.
On m_ mark, it'll be 21:20. Stand by -
001 13 21 20 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON. 21:46 is the next call.
CDR Okay, on my mark it's 21:46.
001 13 21 46 CDR MARK. 21:46. SHUTTER SPEED to SLOW.

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SPT Stand by, frame number 7.
CDR I hope the confluence is clear today.
PLT Yes.
CDR And lots of red splotches.
PLT Okay. Now I'm going to - -
001 13 22 09 SPT HACK.
PLT - - supposed to start a narrative on the Falkland

Current if I see it.
CDR On.
PLT So tell me when you've got a sequence coming up,

and I'll stop talking. So -
CDR I'm good until 24:34 and then I have to do a little

talking.
PLT Well, that's when I start - we start taking data

on the Falkland Current at that time.
CDR Oh.
PLT So just tell me that you've got a hack or something

coming up.
CDR All right.
PLT Just say, "Coming up on an event," or something;

I'll stop.
CDR I'll tell you, I'll just tap you on the shoulder.
PLT Okay. You may have to shoot me (laughter).
Cc You know, we can really almost hear you guys if

you just give a hack with one talking on - with
the other.
CDR - What are we, swinging across to landfall now,

or - -
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PLT Not yet.
CDR We're still on the Pacific side, huh.
CC Negative. You're on the Atlantic side.
001 13 23 39 CDR Okay. We got about a minute to go.
CC Bill, we showed that you had a - one Falkland

Current sequence at 16:34 on your VTS and got
another one coming up here at 24:17. You concur?
PLT 16:34 and 24: 17. Affirmative.
SPT S063, frame 8.
CC Did you manage to get - -
CDR 30 seconds. Go ahead.
CC Did you manage to get in that first Falkland?
The one at 16:34?
PLT Negative. Negative. I did not.
CC Roger.
PLT I ... didn't even see that first time there.
CDR Okay, coming up on 24:3_ pretty quick here. We'll

be going to SHUTTER Spkm_n, FAST. 0kay, on my mark
it'll be 13:24:34.
PLT DAC 's on.
CDR Stand by -
001 13 24 34 CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED going to FAST.
PLT And I don't see anything.
001 13 24 38 SPT HACK. 24:40.
001 13 _2 4I CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. RANGE to 88.
CC LOS in 1 minute. Ascension in 3.

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CDR Roger. Dick - Crip. Okay. I'm coming up on

25:10. 25:10 coming up. Stand by -
001 13 25 i0 CDR MARK. ALTIMET_q's ON.
PLT Ye_, I don't see a thing.
SPT S063, frame 9-
CDR Clouds or water?
PLT It's - Well, I got clouds and water, but I don't

see any of the currents. Course the optics are
SO -- --
CDR Yes.
001 13 25 28 SPT JACK.
PLT Okay, now at 26:04 1 want to stop this. Okay.
001 13 25 38 PLT CAMI_A's OFF. 26:04; 45, UP.
CC Better time for that second special 02 than 28:03

is about 28:05.
PLT 28:05. Okay.
001 13 25 53 CDR Okay. We're coming up on 26:00. l'm looking for

S190 READY light.
001 13 26 40 SPT - at eleven. S063 - -
PLT And I got so doggone much cirrus I don't know if

we're getting any useful data or not. Okay. Here's
some good buildup, i0 degrees aft. Man, that's
bright.
CDR Yes. The light coming in around the window looks

bright.
001 13 27 20 SPT HACK.
PLT Okay, 28:23 ... special 05. 33:21, ITZ [sic]
001 13 27 29 SPT HACK.

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SPT Okay, got them both.
001 13 27 35 CC AOS with you. We got you for about 15 minutes.
SPT Okay. l'm going to invert the order of 13 and 12,

just to keep the procedure simple.
PLT Okay, l'm looking for a thunderstorm.
SPT Starting out with a 2-second exposure and 2700

wavelength.
CDR Okay. The next mark's going to be 28:30.
PLT Time may have been off on - a little on that front.

Got over it before - I ran out of time, I think.
CDR Okay. On my mark it'll be 13:28:30. Stand by -
001 13 28 30 CDR MARK. The ALTIMETER is going to STANDBY. A RANGE

set to 84. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
SPT Frames 13 and 12, in that order, coming up on 63.
CDR Coming up -
O01 13 28 50 CDR MARK. 28:50. The ALTIMETER's ON.
001 13 29 06 SPT HACK.
001 13 29 16 SPT HACK.
PLT Okay, I never did see the Falkland Current in the

VTS.
001 13 29 51 PLT Standing by for 33:21.
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SKTLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
001 13 31 49 SI_T Frame 14, S063. Stand by.
001 13 32 03 SPT HACK.
CDR 0kay. On _ mark it 's 32:10. Stand by -
001 13 32 l0 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. RANGE to 80. On

_5r mark it'll be 32:30. Stand by.
001 13 32 30 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON.
SPT Frame 15 coming up.
001 13 32 44 SLT HACK.
CDR Sounds like a rare jungle bird down there, Ed.
CC All that hacking, I thought you had a bad cough.
CDR Yes. Nicotine hangover or something.
PLT Standing by. 33:21.
SPT Jealousy.
CREW (Laughter )
PLT Hang in there, Ed. You're doing a good Job ....
SPT I 'm hanging.
PLT (Laughter) Okay.
CDR Wish I was qualified for S063.
SPT "Okay. Coming up on frame 16 another two - minute

and a half.
PLT Okay. I'm into _V time, but I don't have anything.

Might as well turn the camera on so I can get a
good thunder bumper here.
SPT Actually it was Crip who was in on the initial

design phase.
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CDR Oh, is that right?
SPT That's right. Let's lynch him.
CC Thought you'd love that.
PLT Well, your ITCZ is pretty inactive. Nothing.
CDR Okay. On my mark it'll be 3h:28. Stand by.
001 13 34 28 CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED, SLOW on the S190.
PLT There we go.
PLT Okay - -
SPT Frame 16.
PLT - - now I've got a thunderstorm. There we go.

Hang in there.
001 13 3h 58 SPT HACK.
PLT Okay, overshooting a cloud top and a clear area.

Back off.
CDR Okay. 0n my mark it'll be 35:24. Standby.
001 13 35 24 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY.
SPT Frame 17.
CDR Okay, we've picked up speed on the tape recorder.

Have an ALTIMETER.
CDR UNLOCK light on and at -
001 13 35 40 CDR HACK. On my mark it'll be 35:50. I'm going to

be going to STANDBY anyway.
001 13 35 50 CDR MARK. At 35:50 the ALTIMETER to STANDBY; RADIOMETER

to STANDBY. 36:02 is coming up.
001 13 36 02 CDR MARK. At 36:02 SCATTEROMETER is ON; the RADIOMETER

is ON.
PLT Okay, thunderstorm over land.
PLT We may be coming up on land here. Yes, there.

Land ho.
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SPT Good ship wake down there.
CDR Okay, on my mark it'll be 36:42. Stand by -
001 13 36 42 CDR MARK. 92 is MODE, CHECK.
CDR Okay, I'm looking - there we go at 36:54 we've

got the S190 READY light out. And the MODE is
going to STANDBY. FRAMES is going to 21.
PLT No thunderstorme over land.
CDR Nice clear day over Africa.
PLT Boy, it sure is.
CDR Let's see, we must be coming close to the Niger

River delta area there.
001 13 37 29 PLT I've got the Niger - I had the Niger River a
moment ago - -
CDR - - burning. That's a - -
SPT I wonderif they would like a exposure of this

rather than the one 1-minute down the pike. Why
don't you ask them, Crip?
CC Checking.
SPT I'm Just about losing it.
CDR Go ahead and take it, Ed.
CC Yes, go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay.
PLT I'm going to paint that - that lake, arrowhead

lake .... - -
001 13 38 08 SPT HACK.
PLT - - I've got nothing else to do. My nadir swath

starts at 40:&3.
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CDR Okay, on my mark it's going to be 38:23.

Stand by -
001 13 38 23 CDR MARK. 190's going to MODE, AUTO. Bill, try to

get the delta land that's to the south and to
the west slightly of the lake there. And pick
up a couple of those other lakes. That's one of
our - those are our handhelds. 38:37 coming up.
Stand by -
001 13 38 38 CDR MARK. 192 mode to READY. Tape recorder's pick-

ing up speed. All that delta land around there -
they're interested in vegetation and water color.
PLT Yes.
CDR Water content.
SPT Frame 19.
CDR Okay, I'm flooded with green lights here. Every-

thing is _mning properly.
PLT I'm painting down the Niger Niver.
PLT I'm going to push the dat - -
001 13 39 08 SPT HACK.
PLT - - DATA puBhbutton. Okay, I'm in the Niger River

delta right now pushing the DATA pushbutton. Now
I'm going to go out into the rangelands ....
frame - turned off. Okay, I get a ... frames.
... off. Back to one - -
CDR Okay, we're coming up on 13:40:00.
PLT Okay, at--
CDR Okay, 40:00 stand by.
001 13 40 00 CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM.
CDR Next mark's at 40:30. On my mark, 40:30.
PLT Okay, standing by for a desert - -

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CDR Stand by -
001 13 40 30 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK.
PLT Okay, we're going to get some good desert.
PLT Stand by.
001 13 40 43 PLT MARK. CAMERA, ON.
SPT Frame 20.
PLT Okay.
001 13 41 00 8PT HACK.
CDR What kind of a thing you doing, Bill?
PLT I'm doing a nadir swath on the desert right now.
CDR Okay. This is the area where all those dunes are,
the chains --
PLT Yes.
CDR And the star dunes and all that.
PLT Yes.
PLT I don't see any of them right here, but there's

a lot of that outcropping and bedrock.
CDR Okay, we're looking for the S190 READY light to

go out at 41:50.
PLT 42:19 - is ...... bodies there?
SPT Frame 21.
CDR Okay, the READY light went out at 52. The MODE
is STANDBY. FRAMES is going to - okay, this pad
says 8; it ought to say 08.
001 13 42 04 $PT HACK.
CC One on us, Ed - Jer.

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PLT Stand by.
CDR Okay.
OOl 1B 42 19 CDE MABK. The trouble is when I see 8 by itself it

makes me wonder if there's - it's 80 something
or a number's been dropped or what.
CC Roger. Understand it - -
CDR Okay, coming up on 42 :50.
PLT All right, now we've got - -
CDR And those - that's the long string, the chains?
PLT Not so much, but I'm starting to pick them up.

Boy, this is a good view here.
CDR Okay, on my mark, it's going to be 42:50.

Stand by -
001 13 42 50 CDR MARK. REFERENCE is going to 2 on S191.
PLT Oh, now I've got the dunes. Man!
PLT That is rough-looking country down there. Wo ooo!
CDR I'd hate to get lost down there.
PLT Man. Low Sun angle her in these pictures ought

to really show up the geology.
CDR Don't hear the camera going though.
PLT No, no it's off. I'm Just eyeballing right now.
CDR Uh-huh.
PLT And there's a lot of dune activity there.
CC You can shoot off some 190A single frames, if

you'd like, on those dunes.
CDR Okay.
PLT Hey, okay. Let me give you the nadir here.

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SPT Frame 22 ....
PLT Okay. You can start - you can squeeze off one
now, Jer. I'm on nadir and we're right over a
lot of dunes.
CDR All right.
001 13 44 02 SPT HACK.
CDR There' s one.
PLT Okay , let me look ahead here. No, that was about
it. Let me look on further ahead.
PLT No, we're coming up on the Med, I guess, or the

Red Sea. I don't know where we are.
CDE No, it's the Med. We're coming out over Tunis.
CDR Okay, coming up on 44:27.
001 13 44 27 CDR MARK it. 192 is to READY.
CDR 44:34, 191 to MODE, AUTO. I was 1 second late on

that. 45 even is next. Stand by.
001 13 44 47 SPT HACK.
CDR On my mark it will be _5:00. Stand by.
001 13 45 01 CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED, SLOW.
PLT 13:46.
CDR You got 45 seconds, Bill.
PLT Roger.
CDR Okay, on my mark, it's going to be 45:34. Stand

by.
001 13 45 34 CDR MARK. 192 to STANDBY. Stand by. 45:44 is the

next mark. Stand by -
001 13 45 44 CDR MARK. VTS, AUTO CAL.
001 13 45 47 SPT HACK.

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PLT Okay, i0 seconds to SI.
CDR Okay. 190 READY's out at 45:52.
PLT Stand by.
O01 13 45 58 CDR MARK. 194 to MANUAL at - -
001 13 46 00 PLT MARK.
CDR - - 45:57.
PLT SI.
CDR Okay.
PLT E_tes are building up.
CC LOS in about 30 seconds. Guam in 26 minutes,

14:12. Be doing a data/voice recorder dump.
Crimson team saying good night - good day. We'll
see you in about 3 or 4 bays on execute.
CDR Okay, Crip. Take it easy there.
PLT We'll see you, Crip.
CC Have a good day.
SPT So long, Crip.
PLT Happy New Year.
CC Same to you guys.
CDR Enjoy the feets - enjoy the feetsball games.
CC Will. I'll be popeyed before - -
CDR You going to stay - you going to - -
CC The day's over.
CDR You going to stay up to watch them or you going

home and go to bed?
CC Going to go out and celebrate New Year's.

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CDR Hey, hey.
SPT I didn't realize it was New Year's. (Laughter)
CC You guys didn't see your invite.
001 13 46 48 CDR Who's had time?
001 14 12 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for i0 min-

utes, the data/voice tape recorder dump. Out.
CDR Hello, Bruce. Happy New Year.
CC Roger. The same to you, Jerry, and, of course,

to Bill and Ed too.
sPT Happy New Year to you, Bruce.
CC SPT, this is Houston. Over.
SPT Hello, Bruce. Go ahead.
CC Yes. We've got what could be considered an update

to the film-thread or film-load pad. And that is
that now that you've finished the S063 operations,
we'd like you to download cassette Bravo Victor 22
out of Nikon 2 and load Bravo Victor 26 before
the S073 op 1. Over.
001 14 14 59 SPT Okay. Download Nikon 2 and put in Bravo 26.

Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT While we're talking about film log, Bruce, we

were given instructions to log Charlie X-ray 38
in Nikon 1. And the location was given as
drawer F. And I think that's - I got it out of
drawer H, and I'm Just wondering if - if I have
a configuration problem here.
CC No problem, Bill. We understand that it should

have been drawer Hotel all along. Over.
001 14 15 50 PLT Okay. Also, one other thing. I did a Charlie

Oscar 1-Alfa yesterday, as scheduled yesterday.
And that's been completed. And then Ed had this
morning the removal of the atmospheric volatiles
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concentrate or the AVC. I did the Charlie Oscar

i Alfa with the CO monitor. What confuses me is
that they may have meant or intended for me to do
the AVC because the AVC is installed in a bag
which is marked CO monitor. But there are two
such bags and in one bag the atmospheric volatiles
concentrators are located and in the other bag,
which is identical, the CO monitor. Question is,
which one should I have done yesterday and/or
should I also install an AVC?
CC We wanted the CO monitor done yesterday, Ed [sic].

You did it, and we think everything is straight
so far.
001 14 16 56 PLT What's the AVC stow then?
CC Bill, our understanding on this is that that needs

to be disconnected so you can do the M092 as it's
using the same vent system.
PLT Okay. Well, no. The question is the AVC was not
installed yesterday. And I did a CO monitor.
Carbon dioxi - carbon monoxide monitor. And I
guess we're stowing something that was never put
there. That's the instructions. There were no
instructions to install the AVC monitor on the
hose yesterday.
CC Okay, Bill. Looking at yesterday's Flight Plan,

a copy of which we still happen to have in the
archives down here, the AVC should have been in-
stalled by the SPT at 02:00 Zulu yesterday. And
our assumption then w_s that it would have been
running overnight, and we'd go ahead and take it
out this morning before M092. Over.
001 l_ 19 04 PLT Okay. Then we're going to do that with a 24-hour

time delay with your concurrence.
CC Well, why don't you let us take a squint at it

and we'll call you back later today and tell you
what to do.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CDR Houston, CDR.

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001 15 12 ii CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Island and

Madrid for 14 minutes. Out.
001 15 25 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston; I minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 35 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek with a data/voice tape recorder dump at
16:01 Zulu. Out.
SPT Bruce, could you, at that time, tell me how much

time is allotted for TV-77 on the VTR today?
CC I can probably tell you at this time. We have an

even 30 minutes there, and I show right now that
3.4 have been used up on the display. But we'll -
We'll get that dumped and out of the way before
you start so you'll have a full 30.
SPT Okay. I may want to get some of that done before

that TV-77 time comes up. I got a little time.
I think I can do it in the next couple of hours.
001 15 26 40 CC Okay. And on the message that we sent up giving

you background information, the velocity is in
error. It should be 207,000, that's 207,000
instead of 163,000. Over.
O01 16 01 O0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

for 7 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump.
And for the SPT, we noticed that you have not put
anything on the VTR since we - we talked to you
last. Our plan is to take the VTR over Honeysuckle
next rev at 17:40, do a rewind, and then dump it
when we hit Merritt Island following so that you'll
have a - a clean VTR for your TV-77. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. What I ha - had hoped to do was to

finish up the ATM TV which I had done completely
yesterday but unfortunately ran out of tape about
halfway through it. I know where I ha - had run
out of tape, and I had hoped to get that done
sometime this next pass before the S073 ops.
Probably be about i0 - maybe at the most 12 minutes
or so on it. Would that be sufficient for you
folks to go ahead and dump it in the mode you plan-
ned and then pick up the stuff by the airlock this
afternoon?
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CC Yes, indeed, Ed. As long as wh_itever _t Is you've

doing is finished by 17:hO, we can rewind and -
and get a pretty good dump on it that way and have
it all cleaned up for you for TV-77.
SPT Okay. Very good, I sure will. I'll have it done

by then.
CC And with respect to that transmission I made as

we were going over the hill there, what we've got
is a - a different velocity figure for the comet
that you might want to reference in your narration.
And the correct velocity is 207,000 miles per
hour - that's 207,000 miles per hour. Over.
001 16 02 48 SPT 207. Roger.
001 16 06 12 CC SPT, Houston. Minor revision to my previous

statements on the VTR. We can dump about 7 minutes'
worth of the VTR at Merritt Island next rev. So
if [ou put i0 minutes more onto the B-i/2 that are
currently on there for a total of about 13-1/2, we
can get it dumped back to about 6, and that'll give
you 24 minutes for use during your scheduled TV-77.
Is that satisfactory? Over.
SPT Yes, that'll work out fine, Bruce. Can I help you
at - at all by putting it to rewind when I'm done?
CC Negative, because we want to rewind back only far

enough to get us to the point that we think we
can dump that amount during the pass over Merritt
Island. That is, we're not going all the way back
to the head end of the tape.
SPT Okay, I see. Very good. Thank you.
001 16 07 07 CC And it is now 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact

is in 38 minutes through Bermuda and h4 minutes
through Canary Island at 16:51. Out.
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CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Hey, Bruce. You don't really want us to down-

load that Bravo Victor 22 do you? Why don't we
just forget them, pull them off the end and Just
remove the roll. There's only two frames left.
I don't think the risk of downloading is worth
trying to save two frames.
CC Okay. We c6ncur with that, Jerry. Just go ahead

and unload, or whatever, to wind it all back in
a cassette, and then take her out.
001 14 20 47 CDR Okay. Good enough.
CC And we got a little over a minute to LOS here.

Next station contact in 31 minutes through the
Vanguard at 14:52. And Just a com.,ent or two in
passing as long as we've got you here, Jerry.
One is that we've got a general message 4737 up
on searching for sample bags. And we'd Just like
to ask you to hang on to that message until to-
morrow because we won't get it into the Flight
Plan until tomorrow or day 48. And a question
for you: Do you all still want the menauever
rates on the maneuver in JOP 18 pads now that the
maneuver monitoring task is no longer required?
Over.
CDR Yes, I think that's a good thing to have. Ask

them to continue putting those rates on.
001 14 21 45 CC We'll do it.
001 14 52 l0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for

9-1/2 minutes. For the SPT, if he has a second.
SPT Sure do, Bruce. Go ahead.
CC Okay. I've got two items for you. If you would,

over on panel 206, we need to get the REG ADJUST
BUS 1 and 2 pots, that's both of them, turned to
25 degrees counterclockwise. That's 25 degrees
counterclockwise and then I have a change to the -
one of the exposure times on the pad for your
first S073 pass for today. Over.
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SPT Okay, Bruce. You've got the adjustments on the

BEGS and stand by on that - I don't have that
pad with me. Is it very long? I wonder, can I
copy it down?
CC No, you can copy it. On frame h, we _ant to

change the start time from 17:13 - to 17:13 from
17:11 in order to avoid having the target occulted
by the Earth' s atmosphere. Over.
SPT Frame 4, change 17:11 to 17:13. Will do.
CC You got it. Thank you.
601 14 55 i0 CC And, Ed, we show that H-alpha i is not running

automatically now. Apparently it missed getting
the door-open signal. Over.
SPT Thank you, Bruce. It's going now.
CC Roger. Thank you.

station contact in ll-1/2 minutes through the
Canary Islands at 15:12. Out.
001 15 01 00 SPT So long, Houston.
END OF TAPE
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001 16 51 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Islands

and Madrid for 12 minutes. Out.
001 16 56 21 CC CDR, this is Houston. When you have a moment

free here, I've got a change to the step 3 of
the procedure for TV-118 which you're doing
around 21:30 this afternoon. Over.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. You dropped out, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jer. You're doing TV-II8, a science demo

on cloud formation, this afternoon, and we have
a change to the procedure if you're in a position
where I can read it to you, or we can get with
you later.
CDR No. Go ahead.
001 16 57 18 CC Okay. On step 3, it currently says, "Place dis-

penser into waste processor chamber 5 or 6 to
remove remaining water from dispenser. Use vacuum
only." We would like to replace that step with
one which reads, "Dry wipe the dispenser and
shake with plunger depressed to expel water." In
other words, we're getting it out of the waste
processor. Over. That is, we're never putting
it in.
CDR Okay, Bruce. I got that. We got two problems,

however. Number one, we do not have a M133 elec-
trolyte dispenser available. The last one that
was used was thrown away, and so we'll have to
try to do with something else. And I think Ed has
passed down the word a couple of times now that
before we do science demonstrations we need some
time to set them up and make sure they do work,
and dry run them before we actually do them. And
usually trying to do them on the very - you know
on that same day is a - is a little difficult. I'm
wondering if they think down there an hour is
enough to dry run it, m_ke sure it works, and then
go ahead and do the TV on it.
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001 16 59 08 CDR Seems to me, Bruce, what they ought to do is the

day before you're going to do a science demo, they
ought to schedule some time for a science demo
setup and Just make sure the whole thing works
and gets worked out properly before you start
putting it either on film or TV.
CC Okay, Jer. TV-118 got added in here fairly late

in the game as a target of opportunity, you might
say, when we dropped out the maneuver monitor re-
quirement for J0P 18, and it is - it's pretty much
your call whether you'd like to go ahead and - and
do it for real or whether you'd like to go the
dry-run route. But in today's Flight Plan, I
can point out to you that you have an hour of
free housekeeping immediately following and con-
tiguous with the TV-118 block. And there's probably
enough flexibility in that setup to allow you to
play it by ear however you like. Over.
CDR Okay. I think in this particular case we might

be able to work it, but the point here is people,
when they schedule science demos, have got to
give time and allow time for setup and dry run
before we do them.
CC Okay. If we schedule any more, we'll adhere to

that.

station contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon.
And for the SPT, we see that you put 10.1 minutes
on the VTR for us, and I assume that you're -
you've completed, so we'll g0 ahead at Honeysuckle
and rewind and dump at MILA as we announced previously.
001 17 03 16 SPT That's fine, Bruce.
001 17 29 h6 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle for about lh minutes. Out.
001 17 41 3h CC Skylab, this is Houston, about 3 minutes until

LOS here at Honeysuckle. And we show that Jerry
should be down - he's getting ready for lunch or
eating. So with that, I'll Just read one off
and see if we're in sync on the way we're thinking
down here, with respect to scheduling and planning
of housekeeping. From what you said last night,
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we think that the plan is to schedule only those

housekeeping tasks that require greater than
30 minutes each to complete and then leave some
open housekeeping time in the Flight Plan and
give you a message eachevening along with the
normal Flight Plan in the crewmen's details pads
that would state all nonscheduled housekeeping that
needs tobe worked in the next day. And then how
you get it in is your option. Is that agreeable
with you all? Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce. That 's great.
CC Okay, and since you answered up there, Bill, I've

got a - a couple of changes to your S07B pad for
later on this afternoon if you have it handy, or
I can hold it for a couple of hours. It's no
rush.
PLT Give me 30 seconds.
CC Okay.
001 17 43 18 CDR Bruce, while you're waiting for Bill to get his
papers, the high density day transfer is scheduled
today, and I think you can go ahead and from now
on put that on the shopping list thing too. And
we'll take care of that separately. We've got -
most of the high usage items have now been moved
down into the wardroom and that's become quite a
bit shorter task.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. It's message 4726A. On frame l, we want

to change the start time from 21:57 to 21:51.
Frame 2, change the start from 22:0h to 21:58.
And in the remarks, change the beginning of the
JOP 18D maneuver from 22:17 to 22:06. And the
reason for changing these is that we had a change
in the maneuver time on JOP 18. We'd like to add
a remark: "If required, terminate frame 1 early
in order to start frame 2 on time." Over. In
that connection, of course, Bill, frame 2 is in-
tended to have the higher priority there. And
we're about to go over the hill here.
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PLT Okay, Bruce. I got it all. I'll check with you

next pass?
CC Yes. Basically, it's moving everything up 6 minutes

there.
001 17 hh 53 PLT Roger.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 001:18:00 to 001:19:30
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001 18 17 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're with you through

Merritt Islan d and Be_mada here for about
ll-1/2 minutes. Couple of quick ones for the
CDR if he's handy.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. The optional handheld 170 photo scheduled

for 19:58 should not even be attempted due to bad
weather in the target area. And with respect to
the TV-118 science demo, at the end of Skylab-3
Owen Garriott stored a few items for science demo
use and we think that there is an M133 electrolyte
dispenser located in the SPT's sleep compartment
either in S-900 or S-908. Over.
CDR Okay. Thank you. We'll 10ok.
001 18 18 50 CC And the - the original comment that I passed up

about using the dry wipe and holding the - hold-
ing the plunger down to shake the water out still
stands. However, before you put the little Mosite
plug on the end of the electrolyte dispenser, you
ought to go ahead and pull the plunger back so
that you get some atmosphere within the thing.
Since during the operation, the cloud will be
formed when the plunger comes back out after the
compression. And after you push it in to compress
it, you should allow a few seconds in the com-
pressed position to permit equilibrium to take
place prior to pulling the plunger back out for
the cloud formation. The back lighting is essen-
tial to see it, and it is our intent that you do
not exercise the TV option today. That is, use
DAC photography only if it - if it looks like it's
a good one to record and you think that the demo
is coming off as anticipated. We'd like to get
your comments on any motion of the cloud that is
formed, i.e., to or from the walls. Co_uts re-
garding coalescence of the droplets or the abil-
ity of the things to combine, and roughly an
estimate of the droplet lifetime. We don't think
it'll be a problem. But if holding it in position
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is a problem, you might be able to adapt the

vice on the tool kit, too, in some manner to hold
it steady. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
001 18 20 28 CC Okay. Roger; out.
001 18 25 i2 CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Roger. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We don't want to bother Ed down there in

the - the chair for OGI, but in the course of
dumping the TV-77 segment that he recorded this
morning, we have good video but absolutely no
audio on it. Over.
CDR Roger. He'll be delighted to hear that.
CC Well, more significantly, he goes right from the

OGI into the -the next segment of TV-77. And
our desire was that you recheck your configura-
tion to - to get the - the voice with the segment
this afternoon. We'd hate to have it all come
down speechless.
CDR Okay.
001 18 25 53 SPT Bruce, I had that rigged up so it would go on

both the VTR and on channel A. Have you checked
channel A?
CC Negative, Ed. We have not yet dumped channel A,

and we'll check for it there,
SPT Okay, Bruce, We figured it out. We had a switch

on the conmmand module which was out of configura-
tion in that time period. So I'll have to take
another whack at it,
CC Okay; we copy. Did you get on channel A?
SPT That 's negative.
O01 18 27 39 CDR Bruce, what's the VTR plan look like for tomorrow?
Do you suppose you got about another 15 minutes
available?
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CC We'll have to check that. We're about a minute

and a half to LOS here at Bermuda. I'ii talk to
you in 5 minutes or to somebody in 5 minutes
through Madrid at 18:33, if thatts okay.
001 18 29 14 CC SPT, this is Houston. We think we interpret your

wishes correctly here. And what we're going to
do is give you the max TV time available for
TV-27, which will be 27 minutes, and thattll in-
volve scrubbing the - the first 3 mihutes of the
work you did this morning without voice. And
we'll try and set it up for you to - to rerun
that sometime in the near future. Over.
SPT Bruce, do you mean TV-777
CC Right. TV-77_ you will have 27 minutes on the

VTR available to you.
SPT Okay. What time will that be available?
CC As soon as you're through with the M131,
001 18 30 01 SPT All right. Thank you.
001 18 33 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for

7-1/2 minutes. Out.
001 18 39 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston. A minute and 40 seconds

to LOS. Next station contact in 27 minutes
through Carnarvon at 19:06. And for the CDR, when
he has a minute free here after the DAC photos, we'd
appreciate it if he could verify for us that the
C&D COOLANT loop FLOW valve is back to BYPASS
following completion of the EREP run here and we
were also curious to know whether you found the
IMSS - oh, not the IMSS, the M13_ dispenser that
we mentioned Owen had stowed. Out.
CDR Bruce, the FLOW's in BYPASS.
00i 18 41 01 CC CDR, this is Houston. Just a little bit of back-

ground. The flow through the EREP C&D coolant
loop dropped off about 30 pounds an hour for the
EREP pass when you selected FLOW on it and did
not come back up following the pass, and thatts
why we were suspicious that maybe the valve
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wasn't in the - the BYPASS position. But thank you

very mueh for checking on it, and we'll talk to
you over Carnarvon0
001 19 06 37 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

9-1/2 minutes. Out.
OO1 19 20 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 30 minutes through Corpus
Christi at 19:49. Out.
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Time: 001:19:30 to 001:21:00
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001 19 50 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,

Texas, and Bermuda for 16-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Okay, no luck finding that electrolyte dispenser

so what we're doing is we're taking the one that
Ed's got left with a little bit of electrolyte
left in it. We're going to try to transfer that
to some other container and use it.
001 19 5h 54 SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, SPT.
SPT Will you be uplinking a teleprinter message in

the next 5 to l0 minutes? Make it l0 minutes?
CC Would you like us to?
SPT No, I would like you not to. I have Just started
this TV thing again for the third time and our
woodpecker started.
CC Okay. We will straz_!e the woodpecker.
SPT Very good. Thank you.
CC Garrgh! _
001 19 55 59 CC Skylab, this is Houston for the CDR. Our prefer-

ence on this TV-118 is to scrub it for today.
We'd rather not Jeopardize any of the electrolyte
that we currently have available forM133. And
I think if - if when that one is empty you could
hang on to it and let us know, why, we'll probably
go ahead and try and work it back in later in
the mission. Over.
CDR When's your next 1337
CC We're checking on that now. It'll be 3 days from

t now,Jerry,on day 50.
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CDR Okay. Fine.
001 19 58 5h CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jerry.
CDR Okay. I think this demo would have been a good

one - good candidate for the shopping list that
we suggested last night. We suggested that some
of the science demos be put on a shopping list
so that we can kind of get them set up in our
leisure. If you've got any more like that that
are fairly simple but require gathering up used
equipment or something like that, you might put
them on the shopping list. I think we could get
to those with a lot less fuss and feathers. And
with this spare time I've got now, what do you
say I go ahead and do the urine sample bag search?
And if you can think of any other things that are
hanging down there, let me know.
CC That sounds righty-o, Jerry. A urine sample bag

search would help us out a lot. And we'll be
scratching our heads here to see what else we can
come up with for you to - to fill in with.
CDR Okay. While l'm at it, I think l'm also going

to sample - going to inventory the urine collection
bags and make sure we have enough.
CC That's also great. You got us on the run down

here.
001 20 O0 h7 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Understand we had a

keying failure on mY last transmission. We were
agreeing with you on the urine bags. I think
that's an excellent thing to do to fill in the
time, and you got us on the run down here. But
we'll look around for some other items to fill in.
CDR Okay. If you can't find anything, then I'll go

to the shopping list and see what I can find there.

station contact in 5 minutes through Madrid at
20:ll with a data/voice tape recorder dump at
Madrid, if it's convenient with you all. Out.
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001 20 ii 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for

6-1/2 minutes. And we're going to pull the old
dump -the -dat a/vo ice-an d-turn-on -experiment -2 -t ape-
recorder trick from the ground here. So that even
though the little green light may go out, indi-
cating you don't have voice being recorded, we
will be catching it on the experiment 2 recorder
which we can then salvage the voice from later
on at our option. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
001 20 12 31 CC And is the PLT handy for a minute or is he tied

up getting ready for PT?
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Yes, Bill. On this AVC, the atmospheric volatile

concentrator, we'd like to put that in the - the
schedule this evening at 02:00 if either yourself
or Ed could set the thing up. And we'll get it
out tomorrow morning at about the same time or
actually, a little later, since you're getting
up later. And we'll put it in the Flight Plan
for tomorrow. Over.
PLT Okay, I'll do it at 02:00.
CC Right. Thank you. And when we were talking

earlier about your S073 pad, we t_Sked on into
an LOS. Did you get all the times and stuff on
that satisfactorily? Basically, the exposure
start times were backed up 6 minutes and the
beginning of the JOP 18D maneuver; that is, go
into that hole backed up about ll minutes towards
yOU •
001 20 13 38 PLT Stand by Just a second, Bruce.
PLT Okay, Bruce, what I copied was change to 4 -

226 Alfa to - or 4726 Alfa for the S07B. For
frame l, time was changed to 21:5 - from 21:57
to 21:51 and we have another chime - time change
from 22:04 - 21:58. And the maneuver time was
slipped from 22:17 to 22:06.
CC Roger. You've got it, and we're giving top

priority to the number 2 frame so that if you
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need to cut off the first one early, do so in

order to start frame 2 on time.
PLT Oh, yes. I've got that written do_-ntoo, and

duly noted. Thank you.
CC Roger.
SPT Houston, you can turn the teleprinter loose if

you'd like.
CC Okay. We'll open the cage and let the old wood-
pecker out and we - I think we've got a message
or two up there for you. You might check it
when it 's convenient.
001 20 15 49 CC And for the SPT, since you answered up, maybe
you have a second there. Tomorrow, on your day
off, you'll be scheduled for TV-81 and we'll have
a full 30 minutes available on the VTR which yo u
can use as you see fit. Should you require addi-
tional TV-77 time after your day off, why, we
can work that into the schedule. But we'll have
to work on that as the next team comes on to
whip out the Summary Flight Plan. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce, I hope to be able to finish this

up within the next 45 minutes or so. How much
time do you show remaining on it?
CC I show 15.8 remaining.
SPT That ought to do it, thank you.

station contact in 39 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 20:57. Out.
001 20 49 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We'll pass through

Carnarvon for about a minute and a half. And a
quick one for the PLT, we have a phone call set
up for you at 00:52 through Bermuda this evening
on the LE_T ANTENNA. Over.
PLT Roger. At 00 :52, a LE_T ANTENNA.
CC Roger. Out.
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001 20 51 16 PLT Bruce, PLT on the ATM. Would you ask in the
backroom if we have any problems with our WHITE
LIGHT DISPLAY on the SLIT.
CC Okay, I will. And I'll talk to you over Honey-

suckle, we're fading out here.
001 20 51 28 PLT Roger.

about a minute and a half. For the PLT, we saw
you go from WHITE LIGHT to LIMB SCAN and back to
WHITE LIGHT, but it looked okay to us. Are you
having some problems with the 82 WHITE LIGHT
DISPLAY?
CC Say again please, Bill, you didn't come through

very clearly.
PLT Roger, when I select a SLIT DISPLAY I don't get

anything. Let me check it out again here.
CC I'm not copying if your transmitting.
PLT Ed Just asked me a question.
001 20 57 51 CC And we got about 45 seconds until LOS. Next

station contaet in 29 minutes through Goldstone
at 21:26.
001 20 58 39 CC Hey, Bill, we're fading out here at Honeysuckle.

It is 28 minutes to Goldstone and we'll have to
talk to you there. We don't see anything signi-
ficant on the downlink here.
CC Are you still having difficulties?
PLT It could be that I'm off the limbtoo far to see

anything.
001 20 58 59 CC Okay, we copy. We'll see you at Goldstone.
END OF TAPE
Time: 001:21:00 to 001:22:30
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCEIPTION
001 21 26 50 CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for 16 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC Hello, Bill.
PLT Hey, Story, PLT on the ATM. I reported a problem

on the WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY earlier. I've pretty
well convinced myself now it's because I'm too
far off the limb.
CC Yes, sir, we concur with that, Bill.
001 21 27 46 CC Ed, Houston.
SPT He's listening. Go ahead.
CC We're wondering if he's done with TV-77 for our

VTR management.
SPT Story, I just got to cover 233 and I'ii probably

be just a few minutes once I get it going. How
much is shown left on the VTR?
CC We got 15.8 minutes now.
SPT 15.8 left?
CC No, sir, I Just got the update. Since we took a

look at it, you got 4 minutes left now.
001 21 28 24 SPT Okay, that'll just be about enough to finish it

up, Story. And I'm working on it now.
CC Ed, you got 2 minutes of WLC scheduled for that

later, but we can get that on a TV downlink. Go
ahead and use all 4 of those minutes to finish
that up.
SPT Story, I could probably do it in 2. It's going

to be a real short blurb, but I guess the folks
want it covered.
CC Yes, sir, we'd like to get it, so if you need

the 4, take it. If you don't use it, that'll give
us more fiexibility_but use it if you need it.
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SPT Thank you.
001 21 34 42 CC Bill, I don't want to interfere with your ATM

ops. I do have some updates to the JOP 18 Delta
maneuver pad. It's going to be run next orbit.
If you can work it in here, I'll give it to you
here. If not, I'll take it up with Ed over Madrid
in about 15 minutes.
PLT Story, go ahead.
CC Understand you're ready to go?
PLT Ready to copy.
CC Okay, step 4 maneuver time, 50010 for 8 minutes.
SPT Okay, step 4, 50010 for 8 minutes.
CC That's correct. Step 6, do your ATT HOLD CMG

at 22:06.
SPT 22:06. Roger.
CC And the fine maneuver X, 50057 for plus 0.47 de-

grees; Y, 50045 for plus 0.37; Z, 51205 for
minus i. 33.
SPT Okay, ATT HOLD at 22:06 and we're looking for -

commands are 50057, 50045, 51205. That's for a
plus 0.47, plus 0.37 and a minus 1.33.
001 21 36 50 CC Okay, all correct and the final attitude expected:

X, 8.h9; Y, i1.55--
001 21 37 12 CC And I'm back with you after the handover. Did
you get Y?
SPT Negative.
CC Did you get X, 8.49?
SPT That I did, 8.49. Go ahead.
CC Y, 11.55; Z, 356.73.
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SPT 8.49, 11.55, and 356.73.
CC That's correct and the vehicle rates: X,

plus 0.017; Y, plus 0.024; Z, minus 0.009.
SPT Plus 0.017, plus 0.024, and a minus 0.009.
CC Corect, thanks.

utes to Madrid.
001 21 48 21 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Madrid for

9 minutes.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Say, Story, move - moving the maneuver time up on

me here in these changes, I'm not going to be
able to get 233 coverage in on this befor@ we
start 18D. I'll have to get it on the next side -
either side of the ATM conference; I'm not sure
which. Maybe now you want to change your dump
plan?
CC Okay, thanks Ed.

utes to Tananarive at 22:08.
001 22 l0 49 CC Skylab, we've got you through Tananarive for

7 minutes.
001 22 13 30 CC Ed, Houston. I got a couple of words for you

sometime in the next 2 or 3 minutes.
SPT Go ahead, Story; right now is fine.
CC Okay, you can put the WLC TV on the VTM. And if

you want the VTR for your TV-77 at Hawaii at 22:54,
we can rewind it and reconfigure it for you.
SPT Okay, that sounds real good, Story. I'ii go ahead

and put - what, about 2 minutes or so; or I guess
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we got 4 minutes left for WLC. I'ii Just use

what's required though. There's really not a
heck of a lot we can see in that thing any more.
001 22 14 06 CC Okay, we'll be rewinding it. If - if we get the

word that you put that in the VTR, we'll be re-
winding at Hawaii and then dumping at Goldstone
and reconfiguring it for you.
OO1 22 14 58 CC Skylab, we dropped out there a while. We're

B minutes until LOS, 15 minutes until Hawaii.
001 22 15 29 CC Skylab, if I didn't get up last time, we're

15 minutes to Hawaii.
END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIFTION
001 22 3h 24 CC Skylab; A0S Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
SPT Hello, Story.
CC Hello, Ed.
SPT Story, on this time around, the comet is so faint

that I could not see it at the initial location.
So I had to play a hunch and move further out.
And sure enough, it appeared. But I could only
see it when it was at least outside of a radius
of 120. And it was more easily seen if it was in
motion, which I had to do when I was making the
maneuver. It won't be long before we're going
to be in a tough situatoon as far as finding it
optically on the WLC.
CC Copy, Ed.
CC Since - Disregard.
OO1 22 37 49 SPT Story, I'm picking up a READY light again on 52.

I'm wondering if people down there see anything
different than what they've seen before.
SPT Wouldn't you know it, just as I spoke the READY

light went out.
CC Okay, looks normal from here.
CC Bill, Houston.
CC Bill, we're working up the M092/M093 data. We

assume you did use - that - legbands CS with the
left legband and AQ with the right legband and
that you did 300 watt-minutes on the M0937
OO1 22 39 19 PLT Oh, that's affirmative. That is exactly right.

I thought you were referring to something else on
the exercise. And that is on tape.
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CC Okay. We missed it on the tapes.
PLT Okay. I attempted to record it, I'll put it that

way. I made the attempt. But you are correct:
Charlie Sierra and Alfa Quebec and 300 watt-min-
utes on the 93.
CC Okay, and the only other thing we need to complete

it is the left and right leg girths, which - did
you write those downy
PLT Yes, I did. Standby.
PLT They're both 12-3/h.
CC Okay, thanks. And we're going LOS here and pick

you up over Hawaii in 15 minutes at 22:54.
001 22 h0 16 PLT Okay.
001 22 54 h3 CC Skylab; AOS Hawaii for 7 minutes.
CC Ed,Houston.
CC Ed, we don't show that you've put the WLC on the

VTR yet. And if you could early in this pass get
that on, we can do a rewindhere at Hawaii for a
dump over stateside.
SPT Do it right now, Story. I'll set the maneuver.
CC Okay, thanks. And - if you get to the TV-77, give

us a call later on before you do that so we can
reconfigure the VTR for you.
SPT Okay, I planned to get through it after the con-

clusion of this first orbit, of observations.
CC Okay, just give us a call, and we'll configure

the VTR for you.
SPT Thank you.
001 22 59 29 SPT Okay, Story. I'm finished with the VTR.

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CC Thanks, Ed.
001 23 O0 48 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; 2 minutes to

Goldstone. Be dumping the data/voice at Goldstone.
001 23 03 18 CC Skylab; AOS Goldstone for 9 minutes. Be dumping

CC And - Bill or Jer.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Jer, we have absolutely no voice recording - no

channel A - from 13:58 on to 16:54. And - pos-
sibly after reconfiguring from the CSM after EREP,
we did hear some comments about - after TV-77 not
seeing any voice on the VTR that you did recon-
figure some switch up there. We'd like to know
if you know about that - that switch and also
like to tell you that we did not have any voice
from about 13:58 to 16:54, if there's something
you wanted to put on.
CDR ...
001 23 05 59 CC Skylab, if you answered my question on the loss

of voice recording from 13:58 to 16:54, I thought
I heard some intercom crosstalk, but I'm not sure.
CDR Houston, Skylab, how do you read?
CC Loud and clear now, Jet.
CDR Okay. Story, we think we know what the problem

was. It was a command module configuration prob-
lem. And we had already figured that we'd lost
all that recording, and we're thinking about what
needs to be re-recorded.
CC Okay, thanks.
001 23 ii 17 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, 4 minutes to

Bermuda.
001 23 16 38 CC Skylab; AOS through Bermuda, 5 minutes.
001 23 18 58 CC Ed, Houston.

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CC Ed, we got the VTR wound. You got 4 minutes on

it for your TV-77, and then you get to end the
tape.
SPT Thanks very much, Story.
CC And if you got a minute, I got a message on 82B

XUV MONITOR DOORS.
CREW ...
CC Okay, further analysis indicates there's no ther-

mal problem associated with the leaving of the
XUV MONITOR DOOR OPEN during maneuvers. 82B and
XUV M0N DOORS are presently OPEN with motor POWER
inhibited, and, remains in the configuration.
This configuration will preclude closure of the
malfunctioning 82B door. Your 82B door READY
light and XUV MON DOOR talkback will be inopera-
tive.
001 2B 19 53 SPT Okay, will you be controlling it from the ground

then, during these maneuvers?
CC No, we'll Just let it stay open, Ed.
SPT Okay. At the conclusion of the maneuver, is there

anything we should perform?
CC This is permanent configuration aside from 18D

also, Ed.
SPT Okay, Story. Thank you.

to Canaries and the ATM conference with Bill Lenoir.
001 23 25 ll MCC Skylab, Houston, with the ATM conference. Over.
SPT Hello, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, before we get back to talking again about

54, let me Just mention one thing. Since we're
talking so late today, we have already planned
tomorrow's orbits, which being a crew day off
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there wasn't that much to do anyway. As long as

we're on the quiet Sun, it seems to me that the
inputs that you would have would probably take
the form of a particular program or set of pro-
grams that you would like to see run on the Sun
that would not necessarily he tied down to any
particular feature that you would be looking at,
as for instance on the active regions. So any-
time you've got some thoughts regarding programs
you'd like to see run, let me know, and we'll
pass these on to the planning committee. When
we get back to the active Sun, we'll keep track
on a day-today basis of exactly what things are
looking like to you. And if you don't have any-
thing else to talk about here, we'll get into 54
again for a minute. Over.
0Ol 23 26 14 SPT Bill, l'd just make a comment on your last state-
ment. It's a little difficult for me to specify
an observing program without getting a feedback
from Pls and knowing what has been successful
before and what has not. So I can make sugges-
tions, but they're in much better viewpoint to
say which ones are most constructive. Then they
are really a long lead - term item. One thing I
was wondering about is limb or line profiles, and
whether there's particular features and particular
lines which are worthwhile running those profiles
on, and what success they've had to date and also
on the 55 limb offset or the modified limb step,
if you will, which they use 1 arc - try to get
1-arc-second resolution - And I'm wondering
whether they've been able to decipher that data
to see whether it's worthwhile.
001 23 27 lO MCC Okay, let me have them take a look at that. I know
they're interested in the line profiles, because
we almost scheduled some for you, I believe it
was today - scheduled yesterday. And they were
going to specify the lines and it was on the prom-
inence, P-60, I believe. So I know they're inter-
ested in those, and we will definitely be giving
you that information on the SAP as far as shopping
list 30 type items go.
f
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SPT That would be useful to have a list of - We do

have a list of lines up here, thyline list. It's
called the line list. But we don't have a -
anything which tells us which ones they feel are
the best lines for specific features. I can prob-
ably take a wag at it, but I'm sure after analyz-
ing the data, they can do much better.
001 23 27 54 MCC Okay, fine. And we'll follow up on that for you.
We sent up a change 18 to the JOP Stnnmary Sheets
which was two particular building blocks for
S054. The JOP 1 Bravo - sent up that change
mainly because that made our - the schedule pad's
not quite so complicated - gave you an opportunity
to look at that particular method. The BBI7 was
a different scheme where it looks to me like it
was probably easier to pen and ink that in than
it was to cut and paste; but we gave you the op-
tion. We're wondering how that worked out, and
then maybe we ought to talk about the others.
And we could get up a message tonight or tomorrow
to finish this whole thing. Over.
001 23 28 36 SPT Okay Bill, I think they both worked out real well.
The problem with penning - penning and inking
over is that many times you don't have the space
unless you use the space i_ediately below it for
all of the 54's, and that, I'm a little reluctant
to do. So I'd Just as soon you go ahead and send
up the - the whole pile of those things. And I
guess you can put them - a fair number of them
since they're all the same. Now, I'm talking
about the second ones now - the ones you had for
building block 17. You put those all on one big
page and, if necessary, we'll have to do a little
cutting and pasting. But I think it might be
better than pen and ink in most cases.
001 23 29 13 CC Okay, then we'll send the rest of them up for you
with the appropriate cutouts repeated the appro-
priate number of times for however often that
particular building block appears. At the same
time, we'll send you shopping list 32 and shopping
list 33, which are new entities for S05h. Does
that sound reasonable to you then?
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SPT Yes, that's fir_, Bill. Go ahead and we'll just

put those either on arl additional sheet or the -
on the - sheets as they now stand.
CC Okay. And then after our talk yesterday, I still

have some questions in my mind as to what's the
best way to handle this cue card and whether a
cue card is necessary after having spoken with
you. On the f_]m format, you mentioned that you
didn't think the picture was necessary, but you
wanted some words, and i'm not totally sure here
on exactly what words to give you. Can you
clarify?
001 23 30 08 SPT Well, maybe I - I need to understand the picture

a little bit better. To me, what it was telling
me is what was the dispersion axes relative to
what we see in the display. And that, to me,
can be done with a double-headed arrow as easily
as anything else. Maybe there's something other
there that I'm not seeing.
CC Okay. Well, it was intended to show you two

things. One was that their f_Im format is oval
shaped, the way it's shown. It's actually 48 arc
minutes by 96 arc minutes, so that the format on
the film itself is as depicted and the grating
dispersion axis is along that long axis. It's
apparently a transmission grating and the zero
order falls straight on, as you would see it, with
first order, then, on either side; second order
outboard of those on either side. And what I was
hoping to do here was to give you a format of the
film so that you could look at this, and see what
the long axis of the film was with respect to you
monitor, and the fact that the grating dispersion
along that long axis. If that's not necessary,
we can send up some words or something else. Over.
001 23 31 21 SPT Bill, I guess I'm still a little unclear as to

whether that long axis on the film really allows
you to see more Sun in that given axis or whether
it's strictly the dispersion.
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CC It's both. It's for dispersion and it also inci-

dentally allows you to see more Sun. The resolu-
tion out from the center is not nearly so good as
it is in the middle. But, for instance, looking
at coronal structures and things like that, if
you displace the Sun off along the long axis,
then you will get the other opposite limb on the
film as well. Whereas, if you put it crossaxis,
you would not. So that you do actually get more
Sun on the long axis, as well as the grating dis-
persion there when you have the GRATING IN.
Over.
001 23 32 05 SPT Okay. I understand now. I think what you could

do, though, is to make it quite a bit smaller
and we could just tape it right above one of the /
monitors and that'll do it for us.
CC Okay. The other thought was - the re - rest of

that was - the definition of the 54 long exposure
in as many detailed words describing what happens
as we could come up with, which would allow us
then to abbreviate it the way we did within the
building block. Should we send that up again, or
do you want a different form or nothing at all?
SPT I don't think it would hurt to send it up again;

just as a general message. But we don't need a -
we don't need to change the format or anything
if we can all read it. We may want to change some
words in there. We'll all read it again to make
sure we understand it, and once we start operating
that way, it shouldn't be a problem from there
on out.
CC Okay, Ed, thanks. And I notice LOS has slipped

upon me, it's 5 seconds away. Let's see. Tanan-
arive is next in 14 minutes, and I'll be talking
to y'all tomorrow on ATM and vis 0ps. See you
then.
001 23 33 i0 SPT Thanks very much Bill. So long.
001 23 _8 24 CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for 2 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from L6S, see you over

Honeysuckle in 20 minutes at 00:09.
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SPT Roger, Story. The VTR is yours.
001 23 49 44 CC Okay, thanks Ed.
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'- SK'YLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
002 00 ii i0 CC Skylah, AOS through Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.
002 00 Ii 58 CC Bill, Houston.
CC Stand by i, Bill. Ed, we're showing S055 in STOP,

and it - we think it ought to he in MIRROR, AUTO
RASTER at this point.
SPT You're right, Story. Thank you.
CC Okay. And, Bill, got a message on shooting up B08

that's on Nikon 04.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Shoot up B08 in Nikon 04, and we'll be loading up

Nikon 04 with B09 tomorrow.
002 00 12 50 PLT Okay, thank you.
CC And I got a couple more things for you, while I

have you. We did not get the - the tape measure-
ment after EREP pass 18. Do you remember what that
was?
PLT Stand by. 2.9 centimeters.
CC Okay. And have you got any thoughts or comments

on why we missed the - the Falkland Current through
the VTS this morning? In other wo - -
PLT That was a goofup on my part. I was sitting there

looking at the wrong time, and I went right by it.
CC Okay. We were Just wondering, was it worthwhile

scheduling it on later VTSs?
PLT I think so. I Just couldn't see it today in the

VTS. And I think we ought to take one more look
at it Just to make sure that we can see it or not,
you know. I - it's very easy to see out the window,
and I kept looking and looking for it, but I never
saw the sh - the shading difference.
j_
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002 00 13 52 CC Okay, those are Just the kind of comments we're

looking for. On EREP COOLANT loop, simce the EREP
COOLANT VALVE was put to FLOW this morning, those
1-minute downward flow spikes, that we've been
seeing now for several weeks disappeared. And the
loop flow rate has stabilized out at about 20 pounds
per hour less than achieved prior to this. Did
you notice any change in the noise level associated
with the ATM C&D coolant loop today?
r .....
PLT We haven't noticed, but we haven't really concen-

trate on it either. Now I'ii go up there and
take a look at the - listen to the pumps, if you
want. I know right where the noise is generated.
002 00 14 38 CC Okay. And while you're doing that, we're wondering,

would it be acceptable to Ioo - to leave the loop
flowing during the night? We feel the gas bubbles
are probably less likely to conglomerate in a -
in a loop that's flowing.
PLT Why don't we go ahead and try that tonight, Story.

It was the pump - the noise that bothered us. I
think it's worth a try for one night, Jerry says.
CC Okay. We'd like to try that for one night.
PLT Okay. We'll go along with that. And I'ii go up

there and take a listen at the - at the bulkhead
where the pump is located and see if I can detect
any difference from memory, at least.
002 O0 15 22 CC Okay, fine. That's all I got for you now. Thanks.
002 00 17 06 PLT Hey, Story, I Just went up there, and the noise
is the same pitch and everything, but the intensity
isn't as great. Doesn't seem as loud. It could
be because we don't - you know, there's a lot of
other extraneous noise too. I think we'll probably
be able to tell tonight, you know. It was - it
was because it seemed unusually loud that we
requested to turn it off ... evenings.
CC Copy, Bill.
PLT And going back to the Falkland Current, I - l'm sure

where it - I missed the first go at the Falkland
Current, but I hit the second one. And it's based
upon that that I think that we ought to - to take
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another look for it, because I was scanning the

entire area there looking for it on -And I got
a very good look on the second one. And it was -
as I say, it was the first opportunity that I
missed due to error on my part.
CC Okay. Bill.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; about 12 minutes

to Hawaii at 00:30. The Cotton Bowl score was
Nebraska 19, Texas 3.
002 00 18 37 CDR Roger; thankyou, Story.
002 00 30 05 CC Skylab, A0S Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, your APCS looks good from down here. And a

friendly reminder: Be sure to get the APCS MODE
ATT HOLD to CMG prior to entering the last part
of your coarse maneuver.
SPT Roger, Story; I sure will. What time is dump

commence?
002 00 31 27 CC That's at 00:50, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Story, I got some good news and some bad news.
Which do you want first?
CC I think we always like the bad news first.
CC But if it's more convenient, we can take the good

first?
002 00 32 43 CDR Okay, the urine sample bag inventory is complete.

I've searched through all the dome lockers, and we
only have 91 sample bags. That means we're 23 short.
Okay, and the good news is that we have 75 urine
collection bags on hand, and that Just meets the
need.
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CC Okay, thanks for all the searching, Jet.
002 O0 34 00 CDR Story, kidding aside, l've- we've checked every

one of the dome lockers and all the waste manage-
ment compartment lockers. And let me give you a
count here. In dome locker 426, we have two racks
up there, and that makes 50 full-sample bags. Do_
in 823, we've got two racks, and one of them has
got 19 full-sample bags, the other one's got 22
half-sample bags. And that's Just about it. We've
looked every possible place we could think of, plus
all the lockers that were listed on that message.
CC Okay; thanks, Jer. And I've got some good news

and some bad news for you.
CDR Okay, go ahead. Give us the good news first.
CC Okay, the good news is that USC's playing in the

Rose Bowl. The bad news is they're getting beat.
Ohio State 27, USC 21.
CDR What quarter is it?
CC Just starting the fourth quarter.
CDR Oh, there's lots of time.
002 00 35 08 SPT Play that music again, Jet.
CC And Ohio State's on the 2 yard line.
SPT Play it louder.
CC Okay. Story, as usual is changing his story; they

have scored.
CDR Son of a gun. I'll play my sad music again.
CC Ed, your maneuver time looks good.
CC Skylab, it's 35 to 21 now.
002 00 36 31 CDR Sad scene.
002 00 39 0h CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; 3 minutes to

Goldstone.
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002 00 42 15 CC Skylab, back with you through Goldstone for

7 minutes. Your maneuver looks good.
SPT Thank you, Story. And for the 55 OPTICAL REF,

again this question of 102, 103, 104. I assume
now it's 102, but I'm wondering - I guess I've
never gotten clear in my mind what the 10h was.
Apparently it was an uncertainty which they felt
had at one time. But has that changed or what is
is the status on that?
002 00 42 48 CC ...
002 00 25 53 CC Ed, Houston.
CC Let me try this on you. If you've reset the

MECHANICAL REFERENCE, you want to step the GRATING
104. They'd be in the same position as OPTICAL
REFERENCE. Outside of the MECHANICAL REFERENCE
position, the bias between those two anywhere else
is 102.
SPT Okay, I'm - I'ii have to talk more about it when

I get back down, but I'll do that from here on
out. Thank you.
002 00 28 ll CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; 2 minutes to

Bermuda.
002 00 53 25 CC Skylab, we've got you through Bermuda for l0 minutes.

And a reminder to Bill, he's got a family confer-
ence this pass. And, Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, did you get that safety exposure on 82B to

move the - the film one frame?
SPT That's affirm, Story.
002 O0 52 16 CC Thank you.
002 01 02 01 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS and 2 minutes to

Canary.
00201 02 06 CDR Roger.

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002 01 04 33 CC Skylab, back with you through Canaries for 5 minutes.
SPT Say, Story, I've been Just wondering. You and the
Maroon Team must be - must have an awful lot of
pull. You guys were lucky enough to be able to
spend New Year's Eve with us and now here you are
on New Year's Day. There's nothing to do but go
home and relax and watch good football games.
CC Yes, we're such a super team, we also had 4 days

during Thanksgiving.
SPT They always give the hard work to the hardest

workers. That doesn't make you feel any better,
huh, Story?
CC I already said New Year's Eve how - how superglad

we were to - to be here.
SPT Would you like us to continue Jerry's tune?
002 01 05 5_ MCC He didn't tell you that he left early.
002 01 09 23 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 2 minutes to Ascension.

Be dumping the data/voice at Ascension.
002 01 ll 16 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Ascension for

8 minutes; dumping the data/voice here.
002 01 18 18 CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half to LOS; about

25 minutes to Carnarvon at 01:42. Anybody near
the STS?
PLT Jerry's on his way up there pretty soon.
CC Okay, I'll catch him when he gets there.
CC Jer, on AM panel 206, REG ADJUST, both BUS 1 and

BUS 2, rotate counterclockwise 20 degrees each.
CDR Counterclockwise 20.
CC Yes, sir; that'll do her.
CC And the final score in the Rose Bowl: Ohio State 42,
USC 21.
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CDR Boy, they stomped them cold in the last quarter.
002 O1 20 O0 CC That they did.
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[;KYLAB AII,{-'I'O-CHOIINI) VOICE 'I'ICAN;;CI¢II'I'I-ON
002 01 42 h4 CC Skylab; AOS through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle,

i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. Story, would you mention to the

guys in the backroom that we've got a new bright
spot of plage and what looks like it might be a
little spot in the middle of it. I'ii get over to
it in a little while and check it. It's at 220
at about 0.2.
CC Thanks, Jer.
CDR This is on H-ALPHA 2 and shows up nice and bright

on XUV.
CC Okay.
002 O1 46 41 CC Skylab, I've got some evening questions on the

comet for either Ed or Bill since Jet's at the
ATM.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. These come from Dr. Keller, co-PI on S082.

Calculations of the comet's dust tail for today
show the tail length to be about 4 to 5 degrees
from the coma and pointed in an antisolar direction.
Could you say something about the length of the
dust tail that you observed to compare the actual
length to the theoretical length?
SPT I'm thinking 4 or 5 degrees is probably a reasonable

figure. I think it was a little larger than that
last night when I saw it or yesterday when I saw
it. In our estimation using the figures that you
gave us for the distance of Venus and Jupiter,
we're looking at Just about a half or so of that
length of what I saw it as previously. And that's
when you really get yourself dark adapted and -
But today I could probably only say it went back
maybe a third or so of that. So that's like
6 degrees or so.
CC Okay, how much of the field of view of the binoc-

ulars is filled?
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002 01 47 59 SPT Probably just about almost a full field, maybe

three-quarters of it or so. I never really have
tried to make that measurement, but it's just about
three quarters, I'd say.
CC Okay we expect the plasma tail to be fainter but

longer than the dust tail, dominantly blue in
color, and on the leading edge, that's the east
side of the dust tail. Tails will be hardly sepa-
rated since the Earth is only 5 degrees above the
comet's orbital plane. We'd like to know if you
could discern any blue streamers or kinks in this
location?
002 01 48 32 SPT No, I know what they're looking for, Story, and
I've not been able to do that. Once you get away
from the coma itself it's fairly faint. And trying
to distinguish whether you're seeing something of
just a uniform dust or whether you're seeing some-
thing which is a kink - got a kink in it is really
extremely difficult. The color has changed though,
significantly, from what we reported as an orange
a couple of days ago, to a yellow orange yesterday,
to almost a yellow white today, l'm going to try -
l've been putting some drawings together, and maybe
we'll give you a little more insight on that tomorrow
when we get a little TV time.
CC Okay, thanks, Ed. That's it. And you may want to

do the atmospheric volume concentrator tonight.
SPT Okay, we got that going right now. What's the

field of view of the telev - the binoculars?
002 01 49 32 CC Stand by i. Only Skylab, as per your request -

request, we got the film-thread pad on board tonight.
And I'ii be doing that in the future. Any time
during the evening status report we catch any
differences between what we planned to today's
activities and how it turned out, we may have to
give you a real time change to that pad.
SPT Thank you_ Story. IIey, Story, there certainly is

a good fire right immediately below us blowing
opposite our track.
CC Thanks.
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CDR 'ghere are we, Ed?
CC About the middle of Australia, we think down here.
CDR That's a good-sized fire, too.
CC Okay, we'll see if you can get a - we can get you

a ground truth on that. We're a minute from LOS ;
we' ii see you over at Guam in about 5 minutes at
01:57. And for Bill, we'll be ready for the evening
status report at that time.
SPT Okay, Story. Thank you.
002 Ol 52 20 SPT That was a good one.
002 01 57 39 CC Skylab_ AOS Guam for 8 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
PLT Story, you still there?
CC Yes, sir.
PLT Are you ready to copy the status report?
CC Sure are. Go.
002 01 58 31 PLT Sleep: CDR, 6.5, 6.5 heavy; SPT, 6.0, 5 heavy,
1 light; PLT, 6,0, 6 heavy. Urine: CDR, 1800;
SPT, 2100; PLT, 1750. Water gun: 8026, 3811,
9900. Body mass: CDR, 6.299, 6.301, 6.302;
SPT, 6.358, 6,357, 6.36h; PLT, 6.238, 6.236, 6.240.
Exercise: CDR, exercise method Charlie: Echo
plus 5. These are deviations. Exercise method
Foxtrot: springs, plus 100; toe rise, plus 50.
SPT, no exercise. PLT, no change from standard.
Medications, et cetera: CDE, none, none; SPT,
none, one pair of socks; PLT, none, one shirt.
accomplishments: M172 CAL, which is on tape, and
urine bags search. Flight Plan deviations, I
suppose, could include the AVC which was Just
activated about 5 minutes ago, serial number 1002.
Inoperable equipment: none. Unscheduled stowage:
none. Food: CDR, salt packs, 16. Deviations:
minus one tea, minus one strawberry drink,
plus 1.5 water rehydration. SPT, four salt packs,
no rehydration water, no other deviation. PLT,,
plus two salts, hill on rehydrations. Stand by
for film log.
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CC Okay.
PLT Okay. 16-millimeter: EREP/VTS, 12G-foot mag

Charlie Lima Ol at 61 p_rcent remaining; Trans-
porter 05, Charlie India 127, 44 percent remaining,
Charlie India 93. That was used on documentary
photo ll Alfa Delta. Okay, 35-millimeter: Nikon l,
Charlie X-ray 38, 31; Nikon 2, Bravo Victor 26,
37 remaining; 3, 4, and 5 Nikons, no change.
70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 52, 120. ETC, no
change. Set Tango on EREP, 8881, 8219, 9094, 9088,
2631, 9953. Drawer A configuration: A-i, no
change; A-2, transporter 05, Charlie India 127,
44, Charlie India 93; A - Alfa 3 drawer, 06 Trans-
porter, Charlie India 79, 99 percent, new load,
Charlie India 126, takeup; position Alfa 4 and
Back, no change.
002 02 02 20 CC Okay, Bill. Bill, you reported no exercise for

the SPT. Did you mean to say no deviations?
PLT No, Story.
SPT No, Story I had no exercise.
PLT No exercise.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and 7 minutes to

Hawaii at 02:10.
002 02 03 27 PLT Roger, Story.
002 20 lO 52 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Almost forgot my TV downlink. Do you want any?
CDR Right now I'm centered on that new little plage

area that's giving us a count of better than
10,000 in oxygen VI.
CC Okay, we'd like some of that, Jer. And when you

get done with that MIRROR, AUTO RASTER there, we'd
like a GRATING, AUTO SCAN of the same region.
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CDR You're looking at H-ALPHA 1 right now, I'll shift

over to XUV in a little bit.
CC Jet, we'd like also for S082A a 20-second exposure

WAVELENGTH, SHORT.
CDR SHORT, 20.
CC That's it.
002 02 12 14 CC And we're 20 seconds to LOS here. We'll see you

over Goldstone in about l0 minutes at 02:21.
CDR Roger.
CC And we'll get the frame count from you there and
then put you to bed there.
002 02 12 27 CDR Okay.
002 02 22 16 CC Skylab, AOS stateside about 20 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CDR You ready for a frame count?
CC Yes, sir.
CDR Okay. 14387, 5194, 172, 448, 5592, and 4681.
CC Got it.
CDR He'll be with you in a minute. He's - they're

both looking at the comet right now.
CC Okay. In the Orange Bowl, Penn State 16, LSU 7.
CDR Roger.
CC Jer, after I get one question answered from Bill,

I will - per your request here, we'll be putting
you to bed within an hour at 03:00. Your medical
conference is coming up at Bermuda at 02:29, And
except for a few dropouts and handovers, you'll
have us stateside _ere for about - until 02:40.
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CDR Okay, Story.
CC And the wakeups I can give you are about 12:55 at

Ascension or 13:28 at Guam. Which would you like?
CDR We'll take the later one.
CC Okay.
002 02 26 42 CC We'll be dropping out a minute here, handing over

to Texas.
CDR Roger.
002 02 29 24 CC We're back with you through Texas, Jer.
002 02 38 18 CC Skylab, we got you for a couple of minutes here.

And Jer, Houston.
CC You closed out the ATM panel yet, Jer?
CDR I think so.
CC Okay we got a couple of things here. That's the

S056 AIRLOCK DOOR to CLOSE and the S055 HIGH VOLTAGES,
OFF.
CDR Okay, those are done.
SPT Sounds like an B plus to me.
CC Panel looks good, Jer. And, Bill, Houston.
CC Bill, did you have any rehydratable water devi-

ations today.
PLT Negative.
CC Okay, thanks. And it's good night, Skylab. The

next station, we won't call you, will be Ascension
at 02:49, about I0 minutes from now.
CDR Okay, Story, good night.

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CC Good night.
SPT Story, before yom disappear, did you ever find the
field of view in the binoculars?
CC That's 7 degrees, Ed.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRAI_SCRIFflON
REST PREIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GHOUND VOICE TRANSCHII_I'ION
(Music)
002 13 35 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam with about

3-1/2 minutes remaining. Good morning. Over.
CDR Good morning, Bruce.
CC And how is every little thing up there in orbit

this morning?
CDR Very well rested at the moment.
CC Beautiful.
CC I feel like I ought to be able to read you the

Sunday funnies or something since this a day
off, but it isn't Sunday.
CDB Read us last Sunday's funnies.
002 13 38 04 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in 30 minutes through the Van-
guard at i_:08. Out.
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002 lh 08 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

l0 minutes. A quick question for the CDR. We
left the ATM C&D loop pumps on last night and
we're wondering whether the noise was bothersome
to you or whether we can continue to leave them
on. Over.
CDR It was - it was nice and quiet last night, Bruce.
CC Okay, that's great. Then subject to further

comment from you, we'll Just plan on leaving it on
for - from here on out.
CDR Okay, unless they start howling again, like they

were, there's no reason why we can't.
CC Right. And, of course, if they do start howling,

let us know.
CDR Will do.
002 14 09 52 CC And, SPT, this is Houston. We've sent you up a -

a small maneuver reminder pad. It should be in
the teleprinter at this time. We'd like to - to
emphasize in executing these ATT HOLD m8neuvers,
llke you've got for S063 coming up here in about
18 minutes, that it is necessary to select ATT
HOLD control mode prior to doing the ENTER on the
last entry for the coarse maneuver. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce.
CC Roger; out.
002 lh 17 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute until LOS.

Next station contact in ii minutes through the
Canary Islands at 14:29, with a data/voice tape
recorder dump. Out.
002 lh 29 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Madrid

for 13-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump here at Canary. Out.
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002 14 34 41 PLT Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead, Skylab.
PLT Roger. I was just looking through the archives

from yesterday, and I had a stow of S073. It's -
it's a Sierra Tango i, which had me break down
the T025 canister, stow the AMS, depressurize it
and everything, SAL wasn't used in between, and
then this morning I had a Charlie Oscar Papa - a
Charlie Papa Romeo 3, which had me putting it
back in again. Just a comment ; it would save us
a lot of time if they'd look ahead and see that
the SAL is not going to be used. Of course, it
could be entirely possible that they had other
plans when they scheduled the previous. In any
event, the Charlie Papa Romeo assumed the AM ...
in and pressurized, I think. So how about checking
that out? It would save us a little time if
they'd sort of look ahead and see what the present
configuration is.
CC Okay, Bill. We'll do that, and that's the sort

of commentary we like to get back from you, so
we can improve our efficiency down here.
002 lh 39 12 CC PLT, this is Houston. Over.
PLT Go, Bruce.
CC Right. Having been temporarily lost in our own

archives here, it took us a - a minute or so to
track all this down. I think that the problem
yesterday must have arisen from the fact that what
we did is, on your detail pad at 24:00, we called
out or amplified your remark for S073 stow 1 with
the comment that it was supposed to be lines 2
through 15, (AMS depressurized). And digging
out the S073 cue card, S073 stow i, or S073 stow,
lines 2 through 15 picks up with disconnect
remote control cable from the camera, and basically
takes the camera off, puts the lens cap on, takes
the adapter off, but it stops short of removing
the S07 - 63 AMS adapter and it leaves the AMS
in the SAL and it leaves it depressurized. Over.
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PLT Okay, stand by I. l'm putting some equipment

up.
CC Hey, don't let me interrupt. We got all day today

at your leisure to talk about this if you like.
002 14 41 33 PLT I guess the thing that was a little bit confusing
is the Sierra Tango l, which is called out here
as the reference, on the cue card says, "AMS
st owed."
CC Okay, Bill, I see what -what you're looking at,

and where we were looking is actually - Okay,
it's actually up above the SOT3 stow l, 2, 3 in
the middle of a dashed line. If you look up the
left-hand coll]mu there a little more, we got S073
stow l, 2, 3, 4 with the line drawn under it,
which, I guess, is more properly part of the op 1.
PLT Okay, which col?]mu are you looking in?
CC Hey, we got 20 seconds to LOS here with the next

station contact is in 27 minutes through Guam at
15:09. I'm looking in the left-hand coll]wa_of the
backside of the cue card, and if you come down
about an inch, an inch and a half from the top,
we start out with S073 stow l, 2, 3, 4 underlined.
And we were looking at the second through the
15 [sic] lines under that. But I think what
happened is that we've got our - our headings
mixed up here. Let us talk about it again some
more and maybe we can see you over Guam.
002 14 43 07 PLT Okay.
002 15 09 34 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 3 minutes

for the PLT.
PLT Go, Bruce.
CC Yes, Bill, not to beat a dead horse to death here

on this S073 thing, but the way the - the cue
card is set up, the underlined heading, which
in our case reads S073 ST for stow l, 2, 3 and _,
applies to all of the stow options. And then
when you come down below the - the heading set in
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the middle of the colu_ prefers to subparts of

that, such as stow i, 2, and 3, and then stow 4,
separately. So the way that we had intended the
instructions on your detailed pad to be interpreted
was under the S073 stow i, 2, 3, and 4, do lines
2 through 15, and then knock it off, leaving the
AMS in the SAL and pressurized and all that. Over.
PLT Yes, Bruce, I got to looking at it and I agree

with you. However, we have _nother problem now
I'm going to describe. First of all, there's
been a gradual degradation in the numeral, the
indicator on the rotation part of the S019 AMS.
CC Roger.
002 15 i0 52 PLT The - You'll recall all of the little - all of

the material came out of the numerals on the
units digit. The thing I want to report now is -
after extending the mirror and getting ready to
take my first exposure in S063, the i0 in the
i00 drum cs/ne loose. Now, I noticed 2 days ago
that it looked like it popped a little bit, but
it always made a lot of noise so I didn't pay
any attention to it. And today when I was getting
ready to set the rotation, the drum, although
the crank was turning and the tenth and the
unit's digits were moving, the - I guess it was the
tens 8_nd the hundreds drum are combined, and
they came loose, and they don't move any more
although the - the crank is turning. Now, by
trial and error, I was able to get back to a
position so I could retract the mirror, and
that is my present configuration.
002 15 ii 51 CC Okay, we copy. We'll talk to you in about

3 minutes here over Honeysuckle - make that
6 minutes over Honeysuckle. In the meantime,
sort of hang loose on that. And we got h5 seconds
to LOS. Also over Honeysuckle, we'll have a message
on brush fires that you reported in Australia
yesterday, and so options that you might be
interested in if you'd like to take some pictures
of them over Australia about an hour and a half
from now.
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PLT Sounds good, Bruce.
CC Roger; out.
CC And, Bill, Just a last quick question as we go

over the hill. With that problem with the AMS,
did you take the exposures that were scheduled
for this pass, or did that preclude your doing
it?
PLT It precluded. I couldn't even get the first

rotation. I was trying to get the first rotation
when the failure occurred.
002 15 12 h8 CC Okay, we copy. See you over Honeysuckle in

5 minutes.
002 15 18 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

for 4-1/2 minutes. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce.
CC Okay. On this brush fire, it turns out that

you're about B0 seconds away from closest point
of approach here. It can best be viewed through
window S-B. Closest point of approach is 15:19:08,
and this will be at night where you are. We'll
send you up a teleprinter message on other oppor-
tunities today. If you're looking out for it,
it's about 60 degrees off nadir. The fire is a
brush fire. It's burning along a 5-mile front.
It's located near Dubbo, D-u-b-b-o, Australia,
at 148 east, 32 south. That's 148 east, B2 south.
Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. We copy that. And I did get a photo

of that yesterday and put the information on tape.
It was put on early this morning, however, so that's
why they perhaps did not know we got a photo -
along with the description.
CC Okay, thank you.
002 15 22 ii CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 45 minutes through the Canary
Islands, at 16:07. And Just sort of hang loose
on the AMS functions. We'll get you some information
on that shortly.
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002 15 22 30 PLT Roger, Bruce.
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002 16 07 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Madrid

for 13 minutes. We'll have a data/voice tape
recorder dump coming up at Madrid at 16:13. Out.
CC Go ahead, Jerry.
CDR Bruce, we'd like to have you guys cancel this

maneuver reminder cue card, change number 001.
That's something we all know about. It's kind
of like reminding yourself not to - with a gear-
shift type manual transmission car, not to hit the
starter without putting in the clutch. It's happen-
ed once so far this mission and will probably
statistically happen at least once more. And
we all know better, and I don't think a little
piece of paper stuck to the ATM C&D panel is going
to deter us from doing it again if it's going to
happen. Our problem is, we've got so many notes
and things on the ATM C&D now, that something this
small is just going to be overlooked anyway. We'll
get used to seeing it, and we won't even notice it.
002 16 09 13 CC Okay. Roger. We'll cancel it. It has happened

more than once, however.
CDR How many times and what's the effect, Bruce?
CC Okay, we'll have to go back and look for a complete

count on it.
CDR Well, the fact of the matter is, Bruce, we know

better than to do it, but it does happen, and I
don't think the paper is going to help us keep
from doing it.
CC Roger; we concur.
002 16 ll 20 PLT Houston, Skylab; PLT.
CC Roger. Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Roger, Bruce. I'd like for you to check something

in the archives for me.
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Two days ago, I think it was, I put some stuff in

the multipurpose furnace, 560-something-or-the-other,
and was told to stop short of turning the ON
switch on. Question: Did I fail to see something
yesterday in the Flight Plan, or today? It may
be in - actually, I didn't check with Ed, may be
in his details - to turn that switch ON. I'm
sort of concerned that I overlooked something.
002 16 12 20 CC PLT, this is Houston. No, you're quite correct.

Our plan right now is to schedule starting the
operation sometime on day 50, which is day after
tomorrow.
PLT Okay. Then I have left the bulkhead valve in

VENT since getting down to the - the specified pres-
sure, and I'm going to stay in that configuration,
with your concurrence.
CC Roger. That's exactly what we're looking for, and

sorry if it - it seemed a little obtuse. We
probably ought to give you some - some statement
of our intentions on these things when we set them
up.
PLT I was afraid l'd let something slip by the board.
002 16 13 01 CC No indeed, but it's good to ask about that. You

might have caught us.
002 16 16 46 CC PLT, this is Houston. A quick question, if you're

not busy.
CDH Go ahead, Bruce; he's listening.
CC Okay. We were Just wondering if, when he ranthrough

housekeeping 6 Alfa this morning, he noticed any
unusual accumulation of dirt or dust on the heat
exchanger vanes. Over.
CDR Stand by just a second.
CC Roger.
002 16 17 51 PLT Yes, Bruce, I noticed a little bit more of a cloud

of larger particulates in the area, now that you
mention it. Now, one thingx I did not take the
flashlight and look at the vanes. I Just stuck
the vacuum cleaner down in there and vaccumed by
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feel. If you're concerned, I can open the cover

and go back in there again.
PLT In fact, I just finished vacuuming about 2 or 3

minutes ago.
CC Yes, we saw the - the fan cycling. I assume that

that's what you'd been doing. We're checking with
the EGILs right now. Our - our possible concern
is, you're approaching a region of high beta
angles, and we may need all we can get in the
way of cooling capacity here. But standby until
I get some readback on that.
PLT Okay. I still have the vacuum cleaner right in

the area, so it's no problem at all.
002 16 19 06 CC Okay, Bill. If you would, if you - if you do

have the time here, we'd like you to go back and
take a look with the flashlight there and maybe
with the vacuum cleaner to get everything that
we possibly can out. We're a little concerned
about the temperature you may be encountering
as we head for the high beta angleshere this
time, and we sure would like to have everything
running at peak efficiency. We got about a min-
ute to LOS here. The next station contact will
be in 28 minutes through Carnarvon at 16:h7.
Over.
CDR Roger. Bruce. And he's working on those vanes.
002 16 19 50 CC Okay; thank you.
002 16 48 14 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle Creek for 13 minutes. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce.
CC Okay, Bill, we're still cogitating on the subject

of the AMS. We expect that, by the time we get
to the States, we'll have a - a posture on it
and perhaps a request for you to - to do some
checkout for us. What we're looking at is a way
to check out the - the mirror system and then to
operate in perhaps a - a slower and more deliberate
mode and still get some data gathered with the
system. Just for your information, in looking at
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the counter breakdown here, it turns out that the

hundreds and tens digits are both carried on the
same fiber-glass belt, which has a series of
sprocket holes where teeth engage it in between
the digits. And it's carried over a drum with
tension rollers and all this sort of stuff. And
the units and the tenths-of-units digits are on
individual counter drums of the type that you'd
normally expect to see in a counter like this.
0ver.
002 16 49 34 PLT Yes, Bruce. I think I - I didn't know how it work-

ed, but I saw that the hundreds and the - the tens
drum, the number drum, an integral unit. And,
of course, what you're proposing is an entirely
feasible operation, because that's the way I got
back to zero. I just kept rotating until I got
zero in the units digit, and then I had 36 possi-
bilities for getting it indexed for a retraction.
So that information ought to be of a little use
anyway.
CC Actually the tens and the hundreds are not a

drum; it's a - it's a continuous belt. And maybe
l'm talking out of school here, but it's possible
that your belt broke or something like that - as
causing the problem. And, of course, yes, trying
36 possibilities every time is sort of tedious.
I suspect that - that, knowing that the thing
is out in the future, maybe we can just keep track
of the number of times the - the unit drum goes all
they way around - and delta from that, if you take
it slowly. But we're working on some proedures
here.
002 16 50 41 PLT Okay. Now with that bit of information, l'm afraid
I might have some more unpleasant news. I noticed
a distinct change in the hundreds and tens number
presentation about 2 days ago. I was changing ro-
tation, and it sort of changed noises and I looked
down. And I thought - I thought I was deceiving
myself, but it looked like the number was - the
numbers were sticking out a little further than
the units and the tenths. So we may have - the
last 2 days of data, l'm saying right now, is
suspect.
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CC Okay. I copy what you're saying, Bill, but we -

we'll Just have to research that one, and there's
no point in even speculating on it. I guess, if
the - the units and tenths were lined up properly,
unless we slipped i0 degrees or so, it probably
wasn't any problem with that. And you were able
to retract it all right each time, so I - I guess
that we'll just press on with what we've already
accomplished. And if you'll hold on a minute
here, I've got some more info for you.
002 16 51 52 PLT Yes, that's a good point you Just made.
CC And for the ATM, we show on S056, the SHUTTER

is still OPEN. We need to get that terminated,
please.
PLT In work, Bruce.
PLT And, Bruce, I'm sure you're giving it consider-

ation, but is there any easy way to get in there
and - and take a look at that belt drive? I
didn't know it was a belt drive; I thought they
were drums.
CC Okay, we're - we're considering that. The - the

units and tenths of units are drums. There's
only one belt in the thing, that's the - the one
with the 36 sets of numbers on it. And to answer
your - your question a little further, there's
a problem with getting into the belt/drum area
because the numerals on the belt and drum are
self-luminous, and there is a small amount of
radioactivity present. And that is a sealed
assembly from the radiation safety standpoint.
And since the numbers have already come off on
one of the drums, I think people would be very
reluctant to let you go in there.
PLT Okay, well, now you remember that we - of course,

I know it's a different situation entirely, but
if we worked with the vacuum cleaner there - ah,
you know more about it than I do. You - you 8.11
think it over, and we'll do whatever you say.
002 16 53 27 CC Okay.
002 16 56 07 CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.

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CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. For your information, we're looking at

CMG number 2, and we're seeing another recurrence
of its characteristic trait. The bearing temp-
eratures are about equal now. And it Just started
up over Carnarvon here about 5 minutes ago, so
you might - might be alert for anything out of
the ordinary. And we're considering canceling
your next m_neuver for this reason. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce. I think if the AMS doesn't work,

we won't need to maneuver anyway.
CC That's a fact. However, I've got some stuff

for Bill, if he's ready to copy, on checking it
out.
PLT Stand by just a second, Bruce.
CDR Bruce, what co - -
PLT Give me a moment or two. I've got to reconfigure

things here.
002 16 57 07 CDR Bruce, while we're standing by, I want to talk

a little bit more about this possibility of taking
it apart and trying to fix the - the belt drive
or whatever it is in there. Seems to me that,
if we put a vacuum cleaner up there, we can suck
up all the loose particles immediately, and we
can put the vacuum cleaner bag down the trash
airlock immediately too and pretty much alleviate
any problems there. I find it hard to believe
that there's any more radioactive material on
those numbers than there is on the three watches
we have up here.
CC Okay. Well look, we're going to have to get ra-

diation safety on the act in that. The real
concern, of course, is that, if you ingest any of
this material or inhale it, then it's with you
for good. And - -
CDR Yes, that's right.
CC And we'll - we'll certainly exercise that, but we

can't do it right now. And for the PLT, I've got
some procedures for checking it out, if you're
there.
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PLT Press on.
002 16 58 Ol CC Okay, we need for you to go through the SAL re-

press procedure and all that, and remove the AMS
from the SAL. Then we'd like you to check the
rotation of the mirror by removing - after re-
moving the AMS, extend the mirror and attempt to
rotate the TILT and ROTATION settings to the
values that are on the pad for the next S063 op-
eration, which looks like about 256 in ROTATION
and 21.1 in TILT. But you've got that on board.
And then verify that you can get from that back
to the RETRACT configuration and retract with no
problem. We show that from 00, approximately
3.65 turns - that's 3.65 turns counterclockwise -
it should be adequate to get you over to that
position, and then a reverse to get you back.
And the - When you get back, the counter should
read XX 0.0; that is, anything and 0.0 for RETRACT.
And we'd like to get your - your comments. We'd
hoped to do it real time, but I guess if you're
GO on board, you can go ahead and reinstall it
for the S063 operations. And we'll have to get
to you whether we're going to actually go through
with the maneuver or not, as we make up our mind
on it. You might also form an opinion in your
mind as to how well you think you could operate
Just by watching the - the units counter go all
the way around every time. Over,
002 16 59 37 PLT Yes, and also you've given me a real good hint
as to how many degrees I get out of each turn of
the crank.
CC Okay. And for the CDR, cancel the upcoming 8063

maneuver. We're concerned about CMG 2, so that's
out, period. At your leisure here, you can check
ou - you can proceed on with checking out the AP_,
but there's no real point in reinstalling it until
we see you over the States. It's a minute to LOS.
We'll talk to you over Merritt Island in 35 minutes.
And the time at Merritt Island will be 17:34. Over.
002 17 00 14 CDR Roger, Bruce; and one other question. Is it pos-

sible to retract the AMS with the ROTATION of 180?
CC That's affirmative. It is possible to pull it in

at 180.
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CDR Okay.
PLT How - how do we verify this?
CC Okay. One i - one item is 28.42 degrees on the

knob. One rotation of the knob equals 28.42 de-
grees of change. And my thoughts on verifying
it would be to give you some object that you can
sight out through the AMS, like a discone, that
would give you a fixed reference and then you
could delta off from that if you had to. Over.
PLT Sounds like a good idea. Okay, I'll press on

with the checkout.
002 17 01 03 cC Okay. We'll see you over the States.
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002 17 34 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island

and Bermuda for ii minutes. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
002 17 32 36 CC And for your information, our monitoring of CMG 2

indicates that the situation is improving. The
currents are down and things are looking a lot
better on it. So I guess you can relax a little
bit on that subject. With respect to the radiation -
or the quantities of radioactive material involved
in the AMS, there are approximately 200 millicuries
of radioactive material in the counters there,
and in your wristwatch you have about h.2 milli-
curies of material. So you've got almost a factor
of 50 to i there. Over.
CDR Thanks for the data, Bruce.
PLT Okay, Bruce, I have a report on this troubleshooting

that you gave me.
CC All right, go ahead, Bill.
002 17 35 29 PLT Okay. No problem removing and everything. And

also, I don't think there is any problem in re-
solving the 180-degree ambiguity because I took
the - the mirror end-plate and put it into position,
and the - It went into position with the alignment
mark in the proper place, so I assume I had the
mirror at zero - rotation of zero, and not rotation
of 180 - The mirror end stowage plate.
CC Okay. And, there's some alignment marks on the

end of that plate, are there not? And are alignment
marks lined up with the AMS itself?
PLT That's what I said. With the alignment marks

lined up - When the alignment marks lined up
properly, I assumed I was indexed properly at
zero rotation.
CC Roger; we concur with that.

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002 17 36 19 PLT Okay. I extended the mirror and went through the
exercise you proposed. I got the proper ROTATION
and TILT at about 3.65 with the following exception:
There seems to be about a 1-degree ambiguity in
the units drum or belt, when the tenth, O.l-digit
goes from zero to 9; I don't get a clean break
from one to the other. I read halfway in between
on the units digit always. However, I was able
to get the - within I degree, say, of the proper
rotation by using the 3.65 turns.
CC Okay, but let's say you're reading 0.5 of a degree

over in the tenths. Are you indicating right
on in integral used at that time or are you
still between digits?
PLT Still between digits. And, when it goes through

from 9 to zero, it - it indexes again, but it
goes to the halfway mark between two digits.
CC Okay, we copy that, Bill. Let us - let us think

about that one. And, thank you for the checkout.
CC For the - for the SPT. At your convenience,

on S056 we need to get the CAMERA POWER switch
turned ON and the DOOR, CLOSEd. Over. Or maybe
CDR or PLT if they're handy.
002 17 38 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We were going through a

handover there to Bermuda. I guess I must have
cut out. When it's convenient, we'd like someone
to - on S056 experiment, turn the CAMERA POWER
switch to ON and the DOOR switch to CLOSEd. Over.
CDR You've got it.
CC Okay, thank you. And, for the CDR. We've got a

few words with respect to the press conference,
which we have scheduled coming up as TV-27 here
at about 19:08. Over.
CDR Okay, go ahead, Bruce.

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002 17 38 49 CC The press conference TV picture will be carried

live here on the ground, through Merritt Island.
You'll have LOS on the video signal at about
19:20 Zulu, with a momentary dropout in voice.
And then we'll pick up the voice _mmediately
thereafter through Bermuda and carry voice through
Bermuda up until about 23:26. And should the
discussion and the amount of time you want to
put into it require, we have Madrid available
from 27:2h to 35:19 for voice only, option to
give you an extra 7 or 8 minutes to talk about
it. You'll be on camera throughout the entire
video part of the press conference, and, of
course, we'll be releasing the audio live also.
What we would like you to do is to wear your Snoopy
hats, all three of you, so that we get the best
possible quality of audio and if we do have any
problems down here on the ground, why, I'll let
you know as they come up so we can get it through.
We - Stand by.
CC Correct my last. Even after we lose you at

Merritt Island, we will be recording the video
at the remote sites; i.e., Bermuda and Madrid.
So, although you may not be live on camera,
you'll be on camera after the fact, so to speak.
So we'd like to hang in there all the way with
the video as well as the audio. We're getting
a list of about 18 questions prepared by represen-
tatives of the news media through their pool. I'll
be reading them up to you verbatim as they were
furnished to me. And then it will be up to you with
the answers. Over.
CDR Roger.
002 17 40 59 CC Okay. I - I guess you probably get the picture

on that. And that's about all we've got for
right now, although we have 5 minutes left in
the pass, so we'll be standing by down here.
CDR Okay, Bruce, Just one little side comment, about

30 or 45 seconds after you went over the hill
on the last pass after telling us about our
CMG problem, you know, that was beginning to act
up again, we got a caution light and then an
ACS malf. And we went up there and, needless
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to say, we were spring loaded. We went up there

and checked bearing temps and wheel speed and
currents and all that. And everything was real
good. If you want the data we can give it to
you. Otherwise, Just let it be - let it suffice
that the data was all good.
SPT The last indication we had was of a CMG SAT,

Bruce, and it was up around 50 percent when we
first got there. And we did not hear any TACS
fire, although it could have happened.
002 17 42 02 CC Okay, looking at our data here, we verify that

the cause of the light was CMG SAT. We showed
two mibs having been fired in connection with it.
And we appreciate your taking the time to record
all the data. And we hope that our intelligence
didn't cause you to pump too much adrenaline
through your systems going up there in response
to that, but I think we've got all the data that
we need down here on the ground to support our
analysis. And it looks like it was another
transient. We try not to alarm you unduly, but
we figured that we ought to keep you posted when
there is something that looks suspicious. Over.
CDR Oh, yes; no, we got no complaint at all. It was

a good fire drill for us anyway.
CC Roger; out.
SPT And, Houston, this particular one seemed to come

close on the heels of the maneuver which we made
this morning, which about, actually, the maneuver
rate was relatively large. We exchanged our
maneuver times from 20 to l0 in coming back. I
was just wondering whether there was a relation-
ship there.
002 17 43 16 CC Our suspicion right now, Ed, is that it was the

dump maneuver after the maneuver that led to this
incident. But it's a little early for us to say
for sure whether that's correct or not, but we'll
be looking at it. Over.
SPT Okay, thank you, Bruce. Keep us up on the under-

standing of it.
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CC We'll do it.
PLT Bruce, Jerry just brought up a point. I may have

misled you on my previous report on the AMS rota-
tion reading.
CC Go.
PLT The 1-degree ambiguity is related to the ability

to read the number on the belt and not to - in
other words, I wasn't guaranteeing that you'll
be within 1 degree when I did the proper number
of turns like the 3.65 turn. That'll put you in
the ball park; and then when you try to make a
fine adjustment - say the units digit is 3 and
halfway between two of them, so I would uncertain
to within 1 degree.
CC Roger, Bill. We copy that. Thank you.
002 17 45 32 CC 40 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in

4 minutes through Madrid at 17:49. And if you
all are interested in going to such lengths,
we could get a voice check from you all through
your comm carriers in whatever configuration you
all have set up for the press conference when
we pass Honeysuckle at 18:33 to 18:38. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. I guess that would be a smart thing

to try.
002 17 46 09 CC Okay, at your option.

8 minutes. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce. We Just ran a check on the zero

position, and it appears to us that the mirror
can be retracted with the ROTATION anywhere from
plus 5 degrees to minus 5 degrees, or something
like that. And you can still put the retainer
bracket in as well, all lined up and everything.
So the message here is, so far, I guess, that we
can't even tell you where 00 rotation is within
5 degrees.
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CC Okay, Jerry, we were Just discussing that down

here right now. I think what we'll probably wind
up doing is giving you something to sight on and
see if we can resolve it. But let us kick that
around a little more.
CDR Okay, that sounds like the smartestthing. We

may need a reference star prior to every sighting.
CC Roger; out.
002 17 51 49 CC And, just for your information, Skylab, we have

a nominal, regularly scheduled momentum dump
commencing in about 3 minutes, here.
CC PLT, this is Houston; just a little systems data

feedback. Following your cleaning of the heat
exchanger vanes, we've noticed about a 30 to
40 percent - 30 - to 40-cubic-foot-per-minute
increase in flow through the heat exchanger.
Before you started the whole procedure, we were
getting about 130 to 140 cubic feet per minute.
And then after you did both the cleaning operations,
we're reading 170 to 190. Over.
PLT Okay, so if I - if we get hot, the answer is to

go clean those things.
CC Well, I don't know if you ought to be spring loaded

to do that. Let us look at things down here, if
you wind up getting uncomfortable, and maybe that'll
do it. Over.
PLT Okay.
002 17 57 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon
at 18:22 with a data/voice tape recorder dump.
See you over Carnarvon.

i0 minutes. Out.
CC And we'll he dumping your data/voice tape recorder

here.
PLT Bruce, could you hold off about 3 or 4 minutes?

I'm finishing up T002 shopping list.
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CC Okay, we're holding. Thank you, Bill.
002 18 25 42 PLT Okay, Bruce. It's all yours.
CC Okay, thank you very much, Bill. We'll go ahead

and dump it. And, while we're talking to you, do
you happen to have at your fingertips the time
that you disconnected the AVC, this morning, so
we can get that data for postflight analysis?
PLT Roger. I wrote it in my book. Stand by.
CC Okay.
002 18 28 59 PLT All right, Bruce, that time was 14:55.
CC Okay, 14 :55. Thank you.
PLT And it's written on the little container. I had

it really on the container, not on the book.
CC Oh, beautiful. Thank you, Bill.
CDR Bruce, before we abandon completely the handheld-

mike idea_ what do you say we get an audio check
on that, too, and consider giving that a whirl
through the first part of the press conference.
And if it just doesn't work, we'll quickly don our
come caps.
CC Okay, that sounds good to us. Just have the com_

caps handy in the background somewhere in case we
need it. Over.
002 18 28 39 CDR Okay. Good, we'll plan on passing the mike around.
And if things get bad, Just holler at us real
quick to put it closer to the mouth or something
like that.
CC Okay. We will. And I guess what we want is about

a quarter inch away from - excuse me - from your
lips with the long axis of the mike parallel to
your lips as much as it would be if you were wearing
the comm carrier itself for the best reception and
noise cancelling.
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CDR Okay.
002 18 30 07 CC Mighty fine.
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002 18 36 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 32 minutes through Corpus
Christi, where we'll be coming up for the press
conference live. Over.
PLT Roger.
002 18 37 13 CC That's at 19:08:48 or thereabouts.
002 19 09 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,

Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 14-1/2 minutes.
Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce. We're reading you loud and clear,

How do you read?
CC Roger. Reading you loud and clear, Jerry. As

you're undoubtedly aware, this is a first Skylab h
live news conference. I have a list of questions
here which have been prepared by the news repre-
sentatives to the Johnson Space Center, working
through their news-media pool. I'll be reading
them off to you verbatim and in the order that's
requested by the newsmen. Over.
CDR Okay. We're ready to go.
CC Okay. First question for you, Jerry. You're

past the halfway point now. What have been the
flight's main accomplishments, and do you feel
you'll go the full 84 days? Over.
002 19 09 57 CDR The flight's main accomplishments, I think, have

been the - the accomplishment of the EVAs. I
think one of the prime accomplishments was to get
the S193 running. We're real happy we got that
going and that certainly does enhance the Earth
resources situation. We've got a second load of
film in for the ATM work and we have our outside
Kohoutek observations done right close to perihe-
lion. I think those are really some of the main
mileage - milestones that we had to look forward
to. I think that the chances are very, very good
that we'll go the full limit. Things seem to be
pretty stable. The CMGs seem to be reasonably
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stable, and only once in a while do they indicate

any indication that they might be ready to give
us a little problem. And I think that the fact
that the problems we're having with them are so
few and far between kind of give us a little
feeling of confidence.
002 19 II 02 CC Okay. Thank you very much. The next question

is addressed to Bill, and it's a continuation of
the first one. What does the crew hope to accom-
plish in the second half of the mission? Over.
We're not reading Bill at all here, Jer. Very,
very weakly. Negative, Bill. It's - it's
unreadable. You're way down in the mud.
PLT Testing. i, 2, 3, 4. How do you read now, Bruce?
CC Okay, that's better. Try holding the mike so

there's about a quarter of an inch from you lips
and the long axis of the mike is parallel to your
lips.
PLT Okay. How do you read now?
CC I think that's better. Go ahead.
PLT All right. In the - I forgot what the question

was. Oh yes. Second half of the mission, what
we hope to accomplish. We want to continue the
observations, of course, with the Apollo telescope
mount. We will be shortly resuming the intensifed
ob - observations with our Earth resources instru-
ment, and we also have a large Dumber of corollary
experiments and educational experiments, or student
experiments, which we hope to complete. I think
that some of the major maintenance activities are
out of the way. We - Shortly we'll be including
the motion-intensified portion of the cometary
observations and that will be behind us. We'll
be concentrating on the Apollo telescope mount
and the Earth resources.
002 19 12 4_ CC Okay. Thank you, Bill. We've cranked up the

gain from the sites, but we're still not getting
enough audio. We'd like you to go ahead and put
on the Snoopy hats if you would, please. The
next one's addressed to Ed, so maybe you can wire
him up first.
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CDR Okay. While he's wiring up, you can give us a

question.
CC Okay. For Ed, while staring out the window you've

remarked about visualizing life on other worlds.
Please elaborate. And have your feelings been
heightened by this flight? Over. And I might add
here, while we're waiting for Ed, that we're get-
ting excellent-quality video down of you and we're
enjoying seeing you in real time here.
002 19 13 36 SPT Okay, Bruce, and to the folks who came up with
this question. Actually, this is one I guess
which would make a lot people raise their eyebrows.
And what I said at the time was that it makes you
speculate perhaps a little bit more in your own
mind, because you're much more conscious of the
many different star systems that there are out
there. When you're looking out here, you see
the Earth as one unit, you see the Sun as a star,
and you can see all the other stars out there.
And you realize that the universe is quite big.
And just the number of - of possible combinations
that you could have out there which could create
life, all this enters your mind and makes it seem
very much more likely. I don't think that that is
any different than people have thought down on
the ground. It's just that being up here and
being able to see the stars as you can, and look
back at the Earth and see your own Sun as a star,
makes you much more conscious of that.
CC Roger. Thank you, Ed. Back to Jerry. You said

you were keeping notes on your impressions of the
Earth. What are some of these impressions? Over.
002 19 14 43 CDR Well, I think the most startling impression to

me - I've always thought of the Earth as a very
green and verdant planet. And when you're going
over some of the desolate areas we've seen, I
suddenly have gotten the very strong impression,
as I mentioned in the Christmas message, that
there's a lot of desolate unhospitable --
CC Break; break. You Just went down by about half.
CDR Okay. How do you read now?
_-_ CC Veryweak.
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CDR Must be in the radio system - -
CC Okay. You're back.
002 19 15 17 CDR There is no change in my voice volume or anything.

Okay. What I'm saying is that l've become aware
of all the desolate areas there are around the
Earth, and it's become apparent to me that man
is kind of huddled in just a few corners of the
Earth, that the Earth is really a whole lot big-
ger then we thought. And I tried in my Christmas
message there to kind of compare our impressions,
or my impressions anyway, with other impressions
of the Apollo crews, who said the Earth is very
small. And the fact that man has to stay in the
temperate areas and - and really work in his
environment kind of makes me feel that we're going
to have to spur on our efforts to really get in
tune with our environment.
CC Okay. Thank you. We copy all that. Back to

Bill again. You and the ground seem to be in
disagreement on who's responsible for some of the
mistakes made. How do you feel now? Over.
CDR He's going to go check the speaker box.
SPT WHy don't you go ahead with the next question and
we'll pick that one up after.
002 19 16 33 CC Okay, Back to Ed. Has the comet Kohoutek lived

up to your expectations? Over.
SPT I think it's lived up to the expectations in terms

of what we'll learn from it scientifically. I
think we've made some very good observations on
it. We've got what we can good spectra on it, if
you will. Especially with - -
CC Break; break. Say again, all after spectra. You

cut out during a handover here.
SPT Okay. I think it lived up to my expectations

in terms of the - what we'r learning from it
scientifically. The - Especially in terms of the
spectra which we've taken with one of the ATM
instruments, and by that I mean the ability to
analyze what is the composition of the materials
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in the comet. We've been able to point to the

comet quite well, using the ATM instruments, and
we've been able to get some fairly long-term ob-
servations of it, using many of the corollary
instruments and some of the handheld photography.
It's lived up to my expectations, also, in terms
of Just sheer appreciation of it. It's a beauti-
ful sight. I would hope - I had hoped -
002 19 17 52 CC Okay, you've cut out again, after I had hoped -

We've got a little problem here right now, we've
got antenna blockage as we're moving over into the
range of Bermuda. Stand by just a minute, please.
CC Okay, it looks like we're coming back up. How do

you read? Over.
SPT We've always read you loud and clear, Bruce. How
do you read us?
CC Okay. Did you have something more to go on that

question, Ed? Or shall we move on?
SPT No, let's press on.
CC Okay, the newsmen covering your mission want to

wish all three of you a Happy New Year and con-
tinued good luck on the flight. And, we'd like
to know if you regretted not having any wine or
other spirits aboard to toast the New Year? Over.
002 19 18 49 CDR Yes, we did. I think it would have been a very

nice thing, if we'd had a little wine as we had
originally planned to toast in the New Year.
And, we regret that we were not able to do that.
CC And, Bill are you up in a speaking configuration

now?
PLT Let's check. How do you read?
CC Reading you loudly, a little bit of crackling,

but why don't you go ahead and readdress the one
on you and the ground seem to be in disagreement
on who's responsible for some of the mistakes made
and how do you feel now? Over.
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PLT Okay, well you saw an example of the crew mistake,

just a moment ago, when I forgot to turn the
switch on the cord and I certainly have made my
share. And I wasn't aware of any ... for at least
2 weeks, l'm perfectly willing to discuss and
own up to anything l've done wrong. In fact I
think that I have been fairly, on my - part - more
or less - more or less sparked by candor and I
really admitted making some fairly big errors.
l'm merely human, and I was not in any way blaming
the ground, except in some remote way.
CC Okay. We copy all that. You're a little weak hut

we've got it here. Back to Jerry, if you would,
please. Please explain why you think it's im-
portant that your crew should have quiet time to
yourselves? Over. And, by the way we're down
right now to live voice only, although the video
is going on tape. Over.
002 19 20 18 CDR Okay, Bruce. I think that a crew, or any man who
is working long hours needs some period of time
at the end of the day where he can be quiet and
wind down in order to get a good night's sleep.
And you need a good night's sleep if you're going
to be healthy and alert. And you make less mistakes
when you're healthy and alert, and you are much
more creative, I think, when you're healthy and
alert. And for all these reasons, I think it's
just necessary that a guy have an opportunity
sometime during the day, and I think the end of
the day is the best time, to just sit down and
relax and either read or write or listen to music
or just stare out the window, to gather your
thoughts and kind of get your mind in order and
come - get back in peace with yourself really,
in order to get yourself ready for the next day's
activities.
002 19 21 i0 CC Roger. Back to Bill. Early in the flight, you

and Commander Carr discussed hiding the fact that
you'd become ill. You said - or Jerry said, he
thought that NASA managers under their breath
would want you to do that. Why did you feel that
way? Over.
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PLT I think I was not available for that discussion

that you're talking about. At - at the time the
discussion took place, I think that I was more
less over hiding in a corner.
CDR Bruce, I think I can answer that. I think that,

essentially, we felt we didn't want to bother the
ground with it. We didn't want to worry the ground
with it. We decided the next morning that was a
bum decision. However, we'd already done it. It
was too late to take it back, and so that's the
way it went. As far as I'm eoncerned, that mat-
ter's finished.
CC Roger on that. Back to Ed. Some earlier Skylab

crewmen have reported brief periods of irritation
with one another. Has there been any sign of this
on your flight? Over.
002 19 22 14 SPT No, I don't think so, Bruce. I think all three
of us have been pretty much up against the same
things and we're cooperating in trying to get the
best out of the mission and in beating those
various obstacles that we've come up against. So,
I think we've hung together pretty well, and I
think we're all pretty proud of that fact.
CC Roger; we got about 52 seconds to LOS here. Next

station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Madrid,
at 19:27 Zulu. Let me throw one more out as we
go over the hill, to you_ for all three of you.
Aside from your families, what do you miss most
about being away from the Earth? Over.
002 19 22 56 PLT I think good food, and the ability to eat any time
you want to. I - I miss that more than anything.
SPT I think what I miss is going right back to Jerry's

point, the ability to recoup at the end of the
day and to be able to analyze where you're going
the next day. And to be able to take a really
fresh creative approach to things you're doing.
CDR I think essentially, that's what I miss the most

too. I miss the opportunity to just sit down
and - and relax. And, of eourse_ with my fsm_ly
at home, well, I can come home and Just take it
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easy and be with them. I miss football, and I

miss a good cold can of beer while I'm watching
the game.
CC Okay. We better break it off here for about

3-1/2 minutes. We'll talk to you as soon as we
get signal at Madrid. Out.
002 19 23 46 CDR Roger. We'll see you then.

7-1/2 minutes. We have a data/voice tape recorder
dump here and we'll resume the press conference.
Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. We're reading you loud and clear.
CC Roger, Jerry; for you, does the high use of TACS

gas and the behavior of _4G gyroscope number 2
give you any concern about completing the full
mission? OVer.
002 19 28 06 CDR I think I kind of answered that in the first

question. No, I don't think it does. We've -
we've only had one or two instances where we've
really used up more TACS than we kind of figured
we would use, I think. And I'm just thankful
that the other two crews, the first two crews
ahead of us, were reasonably efficient with their
TACS usage, so that they left us a bagful. And I
think that's kind of the way the planners had
things figured, anyway. That the percentage, you
know, the possibility -the probability of losing
a CMG went up with every mission. And I think
they were planning on saving as much TACS for
that contingency as possible. Right now, I still
feel pretty comfortable and we're being careful
with our TACS, and we're not wasting it, and I
think by golly we're going to make it.
CC Okay, we're right there with you on that one.

Another one, you're behind the premission schedule
on some experiments. Will you be able to make
any of them up? Over.
002 19 29 02 CDR We hope so. I think we got off to a much too

rapid a start at the beginning of the mission.
We ended up falling all over ourselves, I think,
about the first i0 or 15 days, so that we were
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extremely inefficient and getting way, way behind.

I think the folks on the ground got the message
and took some of the pressure off, relaxed some
of the - the pressure that was on us, and we im-
mediately showed an improvement in efficiency.
And I think if we start at - at this level where
we're at now and Just start romping up, we might
be able to start picking up a few. We're at least
hopeful that we can do that.
CC Roger that. Next question addressed to each of

you individually. What impact has the flight had
on your inner self? Over.
002 19 29 52 PLT Well, I will answer first; l'm the PLT. I think
it had really great impact on me. I feel much
more inclined toward a humanistic feeling toward
other people, other crewmen. I think the other
two men on this crew were very solicitous toward
me when I had a bit of difficulty there. And I
regret that I was personally responsible for prob-
ably somewhat of an embarrassment to them. In re-
flecting on this, I tried then to do a very good
job. I proceeded then to make errors, berate
myself, and finally come to the - came to the
realization that I'm a fallible human being, that
I cannot operate at a 100-percent efficiency, that
I'm going to make mistakes, but that I have to
accept myself for what I am, in that I now have
a new orientation as far as I'm personally con-
cerned of _Imost a spiritual nature, in that my
attitude toward life is - is going to change,
and toward my family is going to change. I think
that I see myself is - in a much more realistic
fashion. And when I see other people, I try
to see them as operating human entities and to fit
myself into the human situation instead of trying
to operate like a machine. I've tried to operate
like a machine and I was a gross failure. Now I'm
trying to operate as a human being within the
limitations I possess.
002 19 31 24 SPT I think in terms of my own self, I've worked

pretty hard and long through this mission. And
it's been to me very satisfying in terms of the
contribution that I think this mission is making,
and that I'm making to it. That's the name of the
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game is contribution. And that's what I've been

working for and that's what we're doing right now,
and that's why we're working so hard. And to
actually be here and finally doing it, that to me
is very rewarding. And I think that's going to
fill a very large part in my life and l'm just
happy to be here and doing it.
002 19 32 00 CDR For my own part I feel somewhat the same way that
Bill does. And that is that people in our line
of work, very technical-type work, are inclined to
move along with your blinders on. You - you be-
gin to get so involved with the details of what
you're doing, the details of your life, that I
think that you forget to look around you and see
what's really going on outside. And I think that
this mission is going to do me a lot of good in
that I think it's going to increase my awareness,
my awareness of what - what else is going on be-
sides what l'm doing. And I think that in itself
is going to be the - the major effect on my inner
self.
CC Okay, thank you, crew of Skylab 4. We've got little

less than 2-1/2 minutes left and four questions
remaining. For Bill, what recommendations would
you make to those who are designing space stations
for long-duration future missions? Over.
002 19 33 05 PLT I think that they ought to get people who have
flown in on the very early design stages. That's
my recommendation right there. Otherwise I'd have
to read, more or less, speak out a whole book.
CC Roger that. And I guess we'll get a lot of that

out of the postmission debriefings. Over to Ed,
how are the high-density food bars working out?
002 19 33 28 SPT I like the food bars. They're pretty good. Un-
fortunately, we were not able to carry up a -
a full complement of things to go with them on
that particular day. So we end up always feeling
a little bit hungry even though we get all of
the - the nutriments and calories and so forth
that we need that day. So_ it's - We just feel
a little extra hungry that day; but food bars
are great.
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CC Okay, back to Bill for a quick one. The earlier

Skylab crews generally gave up their days off in
favor of more work. Why do you think it's im-
portant for this crew to take those off days?
Over.
002 19 34 05 PLT I think, a person needs to more or less recreate

themselves, to pause and reflect occasionally -
Jerry's already alluded to that. I think that
in order to act creatively, to function creatively,
you have to have certain periods of time when you
have to Just stop and think and see yourself, as
Jerry said, be aware of the situation and sort
of involve yourself in the totality of the experi-
ence at hand. If you Just keep charging from one
task to the other, you just lose track of what
you're doing. And I think you do need time to
pause, reflect, and Just see what's going on
around you.
CC Okay, 40 seconds to LOS. Next station, Carnarvon,

at 20:03. Back to Jerry. How would you like the
people of the world to think of your mission, the
last Skylab mission? Over.
CDR And I got 20 seconds, to say that, huh?
CC You got 29 seconds and counting.
PLT Good luck.
002 19 34 58 CDR I think l'd like people to think of our mission

as - as one where three guys went up and set up
housekeeping, and tried to live a norms] life in
space to show that it could be done, that man can
live in a normal existence in space, and that he
can accomplish a - a great many things while he's
living up here that Just can't be done on the
ground.
CC Okay, thank you, Skylab 4. We're going over the

hill here at Madrid. We'll see you in 28 minutes
through Carnarvon and we'll talk to you there.
Out.
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CDR Okay, Bruce.
002 19 35 35 SPT So long.
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4 minutes. Out.
002 20 06 39 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS,

7 minutes to next station, which is Honeysuckle,
at 20:13 for about a minute and a quarter. Out.
002 20 13 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

with 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact in
30 minutes through Corpus Christi at a time of
20:_3:41. Out.
002 20 43 52 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone, Merritt

Island - through Corpus Christi, Merritt Island,
and Bermuda for 16 minutes. We're coming up on
the - the science conference here, so I'll turn
it over to Dr. Lenoir representing ATM and Dr.
Lenoir representing visual observations. Stand
by. Okay, before we get into the science conference,
we would like to plan on running $201 this after-
noon, so we'd like to get the $201 prep underway.
And for the PLT, I have some notes on the operation
of the $201 - of the AMB counter when you're in
a convenient position to listen or talk for a
minute.
PLT Did you want to do this before or after the science

conference?
CC Well, we wanted to talk to you before the science

conference. It looks to me like the CDR has lots
of - lots of off-duty time between 21:00 up until
the 201 ops, so it could probably be accomplished
after the conference.
PLT Okay, I'm ready to copy now; I Just didn't know

whether you wanted to do that now or later.
002 20 _5 17 CC Okay, in reference to your plus- or minus-l-degree

ambiguity on the AN_, it turns out that the
trainer unit, has a similar problem. You might
check and see if the behavior displayed here
is consistent with your situation. The only
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time that the units digit is fully displayed by

itself is when the system reads 00.0 degrees.
And, of course, that first zero is on your belt,
which is not working properly. But, anyway,
right at zero, it's supposed to read properly.
At any other position, a half digit or part of
a digit above and part of another digit below
will appear. For instance, if you see a 2 over
a l, the 1 is correct. And consequently, it
seems that if you always use the number on the
bottom, you'll be correct whether the reading
is increasing or decreasing. Over.
PLT Copy.
002 20 _6 ll CC And when you were operating the AMS, or on your

next opportunity, you should notice that the
hundred - the hundreds digit and the tens digit
have sprocket holes between the numbers. Could
you or can you see something moving like a sprocket
beneath the holes, and the - as the rest of the
counters are incrementing? This determination -
or this observation will help us determine the
mode of the failure; i.e., broken belt broken
sprocket wheel or something else. Over.
PLT Check it next time, Bruce. I did not - can't

can't give you a definitive answer.
CDR Bruce, there is a broken sprocket tooth floating

around in there though. We saw that.
CC Okay. Just one tooth?
CDR That 's all we saw.
002 20 _6 54 CC Okay, stand by - stand by. And again for Bill,

did this half-digit failure mode appear Just
recently, coincidental with the belt failure, or
has it been behaving like that all mission?
PLT I don't think it was as bad as it is right now.

And I - I never did have the problem of resolving
ambiguity - before. Now I'm certain it wasn't
as bad as it is right now.
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PLT Still there, Bruce?
CC Roger. Stand by a second. Okay, and to wind this

up, you can go ahead and run the 201 prep as you
see fit. Probably starting around 21:00 would
be good. However, what we want to do is run
T01 [sic] ops exactly as it is currently carried
in the Flight Plan. And in this connection, we'd
like to remind you to change the film transports
so that you use film transport unit number 3
with the 201 canister. And we'll ship you up
a - a new operate pad before the run comes up.
Over.
PLT Copy.
002 20 48 43 CC And you were starting to say something, I believe.
PLT No, I was Just going to comment that I - I know

that the sprocket can be seen with this belt
problem, because I could see the sprockets.
CC Okay, we'll turn it over to Bill with a closing

remark that we hear that the sprocket is made
of plastic. So, it could easily have distorted.
PLT That's what it looked like.
MCC Okay, I'm ready here with the ATM conference, and
I assume I've got all three guys listening today.
Is that right?
sPT That's affirm, Bill; go ahead.
002 20 h9 lh MCC Okay, let me just get a little bit into what we're
doing here. We've got quiet-Sun operations,
obviously, to go along with the quiet Sun we have.
The types of operations that you can expect are
pretty much what you've been seeing. 55 is most
interested in the JOP IA, JOP ID types of things,
and we will be scheduling these for tomorrow's
passes. 82B is primarily interested in off-the-
limb corons_-type features es - especially so
long as they've got their i01 film in there. The -
they've found that the IA type of J0P is not very
well suited for the length of slit that we have,
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that the slit is really too long and lets too

much stray light in to effectively study the net-
work. So that's the type of thing you can anti-
cipate here on the quiet Sun.
002 20 50 03 MCC We've got one scheduling problem that's been after
us a while here, and we're not i00 percent sure
how we want to go about solving it right now.
This concerns special procedures, or special
operations as I term it. For example, 82B would
like to take some orbit-long exposures off the
limb between now and January 14, which is day of
year 14, of course, when we have CALROC. It's
during that time frame that they'll be using up
their i01 film. For the number of orbits we've
been getting, it's not exactly compatible to
give up two whole orbits to 82B. We've been
fiddling around trying to find the appropriate
building block that incorporates 82B and 55 and
what everyone else wants to do. We haven't been
i00 percent successful at that. We've toyed with
the idea of essentially just writing a building
block in the schedule pad. And we're also now
off on the tack of getting 82B to modify some
existing building blocks for use. I wanted to
talk it over with all three of you guys and see
if you had any thoughts for what's the easiest
way for you guys to handle - in the first case,
some single operations that we will never repeat.
And in the second case, some special operations
that we may repeat several times. Over.
SPT Hold on, Bill.
002 20 52 03 SPT Okay, Bill, the two questions you had there, first
one is those special operations you never repeat
again. If you can send those up with the normal
ATM schedule and make sure that they're to be
carried out after the ATM science conference, the
individual who's on for performing that would then
be - have to be available for the ATM science
conference, so in case there's any question on
it, you can ask them and make sure he understands
the procedures. Second one is for those that
you repeat a few times. If you could then send up
pretty much the same format, but something which
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we could paste on the back of one of the available

JOP Summary Sheet or another one_ then we'll Just
make another JOP Summary Sheet out of it.
MCC Okay, fine, I understand. And that sounds pretty

good. Let me ask you a quick question here.
No pressure intended here, but it has something to
do with how we shut down after our next unattended
pass as to whether you intend to take the ATM
optional pass at 21:32 or not, Ed?
SPT Certainly do, Bill.
002 20 53 07 MCC Okay, good. I'll pass that on and we'll know how
to shut down then. Okay, on the J0P 7 for S052,
they're going to start bracketing what they think
may be the right values, since they don't know
exactly the right value - and - We've got a hand-
over. I'll be back with you here in 20 seconds.
002 20 53 42 MCC Okay, Ed, I'm back with you and Jerry and Bill.
On the JOP 7s on the BBI5s, you're going to find
exposure durations of i, 2, and 3 seconds and
the start time will vary from i0 seconds down to
about 5 seconds. This will let 52 get various
views of the atmosphere at the - between the i0
and the 5 seconds. And the different exposure
times are needed to bracket the large dynamic
range of the light levels that they're seeing.
So, I wanted to pass that on to you so that
didn't surprise you.
SPT Okay.
002 20 54 18 MCC And one other thing here, apparently there's been
some more confusion on S055 and MECH REF versus
OPTICAL REF and 102 versus 104. Let me just give
you the real quick word, and that is that 102
is really the difference between optical reference
and mechanical reference. 104 is a compromise
that's valid at OPTICAL REFERENCE all balls or
MECH REF 104, only. All other places, the delta is
102. And basics_lly, what's happening here is that
in MECH REF, we've go an unmechanical uncertainty
of on the order of two counts. On the all-balls,
polychrometer setting, we have two lines in detec-
tor 4 and detector 7 that are over near the edge
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of the detector pass band. And the plus/minus 2

is enough to push them out of the pass band. So
we've made the compromise of - Since we want to
be sure we get those two lines - of selecting 104
which pushes those two lines more toward the
center at the expense of other not-so-important
lines. But that's the only time to use 104; use
102 on all the others. Does that help clarify?
002 20 55 33 SPT Yes, it does. It's really an uncertainty and not

a shift.
MCC That's affirmative. We got the wrong word up to

you the first time around. It is not a shift;
it's an uncertainty. And there's two lines we
want to be sure to hang onto, in the all-balls
polychrometer.
SPT Okay, that makes sense. Thanks very much, Bill.
MCC Okay. And I guess due to the lack of time here,

I ought to hand over to myself on visual observa-
tions. So, if you don't have any more ATM comments,
let me start visual observations.
SPT No, I don't, Bill. Go ahead.
002 20 56 06 MCC Okay, the first thing and - is concerned with

status and emphasis update formats. We've sent
you two messages to give you a status of what
has been done and a future emphasis. And I've
got to admit, I'm not terribly happy with the
format that has taken. It comes out longer and
more cumbersome than we thought. I guess the
nature of my question is, l, do you make use of
the status part of it? And, 2, do you have a
suggestion for a better method and better format
to handle this? Over.
002 20 56 43 CDR Well, Bill, as best I could tell, the ideas are
getting across. And I think it's kind of nice
to have the status because I think up here you
begin to forget Just exactly how much coverage -
For instance, things like the Falkland Current
and southern Argentina, we're beginning to get the
idea that we got a million pictures of it, but we
probably don't. And I think the status is a good
thing to have. It just kind of refreshes your
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memory as to where we stand. And right off-hand,

I can't think of a - of a better format. I don't -
frankly don't think it's too terrible cumbersome.
I think it's okay. And what we're doing is, as
these status messages come up, we're sticking
them on a special page in the Visual Ops Handbook,
and we're Just adding pages as we fill them up.
It's Just like filling up an S&H Green Stamp book.
MCC Okay, we'll see what you can turn them in for
when you get home then.
CDR Right.
002 20 57 34 MCC Okay, one other thing here - actually several

other things. Want to remind you all on the
hardware evaluation and technique evaluation to
pay some attention to both of these. And in
particular, I'm thinking of binoculars and what
sort of power is reasonable han_held gyrostati-
bilized, et cetera, for future programa, ASTP,
Shuttle, and so on. And we don't need to discuss
that now, but if you would put some thoughts on
that tape, we'll be passing that on to those
programs. Over.
CDR Roger, Bill. About 2 days ago, I had a little

co_nent about lenses in one of the - observation
thing. Did you get a chance to see that yet?
002 20 58 13 MCC Roger. That's my next point. I've got a couple -

one is I'm unable to give you any change on the
status of the 135-millimeter lens. I have checked
with the Nikon people regarding your cogent on
the handheld 300; and, basically, it sounds to us
like it's a good idea to go to the 1/1000-of-a-
second exposures and correspondingly opening up
the f-stop one - one setting as you have done on
several cases in the past. Now, as you get to the
darker settings, obviously you can't do that
because you run our of f-stops. Then you have to
go to the 1/500; and in the very darks, the 1/250.
Now the one question I've got here is -This affects
the cue card you have on board, and I guess I
would like some words from you as to how you want
us to change that, if at all. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll continue at Madrid 5 minutes from now.
Okay, you - -
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CDR Okay. Why don't we Just pencil a note onto our

cue card Just saying that if you want to use the
1000th, you've got to stop it down one?
002 20 59 17 MCC Okay, that sounds fine. And we're planning later
to get up to you a pad regarding the Australian
fire area that you saw yesterday. We do want to
cover that again today. I don't have much specific
information on it other than apparently it was not
very well understood or discovered until you gtkvs
pointed it out. And we're quite anxious to follow
up on it.
CDR Wasn't it northwest of Alice Springs?
002 20 59 53 MCC I'm not 100 percent sure on that, Jerry. We've
got the Honeysuckle people trying to get some more
data for us on that. And that's what's holding up
our pad right now.
CDR Okay.
MCC We'll see you in about 4 minutes over Madrid. And

we'll finish this and then hand off to the comet.
CDR Roger, Bill.
PLT Okay, Bill. This is Bill. I also had some comments

on the type of gyrostabilizers and ocularfeatures
they should employ. That was on M487 briefing about
2 days ago.
002 21 00 18 MCC Okay, we've got about a 2-day lag here. Apparently
I just haven't seen that one yet.
002 21 04 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 9 minutes,

with a data/voice tape recorder dump. And before
I turn it back over to the science conference and
Dr. Snoddy, we'd like to get an open circuit
voltage adjust from one of you all up on panel 206.
Over.
SPT Give me about 2 seconds, Bruce.
CC Okay.
SPT Go ahead.
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CC Okay, both the 1 and 2 POTS, 20 degrees clockwise,

if you would please, Ed.
SPT You've got it.
CC Okay. And back over to the science conference.

Out.
002 21 05 49 MCC Okay, Jerry and Bill and Ed, this is Bill again
with the vis ops continuation, then I'll hand it
back to Bill Snoddy here. The NOAA 2 infrared
detector has detected a - an upwelling area in the
Pacific right up next to the country of Panama.
We're working up the details on that now, and we'll
be asking you to take a look at that in the next
several days, probably about 3 or 4 days from now.
I just wanted you to be aware that we had seen that
and we - it was coming, in the event that you are
looking over that area sometime in the next few
days. Then next let me turn to the third item on
your agenda, and let you talk about an item of your
choice. You always come to these science confer-
ences and wind up like you're getting a drink out
of a fire hose here. If there's anything you'd
like to talk about here, let's do that.
CDR Well, I tell you, the Falkland Current is so

interesting that I'd sure like to take another
whack at that on TV. Let's keep an eye on it and
see if it blossoms out again and gets real clear
and plain. Id like to try that again. It looks
like it's sort of - it must wax and wane because
right now it's in its wane period.
002 21 07 O0 MCC Okay, the visual observations people certainly

concur with that. And why don't you just keep us
posted when it looks as - looks like it's up a bit;
let's give a crack at it.
CDR Okay, did that last TV look any good at all? It

was pretty faint.
MCC The last TV, I Just looked at the tape myself

earlier, and it looks pretty good. It was
surpirsing, we could see through the clouds more
than I thought we could, but based on your de-
scription, obviously you were seeing a lot more than
we were.
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CDR Okay, lets Just wait for one of those good days
where the confluence is really beautiful and plain.
MCC Okay, let's do that. And I had a question on that

EREP pass when we looked at the Falkland Current.
On the observations, apparently Bill didn't see
much and I'm wondering whether this is because the
VTS optics are different and you don't see colors
that much, or Just if he has a thought as to why
he didn't see anything? Maybe he just wasnt's
there.
002 21 07 55 PLT Yes, Bill, there were - two - two things that were
against me. One is that there was quite a lot of
cloud cover, so I'm not sure that it was even
available to be seen. The other is that the VTS
focusing capability is very bad. We knew this,
of course, before the flight. We can't focus to
the degree, when - when we zoom in, we can't focus
to the degree I think that's required, perhaps, to
see it. And those two things, I think, were against
us the other day.
MCC Okay, good. Thanks. That certainly helps us out

in our planning. One last thought here before I
turn it to Bill Shoddy. On the Falkland Current
area, you mentioned a red-tide-like appearance.
Wanted to pass on to you based on your last
discussion with the red tide - the red being inside
the greens and never touching the blues. We're
con - concluding that it really is a red-tide type
of thing, although tide is really the wrong word,
although it is the popular word. It's a bunch of
one-celled organisms. The obvious manifestation
is big fish kills, shellfish poisoning, and, also,
there's a fair amount of airborne toxins from these
micro-organisms on the surface that cause respi-
ratory irritations on people living near the coast
near there. So, observations like that are most
significant and do repeat them if you see them
again. Over.
002 21 09 12 CDR Okay, we sure will. And one other question that's
come to mind several times and that is, how's the
fishing along the Falkland Current? If all that
good plankton is there, I would think it's
probably excellent.
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MCC To tell you the truth, I don't know. I'll have to

find out for you, and I'll let you know. And let
me - -
CDR Okay
....
MCC - - let me turn it over to Bill Snoddy now on

Kohoutek.
002 21 09 30 MCC Good afternoon. How are you all? Let's see. I
want, in the few minutes we have remaining,
discuss - let you guys know a little bit about
what's going on the comet down here, and a little
bit about how the observing program fits into
things. Like to mention, we Just learned this
morning that water has been detected on the comet
for the first time. This is the first time water
has ever been detected. This was using the haystack
antennas - some guys from Goddard. Other than the
methyl cyanide which I told you about earlier, this
is the only other molecule they've detected in
emission. And, as a matter of fact, there's a
little bit of mystery as to why they haven't
detected other molecules and why these particular
ones, especially the methyl cyanide. So there's
a little speculation about that going on. Also,
Dr. Meisel at Stoneybrook has Just completed an
analysis where he's been looking at the - a lot
of the so-called new comets, in the complicated
procedure where he looks at the way they brighten
up as they get nearer the Sun. And on the basis
of his model and his analysis, he's concluded that
Kohoutek is the newest of the new, he calls it.
Which I guess means that it could be that it is
made out of material that has been least disturbed
by the Sun, perhaps purest. So this, I thought,
was an interesting observation I learned about
this morning, and thought I'd pass that on to you
as well.
SPT That certainly is; thank you.
002 21 lO 54 MCC Sure. Okay. Also, Smithsonian reported that they

have received no observations or no - they have not
been notified of any success at any of the ground-
based observatories, the solar observatories, to
get data during the perihelion time. I think there
was cloud cover, and perhaps there was a sensitivity
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problem too; I don't know. So, they pointed out

that this makes your data all the more valuable
and unique. And they're very pleased that we have
it. Apparently, we would have been _iped out
otherwise. S055. Like to pass on to you the fact
that they're getting real good Lyman-alpha data.
They're even getting Lyman-alpha data when the
S052 is observing the nucleus. So this indicates,
I guess, a fairly sizable and intense Lyman-alpha
cloud. This gives the S082B - people quite a bit
of encouragement that they're getting good data.
And, of course, the S052 guys are very pleased with
the way the perihelion operation ran and are most
anxious to see their data.
002 21 ii 57 MCC I want to also remind you, Smithsoni_n asked me to

point out that, you know there is a time delay
sometimes on these perihelion effects on comets.
And so we could still expect to see some flares
or things of this sort occurring. In fact, flares
can occur at any time, I suppose. So, you guys
have a - a chance to see the comet quite often;
if you do see any of these things, please let us
know. We might want to change our own program and
we'd also especially like to alert the ground-based
guys that something seems to be happening. There's
a series of rockets scheduled to be launched
beginning January 4th; from the 4th to the 12th,
there's four rockets. We're trying to kind of set
up our observing program to kind of complement
theirs. And this will be done. Also, the rocket
people were quite interested in knowing the bright-
ness of the comet from the standpoint of being able
to track on it real well.
002 21 12 51 MCC And so any information you can give on the bright-
ness is - is also appreciated, like comparing it
with Jupiter, for example, that sort of thing. On
this brightness point, let me mention one other
real-quick thing. The nuclear condensation, which
is the thing that you probably are seeing on S052
monitor, which I understand you say the signal
was fairly weak yesterday, could be being masked
by the coma being more intense. So the overall
brightness of it might be up. So any observation
you can make about the overall brightness and so
on would be appreciated. I guess I better turn it
over.
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CC We got 25 seconds to LOS. Next station contact

in 12-1/2 minutes through Tananarive at 21:26.
Out.
002 21 13 33 SPT Okay, the brightness by eye does not appear to have
dropped as much as I had seen - seen it to have
dropped on WLC, but still that's a very subjective
thing. And they may have different gains and it's
a very hard Judgment to make.
MCC Okay, thanks. By the way, you mentioned yesterday

you had a sketch; we're very anxious to receive
that. There's a lot of science in those skethes.
Perhaps we cound b - -
SPT Okay.
MCC If you can get it down to us, we'd appreciate it

very much.
SPT Okay, I sure would like to do that some time today.

Right now I've been working on building block
changes. And I'll try and get to it.
002 21 14 02 MCC Great, great, that's - -
002 21 29 21 CC Skylab, AOS Tananarive for 9 minutes.
CDR Hi, Story.
CC Hi.
SPT Hello, Story.
CC Hello, Ed.
SPT Question about S063 ops coming up.
CC Go.
SPT We have - Okay, this is to be out the STS window

number 2. We are to be changing filters in the
course of making these exposures.
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002 21 29 54 SPT In the past when we've talk - taken these type
of exposures without the filters, we've been able
to mount the camera and get, I think, a fairly
steady hold on the camera.
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Time: 002:21:30 to 002:23:04
Page 1 of 5/3001
002 21 30 02 SPT If we're changing filters, though, I see no way

right now of mounting the camera and being able
to change the filters rapidly, which is what
they're after. We have something like l0 frames
there and - like 8 minutes. So it looks as though
they're going to have to be handheld, and I'm
wondering if the people realize that.
002 21 30 26 CC Thanks; we'll get with you.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, Jer.
CDR Hey, Story, on our housekeeping message today,

down in the bottom, it suggests that we use three
high-power utility cables and - run them on down
into the MDA for vacuum cleaning. You know, we
already have two strung down there to run the VTR
on now, and the M518 system is running off the
high-power utility area. It would seem to be
better to go ahead and just disconnect the VTR
and do the work, but the thing is Just be careful
that we're not doing it when either you're d_nping
or rewinding or when we're doing something. But
stringing three more cables down the - down the
_un--ne-1seems to me to Be: a pretty cumbersome way
to go.
CC Okay, I'll get with you, Jer.
CDR Okay, unless you folks insist, we're going to

continue doing it the way we have, and we'll Just
try to be careful we don't interfere with any
VTR ops, but it looks llke the - the only logical
way to go.
002 21 33 15 CC Skylab, we dropped out for a minute there. Be

going L0S here in a minute and a half. Next
station is Honeysuckle in about 18 minutes
at 21:50. And, Jer, we concur with your sugges-
tions on the power cables. We'll be looking at
the VTR and, if possible, avoid the stateside
passes when we dump the VTR.
Page 2 of 5/3002
002 21 51 17 CC Skylab, AOS through Honeysuckle, 5 minutes.
CDR Story, would you send us up another copy of

Permanent General Message 22, please?
CC Okay, Permanent General Message 22.
CDR Thank you.
CC And, Jer, the power sharing with that VTR cable

for the vacuum cleaner is fine. Just communicate
with us, and most of the time, we dump the VTR
or handle it over the United States passes.
CDR Okay, good enough, Story.
CC And, Jer, one other thing. Bill mentioned taking

some TV of the - the Falkland Currents. Hold off
and we may schedule that.
CDR Okay, that was me that mentioned that.
002 21 52 29 CC And for Ed, on your S063, prior to scheduling

that, we did understand that that would be hand-
held. We also understand that the pad is a rather
ambitious one, considering the filters and all,
and just start from 1 and get what you can.
SPT Okay, Story, sure will. Give them the best I can.
CC Okay.
002 21 55 27 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 17 minutes to

Hawaii at 22: 12.
CC Skylab, and there is a new $201 pad, it's on

board now.
002 21 56 02 CDR Roger. Thank you.
002 22 ll 50 CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. Got a couple of other items I'd

like you send up.
CC Okay, go.
CDR Okay, TV Ops Book change numbers 2 and 3, please.

Page 3 of 5/3003
CC TV Ops, change 2 and 3.
CC And, Jer, on your operation of the AMS on S201

ops, we suggest maybe you'd like to mark the zero
position on the rotation knob with a pencil or
piece of tape or something like that. It'll give
us a second point of reference for the zero
position.
CDR Okay. One of the problems we've enc- encountered,

I think we've already passed this word down, is
that we're not even sure we know where zero is
plus or minus about 5 degrees. Does S201 have a
wide enough field of view to where that won't
hurt us too badly?
CC Stand by 1.
002 22 15 30 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, and about _ min-

utes to Goldstone, be dumping the data/voice
there. Jer, we think you got the zero position
within about a degree, and you got 7 degrees
field of view. We think you're okay.
CDR Okay, Story,pray for us.
CC I do every night.
002 22 15 57 CDR We need all the help we can get, babe.
002 22 19 16 CC Skylab, A0S Goldstone for 9 minutes. Dumping the

data/voice here.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Are you going to be operating the ATM for the

rest of this dayside pass or are you going to
close it out for unattended?
002 22 19 43 SPT I'll close it out.
CC Okay.
SPT One thing l'd like to do though, Story, is when

we finally do come back up SI in the day, I'd
like to get a little better read - pointing for
Page 4 of 5/3004
them on the prominence and then I' ll leave the

panel.
002 22 23 31 CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, we'd like the H-ALPHA NIGHT INTERLOCK switch

to NORMAL and there's a couple of S055 HIGH-
VOLTAGEs to get OFF.
CC Thank you.

Be rmuda.
002 22 32 58 CC Skylab, AOS Bermuda, 5 minutes.
002 22 37 15 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; 4 minutes to

Canaries.
002 22 37 24 CDR Roger.
002 22 42 09 CC We're back with you through Canaries for 9 minutes.
002 22 42 32 SPT Roger. Hello, Story. Let me give you a recommen-

. dation on taking hand_heldphotos for - for the
Comm Tech - Comet for S063.
CC Okay, Ed; go.
002 22 42 46 SPT Okay. I think we can see it much better out of

window 3 when we're in SOLAR INERTIAL and I think
we can see it much better out of the command
module window number 1. This window ham got a
strut right in front of it which obscures part
of the tail and, secondly, there was no indication
that we ought to have the wardroom window lights
out and those lights reflect off the strut. I
also think the exposures were supposed to be down
to 43. The tail has disappeared by around
1-1/2 to 2 minutes ahead of that time. I think
we'd be better off trying to get his exposures
. piecemeal. While we're in SOLAR INERTIAL out of
either window 3 or window 1 out of the command
module.
CC Got it, Ed. Sounds like a good call.

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Page 5 of 5 /3005
CDR Go ahead.
CC Jet, on TV Ops change number 2 that concerns

TV ll7 which you won't - won't be running again
and the latter part of it's on TV 105. And
change number 4 which we're sending up rescinds
that. So we'll Just be sending you up 3 and then
another new number 4.
CDR Okay, we have number 5, there's no problem there.

We just missed 2 and 3.
002 22 54 20 CC Okay, you got 4 and we'll send 3 and you don't
need 2.
CDR Okay.
002 22 50 39 CC Skylab, we' re a minute to LOS. See you over

Tananarive in about 12 minutes at 23:02. There's
a visual ops pad we Just sent up. It concerns
the Australia fires and that'll be coming up
at 23:32.
ENDOFTAPE
f
Time: 002:23:0_ to 003:00:37
Page 1 of 5/3007
002 23 05 28 CC Skylab, A0S through Tananarive for 3 minutes.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, were you going to run any ATM this next pass,
or Just do the pointing for us?
SPT I had planned on doing the pointing, Story, and

then trying to get lined up on a few other things
I have yet to do.
CC Okay.
002 23 08 09 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 17 minutes to

Honeysuckle, 23:26.
002 23 26 55 CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 9 minutes. We show you

maneuvering back to SI. Looks good.
CDR Roger, Story.
CDR Story, would you send us up another copy of perman-

ent general message number 23, too, please?
CC Okay, Jer.
002 23 34 28 CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half from LOS. l0 min-

utes to Hawaii, be dumping the data/voice there.
And, Ed; Houston.
CDR Go ahead; he's listening.
CC Okay, and his 8063 ozone prep, which he'll be doing

about an hour from now, tell him don't install a
Nikon 02, that the UV camera. Delay that until
tomorrow morning; Just prior to the ops. But it's
okay to install a visible camera.
SPT Okay, Story, I understand. And we'll try and pick

up some extra photos with the Nikon 02 for the comet
whenever possible, using the T025 filters that they
sent up.
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Page 2 of 5 /3005
002 23 35 14 CC Copy.
002 23 46 31 CC Skylab, A0S Hawaii for i0 minutes. Be dumping the

data/voice here.
CC And who's the expert on the Australian brush fires

tonight?
CDR We don't have one right now, Story. There was quite
a few clouds, and we're not convinced that's the
area we were looking at last night. And so we're
hoping maybe get a little clarification on our next
pass over Australia.
CC Yes, we - we think that's right. The one - the pad

we passed up to you, Jer, those are known fires,
but we don't think those are - are probably the ones
you saw last night. And the ones you saw last night
are probably unknown. And you'll be passing over
that - about that same area at about 01:i0, your
next rev around.
CDR Okay, that's what we thought, too. When we looked

at them last night, it was - it looked like it was
in that range area just northwest of Alice Springs.
You know, Alice Springs has got some pretty funny-
looking mountains around them, pretty much tilted
geology. And I was thinking that's the area where
we had seen it last night.
002 23 48 44 CC Yes, sir; those are probably unknown.
CC And, Jer, in addition to some possible photographs,

if you could give us a better lat and long, we'd
appreciate it.
CDR Okay, Story, we sure will. We're coming up on the

Hawaiian Islands right now. And this is the first
time we've had them with this few clouds in a long
time. We'll try to get some photo coverage.
CC Okay.
SPT Story, I'm looking for P68 on the limb, and I'll be
darned if I can see it in H-ALPHA 1. I see a rela-
tively small prominence up around 300 on the limb,
but it's not a large one either. But it's the only
thing I see in that whole area.
Page 3 of 5/3009
CC Okay, and I've - Pertinent to that, I've got a

change to the ATM schedule pad, that's the orbit
starting at 00:49. P68 has disappeared to us down
here, too.
002 23 50 Ol SPT Okay, as I maneuver off so that the only thing left
is Just the - I'm completely off the limb. It Just
shows up; there's a very small segment of it. Would
they still like to look at it? It extends quite
high, but it's extremely faint, maybe about three-
quarters of an arc minute to a minute off the limb,
maybe a half of - or a qna_ter of an arc minute wide.
002 23 50 32 CC Okay, Ed. And on the ATM schedule pad, the orbit
starting 00:49, we'd llke you to change your JOP hA
pointing from prominence 68 to prominence 61.
SPT 68 to 61, got it. And what would they prefer here?
Be glad to put them anywhere they want to be?
CC They's like 61.
SPT Okay.
002 23 51 41 SPY Okay, Story, I got it configured; so 55 ought to be

just about centered on 61.
CC Okay.
SPY I'll power down the panel now, unless there's any-
thing else you'd like me to do?
CC No, that's it. And Just remind Bill that when he

powers down to point at 61.
SPT It's written in the schedule now, Story.
CC Thanks.
002 23 55 42 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 3 minutes to Gold-

stone.
002 23 58 32 CC Skylab, back with you through Goldstone for 8 min-

utes. We'll be dumping the VTR here.
003 00 05 40 CC Skylab, we're going LOS here. See you over Bermuda
in 5 minutes.
./
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003 00 i0 25 CC Skylab, back with you through Bermuda for 8 minutes.
003 00 17 16 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 2 minutes to Canaries.
003 00 19 53 CC Skylah, back with you, Canaries and Ascension,

16 minutes.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Roger; do I have a family eomm tonight?
CC Yes, sir; you do. Over Carnarvon and it'll be

02:36. It's LEFT for a minute or less, and then
to RIGHT for the rest of the pass.
CDR Okay, 02:36, LEFT to RIGHT, and LEFT only for a

minute.
CC That's it, Jer. You don't have your summary Flight

Plan for tomorrow on you, do you?
CDR Yes, I do. Go ahead.
CC Okay, at 21:00, that ED31, put - put next to it:

parentheses photo. There'll be a photo for that
prep.
CDR Okay.
CC And one other thing. Yesterday, when you did the

documentary photos, did you get Ii - did you get
A, B, C, and D? Bill Just reported the evening
status last night that you got IIA and D. Did you
get all four of those?
003 O0 24 06 CDR No, it was A through D. Yes, we got them all.
CC Thanks. And got one other thing for you.
CDR Okay.
CC Now, was the S201-K pad easy to follow with handle

turns from one rotation setting to the next?
CDR Yes_ that wasn't too bad. And I indicated on tape

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.... Page 5 of 5/3Di1
that I thought they could probably cut the time be-

tween runs down to as low as 2 minutes - 2 to 3 min-
utes, I think'd be an adequate amount of time.
CC You say about 2 minutes on that?
CDR Yes, 2 or 3 minutes. I think - well, the whole

accuracy depends on how _well we know zero.
CC Okay, we're going to try to schedule the sites so

. that the changes in rotation are small. Have you
got any - any other suggestions?
003 O0 25 21 CDR No, I don't, Story. If nothing else breaks on that,

we'll be all right. But I - I should report that
the crank was still kind of hanging a little bit,
and so I guess I wouldn't be surprised in the near
future to see the rest of the numbers go over on
their back, too.
CC Okay, thanks. That's it.
CC And we m_,ydrop out for a minute or so handing over

to Ascension.
00B O0 35 22 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. About 25 minutes

to Carnarvon at Ol:01. And we'll be ready for the
evening status report at Carnarvon.
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TAG Tape 357-01/T-441

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VO[.CE 'Iq_AN_(!E[I_PION

357 01 25 13 CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 16 minutes.

CDR Hello, Richard.

357 01 38 05 CC Skylab, Houston, if the SPT is not busy and has

CC Ed, it really is no partfcular change to what's

SPT Okay, Dick, you planning on putting in that 77

CC Okay, it's going to be pointed a little more to

357 01 40 h5 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS

CC Stand by; I'm not sure we'll be able to get an

SPT Okay, Dick. The reason for asking is that you

357 01 47 00 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Madrid for the next 9 min-

SPT Okay, Dick, go ahead.

CC Roger. It turns out that on the JOP 18 Delta

SPT Yes, it does, Dick. It rounds off rather than

357 01 48 12 CC Well, we don't have immediate answer for you,

SPT Okay, thank you, Dick. I'm Just trying to - in

CC Well, we certainly haven't given up thinking about

SPT Okay, thanks very much. Thanks to Steve and all

CC And, Skylab, Hou - Houston, I forgot to warn you,

357 01 54 00 SPT Houston, Skylab.

SPT Dick, do you have a comet-rise time for the

CC Skylab, Houston. i minute until LOS. Tananarive

CC SPT, Houston. The comet rise is estimated to be

SPT Okay, a minute and a half before. Thank you.

357 01 55 37 CC Yes, sir.

357 02 09 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive for the

PLT Roger; we copied that, Dick. Thank you.

CC Okay, Bill, thank you.

357 02 15 17 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS, Tananarive.

SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

357 02 33 17 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. To the SPT: On the ATM

357 02 37 34 CC Thank you much. We're i minute from LOS. Hawaii

SPT Dick, I'm reading 80 for my GRATING POSITION now.

357 02 37 52 CC Okay, we show a zero on TM on the ground for your

357 02 53 14 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Hawaii for 7 minutes.

357 03 Ol 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for 9 minutes.

CDR Loud and clear, Dick.

CC Roger, Jer. We're standing by for the evening

CDH Roger. I'll check.

CC Okay. And l'm standing by for the evening status

CDR Okay, Ed's in the command module.

CDR You caught us trimming our Christmas tree.

CC Hey, we've got a pretty one down here, also.

CDR Can't be as pretty as ours.

CC Well, the people who trimmed it were a lot prettier.

CDR All right, let's have the evening status report.

357 03 03 00 CDB Just get us all lathered up here. Sleep: CDR,

357 03 04 59 CDR Okay, photo log. 16-millimeter: 151. ETC prep:

CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much. We still have

I've got a pass there - I can read you g_s some

CDR Okay, turn them loose.

CC Well, I figured I'd wait until this next pass to -

CDR All right; that'll be fine.

CC Okay, y'all can go back to tree trimming.

357 13 09 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from LOS;

357 03 14 hh CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Bermuda for about

SPT 3761, 1007, 13551, 3041, 1635.

CC Okay. I got that. And for Jerry, we'd like to

357 03 16 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be going into a keyhole

357 03 17 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of keyhole. Still have