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old picture and print on a new one as it's coming in. One
interesting thing to look at in all of the images that will be
coming in is how the new ones are larger than the old ones
as we're moving in very fast and the planet is getting much
larger very quickly. I think that fully explains the monitor
at this time. As more people get pictures of the monitor, we'll
explain specific things that we see on a particular image
as it grows larger. This is Pioneer Control. The next
report will be in approximately an hour and a half.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
19 hours 54 minutes. This concludes our Pioneer report from
Ames Research Center. Next acquisition through the Vanguard
tracking ship of Skylab IV is in 40 seconds. CAP COMM is
Hank Hartsfield. We'll hold the line up for this Vanguard
pass.
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to the brim, even though on paper it did not look that way.
The reason being is that much of the pointing was determined
by a intensity data readout on S055, and it took quite a
little while to search around and find out where you were and
what you were where the brightest point in an active region
was, for an example. You really don't have good two dimen-
sional displaying so you only have digital readout. So it
takes a little while to - to get what they really want, if
they want quality data then it will take just a little bit
of searching. And I got everything done that we wanted on
this past orbit, but I had to use a little of the observing
time in order to carry out the building blocks.
CC Okay, we've got 30 seconds to LOS here.
Next station contact in 21-1/2 minutes through the Vanguard
at 23:11. And aside from the last rev, would you say that
the other revs have been about right, too full, or not enough?
Over.
SPT Well, the other revs have been great.
This past one was not bad at all, I just added a little observ-
ing time, no problem there. But, I want to make people
aware of what I was using the time for.
CC Right, we were just trying to get some
further feel on your comments on the last rev. Talk to you
over Vanguard.
SPT Okay, so long, Bruce.
CC Keep going, we have over the horizon
contact through Hawaii for a while.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 50 minutes
and 54 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
has now passed over the horizon from Hawaii and is out of range
of the tracking antenna there. Our next acquisition is
19 minutes and 45 seconds from now. During this last pass
Science Pilot, Ed Gibson, was talking with the new Spacecraft
Communicator, Bruce McCandless, who has just come on duty here
with Flight Director Neil Hutchinson, now directing flight
controllers here at Mission Control, talked with us about
the whitelight coronagraph. Ed Gibson, the Science Pilot had
been asked to run a little test on the whitelight coronograph
by the solar scientists here. The test was to determine what
the performance of the coronagraph was as the space station
went behind the Earth. The whitelight coronagraph at that
point would be looking through the atmosphere - the edge of
the Earth's atmosphere at the Sun. And they wanted to see
what differences took place. Normally, the whitelight corona-
graph operates only when they are above the upper regions of
the atmosphere when they're in direct line of sight with the
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that is the one that starts at about 01:23 and does precede
the unattended operations. It has been our intent that you
do an NuZ update at that time. You may now delete this one.
What we're trying to do of course is to minimize the operation
on the star tracker because if we get the thing hung up some
plaee or we lose it we've got real problems. Over.
SPT Okay, perhaps we ought to change the cue
card there where it says perform a NuZ update. Where we power
down to unattended ops and power up from unattended ops.
We've not had a change like that come through and if that's
what you like we'll go ahead and scratch it.
CC Okay we're scheduling all the NuZ updates
either in your details or on the ATM schedule pad. And
unless you find one there, we suggest that you not perform
one in order to minimize wear and tear on the star tracker.
Now we got 30 seconds to LOS here next station contact in
58 minutes through Hawaii. At 00:17 SPT private comm you'll
be on the right antenna all the way. Over.
SPT Okay, thank you Bruce, and we'll go ahead
and chang_ the cue card.
CC Roger, Ed we'll send you a change for the
cue card.
PAO Skylab Control 23 hours 20 minutes and
54 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has
now gone out of range of the Vanguard tracking antenna. We're
56 minutes and 30 seconds from our next acquisition at Hawaii.
This is Skylab Control it's 21 minutes i0 seconds after the
hour.
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CC Go ahead.
SPT Bruce, are you ready for the frames
remaining?
CC Say again about frames remaining.
SPT Are you ready for the readoff of the frames
remaining on the ATM instruments?
CC Negative, negative.
CC SPT Houston. We'd like to get high voltage
1 and 2 switches to the OFF position on S055 and then we're
ready for your frames remaining.
SPT Sequentially from the top: 15,114,05,62,
00174,01575, 07649, 05451.
CC Roger, we got them. One minute to LOS,
next station contact in 3 minutes through Ascension at 02:40.
Evening questions. Out.
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 38 minutes and
25 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
now passing an area that's out of range of Vanguard but just
about to be acquired by Ascension tracking station. Skylab
pa - crew control just completed their status report indicating
that they had received about 6-1/2 hours of sleep for the
Science Pilot and Commander last night and 6 hours for the Pilot.
About an hour and a half less than they normally would sleep on
Earth. That's similar to the experience of previous crews.
And also indicating their exercise pattern for the day, which
is a well-balanced program including lifts, a series of ex-
ercises using springs and tension rope. Devices called mark
one and two exercisers and also the bicycle which has been used
for both leg and arm muscle improvements. We'll keep the line
up live now for air-to-ground with Bruce McCandless and the
Skylab crew. That begins about 35 seconds from now. The
pass through Ascension is expected to last about i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
for 10-1/2 minutes. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
for i0 minutes. SPT. Over.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. We show 55 in Align. We need the
mode switch to STOP, please.
CC Roger. Thank you. And if you're ready
for the evening questions, I've got a couple of quick ones
here. (Garble) the first one's for you, Ed. Yesterday you
used the digital thermometer for the rate gyro six-pack
temperatures. We still have the original batteries installed
in the digital thermometer and we're trying to get some sort of
a handle on how much life time they have left. Do you recall
what the response time was on this digital thermometer? Over.
CC And also, Ed, we show the MPC and MPC roll
switches still ENABLED.
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The EREP Z-LV pass is in the flight plan for mission day 15.
We have no evaluations in yet, but they'll be done tomorrow.
And we're looking at ways to have simulators flag to us the
sensitive momentum state that caused the 2 CMG control log
to behave in a nonoptimal fashion so that we can plan our
maneuvers positively avoid them. Also we're looking at crew
age and recognizing only one of these conditions has happened
and corrective action you can take and realtime to at
least minimize the TACS cost, in addition to planning our moves
so that we stay out of these regions. So I guess in summary
you could say that we'll have a positive confirmation for you
by the time it comes up if the mission day 15 EREP does not
encounter any nonoptimal behaviour before we start the maneuver.
And we will have some monitoring techniques and corrective
procedures up to you at the same time. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce that's good new.
CDR Bruce, that's good. What we would appreciate
is getting some of those monitoring techniques and those
procedures up here about as soon as you can, so we can have
a chance to think them over and make sure that we understand
them before we have to put them into use.
CC They will be on their way up as soon as
they are completely finalized. So you can probably look for
them some time tomorrow.
CDR Okay, that's good Bruce. Got any more
questions?
CC We got wake up scheduled for 12:08 Zulu
over Hawaii for you tomorrow morning. We are standing by
for your ,evening photo status report. And if we have any more
time I got some news items I can read up to you.
CDR Okay the photo status report is pretty
simple. N/A on the 16-millimeter: N/A no change on the
drawer A configuration; no change in EREP; no change in ETC;
and the only film usage was 35 and 70, so here it comes.
35-millimeter: Nikon 01, Bravo Victor, 47, 18; Nikon 02;
India Romeo 08, 24; Nikon 3, Charlie India i10,-2_; Nikon 4,
Charlie X-ray 19, 51 Nikon 5, Bravo Hotel 03, 29. 70-millimeter,
we used 2 Irames today. On the report yesterday I showed a
frame count of a 170. I guess I should have showed 000 and
now today's frame count will be 002.
CC Okay, we copy all that. Would you like
some news items?
CDR Fire away.
CC Okay, the House Republican leader Gerald
Ford was confirmed for the Vice Presidency by a Senate vote
of 92 to 13. The House is expected to confirm his nomination
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SL-IV MC427/I
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Ames Research Center says that the giant red spot on Jupiter
has been seen several times and Jupiter's distinct bands
are becoming clearer with each image. Shadows from the
inner Moons of Jupiter have been seen on the planet and the
moon (garble) have been observed on one image. Pioneer
crossed the magnetopause last evening, earlier than expected
and is now in the magentie field. The crossing was expected
this morning at the earliest. The closest approach is expected
on Monday, December 3, mission day 18, day of the year 337, at
about 81 thousand miles. And back to Bill. Did you copy
those VTS sites or do you want me to repeat them again?
PLT Okay, I got 268, 267 delete, 325, 333,
07, 702, 703 and add 565 instead of volcano.
CC Boy, you were really paying attention.
That's beautiful, Bill.
PLT (Garble) Bruce.
PAO Skylab Control at 4 hours 15 minutes
and 15 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
has passed out of range of the Vanguard tracking antenna,
our last pass of the evening. Spacecraft Communicator
Bruce McCandless, there performing a marvelous job of
reading a great deal of news in a very short time. And also
managing to get in a message of the error in the viewfinder
tracking system, a number that Nad been given to the crew
earlier. Viewfinder tracking system 267 that the crew asked
about, as it turns out it's 268. That is the sight of the
Four Corners power plant in New Mexico, we described a little
earlier. We have the mission surgeonts daily report on the
crew health, and we'll read that for you at this time.
The crew is in good health, both the Commander and the Pilot
had clinically uneventful lower body negative pressure runs.
In addition to this the Commander and Pilot did some tread-
mill workout while instrumented to allow better evaluation
of just what stress this device produces, signed by Dr.
Jerry Hordinsky for Dr. Hawkins. That indication of course
is something that was more or less predicated by the doctors
earlier. The Pilot William Pogue had not completed the run
of M092, the lower body negative pressure the other day and
the doctors felt that at that time he had failed to complete
the run showing undesirably low blood pressures because he
had not completed a meal in advance as he is suppose to do.
And today completing the lower body negative pressure protoeal
completely indicates that he is still in good health and
there's no problem to be encountered there. Tomorrowts
activities include a very busy schedule for the Skylab crew of
more than 5 hours of solar observing time have been set in the
plan and includes observation by all three crew members.
Tomorrow William Pogue will have his first opportunity to work
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for 7:40 a.m. central standard time. We'll leave the line up
for CAP COMM's, Dr. Story Musgrave, wakeup call expected
momentarily. Acquisition in 30 seconds.
CC Good morning Skylab. Got you through
Goldstone for 9 minutes.
CDR Morning, Story.
CC Morning.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 5
minutes to Bermuda.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
12 hours 26 minutes. Loss of signal through Goldstone.
Flying over the northern reaches of the United States, near
the Canadian border. Next acquisition will be Bermuda in
1 minute 25 seconds. We'll hold the line open for CAP COMM
astronaut Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Bermuda for 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 5
minutes to Canaries; be dumping data voice at Canaries.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
12 hours 34 minutes. Quiet pass for the stateside following
wakeup call at 12:14 Greenwich mean time 20 minutes ago as the
Skylab IV c_=ew gets ready for their 14th day in their mission.
A day which includes the first actual EREP pass. This will
be a solar inertial pass along ground track 20. Solar iner-
tial pass provides the telescope cameras to remain pointed
at the Sun. EREP cameras instruments therefore will be taking
an oblique view of the Earth, approximately a 35-degree
angle oblique view of the Earth. Next acquisition will be
1 minute 40 seconds through Canary. We'll hold the line
up for this Canary pass.
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CC Okay.
SPT Story, I still have a barber pole up
here. Is there anything else you'd like to try with it?
CC That's it for now, Ed. Thanks.
SPT Thank you. Keep trying.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and about
ii minutes to Hawaii at 13:41. And, Jer, no need to acknowl-
edge, but we have seen a bias between our telemetry read-
ings and the readings on the meter of about .05. So it
looks like we're back in good shape again.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 13
hours 32 minutes. We have loss of signal for Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition in 9 minutes 45 seconds will be Hawaii
tracking station. Discussions with CAP COMM Story Musgrave
concerning the water pressure, exhaust valve pressure. This
was controlled, this is monitored in the waste management
compartment of the workshop. The crew had one reading on
board, the ground had another, but the EGIL has informed the
Flight Director that this reading is okay. The exhaust valve
pressure is nominal at this time. Further discussions con-
cerning S054 filter unlock procedures. The filter stuck be-
tween filter 5 and 6. There are six filters in this S054 experiment.
They are located outside the camera, in front of the camera.
And the readings on the ground indicate that the filter stuck
between 5 and 6. A troubshooting procedure read up to
Science Pilot Ed Gibson; however he reported this did not
repair the filter problem at this time. Next acquisition
in Hawaii. Scheduled for this morning at, during the Bermuda
pass at Greenwich mean time 14:00 will be the morning ATM
review with backup pilot Bill Lenoir discussing with the
crew the current activities that ATM scientists here on the
ground look for. Reports indicate that active 87 remains,
still remains the prime target because of complexity and
emerging flux. The ground reports they continue to observe
corona over active region 90. The flares predicted are -
fall into the following categories. The C, M, and X flares.
The ground anticipates flares in the C category as well as
the M category. Details of the flares are contained in the
morning pad review which goes to the crew. Today the tele-
printer messages ran more than 35 pages with a supplement
totaling, a total package of, which went to the crew last
night during the sleep period, 43 pages of teleprinter mes-
sages the crew is reviewing this morning. Next acquisition
will be Hawaii in 7 minutes i0 seconds. At Greenwich mean
time 13 hours 34 minutes_ this is Skylab Control.
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CDR Okay.
PLT Are you reading me, Hank?
CC That's affirmative.
PLT Okay. I wasn't sure if I had this all
set up
right or not.
CC One question when you get a chance to
answer. Did you get all the doors closed on the, and are
you in solar inertial?
SPT I hope they're all open.
CDR Do you mean the ATM doors?
PLT Which doors are you talking about, Hank?
CC Stand by. We're checking.
CDR On my mark, 51:20. MARK. S193 S ON,
S193 R ON. Coming up on 51:40. MARK 51:40. Alfa 9 is reading
2; Bravo 9 is reading 4-59 ; Charlie 9 is jumping between 45
and 93.
CDR When am I supposed to get a ready light on
191?
SPT You should get it at 52:40.
CDR Okay.
SPT 40 seconds.
CC Skylab. For info we're commanding SI.
SPT Okay.
PLT Okay. Clouds are starting to break up.
Not much time either. 53:09. Be close.
CDR Stand by for 52:40, i0 seconds.
CDR Ready on at 52:40. Ref gone to 6.
PLT Colorado River.
CDR Delta 9 is 86. That was a maximum Delta
9, 86 percent. The minimum Delta 9 is ii. On my mark it'll
53:30. Stand by for 53:30. MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
RADIOMETER to STANDBY. MODE going to X-TC. Polarity to i.
S193 S ON now. 193 R ON now. Those were at 53:5
CDR Those were 53:50.
CDR MARK at 54:03 S190 MODE to AUTO. MARK
54:10 ETC should go to AUTO, Ed.
SPT Got it.
CDR MARK at 21, ppolarization on S193 to 4,
Delta 9. Maximum was 60, minimum was 40. I did not have
a READY light on the scatterometer. Coming up on 55 even.
55:00.
CDR MARK; SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
CDR MARK; RADIOMETER to STANDBY at 03. 55:10.
Ed's going ETC STANDBY.
SPT MARK; got it 5:10.
CDR Next MARK will be at 55:16. MARK.
Interval on S190 going to 20 and S193 MODE going to X-TNC/R.
55:30 ETC to AUTO Ed.
SPT Got it.
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CDR Is it jungle?
PLT Yeah. I don't know whether that's jungle
or not.
PLTNo. I see some (garble) We must he
coming ow_r some agricultural area.
CDR Okay. Stand by, coming up on 20.
CDR MARK at 20. The READY light for S191
came on .
PLT Say, what the devil is that?
CDR MARK. The READY light fore and aft,
190, went out at 29.
CDR ETC to STANDBY, Ed.
SPT Got it.
CDR S190 mode going to STANDBY. 194 mode
going to MANUAL. Waiting for 15:30.
SPT This is real neat. You could just paint
the coastline with this thing.
SPT Let's look at your EREP glider and
see where it is we came out over the water.
PLT Got to take a look in here if you get a
chance, Jer.
CDR Yes - No I don't have time.
Yes I do.
on it.
SPT Is this our pass here?
PLT Yeah. Well it's close. It's been
shifted.
SPT Yeah.
SPT '(Garble).
CDR Well, that rectangular pattern you saw
must have been the wheat fields we were looking at yesterday
right here on Ascension.
PLT Could have been.
CDR Ascension. So we got some
PLT S190 - -
CDR 190 data on that same stuff we took
handheld photos of yesterday.
PLT Very likely.
PLT _ Okay - -
CDR Hank, will you make a note of that?
CC Say again.
CDR If our groundtrack is correct, part of
our S190 data was the Argentinian wheat fields as part of
the wheat study. And I think the PI for the wheat handheld
photos Earth observations will be interested in the data.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR Okay *** are in our post.
SPT EREP cal (garble) okay, we don't have
PLT (Garble) if I'd known I was going to have
to run this camera, I'd have taken some pictures.
PLT Well, I'll know next time.
PLT That was real interesting.
PLT It's amazing how good that simulator's
been.
CDR Yes.
PLT Give them an up on that. Boy, they did
a good job.
CDR Sure did.
CDR That's a good piece of gear *** training.
PLT "" _ Okay. I'm going to wait on that S009,
because I'd get right in your way. But would you help me
re - -
CDR Yes.
PLT Okay.
CDR Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, Hank. When I was doing a thermal
align on S192, I wasn't able to improve very much on what Bill
had. In fact, I wasn't able to improve on it at all. Are
the people down there concerned that S190 should be better
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pull the S183 out tonight, and do the setup for him tomor-
row morning,
CC Okay. I don't know how much timeing you
have done on that, Jer. That was a big question mark we had.
The mechanics are simple, although there are some things I
guess you ]nave to watch for pit pins and the like on it.
SPT I think I've done that twice in the
past two days and I can whistle through that pretty quickly.
So I think I'll be able that fairly quickly in the morning.
No problem there.
CC Okay. Then what we will assume then is
that Jerry will try to squeeze in the 183 stow tonight and he
will either do or help you setup in the morning. And he'll
try to get all that done early enough that you can do the
monitor. Is that the way you want to do it?
CDR Yes. I think that's the smart way to
go. And I'll work with him tomorrow morning and see how it's
done, and get all the pointers from him so that if we run across
this, cross this kind of a bind again I'll go ahead and do
it.
CC Okay. Now the problem is that in the
morning hels got an ATM pass he's got to be running that he
might be able to break through the postsleep there and help
you do that stow, though. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS
now. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 49, and we're sche-
duled for voice data dump there.
CDR Okay, Hank. And any ideas on why we
didn't get that downlink going?
CC We're still scratching our head. You
didn't turn up anything on the connections, did you?
CDR Everything looks fine.
CC Okay. We're wondering about that input
station and now we'll kind of look back and see if we've used
it lately.
CDR Yeah, you have. You used it for watching
Ed do that S054 film load. What was it? Yesterday?
And he's also done some ATM downlinks on it.
CC Okay. We'll keep looking at it, Jer,
and tell you what we come up with.
CDR (garble)
PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 33 minutes
and 19 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
is now south of Baja, California, out of range of the Gold-
stone tracking antenna. Our next acquisition of signal is 15
minutes and 15 seconds from now. That will be at Vanguard.
This is Skylab Control at 33 minutes 35 seconds after the
hour.
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CC Okay.
SPT Was a caution and warning for a CMG SAT.
I don't think we're looking for a reset routine, though. We
got up to the peak, it was around 20 minutes remaining in day
and we just watched it. I don't think we fired any TACS in it.
The external torque just suddendly came back down again.
CC Okay, we show you fired two mibs. And
in the teleprinter right now we have permanent and general
message 004 dealing with the two CMG configurations. We would
like you to go up there as soon as feasible and read that over,
and we'll be talking to you about it probably about an hour
and half from now at Vanguard at 03:20.
SPT Okay. Bruce I was looking over the time
line for tomorrow, and I think it would he best at least for
a few days here that I knock off everything after 03:00.
So that means that I'll have to scrub that ATM pass, either
that or - or push Jerry out of it, but I don't want to do that.
l_d like to try to do that in the future if I could for a -
quite a few days here and see if I can't catch up a little bit.
CC Okay, stand by.
CC Does that same comment apply for all three
crewmen, or is it just you Ed?
SPT Well, they'll have to speak for themselves.
CC Okay well, I guess I am asking them.
CDR No, you can I think you can continue it
on for the CDR.
CC Is the PLT on board?
CDR Yeah, the PLT is game for awhile too.
CC Okay, we've got that and we will scrub
out that last ATM pass for the SPT.
SPT Hate to give up Bruce, but I think I better.
CC No, no we're encouraging free dialogue here.
And our object is to write up the flight plan and arrange the
details of it so as to facilitate your operations up there.
This is the sort of info we need. And the next opportunity
for S009 is 02:41:00 Zulu, 02:41:00.
CDR Roger copy.
CC Okay i minute till LOS. Next station
contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Ascension with the evening
status report at 01:56. Over.
PLT Roger Bruce. And PLT here - at the end
of the EREP this morning I reported a couple of the platens
looked like they had streaks on them. Not just the fine
linear features, but there was sort of a gob of something on
camera platen number i, and a less definite one on camera platen
number 3.
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CC Okay.
CC Does it look like this stuff would be
tractable to being cleaned off with the on board equipment,
or do you want us try to come up with some other technique
for cleaning it?
PLT Well, instructions say to notify Houston,
so that's what I'm doing. Now the one on camera i, there is
actually a gob of material that's been rub off from a point
on the platen in the field of view the camera and out to the
edge of the field of view it looks like. It looks like a
piece of emulsion. The one on camera number 3 it just looks
like - -
CC Okay, see you at Ascension.
PAO Skylab Control, with i hour 54 minutes,
and 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
temporarily out of range of the tracking antenna at Vanguard.
And we're about a minute, 49 seconds from our next acquisition
of signal at Ascension. The pass through Ascension should
last about 10-1/2 minutes. As that pass was underway there
we had conversation between Bill Lenor, one of the members
of the Skylab Support Team, and an Astronaut who was talking
about visual observations and photography. The crew indicating
that they apparently did complete the Sakurazima photography
photography of the volcano in Japan, and some very good
photography of snow cover in the northern United States. Also
note that we fired 2 minimum impulses of nitrogen gas on
our thruster attitude control system. It's a very very small
amount of gas, but nevertheless an indication that we are
still using a bit of attitude control system gas includlng
some - use at - at solar noon when it is not generally expected.
Science Pilot, Ed Gibson indicating he would prefer not
continuing doing ATM operations in the evenings, apparently
trying to catch up on his sleep a little bit. So for the
next few nights he will not be working the solar instruments
that the last evening pass which continues to just a few
before bedtime. Both the pilot and commander indicated that
they were willing to go along with doing the late ATMs for the
next few days anyway. Skylab Control we have AOS at Ascension,
and we'll bring up the line now.
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The fact Chat with two CMGs you are going to see gimbals getting
on the stop especially the inner one. The inner one quite
often ends up brushing up against the stop. The - and your
going to see when a gimble gets on a stop, your gonna see the
rate tend to diverge. It can increase or it can decrease.
Normally when it increases it's going in the right direction
and - and that doesn't really cause us problems. And the inner
one getting on a stop is usually not a problem. It only
becomes a problem with the outer getting on a stop.
SPT Okay.
CC Okeydoke.
SPT (Garble) or one of those positions that we
come down to?
CC Okay, that - the it's about the 90 percent
area, about the 95 percent area when your on the stop. It's
quite obvious when it gets there, it just goes down and stops
there.
SPT All right.
CC Okay. We on our last flight had a problem
on the meter with CMG 3's outer gimbal angle. It quite often
went off scale low intermittently and you might anticipate
that.
CC Okay so that did - -
SPT Right.
CC But - but the big thing is - is when the
rates start to go - when the rates start to decrease. And
I'm going to get a look at that later.
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the single memory location. And we gave you the page that
they're located in your ATM systems checklist, and also we
gave you the actual commands that you can enter to call
them up. What you get on counter 1 is the whole number
portion of what ever value it is, and what you get on
counters 2 and 3 and they're just repeated. Counter 2 and
3 are just exactly alike in the fraction part of it. And
it so happens on this particular callup the fraction part
of it is the only thing that is significant.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay, now like that 0900 I gave you
as the limit, that is in pi rads, and it's .09 and that
equates to approximately 16 degrees.
SPT Okay, we were stratching our heads
trying to figure that out a little while ago.
MCC I beg your pardon?
SPT We are trying to convert from pi rads
to get to the number of the green a little while ago.
MCC Okay, one pi rad is equal to 180.
Okay, now the value where the thing actually switches is
when it gets to the .iiii, that's about 20 degrees.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay.
SPT Okay Bob.
MCC Okeydoke. Now the action that you
should take, and what you're going to see are the rates
significally starting to change. Now that just tells you
you should look at this - this attitude error of the TACS
control law. Okay, and you can get an idea of just how
rapidly things are diverging on you. And you have to make
some judgment, and we gave you a value of 0900 as the one
to go ahead and initiate action on. And what we're going
to have you do there is to basically start a - or reinitiate
a maneuver. And you can do that by changing modes like
hit standby, making sure you're there, and then hitting
solar inertial. Okay?
SPT Yes, I understand that part of it.
MCC Okay, very good and then we told you
the bit about you can phase the Z-LV maneuver if you think you
can. One item I didn't know whether you'd do or not, do
you normally have your vent time counting down to the end
of the maneuver. If not that's a good idea, because it
gives you a - you can ready refverences to what you need to
enter.
SPT No, I don't, I'm using the (garble)
attitude error just to let me know where I am in the maneuver,
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but that's a good idea. I'll go ahead and set that up.
MCC Okeydoke. That, really quick and
dirty sorta runs over the significance of the things. I
guess we've tried it in the simulator, but we've only been
able to duplicate it a - like on that run that you did
the other day on 232. We managed to get the same situation
down here on the second time when we tried it again after
having the same conditions on SLF. And the technique works
there, but again we haven't been able to try it on a
wide variety of things.
SPT Okay. You're reasons, though, for
reselecting the maneuver then is strictly based on what
we're looking at in terms of attitude error and not on
whether we got CMG SAT_ although that may eventually result
in the error.
MCC Yes, what we're trying to do is to
prevent you from getting into a - switching to a TACS
only control situation. And that's based on those three
items that we talked about. Okay?
SPT Okay, we go at 16 rather than wait for the
20.
MCC Well, what - if you wait for the 20
and you have let your sign of your rate change, you're
probably already to late and it's going to switch before
you do it, see. So to prevent that situation I'm - we're
trying to giving you some lead, and that's the 16 degrees.
SPT Yes, I understand that Bob, okay.
MCC Okay, and tomorrow it is our intent
right now that you should monitor the maneuver in. And
then when you get there - get the Z-LV you can hustle on
back and do your ETC and then come back and monitor the
maneuver out.
SPT Okay, I'll go ahead and do that. There
was a note here about monitoring excluding the first and
last minute. Are you that confident we won't have any
problem there even though we've got the gimbal drive
locked?
MCC There's nothing there's nothing you
can monitor there because the things are really going to -
can squirrel around if the outer gimbal drive logic is
active. So you really can't tell too much there, and you
should not get into any kind of problem when that's active.
SPT Okay Bob, I've got it. Some questions
may come up later on, but right now I understand what
you've said.
MCC Okay.
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SPT (garble)
MCC Okeydoke, very good. We've got a
handover coming up here and we've still got about 5
minutes in this pass, so I'm going to go ahead and turn
it back to Bruce now. Thank you very much, and good
night guys,
SPT Good night Bob, and thank a lot for
your time. Appreciate it.
CC Appreciate yours.
CDR Hello Bruce.
CC Hello Jerry.
CDR Got a few administrative goodies for
you here.
CC Okay, administer away.
CDR Okay, I got changes today in the Flight Plan to
checklist cue card and the biomed checklist, and they were
change number 2, and I don't have number i, I wonder if
you'd send those up again for me please?
CC Run the three of them by again please.
CDR Flight plan to checklist cue card
change number i, and biomed checklist change number i, I
don't seem to have them.
CC Okay, we'll do that for you.
CDR Okay, and we just finished up i roll of
film in Nikon 04 on our visual ops. And I'd like to know
what film rolls to tell Bill to load tomorrow morning when he's
ready.
CC We'll get that for you.
CDR Okay, and another point on this
handheld photography, I have not been including that in my
evening statis report as shoppinglist items because we're
debriefing each one of those exercises as soon as it's done,
and I don't think we really need to add that on to the
evening report it just makes -
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modification due to the report that the crew has been only
averaging 6-i/2 hours sleep. Revised ATM pad will go up
tomorrow. Today's activity also includes an M092, M093 medical
run by Pilot Bill Pogue, another in a series of 26 such runs
which will be accomplished throughout the mission. We'll have
acquisition in approximately 5 seconds. We'll hold the line
up for Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS through Goldstone for 6 minutes.
CDR Hello, Story. I'm ready to copy that EDDU
data.
CC Okay. Connect portable TV camera to TVIS,
133. Preferably the same cable you used yesterday. If you have
some different cable hooked up to it, use which ever cable you
have. Turn the TV turn the VIDEO switch to TV position.
CDR Okay, understand. Con - connect the portable
TV to TVIS 133 and turn the TV switch to VIDEO.
CC Yes, sir. And when you're ready and we're
over a ground station, we'll have you turn the TVIS station
on for i0 to 15 seconds and see if we're getting modulation.
CDR Okay, we'll do it.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, 5 minutes
to Bermuda.
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is Phil Shaffer.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Carnarvon for
another 3 minutes here. And we're ready for the ATM
con ference.
SPT Morning, Bill; go ahead.
MCC Okay, between Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
there will be a short time dropout, and I think right now -
we're only on Carnarvon so we'll get right into it. Got
some thoughts from Owen yesterday on some of your detector
seeking comments. Basically his simple messages that there
really isn't any way to short cut the experience which is
what you knew anyway. Words that he passes on, he's on
vacation right now, you'll be seeing lots of fluctuations,
which I'm sure you know. The same number just isn't going
to repeat, it's just the question of getting used to what
you see. He does recommend, if possible, aligning the
electronic oresshairs on the XUV monitor so that it's
coallgned with H-alpha reticle. That way you can point
to the same thing and maybe get closer to the XUV hot
spot you're looking for and point a little more accurately
to begin with.
SPT Yeah, that I've done. I did that last
night, Bill.
MCC Okay, good. And on filament changes
he corrected what I said. He says they're very subtle
slowly varying, almost impossible to see unless you've got
photographs before and after on the polaroid. And you can
very drastically change their appearence just by changing
the contrast and brightness knobs. So on that one - on
filament --
SPT (Garble.)
MCC On the filament activity when we
predicted filament activity that was based on that particular
filament 37 being elevated, quite dense and fairly dynamic
to us on H-alpha. This is still possible today but much
less so. knd, let's see, do you have any comments you need
to pass to us or things we can help you out with here?
SPT On tape and also real time yesterday,
I sent down a lot of comments. And also yesterday morning
I sent down a lot of questions when we talked with you,
and I'm wondering was there any response to all of those.
MCC Yes, there is. I was saving those
to pass on to you now, and if I missed them I'ii try to
write them up and pass them up. With respect to the
running time that you requested, you'll notice that both
today and tomorrow you're not getting much - ATM does not
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CC you.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Hank.
SPT Hank, I was using that time which I had on
the ATM to look around at the - at various things, and one thing I
did notice, which wasn't called out for on the pad this morning was
a prominence; it might be old prominence 37 over there at around
07:00:80. And in my display, it's exceptionally well defined.
I can see it: for about a in the order of an arc minute or so
off the limb. And the northward portion of it has a fairly
dense, nearZy vertical structure to it. I think it's an excep-
tionally well defined one. Probably the best one I've seen on
these displays so far.
CC Roger. We copied.
SPT And, Hank, could you find out for me
whether we're getting into true sunset before we get dump
commence now?
CC Okay, I'ii check that out.
SPT And the other thing I wanted to mention
to the ATM folks is that there's a - a structure in the corona
of the east limb is now very much more pronounced than on the
west limb. Implying that we do have something coming around the
corner. It'_s much more confined to a smaller variation in latitude,
or if you will, in angle. And it goes more between 830 and 930.
The west limb is almost twice that in extent but it's fairly
dense. And the one at 830 looks (garble) yesterday. It's
got a good base at it, may be a helmet streamer, and it's
gone quite :Far out.
CC I copy that, Ed. Thank you.
CC SPT, in answer to your question, sunset and
dump commence are essentially at the same time, at the present
time.
SPT Okay. I think I'ii take a look at the
white light coronagraph display then if we're going into sunset,
one of these orbits when I get a chance. I'Ii put a commentary
of that on _ape.
CC And while we got you here, Ed, I'd like
to give you a little reminder on the Jop 6, step i, the synoptics.
The chip A there, requires a ROLL of zero or 10,800 to clear
the 82A axis of dispersion; and on chip B, we ROLL to approxi-
mately 5400 so that we can see what was behind the power line
on S052,- there in building block A.
SPT Yes, I noted that. You'll find that -
words on - to that effect on tape.
CC Roger. We copy.
PLT Hank, PLT. I've just been looking over
the map here. Just a question to EREP people there of
general interest. This Blake Escarpment, is that a submarine
below the surface feature in the ocean?
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think that you people down there think that we have the color
exterior film loaded in Nikon 3 and we don't. It's in Nikon i.
CC Okay. I guess we were a little bit
confused down here. We got it straightened out, Jer.
CDR Okay.
CC We agree with you.
CC I think whoever built my notes here put the -
accidentally put the wrong number down.
CDR Okay. Good enough. I was afraid, maybe,
we loaded the wrong camera.
CC No. You're doing good work.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Guam at 41. And for the
PLT, a quick question here. Did you run the DAC over the
trench?
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay. We also noted, there may be some
confusion for the CDR in the prep there where it calls out
the roll for the S193. The way it looks on the pad could
be misinterpreted. We wanted minus 30 and we saw plus 30.
However, your data is good and probably what we're going to go ahead
and do is leave a space between the roll the R and minus
30. So there's no mistake in that minus sign for a dash.
CDR Okay. That's what I took it to be, a dash.
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CC Sky -
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
20 hours, 39 minutes, loss of signal through Tananarive.
Commander Carr again discussing the unusual noise and
vibrations aboard the space craft. Flight Director
Phil Shaffer has asked his EGIL to look at the coolant loop
aboard the ATM. Commander Carr made the statement he
shut the pump down and still had a series of vibrations
approximately 2 cycles per second and the whole space craft
is vibrating. However, this is being analyzed on the
ground. Apparently the vibrations are not coming from the
secondary coolant loop in the command module. Commander Carr
has proceeded with the housekeeping checks of the command module.
Meanwhile, ground control is looking at the data on the previous
two passes to determine what if anything is the problem aboard
Skylab at this time. Next acquisition will be Hawaii in
35 minutes 30 seconds at Greenwich meantime 20 hours 40 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.
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