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SL-IV MCI700/I
Time: 18:17 CST 50:00:17 GMT

113174
PAO This is Skylab Control, final call of

the evening coming up Carnarvon, Australia. The data circuits
at that site are down apparently. However, we will have
air-to-ground voice. At 23 minutes past midnight GMT the
circuit will be handed over at Honeysuckle Creek for the
delayed medical conference. And the crew is expected to
be put to bed here at Carnarvon, as far as Mission Control
is concerned. We're standing by.
CC Skylab, weVre AOS Carnarvon/Honeysuckle
for i0 minutes. We'll be using the first 5 minutes and the
surgeon the last five for the med conference.
CC And who's near the STS for a reg adjust?
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay Bill, reg adjust BUS i clockwise
5 degrees, BUS 2 counterclockwise 25 degrees. It's BUS i -
PLT It's complete. Take a look at it.
CC Okay, we don't have any data through
Carnarvon here_ we hope to at Honeysuckle.
PLT Roger.
CC And Bill, there's a little deviation
to the film thread pad on Nikon 03 is loaded with CI 113
instead of 112. We expected iii to be depleted today.
PLT Okay, l've got two more pictures to
take. I think you'll still have a little left in it though.
CC Okay, I will take care of that. The
photo pad will load CI 112 during ED31 tomorrow.
PLT That's fine, I'ii take care of it.
CC Ed_ Houston.
PLT Go ahead, he's listening.
CC Just like to verify the closeout of
the ATM that S054 is at 256, S055 is in the stop mode and
at reference.
CC Optical reference.
SPT Okay, Story S054 is configured properly,
and for 55 they are in mechanical ref 104 where do they want
the switch, optical or ref_ or mechanical.
CC Okay_ they want optical reference on
that Ed.
SPT Okay, we_ll get it.
CC Okay, and while I got you. Have you
taken any auroral photos recently?
SPT No we haven't Story. We hope to, we have
not had the camera and the opportunity at the same time.
CC Okay, any color photos of the comet with
CX or CI?
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Time: 18:17 CST 50:00:17 GMT
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SPT No we have not Story. We have taken

some with the high speed black and white with T025 filters
for SO63. That's all on tape.
CC Okay and could you compare the brightness
of the comet with Jupiter. Jupiters about minus 1.6. And
could you relate to the brightness of the comet to - to Jupiter?
CC And I guess we better wait for that.
We got about 15 seconds here to the medical conference.
We'll plan to put you to bed here after the medical conference.
The next pass is 00:41.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The air-to-
ground circuit has been handed over to the crew physician
for the medical conference here at Honeysuckle. We'll
leave the circuit up for the remainder of the Honeysuckle
AOS, just in case it's passed back. With a short medical
conference there's still an excess of 4 minutes until LOS
Honeysuckle. Next station would be Hawaii in 17 minutes,
but it's unlikely there will be any air-to-ground over
that station. Standing by just in case the surgeon gets
through with it's - his conference with the crew.
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SL IV MC-1701/I
Time: 18:24 CST 50:00:24 GMT
1/3/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal

from Honeysuckle Creek. The medical conference taking place
during that pass. Hawaii in ii minutes. And as soon as a
summary of the medical conference is forthcoming from the
crew physician that will be read. And we may or may not talk
to the crew over Hawaii. At 30 minutes past midnight GMT,
this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1702/I
TIME: 18:40 CST, 50:00:40 GMT
1/3/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, 41 minutes past

midnight, Greenwich mean time. Acquisition at Hawaii upcoming
in about 38 seconds. Just in case Skylab IV crew calls the
ground, we'll stay up across this Hawaii pass.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Hawaii
for 4 minutes, Ed, Houston.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Hawaii
for 2 and a half minutes. Ed, Houston.
PAO This is Skylab Control. 50 minutes
past midnight Greenwich mean time, no joy in raising the
crew through Hawaii tracking station and apparently a final
line problem. So we'll try again over Goldstone. A few
more questions for the crew tonight before they finally sign
off. 3 minutes away from acquisition at Goldstone and
we'll just: stay up live here between Hawaii and Goldstone.
CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for
16 minutes and Ed, I've got three things for you.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, a comment on the JOP 18D, it left us
with a zero maneuver time, we'd like to load in a 13 minute
maneuver time and while you're up there S055, just put the
switch to OPTICAL REF, there's nothing else needed.
SPT Okay.
CC And could you tell us how many frames
if any, you've taken of the S063 comet shopping list?
SPT Yeah, 6 frames, two clear and these'll
make it two with priority. All with Nikon 02, those were
recorded on tape.
CC Okay, thanks.
CC Ed we see a good maneuver time and
could you make a comment now on the relative brightness of
the Jupiter and the comet. We show Jupiter minus 1.6,
could you relate to comet to Jupiter in terms of brightness?
SPT Yeah, Story the comet now is quite a
bit fainter than Jupiter, around 2 or 3 days ago again that's
a rough recollection, they were of comparable magnitude.
CC Okay, thanks and we've worked up a urine
blood system for you all which we'll get up to you about mission
day 52, it: includes taking some 24 hour collection samples
and some other 36 hours ones, that'll make up for the
shortage of sample bags, we'll get that up to you later.
SPT Thank you.
CC And if you've nothing more for us tonight,
this will be our last pass and we can offer you wakeup at
Vanguard at 11:04.
SPT Wakeup call sounds pretty good Story,
do you have any later (static)?
CC We're breaking up as we handover to
MILA, see you in about 30 seconds.
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TIME: 18:40 CST, 50:00:40 GMT
1/3/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, we in a break

here between stations. Meanwhile we have the crew surgeon's
summary by Dr. Jerry Hordinsky and it reads as follows:
"The crew remains in good health. The commander had nasal
stuffiness relieved quickly by an oral decongestant. All
demonstrated a short sleep period yesterday but tonight,
sleep should compensate for that." That's the end of the
report by crew physician Dr. Jerry Hordinsky, we're standing
by for reacquisition through MILA and Bermuda.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1703/I
Time: 19:01 CST 50:01:01 GMT
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CC Skylab, we're back with you through MILA

for i0 minutes.
CC And Ed, I missed the last thin_s you gave
me after givlnE you the wake-up call at Vanguard.
SPT Well, after you get the wake-up call then
the next thing you usually expect to look forward to is the
evening news, wonderin_ how you stand. If you don't have any
in front of you Story, why don't you just make some up, that
might be better,
SPT It's sounding very much like the old (static)
LOS trick.
CC No, not quite, we just broke up, we're back
with you.
CC And Ed, on the SO55, we need the night
interlock switch to normal.
CC Ed, we're back with you through Bermuda,
did you get my call on the SO55 night interlock switch to
normal?
CC Okay Ed, the ATM closeout looks good in
there and we'll see you in the morning at Vanguard, 11:04,
good night.
CDR Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead Jer.
CDR Yeah, we were wondering if you have any
evening news?
CC Yes sir, here it comes. Most of the national
and international news concentrated on the energy crisis and
in Washington gasoline stations are violating price regulations
at a higher rate than any other industry under government price
guidelines an Internal Revenue Service survey shows. About 20
percent of service stations checked were sellin_ gasoline above
the legal ceiling price, the agency said. The energy shortage
will not have the seriously adverse effect on the economy that
some economic and business leaders are predicting, Roy Ash,
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, said. One
of the nation's leading economic research organizations said
that it felt the Nixon administration was overstating the
oil shortage in the United States by as much 1.3 million
barrels a day. Skylab news on the wires and in the newspapers
concentrated on your TV press conference of yesterday and
the reoccrring "hiccups" of the CMGs. And hundreds of Russian
science projects are emerging at Albert Thomas Convention Center
in Houston to form a section of the Soviet Youth Exhibition
which opens Ja_ary 12. Thirty young people representing all
of the Soviet Union's 15 republics are in Houston to serve as
exhibit guides and to visit school and college groups for
discussion. The guides, most of whom speak English, will give
lectures £n Russian also, information agent for the group said.
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Time: 19:01 CST 50:01:01 GMT
1/3/74
The Britons settle down to live with power crisis, shopping

in candle-lit shops and working in unheated offices as if
born to do it. And the Associated Press rankings announced
today the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame are the national
champions of college football. By defeating regular-season
leader Alabama 24_23 in the Sugar Bowl, Notre Dame vaulted
from third place to first in the final rankings announced
today and thereby captured its first national championship
since 1966. And on the Super Bowl if you are from out of
town and want to see this year's Super Bowl game (kickoff's
2 p.m. Sunday, January, 13), you might have to rent a room for
Friday and Saturday too. A poll Wednesday night showed that
many Houston area hotels and motels require payment in advance
for the entire three days in order to reserve a room for
that weekend. Okay, Skylab, that's about what I've got
for you tonight.
CDR Okay Story, thanks a lot. Good night.
CC Good night.
SPT Good night Story.
CC Ed.
PLT Night Story.
CC Night Bill.
CC Got anybody else up there?
PLT We'll never tell.
PAO Skylab Control; loss of signal through
Bermuda, final good night to the crew. Toward the end there
at Bermuda the crew made three requests for the news before
it was finally passed up to them, We'll return at 5:00 a.m.
for tomorrow's work day with Skylab IV. Signing off at 01:14
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-1704/I
Time: 05:03 CST 50:11:03 GMT
1/4/74
PA0 Skylab Control at ii hours 3 minutes 23 seconds

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now 55 seconds
from acquisition through the Vanguard tracking ship. The pass
through Vanguard will last about ii minutes, and we should have
some morning wakeup call here.
CC (Music)
CC And Skylab, Houston, as we acquire your
spacecraft rising slowly out of the west at Vanguard the
Bronze fellows wish you a pleasant good morning.
CDR Good morning.
CC (Music)
CC Skylab, Houston, we're I minute from LOS.
We'll see you at Ascension at 18. And wetll plan to dump the
recorder there.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CC (Music)
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 15 minutes
45 seconds. Skylab space station has now passed out of range
of the tracking ship Vanguard. Our next acquisition is a little
less than 2 minutes away at Ascension. The crew awakened by
a Chet Atkins medley this morning and spacecraft communicator
Hank _artsfield. We_ll keep the line up live now for the pass
through Ascension. The Ascension pass will last about 10-1/2
minutes. We're still about a minute and 40 seconds from acquisi-
tion there. Normally during the mornings the ground is very
quiet and does not interrupt the crew. That's part of the new
policy of not interrupting them during the postsleep period
to allow them to finish their activities a little bit faster
so that they can get on with the day's work. They have reduced
the amount of time available for breakfast and other post-
sleep activities. And they've also reduced the amount of time
in the evening for presleep activities. And to benefit
the crew, it will give them a little bit more time to get those
things done. They do not interrupt them generally on the
air-to-ground. We're a minute from acquisition at Ascension.
We'll leave the line up live now.
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SL-IV MC-1705/I
Time: 05:19 CST 50:11:19 GMT
1/4/74
CC Skylab, Houston, we're back with you

through Ascension for 2-1/2 minutes. And we plan to dump
the recorder here.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston we need the recorder for
a dump.
PLT Okay Hank, they are not in use now.
CC Skylab, Houston, for info no response
required, we're through the dump and the recorder is yours.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you again at Guam at 12:02, that's 35 minutes from
now. And at that point if it's convenient I'll have one little
item for each of you.
CREWMAN (Garble)
CC Okay.
50 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now
out of range of the tracking antenna at Ascension. Our next
acquisition is 33 minutes away at Guam.
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SL-IV MC1706/I
Time: 06:01 CST, 50:12:01 GMT
1/4/74
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 1 minute and

about to be acquired through the tracking antenna at Guam, where
we'll have a 9 minute pass. Spacecraft communicator is Hank
Hartsfield. The Flight Director on duty is Charles Lewis.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Roger, Hank.
CC Yeah, Bill. Yesterday evening, I guess
we got a little confused on a statement you made that you didn't
get to TV 105; but we're looking at the video we dumped and
it looks like you had part of it on there. Did we misunder-
stand you?
PLT Stand by. No, I don't remember saying
that, Hank. In fact, the - the Rochelle salt is sitting
in the looker per instruction, covered with wash cloths
and all that good stuff.
CC Okay. So you did complete the first
set of tests. That's real good. Now, one other question
in regarding to the TV. How much more practice time do you think
you'll need for the TV 107?
PLT Why don't you let me - you don't need to
schedule in any today. Let me see what I can do today in my
spare time and give you a report in the morning or this evening.
I guess that on the background or the setup has all ready
been prepared - it's sitting over there and what I need to
do is play with it just a little bit more to see exactly
what sort of exercise I want to put on the television. I
think that I have a fairly good idea what I want to do but
I want to play with the - with the water droplets and so
forth just a little bit more to gain a little skill.
CC Okay, and did you plan to do anything with
TV 102 today? The narrative part?
PLT Stand by.
CC We got your video on that, Bill, and we
were just wondering about the narrative.
PLT I had not planned to do anything on that.
In fact, what I tried to do was to give enough sequences
there on that. That could be narrated very briefly and I
would like to put some remarks on tape for the Pls and I will
put the remarks on the tape for the Pls - making suggestions
about the narration.
CC Okay. We copy.
PLT (Garble) I'd like to do the narration after
I get back, and l'm going to put my remarks on tape in that
respect.
CC Okay. That'll be fine, Bill.
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PLT How did that look on television? I was

not very confident about using that closeup lens on that
television.
CC It looked real good to us, Bill.
PLT It was in focus, huh?
CC That's affirmatiVe.
PLT Okay. Good show.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Roger. Go ahead.
CC Yes, Jer. In regard to the - your C&D
pad for the EREP coming up this evening, we've got on there
at 17:38 to get the EREP BUS i, S191 power ON and we omitted
that on your details. And if you'd like to, you might make
that entry. We chose the time 17:38 so that you could do it
right between your PT and eating and wouldn't have to interrupt
your eat period. The magic number is 18:03. It has to be
on by then.
CDR Okay. 17:38 is EREP i and 191.
CC That's affirmative.
CC And I have one small correction to the
ATM pad for whoever's holding that right now.
CDR Stand by, Hank. Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay. It's down in daylight and at
15:38 Zulu, the pass beginning there, it - in the S056 in
the building block 28 there, we've got - S frame L and it
should be i. That probably would be obvious to you there
when you got - looked at it.
CDR Okay. We have that, Hank.
CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS, Skylab.
We'll see you again at Vanguard at 41 and we plan to dump
the recorder there.
CDR (Garble)
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 12 minutes
and 13 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
is now gone out of range of the Guam tracking antenna. Our
next acquisition is 30 minutes away at Vanguard. This is
Skylab Control at 12 minutes and 27 seconds after the hour.
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SL-IV MC1707/I
TIME: 06:40 CST, 50:12:40 GMT
1/4/74

35 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
off the coast of Chile is about to he acquired through
the Vanguard tracking ship. The pass through Vanguard will
last a little more than ii minutes. Bring the line up live
now for alr-to-ground at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for ii
minutes. And we plan to dump the recorder here.
SPT Hank, would you ask the SO54 people if
they want a time exposure here. From the pad that's what I
infer but I have not seen the change.
CC Oh - -
SPT If I did get the change, it did not
get incorporated somehow.
CC Okay, will do.
SPT That's building block lB.
CC SPT, Houston; the change that we sent up
as should have given you a 17-minute exposure there, in chip B,
for SO54.
SPT Okay, Hank. Apparently there's a bookkeeping
problem then. Could they put up some time today a list, not
a redoal (sic), but Just a llst of the changes of the building blocks
and JOP summary sheets that were changed. And I'll go through
them and make sure we have them all.
CC Okay, that's 54 you want that. Is
that right, Ed?
SPT That's right, Hank. I am convinced we
put them all in there, but partly that's what got o_er-
looked, and I'd like to make sure that there's nothing else
in that situation.
CC Okay, we'll do it.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll see you at Ascension at 58, and that's about
6 minutes.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now going out
of range of the tracking antenna at Vanguard. Our next
acquisition _s about 5-1/2 minutes away, That will be
at Ascension. After 7 weeks and 20 million miles in orbit
above the Earth, astronauts Jerry Cart, Ed Gibson, and Bill
Pogue are in excellent health and working hard. Up at
5 a.m. central standard time, solar physicist Gibson is studying
the Sun all this morning with a pair of medical tests planned
for the afternoon. All three astronauts will conduct an
Earth resources survey this afternoon along a 7100 mile path
that includes the cloud cover in eastern United States and
some unusual storm conditions over the north Atlanzie, A complex
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TIME: 06:40 CST, 50:12:40 GMT
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electronic sensor will survey the Atlantic Oceans surface in

an area where winds up to 70 miles per hour have been reported.
Later today Skylab Commander Jerry Carr will take photographs
of the ultraviolet radiation from the comet Kohoutek. The
comet, now 28 million miles from the Sun, has already begun
to grow dimmer. But Earth-bound observers should be able to
see it in the southwestern sky just after sunset during the
coming week. We're about 4-1/2 minutes from acquisition
at Ascension. The Ascension pass is the beginning of an
extended pass through Ascension, Canary Island, and Madrid
for a period of about 15 minutes. We'll leave the line up
live for the air-to-ground there.
CC Good morning, Skylab, the crimson crew's
back with you. AOS through Ascension for 14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Good morning, Crip.
CC Good morning, gents.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Hey, Crip, this C&D coolant procedure that
the PLT has got, is that strictly - Is the purpose of that to
bleed air?
CC That's affirmative, Jer.
CDH I'm just wondering, we're - we're violating
Carr's first law here and that's letting a good thing - leaving
a good thing alone. We got a good C&D loop that's running
nice and quiet, I wonder why we ought to mess with it.
CC Well, we've been seeing the flow drop con-
tinue to increase, Jer. And I guess that's that's the reason.
It dropped down to i00 pounds per hour, considerably below what
it's supposed to be. That's we've seen that twice and I
guess we're just trying to - to get ahead of it before it actually
gets much worse.
CDR Okay, we didn't hear your first sentence,
you dropped out, Crip.
CC Okay, I was saying that we have seen the
flow drop down to i00 pounds per hour twice now, which is more
than half of what it's - less than half of what it's supposed
to be, and we're just trying to get a Jump on it and bleed it
out before it continues to get much worse.
CDR Okay, good. We'll go ahead and do it.
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CC Well, we've been seeing the flow drop

continue to increase here, and I guess that's - that's the
reason. It's dropped down to i00 pounds per hour, considerably
below what it's supposed to be, that's we've seen that
twice, and I guess we're just trying to - to get ahead of it
before it actually gets much worse.
CDR Okay. We didn't hear your first sentence.
You dropped out, Crip.
CC Okay. I was saying that we have seen
the flow drop down to i00 pounds per hour twice now which is
more than half of what it's - less than half of what it's
supposed to be and we're Just trying to get a jump on it and
bleed it out before it continues to get much worse.
CDR Okay. Good. We'll go ahead and do it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from
LOS. Next station contact is Guam in 27 minutes at 13:40,
13:40 and that's set up for the conference with Bill Lenoir.
CDR Thank you, Crip.
33 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
over the southern tip of Italy, is out of range of the
tracking antenna at Madrid. 25 minutes to acquisition at
Guam. This morning at 17:39:59 Greenwich mean time, or
11:39:59 central standard time, the Skylab astronauts, now
with just over 7 weeks in space, will pass the total time
accumulated by Pete Conrad, the commander of the first Skylab
crew during his four space flights. Conrad's total time in
space is 1179 hours 38 minutes 36 seconds. That record whlch
includes two Gemini flights, V and XI, the Apollo XII Moon
landing, and the first Skylab mission, made Conrad the world's
most experienced space traveler when he splashed into the
Pacific Ocean last June. Since then, the three astronauts
of the second Skylab mission have passed Conrad's total time
in space and now, today that record will be passed by Jerry
Carr, Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue. That will make Carr, Gibson,
and Pogue in positions 4, 5, and 6 in the total time in space
category. Again, the record will be broken today at 17:39:59
Greenwich mean time or 11:39:59 central standard time. Conrad's
record from Gemini V and XI, Apollo XII and the first Skylab
mission, is ].179 hours 38 minutes 36 seconds. This is
Skylab Control at 16 minutes after the hour. 24 minutes to
our next acquisition.
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SL-IV MC1709/I
TIME: 07:39 CST, 50:13:39 GMT
1/4/74
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 39 minutes.

The present time the Skylab space station is 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Guam. The pass through Guam
will last about 7 minutes. The spacecraft communicator is
Bob Crlppen. He took over a short while ago from Hank Harts-
field, and the flight director on duty now is Don Puddy.
CC Skylab, this is Houston with the ATM
conference.
SPT (Garble)
CC Okay, Ed, I read you kind of garbled there.
The first thing for today is to discuss today's operations
which probably appear somewhat confusing. So if you've got
the ATM schedule pad and some J0P summary sheets, I'ii talk
to you about it.
SPT (Garble)
MCC Okay, Ed, apparently you're on intercom.
SPT Hello, Bill; how now?
MCC Loud and clear.
SPT Very good. Jerry is disconnecting the
VTR and I'm standing by ready to go ahead with the discussion.
MCC Okay, good enough. And on the orbit that
youtre about to do starting at 14:07 Zulu here, the plan
here that the spicule Job for SO55. And they don't want
a pointing change between the BB 28_s. What they are doing is
trying to set it up so that a few lines of their mini-RASTER
appear on the disk and the rest are off the disk, and they
just repeatedly run these mini-RASTERS looking at the spicule
changes as they've done before. On the following orbit
beginning at 15:38 Zulu is a conglomerate. The first part
15 Bravo, JOP 15 Bravo, building block 28, is part of a mini-
limb scan for 82B at the South Pole. And this has three parts
in three different orbits, which was really the only way
they would fit. We had a tough time trying to get our 8
pounds into the 5-pound bag here today, so it looks somewhat
confusing. But operating it is fairly straightforward
other than the fact that we no longer use the limb pointing
for 82, so we'll just be pointing off on a white light, as
it says. The potentially confusing part is the next one,
at 24 minutes remaining, JOP 1 Delta_ a building block special.
Essentially what we're doing here is we're pointing, as in
step i, on 1 Delta, where you're going to use H-alpha 1 to
point the sllt along a prominent spicule that you can find.
Use the slit white light display to get the proper offset
of 5 arc-seconds, so that the whole slit is off of the limb
and the near edge of the sllt is 5 arc-seconds away from the
limb and operating then as dipicted there, which is to set
up 82B and 55 and to start each one. And each minute stop
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and restart for 15 minutes. The 15 minutes was chosen under

the assumption that the spicule lifetime is on the order
of 7 minutes, but you'll be there looking at it so that you
can use your onboard initiative here. If it runs longer than
15 minutes you've got a few minutes after this to keep going,
or if it looks like you're not getting much you can terminate
a little bit early on that. Do you have any questions on
that so far?
SPT No, I don't, Bill. 15 minutes is kind of
long because you'll probably pick one that's at its peak.
That's the easiest one to pick out, and you certainly can't
guess which one's growing and which one's decaying. So 15
minutes may be a little long, but we'll hold in there as long
as there's something still remaining in the scope.
MCC Okay, good. And the main thing there is
with the 101 film 82B can take meaningful 1-minute exposures
and try to get the spicule development and evolution here.
Then at 17:23 and also at 22:10, we've got some more 15 Bravo
BB 37's which are the remainder of the 82B mini-limb scan
at the south pole. And again it's - it's pointing offset with
the fine Sun sensor and not with limb pointing. And that's
about the only funnies here in today's schedule. If you don't
have any more comments we can press on.
SPT No, I don't, Bill. That looks like a
reasonable thing to do, and we*ll press on with it. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, we discussed your suggestion on
flare rise and planning for the active Sun yesterday for a
bit. Basically what we're doing is we're going to have a
meeting Monday morning which is mission day 53, where we will
plan out how we are going to operate during two-week period
that the active regions are on the front of the Sun. This
will include what we're going to do at east limb passage,
west llmb passage, center of the disk, how we're going to
try to get after flares, flare rises, and so on. And the
first conference that we have after that meeting I'll pass
on to you everything that we've talked about and hopefully
take back some thoughts from you, talk it again and then home
in on the - our plan of attack for that period.
SPT Okay, very good. I'd like to emphasize
again that after working this last time around, I think the
only thing we were lacking was a long enough time Just in the
flare wait mode. I think we had the equipment on board, especially
the XUV monitor, with the (garble) scope to pick up something
early, just to question whether the operator is going to be
free, and have his eyeball glued to that thing long enough
in order to finally wait for one and get it. So when the flare
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probability is high I think we ought to go into that mode

and stay there. That's if we really want to get a flare rise.
MCC Roger. And we'll be working on that. The
one fly - potential fly in the ointment here is how many
ATM orbits we actually get on a given day, as to whether we've
got significant time to put into that. We'll just have to
see how that goes.
SPT Okay. The people down there know the
priorities, so that's fine.
MCC Okay, we've got about a minute here _til
LOS. Honeysuckle is next in 8 minutes from now, which is
13:53. We have - right now we're working on the list of the
54 changes by page and building block, and we'll be teleprinterlng
that up to you shortly.
SPT Yeah, sorry for that confusion. I thought
I had them all written in there and then I realized as I
was doing 6 this morning that there was not a change facing
me and I can't figure out what the problem was. Maybe (?)
that meticulously (?) went through them all. So l'm - I'd just
llke to double check and make sure everything is covered.
MCC Right, I almost suggested that yesterday
with this list that you know, it's kind of hard to do all
that, but I decided not to, and I guess we should have.
So we'll get that up to you today. Let me go ahead.
SPT Just some real quick things for the planning
people. In looking at the XUV monitor we see the one bright
active region which is around oh, 120.4 out,and then there's
two over on the west llmb, one at - on the east limb, excuse
me, and they're out 250 and one at 280, just coming around the
corner. Other than that there's just a couple of bright points
here and there. I don't see any significant filiment channels.
South Pole has a very good coronal hole; North Pole only slightly.
Corona shows a fairly pronounced streamer at 2 o_clock, and then a
series of - well three small, relatively smaller ones over at 8:00
8:30, and 9:30.
MCC Okay, Ed. Thank you for that information.
I'ii see that we take a look at that at planning, and we'll
be talking to you tomorrow.
SPT Okay, one other point, I mention once on
the recorder, is, we have not yet seen any coronal transients
on the display, and IVm wondering where - where the - what's
different, because apparently it has been seen on SL-III and we're
just now picking them up for some reason. Either they're not
there, or we're not seeing them.
MCC Right, and I've got that. IVve been carrying
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that answer around with me for 2 days, but I've run out
of time. We'll talk about it tomorrow for sure.
SPT Thank you, Bill.
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SPT - - and then there's two over on the west

limb one at - front east limb - excuse me, and they're on
250 and one at 280_ just coming around the corner. Other
than that, there's just a couple of bright points here and
there. I don't see any significant filament channels (garble)
and very good coronal hold, North Pole only slightly. Corona
shows a fairly pronounced streamer at 2 o'clock, and then a
series of about three small relatively smaller ones over
at 8, 8:30, and 9:30.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you for that information.
I'll see that that we take a look at that at planning, and
we'll be talking to you tomorrow.
SPT Okay, one other point I mentioned was on
the recorder is we have not yet seen any coronal transient
on the display. And I'm wondering where the - where the -
what different because (garble) had been seen on the SL-III,
and were just now picking them up for some reason. Either
they're net there, or we're not seeing them.
MCC Right. And I've got that. I've been
carrying that answer around with me for 2 days, but I've
run out of time. We'll talk about tomorrow for sure.
CDR Yes, this is CDR. The VTR's powered
up again.
MCC Copy.
PAO Skylab control at 13 hours 49 minutes.
Present time the Skylab station is passing over New Guinea;
it's out of range of the signal at Guam. Our next acquisition's
about 4 minutes away and we'll keeep the line up live for
that pass at Honeysuekly. It's a relatively low-elevation
pass. It'll only last about 2-1/2 minutes. During this
last pass, we had the daily ATM acience report on solar
astronomy. That report was given by Doctor William Lenolr.
4 minutes to acquisition of signal at Honeysuckly. We'll
keep the line up live for alr-to-ground there.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from
LOS. Next station contact is Vanguard in 25 minutes. That's
14:21, 14:21.
SPT Hello, Crip. Talk to you then.
CC Okeydoke.
PAO Skylab control at 57 minutes and
47 seconds after the hour. Present time Skylab space
station is out of range of the tracking antenna at Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. Our next acquisition is 22-1/2 minutes
away. This morning the Skylab crew occupied with a variety
of things. Commander Cart and Pilot Bill Pogue bo_h working
at a number of housekeeping activitles_ while Science pilot
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Ed Gibson has been working at the ATM console and will spend
the rest of the morning studying the Sun. Sun a very quite
object at this point, expected to go into a more active period.
And during the ATM conference a short while ago, Bill Lenoir
was telling the Commander that they're going to give some
consideration to his suggestion that they pay special
attention to gathering data on a flare rise. No Skylab
activity yet: has gathered data from teh very beginning of a
rise although a number of them have caught the flare before
it reached its peak. So that's one thing that Ed Gibson
thinks is worth emphasizing. And it will be considered by
the team of solar scientiests who control the various
instruments on the ATM. Also this morning, Bill Pogue will
be doing the S183, that's scheduled to begin about an hour
from now. That observation of stellar field's been done a
number of times already in the mission and will be continued
today. Late this evening Commander Jerry Carr will be working
with SO19 instrument to take photographs of the comet Kohoutek.
Yesterday Science Pilot Ed Gibson informed the ground that
the comet Kohoutek has become a good deal dimmer in the last
few days. 2 or 3 days ago, he described it as being about
as bright as Jupiter, which is one of the brightest objects
in the night sky now, with an approximate magnitude of
minus 1.6. He says now, though, that Jupiter has become
a good deal dimmer or that the comet has become a good
deal timmer than Jupiter. He says that they were comparable
2 or 3 days age. Now it's quite a bit fainter. That's
good news and bad news, I guess. The crew expected that
sort of thing to happen, however, the indication that is
was as brgiht as minus 1.6 a couple of days ago, shows that
it is a relatively bright object in the sky, or was at least
at that time. It should become visible in the next few days
from the surface of the Earth as it moves further away from
the Sun. It's presently about 28 million miles from the
Sun's surface. And at that distance it should become visible
in the twilight sky after the Sunset. It should appear in
the southwest in the general vacinity of where the Sun itself
went down. Also scheduled for this afternoon is a run of the
M092 of lower body negative pressure test on Science Pilot
Ed Gibson. The observer for that run, which is scheudled to
begin shortly after 20:00 Greenwich mean time, about 6 hours
from now is Commander Carr. And there's an Earth resources
pass, 7100 mile-long pass beginning off the Coast of
Mexico on the Pacific Ocean and crossing the Houston area,
and also crossing the Eastern United States which is - remains
fairly well clouded in. That pass will continue out over the
north Atlantic were several very important sites are expected
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to be gathered. These are areas where very high winds have

been encountered, approximately 70 mile an hour peak winds.
And data will be gathered with one of the electronic
instruments to show the relationship between weather conditions,
cloud conditions, and sea surface. That study's one that
Willard Pierson of New York University will be of particular -
find a paticular interest. He's tried for quite some time
to find an area where that could be studied intensively.
In fact, on previous occasions, there has ben passes made
specifically for gathering data of that sort. However, no
opportunity has come along as good as this one for high winds
and sea surface conditions studies. 18 minutes and 46 seconds
to our next acquisition of signal. It's now i minute and
42 seconds after the hour, and this is Skylab Control.
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PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours and 19 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now about
55 seconds from acquisition of signal through Vanguard. Slow
elevation pass by the Vanguard tracking ship will last about
6-1/2 minutes. The spacecraft communicator is Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through the Vanguard
for 6-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crlp. Wonder if you could give
me some information about a star near the comet.
CC I'm sorry, Ed. Would you say again?
SPT Crip, how do you read me now?
CC Loud and clear. How me?
SPT A little bit broken, l'd like to get
some information on a star very close to the comet. As you're
looking at the comet with the head - nucleus on the left
tail going to the right, there is a star which is aronnd
3 degrees back and 2 degrees down. It's the only relatively
bright one in the area. I wonder if you could tell me what
that one is and what its intensity is - what its brightness
is.
CC Okay. We'll check that. There - we got
a couple of planets, I believe in the vacinity of the comet
right now, Venus and Jupiter. It's not one of those?
SPT No, Venus and Jupiter are quite a bit
further back. It would be useful to know what they're distance
is. It use to be somewhere around 15 and 18. I think that's
probably changed a little bit now. We see those quite
clearly, but it's not those.
CC Okay. We'll check that out for you.
And Skylab, we're ab6ut 30 seconds from LOS. Next station
contact is over Canary in 13 minutes at 14:40, 14:40. We'll
be doing a data/volce recorder dump there and try to have that
information by then, Ed.
SPT Thanks, Crip. Talk to you then.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is passed out of
range of the tracking ship Vanguard. 12 minutes to our next
acquisition at Canary Island. This is Skylab Control.
from acquisition at Canary Island. The pass through Canary
Island and Madrid will last about 15 minutes. The space-
craft communicatior is Bob Crlppen.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canaries for 14
minutes. Doing a data/voice recorder dump. And_ Ed, if you've
got a chance, I believe we can identify that star for you.
SPT Okay, Crip. Thank Fou. What is it?
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CC Okay. Prom your description, we believe

it's Dabih, which is a magnitude of plus 3.2. For other
comparisons, of course, Venus is about minus 4 and Jupiter
is minus 1.6.
SPT Okay, Crip. Copy. The comet looks
just about in terms of intensity like Dabih on terms of
brightness. It's certainly a little bit larger, so it's
but its totally intergrated light looks to be about the
same.
CC Very good. Thank you.
SPT And also, do you know how far back Venus
and Jupiter are now? They're a good - good yard sticks for
us to measure the tail length.
CC We'll get a check on that for you.
CC Ed, in answer to your question, Venus is
approximately 7 degrees back from the comet now.
SPT Thank you.
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CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from

LOS. Next station contact is Honeysuckle in 34 minutes, at
15:27. And, Ed, for your information, we have not been able
to confirm the brightening that you mentioned out at 250
slant 1.0 by any ground station observatory.
SPT Crip, it's there bigger than life on the
XUV monitor display. It's relatively higher in the atmosphere
than the i at around 280_ so I suspect it's Just coming
around the limb.
CC Okay, right now we didn't predict anything
coming around until active region 97 on mission day 53,
about three days away, but we'll take a look at it.
SPT Okay.
Greenwich mean time. Skylah space station over eastern
Europe has passed out of range of the tracking antenna at
Madrid. 32 minutes and 52 seconds to our next acquisition
at Carnarvon - at Honeysuckle, Australia. During this last
pass the ground gave a report to Ed Gibson, who had inquired
about a star located a few degrees from the comet. That
star is Dabih, D-a-b-i-h, with a magnitude of plus 3.2 and
a yellowish color. For comparison's sake the ground informed
Science Pilot Gibson that Venus has a magnitude of minus 4,
and Jupiter a magnitude of minus 1.6. Last night Gibson
reported that the comet had become considerably dimmer in
the last couple of days. Two or three days ago he indicated
that the comet's brightness was roughly the same as that
of Jupiter, at minus 1.6, which would have made it a relatively
bright object in the heavens. However, he said that it had
about equaled Jupiter at that time, it had become a good
deal dimmer by last night and was much fainter. Today he
says that it's now about as bright as Dabih, or one might
rather say, it's as dim as Dabih. The order of magnitude
of plus 3.2 would indicate that it's now about 1/50 the
brightness of Jupiter. Jupiter is about 50 times as bright
as the comet Kohoutek today. And that indicates that it's
come down very substantially in its brightness levels in the
last day or so. A big disapointment, I'm sure, to some
Earth observers who were looking forward to getting a good
look at the comet. Looks like it might be a very dim object
now in the heavens by the time Earth gets a good chance to
look at it in the next few days during the twilight period.
Also Ed Gibson reporting something else that couldn't be
seen from Earth, and that's a llmb brightening occurlng in
the upper atmosphere of the Sun that may be _ndictlve of
a region coming around with some substantial activity. Ground
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reported no activity expected at this time_ and also none

of the ground observatories were able to detect any brightening.
Of course, the extreme ultraviolet monitor_ a TV monitor on
which Ed Gibson was making a video tape recording of that
upper atmospheric brightening, is capable of seeing in the
extreme ultraviolet, which is not visible for the most part
to ground-based observatories. Ground-based observatories
are cut off by the atmosphere from viewing ultraviolet light
which is absorbed and scattered by the upper atmosphere.
30 minutes to our next acquisition of signal. 56-1/2 minutes
after the hour, this is Skylab Control.
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PAO Skylab Control, at 15 hours 26 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now over the
northern part of Australia. It is about to be acquired
through the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking station.
This pass through Honeysuckle Creek will last about 8 minutes.
The spacecraft comunicator is Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle
for 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient
this site, we'd like to switch pumps on the ATM C&D coolant
loop. That procedure we were in this morning looks like it
worked out real well for pump Charlie, and we want to switch
to Bravo. If - but that's a non-time critical item, and if
everybody's busy right now, we can catch it next site.
CDR Okay, Crip. And we got our noise back
now. How that she's running at full capacity, it's just as
noisy as lit was before.
CC I was afraid of that.
CDR You got Bravo.
CC Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. Just as a matter of
information, the pressures that we're seeing now - correction -
the FLOW RATE on the ATM, C&D coolant loop is comparable
with what it was after we ran this procedure the last time,
where we took the gas out of the out of the loop. We
were running about a little over 280 ibs. an hour on the -
on pump Charlie_ and we're seeing like 295 ibs. an hour
on Bravo.
CDR Roger, Crip. And how was the cooling
capacity on the - on the the pumps before you did this
fix?
CC Okay, we'll see if we can get you a
good answer to that Jer. The - I guess what we were afraid
of there was not necessarily the capacity, but the fact that
it showed that it was deteriorating, and we were worried
about getting more and more air in the loop.
CDR Yeah, cavitation could really get to you.
CC Rog.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from
LOS. Next station contact is over Bermuda in 36 minutes,
that's 16:11, 16:11. And Jer, in answer to your question,
what I said earlier was basically correct. The reason that
we wanted to go ahead and clean the air out was to prevent
any cavitation. The cooling capacity of the system was
increased on the order of about i0 per cent, but that was
not the reason that we wanted to go ahead and do it. Again
it was cavitation. If Ed is listening I can give him a
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little bit update on those planets' distance from the comet.

The corrected distance was about 8.9 degrees for Venus and
Jupiter's about 13.2 degrees.
SPT Okay, Crip. Thank you. I thought that
Venus looked a little bit further away than that. 8.9, that's
good.
CC Rog. And Venus is - well at about 24:00
Zulu is going to be about 7.7 degrees and Jupiter will be 12.3.
SPT Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours and 36 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is out of range
of Honeysuckle Creek. Our next acquisition is 34 minutes
away at Bermuda. During this pass, some additional discussion
of the comet Kohoutek and its relationship to the planets
Venus and Jupiter. Venus, approximately 9 degrees behind
the comet, but it will be a little bit closer later in the
day. And Jupiter about 13 degrees behind the comet. Crew
earlier informed us that Ed Gibson reported this morning that
Jupiter is now about 50 times as bright as the comet, with
the comet being equal in brightness to a star called Dabih,
which is located very near it. That star has a magnitude
of plus 3.2. So that indicates that the comet is become
substantially dimmer in the last few days, about 1/50 of the
brightness that was seen on comets surface 3 or 4 days ago.
It's bad news for ground observers, but it certainly hasn't
affected the data gathered by the Skylab crew so far. Also
Ed Gibson reported during our pass about 45 minutes ago,
that there was definite sign of llmb brightening in the upper
atmosphere that he could detect on his extreme ultraviolet
television monitor. And there is nothing yet been seen by
the ground, that's additional evidence of course, of the
ability of the Skylab crew to detect things that could not
be seen here on Earth. That XUV brightening in the extreme
ultravioletp of course, is absorbed in the upper atmosphere.
And for that reason, cannot be seen on the ground. And also
most of the ground-based instruments do not have the capabilty
of detecting very slight changes in brightness very near the
Sun surface, that again made difficult by the fact that
light is scattered in the upper atmosphere, and it's difficult
to see great detail near the Sun surface. 33 minutes to our
next acquisition of signal and 38 minutes that after the hour.
This is Skylab Control.
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PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours i0 minutes

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now about to
be acquired through the tracking antenna at Bermuda. This
pass will last 8 minutes. The Flight Director on duty
is Don Puddy and the spacecraft communicator is Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for
6-i/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip and what does our water dump
pressure look like? The bag (?) in here in the waste manage-
ment compartment faked out.
CC We'll take a look at it for you, Jer.
And that C&D loop now is up to 300 pounds an hour and if
that's going to be loud like it was before, you guys've got
to go to to turn turn that thing off at night when you go to
bed. I guess the question is that we've been batting it back
and forth down here is do you need another 482 to put that
on your sleep checklist?
CDR Negative.
CC Okay.
CC Jer_ it looks like that meter's hanging
up high again. We're showing 0.008 here.
CDR Thank you, Crip. Looks like neither one
of these meters is worth a hoot.
CC Copied.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again over Canary in 3 minutes, 16:21.
PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 19-1/2 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station over the North
Atlantic, has passed out of range of Bermuda. We're about
a minute and 20 seconds from acquisition through Madrid.
This Canary Island/Madrid pass will be a pass lasting
approximately 8-i/2 minutes. While the crew has made reports on
the comet Kohoutek, we_ve gotten our first observation from
Earth. An estimate reported by the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory made by an astronomer in north Little Rock,
Arkansas, indicates that he saw the comet on January 2 to be
about the brightness of Jupiter, minus 1.5 estimated magnitude
with a tail length of about 3 degrees or something in the
neighborhood of 4 to 5,000,000 miles. Earlier today, Ed
Gibson did indicate that the comet was now substantially
dimmer than Jupiter_ estimating it as being approximately
1/50 of brightness of that planet. Wetre coming up live
now for air-tomground. WeVll bring the line up live.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through
Madrid. We have you for about 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds
from LOS and we'll see you again over Carnarvon in 24 minutes.
That's at 16:56 and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump there.
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and 44 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
over eastern Europe, is out of range of the tracking antenna
at Madrid. 24 minutes to our next acquisition. During this
pass, about i0 minutes were put on the video tape recorder
of what we assume to be TV 77. A permanent general message
was send up to the crew during the overnight on this tele-
vision, which is generally described as intravehicular TV.
It can be almost any crew activity. The permanent message
indicates that the TV of comet sketches has been extremely
interesting both to scientists and to others and the ground
has requested a sketch for every day even though television
of the sketches will only be done every other day. And they've
been asked to continue the practice of showing a closeup
view of the sketches and a wider angle view and they'll be
asked too to give some details of the actual drawing of each
sketch. This allows the people on the ground to keep a little
better track of what's happening to the comet Kohoutek and
with it goes a chart to give a general indication of how
many miles each degree can be interpreted to mean. Skylab
crew will be doing an Earth resources pass this morning
beginning shortly after noon today. That Earth resources
pass has been checked out now for weather conditions and
the weather report was given to Mission Control a short
while ago. Shows that the weather at the beginning of the
pass which is over Mexico, the Gulf coast, eastern United
States, North Atlantic and ends in Europe, shows that the
weather over Mexico is very good with clear weather all the
way to Monterrey. Then low level clouds covering the south-
east U.S. with 8/10 to i0/i0 cloud cover very heavy
cloud cover over the Gulf coast area and also marginal cloud
cover from 4/10 to 7/10, probably on the lower end of that,
less than half clouds at Pennsylvania and much of the mideast°
Then some jet stream cirrus expected to be detected in that
area. Those are 35,000 high foot feet in altitude and they
should be visible in the Pennsylvania area. Also, New England
is clear to partly cloudy with about 4/10 cloud cover over
the sites in that area. And also an indication given that
the snow line now is approximately at the Kentucky-Ohio
border for today's pass. Some of the sites include Durango,
Mexico where mineral exploration is underway. That's one
of the desirable sites for today's pass and also a North
Atlantic clyclonic storm described last night as having winds
of up to 60, knots or 70 miles an hour. But today apparently
the winds have come down somewhat_ although it still has very
high waves associated with it. The storm is north of the maximum
point in the Skylab ground track. However, it stood - should have
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very substantial effeet on the weather below the groundtrack

and that will be one of the main targets for today's activities.
Also, a frontal activity, rain off the French coast near the
Bay of Biscay, will be a subject for today's observations.
That's a mandatory requirement that now appears likely to
be obtained today. At the present time, there are four mand-
atories with one candidate site listed and eight desirable
sites that are expected to he obtained. The afternoon Earth
resources pass started as a very ambitious one. It has been
changed substantially to eliminate some test sites including
the Houston ar
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PAO - - point in the Skylab groundtrack.

However, it stood - should have very substantial effect on
the weather below the groundtrack, and that will be one of
the main targets for todays activities. Also a frontal
activity, rain off the French coast near the Bay of Biscay,
will be a subject for todays observations. That's a mandatory
requirement that now appears likely to be obtained today.
The present time there are four mandatories with one candidate
site listed, and eight desirable sites that are expected to
be obtained. The afternoon Earth resources pass started as
a very ambitious one. It has been changed substantially to
eliminate some test sites_ including the Houston area, and
to include some new weather fronts and cloud patterns. A
number of sites in the Rio Grande Valley northeastward are
weathered in with heavy clouds covering some bitter cold.
Several mandatory sites are still to be performed by Jerry
Carr, Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue today. The astronauts will
be pointing cameras and sensors at ground over Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania on a data take for sensor performance. Principal
Investigator Robert K. Moore of the University of Kansas
advises us that the purpose of that area is to get additional
information for the development of future and permanent
spacecraft instruments. Light weather bulletin in - discloses
that the Pittsburgh area is experiencing intermittent snow
showers at this time. Like much of the East Coast the
weather is very clouded in but; it's expected that most of that
will be clearing off by the time the pass is made in the
afternoon over the East. Also, this morning an ATM control
and display panel coolant loop procedure was performed to
clean that out. It again had accumulated a number of air
bubbles and was beginning to get a bit noisy. Main problem
with that was that it was having some flow drops. Normally
the flow rate on that is 250 pounds per hour to 300 pounds
per hour. On two occasions over the last several days the
flow had been seen to drop to i00 pounds per hour, repeating
a problem that had been seen earlier. At the earlier time we had
a number of changes in the flow rate including some full stops
of the flow of coolant, mainly water, through the ATM control
and display panel coolant loop. That also cools the EREP
recorders. That problem has now been pretty much cleared
up again. Using the liquid gas separator, Bill Pogue this
morning cleaned out the ATM coolant loop, and the flow rate is
now back up around the 300 level and appears to be much
improved. However, the crew observed that it appears noiser
now than it was before. That was something seen earlier too,
after the last cleanout was performed, it did become noisy.
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So, a TV is underway of the comet sketch of the - prepared

by the crew; Bill Pogue doing that TV at this time. Crew
earlier indicated that the comet had become substantially
dimmer than in the past few days. Also correction, denial
indicated by the report on the from the Kehoutek staff
in Mission Control. Reports to the effect that a NASA/Goddard
Space Flight Center team has detected water vapor radio
emission from Kohoutek are incorrect. As in any extensive
program to detect weak signals, occasionally a fluctuation
occurs that may or may not be real. However, Goddard Space
Flight Center has not detected this emission and has never
claimed such a discovery. The observations by Clark, Dunn,
and Jackson being made at Haystack Observatory in Massachusetts
will continue. It was mentioned earlier that they had believed
that there may have been water detected through their radio-
observations, radio astronomy observations, at Haystack.
That is denied by Goddard. They say that a - occasional weak
do fluctuate and that fluctuation seemed to, at one time,
indicate perhaps the presence of water. But they do not
believe that water has been detected and has not been confirmed
by Goddard. 17 minutes to our next acquisition of signal.
38-1/2 minutes after the hour, this is Skylab Control.
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from acquisition of signal through Carnarvon, Australia.
The pass through Carnarvon will last 10-1/2 minutes. We'll
have a brief interruption, and then a 5-minute pass through
Honeysuckle Creek. We'll bring the line up llve for air-to-ground
now. Bob Crippen is the spacecraft communicator.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Carnarvon for 15-1/2
minutes. And we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump here.
CC We're 1 minute from LOS. Next station
contact is over Texas in 32 minutes at 14, correction, 17:42,
17:42. And Ed, the listing that you requested earlier on the
S054 changes for the long exposure is on board along with a
checklist change for how to perform the long exposure.
SPT Thank you, Crip.
PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 12 minutes 25
seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has passed
out of range of Honeysuckle Creek. Our next acquisition is
30 minutes away at Texas. This is Skylab Control at 12 minutes
and 36 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1717/I
TIME: 11:41 CST, 50:17:41 GMT
i/4/74

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now about
to be acquired through the tracking antenna at Texas. This
pass through Texas will continue through Merritt Island and
Bermuda, a lenghty pass lasting about 15 minutes with a
brief interruption following that before we're acquired
again at Madrid. We'll bring the llne up now for air-to-ground
through the U.S. and Bermuda stations.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS across the
states, we have you for about 15 minutes.
CC And if you guys have got a little time
the boss, Deke, would like to talk to you for a minute.
PLT Go ahead, we've got the time.
SLAYTON Okay, Jer, guys_ good morning. I've
got the honor of congratulating you guys on transitioning
from the first rookie crew since early Gemini to the second
most veteran crew in the solar system. I was about to say
universe but I don't think we could prove that. As of about
3 minutes ago you guys surpassed Pete Conrad's record in time
which it took him four flights to accumulate, so if that doesn't
make you veterans nothing will. You're about 5/8 of
the way through the mission rough and dirty_ and as far as
we're concerned down here you're doing an outstanding Job
all the way. We're really happy with the way the mission's
going. I think we've probably sand bagged you on a couple
of occasions on schedule which you're aware of. As far as
the future is concerned, Dick give you a pretty good rundown
on the constraints et cetera the other evening, I wouldn't
enlarge on those. I guess it's my opinion that we will
probably have more trouble keeping you busy in the future
than the other way around. We'll make every effort to ensure
that it doesn't go either way however.
SLAYTON Stand by i.
SLAYTON Okay, we just handed over to MILA. I just
have one closing statement. Keep up the good work up there,
stay loose and enjoy it. Think if you keep it going the way
you've been going, why, be one of the best missions we've ever
seen.
CDR Well, Deke, thanks a lot, we sure appreciate
hearing from you. And though things did get a little rough
there at the beginning, we feel pretty good now. Kind of
looks llke we've really smoothed out, and I think that we'll
probably do some real fine work.
SLAYTON You bet you, you've been doing great
work. Just keep it up.
PLT Thanks a lot, Deke. Those were real good
words, and it's nice to hear them.
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SPT Thanks, Deke, we sure appreciate it. Good

hearing from you.
SLAYTON Okay, I know you're having a lot more fun
up there than we are down here, so stay with it.
CC Roger, that.
CDR Hey, Deke, we're going to be making a
pass over Houston. Do you want us to do a little duck - little
duck scouting for you there?
SLAYTON Heyp I'd appreciate that. I also need the
time to take advantage itp however. I_ii pass it on to some
of my friends if you give us the cue.
CDR Rog.
CDR If those ducks are warm, our IR sensor will
find them.
SLAYTON Roger, that.
SLAYTON I think they've got ice on their wings
down here today.
CDR One of those kind of days, huh?
SLAYTON Rog.
CC Skylab, Houston. Jer and Bill, would
this be a convinent place to to give you an idea what the
weather is going to be on the upcoming EREP pass, or do you
want to catch that a little bit - at a later site?
CDR No, this is fine, Crip.
CC Okay, fine. We got a handover coming up
shortly. I'm going to wait until we get through it and then
I'ii give you a quick rundown. Won't take but about a minute.
CDR Okay.
CC Okeydoke. Starting out the pass, coming
over Mexico, it should be clear to scattered. And right
around Monterrey you're going to pick up a low overcast deck
that's going to extend all the way up to, oh, approximately the
Tennessee/Kentucky border. That's all a low cal - low cloud
stratus type layer. Then you should breakout to around something
that's scattered to broken about 4 to 7/10 coverage, and
all the way across New England. You've got a jet stream
cirrus target through there and it's hard for us to confirm
here on the ground whether that cirrus is there, but we think
it is. For _ if you're interested, the snow line is going to
starts from about Kentucky all the way up through the New
England states. So most of the stuff that's - that you're
going to be able to pick up on the ground in that part
of the country is going to have snow on it. Across the North
Atlantic it's pretty much cloud covered all the way across
which is what they're after for some rough seas. Understand
it's not good for the Navy out there today. They've got about
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35 foot waves. And there's a front extending down across

the Bay of Biscay with some rain in it. And that's the
cyclone that it talks about in the - in your message that
we're trying to pick up. So in general even though the
weather is not clean and neat it is practical for the kind
of targets that we're trying to pick up. And it looks like
a good EREP pass.
CDR Okay, Bob; thanks. We'll do our best.
CC Skylab, Houston; we are i minute from
LOS. Next station contact is in about 4-1/2 minutes over
Madrid at 18:01, 18:01. And to clarify something said earlier
in the weather briefing. The cyclone or - that we were
speaking of is not actually the one that is - has the front
through the Bay of Biscay. It's the cyclone that's located
about 20 degrees west. But the frontal system is producing
some rain that we wanted to cover with the RAD/SCAT so and
we are taking data all the way through there.
CDR Thank you Crip.
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Time: 11:57 CST, 50:17:57 GMT
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PAO Skylab Control at 57-1/2 minutes after

the hour. We have loss of signal at the Bermuda tracking antenna.
Our next acquisition is 3 minutes away at Madrid. Beginning of
this pass over U.S. and Bermuda stations_ Astronaut Deke
Slayton talked to the crew very briefly giving them a bit
of a pep talk. The crew indicated that they were very happy
to hear from him and the conversation was very brief. And
at the end of the pass, Bob Crippen_ the spacecraft communi-
cator, was giving them a rundown of today's weather forecast
for the Earth resources pass. Earth resources pass will -
is 7100 miles long track that begins off Mexico's Pacific
Coast and includes mineral exploration near Durango in northern
Mexico_ weather conditions over the eastern United States,
a mapping study of Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania. As the space
station crosses the North Atlantic_ an electronic sensor will
scan a large clyclonlc storm with winds of about 60 miles per
hour, producing waves of up to 35 feet in height. And at
the end of the pass, just off the coast of France, there'll
be a study of weather conditions including a rain storm and
a frontal area, just about to pass through the Bay of Biscay.
The pass ends Just inside the just off the coastal area
of France. Skylab crew is now past the record set by
Pete Conrad. Conrad accumulated just over 49 days, with two
Gemini flights_ an Apollo XII Moon landing and the first Skylab
mission,was the worldts most experienced space traveler when he
splashed into the Pacific Ocean last June. The crew now in
space for several hours more than 7 weeks_ have more time
in space then any astronauts except the astronauts who rode
on the second Skylab mission. We'll bring the line up live
now. We're 1 minute from acquisition of signal at Madrid
where we'll have an 8 minute pass. Bob Crippen is the
communicator.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for
7-1/2 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. For your future planning,
we have your phone call set up this evening for 01:09.
PLT Roger. 01:09. Thank you.
PLT Also, Crip, the TV 77 should be on the
VTR. I hope it is and the voice will be on the voice link.
(garble)
CC We - we show i0 minutes work on the VTR
right now.
PLT That should be just about right.
CC Rog. Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, we're showing the
shutter on 56 still open. We need a START and STOP there.
SPT Okayp Crip. You need the door open also
for that?
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CC No, we do not. That's fine. That's got it.

from LOS. Next station contact is Carnarvon in 27 minutes
at 18:35, 18:35. We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump
there.
CDR Roger, Crip. And hey, by the way, I'm
sorry we missed the eggnog party. I hope everybody on the
Crimpon team behaved themselves.
CC Unfortunately (laughter). No, we all
had a good time. Sorry you couldnlt be there with us.
CDR Very good.
CC Somehow, I didn't manage to stay awake
through tlhe ball games after that though.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has passed out of
range of Madrid tracking antenna. Our next acquisition_
25-1/2 minutes away is at Carnarvon, Australia. This is
Skylab Control at 9 minutes 19 seconds after the hour.
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Time: 12:33 CST 50:18:33 GMT
1/4/74
PA0 Skylab Control 18 hours 33 minutes and

54 seconds from acquisition of signal through the Carnarvon,
Australia tracking antenna. The pass through Carnarvon will
last about 5-1/2 minutes, and then we'll have an interruption
we'll have a pass shortly thereafter though at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through Carnarvon
for 5-i/2 minutes. And we'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump here.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about I minute from
LOS. Next station contact is Honeysuckle in 7 minutes. And
at that time if we could, we'd like somebody available at the
STS panel to do a reg adjust for us.
SPT Roger, Crip.
CC Thank you sir.
out of range of the Carnarvon Australia tracking station. Our
next acquisition is 3 minutes away at Honeysuckle Creek. Here
in Mission Control the officer who is in charge of the solar
instruments has indicated that they would like to pass along
a question to the crew regarding the brightness of the Comet
Kohoutek. Earlier today Ed Gibson indicated that it was about
as bright as a star located in the same area of the sky. That
star has a brightness of 3.2 magnitude, which is a relatively
dim star, not one of the dimmest, but only average brightness.
The star Dabih, D-a_b-i-h, is of a yellowish color and that
indication of brightness would lead the ground to believe that
the brightness now has been reduced by about 98 percent from its
brightness a few days ago. The last observation made on
ground by amateur astronomer on the ground was of brightness
of approximately minus 1.5, which is about the brightness of
Jupiter. So they may ask the question for a very good reason
that a rocket launch is now being planned for later in the day.
And they would like to have an exact count of the brightness
to determine whether it would be worthwhile to make such a
rocket launch. Brightness may not be sufficient to allow
a rocket to gather data on the comet. Comet observations are
scheduled for later in the day for the Skylab crew. Commander
Jerry Carr using the S019 ultraviolet instrument to gather
photography on the comet about 24:00 Greenwich mean time today.
We're coming up live now on air,to-ground at Honeysuckle Creek.
We have a pass lasting only about a minute and 30 seconds there
so we'll leave the line up live now,
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS at Honeysuckle.
And got you for about a minute and a half.
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SPT Standing by the STS, Crip.

CC Okeydoke. On panel 207 we'd like to take
battery charge low for 7 and 8 to INHIBIT. And the reason
for that is that we have sent the command to INHIBIT the
discharge limit on batteries 7 and 8. And it will go down below
the C&W limit because of the false reading that we're getting on
those.
SPT Okay Crip, that's done. And would you send
up another copy of the 54 long exposure cue card change 02.
That one had around four or five different lines reproduced
two or three times and it's awfully hard to read.
CC Okeydoke, we'll do that. And also I'd
like you to mark the place for the - on panel 206 the reg
adjust pots i and 2, and then move them 30 degrees clockwise.
CC And we're about 30 seconds from LOS. Next
station contact is 19:17, 19:17.
SPT That's done, Crip.
CC Okay, and we're about to go over the hill.
Ed, can you tell us if you used binoculars on making your
brightness estimate on the comet, comparing it with Dabih?
SPT No I did not, Crip. It's pretty - very
difficult Judgment to make.
CC Copy.
SPT One is a plank source and the other is
a - a small - spread out over a small angle on that. They
are two different things_ apples and oranges.
CC Copy that. Over the hill.
PAO Skylab Control at 49 minutes 26 seconds
after the hour. That's loss of signal at Honeysuckle. The
question asked finally was phrased in such a way to determine
what accuracy might have been given to that. It was not
done with binoculars, it was done with the naked eye. The
estimate of the comet's magnitude is a very difficult thing
to do in any case. Normally the technique used by ground
observers is to use binoculars on both objects and to defocus
on the star so that you - the area is spread out to give a
larger area and a comparable object to view. No additional
details are expected to be gathered at this time. However_
a further question could go up later in the day. This is
Skylab Control, 26 minutes and 38 seconds to our next acquisition
of signal, that's 50 minutes after the hour.
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SL-IV MC1720/I
Time: 13:14 CST, 50:19:14 GMT
1/4/74
PAO This is Skylab Control at 19 hours 14

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab now approaching the
coast of Mexico, across the Pacific Ocean for the beginning
of an Earth resources pass. This pass scheduled to last
approximately 25 minutes beginning at 19:18 Greenwich mean
time as the spacecraft approaches the coast of Mexico and
ending at 19:43 as Skylab enters Europe. The weather for
this Earth resources pass is expected to be generally good
particularly over the main areas of interest in Mexico,
the northeastern and north-central United States and out over
the Atlantic where one of the areas of principle interest
will be the weather itself. A low pressure area or cyclonic
storm, storm over the North Atlantic. We have about 2 minutes
before we acquire Skylab. The crew at that time will be
in the VOX MODE where their transmissions are coming directly
back to Earth without having to activate the microphones and
the spacecraft in the so-called Z-local vertical attitude
which points the cameras and other remote sensing instruments
at Earth.
SPT - meters.
PLT It starts at 25 -
SPT Okay.
CDR Okay, about.l minute we're going to put
the SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
CDR Start the EREP
PLT Land ho.
CDR - - at 18.
PLT Yes, I see it Jer, it's coming up.
CDR Good enough.
CC And we're with you across the States
here. Got you about 12 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
PLT There we go.
CDR One minute to EREP START.
CDR Okay. On my mark, it's going to be
17:30. The SCATTEROMETER is coming on to STANDBY.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY. EREP
START in about 25 seconds.
CDR On my mark it will be 18:00.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. EREP START. On my mark it will
be 18:06.
CDR MARK. Downlink to position i. On my
mark it will be 18:12.
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CDR MARK. 194 to MANUAL. Okay, Ed, we're

going to want ETC to VAN - to AUTO from you at 18:56.
PLT Guadalajara.
CDR On my mark it will be 18:56. Stand by.
CDR MARK. ETC MODE AUTO.
CDR MARK at 19:03. 190 to AUTO.
CDR MARK at 19:09. 192 MODE to READY.
CDR Got TAPE MOTION. High speed.
PLT Oh. Here come the clouds
PLT Looks like we're socked in. We get socked
in just before we get to Monterrey.
CDR Okay. On my mark it will be 19:44.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. Downlink switch to POSITION 2.
PLT I recognize the area.
PLT Solid cloud cover from Monterrey on.
CDR Son of a gun.
PLT Okay. 25:58 is when I start my nadir
path.
CDR Okay. On my mark, it will be - we'll have
a S190 READY light out. It should be at 20:20.
CDR MARK. READY out at 21.
CDR MARK. ETC to STANDBY at 20:26.
CDR MARK. 20:32 M0 190 MODE to STANDBY.
Stand by.
CDR MARK. At 38, 192 MODE to CHECK. 44,
S190 frames to 18. Okay, looking for 56. I'm going to
put the SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER is ON. RADIOMETER
is ON. 211:06, I'ii want an AUTO CAL, Bill.
PLT Okay. At 21:06.
CDR Stand by.
CDR/PLT MARK.
CDR AUTO CAL.
PLT AUTO CAL.
CDR Things got real busy there for a minute.
CDR Let's see. 190 is in STANDBY. 192
is in CHECK. Got frames of 18. SCATTEROMETER and
RADIOMETER are ON. An AUTO CAL cooking.
CDR Houston_ CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR You want to shift over to tape recorder
2, if we run this one dry? I meant to ask that. It was
in my remarks, that tape recorder i was going to be
marginal.
CC There's no need to switch over, and
we shouldn't run out of tape until right near the end of
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the pass anyhow.

CDR Okay.
CC You guys are flying this one at a much
better altitude on this North Atlantic portion than AJ is,
he's going to be about 500 feet in the 130 below you.
PLT Is that right?
CDR I can't say as I really envy AJ.
PLT (Laughter) Waves almost reach up there
and slap him.
CC Roger that.
CDR Okay. At 23:00. We're looking for -
23:40 is the next mark.
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CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go CDR.
CDR You want to shift over to tape recorder
2 if we run this one dry? I meant to ask that; it was in my
remarks that tape recorder i was going to be marginal.
CC Jer. there's no need to switch over, and
we shouldn't run out of tape until right near the end of the
pass anyhow.
CDR Okay.
CC You guys are flying this one at a much
better altitude on this North Atlantic portion than AJ is.
He's going to he about 500 feet in the 130 below you.
PLT Is that right?
CDR I can't say as I really envy AJ.
PLT (Laughter) Waves almost reach up there and
slap him.
CC Roger that.
CDR Okay, at 23:00 we're looking for 23:_0
is the next mark.
CDR I bet AJ is wearing his long handle
underware too.
CC I certainly hope he is.
PLT A booby (?) suit.
CDR Okay, on my mark it will be 23:40.
PLT Always be -
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. POLARIZATION going to 2. Looking
for a READY ON on S191.
CDR MARK, READY ON at 46 going to REFERENCE 6.
PLT VTS, 00 standing by for 25:58.
CDR Okay, on my mark it will be 25:10.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK, 190 SHUTTER SPEED to SLOW.
CDR On my mark it will be 25:33.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK, S190 MODE AUTO.
CDR On my mark it will be 40. We want ETC
to AUTO.
CDR MARK, ETC to AUTO.
CC Jer, can we get somebody to verify TV
input station 133 is on.
SPT Yes, itVs on.
PLT Stand by.
SPT It's on the wafer switch is in TV.
PLT MARK, 25:58 DAC on VTS -
CDR S192 MODE going to READY. That was 3 seconds
late. 26:16 is next. I got the problem, I'ii get with you in a
minute.
CDR 26:16 POLARIZATION going to 4.
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CDR MARK, at 16 POLARIZATION 4.

CDR Okay, the problem is that Oh, shoot,
I can't get away I'm -
PLT Yes, let me - let
CDR - - tied to this dang headset.
PLT What do you want me to do?
CDR It's not connected up at the input
station.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay, at 26:45 I put the position in 4.
It's up t]here Bill to the left - to the left of it - to
the left of it. Yeah, but the cables to the left of the
box.
CDR Okay.
CC Coming up on position 6 if you got it.
CDR Okay, you ought to have it now.
CC Got it.
CDR All right at 27:30 you're at downlink
position 7.
CC Roger.
CDR Don't ever put yourself on a short
umbilical. You can't go anywhere.
PLT Man, that's too bad for (comm dropout)
PLT (Chuckle)
CDR 27:50 going to 8.
PLT Oh we got some good (garble) it must
be running up the Appalachians.
PLT Yeah, wet sign.
PLT Okay, standing by for 29:13. Oh, man, that's
CDR Coming up on 28:10.
CDR MARK, downlink position 9.
CDR Okay, 28:20 and MODE is to STANDBY on 192.
Somewhere on this - on this to MODE READY.
CDR 28:30 coming up.
CDR MARK, 190 READY light went out. 28:36
is next Ed with an ETC to STANDBY.
CDR MARK, STANDBY.
CDR Okay 28:49 is next.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK POLARIZATION 3.
CDR 28:54 DOWNLINK position to OFF.
CDR Coming up on 29:10.
CDR MARK SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY. MARK
RADIOMETER to STANDBY at 12. Going to XTNC L/R, POLARIZATION
5. 29:30 is the next one.
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CDR MARK, SCATTEROMETER is ON, RADIOMETER

is ON.
CDR That was at 29:30 - -
PLT Stand by.
CDR - and 31.
PLT MARK, DAC OFF and NADIR. B-3 when - -
CDR MARK at 29:44 and S190 MODE to STANDBY.
CDR Hank, you still with us?
CC That's affirm; about 4 more minutes.
CDR Okay, have you got the word on what
was wrong with the downlink?
CC Got
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CDR B-3 when I mark at 29:44 S190 MODE to

STANDBY. Hank, you still with us?
CC That's affirm, about 4 more minutes.
CDR Okay, have you got the word on what was
wrong with the downlink?
CC Copy.
CDR Okay, we didn't have the cable connected
at one end. I lost S192 MODE to READY. So, the S192 between
26 and 28:20 was not de - was not taken.
CC Copy.
PLT (Garble)
CDR The what?
PLT Gulf of Saint Lawrence, think that's what
it is.
CDR Any ice?
PLT I'm looking.
PLT Not sure I don't think so. ON DAC
got a red light on DAC. That thing had plenty of film in it.
Okay, let me set this thing up here at 00, that means I don't
need another necking. That's showing -
CDR Add the film?
PLT It's showing about 40 percent on it, I'm
going to try something that's strange, I get a green light
and everything, but it got a red -
CDR Must have broken the film.
PLT - - end of film light, l'm going to take it
off, but wait a minute, I'm going to make it to the center before
I start here, I - Get Jerry down here, (laughter). Ah, poor guy.
CDR How's it riding with him, Crip?
PLT Good luck.
CC Yeah, I'm still with you, just still checking
I don't know who's the co-pilot is Lindemann is on as mission
manager. We're i minute from LOS. Next station contact is over
Madrid in about 5 minutes, at 19:38.
CDR I don't know why we're getting end of
film light, there's nothing wrong with the film.
PLT Let, let me mark it and see if it'll film.
CDR Okay.
CDR Got leverage to get in.
PLT I'ii get it.
CDR I got some time here if I can - -
PLT Well, I Just need to check mine - -
CDR All right.
PLT Up and down. Yeah_ it works.
CC You got us on the nadir swath right at 33.
PLT That's affirmative.
CDR Yeah, I got a red light again.
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PLT Yeah.
CDR See how it advanced.
PLT Okay, we're in good shape. Let's see it goes
to
CDR It's advancing. Let's just go ahead - -
PLT 44.
CDR - with it and assume it's good, and ignore
the red light.
PLT We - we don't need to use it on this one
except on a, you know, just a post
CDR Okay.
PLT post run tonight. And all I'm doing
now, I'm just holding this thing on 00. Coming up on a
terminator now.
CDR Okay, I got a bunch of data to take at
40, here.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Skylab now out
of range of the antennas through the continential United
States pass continuing that Earth resources pass now over
the North Atlantic, out of radio contact. During the
continential U.S. pass, the crew remarked as to the fact that
one of the NASA Earth resources aircraft, the C130 flying
out of Ellington Air Force Base here in Houston would be
flying under their ground track gathering ground truth data.
The pilot of the aircraft is A.J. Roy, and the C130 will
be flying at an attitude of about i0,000 feet over the North
Atlantic. We have about 2 minutes before we regain radio
contact with Skylab through Madrid. And that will mark the
conclusion of the Earth resources pass. The pass ends as
Skylab passes ou - over Europe for a total of about 25 minutes
of data gathering. The major interest on this Earth resources
pass over Mexico_ the northeastern and the north central
United States, and over the North Atlantic. Fairly significant
area along the ground track beginning at the Rio Grande Valley
and extending up over the southeastern United States was
weathered in. Sites in that area were dropped but five
mandatory sites on the pass were still to be performed by
Carr, Gibson, and Pogue. They were scheduled to be pointing their
cameras sensors at the ground over Pittsburgh for a data take
would be used in evaluating the performance of sensors. And
weather over the Pittsburgh area was predicated to be intermittent
in snow - snow showers, snow flurries. Two additional
Skylab tasks over the North Atlantic, both relating to the
ocean state. And when subjected to winds in the vincity of
35 knots, the crew will be looking for models of white caps
and sea foam densities in the data gathered over the North
Atlantic. We should be acquiring in about 15 seconds. We'll
stand by for resumption of radio communications with Skylab.
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SL-IV MC1723/I
TIME: 13:37 CST, 50:19:37 GMT
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CC Skylab, Houston, we're with you again for

about 8-]./2 minutes through Madrid.
SPT Roger, Crlp.
PLT , 1 minute to go on the nadir swath.
CDR Okay and my next mark is going to be 19:40,
zero, zero.
CDR MARK. REFERENCE going to 2 on S191. And
AUTOCAL on 41, Bill.
PLT Okay, standing by.
CDR 41:00.
PLT There's really not much to do on a nadir
swath.
CDR See that cyclone?
PLT Negative.
CC It was pretty much north of your track.
CDR Okay. 20 seconds, Bill.
PLT Rog. I think it's also pretty dark along
in there.
CDR 5 seconds.
PLT Rog. Standing by.
CDR Stand by.
CDR/PLT MARK.
PLT AUTO CAL.
CDR Okay. The S191 almost READY light is out.
PLT And Crip, I did get a red light on the DAC
footage here, but it appears to be bad cell, so I'm going to
have to troubleshoot it.
CC Copy.
PLT Okay, that's it for 191.
CDR Okay, I got another couple of things to do
here. Okay, you've got a minute and a quarter to the fine
maneuver.
CDR Well, the old tape recorder hung in there.
The leader says we got about 25 percent left, it's still
running.
CC Very good.
CDR i0 seconds, it'll be 42:30. Stand by - -
CDR MARK. SCATTERMETER, OFF - -
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER's, oFF. 42:40, Stand by -
CDR MARK. 194 to MANUAL.
CDR (Garble) for me sometimes READY light to
come on now.
CDR Okay, coming up on 43:40, looking for S191.
CDR MARK. At 39, the almost READY light came
on. On my mark it'll be 46.
CDR MARK. EREP stop. That does it.
CDR Well, sorry about that downllnking the 192.
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CC Yeah, sorry sorry we got you messed up

right in the middle of it.
CDR Well, doggone it, if I'd have checked it
out right:, we wouldn't have had the problem.
CC Yeah, we had a data problem here from
Goddard or we would have been able to catch it for you earlier.
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SL-IV MC1724/I
TIME: 13:44 CST, 50:19:44 GMT
i/4/74
CC - - or we would have been able to

catch it for you earlier.
CDR Okay, Bravo 7 is reading 33 percent.
S192 DOOR going CLOSED. S190 going CLOSED.
PLT What are you reading outer gimbal number
3, Crip?
CC Checking. We're going through a little
mental gymnastics to transfer it over to percent like you
got it.
PLT Wouldn't have bothered you, but it looked
like the Y-rate's a little bit high. Oh, I guess it's in the ball
park.
CC Okay, Bill, we concur it did look like
that Y-rate went up a little bit high, but it everything looks
okay right now.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston we're i minute from LOS,
next station contact is Tananarive in 15 minutes at 20:01
and we are rewinding the VTR so it's not available for your
use. We're planning on dumping it over the next CONUS pass.
CDR Okay, we copy.
PAO And that appears to be all the communications
we'll have from Skylab over Madrid. And at the conclusion
of that Earth resources pass, a pass which would appear to
have been largely successful_ with the exception of the
weather which we'd expected in the southeastern United States,
which resulted earlier in the day in the cancellation of
some targets. There was one minor problem during the pass
referred to and discussed by the crew and CAP COMM. The
crew had not connected the cable between the Earth resources
data downlink unit and the transmitter, we were therefore
not receiving for brief period of time the downlink data.
This does not effect the performance of the EREP instruments
but it does allow the ground to monitor that performance.
And in getting the canable the cable connected - connected
up. The crew was about 2 minutes and 20 seconds late in
getting the S192 multispectral scanner in operation.
However all instruments did appear to be functioning normally
and by and large would appear the mandatory sites were covered.
The guidance and control officer here at Mission Control,
during that pass was keeping a close eye on the momentum.
An indication of the gyro performance. He was queried a couple
of times as to the momentum status by Flight Director Don Puddy
and reported that the momentum was right on. Skylab is now
maneuvering back to the solar inertial attitude. The normal
orbital attitude from the Z-local vertical attitude used in
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Earth resources passes. And we're about 11-1/2 minutes now

from regaining contact with Skylab through the Tananarive
tracking station. At 19 hours, 50 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1725/I
TIME: 14:00 CST, 50:20:00 GMT
1/4/74
PAO This is Skylab Control at 20 hours Greenwich

mean time. About to regain contact with Skylab through the
Tananarlve tracking station. Skylab crew with the ne_t major
activity sched- major activity schedule aboard to the medical
experiment M092, the lower body negative pressure and MITI,
metobolic activity experiments. And we have about 30 seconds
until we regain contact.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS for about
5-1/2 minutes. We're at Tananarive.
SPT Hello, Crip you can tell Rudy that he's
got 22 percent good ETC prep.
CC Ed, l;m sorry I didn't get all of that you
said something about 22 percent ETC?
SPT Our friend Rudy on MISI has been struEgling
for weeks now to get good ETC prep data, and he's got it.
CC Very good_ Okay, I'm sure Rudy will be
glad to hear that.
PLT Skylab.
CC Go.
PLT Rog, on this EREP pass, in the Charlie Lima
04 that I was using. And what we have - we got end of film
light on it during the part that requires the DAC during the jet
streams cirrus. And we checked it out. It did more film.
And I brought it down to the film loading station, put it on the
DAC there and I got the end of film light. And then I tapped
it a couple of times and that light went out; it still moves
films.
CC Okay, we copy that. Appreciate the
information Bill. Bill, while I've got you here, I think Story
said something to you last night regarding the fact that we were
going to be sending up you a new cue card on how to handle
urine bags and so forth, to make up for this fact that we
got 23 short on the urine sample bags. And one of the things
we're going to need to know is how many collection bags you
have loaded the boric acid tablets into, Just to help us with
our scheduling. And so sometime today at your convenience we
would appreciate getting a count on those.
PLT Okay, I'ii get an inventory and give it
to yon later.
CC Okay, thank you, sir.
PLT Okay, Crip as we're going over the hill,
we have 5 left, five urine bags left that have boric acid
tablets in them.
CC Okay we copy that we're about to go over
the hill here and our next station contact is Honeysuckle in
18 minutes at 20:24.
PLT Roger.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss

of signal through Tananarive and we're about 16-1/2 minutes
away from regaining contact through the Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia tracking station. At 20 hours 8 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1726/I
Time: 14:23 CST 50:20:23 GMT
1/4/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, we're standing

by now to regain contact with Skylab through Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia, about 50 seconds from now. And at the
conclusion of this revolution, revolution 3396 the crew
will have an opportunity to obtain some additional handheld
photography of Earth. Skylab Pilot, Bill Pogue will operate
the handheld camera during the latter portion of this pass -
of this revolution, while his crew partners are performing
the medical experiments M092 and MI71. Pogue has three
optional sites and will take a series of Earth photos if
conditions are favorable. One site is off New Zealand where
he will be photographing ocean features. Another photo
candidate for the handheld photography is an area in BaJa,
California where information to be used in a geology study
will be obtained. And finally there is a snowfall area of
interest in the high altitude Salt Verde watershed in central
Arizona. And we now show that we have acquistion of signal.
We'll stand by for the call from CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC Skylah, Houston, we're AOS through
Honeysuckle. And we have you for a whole minute and a half.
CDR Okay, let's just talk about the important
stuff then.
CC Okay, I'ii be quiet.
CDR Roger. Crip, we got a problem with the
urine situation. We're finding it very difficult to dump
the urine bags down the trash airlock. For some reason
with as few as three bags in the urine disposal bag we still
get it partially jammed. They seem to swell up and are very
difficult to get out the trash airlock. We're considering
the possibility of dumping the bags everyday through the
urine dump system. We're wondering if therets any reason
why we shouldn't take that course of action.
CC We'll scratch our heads over that one
and try to give you an answer as soon as possible.
CDR I don't know why it suddenly changed.
Up until a week ago you could put 5 or 6 bags into a urine
disposal bag and put it out the trash airlock just slick as a
whistle. Now_ all of a sudden they're starting to swell up
and j am.
CC You guys aren't drinking more are you?
We're about going LOS here shortly. And Goldstone in
about 27 minutes at 20:24.
CDR Roger.
CC And the answer to the reason the rates
jumped around awhile ago was outer gimbal drive logic.
CDR Okay_ I'ii tell Bill.
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Time: 14:51 CST, 50:20:51 GMT
1/4/74
PAO This is Skylab Control at 20 hours

52 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylah now approaching the
coast of the United States coming in over BaJa California.
And here in Mission Control we're in a midst of a shift
handover, Flight Director Milton Windler and his team of
flight controllers are currently being debriefed - or,
debriefing. The Flight Control team headed by Don Puddy.
The oncoming Spacecraft Communicator will be astronaut
Bruce McCandless. Flight Director Puddy plans to break for
a change-of-shift press briefing at about 3:45 p.m. in the
JSC News Center briefing room. During this stateside pass
the major activity being performed by the crew will be the
medical experiments, MO92/MI71, the lower body neBative
pressure and metabolic activity experiments. This experiment
being performed by Commander Jerry Cart and Pilot Bill Pogue.
And we have an acquisition with a call to the crew.
PLT Hi, Story.
CC Hi. And we're going to dump the data/
voice right now.
CDR Okay.
CC And for Bill, the next time you're near
the STS we'll get a REG ADJUST from you.
PLT Roger, it'd be about i0 minutes. What
do you want?
CC Okay, we can catch you then it'll be a
REG ADJUST both pots, 30 degrees, counterclockwise.
PLT Roger.
CC That's to the old mark.
PLT Rog, understand.
CC And Bill, you may be getting a caution
and warning due to some desat firings. We don't think
it's any problem, the next dump will take care of that
momentum.
PLT Roger. And while I'm up here I'll go
ahead and do the REG ADJUST for you.
CC Thanks.
PLT Might take a look at that if you have
time.
CC We're looking.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 2 minutes
to Bermuda.
PAO This is Skylab Control, we're out of radio
contact now with Skylab. And about 5 minutes -- And we
have regained through Bermuda. About 4 minutes and 45
seconds of acquisition time left here.
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SL-IV MC1728/I
TIME: 15:06 CST, 50:21:06 GMT
1/4/74
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, 5 minutes

to Madrid. Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead Story.
CC No hurry at all_ next time you pass by the
STS, we'd like 5 more degrees counterclockwise on REG 2.
PLT Roger.
PAO We've had loss of signal now through
Bermuda and about 4 minutes from regaining contact with
Skylab through the Madrid tracking station. One correction
to a previous annoucement. Our current on duty CAP COMM is
astronaut Story Musgrave, not Bruce McCandless. McCandless
was at the CAP COMM position during the debriefing period.
But once the shift handover was completed, Musgrave took
the reins at the CAP COMM console and is performing those
duties at the present time. During that relatively quiet
stateside pass about the only substantive discussion that
occurred was advice to the crew that we did see some buildup
in the momentum on the Y-axis gyro. CAP COMM Bob Crippen
advised Jerry Carr at the time that this had been expected
and we felt that the momentum would get back to the normal
level after the next momentum dump. This buildup in momentum
was expected as a result of the large maneuver from the
Z-local vertical attitude used for EREP passes back to the
normal solar inertial attitude used for orbitial operations.
We have 3 minutes now before we regain contact through Madrid
and we'll leave the
line up for the Madrid pass.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through Madrid
and Canary for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about
13 minutes to Tananarive at 21:35.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's all through
Madrid now and we're about 10 minutes away from regaining
contact through Tananarive. At 21 hours, 25 minutes_ this is
Skylab Control, Houston.
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SL-IV MC1729/I
TIME: 15:34 CST, 50:21:34 GMT
1/4/74
PAO This is Skylab Control at 21 hours,

34 minutes Greenwich mean time. with Skylab now approaching
the Tananarive tracking station. Flight Director Milton Windier
has been going around the room polling each of each of his
flight controllers for a status on the mission and generally
reviewing the mission status. And we don't expect a great
deal of communication with the crew over this Tananarive
pass. Waslalso a relatively quiet pass over the United States
and on out over Madrid. And prior to this crew completing the
M092/171 experiments. And Bill Gib - rather Bill Pogue
in his allotted period of time for physical training and
physical hygiene, personal hygiene. And we're about ii seconds
now from acquisition, we'll be standing by for the call from
CAP COMM Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS Tananarive i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS here and
about 17 minutes to Honeysuckle at 22:00 be dumping the
data/voice there.
PAO We've had loss of signal now through
Tananarive and as we expected that was a very quiet pass.
The crew involved in the medical experiments, M092 and MI71.
Commander Jerry Carr and Science Pilot Bill Gibson taking
part in that medical experiment. And Pilot Bill Pogue in
the process of getting his day's exercise and also with
some time allocated for personal hygiene. Flight Director
Don Puddy is completing the shift handover and will be leaving
shortly for the change-of-shift press briefing. We expect
that briefing will begin in about 5 minutes in the JSC News
Center briefing room. At 21 hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1730/I
TIME: 16:17 CST, 50:22:17 GMT
1/4/74

17 minutes Greenwich mean time. During our change-of-shift
briefing we had a very small amount of conversation with the
crew about 45 seconds total. And we'll play that back for you
and then stand by to regain contact through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, AOS through Honeysuckle for
9 minutes and we'll be dumping the data/voice here.
PLT Got you Story.
CC Skylab_ we're a minute from LOS_ i0 minutes
to Hawaii.
PAO In about 45 seconds Skylab should be
within range of the tracking antennas at Hawaii. Flight Director
Milton Windier has completed the review of mission status with
his oncoming team of flight controllers and the flight control
team settled in now for an evening of activities that includes
ATM observations aboard Skylab and an additional data gathering
attempt with the S019 UV stellar astromony experiment on the
Comet Kohoutek. About i0 seconds now until acquisition of
signal.
CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii for 9 minutes Jerry_
Houston.
CDR Go ahead Story.
CC Jerry sometime in the next hour and a half
I'd like to pass up three changes to your S019 K pad.
CDR Okay, go ahead l've go it out now.
CC Okay, in the first paragraph. That's the
field KOH, change your start time 00:20 to 00:19.
CDR Okay, go it.
CC And on the same line delete the 30 Uniform
exposure.
CDR Okay.
CC In the next paragraph down, the start time
00:25p change that to 00:26.
CDR Okay, 26.
CC And the last one_ the second line down
there. Change the 249.1 to 249.9.
CDR Okay_ 7 turn clockwise from 249.9.
CC Thanks.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 3 minutes
to Goldstone.
PAO Skylab is now out of range of the Hawaii
but the space station will be bridging the gap between the
Hawaii tracking antenna and those of Goldstone, California
in about another minute and a half so we_ll leave the line up
for Goldstone acquisition.
CC Skylab, back with you through Goldstone
for 7 minutes.
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CC We're a minute from LOS, 5 minutes to

Bermuda.
CDR Rogerp Story.
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SL-IV MC1731/I
Time: 16:39 CST 50:22:39 GMT
1/4/74
PAO Skylab's current orbit takes the space

station out of range of the Texas and M_LA on this revolution.
And we're out of acquisition at the present time, but about
2-1/2 minutes away from regaining contact through Bermuda.
During the pass over Goldstone the telemetry data coming into
the Control Center showed that one of the crewmen was riding
the bicycle erogometer as part of there physical training,
we of course don't know which one. But PT or physical
training is schedule in the Flight Plan at about this time,
for Pilot Bill Pogue and also scheduled in for Science Pilot
Ed Gibson, so it's logical to assume that one of those two
crewmen is riding the bicycle erogometer. Flight Director
Milton Windier and his team of flight controllers are keeping
an eye on activities aboard Skylab and also looking at
tomorrow's Flight Plan activities. Reviewing them and looking
for any potential problems in scheduling or in activities
that the crew will be required to perform. We have about
i minute i0 seconds before regaining contact through
Bermuda, we'll leave the line up.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Bermuda for 7 minutes.
PLT Right Story.
PLT Story, what's the chances of getting
about I0 minutes of VTR time this evening.
CC Stand by, i.
CC We're in the process of dumping it now.
We can certainly get you i0 minutes. When would you like
it?
PLT Probably in about 2 hours. I want to - I
have to do this - the TV 107 I think it is, the fluid mechanics
in two different parts. I would like to get one of them done
this evening.
CC Bill, we'll need the next stateside
pass after this one to finish a dump. But about 00:20,
it's about an hour and - hour and half from now, you can
have it.
PLT That'd be great.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, Jer.
CDR Roger, Story. The sample that I took
of the fungus off the LCG and put in the transport
medium has been in the wardroom here for every since EVA
number 2. According to the pad I got I was going to
get the word to put it back in the chiller. I finally
got tired of looking at it today and put it in the chiller.
And there's a nice little growth of fuzzies in there. I
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tightened down the cap well and put it back in the chiller
with the rest of the transport media. And do you want a
description of it or anything?
CC Yes sir, we'd appreciate a description.
CDR Okay, it's s Just a fuzzy got a
very fuzzy appearance. It looks llke a mold or a fungus.
It doesn't look like it's anything too wild. It has done
a good deal of growing in this agar or transport media. I
went back and checked the LCGs again, and they look Just the
same. There has been no growth whatsoever on them_ But
these particular ones that I put in the little vial have
done a lot of growing at room temperature.
CC Okay.
CDR If they need anymore description, I'ii
get out a magnifying glass and look at it a little more.
CC Okay.
CC You got a couple minutes now Jer?
CDR Yeah, go ahead.
CC An evening question. Now, there's some
concern that the TV input station 642 failure may have been due
to the camera cable that was mated to it. And do you remember
now which pin broke on the TVIS 642?
CDR No I don't, Story.
CDR The pin came out though, we had it in
our hands.
CC Okay, that answers the next question.
Do you suspect that the pin failure may have been due to
the mating or demating.
CDR I think so.
CC And could you tell us something about
the condition of the camera cable, the J3 plug.
CDR It's in real good shape.
CC Okay, and how about plugging it into
the new station, does that connection go easily?
CDR Yeah, we've had no trouble at all.
CC Okay, thanks that's it.
CDR Okay.
CC And we're about 30 seconds to LOS and
3 minutes to Canaries.
PAO This is Skylab Control, we're about to
regain contact through Canaries Canary Islands. A pass that
will continue on through the Ascension Island tracking station
and on out across the tip of South Africa and over the Indian
Ocean. About 20 seconds now until we regain contact, we'll
leave the line up.
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TIME: 16:52 CST, 50:22:52 GMT
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CC Skylab, we're back with you through Canaries

for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC While you there what was the color of that
fungus?
CDR It's a light gray.
CC Okay, and that's all for now on that.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS about half
an hour to Carnarvon at 23:35.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal now through Ascension after a lengthy series of
almost continuous passes over the continental United States
down across the Canary Islands and finally out over the Atlantic,
southern Atlantic across Ascension and Skylab heading now
across the - toward the southern coast of Africa. During that
lengthy series of passes, Commander Jerry Carr reported that
the sample that the crew had removed from the LCU, liquid
cooling umbilical used in bringing cooling fluids to the space-
suits on - during EVAs that this sample had grown into what
he described a fuzzy gray mass of fungus apparently. And he
had placed the sample now in the cooler that is scheduled to
be brought back for study. Also, Pilot Bill Pogue, asked
for permission to load a bit of television onto the videotape
recorder, this is TV-107 which he'd been scheduled to do a
dry run on tomorrow. Pogue is apparently attempting to get
a bit ahead of the Flight Plan and work in a few more activities
and plans to put one part of that two part science demonstration
on the videotape recorder tonight. It would be dumped
probably tonight, during one of the several stateside passes
that we_ll have. And brought back into Houston to be replayed
tomorrow morning along with the TV 77, that we're also scheduled
to dump and bring in this evening to Houston. We have
25 minutes now before we regain contact with Skylab through
the Carnarvon Australia tracking station. At 23 hours
i0 minutes Greenwich mean time_ this is Skylah Control.
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SL-IV MC1733/I
Time: 17:34 CST 50:23:34 GMT
1/4/74
PAO -- - hours 34 minutes the Skylab space

station is now approaching the southern coast of Australia.
And we're about 1 minute away from reacquiring. The crew
is approaching the time for their evening meal. And also
during this period of time in the Flight Plan, Pilot Bill
Pogue is scheduled to perform observations of the Comet
Kohoutek with the SO19 UV astronomy experiment.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
10 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Jer, Houston.
PLT Go ahead Story, he's listening.
CC Okay, we_ve got 5 minutes more of AOS here
at Honeysuckle. We'd like to see the maneuver time for the
SOI9K maneuver in prior to leaving Honeysuclke and it's 23
minutes.
PLT In work, Story.
CC And Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, we're missing your last center of
gravity data on you. It was done on mission day 31 and the
other two crewmen reported theirs on mission day 32 and
yours was delayed until we you got your limb volume; that
was on mission day 37. You might look in the lower right-
hand corner of the page in the Biomedical ExperimentsCheck-
llst that's the 14- pages and see if they got that data on
you in there.
SPT Yeah, I sure will Story.
CC Skylab, we're looking at a good maneuver
time.
SPT Hello Story, the number is 21.0.
CC 21.0, thanks Ed.
SPT You're welcome.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS about
13 minutes to Hawaii at 23:57.
PAO We'll be back in contact with Skylab in
about ii minutes 45 seconds, through the Hawaii tracking
station. At 23 hours 46 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1734/I
TIME: 17:56 CST, 50:23:56 GMT
114174

57 minutes, Greenwich mean time. And with Skylab now coming
within range of the tracking station at Hawaii, we'll bring
the line up and await the call of the crew from CAP COMM
Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS, Hawaii for i0 minutes, your
maneuver is looking good.
SPT Thank you Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS,
4 minutes to Goldstone.
PAO That's all through Hawaii now with Skylab
out of range of the Hawaii tracking antennas and coming up
on Goldstone in 2 minutes and 40 seconds. During that pass
over Hawaii, telemetry from Skylab showed the crew was
maneuvering into the proper attitude for the S019 UV stellar
astronomy experiment which will be observing the Comet Kohoutek.
Toward the end of the Hawaii pass, Flight Director Milton Windler
queried the G&S officer as to how everything was going with
the maneuver and received the reply that everything looks
good. This is Skylab Control at 51 hours or rather zero hours
8 minutes Greenwich mean time.
CC Skylab, AOS Golds,one 5 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Jer, are you set up well enough on the S019
to do a couple of minutes of talking here?
CDR I think so Story, go ahead.
CC Okay, we assume on - this is working the
urine bag ejection problem, we assume you are using urine
disposal bags, we don't think you have any trash disposal bags
left on board. Is that correct?
CDR Yeah, that's right Story.
CC Okay, does the restriction seem to be
constant during the ejection cycle or is there one particular
place where it seems to hang up?
CDR No, it's constant throughout.
CC Okay, have you got anything else with
the urine disposal bags that's being ejected or are you doing
those by themselves?
CDR Nop I've been trying to do those alone.
CC Okay, have you had any other problems
with any other trash ejections?
CDR No the trash bags go out just very very
smoothly.
CC Okay, we got that and one other thing.
Could you verify that the film transport number 3 was installed
during the $201 prep on mission day 48, that's a couple of days
ago, just after the AMS malfunction.
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CDR That's affirmative.

CC Okay, that's it Jet.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab we're a minute to LOS, 5 minutes to
Bermuda.
CDR Roger.
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PAO - - on th[_ revolution is passing just out

of range of the northern most coverage of the Texas and MILA
tracking antennas. And we'll be reacquiring through Bermuda
in about 3 _inutes. CAP COMM_ Story Musgrave again discussing
with Jerry Carr the problem the crew had mentioned earlier
today in ejecting the urine disposal bags through the trash
airlock. In troubleshooting that problem CAP COMM was
inquirin$ as to whether there was any problem with other
disposal bags. Cart replied that none of the other trash
disposal bags were causing any problem going through the
airlock. And so far no one has come up with any good
explanation as to why the urine disposal bags are not
ejecting as easily as the other bags through the trash
airlock. Two and a half minute now until we reacquire at
Bermuda. We'll leave the line up.
CC Skylab, AOS through Bermuda for i0 minutes.
And Bill the laser people have got you in sight. They're tracking
you and the weather is good.
PLT Rog, Story. We got a beautiful view
of the Great Lakes region, Snow cover on the ground, all
cities lighted up, it's beautiful.
CC Okay.
PLT And I've got the laser loud and clear.
CC Beautiful.
PLT Boy, it's the brightest I've ever seen it.
It's great. And that's only one wattyou say?
CC That's affirm.
PLT Man itls really bright too.
PLT New York City is clear, almost all the
way down to Washington. You can see the - all the mountains
in relief here, Appalachians.
PLT Their track is just as steady as can
be.
CC Okay, we're giving them a call to see
if they want to reduce the power on it.
CC And Bill, the VTR is ready for you.
PLT Okay, thank you. And their still
tracking us.
CC Bill, in about 15 seconds, they'll be at
1/3 watts.
PLT Okay, I saw one flash and then lost it.
PLT I'm not seeing anything right now.
It's back now.
CC Okay, that's the third watt.
PLT Okay, it's sort of flickering.
PLT You still can't miss it. It's bright
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to see. It's very distinguishable.

PLT Hey, we're coasting out up over Boston.
Boy, it is really beautiful.
PLT Okay, I just lost it.
PLT Got it back.
PLT Still tracking us.
CC Okay.
PLT Story, just lost it behind spacecraft
structure.
CC Okay, Bill sounds like a good run.
PLT Oh yeah, it's loud and clear. And that
whole area up there looks like, well, it's about the clearest
I've ever seen it. Didn't seem like there was very much
industrial haze around it.
CC Okay, and if you can work it in sometime
tonight we'd like you to perform general message 5056 there.
That's remove the liquid gas separator from the ATM C and D
loop.
PLT Okay, I'ii go get that right now.
CC Thank you.
PLT And what's the - see my phone call is
going to be on what antenna?
CC Okay, that's - Carnarvon at 01:09 and
stand by just i.
CC That's a left to right.
PLT Roger.
CC Bill, let's make that a right all the
way on your antenna.
PLT Roger, copy.
CC Skylab, we're a minute till LOS, 7 minutes
to Ascension.
PAO Skylab space station is now over the hill
from Bermuda. And the next station to acquire will be Ascension.
During that stateside pass Bill Pogue gave us a vivid description
of the northeastern United States as seen from orbit, and
also described seeing the one watt green laser with which
the Goddard Space Flight Center was tracking Skylab. And when
the power was reduced from i watt to 1/3 Wgtt, Pogue reported
that he could still see the laser, but that it appeared to
be flickering. That description also was accompanied by,
as we said, a very vivid description of the northeastern
United States. He reported seeing New York City clearly and
a number of other landmarks, cities in that part of the United
States. This is Skylab Control at zero hours 32 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Five minutes away from reacquirlng at
the Ascension tracking station.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1736/I
Time: 18:35 CST, 51:00:35 GMT
1/4/74
PAO This is Skylab Control in about a

minute we_ll be regaining contact with Skylab through
Ascension. And aboard the space station the crew should
at this time be completing their evening meal. And Bill
Pogue will soon begin if he hasn't already begun loading
a fresh load of tape aboard the EREP recorder. And
Commander Jerry Carr according to the Flight Plan will
still have the duty of operating the S019, UV astronomy
experimentj observing the Comet Kohoutek.
CC Skylab, hack with you through Ascension
for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. And I didn't get to
tell you before you went over the hill last time, we
found Kohoutek in the SOl9 right - right where it should
have been. It's - I think on the frame it's going to
show up a little bit to the left. I found it about 09:30
position, about 8/10 of the way out, from the center
of the field of view.
CC Thanks, Jer.
CDR Looks like a Rube Goldberg pointing
method is working.
CC Yes sir.
PLT Story, which ATM coolant pump would
you llke first?
CC How about Charlie tonight?
PLT You got it.
CC And Bill, we want to use pump
Charlle until we tell you otherwise. And if that's too
noisy to sleep with tonight, you can turn it down.
PLT Okay.
CC And sometime along here, I've got about
five S183 questions concerning the carrousel for you, Bill.
PLT Fire away.
CC Okay, concerning ops yesterday, using
carrousel ii. Was carrousel ii aligned to the zero position, in
other words, synced prior to stowing and did the E-clip
break at this time?
PLT Negative. We were in the process of
syncing it. You know you stop short of getting back to 01.
I think it's on frame 29. And when we did that, I had
Jerry watching me every step of the way. And I pulled a
sort of a dirty trick, I - I said, Jerry I've been having
to use pliers to turn this thing and I want to see if it's
possible to turn with the fingers, would you try to turn
it with your fingers. He took it and turned it and as he
was turning it that clip popped out.
MCC Okay, copy, FLIGHT.
PLT So it was in the process of syncing it,
that the little clip came out that holds the spring in there.
And the procedure is that you turn it if I remember correctly,
counterclockwise back to the sync position.
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CC And was there a plate inside the

spectragraph assembly?
PLT That's negative. There was no plate
in there. I looked very very carefully before and after
and there were no pieces. Had the vacuum cleaner there
and everything.
CC Okay, you've spoken about the torque
required to sync. Could you compare the torque required
ii versus carrousel 22?
PLT Okay, now 22, if I remember correctly
I was able to turn with my middle finger by pushing it down
in there and just per the orginal instructions you - you
depress the post and twist it with friction on the end of
your finger. And that it was possible to do that. I
was never able to turn ii that way. But I did get the
pin straightener pliers and was able to by very carefully
gripping the top end of that of that post or stem. I
was able to turn that and syne it that way. I had been
doing that up until we had the problem.
CC Okay, and finally, any rubbing or
grating noises inside carrousel ii?
PLT Under what circumstances, Story? I -
I don't recall any, during the operation, no.
CC When you're syncing it, Bill.
PLT No, when I was syncing it with the
pliers, there was no grating it - is was a smooth operation,
it was - it was just stiff.
CC Okay, thanks. Those are great answers,
Bill. It'll help us - help us work this out a lot.
PLT Okay. Hope it works out.
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CC Okay, Bill. And was the film plate

indicating a zero or 29, when carrousel ii was removed?
PLT It was indicating 29, we went right
through that procedure very very very slowly and step by
step and ,Jerry was watching over my shoulders.
CC Roger. Do you recall the position of
the carrousel alignment mark before you synced it?
PLT Yes it was somewhere around the I
think around the 10 o'clock position. Jerry's busy right
now_ I can't confirm with him. But I - I remember that
it was going to be almost a full turn the long way around.
CDR That's affirmative, Bill. i0 o'clock,
PLT Okay, Jerry confirms that. About
i0 o'clock - i0 o'clock and the long way around back to 12
o'clock.
CC Okay.
PLT Just with what when we were in the process
of doing when the little spring clip - retainer clip popped
out.
CC Okay, and could yon describe the partial

plate that came out at the beginning of the ops? Was
the material a plastic holder or a glass?
PLT It was glass. I described it on tape.
But first, when I was installing it_ I - I assume that's
what you're referring to.
CC That's affirm.
PLT Okay, it had a corner on it. And the
straight edge lengths were about i inch and then it made a
sort of kite shape and the long sides on the kite were
about 2 inches.
CC Okay, did it have an emulsion on it?
PLT It did indeed.
CC And, do you remember the color and -
and was the border free of emulsion?
PLT The border was free of emulsion and
the emulsion was a beige or cream color.
CC Ok -
PLT - - you had about oh, an eighth of
an inch, 2 to 3 millimeters of border.
CC Okay, excellent. What were the results
of the spectrograph assembly inspection today?
PLT 0kay, it was all synced up, I had no
problems at all, everything worked Just fine.
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1/4/74
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, Carnarvon

next in about 23 minutes at 01:09. Bill, that's your family
call, the antenna is right.
PLT Roger, 09.
PAO Skylab now out of range of the Ascension
tracking station, 21 minutes away from next aequistion. At
48 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL IV MC-1738/I
Time: 19:20 CST 51:01:20 GMT
114173
PAO This is Skylab Control at 1 hour 9 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab now about mid-way through it's
3399th revolution, coming up on the tracking station at
Carnarvon, Australia. And the crew has about an hour and
15 minutes before their scheduled 1 hour and 45 minutes
rather, before their time scheduled to go to bed completing
this 50th day in orbit. We have about 25 seconds remaining
before we regain contact through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And Ed, let me know when you're up at
the ATM.
SPT I'm there now, Story.
CC Okay, I got a change to your schedule
pad there, starting on orbit at 01:19.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. This is in order to evaluate the
82B limb pointing reference system at 6 minutes time remaining
there, the VTR is Sun center. We'd like at least 30 seconds of
XUV SLIT white light display. And in order to fully illuminate
the slit, I'd like to be at Sun center pointing.
SPT Okay. How long do they want?
CC Oh, Just about 30 seconds of that.
SPT Okay.
SPT How about any time during the orbit I
have to be at Sun center? Will that do?
CC Yes sir, it'll do.
CC JOP 6, building block i will be a fine
time.
SPT Okay.
SPT Story, one additional word on that, and
that is, when I was performing an exposure today using the
auxillary timer, Panel 127, when it timed out, it caused
the white light slit display to oscillate. And it was not
an ocsillation of a total picture, but rather, if you will,
wiggles running up and down, like a wave - a standing wave
running up and down the - or a traveling wave running up
the limb, as well as the fiducial marks. So that was some-
where in the electronics.
CC Thanks Ed.
SPT Story, for the NOAA people in the back
room, I've been keeping track of active region. The one
which I mentioned this morning at around 250. It's still
there. It appears to be about the same intensity as the
one up at 280. It's a little further out on the limb. The one
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at 270 or 280 appears to be slightly rotating onto the limb.

CC Okay Ed. Have you been putting some
ATM on the VTR just the last minute or two?
SPT That's affirm.
CC Okay. We just wanted to be sure Bill
wasn't putting some on down below with the video switch in
ATM.
SPT No, Bill's up there having his call
right now, and I'm just getting a little ahead on the VTR
work.
CC Yeah, fine.
CC Skylab. We're a minute to LOS. Five
minutes to Guam. Be ready for the evening status report at
. Guam. Be dumping the data/voice there. And, Jer, we're
thinking that wiggle you saw may be a closing of the doors
at that time.
CC The shutters.
CDR Was that for Ed?
CC Yeah, he was talking about wiggles that
he saw on the white light display.
CDR Roger.
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SL-IV MC1739/I
Time: 19:20 CST 51:01:20 GMT
114174
PAO Skylab's now gone out of range of the

Carnarvon, Australia, tracking antennas and we're coming
upon Guam for the first time this evening. Following that
Guam pass we miss Hawaii and then come down across the
continental United States in a pass that picks up every U.S.
station, Goldstone, Texas, MILA, and Bermuda. During this
pass over Guam, we'll get the evening status report from the
crew. And in the pass Just completed over Carnarvon the
crew reported that they had noticed some oscillation in the
white light coronagraph picture on the ATM C and D panel.
And this was reported by Ed Gibson. Here in Mission Control
is was observed that we've seen this before. It's been caused
by the shutter cyclying 9 it's suppose to be a mechanical
vibratiom, and of no concern. Also Gibson reported again
saying active regions on the limb of the Sun at the
designated locations of 250, 280, and 270, which he said
was about to rotate behind the Sun. About a half a minute
now until we reacquire through Guam.
CC Skylab, back with you through Guam for
9 minutes. Be dumping the data/voice here.
CDR Okay, ready to copy the status?
CC Yes sir, go.
CDR Okay, Sleep: CDR. 8.5, 8.0 heavy, 0.5
light; SPT, i0.0, 9.5 heavy, half light; PLT_ 5.0, 2.0 heavy,
3.0 moderate. Volume: 2100; 2200; 2500. Watergun: 8151;
4069; 0080. Body mass: CDR, 6.313, 6.308, 6.308; SPT, 6.386,
6.377, 6.379; PLT, 6.233, 6.233, 6.234. Exercise: CDR,
no change; SPT, no Foxtrot; PLT, no Foxtrot. Medications:
CDR, none; SPT, none; PLT, chloral hydrate last night,
Dalmane tonight before bedtime. Clothing: CDR, shorts and
socks; SPT, socks; PLT, none. Food log: CDR, 5.5 salt,
zero deviations, plus 2.5 water; SPT, 1.5 salt, plus i tea,
plus i tuna, zero water; PLT, 6.0 salt, zero deviations,
zero water. Flight Plan Deviations: none. Shopping list:
CDR started TV 103 prep, have so far invested 30 minutes in
it. All housekeeping is accomplished today. Inoperable
Equipment: none. Unsheduled stowage: none. Stand by for
photo log.
CC Okay, Jer.
CDR Okay, the photo log: 16-millimeter.
M516-3_ Charlie India 77, 08, Mike Tango 09. Delta Pappa
14_ Charlie, Charlie India 127, 41, Charlie India 93. S183
ops, Uniform Alfa 04, 79. MI51 ETC prep, Charlie India 79,
82, Charlie India 126. EREP VTS, Charlie Lima 09, 40. MI51,
M092, and 171, Charlie India 79, 68, Charlie India 126.
Nikons, i, Charlie X-ray 39, 48; 2, no change; 3_ Char1%e
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India 112, 26; 4, no change; 5, no change. 70-millimeter,

Charlie X-ray 52, 155. ETC, Charlie Tango ii, 01 - 045.
EREP set Tango, 8949, 8287, 9163, 9158, 2699, 0023. Drawer
A configuration: Alfa i, 04, Charlie India 80, 99, Mike
Tango 08; Alfa 2, 05, Charlie India 127, 41, Charlie India
93; Alfa 3, 06, Charlie India 79, 68, Charlie India 126;
Alfa 4, 08, Charlie India 77, 08, Mike Tango 09. Back 07,
Charlie India 78, 46, Charlie India 74.
CC Thank's Jer.
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CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go, Jet.
CDR Okay, on this TV 104 that I'm doing,
correction, 103. It's going to take a good hour and a half,
I think, just to get the equipment built and ready to go.
There's a little wire pyramid that has to be made, and a
little wire cube, and a couple of other goodies, and those are
good for a half hour apiece. And so tell the folks when they
started allowing for some of these things not to be skimpy
with it.
CC Copy, Jer.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 16
minutes to Goldstone at 01:48.
CDR See you Story.
PAO Skylab has now gone out of range of Guam.
And we're about 15 minutes from the traeking station at
Goldstone for a continental United States pass. During that
time Skylab will begin its 3400th revolution of Earth. And
at 1 hour 34 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control, Houston.
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SL IV MC-1741/I
Time: 19:47 CST 51:01:47 GMT
1/4/74
PAO This is Skylab Control at I hour 48 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching the western coast
of the United States, we're about to acquire through Goldstone,
California. This will be a lengthy stateside pass and is
scheduled to be the last communicating pass with the crew
before they begin their sleep period.
CC - through Goldstone and Texas for i0
minutes. Your med conference will be I0 minutes from now
through MILA at 01:59.
CDR Roger Story.
CC And y'all ready for some news, or do you
have some for me now? The last pass that we plan to talk to
you will be after the med conference. That's Bermuda at 02:04.
CDR Okay. Why don't you throw us the news
at that pass. Ed's working ATM and Bill_s working on his
science demo, and that'll probably be better timing.
CC Okay. We'll do it then.
CC And Jer, we can offer you a wakeup, which
is 26 minutes early, or 20 minutes late. You'd probably like
the late one.
CDR Yeah, why don_t we go for the late one,
and we'll set our alarms.
CC Okay. Planned time of wakeup is - we_ll
call you at 11:20. And the Flight Plan calls for a wakeup
at ii:00o
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab. We're 30 seconds to handing
over to the med conference. We'll be back with you at Bermuda
at 02:04. We'll lose you at Bermuda at 02:07. And Ed, it's
through Bermuda we could check the ATM closeout. If we could,
we wouldn't have to call you later.
PAO The Skylab crew is now in the midst of
the normal medical conference. That's scheduled to last for
5 minutes. We'll regain - resume conversations on the open
loop with them as the spacecraft is acquired through Bermuda
in about another 3 or 4 minutes. And as usual we'll have a
summary of the medical conference to follow shortly. And on
regaining or resuming conversations with the crew, we'll be
passing up a news report. CAP COMM Story Musgrave will be
reading up the news. The pass over Bermuda is planned as the
last pass during which we'll have conversations with the crew.
prior to their sleep period scheduled to begin at 9:00 p.m,
central standard time, or about i hour from now.
PLT That's affirmative, Jerry.
CC Skylab. We're back with you here through
Bermuda for three minutes. We see Edts closing out the ATM.
We_ll take a look at it before LOS here.
SPT Story, the reason for the delay is I went
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zipping into the command module to get some S063 Kohoutek

photos.
CC Okay Ed. You all ready for some news?
SPT Sure am. Go ahead.
CC Leo K. Thorsness announced he will run
for U.S. Senate from South Dakota and said that his 6 years
is North Vietnamese prison camp will make him a better
public leader because "I learned a lot more about America
what America is all about -
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TIME: 20:05 CST, 51:02:05 GMT
1/4/74
CC Leo K. Thorsness announced he will run

for the U.S. Senate from South Dakota and said his six years
in a North Vietnamese prison camp will make him a better
public leader because "I learned a lot more about America -
what America is all about what she stands for." Thorsness,
41, a retired Air Force officer, said he will run in the
primary and seek the nomination for the seat now held by
Senator George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential
candidate. An icy blizzard rare in the San Francisco area
left thousands of unprepared lowland residents stranded,
shivering, shoveling out from under blankets of snow. Snow
_ choked usually sun-bathed mountain ridge roads. The white
stuff spooked horses on a sea level ranch. Startled drivers
in the Oakland hills were forced to abandon their autos.
SPT Story, would you llke a frame count
before you press on?
CC Yes sir, and two things up there Ed,
the XUV MON inner door is still OPEN and MPSs is still ENABLE.
SPT Yeah, I still haven't finished it up.
13668, 483_, 164, 406, 5066, 4398.
CC Okay.
CC And we're a minute from LOS here. We don't
plan to call you at the next station _, hut it is Carnarvon in
about 40 minutes at 02:47.
CC Thanks for the frame count, Ed. The
panel looks good and sorry the news was so short.
PAO That should amount to the goodnight call
to the crew unless we hear from them at their discretion
over Carnarvon in about 39 minutes. Go to bed time for the
crew is approximately 42_ 43 minutes from now, at 9 p.m.
central standard time. And they're scheduled to wakeup
tomorrow morning at 5:20 a.m. as Skylab passes over the
Guam tracking station. During that last pass over the
continental United States, Science Pilot Ed Gibson completed
ATM operations. CAP COMM Story Musgrave got up a couple of
items of the evening news and the crew concluded their normal
medical conference. At 2 hours 9 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control, Houston.
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1/4/74

45 minutes Greenwich mean time, Skylab approaching acquisition
through the tracking station at Carnarvon, Australia. We
don't expect to hear anything from the crew on this pass
having said good night to them previously. However, this - this
is an optional site, the crew's option. If they have anything
further they wish to discuss with the ground before beginning
their sleep period, we may hear from them. So we will have
the line up. Tomorrow's activities include 6 hours of ATM
observations for the Skylab crewmen, as well as one of two
remaining observations of the comet Kohoutek using the
ATM instruments. They are also scheduled to observe the
comet using the S063 ultraviolet airglow instrument. And
the major medical experiments M092, MITI the lower body
negative pressure and metabolic activity experiments are
scheduled to be performed with Commander Jerry Cart as the
subject. During today's activities Skylah's gyroscopes
behave well throughout major maneuvers for Earth resources
surveys. And the mission surgeonp Dr. Jerry Hordinsky, has
the following report on the crew condition. The report
reads, "The crew remains in good health. Shifting sleep
time has resulted in two crewmembers utilizing sleep
medication." And that concludes the mission surgeon's daily
report prepared by Dr. Jerry Hordinsky. Wakeup for the Skylab
crew is scheduled for 5:20 a.m. central standard time over the
tracking station at Guam tomorrow morning, At 2 hours 47 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control, Houston.
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SL-IV MC1744/I
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115174

Greenwich mean time. We're now coming within range of the
tracking antenna at Guam where the morning wakeup call will
come from spacecraft communicator Hank Hartsfield. Flight
Director on duty is Charles Lewis and we're now live at Guam.
CC (Music: Strawberry Roan and E1 Paso by
Marty Robhins)
CC Good morning, Skylab. We're about i
minute from LOS. We'll see you again at Vanguard at 58 with
a recorder dump.
SPT Good morning, Hank.
CDR Gene Autry, eat your heart out.
CC (Music)
passed out of range of the tracking antenna at Guam. Our
next acquisition is a little less than 30 minutes from now at
Vanguard. Morning wakeup call was Marty Robbins' "Strawberry
Roan" and "El Paso," to which Commander Cart commented, "Gene
Autry, eat your heart out." This morning's activity include
includes a run on the M092/MI71 medical experiments. That
pair of medical experiments will be performed on Commander
Cart with Pilot Bill Pogue acting as observer. There's also a
good deal of solar observation this morning and observation
of the comet Kohoutek scheduled to take place between 14:30
and 16:15 this morning. Later in the day, most of their time
is set aside for science demonstrations for ATM operations
and for exercise. This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition
28-i/2 minutes away. It's now 29 minutes and 38 seconds after
the hour.
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01/05/74
PAO Sk_lab Control at ii hours 57 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now just off
the coast of Chile, about 52 seconds from acquisition through
the Vanguard tracking ship. The pass through Vanguard will
last a little more than ii minutes. Spacecraft communicator
is Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Vanguard for
ii minutes and we'll be dumping the recorder.
SPT Morning, Hank.
CC Good morning.
CDR Hank, would you ask them to check the
waste processor exhaust pressure, please?
CC Will do_ Jer.
CC CDR, Houston. Looks normal to us. We
see 0.007.
CDR Okay, I'm going to open the urine dump
valve now, and we_ll see what you see then.
CC Okay, we're watching.
CDR Okay, it's open.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, right after
you started making z_s last night, we got the results of a
thermal study that was run at Marshall, that showed that the -
these long maneuvers that we've got out of solar inertial are
causing the skin of the vehicle to roa - reach the critical
point, which we may start to get some outgassing from the
insulation_ the old TDI (?) problem again. And, as a result
of that, we've had to shorten this JOP 18D today to one pass
rather than two. Now, the JOP 18 pad we sent up does reflect
that when Ed gets to doing it, and as a result I also - the
results of that I had - we've had to make a few Flight Plan
changes. They are very small, to take that into account.
And so whenever each of you is free I have just give me a
call and I'ii give you your part of the Flight Plan corrections.
SPT Okay, Hank, Itm ready now. Go ahead.
CC Okay, Ed. What it's (garble) to you,
yours is pretty simple. You will just stay on the console
and run an ATM pass in place of the second JOP 18D pass. And
that causes a change in the schedule. If you have that handy
I can give you that very briefly on what you'll do for that
second pass.
SPT I don't have the ATM schedule. Hold on,
I'ii go get it.
SPT Okay, Hank, go ahead with the changes
to the ATM schedule.
CC Okay, Ed. In the pass that's scheduled
there at 18:04, right prior to that, the pad says there's
ground enable dump at 17:53. Change that to 16:15, for infop and
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the - your pass will start at 16:15, in place of the JOP 18D, and
you'll also do the 18:04. Now, what we suggest you do is do the
shopping llst 14 Alfa, as it's called for there, on the first
rev and do a 14 Bravo on the second rev. And, - the 18:04 rev.
And the only change to the pad will be for the 14 Bravo, down
on S054, the grating should be in instead of out.
CC SPT, Houston. I think I might have made
an error reading that up. We want you to do shopping list
14 and not - and delete any reference to that Bravo, except
we want to do one of them with the grating out and one with
the grating in on the 16:15 and 18:04 rev.
SPT Okay_ Hank. I copF. On the 18:04 rev
you want the shopping list 14, one with the grating in and
one with the grating out.
SPT Hank, as I see it, that 18:04 pad is all
one pad, so it looks like you want two shopping list 14_s done
on the same pass?
CC Negative, Ed. We want a shopping list 14
on both of the passes. In other words, we're adding, instead
of the second JOP 18D rev, we're adding in another ATM pass,
and it will be on state (?) 16:15, you'll be there, but I think
it starts really about 16:30, at sunrise.
SPT Okay, I'm with you. I was looking on
the other end of it. Okay. I got it now, Hank. Somewhere
around 16:15, 16:30. Whenever it starts, we'll give you a
shopping list 14 and either grating in or grating out, in the
opposite the next orbit. Thank you.
CC That's right, Ed. Thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS. We'll see you again at Ascension. Ascension at
12, and that's about 3 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank. Got a question on the ATM
pad, step 14. They say if you don't find the comet reverse
all circuit (garble)(statlc) biases and then start from scratch.
CC Ed, we're about to go LOS. Let us catch
that at Ascension. That's about 2 minutes from now.
SPT Thank you.
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SPT - the next orbit. Thank you.

CC That's right, Ed. Thank you very much.
CC Skylah, Houston9 we're about i minute
from LOS. We'll see you again at Ascension - Ascension at
12, and that's about 3 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank, got a question on the 18D
pad step 14. They say if you don't find the comet reverse all
circuit (static) (garble) biases and start from scratch?
CC Ed, we're about to go LOS. Let us catch
o that at Ascension, that's about 2 minutes from now.
SPT Thank you.
PAO Skyla5 Control at 12 hours i0 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range of the tracking
antenna at Vanguard. About to he acquired through Ascension
for the beginning of an overlapping pass lasting approximately
17-1/2 minutes through Ascension, Canary Island, and Madrid.
This time we're about 1 minute and 50 seconds from acquisition
at Ascension. During this last pass spacecraft communicator
Hank Hartsfield informed the crew that we're going to shorten
the ATM JOP 18D operations. That's solar observation of the co-
met Kohoutek will be shortened to one revolution. The purpose for
that shortening is to prevent the skin of the vehicle to - from
heating up the insulation. It's been discovered that as we
do longer and longer observations of the comet with the solar
telescopes the maneuver required tends to heat up the skin of
the vehicle and it reaches a point above the desired level.
Normally temperatures had been predicted to go to 192 degrees,
but wetve now discovered that this temperature problem, because
of a high Beta angle, that is to say a long period in which
the Sun is a at peculiar angle to the space station_ and also
due to the additional roll required to do observations of the
comet Kohoutek, the temperature would continue to go up to about
220 degrees. That's above the desired level for heating of
that insulation. For that reason we'll shorten the total period
of time for each observation with the ATM instruments of the comet
Kohoutek. That's to prevent the outgassing of carbon monoxide
and TDI. Those gasses were considered to be a problem when the
space station was heated up after it lost a meteoriod shield
immediately following the launch of the Skylab workshop. It
was discovered at that time, however, that no such outgassing
did occur and there was no danger to the crew from that earlier
period. But we're taking caution to prevent that from occuring
again. We're coming up on acquisition of signal now at Ascension.
We'll bring the line up live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylah, Houston; we're back with you through
Ascension for 7_i/2 minutes. And if I understood your correc -
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question correctly, Ed, it was in reference to reverse all

first maneuvers. That's really you don't really have to do
there. All you would have to do is hit solar inertial and
it'd take you back where you were. And the reason for the
comment on the Venus in there is that if you're properly
centered Venus will be out of the field of view, and that
was just an information remark.
SPT Okay, thank you, Hank.
CC And, Ed, you probably noticed we didn't
send you up a SAP update this morning, or solar activity update.
There really wasn't that much going on. We decided we'd Just
voice up what little change is going on. Active region 12
is slowly declining and active region 14 is stable, no activity
reported. And there's no optical features associated with
the XUV brightening at 250 at i.
SPT Okay, thank you, Hank.
SPT Hopefully that pass is going to start getting
longer again.
PLT Hank, you've got PLT on the ATM.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Question for the ATM there, On these
54s when they're going to - when we take time exposures,
are they going to take specified time in the pad? I just
started a sequence here and I think I did it incorrectly.
But I - in order to do it as it is on the pad, I think I
have to have a time unless it's a specified canned time on
the JOP Summary Sheet implied. Would you cheek with them on
that?
CC Will do.
PLT It is a change on the JOP summary sheet.
CC That's affirmative, Bill. I was - I think
with the last change we sent up there is - well, next to last, I
believe it's change 18, that changed that building block.
PLT Yes, but the duration of the exposure
isn't quite clear from the length of the space on the summary
sheet. I just wondered if I was just supposed to sort of eyeball
that or they going to specify a time exposure duration in the
pad?
PLT Okay, I just been updated by Ed here, and
it's supposed to be 17 minutes.
CC That's affirmative, Bill. Should be MSOS-I
and 17 in the exposure.
PLT Thank you, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 1 minute from
LOS. We'll only drop out for about 30, 40 seconds. Will be
right back with you at Canarys.
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CC Skylab, Houston; we're back with you again

through Canary and Madrid for 9-i/2 minutes.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you again at Guam at 56_ 26-i/2 minutes from now.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now out of range
of the tracking antenna at Madrid. Next acquisition is 24
minutes and 22 seconds away. That will be at Guam. I'll
read for those of you who may have missed it last night, the
daily report on crew health from the Mission Surgeon. "The
crew remains in good health. Shifting sleep times resulted
in two crew members utilizing sleep medication." That's signed
by Dr. Jerry Hordinsky. That's the Mission Surgeon's daily
report on crew health given to us late last night. 24 minutes
to our next acquisition of signal. This is Skylab Control.
PA0 Skylab Control at 12 hours 55 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now about to be
acquired through the Guam tracking antenna. We're 52 seconds
from acquisition of signal there as the handover is beginning
here in Mission Control. The Guam pass will last about
9-1/2 minutes. This time, Flight Director Don Puddy is
sitting down at the console replacing Charles Lewis and
Sspacecraft Communicator Bob Crippen has come on. He and
Hank Hartsfield, both here on duty and Bill Lenoir, the
ATM scientist is in the Mission Control center as well for
possible ATM conference this morning with the crew.
MCC Skylab_ Houston with the ATM conference.
SPT Good morning, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. We've got a 9_i/2 minute pass here
today. One question for you on the Sun, I don't have anything
to add. We have not yet seen any evidence at on the ground
on H-alpha or anything other than the EUV from OSO. On the
region that you mentioned coming over the limb at 02:50 bearing,
can you tell us what yon see there?
SPT Bill, I've not had a pass on the ATM panel
this morning, so I can't tell you. As soon as I do get one,
I'll - however, I'll take a quick look for you.
MCC Okay, fine. Just pass it down whenever
you get there. Got some comments on today's activities. You
have the schedule sheet with you?
SPT I sure do, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. The first thing is on the shopping
list 14 which we have scheduled for the pass that begins at
18:04. Because of thermal constraints, we can only run the
JOP 18D for one orbit. So we pick up the orbit previous to
18:04 as well. Rather than running just shopping list 14 Alfa
on the 18:04 orbit, what we want to run is the shopping
llst 14 Alfa on the previous orbit and we_ll pick up shopping
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llst 14 Bravo at 18:04. The only change on the Bravo is,

you'll notice down on the bottom there, we have tagged on
541ong exposure MS0S-I. So we've got GRATING OUT there.
We want to run the shopping list 14 Bravo the same except
we want the GRATING IN on 54. So we're recommending in
summary to do 14 Alfa first, with GRATING OUT; do 14 Bravo
second, with GRATING IN and each one is a full orbit long.
Is that clear?
SPT Okay, Bill. At the orbit there was at
somewhere around 16:15, you want shopping list 14 Bravo with
the GRATING OUT and the subsequent orbit, 18:04 shopping llst
Bravo with GRATING IN.
MCC The first orbit, 16:30 or whenever it is,
is 14 Alfa, aActually peaking on the plume with GRATING OUT.
The second orbit then is 14 Bravo which is the background
shot with GRATING IN.
SPT Okay. I've got it.
MCC Okay and now for more comments. Within
shopping list 14, you'll notice that when you read it, it
says to maximize detector 3 for 55 on either magnesium X
or neon Vii. We recommend trying magnesium X first mainly
because its grating comes first and then to go to neon VII.
If you don_t find anybody home in magnesium X, if you
find nobody home there, locate a bright point if possible
onteh XUV mon and just go radially outward from that. And
if that fails, just - the orbit's yours.
SPT Okay. Would you go over that once more
again, Bill?
MCC Okay. The way the shopping list is
written, it says "Maximize detector 3," and it offers magnesium
X or neon VII. Try magnesium X first and if you eantt find
a plume in magnesium X to peak on, go to Neon 7. Again,
if you can't find a plume to peak on there, look at the XUV
mon and find a bright point and just go radially outward from
there with the RIGHT offset from the limb. And if you can't
find any break points, then it looks like you've picked up
another orbit for observation time.
SPT Okay. I got it, Bill. Thank you.
MCC And note that 55 has a particular grating
specified. So - and that is MECH REF since you'll be off
the limb.
SPT Okay.
MCC And one last thing here. On the JOP 26
later in the day that Jerry does, itVs just a confirmation
of what's in the schedule pad. 82B takes a long exposure
that stands four building blocks and one pointing change in
between, Don't worry about it. They've all ready taken that
into account and they don't mind the pointing change.
SPT Okay. I think Jerry understands.
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MCC Okay. And now to answer your question

on coronal transients from several days ago. Basically - -
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MCC - - If you can't find any break points

then it looks like you've picked up another orbit for obser-
vation time.
SPT Okay, I got it, Bill. Thank you.
MCC And, note that 55 has a particular grating
specified so, and that is MECH REF, since you will be off of
the limb.
SPT Okay.
MCC And, one last thing here on the JOP 26
later in the day, that Jerry does. It's just a confirmation
of what's in the schedule pad. 82B takes a long exposure
that spans four building blocks and one pointing change in
between. Don't worry about it, they've already taken that into
account and they don't mind the pointing change.
SPT Okay, I think Jerry understands.
MCC Okay, and now, to answer your question
on coronal transients from several days ago. Basically what
it looks like is that both Parkinson and Murphy have combined
to act against us. We've got several things that's going
against us, this mission, the first and foremost of which
is that it is just not nearly as active as it was, say, for
SL-III, and that was what we compared with. I've got a memo
here, prepared by Jess Smith and Ernie Hildner and Broussard
on actually quantifying the coronal transients from SL-III and
what we've done so far in SL-IV. And, the big conclusion is
that activity is much less SL-IV, than it was SL-III. And, as
a matter of fact, if you recall several - the last half a cycle
and a cycle and a half ago, we had 87/92 up and then the following
cycle we had 00 up, and that's been the wildest thing wetve
seen. We looked not too long ago at an H-alpha picture from
that longitude on SL-III and there were about six quite active
regions that you could see and 00 or 87/92 would have fallen
pretty much in the middle of the complexity and activity there.
So, your Sun is much less active. And then the thing that
Parkinson and Murphy really get us on is that most of the
coronal activity that we have had has fallen at night or
during your sleep cycle, really. So, our only conclusion is
about all we can do is to wish for better times ahead here.
One note here's, if you recall, several weeks ago when prominence
59 lifted off, while you were asleep, we had scheduled big
observations that day, but it lifted off while you guys were
asleep. We got a lot of unattended data on it from S055, S052,
and 82 Alfa, shot considerable film; and 52 got several standard
sequences when it was out at 0.4, 0.5, and about 0.7 solar radii,
so that everybody's quite excited about that, even though it
would have been nice if you guys had been up. We could have
gotten a little more - a little more data as far as being
able to use the man up there changing modes and so on. So
about all we can conclude there is that we've just been unlucky
and we have an inactive Sun and we Just have to keep our eyes
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open.
SPT Okay, Bill. I hope we pick up something
when we got the active longitudes coming around the corner
again here.
MCC Okay, so do we. And, one note there is
that many of the coronal transients that we have seen in SL-II
and III, we've picked up by accident, several of which, as
Bob MacQueen told you earlier, were when crewmen were actually
at the panel looking at the displays and there would be a
coronal transient occuring, that just is not visible on board.
SPT Okay, we got a pretty good monitor up
here and I think if they're - if they're barely visible, they
ought to show up here.
MCC Okay, good. Now, one more thing here,
on S054, we talked a bit yesterday about changing some building
blocks there again, and I concluded that we probably had ought not
change it. What we want to do is all of the sequences where
we say grating out, M blank, OF(?) 256 and what have you, S054
would like more flexibility at being able to put the grating
in. Rather than send you a massive change that, in effect, has
you going through the building blocks lining out the zero or
the 0 and making a line, where we could say GRAT IN, GRAT OUT,
what I would recommend is, let's just treat all of the S054
sequences where it says GRAT OUT, if the pad says nothing,
it's GRAT OUT; if we want it IN, we'll say GRAT IN. On things
like today where we have a BB 28 that - the BB 28 itself has
both GRATINGS OUT, we wanted one in one out, so we say GRAT
OUT_ GRAT IN and we're hoping that's clear enough that we don't
need to take 30 minutes of your time with a change. We've
got 50 seconds here til LOS. Vanguard is next in 31 minutes
at 13:36 and what are your thoughts on that, on 54?
SPT Yeah, I agree with you. I don't think we
need to go through more changes. I also recommend, though, that
if it says OUT on the JOP Summary Sheet and you want to change
it again, just preface it by a change and let that make it harder
on the bookkeeping down there, but it would help us a little
up here.
MCC Okay, fine. Understand you're saying that if
we want to change it from OUT to IN, we just say change GRAT to
IN.
SPT Yeah, or anything else which will catch
the guy's eye, so he can make sure make sure that he realizes
that he is changing it from the JOP Summary Sheet. Maybe that
makes it harder in terms of bookkeeping down there, in te_ms
of changes that yon come up with. I know we had some rough
ground roll on percentages and so forth but_ unde_ the circum-
stances, I don't mind as long as they specify the change.
MCC Okay, fine, Ed. And, we're officially
LOS, here, so I'ii stop talking and we'll see you tomorrow.
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SPT Thank you, Bill. So long.

range of the tracking antenna at Guam, and that was the morning
solar instrument conference with Bill Lenolr talking to
Science Pilot Ed Gibson. They reviewed again the procedures
for operating the ATM and, in the beginning of the pass, Bill
asked whether Ed Gibson had - could give him any additional
information on the limb brightening that he saw yesterday,
an indication that an active region may be coming around the
edge of the disk. And Gibson pointed out that he had not
yet been to the solar instruments this morning. The first
pass this morning was conducted by Bill Pogue. But he will
give a report as soon as he's seen some evidence one way or
the other on that. Now in their eighth week in space Skylab
astronauts Cart, Gibson, and Pogue were up at 5 a.m. this
morning, to begin a long day of scientific research. In
addition to regular medical experiments and observations of
the ever changing Sun, the Skylab crew will study changes in
the growth and development of bacteria and spores and of rice
plants. The investigations were proposed by high school
students to discover the effect of weightlessness on the
growth of living things. This morning Chief Scientist Ed
Gibson will point Skylab's solar instruments at the comet
Kohoutek, now much fainter than it was a few days ago. The
comet observations will be briefer than they have been during
recent days. Ground based engineers have shortened the time
during which Skylab's telescopes can look at Kohoutek because
they are concerned that the Sun's heat might effect the space
station's insulation. Long maneuvers might heat the insulation
to such a point that dangerous gasses would be given off. The
briefer observation period will keep the Skylab atmosphere as
it is, purer than a hospital operating room. Mo_ning activities
today include that work on ED31, which is the bacteria and spores
experiment. That's been going on now for the last two days. It
began on mission day 49. It'll be concluded today - -
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PAO - - from this heat might affect the space

station's insulation. Long maneuvers might heat the insulation
to such a point that dangerous gases would be given off. The
briefer observation period will keep the Skylab atmosphere as it
is, purer than a hospital operating room. Morning activities
today include the work on ED31 which is the bacteria in spores
experiment. That's been going on for the last 2 days; it began
on mission day 49. It'll be concluded today. The experimental
materials are a series of petri dishes with bacteria in spores
in them, were kept chilled up to day 49 of the mission, two
days ago, then they were brought out. A certain number of the
samples are incubated while the remainder are left at room
temperature, and then they are photographed at the time they
are put into the petri dish and at 12-hour intervals there-
after. That photography will be concluded today and the samples
will be returned to the chiller for the crew to bring back to
Earth at the end of the mission in February. And also the
rice plant - rice seeds will be planted today in a container
with varying light conditions to determine what the effect
of changes in light and the zero gravity environment are
on the growth of rice seeds. Rice seeds grow very, very
quickly, so the crew will be photographing them at regular
intervals over about the next 12 days. 27 minutes to our
next acquisition of signal. 9-1/2 minutes after the hour,
this is Skylab Control.
Greenwich mean time. We're now coming within range of the
tracking ship Vanguard. The acquisition of Vanguard 50 seconds
away. It's 7 minutes and 32 seconds for this acquisition
of signal, and the spacecraft communicator is Bob Crippen.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS at Vanguard
for 8 minutes.
PLT Good morning, Crip.
CDR Hello, crimson buddies.
CC How you guys doing today?
CDR Oh, pretty good except we got a little
problem.
CC You really know how to start my day out
right. What is it?
CDR Right. Our urine dump doesn't dump.
CC That's the one you told me you wanted to
use last night.
CDR Right. Our friendly bronze team says the
waste processer exhaust gas pressure is okay, but we're not
moving any fluids at all. We shifted over to the secondary
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to BUS 2 on the heater, and we closed up the DUMP VALVE about

an hour ago, and shifted over to the other heater. And what
does the pressure look like now?
CC We'll check it for you.
CC Okay, we're - we're showing it to be
0.008.
CDR Okay, you don't have any readings of
temperature or anything like that do you?
CC Unfortunately we do not.
CDR Okay, I'm going to throw the handle over
to the dump position again and we'll see what happens.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, it's in dump.
CC Roger, Jet. Did you happen to verify
the circuit breakers on panel 614, your DUMP HEATERS BUS i
and 2?
CDR Okay, I'ii go check that.
CDR They're CLOSED; we've got lights.
CC Okay.
CC For the PLT while we're waiting on Jet
to let us know what's happening with the urine dump, I do
have a couple of Flight Plan changes Itm going to have to
note to you, Bill. We don't have to get them in this site,
but we probably should by the next; so whenever it's convenient
with you.
PLT Roger, Crip, I'ii be with you in about
a minute.
CC Okay, no big rush. We have about 4-1/2
minutes left at Vanguard here.
PLT Crip, I have my pad out now.
CC Okay, Bill, if you got your summary handy
let me just basically tell you in general terms what we're
going to do and then we can mark it up. Because the 18D was
shortened up for Ed today we can't do that 183 ops that we've
got scheduled for you around 16:00 because we're going to
be maneuvering. So what we'd like to do is move your M092,
171 observer up to as soon as you finish the film installation
on 183. And then at the end of that we want you to pick up
a housekeeping 60 Echo, the food transfer, that 3erry originally
had, and I'm going to take it off of his later.
PLT Okay, if I have - I read you correctly
then, after the S183 film installation, I pick up the M092,
171 observer on the CDR that starts at around, what, 15:45?
CC Yes, somewhere in that time. Whenever you
finish the installation you can - you can start ±t.
PLT Okay, and at the completion of MO92-171-I
on the CDR I pick up a houskeeping 60 Echo.
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CC That's affirmative. And then later when

I talk to Jer I'm going to move that 183 ops later down in
his schedule. But that's basically all we had for you. There
was one item I wanted to note for you on your upcoming S019
operation. We made a little error when we put the tilt in and
we put it in negative numbers. You need to subtract those
negative numbers from 360. I think it should be fairly obvious
to you. If you got that pad I can go ahead and give you the
correct numbers.
CC If if yon don't have it real handy right
now, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. Next station contact
is Canary in 11-1/2 minutes at 13:56.
PLT Okay, I got tilt minus 1.7 so I'Ii make
that 3583, and the minus 0.5 I'ii make that 3955.
CC 3595; roger.
PLT Excuse me, 3595.
CC Okay, that's - that's got it.
PAO Skylab Contral at 13:45 Greenwich mean time.
Skylab space station over Brazil is out of range of the tracking
antenna on the ship Vanguard. Our next acquisition is 10-1/2
minutes away. In the dump tape recorded here in Mission Control
and transcribed, Pilot Bill Pogue gave a description of that
comet Kohoutek the other day. The description was made on
day of year 4, that's yesterday in the afternoon. And Pogue
indicated that the comet was still fairly visible from the
Skylab space station. He didn't go into details about its
exact magnitude, but he did say that the tail length was
approximately 6 degrees - -
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PAO _ -In a dump tape recorded here in

Mission Control and transcribed, Pilot Bill Pogue gave a
description of the comet Kohoutek the other day. The descrip-
tion was made on day of year 4, that's yesterday, in the after_
noon, and Pogue indicated that the comet was still fairly
visible from the Skylab space station. He didn't go into
details about its exact magnitude, but he did say that the
tail length was approximately 6 degrees. That would indicate
that the comet's tail appears to be about 9,000,000 miles in
length. And, also, Commander Jerry Cart reported some photo-
graphy in the same dump tape. He reported taking a couple
of handheld Hasselblad photographs of the jet - of Jet stream
cirrus. These are high flying clouds at the 35,000 foot level,
or approximately that level, starting about 300 nautical miles
southwest of Los Angeles and going to the east. He said that
the second frame that he took was just about over the northern
end of Baja California, just south of San Diego. And, it
began to -- the jet stream cirrus began to peter out over what
he what looked like the E1 Paso area, he said, and out over
the Pacific, the jet stream cirrus is very strong, very very
plain. Jet stream cirrus was one of the photograph opportunities
on handheld photography, but it was also studied yesterday during
the Earth resources pass over Pennsylvania. It's an importnat
phenomenon for weather investigations and it is one of the
official research projects of the Earth resources experiments
being conducted by Skylab. This is Skylab Control. It is
now 47-1/2 minutes after the hour,
PAO Skylab Control at 13:55 Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station is now 55 seconds from acquisition
at Canary Island. The pass through Canary Island is the
beginning of a pass through Canary Island and Madrid with
overlapping coverage. Total length of the pass is about 15
minutes. We'll bring the line up live now for air-to-ground.
The spacecraft communicator is Robert Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Canary. We have you for about 12 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip, and my bag still runneth
over.
CC Okayp Jet. I guess, we don't want to
let this get us behind on today's Flight Plan and our recom-
mendation would be either to throw it over in the corner
someplace else while we - while we work on it or go ahead
and put it out the trash airlock, your option. One item that
you might try sometime today in a - in one of the open house-
keeping periods that we have, is that we have the UCTA urine
inlet hose adapter that we use to dump the UCTAs_ that itts in
locker 823, and you might try connecting that up to that dump
and open it up and see if you're getting any flow at all
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through it.
CDR Okay, we'll give that a try.
CC Rog. And, our recommendationp I guess,
would be, on this problem you've been having with the urine
bags in the trash airlock, would be to go with two bags max
at one time.
CDR Okay, I don't know how long our urine
disposal bags are going to last at that rate.
CC Well, we're Roger. We are - I think
they mentioned to you the other day that we're going to probably
go to 36-hour collection, or at least alternating 36-hour and
24-hour collection, so we hope that would extend the use of
those bags somewhat.
CDR Okay.
CC Jerry, do you have a moment here to copy
down something on your Summary Flight Plan? Or would you
want to get it a little bit later, itts - no big rush on it.
CDR First of all, a question. This period of
time between 14:18 and 14:37 where I'm not allowed to use the
ergometer. Can I use the MARK i or the treadmill?
CC Stand by i.
CC Okay, Jer, the answer to that is that
you're GO to use the MARK i and the treadmill. And, one
question we have right now, it's about doing the jumping
exercise on the treadmill, and let me - let me check on that.
CDR Okay, I'ii go ahead and get started on
the ergometer and will you - will we be any AOS passes in
that period of time?
CC Stand by i, Jer.
CC Nope, unfortunately we don't.
CDR Okay, I'ii get my pad and pencil. We'll
do those updates now.
CC Oh, I'm sorry_ Jet. Yes, we'll have some
before - before then. I was thinking that you were talking
about getting (garble) during that period that you couldn't
use the ergometer. We can get it after your exercise period.
No sweat. All I want to do - -
CDR Okay_ what I was thinking was, during that
period when I couldn't exercise we could do the updates.
CC Oh, okay.
CC Also, sometime this pass, probably be
most convenient for Ed, if he can get a moment up there at
the ATM panel, I'm going to need to to get a reg adjust for
the upcoming 18D pass.
SPT With you in a minute, Crip.
CC Okay, Ed, thank you.
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SPT Okay, Crip. What would you llke?

CC Okay, Ed. On panel 206 there, what we
want to do is, if we've got the original positions marked,
we want to take the REG ADJUST pots i and 2, i0 degrees
clockwise.
SPT You've got it.
CC Thank you, sir.
CC For the CDR. Jer, regarding the exercise,
at apparent, you've got a moment to to talk about that?
CDR Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay. You - the only restriction that
we've got on S019 ops is ergometer only. One - in looking at
that one item, we bring to note is that you're scheduled
right up until 15:00 for exercise. And at 15:02:18, Delta
data take commences. So we are affirming that your exercise
will be complete by 15:00.
CDR Yeah, it ought to be.
CC Okay.
SPT Hello, Crip. You still there?
CC Yes, sir. Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay. Thought I'd Just tell you what
I'm working on during the observing period. I managed to
find what looks to be a surge and it's around 240, just
a little bit south of the brightening in XUV monitor. It's
about 30 arc-seconds off the limb, about 60 at- seconds in
linear diminsion that - tangent to the limb. Although it's
not completely a linear feature, that's roughly the magnitude
of it. I've been able to get some oxygen 6 intensitie of
around 200 in them (?), and I've got some spectra going on
82B both (garble) the hot point as well as completely away from
the whole region. That's what I'm - second part is what I'm
working on now for the background - spectra 55 against the
GRATING AUTO SCAN and some MIRROR AUTO RASTERS truncated down
to line 20. Trying to get some spectral and time resolution on
it. So there probably is something coming around the corner
there at around 240, 250, and I'll keep an eye on this region
today.
CC Very good. I hope we've got some activity
coming around for you. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.
Next station contact in 34 minutes over Honeysuckle at 14:44)
14:44.
SPT Okay, Crip. The feature itself doesn't
appear to be moving away, but it certainly is changing shape
over the last 30 minutes or so, and I do not see any connect-
ing links down to the chromosphere. It's pretty much free up
to around 25 - 30 arc-seconds above the limb.
CC Okay. Appreciate that good description.
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time. A little discussion there with Science Pilot Ed Gibson

reporting of additional details on that limb brightening
brightening in the upper atmosphere on the Sun's eastern limb.
That's on the side of the Sun that's about to rotate into view,
and Science Pilot Gibson reporting that it certainly looks
like we're going to be seeing something coming around the
edge of the disk very shortly. This information was first
given to the ground yesterday. First indications from Science
Pilot Gibson that some activity was about to occur on the
Sun's eastern limb, on the left edge of the disk as you view
it. That was a suprise to ground teams, and it had not been
observed on ground by ground observatories; and also it had
not been predicted by the solar predicting team from the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. So it's a
bit of an indication that Skylab's viewing is proving to be
a useful technique for identifying active regions a little
bit in advance of the time that can be identified here on the
ground. 32 minutes to our next acquisition of signal. It's
now 12 minutes and 8 seconds after the hour; and this is
Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1752/I
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Greenwich mean time. Skyla_ space station is now 55 seconds
from acquisition through Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. This
pass will last about 8 minutes at Honeysuckle. We'll bring
the line up llve now for air-to-ground there.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Honeysuckle. We
have you for about 8 minutes.
SPT Roger, Crip. Manuever's going pretty
well except the rates in Y are jumping around quite a bit.
I been looking at the rate gyro outputs and number 3, or the
one out in the rack is oscillating between - anywhere between
14 and 400.
CC Okay, we copy that.
CC Okay, Ed, in looking at it we also saw
the oscillations in Y-3. Although the - it seems to be damping
out now and your total attitude looks pretty good.
SPT Crip, would you expect those oscillations
would come out to the correct mean value? And are they updating
the strapdown correctly, or could that account for an error in
updating the strapdown?
CC Ed, apparently the mean value looks like
it's pretty good because if the integral value of them was
building up sufficiently large to cause an error in your strap-
down you would get a discompare and it's not going to be anywhere
near that big.
SPT Okay, thank you, Crip. Do you have any
kind of an estimate of how much the error might be in terms
of hundreds of a degrees so if we tried to find the comet
I might know which direction to move it?
CC I - Okay, we're about a minute from LOS. Next
station contact is going to be Bermuda in 37 minutes at 15:28,
15:28. We'll be doing a data voice recorder dump there. We
may see a tenth of a degree error. I don't know if we can
give you a direction _of it one way or the other.
SPT Okay, Crip, I guess it's mark one eyeball.
I'll see what I can do.
PLT Crip, one quick question on the documentary
photo 17, there's i percent required. And I Just wondered if -
would yon verify that that is indeed I percent?
CC Checking.
CC Use what you need, Bill.
PAO Skylab Control at 53 minutes after the
hour. Skylab space station is over New Zealand and we've
concluded that pass at Honeysuckle. 35 minutes to our next
acquisition at Bermuda. During this last pass a bit of discussion
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from spacecraft Science Pilot Ed Gibson about a rate gyroscope,

one of the three rate gryoscopes in the Y-axis. These devices
are used for measuring the change in the attitude. They are
not attitude control devices but rather devices for recording
change of attitude as they go into this JOP 18 maneuver. The
rate gyroscope number 3 and one of the three gyroscopes in
that axis was oscillating quite a bit, and Gibson reported
that. Here in Mission Control, we have a monitor which shows
the oscillation as doing from about .02 to .04. That puts
it, however, in the range of the other two instruments, and
that was the explanation that was given to Gibson_ that the
other two gyroscopes are at the outer extremes of that
oscillation so that there is no - expected to be no attitude
error of any significance. The very end of the pass Bob Crippen
informed Gibson that he might see an attitude error of as
much as a tenth of a degree_ but even that was uncertain
it would be that large. So there was some oscillation in
rate gyroscope number Y-3. The Y-3 gyroscope oscillated for
a bit. It appeared at the end of the pass though that it
was tending to stabilize. So it could have been forced in
that oscillation by a number of things including perhaps a
slight bumping of it or a disturbance of the rate gyroscope.
Again the rate gyroscopes are measuring devices for measuring
attitude change. They do keep track of the space station's
attitude as it maneuvers from one position to another. They
do not_ however_ control the attitude. They feed their input
primarily into the computer which then can adjust and determine
the exact attitude of the space station. 32 minutes 50 seconds
to our next acquisition of signal, and 55 minutes after the
hour. This is Skylab Control.
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PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 27 minutes,

from acquisition of signal at Bermuda. A 7-minute pass will
have Bob Crippen talking to the Skylab crew. We'll leave the
line up live now for air-to-ground through Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Bermuda for
7 minutes, we'll be doing to data/voice recorder dump here.
CDR Roger, Crip, I've checked the gear and
line and that appears to be plugged, and Itm standing by to copy
the changes to the Flight Plan for today.
CC Okay, if you've got you're summary handy,
we want you to scratch your housekeeping 60 Echo. Bill is
going to pick that up later and as soon as he finishes with
the 183 film installation we want you to start your MO92/171 run.
CDR Hey, Crip, do I have some kind of con-
straints between exercise in that run?
CC Believe so, I believe it's an hour, let
me check that. It's a 1-hour constraint and, we're assuming
that you're not going to ready till pretty close to 16:00 to
start that anyhow.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, and when you finish up the 92/171 run,
you can go ahead and eat at that time if you would, please.
Should be somewhere a little after 18:00. And then we want you
to pick up the 183 ops, which we originally were going to give
to Bill, and that's going to be at about 18:48 is when you need
to put that down. And for Ed, on the panel, if you'd stay off
the DAS for a moment, we need to get some - the work with the
heaters on the CMGs, and we'll tell you when you can have it
back.
CDR Okay, Crip.
CC Say, and Jer, if you got all that noted down
through, if you want to put it on your details also at 18:48, the
S183 ops and that you have a pad associated with that, I
believe that, that covers all of it.
CDR Okay, Crip.
CC Okay. That's got it all, and we'll sit here
and consider what we can do about - about the dumps the did
you, did you have the heater still on, or did you turn it off?
CDR No it's been on since early this morning.
CC Okay, very good. And, for Ed, the DAS is his
and, Jer, did you, did you get anything dumped at all this
morning, or was it blocked when you started?
CDR It was blocked when we started. The first
thing we tried to do was evacuate the new bags_ and they wouldn't
evacuate. I guess I could have told you when we talked earlier
that, that it wasn't gone, but I went ahead checked and it with the
UCTA collection bag adapter anyway to make sure.
CC Okay. Very good, we appreciate the info.
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CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.

Next station contact in 2 minutes, Canary, 15:36, 15:36.
SPT Okay, Crip. I was able to find the coma
but it was fainter than faint. I had to move it out to just
about the very edge of the display, made a couple of maneuvers
to move it out in Y and X and they just blotched the
edge of the display and finally it appeared, and I believe I
was able to maneuver it in, but I had to maneuver it from a
position of 160 in so the scale factor may get to us a little
bit. But I think we came out a little better by doing that than
starting from where it initially was, which I set to be in the
right quadrant, anyway, but I could not have said how close it
was.
CC Okay, and did I copy 160 as where you had
it onthe display.
CDR That's where I finally maneuvered it into.
I mover - maneuvered it over to the X-axis, at around minus 160.
I could not see it any closer than that.
CC Okay. Might give us a good hint as to where
to try tomorrow.
CDR Okay, that's not where I really started,
Crip, uh.
CC Roger. I got I got you.
time. Skylab Space station is passed out of range at Bermuda,
but we're just about to be acquired again through Canary Island.
Pass through Canary Island and Madrid, will last approximately
ii minutes, and we'll bring line up live for air-to-ground
at those two stations.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're back with you through
Canary and we have
you for about ii minutes.
Next station contact is Carnarvon in 26 minutes at 16:13, 16:13.
time. Skylab space station is over eastern Europe. We've had
loss of signal at Madrid. Our next acquisition is 24-1/2 min-
utes away at Carnarvon. This is Skylab control at 48:10 after
the hour.
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SL-IV MC1754/I
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1/5/74

time. The Skylab space station is now about to be acquired
through the tracking antenna at Carnarvon_ Australia. The pass
through Carnarvon will last a little over i0 minutes. There will
be an interruption of about a minute, and we'll have acquisition
at Honeysuckle Creek for about 5 minutes. The spacecraft
communicator is Bob Crippen and the Flight director on duty
is Don Puddy.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS through Carnarvon.
We have you for about 9 minutes. Sorry we lost the line a
while ago and didn't get to give you an LOS.
SPT Say, Crlp, I'd like to amplify the discussion
we were having just when you went over the hill the last time
about where you were going to place the comet in the field
of view of the WLC.
CC Okay.
SPT Might be better if you - Might be better
if you didn't place it right at the very edge because I cannot
see it unless it's moving. I think I could place it a little
bit inside, a position I cannot see it, like you did today.
I'ii have to make a maneuver that moves it outward away from
the center_ and it Just watch that that very small ambulance
around the outside where I have a hope of seeing it. Wait
until it comes across and pick it up then.
CC Okay, Ed, I'm sorry I didn't - didn't quite
grasp what - what you wanted us to do then. Do yon want us
to make it such that you have to do the maneuver going out?
Or do you want us to go ahead and try to place it on the edge?
SPT No, Crip, don't place it on the edge because
even if it's sitting there, I'll never find it. The only way
I can see it is if it's moving. It looks just like a moving
noise. It's a very - so faint that it'll never show up unless
it is moving. So if you position it roughly the same way
you did today, then I can make a maneuver outward and I can
hopefully see it move across in a radial direction, that very
small (garble) left on the outside.
CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you very much
for the suggestion.
SPT Thank you. Crip, I'm not holding out too
much hope. I think I just really just lucked out today.
CC Okay, actually we didn't think that you
would be able to get it today_ so that's good work.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're going to have a
brief dropout here in about i minute between Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle. 1'11 call you when we're back on.
SPT Crip, I'm wondering if the folks down there
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can tell me whether there's any stars with a determined (?)

magnitude greater than 2 in the 52 field of view, something that
might compete with the comet for visibility?
CC Talking today or tomorrow?
SPT I guess both. I like to make sure that
today I really was looking at the comet and tomorrow with
the - like to know what the situation will be.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're with you through
Honeysuckle for about 4 minutes. Ed, in answer to your question.
We didn't even have any fifth magnitude or down to fifth
magnitude stars in the field of view, so we feel fairly
confident that you did get the comet if you saw anything.
Tomorrow we're going to have Venus in the field of view, but
no stars. So there shouldn't be any - any confusion.
SPT Hey, if Venus is in there, that's relatively
bright. Why don't you just give me a plate to put Venus_ and
I think that'll position the comet then for us?
CC Sounds like a good idea. We'll - we'll work
that.
SPT Crip, I've gone through all the SO54
changes and the only one I'm a little clear (sic) on is the exact
change that we had in building block 17 on JOP 8, both sides
of the summary sheet. And I'm wondering if you could Just
read that up to me and Itll make sure we have it correct.
CC Will do.
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CC 5th magnitude or down to 5th magnitude

stars in the field of view, so we feel fairly confident that
you did get the comet if you saw anything. Tomorrow, we're
going to have Venus in the field of view, but no stars, so,
there shouldn't be any - any confusion.
PLT Say, if Venus is in there, that's relatively
bright, why don't you give me a plate to put Venus and, heck,
that'll loosen the comet then, won't it?
CC Sounds like a good idea, we'll - we'll
work that:.
PLT Crip, I've gone through SO54 changes and
I the only one I'm a little clear on is the exact change that
we had in building block 17, on JOP 8, goth sides of the
summary sheet, and I'm wonderinE if you could just read that
up to me and I'ii make sure we have it correct.
CC Will do. And we're rewinding your VTR,
to dump it over on MILA, this upcoming State pass.
PLT Okay, Crip, I didn't put anything under
because it was so darn faint, I didn't think that it would
show up on the ground at all.
CC Okeydoke.
PLT And also I was pretty rushed.
CC Copy.
CC if Ed, you've got that building block 17
handy, I can go ahead and read it to you now.
SPT Okay, Crip, go ahead.
CC Okay. What we want is an MS blank, L64, and
we want that at 4 times: 0, 13, 26, and 29.
SPT I believe that last one should be 39,
shouldn't: it, Crip?
CC Let me verify that. You're right. It was
written down wrong here. It's 39.
SPT Okay, I've got it. Thanks very much, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS,
next station contact at MILA, in 33 minut'es at 16 - 17:00 on
the - the nose.
PAO Skylab control at 16:29 Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station has passed out of range of the
Honeysuckle Creek antenna. Our next acquisition is at Merritt
Islandp Florida, and that'll be 30 minutes away. Judicious
management of consumables for space station control by the
current skylab crewmen and their predecessors very likely
will assure a full 84-day mission. A complete mission can
be executed if no new and unforecast abnormalities occur between
now and February 8, the scheduled splashdown day. When Jerald
Carr, Edward Gibson_ and William Pogue reached the space station
for the first time, a total of 32,316 pound-seconds of nitrogen
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gas propellant remained in the thruster attitude control system

out of an original total of about 84,000 pound-seconds. TACS,
as it is called, is needed to assist in maintaining space sta-
tion attitude and for the various maneuvers required to conduct
many of Skylah_s experiments. Today_ the station's gas bottles
show 17,990 pound-seconds of propellant. Slightly over 13,000
pound-seconds of fuel have been used during the 51 days Cart
and company have been orbiting Earth. The red-line or so-
called come-home llne of TACS remaining is 6000 pound-seeonds_
however, certain variables would permit the crew to use
more gas from its existing supply and leave less remaining
for emergency use. Examples of contingencies are the proximiti
- proximity to the end of the mission and the time required
to launch a rescue vehicle. So what it boils down to is,
decision will have to be made by flight controllers after
assessing all the facts, if an attitude control failure should
occur between now and the 84-day end of mission. Cold nitro-
gen gas is the propellant used in the thruster system that
exists in the series of bottles located around the space sta-
tion. During two space walks, one on December 25 and another
on December 29, the space station consumed nearly 4000 pound-
seconds per day while maintaining attitude for the astronauts
working outside. More than half of the gas used so far during
the 50 days the Skylab mission has been under way was used during
those two space walks. By contrast, yesterday the crew used only
used 85 pound-seconds, even though a lengthy maneuver was called
for during a 7100-mile-long Earth resources survey. Although
the use of attitude control gas during this mission has been
given a great deal of attention, in fact_ the crew's use so
far is very modest. With a usage rate of about 260 pound-
seconds per day, the final Skylab mission is setting an excel-
lent example for energy conservers on Earth. By comparison_
the unmanned periods and the two previous missions averaged
a daily use of almost almost i0 percent higher than the cur-
rent Skylab crew has been performing at. That's - of course,
includes long unmanned periods and - when when no attitude con-
trol was required using the TACSgas, when attitude control was
entirely maintained by the control moment the gyroscopes, and,
despite that the total TACSuse per day over the first two
missions and the unmanned periods came to something in excess
of 260 pound-seconds, about i0 percent higher than that.
27 minutes and 12 seconds to our next acquisition. 32 min-
utes and 48 seconds after the hour, this is Skylab control.
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01/05/74

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now over the
Pacific just south of Central America. 51 seconds from
acquisition of signal through the Merrit Island, Florida
tracking antenna. The pass through Merritt Island and Bermuda
will last about 14 minutes and we'll leave the line live now
for air-to-ground there.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at MILA.
We have you for about 14 minutes and in the latter portion of
this pass at Bermuda we're going to be doing a data/voice
recorder dump, and I'll tell you when that comes up. It's a
couple of minutes yet.
CC Skylabp Houston. We're going to go ahead
and dump the data/voice recorder dump here.
CC PLT, Houston. We show that you've still got
92 selected on the ESS. If you would select 171 for us, please.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. For your infor-
matlon, since we've got two recorders going you can your
voice would still be recorded if you need to use it.
PLT 0kayp Crip. That switch was confirmed
in 171. It was not out of 171.
CC Okay, thank you. Our telemetry here
must have had a blip.
SPT Okay, Crip, in reference to shopping list
item 14, looking for polar plumes at the South Pole. I was
down there and spent quite a bit of time in magnesium X in
the neon line and could not locate anything except just noise.
There was no discernable peaks anywhere - in plus or minus about
600 or 500 from the polar position_ so I have gone ahead and
moved around to about 240, 243 or so, on the - on the disk
in - where the active region is coming around the corner and
I've got something relatively - a relative peak in the neon
line and I'm doing a very similar observation to what_we were
going to do at the pole.
CC Okay, Ed, we copy that. Thank you.
SPT (Garble), Crip. That surge of material
which I was looking at in the previous orbit is no longer
visible on the display. I gave them a building block 32 at
the beginning of the orbit and I'll try for another one at the
end. I did not see any transients on the WLC.
CC Okay, we copy tkat.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, when you get a moment
ATM at the back view - backroom would appreciate knowing ex-
actly what kind of observations you're running right now, so
it - for planning for the next orbit, since apparently the
South Pole's not going to be any good.
SPT Okay, Crip. I just took the neon VII and
rolled - kept on rolling around the Sun until we got to a
reasonable peak - discernable peak_ which came on around
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80 counts or so. That turns out to be - well I guess they

can copy the roll as well plus 4054, looks much pretty much
perpendicular to the limb. The limb is 15 seconds off the limb.
55 is a step down to the very edge of the slit, that is, line 4.
Stand by.
SPT Got 82B is wavelength short, exposure time's
4 sequence, 55 got 2 grating auto scans, llm going to
give them a lot of truncated mirror auto rasters, down to
maybe llne i0 or so. So they can see where they were looking.
56 is getting single frame 4, 8-minute single frame 5, 8-minute
and 54 is getting a long exposure, it'll be a little over
17 minutes.
CC Okay, very good. We're about a minute
from LOS and next station contract - contact is 5 minutes at
Madrid, 17:17. If you got any suggestions for any way we may
be able to help you out on next orbit we will ap - be glad to
hear them.
SPT You could work on this region right above
right where I am now of 50 or of 82 wanting to get some back-
ground spectra_ I could just roll above Sun center and give
them another series where the counts are relatively low.
That's a real time consumer, but if they'd like that back-
ground spectra, we could do it.
CC Okay, Ed, that that sounds like a
reasonabl idea here.
CC And, the VTR belongs to you guys again.
SPT Thank you.
time. Skylab is passed out of range of the tracking antenna
at Bermuda. 3 minutes to our next acquisition at Madrid.
We'll leave the line up live for the air-to-ground pass
through Madrid, which will be a pass lasting approximately
8 minutes. Flight Director on duty here in Mission Control
is Don Puddy and the spacecraft communicator is Bob Crippen.
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PAO Skylab Control; we're coming up on acquisition

of signal at Madrid now for an 8-minnte pass.
CC Skylab_ Houston; we're AOS Madrid. We
have you for 8 minutes.
SPT Crip, you might ask them what kind of
contrast they expected in those two lines in the - for polar
plumes. I was able to get strictly noise and magnesium X running
from i0 to 25 in neon and from around i0 to 30 or so. And
whether I was moving or sitting still the noise apparently
looked Just about the same.
CC We'll check that for you, Ed. As a matter
of information we are designating that area that you're working
on now over there. 240 is active region 15, and we expect
that we'll be able to see it from the ground here very shortly
since you been noting a little purging out of it.
SPT Okay, thank you.
SPT Crip, in looking at the white light
coronagraph pictures relative to yesterday, I also see a -
just a hand streamer around 2 - 200 on up to 240. No real
definite well to find streamers, just a enhanced region in
the corona extending out, oh, maybe, 2 solar radii or so.
Much more enhanced than it was yesterday. The other
streamer structure, the one at oh, around 280, a very thin
_arrow one, remains the same, and the same for the one over
in (garble) 070.
CC Okay, Ed, we copy that. And I'm still
trying to get an answer to your previous question.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS;
next station contact is Carnarvon in 27 minutes, 17:50, 17:50.
And Ed, we're not going to be able to give you a quick answer
on the expected contrast on those two lines at the, at that
polar region, and we'll try to give you an answer, maybe, by
next station.
time. Skylab space station has passed out of range of the
tracking antennae at Madrid. 24-1/2 minutes until our next
acquisition at Carnarvon. An extended discussion has been
going on here at Mission Control concerning possible risks due
to overheating and long maneuver periods for JOP 18. A deter_
mination apparently has been made now to extend tomorrow's
JOP 18 to its normal full time on more than one orbit, two
consecu tive orbits. I'll give you a little bit more detail
on that later in the day. This is Skylab control 24 minutes
to our next acquisition. It's 26-1/2 minutes after the hour.
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time. The Skylab space station is now 56 seconds from acqui-
sition of signal at Carnarvon, Australia. We'll bring up the
line for air-to-ground here. Don Puddy, the Flight Director,
and Spacecraft Communicator is Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon
for 9 minutes.
CDR Rog, Crip.
CC PLT, Houston. Bill, at your convenience,
I need to make one other mod to your Flight Plan for today.
PLT Stand by.
CC Rog. At about 24:00, you have a - an
S063 stow 2, CST 2. We need to change that to a CST 3 so we can
have the SAL evacuated for the night.
PLT Roger. Make that Charlie, Sierra, Tango -3.
CC Rog. And also, if you've got your details
handy, at 18:38, we had an optional handheld 170-3, the laser,
and that has been scrubbed for weather. And if the other guys
are listening, you can pass that on to them. I would appreciate
it. That's because it's on everybody's details.
CDR Okay. We all three read it.
CC Thank you, sir.
CDR It sure was pretty last night.
CC Yeah. I was reading over your remarks.
It sounded like it really stood ont.
CDR Toward the east quadrant there, just about,
was clear with snow cover and Moon - it was moonlit, and you
could see all the of course, all the cities lighted up and
you could also see the landscape.
CC Rog. Well, I'm looking at a satellite
photo right now and it looks like it's kind of - kind of clouded
up just south of there. The clouds moved in from the south.
CDR Yeah, I figured it was sort of rare.
CC For the SPT. Ed, if you've got a moment,
I can tell you the expected contrast between the two lines
that yon asked earlier and give you some information regarding
the upcoming pass that we'd - like for yon to try.
SPT Crip, go ahead.
CC Okay. We would expect each of the lines
magnesium X and neon VII, to have a contrast with the back-
ground of about a factor of 2. And does that pretty much
answer your question?
SPT Yes, it does. However, I'm just thinking
it over and I moved far off the polar region. It did drop
down maybe a factor of 2 or so. But it was far off the
polar region, and I'm wondering just what was the magnitude of -
width with the plumes. I always - I pictured this as relatively
small and certainly not covering the whole polar region
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uniformly.
CC Okay. We'll see if we can get an answer
to that. Also, if you're going to give us these XUV back-
ground exposures on this upcoming pass near that new active
region 15, 54 would like to get a long exposure with the
GRATING IE with the minimum of about 17 minutes. We would
like to get it as long as possible though.
SPT Okay. Understand. We'll do it.
CC Okay. Thank you, sir.
PLT Okay, Crip. PLT. How much time on the
VTR for use today?
CC Checking it.
PLT The reason I'm asking is that - this [garble)
mechanics experiment requires playing with a bubble of water,
you know, and you can't guarantee results the first time and
I'm afraid I'm going to soak up quite a few minutes of VTR
on it.
CC Okay, Bill. The other thing we've got
scheduled in addition to that, I guess on the TV is - we've
got a TV 68 that Ed is going to run which we've got alloted
him for about 15 minutes for. And other than that, we've
got it all cleaned off right now, so the rest should be avail-
able.
PLT Okay. l'll try to make that as fast as
possible but I did want to forewarn you.
CC Okay. We understand. We're about 30
seconds from LOS and we're going to have you again over
Honeysuckle in about 2 minutes. If it's convenient at that
time, I would llke to make a correction to that AMS retrack
cue card that we sent you up last night, at that station
contact if somebody could have it handy.
PLT We'll have it available.
CC Thank you, sir. Oh, and also, if it's
convenient, I can talk to Jer there regarding the dump probe in
our plan on the urine dump problem.
PLT He's listening.
CC Okay. I'ii get him over this contact so
don't LOS in the middle of it.
PLT Oh, yeah. Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. We have loss of signal
at Carnarvon. We're now about 40 seconds from acquisition
at Honeysuckle, where we'll have a 4-minute pass. We'll
keep the line up live for air-to-ground through Honeysuckle
and Bob Crippen.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through

Honeysuckle. We have you for about 3-1/2 minutes and if
somebody's got that AMS retract cue card handy, I can give
you this modification we have to make to it.
CDR Okay Crip, you got me no excited I dropped
my Crispy bar.
CC Oh, are you getting to enjoy those today?
PLT Okay_ have it right here in front of me.
CC Okay. This is in the latter portion of
the procedure to be used if - if you lose your place on the
rotation counter on step 3. We have said to turn the rotation
knob one-tenth of a turn clockwise, that should have been counter-
clockwise. I believe that Jet discovered that for us last night.
PLT Okay, that change is incorporated.
CC Okeydoke. Appreciate that and if Jer's
listening regarding the - the probe. We haven't really been
able to come up with any reason why that it - it should be
stopped up. Could be that the heater's not working, although
we don't - don't think that's the case and what we would like
to do now is to leave it alone and have you go ahead and use
the trash airlock to get rid of the - the urine bags. Observing
the two bags maximum at one dump that we mentioned earlier.
And you - one - about the only thing that we could see that
was possibly different today was that we hadn't been trying
to dump urine 2 days in a row. And it may be that if we
let it set over night that it will sublimate off and - and
clear up when you try it in the morning. If that doesn't turn
out to be the case_ we're going to go ahead and leave it as
is until day 53 when we'll schedule a probe changeout using
the - the one that came off of the - the WMC correction the
wardroom probe that you pulled out when you put in that modi-
fication for the LBNPD. So that one is available to to change
out. Also But we won't schedule that until day 53 unless some
time does pop - crop up tomorrow we'll - we could flip it in.
CDR Okay, Crip. But one point we did not dump
any urine today or even try. The thing was plugged up before we
ever tried to dump urine today.
CC Rog, yeah I was just thinking about that
point and I guess normally, even on the days after you do
dump you always try to evacuate your bags and normally that
has worked in the previous cases.
CDR Yeah, that's right.
CC Okayp fine. We're about - Are you still
having problems with the boric acid? We're about 30 seconds
from LOS and next station contact is Texas in about 29 minutes,
at 18:34. That is is the boric acid not dissolving completely
and you reckon that might have had something to do with stopping
it up?
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CDR I wouldn't be surprised Crlp. We've

reported several more instances on tape.
CC Okay, fine. Have there been any recent
incidents of that that you have noticed?
CDR (Garble)
CC We're we're going over the hill.
CDR No, none. No we haven't had any
recently.
CC Okay, thank you.
time. The Skylab space station is now passing out of range
to the tracking antenna at Honeysuckle Creek. Our next
acquisition at Texas is 27 minutes and 27 seconds away. This
is Skyla5 Control at 6 minutes 6 seconds after the hour.
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PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours, 32 minutes,

54 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Texas tracking
station, Corpus Christi. This pass through Texas, Merrltt
Island, and Bermuda will last approximately 17 minutes, and
we'll bring the llne up live now for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS at Texas for
16-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Over the latter part of
this CONUS pass, we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump
over Bermuda, and I'ii call you before we start it.
PLT Got a question on Mexico City.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT We see a very large circular feature; I
guess it's up in the northeast part of the or northeast section
of the town or northeast of town, and we were just wondering what
that was. It's green, looks like grass growing on it fairly
heavily and also has a concentric pattern to it.
CC Okay, we'll see if we can get an answer
for it.
CDR We're wondering if it's an athletic field,
or polo or something llke that.
CC Maybe if they give me a little leave, I'ii
go down there and find out for you.
PLT Sounds like a good way to go.
CDR You can take leave in late February.
CC That's about what my other boss told me.
This is so much fun, though, it beats leave.
PLT You don't sound very convincing.
CC Skylab, we're talking to you through Bermuda
now. We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump.
SPT Hello Crip, you still with us?
CC Yes sir, I wouldn't leave.
SPT Say, Crip, found something kind of inter-
esting. I've been looking above the active region 15 and looks
like I found a spot in a loop structure. In magnesium i0
I got a count of about 250, I'm 60 arc seconds or so above the
llmb and it appears fairly isolated in the LEFT/RIGHT and UP/
DOWN, I can move, I haven't dropped well below a hundred in
only i0 arc seconds or so. I've not really had time to explore
it to see whether there actually is a loop. And I'ii have to
maneuver around and find different points. But if you look at
the XUV monitor, you can see the, what's coming over the hill
appears to have teo bright points to it. And I'm wondering if
that's really the basis of a loop and also I might see something
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indicating that in H-alpha, although that's not for sure, but

there is certainly something up there whether it's a loop structure
I'm seeing edge on, or what, I'm not sure, but it's fairly
bright in magnesium i0.
CC Okay Ed. Thank you for that good descrip-
tion there.
CDR We're flying over Bethpage, New York, home
of the lunar module.
CC Roger to that. Does it look cold down
there?
CDR Sure does.
CC Ed, if you have an opportunity, we
would appreciate getting a grating auto scan on 55 on that area
that you were talking about.
SPT Roger, Crip, we're trying to get a couple
of truncated mirror auto rasters. Get a look at the whole
area and I was just about to give them a grating auto scan.
CC Thank you sir.
CC Jer, I don't know whether you're getting
busy getting ready, for your 183 ops coming up. If you'd like
I can give you the time for your phone call setup this evening.
CDR Say again, Crlp.
CC If - your phone call set up this evening
for 02:42.
CDR Okay, 02:42.
SPT Hey, Crip, I think when I spoke to you
before, I said, magnesium i0 when I really meant oxygen 6.
Those were counts of around 250 in oxygen 6 which makes it
look even a little more intense.
CC Okay, Ed. So noted.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're I minute from LOS
next station contact is Madrid in 5 minutes at 18:55, 18:55.
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CC Skylab Houston, we're i minute from

LOS. Next station contact is Madrid in 5 minutes at 18:55.
18:55.
PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 50 minutes.
We're going over the hill at at Bermuda. Our next acquisition
of signal, about 4 minutes away, will be at Madrid. This
is Skylab Control at 50 minutes 42 seconds after the hour.
41 seconds Greenwith mean time. Skylab's space station is
over the North Atlantic about to be acquired through the
tracking antenna at Madrid. The pass through Madrid will
last about 7 minutes.
CC Skylab Houston, we are AOS at Madrid
for 6-1/2 minutes.
Next station contact is Tananarive that's in about 17 minutes
at 19:18, 19:18.
CDR Rog, Crip.
PA0 Skylab Control, at 3 hours 40 minutes.
We've had loss of signal at Madrid. Chief scientists of
the Skylab space station and solar physicist Ed Gibson will
be planting a rice crop this afternoon. The rice the living
part of an experiment ED-61 designed by West Point Nebraska,
high school student will be watched and photographed over
a two week period. The investigation should answer some
puzzling questions. The investigator, Joel Wordekemper is
attempting to determine whether the rice seeds will send roots
and leaves in opposite directions without the guidance of
gravity. He'd also like to know if light alone will provide
enough information to allow the rice seeds to develop into
plants like those we see on Earth. The eight small plants
are each given a different amount of light and that should
have varying effects on them. Earlier today Ed Gibson
observed the Comet Kohoutek which he reported almost too
faint for viewing on the television monitor for Skylab solar
telescopes. Although flight controllers had reduced today's
observation period by half to keep Skylah's insulation
from overheating. After a closer look at the calculations
Skylab astronauts will resume the longer observing sessions
tomorrow. The concern that space station insulating
material might produce dangerous gases was reviewed this
morning and tests on the materials showed that it
would remain stable and safe at temperatures far above those
encountered in the long maneuvers to observe the Comet
Kohoutek. That subject will be open to discussion at the
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change-of-shlft briefing scheduled to take place sometime

after S this afternoon with off going Flight Director,
Don Puddy. Spacecraft Commander Gerald Carr earlier today
devoted one half hour to an experiment carried into space
on the recommendation of a 17 year old Rochester, New York
high school student. (sic: name is Robert L. Staehle more
than a year ago submitted the experiment which asked the question,
"What are the effects of weightlessness and radiation on the
survival growth rate and mutation of certain bacterial
forms?" The experiment will determine whether changes in
growth rate, coloring, morphology, and texture of miero_
organisms will occur when they develop in the closed ecological
environment of the spacecraft. Stachle wants to determine
if these changes are the effect of space environment or if
they would develop exactly as they do on Earth. To get
the answer the student experimenter has innoeulated 9 agar
filled dac - dishes with spores of bacteria. These have
been warmed in a small incubator, part of a - inflight
medical support system. That medical support kit contains
an incubator for this purpose alone, this is experiment
ED-31. Photos periodically will be taken of the bacterial
spores developed in the incubator. Another half dozen
agar filled dishes with species of bacterial spores also
were - these were also carried to the space station where
they have been developing at room temperatures in the Skylab
workshop over a 48 hour period. At predetermined times
during that 2 day period the crew observes and photographs
the ED-31. Jerry Cart on January 4th observed the hacteria
spore experiment which has been - began Thursday when the
samples were taken out of the chilled compartment. His
comments on the ED-31 experiment bacteria spores were as
follows. "I found the - I found i0 (slc:tan) spots about the -
tan spots about 3 millimeters in diameter, they all looked
pretty much the same." Cart further said that the entire
agar area is covered with a rat rather heavy dark gray
fuzz. The temperature is 95 degrees Fahrenheit. There is
some condensation and some of the spots have grown on the
top of the dish, Carr further elaborated. Incubation time
of the bacteria is 48 hours at the end of the incubation
period the 15 agar filled dishes will be placed in a
food chiller to stop bacteria growth. The dishes will be
returned to the Earth when the crew splashes down now
scheduled for February 8th. It is presumptive to draw
conclusions on the results so far. Meaningful data will
be announced only after Bob Stall - Bob Staehle, the student
experimenter compares the growth of bacteria and bacterial
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spores cultured in weightlessness to a similar controlled

experiment conducted under identical conditions, but also
under the influence of gravity on Earth. Our next
acquisition is i0 minutes and 20 seconds away at Tananarive.
This is Skylab Control at 8 minutes after the hour.
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minute_ Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching the tracking
station at Tananarive, will be acquiring in about 45 seconds.
And at acquisition according to the Flight Plan_ the crew
should either be involved in eating lunch in the case of
the science pilot and pilot, who are operating the S183p
ultraviolet panorama experiment in the case of Commander
Jerry Cart. And we should be getting the call to the crew
shortly from CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS at Tananarive.
Understand we have a low signal strength and I may not be
able to hear you. It's only for about 2 minutes, next
station contact is Honeysuckle in 21 minutes, at 19:41, 19:41.
CDR Okay, Crip.
CC I can hear you a little bit.
PAO The Tananarive antenna was right down
on the deck, squinting across the horizon in an attempt to
pick up data and communications from the Skylab crew on that
very low evaluation pass, which counted for the short duration
and low signal strength that we received. And in about 17
minutes we'll be picking up Skylab again. And as the space
station comes within range of the tracking antennas at
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Major activities scheduled for
the crew this afternoon are Apollo telescope mount operations,
Commander Jerry Cart will be handling the ATM activities.
And Science Pilot Ed Gibson, Pilot Bill Pogue will be dividing
the science demonstrations and student experiment duties
this afternoon. At 19 hours 24 minutes Greenwich mean time,
_his is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control, we're about to

regain communications with Skylab through the Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia, tracking station. And we'll stand by for
that call from CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through
Honeysuckle. Another one of these long passes. I got you
for a whole minute here. Next station contact is at Goldstone
in 28 minutes, at 20:10, 20:10. Detector 2 on 55 for ATM
panel.
PLT Thank you, Crip.
PLT Hey Crip, I asked yesterday about the
source of alcohol in the spacecraft. Did you ever find out
anything about that?
CC I'ii check it for you. I don't have a
ready answer. We'll get you over the states.
PLT Step Bravo of TV 107.
CC Rog.
PAO This is Skylab Control, that'll be all
through Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, for this revolution.
Another of the low evaluation passes, and Skylab is about
25 minutes away from being picked up by the tracking antennas
at Goldstone, California, where an interesting side note they
had to get the snow plows out to get the support crew into
the tracking station. A short while ago the Operations
Control Officer here reported to the Flight Director that
the crew had made it and that Goldstone would be up to
support this pass. At 19 hours 45 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control, at 20 hours

9 minutes. In Mission Control, at the present time we're
beginning a shift handover. And the oncoming Flight
Director will be relieving Flight Director Don Puddy is
Nell Hutchinson. And we're about 45 seconds from regaining
contact with Skylab through the Goldstone station. This
will be a U.S. pass; it'll take Skylab across the southwestern
Unites States and an ascending pass up over the north central
and out over the northeastern U.S. and Canada, before continuing
on across the Atlantic Ocean. We should be acquiring
signal in about I0 seconds.
CC Skylab_ Houston, we're AOS through
Goldstone. We have you for about ii minutes.
CDR Hello, Crip.
CC Hidi, hidi. I understand those guys
in Goldstone down there tracking for you are having kind of
a hard time getting to their station. They had to plow
through about 50 miles of 1 foot snow, which is a little
bit unusual out there on the Mohave.
SPT I'ii say there's - looks like there's
nothing but cloud coverage except for a few small spaces
over there by Mexico.
CC Yeah. Well, I understand they're due
for some more snow and may be spending even several more
days out there. All packed their lunches to go in. PLT,
Houston, if you got a moment Bill, I think I've got an answer
for you on this alcohol question yon had earlier for TV 107.
PLT Yeah, go ahead.
CC Rog. What we want you to use are the
biocide wipes, you can use those that are located in 734.
You get them out of the IMSS or 707, your choice.
PLT Okay.
PLT But one of the reasons asking is it cause -
calls for injecting a small drop of alcohol on the slide. And I
couldn't find any of the liquid form.
CC You're just going to have to try squeezing
some out of the wipes. It's a - -
PLT Okay.
CC Cause that's zephiran not alcohol.
PLT Rog. And I assume you did mean a wet
wipe not a biocide?
CC No, I meant a biocide.
PLT Thanks a lot Crip.
PLT My hands are going to be all dirty for
the TV.
CC I - I guess when I asked that same
question down here_ I used to think we had iodine in those and
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I'm being told that we've got zephiran in those. Do you - do

you know different than I do?
PLT Well, it's dirty brown looking stuff
whatever it is.
CC That's iodine, we don't want to use
that. Stand by i.
PLT The regular wet wipe, the utensil wipes
they had zephiran in them.
CC Okay. The answer is (laughter) - I
think I'm ready to turn this question over to the next team.
But, no, we want you to use the wet wipe.
PLT Great.
CC I think it's fantastic. You wouldn't
believe what we just went through to come up with that
answer.
CC Skylab, Houston, does the CDR have a
moment to talk about a modification on his Flight Plan?
CDR Roger, go ahead.
CC Rog, Jer, because we're getting a little
bit low on our allotment for film on EDT 31, we want you
to scrub out the ops that you've got today at 22:00 and also
the stow that's set up at about 01:i0 or 15 or so. And we're
just going to leave them in and let them incubate till around
mission day 53.
CDR Okay, scrub the ops, and stow today, and
we'll do something on 53.
CC Rog.
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SPT Hello, Buffalo, looks cold down there.

CC Rog, you're up over the - just passed
the Great Lakes area now, and I'm sure it's cold up there.
Probably getting a little ice on those lakes.
SPT A lot of white stuff down there.
CC Say Ed, while I've got you on the horn
here. I hate to tell you this but your 133 data last night
after about 2 hours after you went to sleep it went invalid.
And I was wondering how your electrocheck went this morning?
SPT The electrocheck this morning was all
right. Last night I had to touch some bare metal to get
a ground. But that's happened on other occasions.
CC Rog, well, when you retired it was
sending down good data apparently, and then it went out
somewhere around 05:40 this morning.
SPT Jerry checked the first thing this
morning Crip, and it all looked real good. I didn't even
have to touch metal to get a ground.
CC Okay, thanks for the info.
SPT Why don't you check to see if that was
just a temporary or whether it was out completely until when
I got up?
CC It was bad for the entire evening_ after
it went cut that one time.
SPT Since I've had problems with that one
little sleepy cap, maybe I'ii trade it in for another one.
CC Skylab, Houston, we got a keyhole coming
up here at Bermuda. In case I lose you completely_ next
station contact is over Madrid and that's about 7_i/2
minutes, at 20:32. We'll be during data/voice recorder dump
there also.
PAO That concludes the stateside pass.
Skylab now at the beginning of the 3411th revolution. During
that pass over the continental United States, Commander
Jerry Carr was advised that due to a shortage of film for the ED
31 experiment, the bacteria and spores student experimentp
that he was to leave the bacteria and spores samples stowed
either in the incubator or in some cases in ambient
temperatures for 2 more days until mission day f - 53. At
which time and he'll photograph the growth of the bacteria
and spores and then stow the containers in the chiller to
retard any fu _her growth until the experiment is returned to
Earth. Also, Science Pilot Ed Gibson was queried on the
configuration for the M133 sleep monitoring experiment.
Apparently, during the night while Gibson was wearing the
sleep monitoring cap with - with t_e electrodes data was lost
the data was coming in good when he first attached or put the
cap on. And into a few hours of sleep and then the data was
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lost for the remainer of the night. Gibson suggested that

the next time he conducts the experiment_ wears the sleep
monitoring cap that he might try another electrode cap.
2 minutes 45 seconds until we regain contact t_rough the
Madrid tracking station. We'll leave the line up for that
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Madrid. We
have you for 8 minutes. We'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump here. And your Flight Plan should he on board.
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CC Skylab, Houston, we're I minute from

LOS. Next station contact is Tananarive in about 11-1/2
minutes at 20:52, 20:52.
PAO Skylab's now out of range of the Madrid
tracking station and about i0 minutes away from regaining
contact through Tananarive. During the pass over Madrid and
among the activities being conducted by the crew were the
ED61 preparations. Science Pilot Ed Gibson is conducting
that student experiment observing the growth patterns of
plants in zero gravity. Student experiment submitted by
Joel Wordekemper of West Point, Nebraska. At 20 hours 43
minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 14:50 CST 51:20:50 GMT
1/5/74
PAO Skylab Control, we're awaiting acquisition

of Skylab through Tananarive in about a minute. And we're
in the midst of a shift handover at the present time. The
oncoming CAP COMM, Spacecraft Communicator will be Astronaut
Bruce McCandless, replacing Bob Crippen at the CAP COMM
console. And the oncoming Flight Director is Neil Hutchinson.
We don't yet have an estimated time for the change_of-shift
briefing. We'll pass that along as soon as it's available.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Tananarive.
We should have you for oh - about 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, in case you didn't hear
my last AOS call. We do have you through Tananarive, and
we've got you for about 6 minutes.
PLT Hello, Crip.
CC Hidy, hidy.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 1 minute
from LOS. Next station contact in 17 minutes over Honeysuckle
that's at 21:17. Crimson team is going to say good evening and
I'll go ahead and turn the mike over to the silver tongued
orator of the silver team.
SPT So long, Crip.
CC Bye-bye.
CDR We'll see you Crip.
CC See them see you in several days.
We're going to take a few days off here and go and see what's
happening in the world.
CDR Going to go have another eggnog party?
CC Going to pratice for one.
PAO Out of contact through Tananarive.
And the change-of-shift press briefing is tentatively
scheduled for 3:45 p.m. at the earliest, will occur some_
where between 3:45 and 4:00 p.m. with Donald Puddy, Flight
Director and Dr._Tharnton Page an astronomer with the Naval
Research Laboratories. We'll reacquire Skylab in 15 minutes.
At 21 hours 2 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylah
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1768/I
Time: 15:16 CST 51:21:16 GMT
i15174
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab will be

coming over the horizon shortly and in view of the tracking
antenna at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. About 1 minute from
now, we expect to regain contact. And this will be the first
pass of the day for the flight control team headed by
Flight Director Nell Hutchinson with the CAP COMM on this
shift, Astronaut Bruce McCandless. This pass is scheduled to
last some 6 minutes. We'll stand by for the call to the crew.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek for 6 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 16 minutes through Hawaii at 21:39.
Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're out of
range now of Honeysuckle Creek and CAP COMM Bruce McCandless
drew relatively light duty on that first pass of his current
shift, as we had almost no conversation with the crew. Com-
mander Jerry Cart obviously engrossed in Apollo telescope
mount observations while Science Pilot Ed Gibson is conducting
the SO63 experiment aimed at photographing in the visible and
visible and ultraviolet spectra, the Earth's ozone layers and
twilight airglow. And Pilot Bill Pogue at the present time
is enjoying his physical training aboard Skylab and has some
time allocated for personal hygiene. We_ll be reacquiring
Skyla5 in about 13 minutes on the first pass of the day through
the Hawaii tracking station. This is Skylab Control at 21 hours
26 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1769/I
Time: 15:37 CST 51:21:37 GMT
1/5/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, we're standing

by to contact Skylab through Hawaii. At 21 hours 38 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 7-1/2 minutes. We show that you've put some more time
on the video tape recorder. And we're wondering if you're
though with it so we can go ahead with our plan to dump
over the States here. Over.
SPT How much time is left on it Bruce?
CC 8. or 9.6 minutes is left available.
Over.
CDR Bruce, we still got TV 68 to do. And
we'll try to make that fit 8 minutes, and so it won't he
ready for you for another hour or so.
CC Okay, undertan understand TV 68. And
is that what you've been putting on? Over.
CDR No_ 107 has been going on it.
CDR 107 is complete now.
CC Okay.
CDR Bubbles Pogue has done his thing.
CDR By the way Bruce, the urine dump line
seems to he drawing now. I Just made a check of it with
the UCTA Collector Bag Adapter, and it's got a pretty good
head of suction. But I'm going to let it go for awhile
longer.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC And for the CDR we show the S055 and
H-alpha 1 doors closed. We'd like to get them open please.
Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute till
LOS. Next station contact in 4 minutes through Goldstone
at 21:49. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That appears
to be about all through Hawaii this revolution. And we'll
be coming up in about 3 minutes on another stateside pass
at Goldstone, Just clipping the top of the Texas circle of
coverage and on across to Bermuda. During that pass the
crew advised that they were working on leading television
onto the video tape recorder. This TV will be brought down
tonight and replayed tomorrow morning. TV 107 which is one
of the fluid mechanics experiments_ and elicited the comment
from Jerry Carr that Bubbles Pogue was working on that
one, and also TV 68 which deals with plant growth in zero
gravity. This is Skylab Control at 21 hours 47 minutes.
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SL-IV MC1770/I
Time: 15:48 CST 51:21:48 GMT
1/5/74
PAO This is Skylab Control back again and

awaiting acquisition at Goldstone, California.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
for 7-1/2 minutes and I guess they're having a white New
Year down there at Goldstone.
CDR That's what we hear.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Bermuda
at 21:59_ Out.
PAO Flight Director Don Puddy and Dr. Thornton
Page, an Astronomer from the Naval Research Labs will be
leaving shortly for the change-of-shift press briefing which
will be held in the JSC News Center briefing room. And we
estimate that that briefing will begin in about 5 minutes.
We'll be reacquiring Skylab through the Bermuda tracking
station in 3-1/2 minutes. We'll leave the line up for that
pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 6-1/2 minutes. For the CDR's information, our current
plan is to leave the urine dump probe heater on continuously
until further notice and until we see how things are reacting.
Over.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston for CDR.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger, looking at the VTR, we show that
you have 2.7 minutes remaining on it. If you plan to go
ahead and finish it up to the full 30 minutes, we would like
to know this and in that event, we'd like to get your TV from
the ATM console. It's scheduled for the VTR for your pass
at 13 minutes of day remaining on the midnight pass. Down-
linked real time to be recorded either at Carnarvon at 00:26
or Guam at 00:41. And in any event, we need to have the video
tape recorder given to us at Guam at 00:41, so we can rewind
in prepare - preparation for dumps over the States to get it
cleaned off by tomorrow morning. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce. We're going to use it.
CC Okay. Then it will either be Carnarvon
or Guam for a TV downlink of the ATM data, and you've got
2.7 remaining on the VTR.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 3 minutes through the Canary Islands
at 22:09, starting off with the data/voice tape recorder dump.
Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're ready to
begin the change-of-shift press briefing at this time. We'll
switch to the JSC News Center briefing room and record the
Canary Island pass for playback immediately following the
change-of-shift briefing.
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SL-IV MC1771/I
Time: 16:54 CST, 51:22:54 GMT
1/5/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, we've just

regained contact with Skylab through Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia. And during the change-of-shift briefing we had
approximately 3 minutes of conversation with the crew
through Canary Islands and Ta_a_arive. We'll play back those
recorded conversations and then pick up with the live
communications through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Canary
for 9-i/2 minutes. The data/voice recorder dump starting
now.
CDR Houston, CDR, can you designate another

recorder for us, please?
CC Stand by. If you can give us 2 minutes
more, we can finish with the regular one, otherwise we'll
give you another one,
CDR Take 2.
CC Roger, thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. The data/voice
tape recorder's yours. Out.
CDR Thank you, Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 14 minutes through Tananarive
at 22:32. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through
Tananarive for 2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 19 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 22:54. Out.
Honeysuckle Creek for 8-1/2 minutes. And for the PLT, we
have a change to your SO63K maneuver pad. If you have a
minute?
CC Skylab, this is Houston, for the PLT
we need to get this maneuver pad correction into you before
LOS here at Honeysuckle in 6-1/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Say, again, Bruce.
CC Roger, we have a change to your SO63K
maneuver pad which we need to get up this site.
PLT - I understand.
CC Okay, the reason this is being changed
is that the last dump maneuver on the last momentum dump
changed nuZ from what we expected it to he. So, we're changing
the fine maneuver. And the fine maneuver should now read;
52021, 51034, 51303, 50027. And the decimal equivalents are;
minus .28, minus 1.95, plus .23. Read back over.
PLT Rog, understand. The fine maneuver has
been changed, 52021, 51034, 51303, 50027, decimal X,Y,Z
respectively minus 0.28, minus 1.95, plus 0.23.
CC Roger, you're readback is correct. And
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just for the CDR's info, in case he's listening. The go

around on the SO55 and H-alpha 1 doors last pass arose out
of the fact that we had you pointing more than 22-1/2 are
minutes - - center and the ATM DC, therefore issued a door
CLOSED command for thermal protection of the unit. Actually,
you can get out to more like 30 are minutes before you get
into trouble. This was our fault and we'll watch it a
little more closely in the future to prevent this happening.
Over.
PLT He copied.
LOS. Next station contact is 12-1/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 23:14. And we show 1.7 remaining on the VTR. Are you
through with the instrument? Over.
CDR We're all through with the instrument.
CC Okay, thank you. Then we'll go ahead and
take it and start our dump a little early.
CDR Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1772/I
Time: 17:03 CST, 51:23:03 GMT
1/5/74
PAO - - brings us up to date with the play-

back of taped conversations with the crew, and also with the
remainder of the Honeysuckle pass live. And we have about
ii minutes remaining before we regain contact through Hawaii.
At this time in the Flight Plan we have scheduled time for
the commander to eat his evening meal, Science Pilot Ed
Gibson has time allocated for physical training and personal
hygiene. And for Pilot Bill Pogue this time is set aside
for operation of the S063, ultraviolet airglow horizon
photography equipment. This is Skylab Control at 23 hours
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SL-IV MC1773/I
Time: 17:13 CST, 51:23:13 GMT
1/5174
PA0 This is Skylab Control, we're standing

by now to acquire Skylab through the Hawaiian Island
tracking station, about 1 minute from now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Hawaii
for l0 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston_ 45 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 3 minutes_ through Goldstone
at 23:26. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control_ we've gone out
of range now at Hawaii and just a little over 2 minutes
remaining before we pick the spacecraft up again at the
Goldstone tracking station. So we_ll leave the line up
for that continental U.S. pass, beginning at Goldstone.
Goldstone for 9 minutes. Out.
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SL-IV MC1774/I
Time: 17:27 CST, 51:23:27 GMT
1/5/74

LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through Bermuda at
23:37. Out.
PAO Almost no conversation with the crew
that time through Goldstone. And we're out of range now,
the Goldstone antenna. Be acquiring at Bermuda in about
3-1/2 minutes. This is traditionally a very quiet time
during the day for the crew. They're involved in a series
of activities ranging from eating, for Jerry Carr, to
exercise which is scheduled in the Flight Plan at this time
for Science Pilot Ed Gibson. And Pilot Bill Pogue involved
in the SO63 observations, the UV airglow horizon photography.
We'll leave the line up for the Bermuda acquisition in about
3 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Bermuda
for 9-i/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, with our ESP
into your ATMDC, we don't see the 15-minute maneuver time
loaded for maneuvering back to SI yet. Over.
CC Roger, Skylab, we see it in and verified
from the ground down here with a minute and a half to LOS.
Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through the - through
Ascension at 23:53. Out.
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SL-IV MC1775/I
Time: 17:45 CST 51:23:45 GMT
1/5/74
PAO Skylab's now out of range of Bermuda.

And we'll just barely miss the area of coverage from
Carnary ]islands and pick up again in about 6 minutes at
the Ascension Island tracking station. During that pass
the crew began the maneuver back to the solar inertial
attitude after having maneuvered into an attitude to allow
them to view the Comet Kohoutek with the S063 instrument.
At 23 hours 48 minutes Greenwich mean time this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1776/I
Time: 17:52 CST, 51:23:52 GMT
115174

minutes. We're about to regain contact with Skylab through
Ascension Island. And we'll leave the llne up for that
Ascension pass.
Ascension for 10-1/2 minutes. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 24 minutes through Carnarvon
at 00:27, with a data/voice tape recorder dump scheduled at
AOS. Out.
PAO That's all through Ascension and we'll
be picking up Skylab through Carnarvon in about 22 minutes.
And we've just crossed into the 52nd day as time is kept
here in Mission Control. We're now on day 52, 00 hours and
5 minutes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1777/I
Time: 18:25 CST, 52:00:25 GMT
115174

Greenwich mean time. Standing by to regain contact with
Skylab through Carnarvon, Australia in about 30 seconds.
Carnarvon for 9-i/2 minutes, with a data/voice tape recorder
dump here. And we+d like to remind you we're expecting a TV
downlink of ATM data, either here or over Guam at 00:41,
in place of the use of the video tape recorders called out
in the ATM schedule pad. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CDR You getting TV now, Bruce?
CC We're not getting it hera live in the
Control Center. It's coming down through Carnarvon to be
recorded and shipped back by surface mail or something
like that. Over. We're check
CDR Okay, but I can ahead and start it now,
right?
CC Yes, go ahead. And we'll check the
remote site to make sure they're recording an image of some
sort.
CC And looks like we're getting a good
signal at Carnarvon Jerry.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, little over i
minute to LOS. Next station contact in 6-1/2 minutes through
Guam at 00:41. Out.
PAO We've had loss of signal through
Carnarvon. And about 4-1/2 minutes before we regain contact
with Skylab through Guam, coming up on this next stateside
pass. The crew will be giving us the daily status report.
And this is scheduled to be the last stateside pass of the
evening where we'll be communicating with the crew. Adhering
to the practice of allowing them time to themselves for
1 hour prior to the beginning of their sleep period beginning
at 9 p.m. this evening. At 0 hours 38 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1778/I
Time: 18:40 CST 52:00:40 GMT
1/5/73
PAO This is Skylab Control standing by

now for acquisition of sehed - signal through the tracking
station on Guam Island.
CC Skylab, this Houston through Guam for
a little over 7 minutes. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 17 minutes through Goldstone,
at 01:05. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of Guam now heading toward Goldstone, California,
where we'll be reacquiring in 15 minutes. The Skylab
astronauts will be among a small number of Americans who
won't be setting their clocks ahead for daylight savings
time. The time change for the crew occurred New Years Day,
when they had to get up early for an Earth resources
survey. And not wanting to put them through the experience
twice flight planners have left the astronauts on an
i hour earlier schedule, so tomorrow the rest of us will
be catching up. This is Skylab Control at zero hours
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SL-IV MC1779/I
Time: 19:04 CST, 52:01:04 GMT
1/5/74
PAO This is Skylab Control we've had

acquisition of signal at Goldstone. And we'll stand by for
a call from the CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Goldstone
for 5-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And we'll be standing by for the
evening status report at 01:12 through Merritt Island. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR, you ready for a frame
count?
CC Lay it on us.
CDR Okay, 13314; 4655; 161; 387; 4870: and
4275.
CC We got them Jerry, thank you.
LOS, 1-1/2 minutes to AOS at Corpus Christi. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Corpus
Christi, Merritt Island and Bermuda for i0_i/2 minutes.
Out. Make that 12-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And we're ready for the evening status
report anytime you are. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston_ now coming
to you through Merrltt Island, standing by for the evening
status report.
CC Okay, boy that handover complete. Now
we're coming to you through Merritt Island and ready for
the evening status report. Out.
SPT Exercise. CDR, Alfa plus 4; SPT, no
change; PLT, no change.
CC Break break, break break, break break.
Okay, hit again please.
SPT Hit what again, Houston?
CC Start over again, please.
SPT What didn't you copy?
CC We didn't copy the beginning of your
report. SPT - -
SPT Did you have a drop out?
CC We were getting you weak and all of a
sudden you started coming up from the background and we_d
like you to start the evening status report, please.
SPT Sleep: CDR, 7,0, 5 heavy, 2 light; SPT,
7.7, 7.0 heavy, 7 light; PLT, 8.0, 8.0 heavy. How do you
read?
CC Loud and clear,
SPT Urine volume: 210, 305, 190. Drinking
water: 8178; 4115_ 0139. Body mass: CDR, 6.308, 6.307,
6.315; SPT, 6.347, 6.346, 6.348_ PLT, 6.218, 6.218, 6.221.
Exercise: CDR, Alfa plus one9 SPT, no change9 PLT, no change.
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Medications: CDR, none; SPT, none; PLT, Seconal. Garment

usage: CDR, none; SPT, none; PLT, one socks, one shirt, one
shorts. Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping list
accomplishments: SPT, SO63 comet photographs, frames 3213
taken at 19:05. Inoperable Equipment: none. Un stowage -
Unscheduled Stowage: none. CDR, salt packs 6.5, devs,
plus one strawberry, plus one tea, water devs, plus 1.5;
SPT, salt zero, deviations, plus tea, plus Apollo grape
drink, plus biscuits, plus tuna, water devs, plus 4.0; PLT,
salt packs 6.0, deviations, plus tuna, and 12 water guns
clicks we used for the science demo. Stand by for the
photo report.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1780/I
Time: 19:18 CST 52:01:18 GMT
1/5/74
PLT (garble) 16 millimeter, documentary

photo 70 (garble) Transporter 05. Charlie India 127, 34 per-
cent, Charlie India 93. Nikons: Nikon i, Charlie X-ray 39,
41; Nikon 2, Bravo Victor 27 17, number - Nikon 3, Charlie
India 112, 41 percent; Nikon 4, Bravo Echo 09, 06, number 5
is empty, 70-millimeter, Charlie X-ray 51, 001, that's the
new load. ETC no change, EREP no change, Drawer A configura-
tion, the only change is in A2. Transporter 05, Charlie
India 127, 34 percent, Charlie India 93.
CC Okay, I think we've got all that, Bill.
Thank you very much. And we're ready with the evening quest
tions and then the news if we can squeeze them in here. Over.
PLT Rog, go.
CC Okay, on the urine dumps - using the urine
dump system. What urine bag configuration has been used for
dumping the urine the day before the urine dump problem occurred?
Are you - were you dumping one bag at a time, or dumping
three bags, simo, and is this the configuration youVve been
using for dumping urine all along. Over.
CDR We've been going three bags simo ever
since the first day.
CC Okay, have you disposed of today's urine
bags and if so, how?
CDR We haven't done it yet. I guess we'll
put them down the trash airlock.
CC Okay, you're go to use the urine dump
system if you desire.
CDR Okay_ let's give it a try.
CC Okay, great. For the SPT, the polar
plumes that you were looking for in shopping list item 14
are roughly 30 to 60 arc seconds wide and 2 to 3 arc minutes
long as seen in XUV. They're probably best detected in
magnesium X with a contrast ratio - or magnesium i0 I guess
it is - the contract ratio of about 2 to 1 against the corona.
They extend from the limb in a radial direction at a height
of 20 arc seconds. You might expect the count rate to go
for about i0 to 20 in a broader diffuse maximum as you slew
across the plume. They may originate as bright XUV points in
the polar holes or may be loops associated witk polar filament
seen in projection. In any case, they'll probably be difficult
to find. Over.
SPT Rogerj Bruce.
CC For the CDR and the PLT. From the voice
transcripts, it's not clear that you're running the S183
DAC for I second after sunset before tke first exposure and
for 1 second before sunrise following a last exposure. The
reason that we're doing this and have tkis in the procedure
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is due to the possibility of light leakage through or around

the DAC shutter to prevent the previously exposed frames
from becoming light struck or to prevent you from trying put
data on film that had been damaged previously by being exposed
to light, Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce, we have been doing that
with - Jer's been doing it all the time. I think I have
slipped up a couple of times. One of the reasons I think that
does not appear on the tape is in - because sometimes we don't
turn the recorder on at a consistent time. I think I've been
a little bit remiss on that and I'ii try to Joa better job on
that. But I think that we've been getting =hat most all the
time, I'ii watch it very carefully in the future.
CC Say, we weren't trying to place the
finger at anybody. It was just for understanding here.
PLT No that's a good question.
CC On the $233 bracket for photography. Is
that still attached to the $3 window. We want to know be-
cause we're going to start up again on mission day 54.
PLT Bruce, all that is is a cludgily universal
mount installation. It's no big deal.
CC Is it still there?
PLT Negative.
CC Okay -
PLT It was in the way.
CC Okay, thank you. (Sneeze) Bill, for you.
During your T002 run, or data derived from a standard devia_
tions achieved were, 38, 24, i0, and 16 arc seconds. And
these are considered to be excellent - in fact you're doing
exceptionally well. We do have a couple of suggestions that
may make things a little easier for you and help out a bit
further. To prevent having to rush between the sightings,
you can take fewer points during the same interval especially
during zero bias. And to alleviate the awkwardness of having
to rotate your body to take sightings, you may rotate the
instrument eyepiece instead. Over,
PLT That's neat, I didntt know that.
CC Yeahp instead of turning the world, turn
the eyepiece I guess. And for - again for you with respect
to TV 107. Were all the segments A, Bp C_ D_ and E covered
today? We've not seen them all on TV_ we're Just wondering
about this
PLT Let's see_ I forget exactly - I don't
have the book right in front of me. I did not do the one on
the slides because I didn't have the zeppelin (?) squeezed
out. I did the TV on - I think it was - A, B, and D. Let me
check the book, just a second.
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CC Okay, we've got about 30 seconds to LOS

here. Next station contact is in 9 minutes and 17 seconds
Ascension at 01:33o Private medical conference. And I guess
that's our last site of the evening.
CDR Bruce, as soon as I started the urine
dump it plugged up again.
CC Okay, we copy that, Jar. WeVre not going
to have time for the news here. One item you might be inter-
ested in though. The prime recovery ship New Orleans departed
San Diego today at 17:00 Zulu. It'll arrive in Pearl Harbor
on the llth, pick up personnel and go through some training
exercises and pick up prime recovery ships report full time
on the 13th. Over.
CREW (Static)
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SL-IV MC1781/I
Time: 19:24 CST 52:01:24 GMT
1/5/74
PAO This is Skylab Control we've gone out

of range now of the Bermuda tracking station. And we're
about 7-1/2 minutes away from acquiring at Ascension. That
will be a low-elevation pass, relatively short duration of
about 5 minutes or so. During that time we will have the
private medical conference with the crew. And that will
be the last station pass where we're - we would expect to
have communications with the crew before they begin their
scheduled sleep period. Beginning at 8:15 central standard
time we'll be begin bringing in the first load of television
from the onboard tape recorder. The crew has loaded
approximately 20 minutes of TVI07 the fluid mechanics
demontration and approximately 8 or 9 minutes of television
of the plant growth experiment. And that TV is scheduled
to be brought into Houston beginning at 8:15 with another
segment coming in at 8:45 and the final segment scheduled
to be brought in beginning at 9:30. This is Skylab Control
at 1 hour 27 minutes Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 19:32 CST 52:01:32 GMT
i/5/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're coming up on

Ascension, which will be the station over which the daily
medical conference with the crew will be conducted. And
this is also scheduled to be the last station of the day
over which we have routine communications with the Skylab
crew, as has been the practice, the hour prior to beginning
their sleep period, they will be left undisturbed with
routine communications. The sleep period scheduled to begin
at 9:00 p.m. Houston time. At the conclusion of our last
stateside pass through Bermuda, Jerry Carr advised that the
most recent attempt to use the urine dump system had failed.
After dumping a small amount of urine through the orifice, it
again plugged up and there is no further explanation at this
point as to what the problem might be.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC Roger. Thank you. Hey, just a quick
one for Ed, we were having comm problems on the evening status
report. Thank him for bearing with us and repeating the report.
For the PLT, it looks like TV 107 Bravo is the item you were
talking about not completing with the slide. Is that correct?
PLT That's affirmative. I guess you didn't
read that. I gave it to you just as you were going over the
hill.
CC And you got all the rest of it, right?
PLT Yes I did, Bruce, within the constraints
of my ability.
CC No, hey, we're just - I'm just asking them
fast here. We got 35 seconds to LOS. For the CDR, did you
notice any unusual amount of air in the urine bags that you
tried to dump this morning? Any contaminants and we're sending
you a teleprinter message tonight of the alternate technique for
urine bag preparation you can use if the probe doesn't work
in the morning. And we're trying to work in a urine probe
changeout sometime tomorrow, probably during the period of
time blocked out for TV 107 A and B for the PLT and letting
him finish up TV 107 in the other part of that period. Over.
CDR Hey, Bruce, the urine system dumped all
7000 milliliters in about 5 minutes. It just broke loose and
let go.
CC Hey, that's good news.
PLT We think so too.
CC You can relax now, Bill.
CDR Bruce, we have a question on the heaters
now. Is there any possibility of damage at all by leaving
them on forever?
CC No, leave them on forever, or at least
until the end of the mission. And after 02:00 here, we won't
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be calling you agai n . Sleep is at 03:00. If you want us,

put i0,000 DO NOT ENTER on the DAS. Over.
CDR Okay. Fine, Bruce. And how about
mentioning to the guy who's got the duty in the morning that
(static) morning (static)
CC Didn't copy.
PAO Skylab's new out of range of the Ascension
tracking station. That's the last scheduled communications
we'll be having with the crew tonight. They, as we said,
begin their sleep in a little over an hour_ an hour and
20 minutes at 9:00 p.m. And at the end of that pass Jerry
Carr reported that the urine system obstruction had apparently
cleared and the s_stem was working all right at the present
time. At i hour 41 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
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3 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're coming up on the
Carnarvon tracking station. We don't expect any conver-
sation with the crew over this station. But we do have
about an hour remaining before the crew begins their
sleep period. And we'll have the llne up over Carnarvon
in case there is any unfinished business that the crew
wishes to bring up _ should they desire to initiate
conversation with the ground. We also have the mission
surgeon's daily report on crew health. The report reads as
follows. Crew health is still good. The pilot will be
taking another sleeping medication tonight to insure
sleep stabilization. The concludes the mission surgeon's
daily report prepared by Dr. Jerry Hordinsky.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out
of range of Carnarvon, and no conversation with the crew
through Carnarvon. And we'll take the llne down at this
point for the remainder of the night. Should we receive
any communication from the crew we'll replay that, bring
the llne back up and stand by for any further live
conversation. Although as mentioned previously we don't
expect to hear from them for the remainder of the night.
This is Skylab Control at 2 hours 15 minutes Greenwich
mean time.
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PAO Skylab Control at II hours 14 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is about to be
acquired through the tracking ship Vanguard. We're 52 sec-
onds from acquisition there where we'll have an ii minute
pass, the first of several passes as space station moves up
towards the northeast across Ascension, Canary Island, and
Madrid's area of range. On duty here in Mission Control is
Flight Director Charles Lewis and the Spacecraft Communica-
tor is Kank Hartsfield. This is the morning wakeup call to
the crew, although they are scheduled for a wakeup this
morning at ii:00 Greenwich mean time. We_ll bring the llne
up l_ve now for air,to-ground through Vanguard.
CC (Music: Medley, Herb Alpert and the
TiJuanna Brass)
CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning to you.
CDR Good morning to the Bronze and the Brass.
CC Rog. Hey, you got us a sig(?) down
here just before you went LOS last evening. "You said something
about pass something to the _ whoever relieved Bruce and we
listened to that th_ng over and over. We still haven't figured
it out. What did you tell him?
CDR Oh, we missed the news last night, Hank,
and wWetre wondering if we might have a little morning news.
CC Okay. How about I read it up to you at
Ascension? Is tkat all rlgkt?
CDR That_d be great.
CC Okay. We're about 40 seconds from LOS.
Wetll be coming up on Ascension at 28. Thatts about 3 min-
utes from now_ and we also plan to dump the recorder there.
SPT Morning, Hank.
CC Good morning.
PLT Morning, Hank.
CC Morning, Bill.
CC (Music)
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CC (Music)
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now going
over the hill at Vanguard. We're i minute and 23 seconds
from acquisition at Ascension. Morning wakeup, Tijuana Brass
medley, to which the crew replied the bronze and the brass.
The Bronze team came on duty here in Mission Control with
Flight Director Charles Lewis and Spacecraft Communicator Hank
Hartsfield. Hartsfield will be reading up the news at the
Ascension pass which is now Just a minute away, the crew indl-
caring that they didn't get enough of the news last night.
They wanted to catch up with what's going on down here in
the world below them. We're now about 53 seconds from ac-
qulsition at Ascension. This pass through Ascension is one
of a ser_es of passes. We'll he at Ascension, Canary Island,
and Madrid with acquisitions lasting for almost 19 minutes.
We'll leave the line up live now for air_o-ground through
the statlons. There'll be breaks of about 30 to 40 seconds
between each pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're back with you
through Ascension for 10 minutes, and we'll be dumping a
recorder.
CDR Roger.
CC Okay. I'll give you a little news if
you want to listen up. We all moved our clocks ahead here
a few hours back. At 02:00, it became 03:00. The switch to
daylight saving is the first time the nation has gone all year
around daylight saving since World War II. It was proposed
by President Nixon and approved by Congress to help ease
the energy crisis. However, several of the states are
exempt. Congress said Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, Puerto
Rico, and most of Indiana are are exempt. Arizona, parts
of Kentucky, and the moutaln times on areas of Idaho and
Oregon were exempted by Secretary of Transportation Claude
S. Brinegar acting for President Hixon. Cows it seems are
unofficially exempt. "When a cow gets off schedule you don't
fool around with her. They don_t llke that," says Mrs. Hillard
O. Curham whose husband is a owner of a Tennessee dairy farm.
"Mr. Durham will milk by the Sun and not the clock." Up to
16 inches of snow fell in parts of Southern California early
Saturday stranding hundreds of travelers. Hardest hit was
the town sunnily called Palmdale, north of Los Angeles.
Some 200 motorists and five busloads of persons stranded
there Friday nZght were led toward Los Angeles by four snow
plows. More then 200 cars were pulled from the record snow
on California 14 in the Newhall, Lancaster area, and then
the other motorists abandoned their vehicles and made way by
foot. Hundreds of other persons were trapped by mud slides
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unleashed by heavy rain on Topanga Canyon Boulevard, 40

miles from downtown Los Angeles. And in Boston, a truck
backed up to a stately apartment building on Commonwealth
Avenue recently and swished 3 tons of coal down a chute into
the basement. Buildings on the tree-lined Street gave up their
coal furnaces years ago but the converted Victorian to_nhouse
has 18 places and its owner wants the tenants to have a way
to keep warm if the oil furnace runs dry. Similar fears of
the petroleum shortage have stirred up long_lost business for
retail coal dealers_ a trade that's been in nonstop decline
since World War II. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan
says he thinks the Israeli cabinet now will be ready to make
a formal presentation in Geneva for the disengagement of Israeli
and Egyptian forces near the Suez Canal. "I'm going home and I
do hope that the cabinet will be in a position to form something
concrete,". Dayan reported after a 4 -hour meeting Saturday
with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. It was their
second meeting at the State Department in 2 days. Kissinger
called the talks very constructive and very useful and said
he remains hopeful about the prospects for agreement in
Geneva between Egypt and Israel. The Secretary indicated
the differences between the U.S. and Israeli positions
have narrowed. Here's a little item from Michigan. William
E. Street, a smooth talker whose exploits have included
conning the Detroit Tigers into a tryout in 1971, got caught
trying to get a straight job. Street was picked up Friday
while seeking a job at the Michigan Employment - Employment
Security Commission. Police officials said Street was a
fugitive from Southern - a southern Michigan prison at
Jackson. A spokesman said he escaped October 20 at - while
serving a i to 20 year sentence for an extortion attempt
against the wi_e of Tiger left fielder Willie Horton. In
the spring of 1971, Street showed up at the Tiger training
camp in Lakeland, Florida, posing as a pro football player_
Jerry Levias. He was granted a tryout but when the real
Levias saw the wire story he quickly called the Tigers from
his Texas - Texas home and exposed Street. In 1972 Street
used a University of Michigan football helmet earl easily
recognizable with its distinct maize and blue-striped design
to help talk his way into the training camp of the North-
South College All Star football game at Miami. That time
his lack of athletic talent quickly gave him away. Last fall
he was arrested at Detroit's Ford Hospital posing as a doc-
tor and his probation was revoked. Officials said he had
been showing up at the state employement office nearly every
2 weeks since his escape, where unsuspecting aides were trying
to find him a job. And here's a story dateline New York. Fat men
don't fare well in landing higher-paying executive jobs,
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according to a survey by an employment agency that specializes

in placing executives. "An overweight person may be losing
as much as $i,000 a year for every pound of fat," says Robert
Half, president of the Madison Avenue Agency, with
branches in 43 American cities. A survey conducted by a
dozen of Half's branches showed among executives in the
$25,000 to $50,000 salary range, 9 percent were more then I0
pounds overweight. In the $I0,000 to $20,000 executive
range 39 percent were more then i0 pounds heavier than the
standards of normal weight established by insurance companies.
Half attritubed the finding to the prejudiced against the
overweight and what he held to be a false belief that they
are not as good workers as sllm persons. "The overweight,"
Half said, "are fairly stereotype - unfairly stereotyped
as slow, sloppy, inefficient, and over indulgent. When
important high-paying jobs are at stake and candidates are
under close scrutiny the overweight are less likely to be hired
or promoted into them," he said. Half who is 5'10' and
weighs 150 pounds said his agencies frequently are asked
specifically for sllm job candidates, but remembers
only one company in 25 years ago that wanted a plump executive.
This comapny was a maker of outsized apparel. Well, it
looks like for us as long as we stay slim there's hope and
if we get overweight we find the right apparel maker,
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CC - and overindulgence. When important

high paying jobs are at stake and candidates are under close
scruting, the overweight are less likely to be hired or promoted
into them, he said. Half who is 5'10" and weighs 150 ibs, said
his agencies frequently are asked specifically for slim Job
candidates, but remembers only one company in 25 years that
wanted a plump executive. This company was a maker of
outsize apparel. So, it looks like for us as long as we
stay sllm there's hope and if we get overweight we find the
right apparel maker.
CDR I didn't realize the food folks are
doing us a favor.
PLT Thank you, Hank, that's good news.
CC You're quite welcome.
CDR Hank, while we're discussing the lighter
side, l'_e got a favor to ask.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Could you take the flight - the Skylab
overflight time at angles by my house over the next month
and this is overflight visible from Austin, for Bill?
CC Okay, Overflight times, over Austin.
CDR Affirmative.
CDR Thank you very much.
CC Okay, will do.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We didn't get to your
news last evening because we run (sic) into this hour where we
agreed not to bother you. How do you feel about getting the
news during the presleep or postsleep period in this hour
when we're not supposed to bug you?
SPT Well, actually I think, in the morning
during this hour when we're eating is a good time anyway.
CC Okayp you'd prefer the news in the morn-
ing then?
SPT Sure, that_d be fine.
CC Okay, why don_t we plan on doing it that
way, then?
SPT Real good.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again at Guam at 12.
CDR So long, Hank.
out of range of the tracking antenna at Madrid. 25 minutes
to our next acquisition at Guam. Astronauts Jerry Carr, Ed
Gibson, and Bill Pogue today will spend about 24 hours collect_
ing scientific data that ranges from photography of the comet
Kohoutek to a 7100-mile-long Earth resources survey. In
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addition to the final ATM observations of Kohoutek, identified

as JOP 18D, that's scheduled for early this evening, there will
be a - experiments of S063 atmospheric operations and also a
TV 107's scheduled for today and some TV 77, which is crew
activities. There are also scheduled four four to five oppor-
tunities for handheld photography, two of which are formally
scheduled and three of which are optional activities for the
day. Today's Earth resources pass_ although identified as
EREP 21, is in fact the elgh_eenth resources pass of the
current mission. This is Skylab Control. It's now 49 minutes
after the hour.
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 07:11 CDT, 52:12:11 GMT
1/6/74
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours ii minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now off the
coast of China, about to be acquired through the tracking
antenna at Guam. 50 seconds to acquisition of signal at
Guam. The pass through Guam will last about I0 minutesp
and the crew has been awakened _ as of about now, just about
an hour.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Guam for
9_i/2 minutes.
CDR Howdy, Hank.
CC $kylab_ Houston. I only have two small
Flight Plan items for you this morning; one for the CDRts -
a comment to CDRTs detailsp and the other a small change to
the PLT_s photo pad, whenever itVs convenient.
SPT Go ahead_ Hank, we're listening.
CC Okay, for the CDH. At 19:30 he's doing
the SO63 prep, and we failed to note in his details that he
will need the PLT's pad, ops pad, to do that. And that that's
his numbers 5224.
SPT Okay, he_s got that.
CC And for the PLT. Based on the - what we
got on the dump tape on our completion of part of TV 107,
when we made up the photo pad we thought he had it all to do
yet. So, to change that to - to be correct_ we need to make
it TV 107-B only. And he'll only need 2 percent for that. And
we'd like to use transporter 08, and it's in A-4.
SPT Hold on a minute, Hank, please.
PLT Okay, Rank, let's see now, this is on
message 5209 Alfa. That'll be TV 107 Bravo only, and how
much percent?
CC Roger. 2 percent_ Bill, And we want you
to use transporter A in A-4.
CC We copied last night that you had completed
TV I07-A. And so we need to Just change this pad and take that
into account.
PLT That's affirmative_ took me just a while
to find it. I got it now. 2 percent required_ and transporter
08 in Alfa 4.
CC That's correct_ Bill. Thank you.
CC And, PLT, Houston; we'd like for you to
hold up on the TV 105. You indicated that you were going to
take a few more pictures. We'd like for you to leave the
slat where it is and let us take a look at our film budget
before you do that.
PLT Willco, Hank. That's white on white or
clear on clear crystal and liquid. And boy_ it's really hard
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to get that thing to show up in photographs. But three more

might not be any better 9 so I think your decision's a good
one.
CC Okay, we copy that.
SPT Hank, I have a question about TV 77 and
your permanent general message number 26 related to it. I
could do some of that today, but I need to know by what time
you would need it and also how much VTR time would be available.
CC Okay, we'll work that for you, Jerry.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
CDR Houston, CDR. We found that TV data
on my pad.
CC Okay we copy, You talking about TV i -
TV 77?
CDR That's affirmative. That was Ed talking
to you a minute ago, and I've got the 77 data on my pad.
CDR And, Hank, on TV i04_ Itm not going to
be ready to do that today, I'd like to - that's already on
our shopping llst. I'd like you, the folks on the ground,
Just to drop that and we'll get it as soon as wetre ready.
Little bit of information I wonder if you might teleprinter
up to me when it's convenient, and t_at is the diameter of
the wheel and the weight of the of the CMG. Also the
speed, wheel speed.
CC Okay, we'll do it.
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SL-IV MC-1788/I
TIME: 07:20 CST, 52:12:20 GMT
01/6/74
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

Vanguard will be coming up at 52:31 minutes.
time. Skylab space station is now out of range of Guam. Our
next acquisition is 29 minutes away. In this last pass Jerry
Carr indicated that he'd llke the infom - some information
on control moment gyroscopes, their size, weight, and speed.
He hopes to use this, no doubt, in his TV 104 which is hehavier
of a gyroscope in zero gravity. He also indicated that he'd
like the TV 104 to be postponed until the crew has a chance
to get at it. Astronauts Carr, Gibson, and Pogue will make
a 7100-mile-long survey of the earth early this afternoon.
The crew will be photographing and gathering electronic data
on test areas from the Pacific coast of Mexico to just west of
France. The Earth study will focus on Mexican agriculture
and land use planning, weather conditions over the Cheaspeake
Bay area along the Atlantic Coast, and the ocean surface
conditions beneath the space station. This evening Skylab
chief scientist Ed Gibson will make his final observations
of the comet Kohoutek through the large solar telescopes.
Although the comet is now too dim for instruments designed
to study the Sun, a series of more sensitive devices will
continue to record the changes as Kohoutek moves further [sic]
out into space. This is Skylab Control. 28 minutes to the
next acquisition. It's now 24 minutes and 41 seconds after
the hour. Skylab Control at 12 hours 51 minutes Greenwich
mean time. The Skylab space station is now 55 seconds from
acquisition of signal through the Vanguard tracking ship.
This 9-12-minute pass has a handover Just about completed here
in Mission Control. Hank Heartsfield, just completing his
tour, and spacecraft communicator will he replaced_ as will
flight director Charles Lewis, who is now completing a
handover. We'll bring the llne up live now for Vanguard pass
lasting about 9-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab Houston, through Vanguard for
9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello Hank.
PLT Hi, Hank. What's the weather forecast for
our EREP track?
CC Okay, stand by one and I'II get the latest.

CC Skylab Houston, regard to the weather for
your EREP today, it looks like down in the Mexico area there -
it's 0 to 3/10 coverage, and pretty much scattered across
the Gulf. Once you reach the Continental US, though, going
along the East Coast there, it's almost totally overcast
until you reach Newfoundland. Newfoundland is scattered and then
you get overcast again across the North Atlantic. Of course,

some of the things we're interested in is - in the north
Atlantic. And all over to where the track ends around
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Spain, and you have 4 to 7/10 there now. We're due to get
another weather update here in a couple of hours and we can
update then.
CDR Thank you Hank.
CC Houston, we're 30 seconds from LOS. Canaries
will be coming up at 12, and that's about ii minutes from now.
We'll be handing over to the purple gang and we'll say so
long to you from the from the bronze boys for a couple of
days.
CDR So long, bronze boys. Have a good vacation.
SPT So long. Enjoy it.
range of the tracking antenna on the ship Vanguard. Our next
acquisition is 9 -1/2 minutes away at Canary Island.
During this last pass Hank Hartsfield, completing his tour
of duty, was reading up the weather forecast for today's Earth
resources pass. Weather very excellent again over Mexican
sites, where land use planning and agricultural research are
under way. And also generally scat - it's partly cloudy over
the Gulf of Mexico; and over the East Coast of the United States
it varies from partly cloudy to overcast with heavy cloud
cover over the North Atlantic and then a break in the cloud
at - in the area of Newfoundland, where it's clear, and also break
in the clouds off the coast of France, at the very end of the
Earth resources pass today.
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i/6/74
PAO - pass Hank Hartsfield, concluding his

tour of duty, was reading up the weather forecast for today's
Earth resources pass. The weather very excellent again
over Mexican sites, where land use planning and agrlculatural
research are under way, and also generally a sketc - partly
cloudy over the Gulf of Mexico and over the East Coast of
the United States it varies from partly cloudy to overcast
with heavy cloud cover over the North Atlantic and then a
break in the cloud at - in the area of New Foundland, where
it's clear, and also a break in th he clouds off the coast of
France at the very end of the Earth resources pass today.
One of the primary activities of course is to study weather
conditions so that heavy cloud cover does not necessarily
prove to be a disadvantage for some of the studies going on
today. Also, earlier today Gerald Cart asked for information
on the control moment gyroscope's size of the wheels, the
weight and speed of the CMG rotors, the spinning part of the
control moment gyroscope that provides attitude control,
and that information will he provided to the crew very shortly.
The CMG rotor weighs 63.5 kilograms, or 140 pounds. It runs
at about 9000 rpms, revolutions per minute, and its diameter
is approximately zero - is approximately_559 millimeters, or
about a little over half a meter, 22 inches in diameter.
This is Skylab Control 8 minutes to our next acquisition.
It's now 4 minutes and 40 seconds after the hour.
PAO Skylab Control at 13:ll Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station has now just crossed the equator,
and we're coming withing range of the tracking antenna at
Canary Island. This pass through Canary Island will last
i0 minutes. It'll be an overlapping pass, continuing through
Madrid for a total of approximately 13 minutes. Space com-
municator now on duty here in Mission Control is Dick Truly,
having taken handover from Hank Hartsfield, and the flight
director now replacing Charles Lewis is Phil Shaffer. We're
live for air-to-ground at Canary Island.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello from the Purple
Gang again. We got you at Canary Islands and Madrid for 13
minutes.
CDR Hello, Phil, Richard, and gang.
CC How you guys doing this morning? Off to
a good start?
CDR Yes. So far, so good.
CC (Garble.)
SPT Just finished up our documentary photos,
Richard.
CC Very good. Good morning, Ed. How're you

doing?
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SPT Pretty good. Thought we were going to

run into a snag. Jerry did a lot of shaving. I didn't
have any whiskers.
CC Everybody's got a problem this morning.
CDR We solved it by covering me up with
shaving cream and Ed got the photos.
CC Go , Ed.
SPT Say, we'll try to get about 15 minutes
worth of TV 77 on the VTR for you before 23:00. Is that
about what you folks are thinking?
CC Stand by a second. SPT, while the INCO's
checking that, your phone call today is set up later on, Just
for your planning purposes, at 22:10 Zuln.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. Honeysuckle comes up at - at 14:01, and you can
put TV 77 on the VTR at your convenience. (Garble)
SPT Okay, Dick. Do you have any kind of a
total time allotment for that?
CC 15 minutes I believe it's listed in - in
the CDR's detail pad. I think that's it. I don't have any
other information yet. We'll - we can talk about thaK before
Honeysuckle, though and I'll get you a straight answer.
SPT Okay, Dick. 15 ought to do it for sure.
If it's any less then that, let me know. Thank you.
CC Yes. CDR's detail says 15 - VTR 15 min-
imum.
42 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is
now over eastern Europe out of range of the tracking antenna
at Madrid. Our next acquisition is at Honeysuckle 33 minutes
from now. During this last pass crew has indi - indicated
that they completed their documentary photos this morning
and that TV 77 will be put on the VTR by 23:00 Greenwich
mean time, according to the Science Pilot. That was checked
out with the technical communications officer here in Mission
Control and, since he has to keep track of the videotape
recorder performance and dump the tape at various ground
stations, it had to be approved by him. He did give an okay
for that and time is available for the VTR to be filled with
TV 77, which is crew activities. This is Skylab Control.
It's now 28-1/2 minutes after the hour.
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1/6/74
PAO - 15 hours Greenwich mean time. The

Skylab space station is now within acquisition of signal at
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Pass through Honeysuckle will
last about 7-1/2 minutes. The spacecraft communicator is
Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle for
6 minutes.
from LOS. Canary Islands comes up at 14:52. See you then.
CDR Roger, Dick. And would you send us up
another copy of general message - permanent general message
24 Alfa?
CC Sure will, Jerry.
PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 9-1/2 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is over New
Zealand out of range of the tracking antenna at Honeysuckle
Creek. Our next acquisition is 42 minutes away at Canary
Island. During this last pass Jerry Carr asked the ground
to provide him with another copy of one of the permanent
general messages that are kept on file in the Skylab space
station. Like many of these messages they've been clipped up
and used on various instruments around the space station,
and perhaps one of them has been damaged and for that reason
will be replaced by a teleprinter. 41-i/2 minutes to our
next acquisition. I0 minutes and 12 seconds after the hour,
tThis is Skylab Control.
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50 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
now 54 seconds from acquisition of signal through Canary
Island. We'll have an overlapping pass through Canary Island
and Madrid lasting about 13 minutes. The spacecraft communicator
is Dick Truly. Bring the line up live now for air-to-ground
through Canary Island and Madrid for the next 13 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Canary and
Madrid for 12 minutes. And we're sending up this pass a cop -
another copy of the permanent general message 24 Alfa and
also some information you requested on the CMG wheel.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Canary and
Madrid for about 9 minutes. Understand you called and I
didn't hear you here in Houston. Go ahead.
SPT Hello, Dick. I was telling you we have the
ATM on the VTR for this pass and also TV 77.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston; for your information,
there's only about 3 minutes left on the VTR. We're going
to be dumping that at our first opportunity, but that probably
means that you probably should not use the VTR until your
next regularly scheduled time, which is an ATM pass at
about 28. It's the ATM daylight cycle, it starts at 20:29.
SPT Okay, Dick, you said we should not use
it until that time. Is that correct?
CC Yeah, that's what we'd suggest. There's
only about 3 minutes remaining to the end of the tape now.
CC Skylab, Houston; 45 seconds from LOS.
Carnarvon comes up at 15:31. We're going to dump the data
voice recorder at Carnarvon. And also Bill Lenoir will be
here, and that's the scheduled ATM conference site.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger. See you then.
time. The Skylab space station is out of range of Madrid.
26 minutes to our next acquisition of signal at Carnarvon,
Australia. Earthbound inventors and manufacturers will all
be interested in today's Skylab activities. This morning
Skylab commander Jerry Carr is taking containers of special
crystals from a small electric furnance in the space station.
The crystals, far more perfect than the best that can be
produced by manufacturers working on the Earth's surface, may
show the way to tremendous advances in thousands of
electronic devices including everything from computers to
consumer goods. With the semiconductor crystals removed,
Carr installed a different combination of materials to be
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heated over the next two days. All of the new space products
will be returned to the Earth for scientific analysis when the
crew splashes into the Pacific on February 8th. Bill Pogue
reported an invention all his own this morning in a television
demonstration of the behavior of liquids in space. Pogue
became the first astronaut to drink water directly from an
open cup. Pogue's shallow space drinking cup holds water in by
surface tension, working as well as gravity-dependent glasses
do here on Earth. There's an Earth resources pass scheduled
for today. That Earth resources pass will cover an area
approximately 1700 miles long. It begans early in the after-
noon. The crew will be photographing and gathering electronic
data on test areas from the Pacific coast of Mexico to just
west of France. The Earth study focuses on Mexican agriculture
and land use planning, weather conditions over the Chesapeake
Bay, ocean surface conditions in the North Atlantic. And
later in the day the final observations of the comet Kohoutek
to use the large space telescopes of the solar array will
be made by Ed Gibson. The comet's now becoming too dim to
be viewed with the solar instruments_ and for that reason more
sensitive devices will be used through the scientific airlock
to photograph the comet. 24 minutes to our next acquisition
of signal. 6 minutes and 48 seconds after the hour, this
is Skylab Control.
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time. Skylab space station is now about to be acquired
through the tracking antenna at Carnarvon, Australia. This
pass through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle will be a very lengthy
one lasting 15-i/2 minutes. Space station now over Java is
within acquisition.
MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference
for about 8-1/2 minutes.
SPT Morning, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. Let me Just start off here with
some solar update words. I don't have too much here to
talk about this morning so we'll get into the solar update.
The promlnence 72 is intermittently active, especially the
south part that's at about north i0, and even though we
don_t admit to it, on the orbits that Jerry will be doing
later, our JOP 26, the subject is prominence 72, altongh we've
got pad pointing, _d I give you that Just for your information.
Prominence 74, which is down at around, oh, looks like about 240
on the llmb, is intermittently active. It's officially
called an active prominence region, although there, again
there's not too much really going on there. To give you an
indication of how dull the Sun really is now, your siting
of active region 15 was recorded in the local press here
and reading it, it indicated that it was more then it has
really turned out to be. The next thing coming up is active
region 97, which was in a state of decline as it went over
the west limb. We do not expect too much to happen there.
The next really significant things are coming back in 4
or 5 days when the active longitudes really begin to
come around. From the present time to the end of the nomi-
nal 84-day mission yon have now approximately one more solar
rotation to go, so on the average we'll be looking at things
for the last time around here. And that's about all I've
got to say this morning, here, on the Sun. Let me pass it
to you for some comments and I'ii then get into a few other
items.
SPT Okay. That's the one reason I made the
comment about let's make sure we get the flare program worked
out because we only have one more crack at - looks llke the
Herman (7) longitude. I guess the whole lon_itude is Just
coming around the corner. Maybe that's the one I'm associ-
ating with active region 15. I'm wondering what the 55
people had to say about the relatively high intensities which
I got, which I managed to find up there in the corona about
60 arc-seconds out. I did get my GRATING AUTO SCAN a little
over i, perhaps closer to 2, as well as the MIRROR AUTO RASTERS.
I was wondering what they had seen there, whether it was loops
or whether it was an isolated location. We also saw surge
there (?) that day, so maybe it's not quite as dull as we might
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initially think, And thirdly, we've got JOP 18Ds and I'm
wonderinK how many more of these wetll be doing. The point-
ing will have to all be done either straight from off the strap
down or using the planet Venus. We won't be able to home
in on it as well as we have before because I - I don't think
I could see it today. I really was lucky yesterday. And
lastly, before I forget it, I'd like to think all the (garble)
people in the back room who have been doing such an excellent
job of g_vlng us information every day on the pad as well
as the update, and also, some of those cheerful comments
they've been putting in there. We've appreciated all, and
they're doing great work.
MCC Okay, Ed. Thanks a lot for the comments.
Let me just take them in inverse order here. On the JOP 18
Delta, today is the last one. We will not be doing any
more. On the 55 results from yesterday, they don't at this
time know any more about it then you do in asmuch as the
data has not come out of the recording and transcription
system here_ so they have not had a ti - chance to look
at it. That usually takes about 48 hours. And we are
meeting today - this afternoon, as a matter of fact, to map
out our strategy for the active longitude passage from east
llmb over to passage of central meridian, so that we're
looking ahead about i0, i0 days to 2 weeks. I'll report
to you tomorrow on what we mapped out as our final strategy
and what happens at the request that we put in because of
that to the science planning session tonight. So I should
have more to tell you on that tomorrow.
SPT Okay. I'm sure there'll be a time
period in there in which the flare probabilities are rela-
tively high, like that two - or three-day period which we went
through just a short while ago, and at that time I would think
it would be probable to spend a good part of our time in flare
wait and try to get some priority put on that relative to
other things so that we can stand a good chance of getting
a flare rise.
MCC Okay. Thank you. and I'ii certainly
put that input in today as the SPT input to the plan-
ning here and I_m sure youtll have some help from some of
the other experiments. I_ve got a question for you on the
JOP Summary Sheets that came up yesterday on the 54 changes,
and the status of those changes, and in particular on JOP 1
Bravo. Not JOP 1 Bravo, building block 1 Bravo, JOP 6,
which is page 10-23. I don't know if you've got the JOP
sheets handy or not.
SPT I have it right in front of me. Go
ahead.
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MCC Okay. Can you Just tell me what you've

got there now for the 54 operations on the Bravo part of
that building block?
SPT Okay. It's a MS blank, S-l, start be-
ginning, a start at the end for 17 minutes, and let me ex-
plain the reason that that one as well as the one over on
JOP 8 got a little confused, and that is, I never got
ahold of the second change which is set up, I believe it was
changed, number 18, which contained both of those. All of
the other ones, which were on the one long change, I had
those down very meticulously and I thought that there was
only one piece of paper associated with it and never got
the other one until just a short while ago. I think
we've got it all straightnow, though.
MCC Okay, fine, and then you - saying
that also on the building block 17 that change has been made
and that we're all up to date now.
SPT That's right. As I said, that one little
sheet of paper which contained both of those I did not see
when I was making all those corrections.
MCC Okay, fine, and one other thing here on
the promised change to shopping list 30, that's apparently
got caught in a three-day do loop here and has not up yet,
but it should definitely come up this afternoon. Let me
apologize for the delay on that. And I have a question. At
the same time we talked about that, you mentioned a 55 llmb
offset program, and I interpreted that at the time without
thinking about it as something in the shopping list, and
I find now my notes and the downlink tape are confusing
to me; and I just need you to tell me all over again what
you were talking about.
SPT Okay. There is minilimb scan I believe
it's called, I'd have to pull it out and dig into it
myself. Why don't we leave that as a subject till tomorrow
and I'll try to get you some more definitive words on it. It's
essentially the program where we move 1 arc-second at a
time, and I believe we had something llke that in both the
shopping lists and in the JOPs, and I Just - I'll dig them
both out and talk more about it tomorrow.
MCC Okay, good. Now that you mention it
again I think I know what you mean, but let's both look at
it and talk tomorrow about it. And then I've got this one
last point here which we'll probably work up as a shopping
llst change if it sounds reasonable to you. 82B is inter-
ested in looking at a weak prominence. Actually, what
they*re after is, they want to get a Lyman-alpha profile of
a prominence, so what they would llke it to be is not opti-
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cally thick in Lyman-alpha, which is almost contradictory.

By asking you to find it in H-alpha, if you could see it
it's almost certainly thick in Lyman Alfa, but what - -
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MCC - - confusing to me and I just need you

to tell me all over again what you were talking about.
SPT Okay. There is mini-limb scan, I believe
it's called. I'd have to pull it out and dig into it myself.
Why don't we leave that as a subject till tomorrow and I'ii
try to get you somemore definitive words on it. It's essen-
tially, the program where we move i arc second at a time.
And I believe we had something like that in both the shopping
list and in the JOP and I just about - I'ii take them both
out and talk more about it tomorrow.
MCC Okay, good. Now that you've mentioned
it again, I think I know what you mean but let's both look
at it - talk tomorrow then. And then I've got Just one last
point here which will probably work up as a shopping list
change if it sounds reasonable to you. 82B is interested in
looking at a weak prominence. Actually, what they're after
is they want to get the Lyman-alpha profile of a prominence.
So what they would like it to be is not optically thick in
Lyman-alpha which is almost contradictory by asking you to
find it in H-alpha; if you can see it, it's almost certainly
thick in Lyman-alpha. But what they're thinking of now is
to find a barely visible prominence in H-alpha, to point at
it and with the i01 flim, give them a SEQUENCE times a quarter -
We're having a handover here. Let me give you a call on the
other side.
MCC Okay, Ed. We're out on the other side.
If at the time you've got i01 film, they'd llke the SEQUENCE
times a quarter and if we're back to the 104 film, then
just a SEQUENCE NORMAL. And if that sounds reasonable to you,
we'll work it up with some words on a shopping llst and send
it up to you.
SPT Sure. That's good, Bill. I'm wondering
whether if you went to a prominence which you could see fairly
well and put the slit parallel to the fairly bright material
and then moved so many are seconds off to where you could not
see any material along your line of sight, whether that would
do it for them also?
MCC That's a good thought. Let me mention
that to them. Another thought I had was to look along the
filament channel and what made it occur to me was when promi-
nence_filament 59 blew off, you could - for the while limb -
disk passage of that, you could see the filament channel where
it was but you couldn't see any filament there. And likewise
when it got on the llmb, you could not see any prominence
material there. So that you might stand a good chance of
finding optically thin Lyman-alpha there where you actually
could not see anvthing in H-alpha. Let's work on that and
we_ll send it up to you then.
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SPT Yeah. That one, if it was optically thick

or optically thin in Lyman-alpha then you might have enough
Lyman-alpha coming through from the background to obscure
whatever you're trying to see.
MCC Oh, yeah. I meant you'd have to wait till
it got over on the - on the limb as a prominence.
SPT Oh, I see. Okay. Very good.
MCC Okay, Edp - -
SPT Okay, it looked -
MCC That's all I had for today.
SPT Bill, you still with us?
MCC Yeah, I'm still here. That's all I had
for today. You got anything else we need to talk about?
SPT Not - not particularly. Let me Just
describe what I'm looking at in the XUV and WLC. In the
white light coronagraph_ the structure's changed very little
except that the one streamer which we had at - about 9 o'clock,
is now pretty much subsided with a very thin one. I can
barely see that anymore now. We also have one which is over
there at 8 o_clock, above 15 - that appears quite a bit more
enhanced. One over at 2 o'clock is about the same. XUV
monitor _ the only thing, of course_ that show up are the
filament channel up there at the northeastern edge. We've got
the 3 active regions which all appear roughly equal intensity
except for 15 which we're seeing on the limb. So it appears
to be a little brighter. A good coronal hole in the south
and I really don't see any other good many large size coronal
holes anywhere else. A couple of bright place but that's
about it.
MCC Okay, fine. We'll see that the backroom
get's ahold of that for planning. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. The purple CAP COMM's
back with you. We've still got about 3 minutes left in the
pass. Standing by.
SPT Dick, I think I owe you a couple of words
on TV 77 that just came down.
SPT I looked at your -
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT I looked at your general message 26 and
there were some good points made in that. So I went back
through those sketches and updated them according to those
points. And on this TV 77 had gone through the full 9 yards
again. I do not intend to do that every time but they did
have some good ideas in there how to make it a little more
visible as well as understandable. So all that's put together
in one big unit now.
CC Heyp that sounds real good, Ed and that
prohably w_ll help it a bunch, Thank you much.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from

LOS. MILA comes up at 16:18.
time. Skylab space station is passed out of range of the
tracking antenea - antenna at Honeysuckle Creek. Our next
acquisition is 32 minutes away at Merritt Island, Florida.
During this pass, Bill Lenoir began it with conference on
solar instruments, pointing out to the crew the fact that was
quite clear to Ed Gibson that there's about one more solar
rotation to go before the end of the planned 84-day mission.
A solar rotation from the point of view of the Earth is
about 27 days in length with a variation between the Equator
and the Poles, Equators rotate at different speed than the
Poles do on the Sun. And also, Gibson mentioning that his
TV 77 which he completed this morning, we don't have an exact
time on that but a total of 27-1/2 minutes were put on the
tape recorder including some ATM activity. That TV 77 will
include a review of comet sketches that were made over the last
several days. That review will improve those comet sketches
and give some additional information on them. 31 minutes to
our next acquisition of signal. 47 minutes and 23 seconds after
the hour. This is Skylab Control.
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Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station now over
Central America is about to be acquired through the tracking
antenna at Merritt Island, Florida. This pass through
Merritt Island and Bermuda will last about 12 minutes.
We'll bring the line up live for air-to-ground here. Dick
Truly is the spacecraft communicator. The flight director
on duty _s Phil Shaffer.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at MILA and
Bermuda for 12 minutes. And PLT, Houston, when you're able
to. we'd like to have the DAS to do an outer gimbal backup.
PLT, Houston. Did you copy our request for the DAS?
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda for 9
minutes. How do you read?
PLT Read you 5 square. How do you
read Skylab?
CC Read you loud and clear, Bill. We had
a little problem there with COMM through MILA. I'm reading you
okay now. We'd llke to have the DAS if we could for a couple
of minutes and do an outer gimbal backup.
PLT Reg. You got it.
CC Thank you, sir. Skylab, Houston. The
DAS is yours. Thank you much.
PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. I had a few words here
that I'd like to visit with Just about anybody that could
talk to me here, if you have a time during one of these passes,
about some thermal conditioning of the spacecraft during the
next few days.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, Ed. It turns out that in a few days
we're - we're going to be starting up turning on the interior
temperatures due to the Beta angle D and we think you cou -
you_ll be money ahead if we can go ahead and start like to-
day in keeping some lights turned off in order to sort of
begin to cold soak (?) the vehicle, and we think this'll
probably buy you some degrees at the peak temperature when
we get to that. So what we suggest is is that you start today,
all three of you, in making sure that all the interior lights
that can be turned off and still allow you to do your work do
get turned off. In event that it gets so cold that you need
some warmth, we do not want you to turn off the OW's heat
exchangers. That would defeat our purpose, but use the
lights to turn them back on in order to, you know, get warm in
case the few extra clothes are not too convenient. I think
the end result will be that you'll be a lot more comfortable
when we get to the peak temperatures.
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SPT Okay, Dick. We'll go ahead and do that.

I'm sure there's lots of lights we could do without around
here, and why don't we just go on through and see what the
bare minimum is.
CC Okay. We - why don't you just do that
starting today, and also, I have a, while I'm talking to
you, I have a note for a pad that belongs to CDR and I'm not
sure where he is in his PT cycle, but it's a real simple
correction. You might pass it on to him or he might just
be listening. That is, it's his VTS pad and there's a DAC maga-
zine listed on there that's Charlie Lim - Charlie Lima i0,
and it's listed as being located in Juliett 4, and that's
incorrect. It's located in Juliett 3.
SPT Okay. He copies that. Thank you, Dick.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Madrid comes up about 4 minutes from now and
I'ii call you then.
PLT Rog, Dick.
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is over the
North Atlantic. It's out of range of the station at Bermuda,
but our next acquisition is 2-1/2 minutes away at Madrid.
Madrid pass'll last a little over 8 minutes. And this
during this last pass spacecraft communicator Dick Truly
informing the crew that they should begin turning down on
lights in the space station to reduce the temperatures.
The temperatures right now are very comfortable in the space
station; but during the next few days, as the Sun angle becomes
higher and the daylight periods become longer on the space
station, the total temperature is expected to go up substantially.
An earlier prediction indicated the maximum temperature could
reach a level as high as 83 degrees without turning out some
of the lights. So steps have been taken to reduce the
lighting and that will modify the temperature as the Sun angle
becomes greater. Present time the spacecraft has heated up
a little bit just in the last day or so. It's presently - has
temperatures reading around 74 degrees, in the 73- to 74-degree
range, with the highest reading inside 75. That's still very
comfortable, although yesterday it was about a degree or two
cooler then it is today. Then
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PAO Present time the spacecraft has heated

up a little bit just in the last day or so. It's presently -
has temperatures reading around 74 degrees in the 73 and
74 degree range, with the highest reading inside 75. That's
still very comfortable although yesterday it was about a
degree or two cooler than it is today. Maximum period of
Sun angle is reached about January 18. So during the next
week and a half to 2 weeks we'll have higher temperatures
aboard the space station. That will be reduced somewhat by
keeping the lights turned down. One light system that will
not be turned down however, is the lights used to - for the
rice seeds that are being grown. Those were planted yesterday
as part of an experiment for West Point, Nebraska high school
student, Joel Wordekeamper. Of course that experiment does
require a light for the rice seeds to grow and part of the
experiment is to determine what effect various light levels
will have on the rice seeds. We're 46 seconds from acquisition
of signal at Madrid. We'll bring the line up live for air-to-
ground there.
CC Skylab, Houston; Madrid for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. 45 seconds to LOS.
Carnarvon comes up at 17:07 and we're gonna dump the data
voice recorder at Carnarvon.
over eastern Europe out of range of the tracking antenna
at Madrid. 24 minutes till our next acquisition at Carnarvon,
Australia. This is Skylab Control.
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from acquisition of signal through the Carnarvon, Australia
tracking antenna. This pass through Caznarvon will last
about 9 minutes and 50 seconds, and we'll have about a 2-mlnute
loss of signal before we pick up at Honeysuckle Creek. We're
live now for air-to-ground at Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston; Carnarvon for i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. First time it's handy
for somebody either here at Honeysuckle or - correction, either
here at Carnarvon or at the upcoming Honeysuckle pass right
after this, I've got a REG ADJUST I'd like somebody to accomplish
for us prior to this EREP.
CDR Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, first of all we're going to want
to return to our present settings after E REP, so what we'd
like you to do is mark the present position of - of the two
REG ADJUST pots. And then after you've done that, rotate
them clockwise about 22 - 20 degrees, and then after the
EREP, when we give you a holler to - we'll ask you - be asking
you to reset them. So it's 20 degrees clockwise on both of
them after marking them.
PLT Take a look at that, Dick.
CC Okay, sure will. Thank you, Bill.
CC Skylab, Houston; for the PLT. The - our
initial look at the REG ADJUST looks good. We will have to
take a look at it in sunlight, which is coming up in about
3 or 4 minutes. But prior to LOS Honeysuckle we should
have a good hack on it, but it looks good now. Appreciate it.
Also an update on the weather. It hasn't changed - our prediction
hasn't changed hardly at all (sic) since Hank talked to you
this morning, and that is mostly cloppered [?] conditions over
the East Coast. For your information, during your North Atlantic
overflight, there is a large storm, one of the largest storms
that has occurred in the last several years, with wave heights
of up to 45 feet, in the North Atlantic, and so a good bit of
data there, the radiometer and altimeter will be on for
those purposes. But you will be seeing a lot of clouds
today.
CDR Roger, Dick. Does that storm show on your
satellite photo as a great big swirl?
CC Jerry, we don't have a real recent satellite
photo of that area, so I can't really answer your question.
CDR Okay.
CC And, incidentally, about 3 or 4 days ago
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some of the wave heights were - were reported at about

75 feet, so it's a real wing-dinger.
CDR How'd you like to be out there in an LST.
CC Not this sailor.
PLT Dick, I have reconfigured the downlink
box, so as soon as telemetry becomes available I would like
a confirmation under the correct configuration.
CC Okay, PLT, stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from
LOS at Carnarvon. Honeysuckle comes up in just a couple of
minutes from now. And, Bill, we'll have to wait until we
get AOS stateside to verify configuration on the downlink
box. But we'll - I'll be giving you word as soon as we know.
CC Skylab, Houston; Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston; the REG ADJUST looks
real good to us. We don't need to correct it. And one more
comment that - a couple of passes ago I was mentioning
to Ed that we suggest you guys turn lights off so we can
began to get the vehicle cooler in order to lower the peak
temperature during max Beta. After we've looked at it for
a day or so and yon guys have - believe you've sort of reached
some sort of a working level on lighting, we'd like to know
just about how many lights, as an estimate, you've - have
been able to do without as a Delta between, say, before we
asked you to turn them off and tomorrow.
CDR Okay.
CC All righty.
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CC Skylab, Houston, 30 seconds to LOS.

Texas comes up at 17:50.
time. Skylab space station is out of range of Honeysuckle
Creek. Our next acquisition, at which time we should be
just about to begin the Earth resources pass, is going to
be 27 minutes from now at Texas. Beginning at 12:51 p.m.
central daylight time today, the Skylab astronauts will cover
7100 miles in 25 minutes while cameras and sensors collect
data along a track which carries Skylab northeastward over
the Southeastern United States. Today's Earth resources survey
is the 18th by the current Skylab crew. In addition, three Earth
turraln camera solar inertial passes have been made, and one
lunar calibration has been performed. The Igth Earth resources
pass begins at 12:51 p.m. central daylight time while the
space station is off the Pacific coast of Mexico just south
of Acapulco. Jerry Cart and Bill Pogue will postpone lunch
until after the Earth investigations are completed, with
Ed Gibson finishing his lunch just before the pass begins.
Data will be acquired along a track that crosses Orizaba
and Veracruz, Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, Tallahassee, Florida,
Haliegh, North Carolina, Norfolk, Virginia, and the stormy North
Atlantic Ocean. The run terminates at the French border. Some
of the primary objectives that we're hoping to accomplish on
this pass are to identify areas in Mexico where irrigation is
or should be used for a crop growth. Around Orizaba and
Veracruz space gathered information will be used by Mexico's
government in regional and highway planning objectives. And
once again while we're over the North Atlantic we'll make a
num_r of altimeter measurements to assist in determining
wave dimensions and other sea characteristics, under various
wind and weather conditions. Sea state condition includes
surveys of white caps and foam densities, visibility permitting,
and semspr gathering data on the roughness of the Atlantic
Ocean. In this respect the North Atlantic is of considerable
interest now. Two days ago the ocean experienced an unusually
intense storm. The extra tropical cyclone as such hurricane
llke storms are called when they're above the - above the
cold waters of the far North Atlantic, surpassed in size,
intensity, and duration every storm since 1959 in that area.
Surface wind during the storm of the decade produced frequent
gusts up to 70 miles per hour. The average wave height
waves were reported by Flight Director Don Fuddy at yesterday's
change-of-shift briefing to be 45 feet with individual waves
between 60 and 75 feet. Temperatures were extremely cold.
An aircraft underfllght was made at the same time to gather data
on that intense storm in the North Atlantic. Earth resources
SL-IV MC-1797/2
TIME: 12:21 CST, 52:17:21 GMT
01/6/74
groundtrack along track 57 will again pass over areas with

considerable cloud cover and most cases limiting the survey
of ground sites; however, at the same time weather patterns
are extensive and a bonus occurs because one of the purposes
of the Earth resources data gathering is to acquire global
weather information. 4-1/2 minutes to our next acquisition
of signal at which time this Earth resources pass will begin.
It's now 26 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-179g/1
Time: 12:48 CDT 52:17:48 GMT
1/6/74

26 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
now about a minute and a half from _cquisition of signal
through the Texas tracking station. This pass through Texas
and Merritt Island and Bermuda is a long one. It lasts a
total of about 17-1/2 minutes. We expect the crew will be
coming up very shortly with their preparations for the Earth
resources pass. It begins just south of Acapulco. The survey
covers a 7100-mile path beginning over the Pacific Ocean and
in a 25-minute period crosses south - southern Mexico, the
Gulf of Mexico, southeastern U.S., and the North Atlantic.
Takes data with seven cameras and four electronic sensors
and ends off the coast of France. Coming up live on air-to-
ground now, and we'll leave the line up for conversation
from the crew as they prepare for the Earth resources pass
over the southeastern U.S. and sites in Mexico and the
Atlantic Ocean.
CC Skylab, Houston, stateside for 17 min-
utes.
PAO The EPR - EREP instruments are functioning

now.
CDR And we're coming up on the coast of

Central America now.
CC And (garble).
PLT Stand by on my mark i0 seconds. 51:48,
192 MODE going to READY. Stand by
PLT MARK.
CDR How's the attitude look?
PLT Hold (?) READY. TAPE MOTION green light.
Good show.
CDR Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
CDR How's the attitude look?
CC Stand by.
CDR Okay. I bumbled up the entry into Z-IV.
I went - I put the fine maneuver - went to attitude hold CMG
and put the fine maneuver in_ like a dummy, instead of going
to Z-LV first. So then I went to Z-LV, which should have
zeroed things out, and then put the fine maneuver in again.
CC Okay_ Jerry. Stand by and let us think
about this for a second. And incidentally, we are getting
good EDDU date.
CDR Okay. Good deal.
CDR Okay. Good show. I'm standing by for
5240 and already have a READY light. Going to REF 6 and 191.
Okay. We - for 53 minutes on the mark. 190 SHUTTER SPEED will
go to FAST. (Garble) momentary stand by. Okay. There's
MEDIUM and there is FAST. Stand by for 53:14, ALTIMETER
STANDBY.
SL-IV MC-1798/2
Time: 12:48 CDT 52:17:48 GMT
1/6/74
CC And CDR, Houston. We're happy with the

attitude. Looks like - not sure how you got into it, but
it looks like it turned out okay.
PLT ALTIMETER STANDBY.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay. Ed. I guess your're getting the
ETC about right now. ETC, AUTO. 193 ALTIMETER 5; range 77.
RADIOMETER to STANDBY. Standing by for 54 minute (takeup
Stand by. On my mark, 54 minutes.
PLT MARK. And SCAT and RAD, ON. 54:35 on
my mark.
PLT MARK. INTERVAL to 20, and SHUTTER SPEED
to MEDIUM on the 190.
CDR Okay. Data coming on on the first
cloudfree area.
PLT (Garble) for 55 (garble)
CDR It's going for a second cloudfree area.
PLT On my mark. Stand by -
PLT MARK. Okay. SCATTEROMETER, STANDBY,
RADIOMETER to STAND BY, waiting for 18 (garble) yaw (?).
Stand by
PLT MARK. RADIOMETER, OFF. 24 ALTIMETER,
ON. Stand by -
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. 553 (garble) mode,
check. Stand by -
PLT MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK. Okay, Ed,
58 minutes even, ETC to STANDBY.
CDR MARK on the secondcloudfree area.
Starting on the third area. And got the end of that one.
PLT And as a quick comment to the ground,
the Alfa 2 reading was very - was almost full scale low when
I first took my measurements at T minus i0, and I rechecked
it a couple of times and later on it was well within limits.
So I may have sort of a sticky transducer there or something.
CC Okay, Bill. Copy.
CDR Okay. Looking for the Cheasapeake.
PLT How's it look there, Jer?
CDR Very cloudy.
PLT Dang, that's a shame. I wonder
what snake bit the weather?
CDR Looks like we're coming in over land.
PLT That old ALTIMETER UNLOCK light hasn't
flashed today.
CDR How about that.
PLT It likes the clouds, I guess.
SPT Mississippi really must be putting out
the water you can see the mud plumes going far out. Must be
building up a delta.
SL-IV MC-1798/3
Time: 12:48 CDT 52:17:48 GMT
1/6/74
PLT (Chuckle) I spoke too soon. I got an

ALTIMETER UNLOCK light there. I'ii wait 15 seconds, and Ed,
you're coming up on about 15 seconds for ETC to STANDBY.
SPT Roger.
PLT I still have a READY light, however, I'm
not going to do anything yet. I'm watching. 58:50 I go to
STANDBY on ALTIMETER anyway. Oops. I Just lost it. Okay.
I'm going to try the 15- second bit. That'll be a 23. Turn
it back on. Be 15, and ALTIMETER back ON. And I'm going to
kill it again at 50 here. I'm just leave the ALTIMETER LOCK.
There! It came back on again, the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
Still have a READY light. Standing by for 15:50. Have a
READY light.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER STANDBY. RANGE 76,
CROSS-TRACK NON-CONTIGUOUS. Break. POLARIZATION to 5.
DOWNLINK switch position going to OFF. Waiting for 18:00 even.
Let me check that. ALTIMETER did go to STANDBY, yes.
CDR Okay. Looks like the Cheasapeake Bay
malf is going to be a bummer.
PLT CROSSTRACK CONTIGUOUS - Polarization 5,
downlink switch OFF. Looking good here.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1799/I
TIME: 13:00 CDT, 52:18:00 GMT
01/6/74
PLT POLARIZATION to 5. DOWNLINK switch position

going to off. Waiting for i_00 even. Let me check that.
Altimeter continues to STANDBY Ed.
CDR Okay. Looks like the Chesapeake Bay mouth
is going to be a bummer.
PLT CROSS-TRACK CONTIGUOUS light. POLARIZATION,
5. DOWNLINK switch position to OFF. Looking good here.
PLT I will start at 0740 S193 POLARIZATION to
4 and below that I want to check out a bunch of configuration.
And then starting that READY out S190 at i0 minutes MODE STANDBY,
I - following that I want to check a lot of configuration.
Cause we had a lot of multiple (garble) out there and some
of them were partial line. 18:31 ALTIMETER ON.
CDR Hey Houston, this is VTS we're - I
(Garble) a patch of blue water here but it's probably out
to sea a little ways.
PLT Standing by for Chesapeake. ETC, AUTO,
Ed.
CC Roger, Jer.
CDR Better than no data at all though.
CC Roger.
CDR i0 seconds to ETC AUTO.
PLT And the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is still
out.
CDR The northeast was so clear 2 days ago and
look at it today.
PLT Yeah, this time of the year it doesn't
take long to go to pot.
PLT MARK. SHUTTER SPEED to SLOW on S190.
36,192 MODE going to READY -
PLT MARK. 192 MODE READY and I - stand by -
have a TAPE MOTION green light.
CDR Hey Richard. We got any troops flying
the North Atlantic this afternoon?
CC We'll check Jerry.
CDR Got old A.J. out there on the last trip.
CC Yeah.
PLT In about 15 seconds Ed, ETC to STANDBY.
PLT MARK. ETC STANDBY. Waiting for 3:10.
Things looks good on the C&D panel. Oops_ They all - I'm
going to have to stop saying that. ALTIMETER, UNLOCK light
just came ON.
PLT Do have a ready light.
PLT I'ii keep my mouth shut. That's what
I'Ii do. Stay out of trouble that way. On my mark 3:10.
CDR Big blue sucker hole here.
PLT MARK. 192 MODE to STANDBY. Standing
by for 4 minutes.
CC And CDR Houston, in answer to your question
A.J. is out there again this morning there in the C130
station out of Halifax.
SL-IV MC-1799/2
TIME: 13:00 CDT, 52:18:00 GMT
01/6/74
CDR Roger.
PLT Lost my READY light on the ALTIMETER; going
to STANDBY. Got to go to STANDBY for 4 minutes anyway.
Guess I'ii turn it back on at 50. Back on. READY, ON. Standing
by at 4 minutes. My ALTIMETER, UNLOCK light came back ON
again. Stand by -
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. RADIOMETER
to STANDBY. And waiting for 04:12.
CDR Okay, the cloud cover is breaking up
to a scattered condition now. Got a lot of blue water.
PLT MARK. SCATTEROMETER and RAD both ON.
Okay Ed, at 04:20 ETC to AUTO. Stand by on my mark -
PLT MARK. ETC, AUTO. 04:35 ALTIMETER RANGE
73.
CDR Okay, cameras's on. Nadir swath.
PLT RANGE 73 on the ALTIMETER. Okay now Ed,
Dick, I'd like to check some configuration following 740.
I'm going to read my steps. S193 ALTIMETER ON. S193
POLARIZATION 4. SI91 REF 2. At 9 minutes VTS AUTO CAL, READY
out. S190 at 10 minutes. MODE STANDBY. Did that verify?
CC That's affirm Bill.
PLT Okay, starting at ii minutes even. I start
off my - and there's nothing between that MODE STANDBY I
just gave you in ii minutes. S193 ALTIMETER STANDBY RANGE 70.
CDR That's correct.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CDR Okay the clouds on this - on this nadir
swath appear to be lined up pretty much across our path or
at least either generally across or from 230 down to about
830.
PLT Getting a RAD/SCAT GIMBAI MALFUNCTION light
blink. It's out right now. One moment there's - there's
more momentaries - coming on and staying on now it's out
again. That's the RAD/SCAT GIMBAL light. I think we're all
right I don't think that's a big deal.
CDR Okay, now the cloud streaks are beginning
to line up with our flight path.
PLT Still blinking.
SPT Dick, how much further down the road
is the center of the storm?
CC Stand by.
PLT Another blink. Now it's out again.
CC SPT Houston, I don't think we have a
well-defined center it - it spans almost the entire North
Atlantic and - but I can't really help you there. We're
about 30 seconds from LOS, Madrid at 18:11.
SPT Thank you very much Dick.
PLT Standing by for 726. RAD/SCAT GIMBAL
light continues to blink on - oh about 20-second centers.
Yeah, it's about 15-second centers. (Garble) 2 stand by -
SL-IV MC-1799/3
TIME: 13:00 CST, 52:18:00 GMT
01/6/74
PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY. RAD to standby.

Stand by for RAD going to OFF at 34 -
PLT MARK. KAD OFF. At 40 ALTIMETER is going
ON. Stand by -
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER ON Si93 POLARIZATION
Greenwich mean time. Skylah space station is now over the
North Atlantic. That Earth resources pass a 7100-mile pass is
still in progress. During the pass S_ence Pilot Ed Gibson
indicated he could see Mississippi River plumed very obvious
and pronounced, going out well into the Gulf of Mexico.
Cloud cover over the eastern coast of course was expected where
cloud conditions are being studied and some data being
gathered with the viewflnder tracking system. That's the
pointing instrument that guides the S191 infrared spectrometer.
And the major storm conditions over the North Atlantic again,
where sea state is being studied, the relationship between high
winds and weather conditions, and chan_es in the ocean surface.
And as Dick Truly pointed out A.J. Roy is flying again out
over the Atlantic -
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SL-IV MCI700/I

Time: 18:17 CST 50:00:17 GMT

PAO This is Skylab Control, final call of

SPT No we have not Story. We have taken

PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal

PAO This is Skylab Control, 41 minutes past

PAO This is Skylab Control, we in a break

CC Skylab, we're back with you through MILA

The Britons settle down to live with power crisis, shopping

PA0 Skylab Control at ii hours 3 minutes 23 seconds

CC Skylab, Houston, we're back with you

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 1 minute and

PLT How did that look on television? I was

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 40 minutes

electronic sensor will survey the Atlantic Oceans surface in

CC Well, we've been seeing the flow drop

PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 39 minutes.

and restart for 15 minutes. The 15 minutes was chosen under

probability is high I think we ought to go into that mode

SPT - - and then there's two over on the west

to be gathered. These are areas where very high winds have

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours and 19 minutes

CC Okay. Prom your description, we believe

CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from

reported no activity expected at this time_ and also none

PAO Skylab Control, at 15 hours 26 minutes

little bit update on those planets' distance from the comet.

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours i0 minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 31 minutes

very substantial effeet on the weather below the groundtrack

PAO - - point in the Skylab groundtrack.

So, a TV is underway of the comet sketch of the - prepared

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 55 minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 41 minutes

SPT Thanks, Deke, we sure appreciate it. Good

35 foot waves. And there's a front extending down across

PAO Skylab Control at 57-1/2 minutes after

CC No, we do not. That's fine. That's got it.

PA0 Skylab Control 18 hours 33 minutes and

SPT Standing by the STS, Crip.

PAO This is Skylab Control at 19 hours 14

CDR MARK. 194 to MANUAL. Okay, Ed, we're

the pass anyhow.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CDR MARK, at 16 POLARIZATION 4.

CDR MARK, SCATTEROMETER is ON, RADIOMETER

CDR B-3 when I mark at 29:44 S190 MODE to

CC Skylab, Houston, we're with you again for

CC Yeah, sorry sorry we got you messed up

CC - - or we would have been able to

Earth resources passes. And we're about 11-1/2 minutes now

PAO This is Skylab Control at 20 hours Greenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss

PAO This is Skylab Control, we're standing

PAO This is Skylab Control at 20 hours

CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, 5 minutes

PAO This is Skylab Control at 21 hours,

PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours

CC We're a minute from LOS, 5 minutes to

PAO Skylab's current orbit takes the space

CC Skylab, we're back with you through Canaries

PAO -- - hours 34 minutes the Skylab space

PAO This is Skylab Control at 23 hours