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_ L YNDON B. JOHNSON SPACE CENTER
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INTRODUCTION

This document is the transcription of the technical air-to-ground

(TAG) voice communications of the Skylab 1/3 mission. The transcript is
divided into three columns time, speaker, and text. The time col ,--_
consists of four multidigit n--'_bers for days, hours, minutes, and seconds
(e.g., 209 22 45 12). All times are expressed in Greenwich mean time (GMT)
for the Julian dates shown as the first three numbers of the time col1-,n.
The speaker col,-,n indicates the source of a transmission; the text col1-,n
contains the verbatim transcript of the communications.

A series of three dots (...) is used to designate those portions of

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

The Skylab i mission began with lift-off of the orbital workshop at

17:30:00 GMT (12:30:00 c.d.t.) on May 14. The second three-man team to
occupy the workshop, the Skylab 3 crew, lifted off at i1:10:50.5 GMT
(06:10:50.5 c.d.t.) on July 28. The Skylab 3 crew splamhed down in the
Pacific Ocean at 22:19:54 GMT (17:19:54 c.d.t.) on September 25, 1973.

Speakers in the transcript may be identified as follows.

Spacecraft :

CDR Commander Alan L. Bean

PLT Pilot Jack R. Lousma

SPT Scientist pilot Owen (0.) K. Garriott

CREW Unidentified crewmember

MS Multiple speakers

Mission Control Centers:

CC Capsulecommunicator
(CAP COMM)

MCC Unidentifiedspeaker,other than

CC, in the Mission Operations
Control Room or a Staff Support
_ Room

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F Flightdirector

S Surgeon

Remote sites :

AA Unidentified
station

CT Communications technician
(CO_ ZECH)

REC Recovery helicopter

NEW USS NEW ORLW._NS

When any crewman is engaged in extravehicular activity (EVA), his

speaker designation is suffixed by EVA to indicate his status (e.g.,
CDR- A).
Transcription of these tapes was managed by William A. Kelley, Test
Division, Program Operations Office, to whom inquiries regarding this
document should be referred.

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TAG Tape 209-03/T-I
Time: 209:10:30 to 209:12:00
Page i of 7/1

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

209 ii i0 52 CDR Clock has started. Roger. Roll and pitch program,
Houston.

CC Roger. Roll and pitch, Skylab. And thrust looks

good on all engines.

CDR Roger. Feels good up here.

209 ii ii 30 CDR Got a pretty noise to it right now.

CC Roger that. You're looking real good.

209 ii ll _5 PLT Okay, Houston. The cabin pressure's starting to

come down.

CC Roger. Stand by for Mode I Bravo.

CDR Roll program- -

209 ii Ii 50 CC MARK. Mode I Bravo.

CDR - - complete.

CC Roger.

SPT PROPWTJ.ANT DUMP, RCS COMMAND.

CC Roger.

PLT I get a great feeling of motion up here, Dick.

It really feels like it's moving on.

209 ll 12 08 CC Roger, PLT. And, Skylab, Houston; your feet wet.

CDR Understand.

209 ll 12 3_ CDR EDS 2 ENGINE, OUT, and LV RATEs, OFF.

CC Stand by for Mode I Charlie capability.

209 ll 12 39 CC MARK. I Charlie.

CDR Understand.

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209 ii 12 50 CC Skylab, Houston. GO for staging.

CDR Roger. Go here.

209 ll 13 09 CDR INBOARDS.

209 ll 13 12 CDR OUTBOARDS.

209 ll 13 14 CDR STAGING.

CC Roger.

209 ll 13 20 CDR Looks like the S-IVB's running.

CC Roger. We're watching the thrust come up now.

Skylab, Houston. Thrust is - looks good on S-IVB.

CDR That 's good news.

209 ii 13 43 CDR Tower jett.

209 ii 13 44 CC Roger. Tower Jettison; you're Mode II.

209 ii 13 49 CDR Guidance initiate.

209 ii 13 53 CC Roger. Everything is looking real good. You're

GO at 3 minutes.

CDR Nice and bright up here in the Sun.

CC Roger.

209 ll 14 31 PLT Okay, Dick, the cabin pressure's locked up real

good here. You should of seen that tower go.

CC Roger. Understand.

209 Ii lh 42 PLT And we're GO at 4 minutes.

209 ii 14 46 CC Roger, Skylab. We concur; you're GO at h.

CDR Dark blue to black horizon. Beautiful horizon.

CC Roger.

209 ll 15 14 PLT Yes, we'd like to try that lift-off again. That
was great there, Dick.

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CC My turn next.

209 ii 15 43 CDR We're GO at 5 minutes.

209 ll 15 47 CC Roger, CDR. Concur. You're GO at 5. Looking real

great.

209 ll 16 42 CDR GO at 6.

209 ll 16 44 CC Roger, CDR. GO at 6.

209 ll 17 09 PLT There's OMNI Charlie for you, Houston; right on

time.

209 ll 17 12 CC Roger. OMNI Charlie. Thank you, sir.

PLT Want to keep old Ed down there happy.

CC He 's happy.

209 ll 17 35 CDR Okay, we Just put on the gimbal motors, Houston.

CC Roger,
CDR.

209 ii 17 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We see four good gimbal motors,

good trims. You're GO at 7 minutes; looking real
good.

CDR Roger.

209 ii 18 42 CDR PU shift, Houston; and we're GO at 8.

CC Roger. PU shift. And we concur. You're GO at

8 minutes.

209 ii 19 39 CDR We're GO at 9, Houston.

209 ii 19 42 CC Roger, CDR. GO at 9 minutes.

CDR There's a better horizon up here than in the CMS.

CC Roger.

209 ii 20 08 CC CDR, Houston. We're predicting a guidance cutoff

at 9 plus 53.

CDR Roger; 9 plus 53.

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CC Stand by for Mode III Alfa capability.

209 ll 20 20 CC MARK. Mode III Alfa.

CDR Roger. III Alfa.

CC Stand by for Mode IV capability.

209 ll 20 29 CC MARK. Mode IV.

CDR Roger. Mode IV.

209 ll 20 44 CDR SHUTDOWN, Houston.

CC Roger....

209 ll 20 48 CDR We've got 25,709. 122.2 by 8B.2. We look good.

CC Sounds real great.

SPT You sure know it when it quits.

CC Roger.

209 ll 21 2B CC $kylab, Hous - -

CDR ... it?

209 ll 21 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We've confirmed your orbit, and

you're GO for orbit. Looks good.

CDR Okay, tell the guys at KSC, "Thanks." It was a

nice, nice Job.

CC Roger, A1.

209 ll 21 52 CC Skylab, Houston. You look real good. You're GO

for a nominal separation sequence. We're about
45 seconds from LOS in Bermuda. We're going to
drop out for about a minute and a half, and I'll
give you a call at ARIA.

209 ll 22 OB CDR Okay.

209 ll 2B 55 CC Skylab, Houston through ARIA. How do you read?

CDR Read you pretty good, Dick. Everything's going

along right. _-_
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CC Roger. I hear a little bit of static on the lines,

but I - I heard you very readable. We're standing
by.

CDR " Okay.

209 Ii 2_ 58 CDR And we're standing by for a trim here, Houston.

CC Roger.

209 ll 25 23 SPT Cloud structures are too ... and, as we move by

rapidly, it looks almnst like we're above some
stratus layer at 5000 feet or something like that.
They are really moving out.

CC Roger.

209 ll 29 01 CDR We SEPed, Houston.

CC Roger, CDR.

209 ll 29 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about h5 seconds from LOS

ARIA. We'll drop out about 30 seconds, and I'ii
call you at Madrid.

CDR Okay.

209 ll 30 00 CC And, Skylab; Houston. If you're still there, we'd

like a GO from you, so we could do our S-IVB
maneuver.

CDR Okay, we're not facing it, yet. We'll give you a
GO as soon as we see it.

CC Okay, real fine.

209 ii 31 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A - A0S Madrid for 3 minutes.

CDR Okay, we got this baby right in front, and it is

beautiful. All four petals are open. We can see
the dome of the hydrogen tank, and it looks real
nice and clean inside. It's Just floating along
behind us.

CC Roger, CDR. And are we GO to maneuver it?

CDR You bet.

CC Okay.
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CDR GO.

CC Okay, thank you. We will on - on time.

CDR It's sure pretty up here in the sunlight with the

petals out.

CC Roger.

209 ll 31 47 CDR Looks like it's venting something also from the
back, although we can't see the engine.

SPT There's a couple of wide-angle plumes between about

ll o'clock and 2 o'clock, and then another one
between 5 and 8 o'clock down there.

209 ll 32 04 CC Roger. And, Skylab; Houston. I got two or three

things here for you at Madrid. One is we'd like
to delete the waste water dump that's in your
time line at 1 plus 10; that's Just a reminder.
I've got a couple of pads for you. The first one
is a backup GDC align pad, page 1 Alfa.

CDR Okay. Hold on a minute, and we'll get it.

CC Okay.

209 ll 32 42 CC And, Skylab; Houston. The booster maneuver will

start in about 20 seconds.

209 ll 33 07 PLT Well, we see her maneuvering now, Dick. Looks

like she's pitching up from where we stand.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Hous - -

CDR Go ahead on that pad, Dick.

209 ll 33 25 CC Roger. Backup GDC align. 33/37; 161.0, 046.3,

346.1. Go ahead.

CDR Roger. Stars 33 and 37; 161.0, 046.3, 346.1.

209 ii 33 53 CC Roger. Turn to page 5-Alfa. l've got a launch

rendezvous realign pad; and, while you're turning
there, we're about 30 seconds from LOS Madrid.

Your NC-I and Talign pads are GO. We'll see you
at ARIA at 52.
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CDR Okay, I don't think I'll have time for that pad
on 5-Alfa.

CC Okay, it's also - it's in your Launch Checklist,

page 2_-12.

CDR Okay. Stand by.

209 ll 34 39 CDR Okay, I've got 2-12. Go ahead, Dick.

CC Roger. Roll is four balls, 255.2, 357.9.

CDR Four balls, 255.2, 357.9.

209 ll 34 58 CC Roger. Good readback. See you at ARIA.

END OF TAPE
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- Time: 209:12:00 to 209:13:30
Page i of 6/9

SEYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

209 12 02 58 CC Skylab, Houston through ARIA for 7 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. We hear you very, very weak.

CC Roger, AI. I hear you clear, but also very weak.

How now?

CDR We did the 3-foot-per-second posigrade SEP burn.

Everything else is going correct. We did the
EMS DELTA-V test this pass .... and started at
minus i00, ended up at minus 99.6 one time and
minus 99.7 the other time.

CC CDR, Houston. You'll have to say again those

two numbers. The first one you started at
minus i00 and then ended up with what? And read
me the second one.

CDR 99.6 and 99.7.

CC Roger. 99.6 and 99.7. Thank you very much.

And, CDR, anytime during this pass, if you get
any information on the two P52s, I'll be glad to
copy of them - copy them. I'll - I have a couple
of notes here for you to let you know about.
Your CMC vector, during the boost, developed
about a 30-foot-per-second out-of-plane, and
we intend on updating the CMC vector at Madrid.
And also we - Our initial look at the X and Y
PIPAs makes ustthink they probably will need a
compensation, and we're going to take another
look at them over the States. Over.

PLT Understand. And, Dick, when we put the radiators

on the line, we got a couple of intermittent
GLYCOL FLOW LOW lights, and the accumulator's
reading 35 percent now. We're going to put a
little more in her when we get around to it.

CC Roger, PLT.

CREW ... number 2.

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209 12 05 h0 CC Break. Break. Skylah, Houston. If you're calling

me, you're too far down in the noise. Unable to
read you. Over.

CDR No, we weren't calling you, but it is fairly

noisy. We're in work on the P52. We'll give you
a call in a few moments.

CC Roger, A1. I'm standing by. And be advised

the - the weather conditions today for ARIA are
pretty poor, so if we do have comm trouble through
ARIA, it's not your onboard systems. And I'm
standing by. We're AOS for the next h minutes.

CDR We ought to m_ke it by then.

209 12 06 16 CC Roger.

CDR Okay, the NOUN 05 is all zeros.

CC Roger.

CDR Not bad for a physicist, huh? Okay, the NOUN 93s
are plus all zips, plus 021, plus ll3. I'll say
it again; all zips, plus 021, and plus ll3. How
do you hear?

CC We got them loud and clear, CDR. I copy them,

and go ahead and tell me the torque time.

CDR 00 :56 :17.

CC Roger. 00 :56:17. Thank you.

CDR Okay. We're going to go for the option 2 now.

CC Roger.

CDR Okay, the time we're using is 7:01:38.00.

CC 7:01:38.00.

CDR Roger. That's the T-align time we are using.

CC Roger.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We're going to see you at Texas in 1 plus 02.

CDR Okay, we'll be there.

CC Okay.

PLT When you fire the thrusters up here, it looks

like lightning going by the window.

CC Roger. And that AOS time I read to you wrong.

It's about 1 plus 32.

209 12 l0 17 CDR I wondered.

209 12 h3 07 CC Skylab, Houston at Texas for 5 minutes.

CDR The second P52, stars 33 and 37, NOUN 05, all
zeros. We did it again. NOUN 93, plus 230,
plus 332, minus 129 ; and the time of torque was
01:03:49.00.

CC Roger, CDR. I've got it, and I've got an NC-I

preliminary pad for you page 1-5.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger. Starting with NOUN 95, 002, 18, 05.00;

plus 213.8, plus four balls, plus four balls;
179, 074, 002; 199.5, 00:10; weight: 31219;
Trims: plus 1.37, plus 0.51. Go ahead.

CDR Okay, 002, 18, 05.00; plus 213.8, plus all zip,
plus all zip; 179, 074, 002; 199.5, 00:10;
31219, plus 1.37, plus 0.51.

CC Roger, CDR. And on the burn attitude check right

below that, it's star, 25; shaft, 250.3;
tm_nuion, 37.6. Go ahead.

CBR Roger. 25, 25.03, 37.6.

CC Roger. And I got a couple of notes. This NC-I

burn will he the dual b_k burn of the day. And
you'll be happy to know that no plane change is
required.
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CDR That's great. And when we went through our P31,

we got a NOUN 81 of 222.7.

CC Roger, A1.

209 12 46 14 CC CDR, Houston. For your information, we've Just

looked at your EEFSMMAT, and I do not have a
star acquisition pad for you right now, but as
soon as the Guidance Officer gets one ginned up,
we'll have one for you.

CDR Okay.

CDR And if you're finished with P52, Houston, I'll go

on and do P20.

CC Roger. We are happy with the P52, and you can

have it, A1.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from

LOS and I'll give you a call at Madrid at 1 plus
51.

209 12 48 21 CDR Okeydoke.

209 13 02 21 CC Skylab, Houston at Madrid for 5 minutes. We'd

like ACCEPT so we can get your vectors up to you.

PLT Okay, Dick; we'll give it to you.

CC Roger. And I've got several pad updates for you.

The first one is the final NC-1 pad on page 1-5.

PLT Okay, stand by 1.

PLT Okay, Dick, I'm looking at page 5. Go ahead.

CC Roger. Starting with - There are Just three or

four changes, but I 'm going to read the whole
pad, and I think it will be easier, starting
with NOUN 95. 002, 18, 06.00; plus 214.8,
plus four zips, plus four zips; 179, 075, 002,
200.5, 00:10. Go ahead.

PLT Okay, I've got 002, 18, 06.00; plus 214.8, plus
all balls, plus all balls; 179, 075, 002, 200.5,
00:10.

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CC Roger. That's correct. And I'd 1_ke to change

the shaft and tz,,nnion down under the burn attitude
check Just below that, Jack. I'd like to ch-nge
two numbers: shaft should read 249.4, tx,,nn_on
should read 37.9. Go ahead.

PLT Okay. New shaft and t_mnion are 249.4 and 37.9.

CC Roger. How about flipping up to page l-Alfa?

And this will be an update to the backup GDC align
pad.

PLT Okay, go ahead.

CC Roger. Ssme stars, 33, 37; 161.1, 048.1, 346.2.

Go ahead.

PLT Okay, 33 and 37; 161.1, 048.1, 346.2.

CC Roger. Stand by. And also next, PLT, on that

blank on the left, you might can write out - We'd
like you to do a PIPA bias update for us. If
r you'll take down the numbers, this will be via
VERB 21, NOUN 01. Over. And, Skylab; Houston.
You can go back to BLOCK; we got the vectors up.

PLT Okay, we'll go back to BLOCK, and go ahead with

the VERB 21, NOUN O1.

CC Roger. It's all three axes. Address 1452,

data 00665; address 1454, data 76647; address 1456,
data 03570. Go ahead.

209 13 06 16 PLT Okay, I've got the address 1452 is 00665;

address 1454 is 76647; address 1456 is 03570.

CC Roger; good readback. And if you have the results

of your BMAG 2 camparison check on page 1-4, we'd
like to have that. And we've looked at the bird.
You're GO for the NC-1 burn.

PLT Roger. GO for the burn. Thank you. And say

again the page.

CC It's on page l-h, kind of at the top, Jack, on

the right-hand col,-_n, BMAG 2 cu_parison. While
you're looking for that, flight wants to know
how you guys all liked zero g today?
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PLT We're doing great. We got two suits off. We

don't have any _4AG comparisons for you yet.

CC Okay, good. We're coming close to LOS here at

Madrid, and we'll see you down at the ARIA at
about 2 plus 25. You're GO for NC-1. See you.

209 13 07 23 PLT Okay, Dick. Tlo-*Ikyou.

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Time: 209:13:30 to 209:15:00
Page I of 9/15

SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

209 13 35 29 CC Skylab, Houston through ARIA. How do you read?

209 13 35 h8 CC Skylab, Houston through ARIA for 8 minutes. How

do you read?

209 13 37 34 CC Skylab, Houston through ARIA for 8 minutes.

209 13 37 41 CDR Houston, Skylab. We hear you intermittently. Not

too clearly, though.

CC Skylah, Houston. We've got a lot of static. I

can barely hear you. We are interested in knowing
how the NC-I burn went, though. Go ahead.

CDR It came off correctly. On time. We didn't copy

the DELTA-V C . We were
85s were minus 001, plus
star check that you gave
correct. However, using
as sort of a backup, the
near the 12-degree window
was up around 35.
in attitude and the NOUN
005, and plus 008. The
us with star 25 was
the horizon check, which -
horizon was not anywhere
mark at burn time. It

CC Roger, CDR. I copied all of that. And - and one

more question. We wanted to verify that you got
the PIPA biases in, prior to the NC-1 burn.

CDR We got them in.

CDR We got them in, Dick, for sure.

CC CDR, Houston. Sorry, I didn't catch that last.

Say again, please.

CDR Roger. We got the PIPA biases in, prior to burn.

CC Rog -Roger, CDR. I understand you did get them

in. Be advised that I do have a star acq pad for
you, but I'll give it to you later when we have
better comm. And, if you get the P52 option 3
information, I'm standing by for it. We've still
got about 6 minutes left here at ARIA.
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CDR Roger. We're wondering which P52 option B you're

talking about. The very first one?

MCC No, the one that's supposed to be going on now.

CC Negative. CDR, negative. I got that other

option 3, and we're a little bit ahead of you.
We just thought, prior to this ARIA pass, you
might possibly get the one that's coming up right
now. If not, no problem. We'll get it at the
States.

209 1B 40 06 CDR Okay, we weren't planning to do that for l0 more

minutes, but we,ll get on it right now. We've
hatched a little problem with the MANUAL drive, on
the OPTICS. In that in DIRECT, when we drive to
an angle, it doesn't want to stop there. It just
keeps going. And we're having a little trouble
setting the proper angle so that we could then
look out at a star; it transfers rather rapidly.
And we haven't had any trouble with auto optics,
however. It points very well. We don't have any
trouble marking on the star. It's merely when we
try to go to a decided shaft and trunnion, then
it's almost impossible to do. So we really had
better develop a better technique doe there.

209 13 40 46 CC Roger, CDR; I copied that. And no particular

hurry on the P52. We'll take it when you've got
it. We're standing by for 4 more minutes.

209 13 42 07 CDR Starting on the P52 right now, Dick, and first
star is 37.

CC CDR, Houston. CDR, Houston. You're just about

unreadable. Sorry, I understand you're reading
me some P52 information, but I have not gotten
any of it.

CDR Hello, Houston, we did our GDC align and got a ...
We'll give you that information at the next station
because we have difficulty hearing you.

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

at ARIA. We'll see you at Goldstone at 03:01, and
I'ii have a star acq pad for you up there. You've
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been Just about unreadable for the last 3 minutes

of the pass, and so I didn't get any of the infor-
mation during that time.

209 13 44 20 CDR Okay, I'Ii read it again to you if you can take it.
37, 45 ... a11 balls i; NOUN 93, plus 009, minus 017,
plus 024, ... time; 02:32:56.00.

209 14 12 32 CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 9 minutes.

CDR Okay, we got some news for you. We worked on that

optics.

CC Go ahead.

CDR We kind of got the feeling that maybe we hadn't

zeroed it well enough and - although we'd done it
a couple of times, because we went back, zeroed
it again, and drove it manually both in RESOLVE
and DIRECT, and it worked perfectly. So scratch
that up as a mystery at the moment.

CC Roger. The one question we had on that, A1, was

did you see this phenomena [sic] both driving it
in HIGH and LOW rates?

CDR We saw it in all rates. And it looked like it was

driving in HIGH in all rates. But things are
working well at the moment.

CC Okay, let me continue down my list then. We're a

little bit puzzled about the horizon check. We're
still thinking about that one. There was some
thought that it might be possible that you had seen
the terminator because of the conditions you were
in at the time; however, we really Just don't know.
We're tracking you here at Goldstone, but we'll
have to run the information and, by Madrid, we'll
have a good look at the way the NC-2 - correction,
the NC-1 burn went. And there's one number on
your P52 option 3, which is the NOUN 93 Z, that
I'd like for you to give me again.

CDR Okay. That's plus 02h. And now that you mention
this business about the terminator, I wouldn't be
surprised if you were right.
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CC Well, the terminator was quite a bit below you

there and we're - we're checking the angles.
That might have been right, but we were a little
bit puzzled as to how the star check could have
been so good and the horizon check not. At any
rate, we're thinking about it. And I never got
BMAG 2 results, page 1-4. Did you get them?

CDR I sure do. Let me give them to you right now.

NOUN 20, 178.74, 155.09, 359.82. Now the ASCP
thumbwheels were 177.6, 158.1, 359.4; and that
was the DELTA-T of 46. Now we have a BMAG I com-
parison going at this time, and we've been 25 min-
utes into it. So next time we talk with you,
we'll give you some information on BMAG i, also.

209 14 15 06 CC Good show. If you'll -l've got an NC-2 prelimi-

nary pad for you, page 1-9.

209 14 15 12 PLT And while you're thinking about that, I completed

the fuel cell purge and I noticed, on FUEL CELL i,
the hydrogen flow didn't quite come back to where
it was to begin with. It's riding about - it
appears to me about 0.01 pounds per hour higher
than the - than straight across from the 02 pointer.

CC Roger, PLT; and for whoever is going to copy the

NC-2 pad, I am going to have a DELTA-Vy for you.
It's printed in there as zeros, but I have one.
The reason is you have a slight out-of-plane,
and we think we're a little bit better off getting
it out of the way here at NC-2 instead of saving
it for - by doing it here, we should reduce what
we have to get out in NCC and NSR.

CDR Sounds like a good idea. We're ready to copy.

CC Okay, starting with NOUN 28, 004, 33, 57.00,

plus 153.5. Okay, here's your DELTA-Vy, minus 014.0.
Okay, starting again with DELTA-Vz, plus four balls,
180, 256, 356, 139.7, 00:07. Weight, 30557; trims,
plus 1.38, plus 0.41. Go ahead.

CDR Okay. 004, 33, 57.00, plus 153.5, 14.0 - that's

a minus, plus all zips, 180, 256, 356, 139.7,
00:07, 30557, plus 1.38, plus 0.41.
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CC Okay, and we'd like to give you a burn star check

for these burns, since we have a couple of funnies.
For this one, it'll be star 13. And that should
give you a shaft of plus 318.4 and a trunnion of
plus 07.7. Two remarks : this will be a single
Bank burn, bank Alfa, which is nominal, and the
other one was that DELTA-Vy was due to a slight
out-of-plane. I already told you about that one.

CDR Okay, understand that. Star 13, plus 318.h and

plus 07.7 and bank Alfa.

CC Roger. And stand by please, Just a second.

CDR The more I think about this terminator business,

the more I think you're right.

CC Skylab, Houston. We see a decrease in helium and

propellants in quad Bravo, and we'd like to secure
that quad.

209 l_ 18 21 CDR Well, I tell you. We were Just getting ready to

tell you that we got some sort of sparklers going
by the right-hand window, over by Jack, but we
don't have any going by the left. And it's quite
a bit. We Just did that purge, and we thought
maybe that was it, but maybe we've got something
spraying out that side. I don't know.

209 14 18 46 CC Roger. We'll secure quad Bravo here and continue

to look at it.

209 14 18 51 PLT It looks like you're driving through a kind of a

snowstorm real fast. It's going from minux X out
to plus X, Dick.

CC Roger. Have you secured quad Bravo?

PLT Affirm.

CC Roger. Thank you.

CDR Did you want both the helium and the propellant
secured?

CC That 's affirmative, CDR.

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CDR Okay, we did both of them.

PLT And we've still got the snowstorm out the right
side there.

CC Roger.

PLT I'm wondering if it's got something to do with

that H2 on FUEL CELL i. Of course, we can't tell
what FUEL CELL 3 is doing on H2 because the meter
isn't working.

CC Roger. We're continuing to look at it.

209 14 19 54 CC Skylab, Houston. While we're continuing to look

at this, I got a couple of other notes. One is -
is the coolant problem, Jack, that you saw, Just
after launch, was almost identical to the idica-
tions that Pete and his guys got on SL-2, and we
think that was due to - Just a situation in - out
in the radiators - the thermal contraction in the
radiators, and was a nominal situation, no problem.
And I - I have a star acquisition pad on page l-Alfa,
if we have a chance to copy it.

209 14 20 28 PLT Can I go ahead and get my H2 PURGE LINE HEATER,

OFF, in spite of what's going on? It looks like
it stopped for a minute, then it started back up
again. It's looking kind of intermittent right
now, Dick; the snowstorm, that is.

CC Roger. Stand by a second.

PLT Some of the particles are bigger than others.

Some of them look like pieces of frost and others
look like a very, very fine rain, and then there
is a bunch of them that streak by with sizes in
between.

CC PLT, Houston. On FUEL CELL l, the EECOM would

like you to cycle the H2 PURGE LINE HEATER, please.

PLT Roger......

CC I'm sorry. Excuse me. Excuse me. H2 PURGE LINE

VALVE, EECOM would like you to cycle that. Be ad- _ \
vised we're sJ_out 20 seconds from LOS here at Gold-
stone. And we'll pick you up at Canary at 03:25.
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CDR C_ay. And we 'ii be standing by for that star acq

pad.

CC Okay.

209 14 21 31 PLT Okay, I cycled it, and it went back to about the
same place. Do you want me to leave my H 2 PURGE
LINE HEATER, ON, I take it. Is that right?

209 14 21 40 CC Negative, PLT. If you hear me, you can turn it

OFF.

209 14 36 00 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Canary for 7 minutes.

CDR Roger. Loud and clear, Houston.

CC Roger. I wasn't sure you got my last transmission.

It was to Jack and that it's okay to turn the PURGE
LINE HEATER, OFF, and I've got some quad B recon-
figuration things to read up to you, that we suggest.

f CDR Okay. Let me tell you what I've done, and then it
may save you some reading.

CC 0kay.

209 14 36 26 CDR I set the DAP at ll002, ll011. I turned OFF _]]
quad B for roll - B/D ROLL and I've turned OFF
quad B in YAW auto switches. And I got A/C ROLL,
ON.

CC Roger. Thank you, you're right with us. That's

exactly what I was going to suggest.

CDR Okeydoke. We've been looking at this malf pro-

cedure and, of course, we can't go very far be-
cause right now the pressure doesn't appear to be
decreasing. I will say that the sparklers that
we were having out the right-hand window are gone.
But that, of course, could be because of the
hydrogen dump.

209 14 37 12 CC Roger. Okay. I've got a couple of other things

to tell you. We tracked you at Goldstone, and it
looks like you got off a real good execution on
the NC-1 burn. So we're still thinking about that
funny horizon check, but the burn went well. We
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do not have any vectors that we need to up-link

to you at this time. The SWS tracking lights in
the VHF have been turned on, and they appear to
be working okay. And I have a star acq pad on
page 1-Al fa.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. On 1-Alfa, the only thing that I - that

changes on it, A1, are the shaft and trunnions for
the first and second stars. So the first star
shaft angle is 251.8, 17B - correction - shaft
is 251.8; t_1=n_on, 037.2. For the second star:
shaft, 046.6; trunnion, 034.7.

CDR Okay. 251.8, 37.2; 046.6, and 34.7.

CC That's correct. You got it.

209 14 38 44 CC And, CDR; Houston. On the optics problem you had

a _hile ago, one possible explanation could - might
be some contamination in that switch that caused
you momentarily to be hung in a high rate - which
might explain it. And so to be conservative, we'd
recnmmend that you - when you - that you put it
in low rate and leave it there.

209 14 39 06 CDR Excellent suggestion; we'll put it back right now.

CC Roger.

CDR Exactly where's the vent for the hydrogen purge?

CC Stand by.

209 14 39 47 CC While we're looking that up for you, CDR, be advised

we did see quad Bravo decreasing before we did the
H2 purge, so it - it might have been that. It was
well - I'll take it back - running a little bit
lower in quantity before we did the H 2 purge. And
we're look - -

CDR Okay, let me give you - -

CC Go ahead.
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CDR - - I had nothing important. I was just going to

give you the results of the HMAG i align, if you
wanted them.

CC Roger, go ahead.

209 14 h0 15 CDR Okay. 179.87, 206.30, 358.71. ASCP tht_bwheels

are 180.7, 207.6, 357.4, DELTA-T 38. Now at -
Do we owe you any other information?

CC CDR, negative. I'm happy, I've got - I've gotten

it all.

CDR Okay.

209 lh 42 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from LOS.

Honeysuckle at 04:07.

CDR Roge r.

CC Skylab, Houston. That purge is close to window

number 5 on the right-hand side.

CDR Okay. That makes sense then.

209 14 42 41 CC Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

209 15 18 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hoaeysuckle for

7 minutes.

CDR Okay. We're Just trying to get a lockon to the

workshop VHF.

CC Roger. And I've got three pads to read you.

The first one is NC-2 final, page 1-9.

CDR Okay, we've got a lockon. And it looks a

little bit erratic, probably because we're
over range. It shows about 60 miles. So we
add that to the cycle thing and we've got - not
bad distance. Okay. Ready to copy.

209 15 19 07 CC Roger. Starting with NOUN 28, 004, 33, 55.00,

plus 155.4; the DELTA-Vy is minus 015.0.

Starting again with DELTA-V z , plus four b-l Iq ;

180, 256, 335, excuse me, correct that. The
yaw for NOUN 22 should be 355; DELTA-V C 142.7,
00:07. Go ahead.

CDR Okay, 004, 33, 55.00, plus 155.4; minus 015.0,

all zips; 180, 355, 335; 142.7, 00:07.

CC Roger. l'd like to correct on noun 22, AI.

The pitch is 256, the yaw is 355. Go ahead.

CC CDR, Houston. If you read those back, you

dropped out. Say again please.

CDR Okay. 180, 256, 355.

209 15 20 47 CC Roger. That's correct. And I'd llke to - on

that star check for star 13, I'd llke to
correct the shaft and trunnions. The shaft
should read plus 314.8, t_mnion plus 08.1.

CDR Okay. Plus 314.8 and plus 08.1.

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CC Roger. And next pad is NCC preliminary pad,

page i-ii.

CDR Go ahead.

209 15 21 23 CC Roger. 005, 20, 00.00, plus 037.0, minus 000.2,

plus 000.9; 180, 074, 001; 023.6, 00:02.
Go ahead.

CDR 005, 20, 00.00, plus 037.0, minus 000.2, plus

000.9; 180, 074, 001; 023.6, 00:02.

CC That's right. And the weight is 30085; trims,

plus 1.39, plus 0.34. And a star check for
this burn. Star 25; shaft, plus 246.7; trunnion,
plus 38.0. Go ahead.

CDR Roger. 25, and then plus 246.7, and plus 38.0.

209 15 22 55 CC Roger. And the next one is NSR preliminary

pad on next page.

209 15 22 59 CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. Plus 017.4, plus 008.2, plus 001.9; 183,

285, 026. Skip DELTA-V C , I'll get that for
you later; burn time 00:O1. Weight, 29972;
trims, plus 1.39, plus 0.32. Go ahead.

CC Break, break, CDR. Stand by 1 before you read

back. Skylab, Houston. If you can continue getting
marks here, we'd appreciate it. We're not sure
why you've stopped here.

209 15 2_ 02 CDR Okay. We'll take a look for the tracking light
again. When it went into the dark, we could no
longer see it, and so we stopped taking marks.
We'll look out there again.

CC Okay. And I'm standing by to copy your

readback.

CDR Okay. We've got the tracking light and we'll

start taking sc_e. ThRnks for getting on us.
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CC Roger.

209 15 24 20 CDR Okay. Readback, plus 17.4, plus 008.2, plus

001.9; 183, 285, 026. DELTA-V C will come up
later, and then 00:01; 29972; plus 1.B9,
plus 0.32.

CC Roger. That's a good readback. We're about

1 minute from LOS here at Honeysuckle. We'll
be at Hawaii at 04:26. Be advised we are
talking about here a troubleshooting procedure
on quad Bravo. And I'll be tA1_ing about that
to you probably at Hawaii.

CDR Okay. And we noticed, at least as far as

cockpit gages are concerned, that the pressure
is not changed either in the manifold or the
helium tanks since we shut them both off.

209 15 25 18 CC Okay. Roger. We confirm those readings on

the ground.

209 15 37 00 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Hawaii for 8 minutes.

CDR Roger. We're Just standing by ready to do the

burn.

CC Roger, A1. I have a procedure here that we're

going to be doing after the burn up at
Goldstone on the quad. If you got a couple of
minutes, I thought I'd like to describe what
we're going to do while we watch it on the
ground. If you're too close to the burn and
like - like to put that off, I'll be glad to.
But I think I can explain to you generally
what we plan to do, to try and check it out.

CDR I'd prefer you waited to Goldstone.

209 15 37 38 CC Okay, we'll be prepared right at Goldstone A0S

and - and right after we - I guess - We should
watch you do the burn here, and we'll get a
burn status right after the burn. And then
right at Goldstone A0S we'll set up a particular
configuration and get right to it.
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CDR Sounds good.

CC And, CDR; Houston. Be advised we are going to

be cnmmaudlng the spectrometer ON here at Hawaii.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. Controllers have looked at the

the burn. You look real good; you're GO for
NC-2.

CDR Roger.

209 15 39 44 PLT Dick, I've noticed when we go into darkness

since the heaters come on, I guess the main bus
is getting down to around 25-1/2, 26 volts and
the fuel cells really put out. I'm sort of standing
by to put a BAT number 2 on if necessary. I notice
that the battery - entry batteries are taking
quite a load right now.

CC Roger, Jack. Copy.

PLT And we Just got an 02 FLOW HIGH, Houston. It

seems to be staying up around 0.9 right now.

CC Roger, Jack. And EECOM's happy with the elec-

tricai power system right now, so your procedure
of Just standing by and watching is a good one
and the 02 FLI [sic, FLOW HIGH] he thinks is due
to the enrichment procedures we're going through.

PLT Yes, probably. We're getting down around 5 psi

or maybe a little less now.

209 15 40 59 CC Roger.

209 15 41 24 CDR Another problem we've had. Now that we're

staying in low rate, it's next to impossible to
get the star check done, because it takes so long
to get to the shaft and trunnion angles of the
stars.
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CC Roger, CDR. We had thought about that, but -

and we were hoping generally, it would be possible
to get close to those angles a little bit earlier,
but I guess we'll Just have to live with that one.

CDR Roger. There's now - real way to track, you

know, up to 12 minutes and then get there. We
Just can't - aren't able to do it with the authority
we have in those shafts and trunnions, at low
settings.

209 15 42 22 CDR We'll make sure we keep this GD - GDC closely

aligned and we'll also every night period take
a look for - and make sure that the IMU is centered
in. So I don't think we'll have any problem.

209 15 45 07 CDR There's the residual, Houston. Zero, plus

410, and plus 610.

CC Roger. We see them, A1.

CDR That thing gives you a nice kick.

CC Roger. We're going LOS here at Hawaii. We'll

see you at Goldstone at 04:37.

209 15 45 27 CDR Okay. _

209 15 h8 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone for

7 minutes. We don't need any more information
on the NC-2 burn; it looked real good to us on
the ground. I've got a quad Bravo checkout I'd
like to get started on and one note for Jack.
You might expect the 02 FLOW HIGH light about
every i0 minutes or so. It seems to be a
combination of enrichment procedure and also
the accumulator cycle, which is about every
i0 minutes. Over.

PLT Right, okay. We'll watch for that, Dick. We

understand the 10-minute thing and expect to get
a little 02 HIGH on the enrichment and we're ready
to copy the RCS procedure.
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209 15 49 05 CC Okay, I think rather than copy it down, let

me explain briefly what we're going to do, and
then we'll get started. We'llneed one guy to
help us out here. First, we're going to set
up a configuration where we can check out the
thrusters in quad Bravo one at a time and see if
there's some kind of an electrical problem in
opening the oxidizer side and letting it go
through a thruster. In case that doesn't work,
after we look at that, then we'll look at a pro-
blem possibly in the direct coils. So what we'd
like you to do first is on panel 1 check ROTATION
CONTROL of POW_t_ 1 and 2 - 2 switches to OFF.

CDR They're OFF.

CC And, on panel 8, AUTO RCS Jet SELECTS for quad

Bravo, OFF, verify.

CDR Okay. B1, B2, B3, and Bh are OFF.

209 15 49 56 CC Roger; thank you. Now, on panel 2, service f

module RCS, QUAD PRIMARY PROPELT.WNT Bravo to
OPEN. And we're going to monitor manifold
pressure her_ on the ground for a decay and I'll
let you know when to proceed.

CDR It's OPEN and we can see some things coming

out right now. The same spray we tR1ked about
before is coming out right now.

CC Roger. Stand by.

209 15 50 23 CC Skylab, Houston. Go shead and CLOSE that now.

CDR Okay, it took a few minutes last time for it to

diminish and it's being true to form; it's slowly
decreasing but quite a number of particles coming
out.

CC Roger, A1. Why don't we stop right there

and let us think about it from here?

CDR Sounds good.

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209 15 50 47 CC While - while it looks like we've got a couple

of minutes that I didn't plan on though, I do have
the numbers that I didn't have - have for you
awhile ago on the NSR preliminary pad, if you'd
like to copy them down.

209 15 51 01 CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. DELTA-V C is 006.4; DELTA-V C at ignition,

2.0; DELTA-V C at tailoff, minus 13.0.

CDR Roger. 006.4, 2.0, and 13.0.

CC Roger. That's correct.

CDR Boy, San Fransico looks pretty right out the

window. I guess that's what it is.

CC Roger. Should be.

209 15 52 03 CDR You know, Dick, those green circular fields

that are - that they use those round irrigation
things on are pretty visible from up here even.

CC Roger.

CDR Little bit smaller but very - very clear.

CC Roger; easy to see, huh?

CDR This would be a heck of a good day for an EREP

pass across this part of the country.

CC Roger that.

209 15 52 39 CDR The spray on our right-hand window has lessened

even more but hasn't quite completely.

CC Roger. Thank you.

CDR I guess it probably - I wonder if you can

tell from looking at the fuel usage in the other
quad, which - which way that thing's venting.
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CC Skylab, Houston, We believe the vent wherever

it is, is causing you to have a plus yaw because
of the reaction we can see on the minus yaw ac-
tivity.

CDR Roger.

PLT The particles are all different sizes, Dick.

They're - Some of them come out and look like
kind of clots.

CC Roger.

209 15 54 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

Bermuda at 04 - 50 - 04:50.

CDR Okay, we'll be waiting for you.

CC Okay.

209 15 55 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We probably will have a short

procedure to continue this quad one more step
at Bermuda. I'll have that procedure for you
when we get there.

CDR We 'll be ready.

209 15 55 22 CC Okay.

209 16 03 25 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Bermuda for 4 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda for 3 minutes.

CDR Okay. We hear you loud and clear.

209 16 Oh 19 CC Roger, CDR. That comm is a little bit scratchy

here. We were a little bit late locking up.
On the quad we've had some second thoughts and
at the - at the moment we're completely GO for
rendezvous. We still have all our deorbit
capabilities and so we elect now not to
troubleshoot it anymore, to avoid a possible
hard start. And since we - since the procedure
we were thinking about involved lighting a
couple of the thrasters. How do you read?
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209 16 09 14 CC Skylsb, Houston. Canary for 8 minutes.

CDR Loud and Clear.

CC Roger, AI. Sorry for the cn-_ problems back

there at Bermuda. What I was trying to tell
you in case you didn't hear, is we don't intend
to do any more troubleshooting right now on
quad Bravo. It looks like we're completely GO
for the rendezvous. We've still got our deorbit
capabilities. And we'd like to think about that
one for a while.

CDR Okay.

209 16 09 42 CC And while I'm waiting to see if we have some

final pads to read up to you here, on the optics.
We think the IMU looks so great, and you're get-
ting checks by - during the tracking anyway, that
probably - star checks are not required for the
next burn. In the event that you would like to
make them, in order to save time, one thing you
might consider is dropping out of MINKEY and then
using - going into P52 and letting auto optics
take you to a star, and then reenter MINKEY after
that. But we really don't think it's required.

209 16 l0 16 CDR Okay. One thing we've had up here that's a

little unusual, we've had a GLYCOL FLOW, caution/
warning two times so far. It was on momentary,
and we could only tell that it was that particular
caution and warning by pushing RESET. Each
time we checked the pressures and everything,
we found them to be satisfactory and within
limits.

CC Okay, we'll take a close look.

PLT You may notice we put a little bit in the

accumulator, too, way back after insertion, Dick.

CC Roger, PLT.
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209 16 ll 21 CC And, Skylab; Houston. On the GLYCOL FLOW light,

are those two caution and warnings you've
mentioned that you had momentarily, were they
recently? Or were they the same ones that were
reported earlier?

CDR We've had a total of _hree, and we had the most

recent one approximately 15 minutes ago.

CC Okay, thank you.

209 16 ll 54 PLT Something quite interesting Just drifted by the

right window. I wish we could have got a picture
of it. But it was a piece of frost the shape of
a cone, the same size as the thruster nozzle.

CC Roger that.

209 16 12 ll PLT It must have been about - it must have been about
4 to 6 inches along the long axis of the cone.

209 16 12 18 CC Roger. Copy.

209 16 13 09 CDR And, Houston, are those NCC/NSR pads going to be

the final ones, or have you got a couple in your
hip pocket down there?

CC Roger. Negative. We will have new pads to read

to you here at Canary and Ascension, and they're
in work now. We've still got - we've still got
about ll to 12 minutes between these two sites,
so it shouldn't be any problem.

CDR Okay. Well, we've got to go to final comm

here in about 5, that's why I wondered.

CC Roger. We 're hustling.

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CC Skylab, Houston. I've got a final pad for

NCC here.

CDR Okay, ready to copy.

209 16 14 01 CC Roger. NOUN ll, 005, 20, 03.41, plus 036.h, plus
three balls 5, minus 004.5; 180, 082, 002; 023.2,
00:02. Go shead.

CDR 005, 20, 03.41, plus 036.4, plus 000.5, minus

004.5; 180, 082, 002; 023.2, 00:02.

CC Roger. Good readback. I'd like to also update

the trims. Pitch is plus 1.47; yaw is plus 0.29;
and I've got an NSR pad for you.

CDR Go ahead.

209 16 15 13 CC Roger. N@UN 81, plus 018.6, plus 009.4, minus

003.2; 176, 301, 028; 007.6, 00:01, 3.2, 13.5.
Go ahead.

CDR Okay, back on those trims: Plus 01.47, plus

0.29. Now, NOUN 81 is plus 018.6, plus 009.4,
minus 003.2; 176, 301, 028; 007.6, 00:01, 3.2,
and 13.5.

CC That's affirm. And the trims are the same for

both burns. And we'd like to switch quad
Charlie to the PSM.

CDR Okay.

CC Roger. And that's all I've got for you here.

We're still standing by for about 8 more minutes
at - at Ascension.

CDR Okay. Quad Charlie is on PSM.

209 16 16 42 CC Roger.

209 16 19 15 CC Skylab, Houston. Realize you're real busy. We've

still got about 6 minutes left at Ascension. We
never did get the P52 option 3 data on page 1-8.
• If anybodyhas a chance,you might read it to us
at your convenience.
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CDR We got it right here.

SPT Okay, it's a - Star 34 is the first star; star

41 is the second star; our NOUN 05s have zip for
error. NOUN 93 is plus 00.020, minus 00.037, and
minus 00.003. Time of torquing was 3 hours,
53 minutes, 5_.00. Over.

CC Roger. Thank you very much.

209 16 20 15 CC Skylab, Houston. You're looking real good.

You're GO for NCC.

SPT Okay. GO here.

209 16 22 47 CDR And it looks like the CMC came up with a solution
that satisfies our c_p limits, Houston.

CC Roger. We certainly concur, CDR, looks real good.

CDR Okay. Those are the ones we'll burn.

CC Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS; Carnarvon

at 05:40.

209 16 24 00 CDR Roger.

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209 16 52 13 CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for h minutes.

209 16 52 17 CDR Loud and clear.

CC Roger. Standing by for NCC burn status.

CDR Okay. Burn came off on time. DELTA-V C,

minus 13.7 at attitude. NOUN 85: minus 0.2,
minus O.1, and minus 0.2. And I applied the
CMC solution, as you know.

CC Roger, A1; we got that. I got a couple of other

notes for you. One of them is - is you might
of supposed that the PIPA bias update that
we put in awhile ago could possibly have been
from that venting that we had not expected, but
that is not true. We do have a PIPA bias on
board that is good. And I have one correction in
- you_" checklist at about 6 plus h0.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger. There where you see the - the VERB h8

ENTER for the DAP, we'd like to delete the part
that says, "Load h jet." We'd like to leave
the DAP configuration as it is. And Just a
reminder for you since we're doing that and
we've lost this quad, your braking authority
and your Z-translation authority during the final
maneuvers is going to be cut in half.

CDR Well, near as we can figure out - Okay.

CC Roger, A1. And we will be handing over from

Carnarvon to Honeysuckle here in a few minutes,
wo we've got about a total of about 5 or
6 minutes left in this pass. I'm standing by.

CDR Okay.
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CDR We've been doing some daydreaming here Just to

make sure we understand it completely. If we
ended up using the SCS, we wouldn't have any
Z-translation at all. As long as we stay on
the CMC, we will have half authority. Do you
concur with that one?

CC Stand by.

CC CDR, Houston. That's affirmative; you're

correct.

CDR Okay.

CDR Okay, Houston, that looks like the solution

we're going to burn. We used the 18.6 for X and
a 0.6 from the first recycle and a 9.7 from this
final comp.

CC Roger, A1. We're loo_ing at it with you.

209 16 57 38 CDR Everybody happy?

CC Stand by l, A1.

209 16 58 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We were not A0S and did not

see the post-NCC solution, and we Just wanted
to verify that that's what this is - these
numbers are coming from.

209 16 58 26 CDR Right. The post one was plus 18.6, plus 9.7,
and plus 0.6. So we put the X in Z for that one,
and Y for the final comp. And we're going to
PRO now.

209 16 58 40 CC Roger; and we're happy.

209 16 58 50 CC Skylab, Houston. You're looking real good.

You're GO for NSR.

CDR Okay. GO here.

209 16 59 29 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS; Hawaii

at 06:02.
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PLT Just for the record, Dick, I got an ,mmatched

solution for NSR on the charts. Not quite as
good as yours, but they're in the ballpark. I
got plus 18.6 in X and plus 5.8 in Z, which is
the one that's a little bit off.

209 17 00 00 CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.

209 17 15 29 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Hawaii for 5 minutes.

209 17 15 33 CDR Roger. Read you sort of scratchy, Houston.

CC Roger. Same here, AI. l'm standing by for your

NSR burn status.

CDR Okay. The burn came off on time. DELTA-V C was

minus ...... were all zips, minus 0. i and
minus 0.i. And we burned the NOUN 81s that we
discussed; namely, the CMC.

PLT Hey, Dick, you've got a whole lot of noise in the

transmission. I wonder if you could ask the
comm guys to see if they can work on them.

CC Roger. How do you read now, Jack?

PLT l'm reading you, but it sounds like you're

standing underneath a waterfall.

CC Roger.

CDR Actually, I think that may be VHF from the

workshop, l've noticed that before we picked up
the tone, we would get - Just sort of background
noise from their transponder; Just a steady scratch.
Then when I try VHF range RESET, it would work.

PLT I Just turned off my VHF, Dick, and that's what

it is, the VHF.

CC Roger. Okay. I do have two or three notes for

you guys that I wanted to tell you here at Hawaii.
We've done some t-lking about the braking gates
with this reduced authority due to the quad that's
out. And Just to remind you, the breaking gates
are set up so that as long as you stay ahead of
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them and, particularly, hit the first one Just

about on schedule, you shouldn't have any problem
following those printed gates right on in.
Another item is that you'd be interested to know
that the S-IVB deorbit was successful a few
minutes ago. And EECOM asked me to tell you that
if you are being bugged by the caution and warning
due to this 02 enrichment, it's okay to, on
panel 252, to put the WASTE STOWAGE VENT VALVE
to CLOSE, which should stop the caution and
warnings. But I'm not sure what your present
stowage configuration is at this moment, so
that might be inconvenient for you to do.

PLT Okay, thanks, Dick. We really don't mind it

coming on, and we don't want to upset the
stowage at the moment; so we'll Just go as
configured.

CC Okay, fine. And one more thing, we'd like to

transfer quad Alfa to the PSM.

209 17 18 30 CDR Okay, here it comes.

209 17 18 31 CC Roger.

209 17 18 39 CDH You got it.

CC Thank you.

CC PLT, Houston. Back to the problems with the

stowage and getting to that vent valve. Another
thing is, it would be okay if you waited until
after docking to close that, if that would be
more convenient to you at your call.

PLT Yes, I think it would. The only other time we

get in there is for a waste water dump. And it
looks like we've only got h0 percent. So I
think we'll Just leave it like you say. Thank
you, Dick.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from

LOS at Hawaii. We'll see you at Goldstone
at 06:15.
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CDR Okay, the first recycle showed the time at

07:16:40.25, and narrowed the NOUN 91s right
there.

CC Roger. Thank you, A1.

209 17 20 49 CDR Tell Duane Mosel and Mason Mines they've got a
pretty nice checklist here.

209 17 20 5h CC Roger. He's sitting right here; I sure will.

209 17 26 28 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone for 5 minutes.

209 17 26 31 CDR Okay, loud and clear.

CC Roger.

CDR We can resolve the ATM solar panels real well.

We haven't been able to see the workshop, I
mean, the woekshop body or its wing 2, but we
can see the other.

CC Roger, A1.

CDR And we got VHF lockup, Houston - 27 miles.

CC Roger, CDR.

CDR That's not true. Looks like a funny lockup - 276.

We think it will Jump here. We'll try another
lockup.

CC CDR, Houston. We've still got about 3 minutes

here at Goldstone. A couple of things for you.
One is when we get to Bermuda, if we could,
we'd like to get ahead of the tiem line Just
a little bit and do our logic sequence checks.
And also, we figured out a way, we think, that
if you had to go to SCS control in the Z-axis
that you could get Z-translation, but it is a
little bit inefficient, if you'd like to listen
to that real quickly.

CDR I would love to.

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CC Okay, if you are in 8C8, and you want to translate

in Z-axis, we'd recommend the following: AUTO RCS
SELECT switch is A/C ROLL, all of them to MAIN A,
which they ar in now. And then Delta 1 and
Delta 2 to MAIN Bravo. If you - In this config-
uration, you can get both plus- or minus-Z trans-
lation. However, the efficiency could be improved
for a single translation to turn D1, OFF, for a
plus-Z translation or D2, OFF, for a minus-Z
translation. Over.

CDR Okay. I understood all but the very first

sentence, Dick, about putting all - Did you say
all A/C ones on Main A?

CC That's affirmative. All the A/C ROLL Jets to

MAIN Alfa.

CDR Okay, understand it. I'll keep it in mind.

CC Roger, CDR.

CDR Okay.

CC A1, why don't you think about that a little bit?

And if we need to tA]_ about it later, we can.
We're about a minute from LOS at Goldstone, and
we're going to have about a 3- or 4-minute
dropout. And I'll call you agaon when we get
to MLA.

209 17 30 43 CDR Okay.

209 17 35 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at MLA and Bermuda

for the - ll minutes.

209 17 35 05 PLT Okay, Dick.

CDR We're ready to go on that test when you are.

CC Roger. We were waiting for our data to lock up

real solid before we give you a GO.

209 17 35 43 CC Skylab, we're going to drop out and into a

keyhole here, and we'll call you when we're back
up and do the test then.
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209 17 37 B5 CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of keyhole. Now

we're AOS Be_mada for the next 9 minutes. Our
data is locked up real fine, and you're clear
to do the SEQ logic check down through SEQ LOGIC -
two of them, ON, up - anytime.

CDR Okay.

209 17 37 56 CDR Okay, we've got the SEQ LOGIC up, and ON, two
of them.

CC Roger. Stand by.

CC Skylab Houston. The system looks real good.

You're GO for PYRO ARM as required.

CDR I understand.

CDR Been doing a little thinking about this

procedure, Dick, on SCS. Which way do we move
the translational controller for plus-Z using
this schem_?

CC CDR, Houston. It's - plus-Z is a down movement

of the THC, Just like normal.

CDR Okay.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston; I've got a preliminary TPI pad,

page 1-15, anytime somebody gets a chance to
copy. We've still got about 6 minutes left in
this pass.

CDR Okay. And I'm still a little puzzled why we

bothered to put A/C ROLL on MAIN A, unless we're
going to pull some circuit breakers or something.
So I'm still a little puzzled about that procedure.

CC CDR, CDR, we'll have to give you a "gotcha" on

that one. It really doesn't matter, MAIN A or
B, as long as A/C ROLL is completely configured
on to one - to the proper bus.
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CDR Okay. Makes sense.

CC So your - -

CDR Go ahead.

CC So your configuration is okay, with addition

of those two Delta thruster switches.

CDR Got you. Okay, ready to go.

209 17 hl 29 CC Okay, NOUN 37: 007, 12, 20.28; plus 18.9,

plus three balls, minus 06.6; plus 19.8/96,
plus O0.1/01, plus 02.7/26. Skip DELTA-Vc; I'll
get it later for you. Burn time: O0:O1,
three balls, 020, 359. And I'll get the other
two DELTA-VcS in a minute. The weight is 29905;
trims: plus 1.47, plus 0.29. Go ahead.

209 17 42 49 CDR Okay. 007, 12, 20:28; plus 18.9, plus all zips,
minus 06.6; plus 19.8/96, plus O0_l/01,
plus02.7/26; O0:01, all zips, 020, 359; 29905;
plus 1.47 and plus 0.29.

CC Roger. And one remark, this burn is 20 seconds,

two quad ullage. And I've got a cocking-attitude
pad for you that's a couple of pages over. I
think it's 1-17.

CDR Okay. Ready to copy.

CC 191, 354, 003. Go ahead.

CDR 191, 354, 003.

CC Roger. Thank you much.

CC And incidentally, CDR, on the TPI pad, the

NOUN 59 - the DELTA-Vs that I read you do take
into account your present configuration of
thrusters.

CDR Okay, thanks.

209 17 44 23 CC The burn times do. Yes.

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209 17 44 25 CDR Okay.

209 17 45 02 CC Skylab, Houston. I have the DELTA-Vc'S I can

fill in for you on a preliminary TPI pad.

209 17 45 14 CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger. DELTA-Vc, 006.7. Down at the bottom,

DELTA-V c at ignition, 2.3; tailoff, 13.3. Go

ahead.

PLT 006.7, 2.3, and 13.3.

CC Roger. Than_ you.

209 17 46 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS;

Ascension at 06:42.

209 17 46 15 CDR Roger.

209 17 54 05 CC Skylab, Houston. Ascension for 9 minutes.

209 17 5h 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're Ascension for 8 minutes.

209 17 55 56 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension for 7 minutes.

209 17 56 O0 CDR Loud and clear.

CC Roger. And I've got a TPI final pad, page 1-15,

when you can copy.

CDR Houston, whenever you get back in co-,,, I'll be

ready to copy.

CC Okay. How do you read me now, Al?

CDR Read you real good ...

CC Roger. Why don't I go ahead and start? If I

have to reread any of it, I'll be glad to.
Starting with NOUN 37: 007, 16, 40.57; plus 18.2,
m_uus 00.7, minus 08.7; plus 20.2/98,
minus 00.8/04, plus 00.5/04; 006.7, 00:01; 001,
010, 357, 2.3, 13.5. Go ahead.
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CDR 007, 16, 40.57; plus 18.2, minus 00.7, minus 08.7;
plus 20.2/98, minus 00.8/04, plus 00.5/04; 006.7,
00:01; 001, 010, 357, 2.3, 13.5.

209 17 57 56 CC Roger, CDI - CDR. Good readback.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

209 18 O0 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We've looked at all TM. You're

looking real good. You're GO for TPI.

CDR Okay. The solutions look pretty good up here

too, Dick. Thanks.

CC Roger.

CDR I noticed that you came to our tlme, which is

okay. Which is good.

CC Roger that.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about h5 seconds from

LOS. We'll wee you at Carnarvon at 07:lb.

209 18 02 lO CDR Okay.

209 18 26 26 CC Skylab, Houston; we're at Carnarvon for

l0 minutes. We've got good data; we'll watch
you do the burn. And after you're squared
away after the burn, I've got a couple of things
to talk about. But we're standing by:

CDR Okay.

CDR We can see it as a nice little blinking light,

right out in front of us.

CC Roger, A1.

209 18 28 18 CC Skylab, Houston. If you called, I didn't get

it. Say again.

CDR We didn't call. But TPI went off okay, and

we're on the way.

CC Roger.

PLT Dick, where are the TV pass times, please?

CC Roger. I got them right here, if you'd like to

copy, Jack.

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CC Roger. Goldstone AOS in 7 hours 53 minutes and

30 seconds, 7:53:30; and MLA LOS is 8:00:09.

PLT I've got them, Dick; thank you.

CC And, PLT; Houston. One correction on the - that

MLA time I gave you was an AOS, not a LOS. I'd
like to correct that. The correct number for
LOS is 8:10:13, 8:10:13.

PLT Okay, Dick ; thank you.

209 18 32 25 CC Skylab, Houston. I think you're through with

your first short data point. If you are, we've
still got about 3 minutes left in this pass.
And some time I've got a couple of notes I'd
like to read to you about - we'd like to clean
up the rest of the Rendezvous Book with respect
to this quad checklist changes. And also a docked
DAP thing I'd like to give you.

CDR Okay, just a second.

CC Roger. Any time.

CDR Okay, go ahead, Houston.

209 18 33 07 CC Roger. First of all, on the configuration for

the docked - docked DAP, we'd like for you to
load, at your next best opportunity through -
via VERB 44 ENTER; register l, ll011; register 2,
00346; and register 3, four balls 3. Over.

CDR Roger. ii011, 00346, 00003.

CC Roger, Alan. I have two small checklist changes.

The first one is on page 1-16 in the Rendezvous
Book. On the pre-braking switch list, delete the
reference to your AUTO RCS SELECT switches. We've
already talked about the configuration that we'll
have there. And the second one is over on page
1-17.

CDR Go ahead.
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209 18 34 13 CC Roger. On 1-17, down there in the bottom right-

hand corner in the section called "After hard
dock," on the right-hand side about 2/3 of the
way down, there's a list of auto RCX - auto RCS
selects to be turned off. I'd like to delete
thrusters Alfa 1 and Delta 2 from that list to
be turned off.

209 18 34 35 CDR Okay, then that leaves Alfa 3, Charlie 4, Bravo 3,

and Delta 4.

CC That's affirm. And be advised over the evening

and next couple of days, we're going to go through
all of the checklists from here for the mission.
And I'll get you a message up as to what corrections
we'd like for the trim burns and so forth, but
this ought to take care of us for tonight.

CDR Okay.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from

LOS at Carnarvon. We're going to drop out about
3 minutes, and I'll call you at Guam.

209 18 36 00 CDR Roger.

209 18 39 03 CC Skylab, Houston. Standing by at G,,_ for

lO minutes.

CDR Roger.

CDR Houston, Skylab.

CC Go ahead.

209 18 41 3_ CDR In order to get this up/down thrust, I've got

to put D ROLL, ON. And I assume you want me
to put D1 and D2 in MAIN B. Is that correct?

CC Roger. Stand by and let me look back and make

sure that's where we want it.
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CDR Yes, because see, I have - I've had them OFF,

the B/D ROLL's OFF all the time. But in order
to get this - -

CC CDR, affirmative. D1 and D2 to MAIN Bravo.

CDR Okay, I think we're configured properly now.

Thank you.

CC Okay.

CDR And we can see the - You just turn off the
tracking lights, Houston?

CC Stand by, A1; I'll check.

209 18 43 2B CC Skylab, Houston. Affirmative. We did Just

turn off the tracking lights.

CDR Okay, things are looking good.

CC Roger.

CDR And we Just loaded your docked DAP load,

Houston.

CC Roger. Thank you, A1.

209 18 45 42 PLT And, Dick, Just for the record, TPI charts give
us a X of plus 16.1 and a Z of a minus 7.3.

CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.

209 18 47 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from

LOS here at Guam. Goldstone at 7:53. Be
advised that while you're on your way up to
the SWS today, we did have a rate gyro redundancy
management failure in the Y-axis of the SWS.
We're presently configured in Y-1 only, in the
Y-axil. We will be in that configuration at
docking. Well, that's the only difference from
the nominal as far as docking goes. We will
be in ATT HOLD mode when you get there.

CDR Okay. Sounds good, Dick.

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CC Roger.

209 18 148 31 CC And, Skylab; Houston. Incidentally, the reason

that c_11 is coming up to you a little bit late
is because it Just happened vithin the last 20 or
30 minutes.

CDR No strain.

CC Roger. See you at Goldstone.

CDR Got an awful big midcourse.

CC Roger.

209 19 04 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone.

CDR Okay.

CDR Should have some TV down there, Dick.

CC Roger. We can see it trying to lock up, but it's

not - don't have a picture yet.

PLT We're looking at the underside of it now, Dick,

which is the S149 out the end of our solar airlock
and we can also see the parasol flapping in the
breeze.

CC Roger. We have a good picture and we're looking

at it.

SPT Okay, Dick, we're zoomed all the way out now.

CC Roger.

PLT Looking right in the wardroom window. Nobody 's

home.

209 19 06 18 CC Roger. But you will be.

SPT Dick, is there anything I can do to that picture

to touch it up? We don't have the Earth in the
background yet, but aside from that does it look
like it needs any focus or anything?
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209 19 06 37 CC Roger. The picture looks pretty good. We are -

Just about the bottom half of the picture seems
to be blocked out by the bottom half I guess it
is of the window structure, but the picture itself
looks pretty good. Maybe it - may it is the zoom
setting you have.

PLT Yes, I noticed that all the way in. I haven't

been able to get rid of it.

CC Okay. Well, the picture we do have, which is about

the top 60 percent of the screen, is pretty good.

209 19 07 21 CC And, Skylab; Houston. Request you switch QUAD

Delta to the PSM.

PLT Roger.

PLT I don't know the reason for the deal on the bottom
there, Dick. Can't seem to get that out of there.

CC PLT, Houston. INCO suggests that the color wheel

might be stuck. You might take the camera and
Just shake it. Don' knock it around hard but Just
kind of Jostle it on the bracket and possibly
that'd get rid of it. But we do have a good pic-
ture in the portion that we see.

209 19 08 16 PLT We got a TEMP HIGH on RCS A, Houston.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. G&C reminds us that the same

thing happened on 2 - that during this phase we
did get hot quads and it was on A. So Just
an eye on it, and so will we.

PLT Roger.

209 19 09 05 PLT Dick, I'm going to take the camera loose, try the
handholds, see if we can do better, and Owen will
get some abstract shots.

CDR Which flight are we on?

CC Roger, Jack.
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209 19 09 58 PLT Okay, Dick, that half moon in the bottom of the
picture is a function of something besides the
window.

CC Roger. We Just came to the same conclusion, Jack

and INC0 suggests cycling the POWER - TV CAMERA
POWER switch OFF and then back ON again.

PLT You mean S-BAND AUX TV?

CC That affirm. That 's affirmative. Excuse me.

I
209 19 l0 53 PLT Here's our home in the sky, Dick.

CC Roger; we're handing over at the moment and we'll

get TV back in a second.

209 19 12 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We got our picture back now.

We can see the Earth in the background and ap-
parently the cycling switch didn't help so we'll
probably live with what we have.

SPT Well, the old parasol there, Dick, is really blow-

ing in the breeze. Looks like about a 10- or 15-knot
gale every time the thrusters fire in Just a
very gentle flyaround here.

CC Roger. We were watching that very thing then.

SPT A1 thinks he'll probably knock off the flyaround

at this point to avoid blowing that parasol away.

CC I think that's certainly your call and looks like

we concur.

209 19 13 30 SPT You can tell that the Jets have forced the parasol
up against the side - the shiny surface of the
workshop as we fly around and then it's the recoil
from the springs - the fishing rods that spring
it back out.

CC Roger, Ow_n. We certainly concur. We think that'd

be a prudent thing to do.

SPT You can see it flopping there in the breeze.

CDR In fact we've blown it a little bit more than

we'd like to to tell you the truth. We'll try
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to drift off to the side a little bit and then

maybe we can prevent hitting it.

209 19 l_ 09 CC Roger, CDR. Concur with that.

CDR As you can probably also tell, it appears to be

rotated by about the 5 to l0 degrees as expected.

CC Roger.

209 19 14 49 CDR The problem is, we're trying to slide around to

the front of it, and every time we fire aft
thrusters, which move us that direction, it tends
to get under the front edge of the Sun, shade.
We'll try to Just drift a little bit longer.

CC Roger, CDR.

209 19 15 35 CDR We're drifting away the best we can. I'd like to
turn a little bit to the left and show it to you
better, but every time I start to turn that way,
it gives the parasol a flip, up at the front.

CC Roger, CDR. Do what you think is best to avoid

as much blowing of the parasol as you can. We'll
do without the picture.

PLT Got any more suggestions on how to get the half

moon out of the picture, Dick?

CC PLT, the only other suggestion that we had was

that you might try taking the lens off the camera
and trying to turn the color wheel with your fin-
ger, but that's about our last choice here.

209 19 17 00 PLT The focus and the lighting looks pretty good up
here. How's it look down there?

CC It's been looking real good, Jack.

PLT Okay.

PLT How much daylight we got left, Dick?

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CC Skylab, you've got about 23-1/2 minutes of day-

light, and sunset time for you, if you'd like to
Jot it down, is 8 plus 30.

PLT Okay.

209 19 18 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We've taken a look at both the

CSM and the SWS; they both look good. You're GO
for docking. We're about 2 minutes from LOS at
Bermuda. We expect to be at Carnarvon at about
8:52, so we'll see you there. At - Probably at
the Carnarvon pass or Sl,am following that, I do
have some changes for you in the "No comm" section
of the Entry Checklist. So after you get docked
and squared away, it's in locker R-1. You might
get that out, and I'll get that out of the way.
You're GO for docking. We're about a minute and
a half from LOS.

CDR Roger.

209 19 19 h3 CC And, CDR; Houston. Suggest you go ahead and go

to PO0.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

209 20 03 46 CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for 7 minutes.

209 20 04 17 CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for 6 minutes.

m

CC Skylab, Houston at Carnarvon. How do you read?

209 20 05 36 CC Skylab, Houston at Carnarvon. How do you read?

209 20 06 08 CC Skylab, Houston at Carnarvon for 4-1/2 minutes.

209 20 06 50 CC Skylab, Houston at Carnarvon for 4 minutes.

209 20 06 55 CDR Roger. How do you hear now, Dick?

CC Roger. Loud and clear now.

CDR Okay. We're docked. That went real well. The

tunnel pressure integrity check worked fine. We
have not removed the hatch yet and we're having
a snack, and then we're going to get after it.

CC Roger, CDR; and we'd like ACCEPT on the computer.

We've got some CMC servicing to do.

CDR Okay.

CC And also some commanding to the SWS attitude

control system, loading some dock gains and so
forth. And I have two checklists or changes in -
Stand by i.

209 20 07 39 CC Skylab, Houston. Request ACCEPT. I'm sorry, I

see that you do have it. And I've got changes -
one change in the Activation Checklist and a
couple of changes in the Entry Checklist if you
happen to have that book out, and that's ali the
checklist changes I have in front of me now.

209 20 08 00 CDR Okay, go ahead on the Activation. I've got one

of those in front of me.

CC Okay, A1. If you'll turn to page 1-3.

CDR Okay, we're there.

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CC Okay. Down there in the - under CSM/RCS propel-

lent reconfiguration in the lower right-hand col-
,rmn, you want to - that quad Bravo entry should
read, "Quad Bravo, CLOSE; T-Ikbacks, two of them
to barber pole, verify."

CDR Okay.

209 20 08 45 CDR Okay. Just a second. We have the Entry book

now, Houston.

CC 0kay_ in the Entry Checklist, first on page ll-1,

if you'll turn hack to there.

CDR Okay. Go ahead.

CC Roger. That block data pad that's written in

there on ll-l, the one for day 210, you should
Just delete that whole pad. It turns out that
it covers a period that's about 5 or 6 hours
from now. We won't need it, plus there's some
very had weather in that area, a possible hurri-
cane brewing. So we'd Just like to delete that.
And the next change is on page E/ll-10.

209 20 09 _0 CDR Okay, we made the change and we're standing by

on ll-10.

CC Okay. The next to the bottom entry, delete the

words in there that say, "Load NOUN 47 and NOUN _8
from deorbit burn pad." Incidentally, these Entry
Checklist changes, A1, should have been - they're
in the NO COX section and they should have been
made preflight. We missed them and I Just - we
Just wanted to get them updated when we could.
We 're about -

CDR Okay.

CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS here at Carnarvon.

Guam is coming up at 09:07, and I'll get the last
two changes in the Entry book there.

209 20 i0 25 CDR Okay, could you give us GMT time hack roughly,
right now?

CC Roger. The CMC is on GMT and the time now is

20 hours l0 minutes and B5 seconds.
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CDR Thank you.

CC Roger.

209 20 17 41 CC Skylab, Houston. Guam for 6 minutes.

PLT Okay, Houston. We've got the BAT A charge going

and the secondary water blower drying out. We
turned off the prlmA_y, well before we docked,
Just like in the checklist, but it is hard to tell
what it 's doing.

CC Roger, PLT. Real good. If you still have the

Entry book out, I'd like to clean that up. I've
got two minor corrections, both on page ll-ll.

PLT Stand by l, Dick.

CC You ought to be able to dump about 4 minutes, Gary.

So that the next dump should be NSR data, right?

209 20 19 03 CDR Say the page again, Dick and we'll go there.

CC Roger. ll-ll.

CC And, Skylab; Houston, while you're looking up

page ii-ii, one thing we would like to do is l

when we can, is get that WASTE STOWAGE VENT valve

CLOSED. I think it's panel 252 in right-hand
equipment bay.

209 20 19 37 CDR Okay, we'll do that next. Go ahead on ll-ll.

CC Okay. Down on - About two-thirds of the way down

the page at a time of about 45 minutes to the
right, where it says, "Go to SPS Burn Entry Cue
Card," right next - underneath that, delete what 's
written there, that P40 SCS, and write in "Burn
SCS ."

209 20 20 04 CDR Okay, got that.

CC Okay, and then Just to the right of that same

entry there, write down - pitch gimbal trim equals
plus 1.4. And yaw gimbal trim equals plus 0.3.
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CDR Okay, that would be I._ for pitch and 0.3 for yaw.

CC Roger; that's affirm. You can put the Entry book

up and be assured that the "no comm" section is
fixed up and sorry we had to bug you about it at
this point.

CDR No sweat, now we'll turn out the - turn off the
waste.

209 20 20 47 CC Okay, and I'm standing by. We've got about

3 minutes left here at Guam.

209 20 20 56 CDR That machine was - This machine was hard to brake.
It kept wanting to go - the workshop kept wanting
to go down on me, and I kept thrusting down quite
a bit and braking, but it took all we had to stay
there.

CC Roger.

209 20 21 24 PLT Say, Dick, was any of that TV usable?

CC Yes sir, sure was. The bottom portion of it - we

never could seem to get that back. But what we
had was very clear, and we got several good shots
of it and we saw the parasol Jumping around there.
And when we put it all together, we ended up seeing
Just about the whole bird.

PLT Will they be able to somehow cut the whole bottom

part out and make a full picture out of what we
got?

CC I guess we're Just not sure yet, Jack.

CDR It looks like the parasol is back about where it

was now, as we stand here and look over the edge.
I suspect what occurs is, those poles are not
fully extended, and as a result there's slack in
the parasol itself and so, when we give it a little
burst, you can Just kick it around. And once you
give it one burst, you're close enough to where
it's hard to get away without giving it another
15 or 20 bursts.

CC Roger; I understand.
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CDR Yes, it looks like - I can see it there. It kind

of tipped up to the Sun. It's conceivable that
we may have to get in there and shake the pole a
little bit and get it to come lie down a little
bit better.

CC Roger, CDR. Be advised we're about i minute from

LOS at Guam. We're going to see you at Goldstone
at 09:30 GET. That's Just a short break frc_ now.
We've looked at the bird and you're GO for MDA
entry when you get to it.

CDR Okay, tb_n_s.

209 20 23 09 CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're going to be contin-

uing to load _gP 51 into the CMC, so Just leave
the CMC in ACCEPT, and we'll be - we'll let you
know when we' re through.

CDR It's all yours.

CC Roger that.

PLT WASTE STOWAGE VENT 's OFF, Houston.

CC Roger; thAn_ you much.

209 20 24 39 CC Skylab, Houston. On panel 225, we'd like you to

check DSE flight - Disregard, Skylab; excuse me.

209 20 40 39 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone at - -

PLT Hello, Bruce.

CC Roger; Roger.

PLT Hey, according to us, the time is up on the sec-

ondary evaporator dryout. Shall we go ahead and
secure it?

209 20 41 09 CC We'll have an answer for you in a minute on that,

Jack. And for your information, we're getting
ready to power up the prima_y airlock module
coolant loop by ground come,and per our time line
down here. No action required on your part but
Just info.
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PLT Okay, th_k you. We're pretty much on the time

line ; kind of shuffling things around in the
cabin here and like to notify you we had a MAIN A
UNDERVOLT when I put the secondary glycol pump on
the line, although I reset back to 27 volts, so
no problem.

CC Okay, understand that was Just a momentary.

PLT That 's affirm.

PLT And the BAT A charge is proceeding along. Seems

like the entry battery is - batteries got down a
little further than I expected they might.

209 20 41 59 CC Roger. Out.

PLT Hey, Bruce, it's too bad that you can't record the
motion that you get in that lift-off on tape, be-
cause, boy, that was really something. Felt like
an old Model T starting up.

209 20 42 42 CC Sounds like it was quite a ride. It was - the

view was pretty hazy from down here. We could
hardly make you out in the fog and the mist until
the engine lite. And it's okay for you to secure
the secondary water boiler dryout at this time.

PLT Okay. Boy, that thing really shook, rattled, and

rolled getting off the pad there. You say it
wasn't too good a day for spectating, eh?

CC No, indeed.

PLT How was the ceiling, Bruce?

209 20 43 07 CC Oh, the ceiling was high enough_ it was Just that
we were working in sort of a mist or a haze there,
and the Sun was over behind you, and it was Just a
matter of there being very little contrast as you
looked out toward the pad.

209 20 _3 21 PLT You looked good when you went past us, Bruce,

CC Roger ; out.

CC And, Jack, this is Houston. Can you give us an

estimate of the GET at which this undervolt occurred?
Over.
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209 20 44 06 PLT Just a minute. I'ii look it over. Yes, Bruce,

our GET was up at the tlme_ it was 08:40.

CC Okay, we copy.

209 20 45 29 PLT Okay, Bruce, we've secured the dryout on the

secondary evaporator.

CC Roger_ and for your information, we have approxi-

mately i0 minutes remaining in this series of
stateside passes. Over.

PLT By golly, you are down there, aren't you? I had

to look out this other window to find you, but
you look good.

CC Well, we show you over, I guess, Arizona, Utah,

that area.

209 20 46 07 PLT I fooled around a little more with the TV inside

the cabin here and never was able to get that half
moon off of there.
f

CC Okay, Jack. We're working up a procedure which

we' ii pass up to you probably in a couple of days
to see if we can figure it out any further. What
all did you do this time?

209 20 46 39 PLT Well, I Just pointed it into the cabin a little

bit and then changed the focus and so forth to
get a good picture of the cabin and - -

CC Okay, AI went back to RECORD.

PLT - - didn't seem to matter how I pointed it. I

took the lens off and looked inside, but I didn't
fool around with the - the color wheel.

CC Okay, we copy.

209 20 48 40 SPT Hello, Houston.

CC Go ahead, Skylab. Over.

SPT Okay, we got the hatch out right now, and we're
Just flicking it over on the CDR's couch.

- CC Roger; out.
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209 20 53 19 CC Skylab, this is Houston. The computer is yours;

you can go back to BLOCK. EMP 51 has been loaded
and verified. And for Jack, if you've got a minute,
we have a change to the Activation Checklist on
page 1-50A. Over.

209 20 53 35 SPT Okay, we'll go back to BLOCK, and Jack's off the
headset for a moment. Can you wait on that
checklist change?

CC Yes; it's nothing Earthshaking.

SPT Okay.

209 20 54 59 PLT What can I do for you, Bruce?

CC Okay, Jack, on the Activation Checklist, page 1-50A,

we're adding in step 9 a note to exchange the
defective TV camera for the good one which is
located in command module locker Bravo 1. If
you want to open up to 1-50, I'll read it over
again.

209 20 55 22 PLT Okay, I'm there, step 9.

CC Step 9. Add following after line 4: "Exchange

defective TV camera for the good one which is
located in CM - command module locker B-l."

PLT Okay, I got it. Thank you.

CC Roger; out.

CC Okay, we've got about 30 seconds to LOS in the

stateside pass here. Next contact is Vanguard
at 21:06 in about lO minutes. Over.

209 20 56 19 PLT Okay, Bruce. Th_n_ you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-BROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

209 21 06 46 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for

8-1/2 minutes. Out.

209 21 06 5_ CDR We got the passageway opened up to the MDA, and

we are stowing the probe and drogue right now.

CC Roger. Out.

CC Skylab, Houston. On the docking latches, could

you give us an indication of their status, i.e.,
all 12, and - they look okay? And when you have
it, we're standing by for the readout of the
docking tunnel index angle. Over.

CDR Okay, Houston, all 12 latches are made, and we

are going to give you a more accurate reading on
the docking tunnel rig in Just a little bit.

CC Roger; out.

CDR We are trying to clear a few things out of the

command module and give ourselves a little
working room. And then we will get that little
micrometer out and give you a more accurate
reading; it's pretty close, anyway.

PLT And Houston, this is the PLT; I'm at 21:0_ in the

checklist, configuring the RCS.

CC Roger, Jack.

219 21 13 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston; l-l/2 minutes until LOS.

Next contact over Goldstone at 22:18, in an hour
and 4 minutes. Over.

209 21 14 06 CDR Roger; 22:18. We ought to be ma_4ng a little

headway by then. We'll give you a call over -
around Goldstone.

CC You know where we'll be.

209 21 14 16 CDR (Chuckle) Roger.

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209 22 18 28 CC Skylab Commander, this is Houston through

Goldstone and Texas for approximately ll minutes.
Over.

209 22 18 37 CDR Roger; read you loud and clear, Bruce.

CC Okay, I got a couple of items for you, Alan,

P52 stars and a few miscellaneous stuff. Let me
know when you're ready. Over.

CDR Okay, ready right now.

CC Okay, for your P52, option 3 at 22:50 Greenwich,

the following stars, and they are not available
until 22:50. Star 2 is the first one: shaft,
328.6; trunnion, 13.h. Second one is star 4:
shaft, 236.8; trunnion, 38.2. Over.

CDR Roger. You're at 22:50. Star 2: 328.6, 13._;

and 4: 236.8, and 38.2.

CC Okay, the last comm pass for the day, which will be
through Vanguard commencing at 01:59 Zulu,
will be your private medical comm hookup with
the medics today.

CC And we're getting a little noise on the loop

here right now; I'm going to hold on a second
with the rest of this stuff.

CDR Houston, are you there now?

CC Yes, we are, Alan. We had a short data dropout

there. Did you copy about the private medical
hookup at 01:59 through Vanguard?

209 22 21 36 CC Okay, let's try it again, Alan. Over.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Did you copy the message about the private medical

hookup at 01:59 over Vanguard? Over.

CDR No, I did not, but I did that time.

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CC Okay, that will be your last comm pass for the

day; it's set up with the medics. If you get
through early and have anything else for us, why
they can revert back to normal hookup, I'm sure,
but we don't anticipate anything of that sort.
On the command module or the CSM RCS service
module, did you inhibit any of the quad temperature
inputs to the caution and warning system? Over.

CDR No, I did not.

209 22 22 21 CC Okay, very good. Then our message to get you to

reenable them is not applicable. For your general
! information,we 're res1_ng unattendedATM operations,
commencing with this pass over Goldstone. And also
for your information, there is a tropical storm,
Florence by name, wind 75 knots, gusting to ii0,
that you will be passing Just to the southwest of
at about 22:27 to 22:28. It's south of BaJa
California, if you want to take a 10ok out the
window. Over.

209 22 22 59 CDR Okay, we'll give that a try. Thanks, Bruce.

CC I think that about wraps it up.

CDR Okay, the docking tunnel angle, using the little

plexiglass vernier or plastic vernier was a
minus 1._ degrees.

CC Okay, I copy; minus 1._ degrees with the vernier

on the tunnel.

CDR Roger. What's our general RCS condition as far as

remaining 59 days and the like?

CC Okay, qualitatively, you're in good shape. If

you want some specific numbers, we can get them
now, or I think we plan on sending them up
tomorrow.

CDR No, Just kind of wanted a feel for it. I knew -

you know, we lost this quad, used quite a bit
there in the flyaround, and I Just wondered what
the general situation was.
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CC We're about 5-1/2 or 6 percent greater than the

service module RCS deorbit redline at the
present time, Alan.

CDR •Okay, understand.

209 22 24 12 CC How are you all coming in progressing through the

checklist?

CDR We're coming along real well. Owen's over there

connecting up the comm between the vehicles. Jack
- I don't know where he is; he's down there in the
workshop doing something. I guess, activating
the electrical system, but I don't know because I
I see all the lights are on down there, and I'm
up here. I'm down as far as page 1-24 doing
the CMO 2 system config, and I'm at about the
middle of that.

CC Okay, mighty fine. Thank you.

20922 24 46 CDR Okeydoke.

209 22 25 B0 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We have about 1 minute

until we lose co_ with you through Goldstone.
We'll pick you up, marginally, from Texas, but
the next good solid contact you better plan on
is Vanguard at 22:_4. Over.

209 22 25 49 CDR Thank you, Bruce.

209 22 25 52 CC Roger. Out.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

209 22 42 58 CC S_ylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for the

next 8-1/2 minutes. If the PLT is within ear-
shot, we've got a couple of messages for him.

209 22 h3 15 PLT Well, here I am, Bruce, and I've a couple for you.
Go ahead.

CC Okay, me first. During this station pass, we're

going to command the airlock module 02 FILL and
AM FILL valves to the CLOSE position. We used
I them for bringingup the atmosphereand they're
actually being regulated by pressure switches.
Down on molecular sieve B, we show that the fan
has not been enabled. The checklist c-11s for it
to go to SECONDARY position on MOL SIEVE B FAN.
And in your activation Checklist on page 1-47, we
have a step for you to relocate the LCG that's in
D-424, which is suit drying locker, to D-422. I
can read that one over again when you find the
place.Over.

PLT Okay, l'm at the bottom of page 1-47.

CC Okay. Add a new step, 3-A. And it says, "Relo-

cate LCG in D, as in Delta 424 to Delta 422."
Over.

PLT Okay. You want me to relocate the LOG that's in

424 over to 422. Is that right?

CC Roger; Charlie.

209 22 44 44 PLT Okay, now about the tool sieve B secondary fan.
I closed the circuit breaker on that beauty and
it popped open, and so then I - I turned the
switch off and closed the circuit breaker, then
turned the switch back on and the circuit breaker
popped open again, so something's wrong with
tool sieve B secondary fan.

CC Okay. I understand that as long as the switch

was off, the circuit breaker stayed in and then
as soon as you tried to reenergize it, it popped.
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PLT That 's right.

CC Okay, why don't you let us think about that one

for a little while.?

PLT Okay, I'd have mentioned it sooner, but I was

busy down here in the workshop. I'm a little bit
shead here. I got the workshop all powered up.

CC Okay. ;#here would you say you are in the check-

list?

209 22 45 53 PLT Well, I'm on page 1-43, Bruce, down to where it

says, 'Water system gas bleed," so I'm going to
cool it for a while and get that after a while, i

CC Roger; out.

CC How are your cempadres doing?

PLT Oh, they're up to their usual tricks. Everything's

going along smoothly. And one other note, the
vent valve in the deme of the workshop does have
a fair amount of debris in them.

CC Okay, we copy that.

PLT That's in answer to your question back here in

workshop entry, page 1-39.

CC Roger. Do you have any descriptive words about

it? I mean does it look like it's still debris
that's working its way out from manufacturing,
or does it look like it's, you know, people-gen-
erated stuff from use of the workshop?

209 22 _7 09 PLT Well, it's hard to tell. There's a little bit of

each in there, Bruce, and I guess we'll know
better when we yank it out and put a new one in,
or something, if that's what you want to do some-
time.

CC Yes. Okay, thank you.

SPT Hello, Houston. This is the SPT from over in the

MDA on the squawk box. How do you read these
things now?
J
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CC Roger, SPT in the MDA on the squawk box; this is

Houston through Vanguard; loud and clear.

SPT Okay. I'm over on about page 1-39 here, ready to

do that C&W check anytime the CDR can break free.
And then we'll finish up with the fire sensor check.
And everything else seems to be going very smoothly.

CC Okay. Thank you for the update.

209 22 h7 51 PLT I made a couple of notes on the N 2 and 02 regs.

The N 2 reg is reading 180 instead of 150, and

i the 02 reg is reading 138 instead of 120.

CC Okay. We interpret that as trapped gas in the
nitrogen line downstream, and we're watching it
to make sure that it doesn't get any higher; and
no problem.

PLT Okay, I figured it has something to do with your

pressurizations of the workshop there.

SPT Find out, Bruce, real quick that you don't need
much energy to move across this workshop in a
big hurry.

CC Okay. We'll accept that as a data point.

PLT Say, Bruce, what's the mission day down there

anyway, 212 or lh - something like that, isn't it?

CC Well, the day of the year is 209. I think this

is mission day 1.

SPT I think - -

PLT I'll take the 209. Thanks.

CC Roger.

SPT _ Forgot to update him on the mission day.

CC Okay. And - -
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SPT We were sleepy this morning.

CC - - we are 75 days since the launch of Skylab l,

if that was your question.

209 22 49 16 PLT No, I Just wanted to update the - the day on the
timers down here.

CC Roger.

CDR And if you've got data, you can see that I Just
did the alignment. NOUN 05 was _]I zips, and
you can see the NOUN 93.

CC Okay, A1, we've got them. You're cleared to

torque the platform.

209 22 49 54 SPT Hey, Bruce, I was Just wondering - why don't you
ask one of the surgeons over there where Joe left
his blood pressure cuff and stethoscope? He
moved it out of the normal position and left it
somewhere and I can't remember where.

CC Okay, we will see where it is.

MCC Naw, it never works.

209 22 52 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We have about 1 minute until

LOS. Next station contact will be Hawaii at
23:52, or Just about exactly 1 hour from now.
We believe the blood pressure cuff and stetho-
scope are in E-610, but we're still in the process
of confirming that. Over.

209 22 52 36 SPT Okay, fine, I'ii check there. ThAnK you.

209 23 50 53 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for approx-

imately 8 minutes. Over.

CDR Read you loud and clear, Bruce. We're Just taking
part in the rapid DELTA-P and FIRE TEST and we're
getting ready to start on the WARNING SYSTEM and
the CAUTION SYSTEM TEST.

CC Okay, sounds like y'all are pressing right along.

Are your plans to turn in for sleep per the check-
list this evening or are you looking for some
moreitemsto do? Over.
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CDR Roger. Let me check with m_ compatriots, see

what they think.

CC Okay.

209 23 51 31 CDR I suspect we won't need any; we've got a ton of

little things here that we can spend hours doing.
We've got all sorts of things to move down to the
workshop and get out of the comnand module so
when we go to sleep then we can put up our
sleep prestraints and sleep down there. So we
got a lot of things that we can do that'll get us
ahead tomorrow, without having you list them.

CC Okay, you might be ahead of the game. Just, -

you know, complying with the checklist for today
and then sort of arranging things to suit
yourself so you can have at it tomorrow.

CDR Okay. Before we launched, I didn't know we'd

have quite so much stowage. We got a lot of
things we can - got to stack somewhere.

CC Okay, and there will be a data voice dump on the

tape recorders this site.

209 23 52 20 CDR Okay.

209 2B 57 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Approximately i minute

until LOS ; next contact through Vanguard at 00:20
in approximately 22 minutes. From telemetry, all
of your systems are looking good.

CDR Okay, Bruce. Thank you.

209 23 58 20 CC Roger; out.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

210 00 21 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston standing by through

Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.

210 00 22 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston standing by through

Vanguard for 7-1/2 minutes. Out.

SPT Roger, Houston.

210 00 25 ll CC Skylab, Houston. You are now receiving the first

teleprinter messages of your mission. The first
one is a sort of a mysterious one we don't quite
understand. It says something about a quick brown
fox and a lazy dog, but you can take that at con-
text. Over.

SPT Okay.

210 00 29 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're approximately

1 minute to LOS. Next contact is Hawaii at 01:27
f
in a little less than an hour. And did you all
Just do a command reset on board in the command
module? Over.

210 00 30 14 CC Skylab, this is Houston; approaching LOS. We've

gotten all our teleprinter messages on board.
And did you Just perform a command reset in the
command module? Over.

PLT Negative. We did not.

210 00 30 30 CC Okay. Thank you, Jack.

210 01 27 26 CC Skylab, Houston. Got you through Hawaii for

l0 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story. We're standing by here.

CC And I got some questions about the optics for

somebody.

PLT Go ahead.

210 01 27 41 CC Did you have trouble positioning, in both SHAFT

._ and TRUNNION?
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PLT Well, there was only this one occasion rather early
in the flight where I adjusted my P52, or some-
thing like that and was going to be done. I
left it in MANUAL drive for a few minutes and I
noticed that they - even in LOW position, LOW
Speed, the - both SHAFT and TRUNNION, as I recall,
would run very rapidly. And I'd get it started,
say increasing one direction, and it would be
almost impossible to stop, and would run it a
very high - high rate of speed. By going to the
HIGH speed, I could stop it. Although, of course,
then it would stop and run whichever direction I
pushed it. Now soon after that, A1 suggested that
perhaps they should be rezeroed. And after rezero-
ing it, we had no further trouble. We did leave
the speed in LOW after that, but all of the optics
drive was normal and in LOW speed all the MANUAL
drives were normal. But as I recall, it was both
SHAFT and TRUNNION. Over.

210 O1 28 47 CC Okay. And was that DIRECT or RESOLVE?

CC That was DIRECT, wasn't it?

PLT I was in DIRECT at that time because I was trying

to put the SHAFT and TRUNNION in a certain location.

210 01 29 02 CC Okay, and you observed that in both sextant and

telescope or the TPACs?

PLT I believe that is correct.

CC All three?

PLT Excuse me, I thought you said - the sextant and

shaft and trunnion, that is correct. Now what
was the other question?

CC Was the problem observed in the sextant or the

telescope or the TPACs?

210 Ol 29 19 PLT Oh, I was only looking through the telescope at

the time. I assume it was present in the sextant.

CC And have you all seen the teleprinter messages

coming up? What kind of shape are they in?
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210 O1 29 41 PLT Answer's, good.

CC Okay.

CC One other question on the optics - was there any

trouble encountered while manually postioning the
optics during your P52?

PLT Negative.

210 01 29 58 CC Okay, and to preclude redundancy management on

Y-2 waking you up during the night, we'd like you
to go on panel 207, ACS MALF, the RATE GYRO switch
to INHIBIT.

210 01 30 22 PLT Okay, tell us again now.

PLT Negative, we got it.

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210 01 30 31 CC Okay, that's the RATE GYR0 switch only to INHIBIT.

SPT Okay, we've got it.

210 Ol 30 7 CC And for the night, we're going to leave the mol
sieve B fans off. We won't need them tonight
and we'll get together with you on that tomorrow.

CDR Okay, we got a little ahead and we've actually

started baking out mol sieve A right - already.
l We're a little ahead of the game.

CC Roger.

210 01 30 54 CDR I've got a nightly status report, if that's what

I'm supposed to give now, or is that a later pass?

CC No, that's this pass. The next pass will be your

med conference; and we're ready.

210 01 31 06 CDR Okay. The - As far as the food is concerned,

Bean will have eaten everything but the green
beans, which were not planned to be eaten prior
to flight. Garriott will have eaten everything
except the dried beef. And Jack, I don't think,
is going to be able to eat his evening meal; he
ate his meal A and meal B, but it doesn't look
like he is going to be eating meal C at all.

CC Okay.

210 01 31 52 CDR Now for extra drinking water we've had - Bean has
had - the CDR has had four extra shots from the
gun, and SPT has had four, and the PLT has had
none. As far as medication used: CDR has had
two aspirin; SPT, none; and PLT, one Scop/Dex.
The photo log: the HDC indicates 88 frames at the
moment; and the DAC indicates 50 percent. The two
things that we've noticed that are inoperable;
one is the circuit breaker that we discussed earlier.
The other is, after we opened the hatch and went in
and observed more closely the docking latches
from the MDA side, we noticed that two of them,
numbers l0 and l, although the bungee appeared to
be flush and the blue handle was flat, the actual
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latch itself was not pressing on hard on the

connector on the MDA. You could take your finger
and slide it back and forth, although to outward
appearances it was completely locked. When you
observed the top of the small spring bungee, you
found that on these two, they were depressed
approximately B/8ths of an inch each. Whereas
the others varied between 1/8th of an inch and
1/4 of an inch. We did not take any corrective
measures in - They remain that way at the moment.

210 O1 B4 07 CC Okay.

CDR To give you a feel where we are at the moment, J

we're beginning to eat our meal right now, and
it looks like we'll be - probably be working
around for another hour or so. We've had to
move extremely slowly to keep from causing any
vestibular problems with ourselves; by that,
I think both Owen and I had a little bit of
stomach awareness, so we tend to be fairly
careful how we move. And since we are moving
rather slowly then, it's taking a little bit
longer than we'd planned.

210 Ol B4 57 CC Okay; copy all of that. The latch observations

are familiar with us. We'll work on that and
give you a readup tomorrow.

CDR Okay, and I wmnt to m_ke sure that it's okay that
we started mol sieve A bakeout early.

CC That's fine, A1.

CDR Okay.

210 Ol B5 20 SPT And for information, the waste management

compartment has been activated early tonight,
also.

CC Okay.

210 O1 B6 02 CC And all of your pads for tomorrow are presently

on board except for the threading pad.

PLT Okay, Story; thank you.

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CC Skylab, you're i minute to LOS. You'll be

coming up over Vanguard at 01:59. At that time
you'll have the medical conference. Following
that, if you're still up the next pass, we will
not call you, we'll also be over Vanguard at
3 hours 36 minutes.

210 01 36 52 PLT Okay, I expect we'll be in bed by that second

pass, Story.

210 01 36 57 "CC Good idea.

210 02 06 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you for about another

minute. We would like you to start charging
battery B per the Flight Plan.

CDR Okay that will be done, Story. Thank you.

CC And we'd like you - to offer you a wake-up call

at about ll:10 GMT.

210 02 06 29 CDR Okay, we will accept that.

210 02 06 31 CC Okay

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

210 ii 07 21 CC Good morning, Skylab. We got you through Carnarvon

for 6 minutes.

CDR Good morning, Houston.

CC And, AI, I got something for you.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Did you get the CSM water chlorination done last

night?

CDR We did not.

CC You did get the chlorination done?

CDR Did not.

CC Okay.

210 ii 08 02 CDR We wondered Just where we were. We a11 thought it

was probably prudent to go rest and recover and
get started aga4n this morning with a fresh start.
So I'll bring you up later today on where we are.

210 ii 08 16 CC Okay, that's fine. Now we would like, on co-_and

module 352, the POTABLE TANK INLET valve to OPEN
as soon as possible at your convenience.

CDR Okay, I'ii go do that right now.

CC The reason for that is the fuel cells have been

putting out some water, and we have filled the
waste t-n_ up to 103percent and the potable tan_
is steady at 48 percent.

210 ii 08 49 CDR Okay. I tried to daydream up, and looked through

that list, anything that could possibly - ifwe
skip would get us in trouble. That's what I meant.
I'Ll go do it right now.

210 ii 09 00 CC Okay. And, other than that, the vehicle sta_ed in

excellent shape during the sleep period, and we
saw no anomalies during your night time.
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CDR Okay. Things here are nice too. It's cool and
real clean, and I'Ii go get that t_nl_ right now.

CC Okay.

210 ll iR 26 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll

pick you up over Honeysuckle in 6 minutes.

CDR Hey, Story, I Just opened the POTABLE IN TANK. Did

you want me to do anything with the waste t_n_ in-
let, or Just leave it like it is?

210 ll 13 02 CC Just leave it like it is, A1.

210 ll 19 21 CC Skylab, we've got you through Honeysuckle for a

minute.

CDR Roger.

210 ll 20 20 CC We've got another 20 seconds. We'll see you over

Texas at ll :48.

210 ll 49 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you stateside for

17 minutes.

SPT Okay. And, Story, I'm Just spreading the dosimeters

around - those personal radiation dosimeters. I
can't remember which goes where. Have you got a
quick page list for me, or can you remind me where
the three of them store?

CC Stand by 1. We'll get that.

CC And, Owen, we've got three things for you.

SPT I don't have a pencil right now. Can I get one

while you're giving me the word on the dosimeter?

CC Okay.

SPT Go ahead, Story.

210 ll 51 03 CC Go ahead.

SPT Go ahead with those three items, Story.

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CC Okay, on the ATM console activation - on the Acti-

vation Checklist, page 2-9, the PC RATE GYRO switch
position on page 2-12, the UP/DOWN switch should be
in SECONDARY.

210 ii 51 27 SPT Okay, was that on page 2-9 or 2-127

CC It's on page 2-12, but you want to get that con-

figured before powering up the panel. And the note
on that is on page 2-9.

SPT Okay. I understand. I've got that.

CC And on the ACS CAUTION/WARNING, the RATE GYRO, now

that you're up, you can ENABLE that.

SPT Okay, I got that.

210 ii 51 56 CC And if you wish to ride the ergometer prior to the

biomed activation, you can do half of the biomed
activation by completing pages 12-1 and 12-2 of the
Bic_ed Checklist, and that'll get power to the exer-
cise mode ergometer switch.

SPT Okay, I got that. Where do the PRDs go?

CC We're working on that.

CC You ready on the PRDs?

SPT Go ahead.

CC Okay. We're supposed to wear them on our person

for the first 3 days and since you got an EVA
coming up on the fourth day, suggest you Just wear
them until the EVA and then wear them on the EVA.

SPT Okay, got that. Thank you, Story.

210 ll 55 15 CC And do you want the locations where you'll store

them after the EVA now, or later?

210 ll 55 20 CDR Well, we think it's the red one up by the plus-Z
SAL, the white one in the experiment compartment,
and the blue one in my compartment.
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CC Okay, I don't have the colors here, but it's the

CDR's in the experiment compartment, the SPT at
the minus-Z SAL, and the PLT in the center sleep
compartment.

210 ll 55 42 CDR Okay. Say it once more.

CC That's, the red in the experiment compartment over

the blood centrifuge, the white at the minus-Z SAL,
and the blue in the center sleep compartment.

210 ll 56 00 CDR Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

210 12 00 03 CDR Houston, are you still there?

CC Yes, sir. We've got another 5-1/2 minutes.

CDR Okay, Story. We've been keeping the STS windows,

numl_er 244 and 242, we think. It's the ones on -
by mol sieve B, which is - Well it's - it's the
one halfway between plus Z and plus Y, and the
one halfway between plus Z and minus Y. And we
think the numbers are 244 and 242 - open all the
time. And we wanted to make sure that was okay.
Those are the two that seem to look down at the
Earth most of the time.

CC We're working on that.

CDR Roger. It might also be nice to keep 241 open.

If you don't open a few of those windows, it's
Almost like it's night time in here all the time.

CC We're working on it, A1.

210 12 02 02 CC You can leave them open, AI.

CDR Okay. Thanks, Story.

210 12 02 30 CC And we're going to be dumping the tape recorders

here.

CDR Okay. •

210 12 05 20 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS; we'll pick you

up over Madrid in 5 minutes.

210 12 l0 29 CC Skylab, Houston. Got you over Madrid for 9 minutes.

SPT Okay, Story.

CC And, Owen, I've got a star tracker pad for you.

SPT Go ahead.

CC It 's Canopus, that 's a 52012 and a 50001. It 's

available at any time during the day, amy part of
the orbit. The inner gimbal is minus 0789;
outer gimbal, plus 0540.
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SPT Okay, fine. 0789 minus; and plus 05_0.

CC That's correct.

210 12 17 29 CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC We'd like you to terminate the BAT B charge and

reinitiate the BAT A charge as per page 2-_ of
the Activation Checklist, anytime at your conven-
ience but prior to 12:_5 Zulu.

CDR Okay, I'll stop what I'm doing and do it right now.

CC And I've got a - some P52 stars for you. You can
copy those down on 2-8.

CDR Just a second.

CDR Go ahead.

CC It's star 2; shaft, 319.8; trunnion, 12.3. Star 4; -

shaft, 234.1; trunnion 39.9.

210 12 18 46 CDR Okay, I got that, Story. Thanks.

CC And we're going LOS in about 20 seconds. We'll

pick you up over Honeysuckle at 12:56.

210 12 18 58 CDR Roger.

210 12 56 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

approximately the next minute and a half. Over.

CDR Roger, Bruce.

CC And for Jack, when he's free for a minute, we've

got a small note changing around the fans on the
mol sieve that affects his checklist on page 2-31.

210 12 57 28 SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go ahead, Owen.
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1 SPT Now, let me update our dinner from last night.

The dinner that I consumed was chicken and gravy,
and an orange drink, and 4 ounces of water. The
dinner that Jack consumed was a butterscotch
pudding, an orange drink, and the instant break-
fast. The rest on our schedule list still remains.
0ver.

CC Okay, we copy that.

210 12 58 06 CC And this was a short pass. We're approximately

30 seconds to LOS. Next contact is a stateside
pass over Goldstone at 13:24, which is about
26 minutes from now.

CDR I'll give you some PRD readings if we get a moment

here, Bruce. CDR - -

CC Hang on there a minute.

CDR - - 45004; SPT, 19003; PLT, 07006 on the PRDs.

Over.

CC Okay, 45004, 19003, 07006.

210 12 58 49 CDR Roger.

210 13 25 40 CC Hello, hello.

CDR Just a second. Go ahead, Bruce.

CC Yes, we heard you beep on the intercom up there.

We're here through Goldstone for a fairly long
stateside pass, more or less continuous coverage
for 10-1/2 minutes. Standing by with two _m,ll
items for the PLT.

210 13 26 09 CDR Okay, let me bring you up to date on a couple of

things. First of a11, as from yesterday, we're
still having to move around fairly slowly up here,
so we're not - although we're moving around getting
things done, we're not doing them near as rapidly
as we'd like to. From last evening, the only
thing that we didn't complete was the - was the
portable - potable water chloination - chlorination
and some of the stowage transfers. We're going to
do the portable - potable water chlorination Just
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as soon as we've all had some good drinks, and j

we've got the water compartment down here acti-
vated, which Jack is working on right now. Now
this morning, we're running a little bit behind.
We got the P52 off. Let me give you the results
of that. That's stars 4 and 2. NOUN 05 was all
balls. NOUN 9B was plus 138, minus 195, plus 030.
And the torquing time that we used was 12:h8:00
GMT, but the time in the CMC was 36:48:00.

210 13 27 55 CC Okay, we copy that, Alan. In other words, the

CMC time was 24 hours in advance of the GMT time,
corrected for date. Over.

210 13 28 Oh CDR That's affirmative, and I'm getting ready to go

up and start doing the H 2 sep plate wetting prep.
Owen's eating right now; and, when he finishes
that, he's going to go up and activate the ATM
console. And when he does that, we're going to
go through the alignments there. We'll keep you
informed how we're going, but it's sort of - my
opinion would be that we're going to be moving
along more slowly than we planned, and we'll
probably have to Jump by some of the stowage
transfer items and then try to find a place for
doing those later on.

CC Okay. We copy, A1, and Just take your time and

get accustomed to things up there. In the Flight
Plan for tomorrow, we do have some time in for a
regroup. About the only thing I can think of on
the stowage transfer is, if you get significantly
out of phase with where we think you are, you
might bring us up to date on the major areas, so
that if you call down looking for something, why,
we'll know where to direct you. Over.

210 13 29 lh CDR Okay, well, we haven't - everytime we've moved

something, we've moved it where it's supposed to
go, so we haven't Just stashed things too many
places. We think we know where they are. What
we may do - what we really need, of course, is
regroup time right now, but we don't have it.
But what we're going to do is sort of have to
make it as we go along here.

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t SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

210 13 33 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston again. We've been talking

over the Flight Plan schedule constraints on you
for today. And our recommendation is that you try
to get the ATM C&D panel star tracker up on sched-
ule to the point where you can run the PS0, 51,
52 sequences and do the alignment on schedule so
that we can press on with our unattended ops. And,
other than that, you Just take as much time as you
need here to catch up on the stowage and other things
and feel comfortable. And Just press on in sequence,
and keep us posted on how you're doing. Over.

CDR Okay, we'll work on that, Bruce.

SPT We're Just about to finish up some'breakfast here,

Bruce. I'ii be up at the panel probably inside of
.,i

210 13 34 20 CC Roger, understand. - I wasn't trying to push you,

and I've got one small checklist ch--_e for the
PLT when he's available.

SPT He's not near a comm box, but he says he's listening,
Bruce; go ahead.

CC Okay, in his Activation Checklist on page 2-31,

where you're bringing the mol sieve fans back on
after wetting the water separater plates, what we
want to do is change the callout to read:
M0L SIEVE A FANS to SECONDARY, and B FANS to PRLMARY.
So that we get around that MOL SIEVE B, SECONDARY,
circuit breaker problem. Over.

210 13 35 17 cDR A on SECONDARY, B on PRIMARY. Is that correct, Bruce?

CC That's the configuration we want to get to. And

for your information, we'll be dumping the data
and voice tape recorders over Canary, which is our
next station at about 13:48. Over.

210 13 38 _2 CC CDR, Houston through the sunny island of Bermuda

here. We still got about 4minutes in this long
pass. We'd like to maybe clarify on our last mes-
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sage with regard to the time line and say that -

guess what we're really saying is that we'd you to
Just take a chunk of about 2 hours and stick it in
here right now, if that'll fit your plans. Over.

SPT Okay, that sounds real good, Bruce. That's what

we'll do_ 2 hours.

CC Roger. Good night, Owen.

210 13 39 40 PLT Hey, Bruce, are you still there?

CC Yes indeed.

PLT Okay, I'm on - This is PLT on page 2-7, and I'm

down to step 3, trying to verify that the water
dump pressure in the - in the waste management
area is less than 0.7 and it's stayed too high,
above 2.0.

CC Okay, stand by a second, Jack. We're kicking that

onearound.

CC PLT, Houston. We've got a minute and 20 seconds

left in this pass. Next contact will be Canary
at 13:_8 where we're going to dump the data and
voice tape recorder. We'd like for you to hold
up in the water system activation at this point
until we psych it out. And could you also tell
us what you did with the WMC water system yester-
day? Over.

210 13 42 07 PLT Oh, we just went according to checklist yesterday,

Bruce. Whatever is in there is what we did.
And, also, water tank l0 checked out to be above
6.0 in its iodine content.

210 13 42 19 CC Okay, copy. Tank l0 at 6.0 on the iodine.

210 13 _8 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for 8 min-

utes for the PLT. Over.

PLT Go ahead, Bruce.

CC Okay, Jack. We'd like you to verify or check the

position of the panel 831 WATER DUMP valve. That's
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the one in the compartment underneath the wash-

rag squeezer and all that down on the left-hand
side. At the present time, it should be OPEN.
If it turns out that it is still closed, give us
a call and we'll probably ask you to go back
through the heater configuration on l-h3 and come
on up through 1-_5 again. Over.

PLT Yes, I Just checked that a while ago and the valve
is OPEN. And the WATER DUMP press heater has
been ON since last night, and - with a green light.

CC Okay, we copy. Stand by, please.

210 13 52 42 CC Skylab, Houston. Over.

PLT Go ahead.

210 13 52 48 CC Okay, Jack. We've got three items here that we'd
like for you to run down to try to psych out this
problem on the dump. The first is, would you
verify that you removed the purge fitting from the
WMC dump line flex hose up there in connection
with the steps when you hook it up to the
water heater. Secondly, try cycling the panel 831
DUMP VALVE, OPEN and CLOSED and then - or CLOSED
and OPEN and then back to OPEN again, and see if
that affects the reading. And as a third step,
if neither mf those do any good, check the
WMC urine flush line dump fitting, over there
where you evacuate the urine bags prior to putting
them in the collector. Over. That should be
capped on the end of it to prevent leakage. Over.

PLT Okay. The number l, one about the purge fitting,

that's off of there and the WMC 2 line is hooked
up to water tank 8 and the valve is CLOSED, - as
in step 2 on page 2-7. And I'll cycle the
DUMP valve and look at the flush system.

CC You know_ the purge fitting that we're talking

about is the purge fitting which is up there in
the water heater compartment behind the mirror,
as I recall it, above the washrag squeezer.
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210 IB 54 BO CC Belay my last - You're right on that. It's the

one on the hose in the forward compartment.

CC Okay, Jack. One thing we noted here in the check-

list, the reference to water tank 8 is to the
WMC 2 hose QD location. We want the hose actually
hooked up to the water outlet QD of water tank 7.
Over.

210 1B 55 29 PLT Yes, I know it's suppose to be there. I already

hooked it up this time to water tank 7. And I
checked the - cycled the DUMP valve and it's
back to OPEN and that doesn't seem to do any good.
And I looked at the compartment 822, and the QD
is on. The urine system's dumped there. I noticed
the URINE DUMP valve is CLOSED over on panel 818.
Does that make a difference?

210 1B 56 07 CC That doesn't make any difference, Jack. And we've

got about 15 seconds to LOS. Our next contact is
over Honeysuckle in 36 minutes, at 14:B2 Greenwich.
Over.

PLT Okay. It looks like I Just can't go beyond this

point here, Bruce.

210 1B 56 28 CC Okay, we'll have some more info for you then, and
Just hold where you are on that.

210 14 B2 50 CC Skylab, thi's is Houston through Honeysuckle for

the next 8-1/2 minutes. Standing by for the PLT.
Over.

210 14 BB 16 PLT Okay, here I am, Bruce. I've proceeded to start

on the wardroom water activation, but go ahead
with whatever you've got on the waste management.

CC Okay, Jack. First a question. Did you put the

water sampling procedure on television on the
video tape recorder per checklist page 2-5? Over.

PLT Bruce, that's a negative. Due to the fact we had

to move so slow, I got behind. We've not done
any TV or DAC work. And we probably won't until
we get another opportune time. Over.
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, CC Okay, that's fine by us. We Just wanted to know

if we should go through the motions of dumping the
VTR to see if there was anything on it.

210 14 34 08 PLT Yes, I'm sorry.

CC Okay.

PLT I'm sorry, I meant to tell you that before, but

we don't have anything on the VTR at all.

CC Okay. Back on your WMC troubleshooting here, what

we'd like you to do is disconnect the WMC dump
line from the WATER HEATER DUMP PORT and put the
cap on the dump line QD and then check panel 800
to see if the DUMP PRESSURE starts decreasing.
Over.

210 14 B4 B9 PLT Okay. That's disconnect the dump line and cap it
off and then watch the pressure, right?

CC Right. And then depending on whether it decreases

or does not decrease,we branch off into two
different parts of the procedure here. I thought
I'd Just let you go ahead and do it, and I'd read
it depending on what the result was.

PLT Okay, I'll go over and do that.

210 i_ B5 05 CC Okay, give us a call from the WMC. We want to be

sure and get the cap on the end of that dump line
to make sure we don't have any leakage through the
QD itself.

SPT Houston, SPT. I have essentially completed the

ATM console activation, and there are a couple of
things I want to talk over with you, as well as
completing our DAS checkouts together. Over.

210 14 35 B4 CC Okay, we're ready for the DAS checks, Owen. And
ready to talk to you sandwiched in between
converstations with Jack.
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SPT Okay, I'ii go ahead and complete the DAS interface

check first or the last part of that. I'm on
page 2-11, and halfway down on the right-hand side.
It's coordinate each DAS check with STON. And I
will go through the entry of all of those eight
co-..ands, and Just wait for the verify from you,
and then proceed with the next one.

210 l_ 36 09 CC Mighty fine. Owen, we want you to enter them one

at a time, and then stand by for a GO after each
one.

SPT Yes, that's what I was doing, after each command.

I've just entered in my i0000 ENTER. And I'm
waiting for a GO on that before I'll go to the
next command. Over.

CC Okay, and you are GO on it.

PLT Okay, Bruce, I've disconnected the WMC dump line

from the water heater. And there isn't any plug
that goes in the dump line, but I put it back on
its stowage location so that ought to do the job.
And the WATER DUMP pressure at this time is still
pegged high but we can watch it.

210 lh 37 16 CC Okay, 0wen, you're GO on number 2.

CC GO on number 3, Owen.

PLT ... did you copy the last?

CC Yea, I did, Jack. Stand by here; we'll have word

to you in just a second. We still have almost
h minutes left in the pass. Break, break; Owen,
you're GO on number 4.

CC Okay, we're GO on the next test, Owen. And, Jack,

what we'd like you to do is reconnect the dump
line to the WATER HEATER DUMP PORT and install
the WMC purge fitting on the end of the WMC-2
hose, and attempt to verify, either audibly or
by noting airflow, the fact that you have flow
through the purge fitting. And break, break,
Owen. You're GO on that one. Over.

PLT Okay, Bruce.

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CC GO on the third one, Owen.

210 14 39 17 CC Okay, Owen. You're GO on number 4. The test is

complete.

SPT Okay. Now there are a couple of more things I

want to talk to you about, but there is one in
particular I want to get in now over on page 2-12.
It - left-hand colITmn shows COMPUTER talkback,
SECONDARY; COMPUTER switch, AUTO; verify.

SPT Okay, that's right where I am right now, that's

Just what it ought to be. So, I guess there's
no further request on that ; I Just wanted to m_ke
sure. And I will give you my status words for
verification, although I think you probably can
read out my status words without me doing that.
They all look reasonable. I checked them all out
on page 2-12.

210 14 h0 Oh CC Okay, that's a Roger on the computer talkback and

switch position.

SPT Okay, now on the - power system, there are three

CBRMs that are giving off-nominal readings, all
of which I'm sure you know about, but I what to
check each of those. In the REG position, CBRM
number 3 is showing REG VOLTS and BAT CHARGE
barber poles. CBRM number 15 shows BAT VOLTS
barber pole, which I didn't expect. And number 17
is showing REG VOLTS barber pole. Now on page 2-10,
we have a write-in for a preflight change. And it
shows the power monitor switch REG. And looking
at CHRM number 3, when I do that, I am already
showing REG AMPS. I'm going to go back and check
that again right now in CBRM number 3.

CC Okay. We copy that and we have 30 seconds to LOS.

Next station contact is Hawaii at lh plus 52 GMT,
about ll minutes from now.

SPT You'll notice at the moment, I'm already showing

about h amps on REG number 3. And, therefore, I
have not performed this REG switch cycling off
and on five times or the CBRM all off. And I want
to talk to you about that at the next pass, before
I do any more cycling on REG 3, Bruce. Over.
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CC Okay, we copy. And we'll talk to you over Hawaii.

SPT What's the time for Hawaii?

CC Eleven minutes from now - -

SPT Th,_.n
k you.

CC - - at 14:52.

210 14 42 02 SPT Roger.

210 14 52 08 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9-1/2 minutes.

And, for the commander, we'd like to ask a question
or two.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger. We're wondering where you are right now

in the checklist. Specifically, have you completed
the IMSS transfer? And how are you doing on the
water separator plate wetting? Over.

CDR Completed the transfer - still in the midst of

stowage transfer, and have not begun the water
sep plate - wetting yet.

CC Okay. And you may perform the P50/52 sequence

without doing another P52, option 3 before it -
as long as you get done in this next daylight
cycle. If you wait until a subsequent one, we're
going to have to do the P52, option 3 again. Over.

CDR Understand. Thsnks.

210 14 53 05 CC And, for the SPT, on our telemetry we're showing

essentially zero current from CBRM 3 output, and
you're cleared to go ahead and do the five times
cycling. We'd like to get you to do it over a
pass, as for example, this one if convenient. And
we'll watch the current on telemetry. We'd also
like you to call up KEG AMPS on a couple of other
CBRMs and read them out to us in real time, so we
can compare that with our telemetry. Over.
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SPT Okay, I'm essentially there right now. On the

CBRM number B, I 'm reading a REG voltage of 22.5
volts plus S.5 amps. In the BAT position, the
voltage is off-scale low, and it's reading a
minus I amp. Now those two don't match up, of
course, so it does look like there's some sort of
a scaling error. Now Just stand by, and I'ii give
you a reading on REG 2.

210 14 54 08 CC And, for the PLT, what's the status on your WMC
vent troubleshooting? Over.

SPT All the other REGs are providing 5 to 6 amperes

to the BUS, and REG 3 still shows plus 3-1/2
although it's - I don't believe it, as you say.

CC Okay. How about Just picking one and giving us

a - a reading?

PLT Okay. CBRM number 2 is 6 amperes.

CC Okay, 6 even, thank you.

CC And we' re ready for the cycling on CBRM 3 when-

ever you are.

PLT Okay, Bruce, I put the purge fitting on the WMC

hose number 2 and verified that there was some
suction through there. And then I put the WMC 2
hose back on the water tank 7, and down here in
the waste compartment, my gage dump - gage still
reads above 2.0.

210 l_ 55 48 CC Okay, Jack. We copy that. Our suspicion now is

that we have a bad gage or transducer associated
with it. I understand that you're back in the
dump configuration now with the hose hooked back
up to water tank 7. We'd like you to leave the
8B1 DUMP valve OPEN for approximately 1 hour and
then assume that the pressure is down and press
on with the WMC water activation. Over.

PLT Okay.
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SPT Okay, Bruce, as your front troops there could

probably tell, there was no change in that CBRM
current, and I wonder if you want me to go ahead
and give it that CBRM ALL ON at this time?

210 14 56 41 CC Understand you tried it five times, Owen, and if

so, then go ahead with the CBRM ALL ON.

SPT Okay, it 's done.

CC And, for Jack, working back in our extensive

troubleshooting and repair procedure files we
find a recommendation that maybe you bang on the
meter a couple of times in the WMC and see if that
could be part of the problem.

SPT I still get no current on CBRM B, so I'll turn

CHARGER/REGULATOR switches to OFF if your ground
telemetry concurs.

CC Roger ; we concur, 0wen.

210 14 57 32 SPT Okay, now I have just turned them OFF and I now
have three STATUS lights. That was the other
point I wanted to bring up. Up to this point,
I had not status lights on, on the panel at all.
And I thought that was apparently because you'd
already turned them off on the ground; and, there-
fore, the lights didn't show up. Maybe that
assumption was incorrect, because I do have three
STATUS lights now, all the way across on CBRM
number 3. What I had before, I had a completely
clean panel. Over.

210 l_ 58 16 CC Okay, Owen. Your indications on CBRM 3, both

prior to your operation and at the present time,
are correct, because we did not turn the CBRM off.
Everything's okay and we know about the talkbacks
on CBRMs 15 and 17. Over.

SPT Okay, that's fine. I presume number 15 is the one

responsible for the BAT CHARGE ALERT light which
is now disappeared. I had a BAT CHARGE AT.k_T light
until Just - sunrise here a few minutes ago.

SPT It's disappeared now.

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210 14 59 05 CC Negative, Owen. We show that the ALk_RT light was

associated with CBRM number 3, and it's gone out
because you've killed the CBRM.

SPT Oh, okay. Thank you very much.

SPT I guess I didn't ever complete telling you what

I did have barber poles on. I obviously had, or
CBRM number 3, REG VOLTS and the BAT CHARGE barber
poles. On number 15, I had a BAT VOLTS barber
pole; and on number 17, I had a REG VOLT barber
pole.

210 14 59 43 CC Yes, we copied that last pass. We do not have

an explanation for the barber pole indication on
CBRM 15 BAT VOLTS. It's a known Skylab 2 anomaly,
and we're Just accepting it as - as one of those
things for right now.

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SKYIAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

210 15 00 03 SPT Okay, th-n_ you, Bruce.

CC Okay, we're coming up on i minute to LOS. Next

station will be Goldstone in about 2 minutes.
Just a short break here and we have a fairly long
stateside pass with a couple of interruptions.
Again for the SPT, the situation on CBRM 17 is
that we believe that we have a short circuit in
the solar cells associated with CBRM 17, giving
reduced output from that unit leading to a
REG VOLT LOW - a valid REG VOLT LOW indication
during daylight portions of the pass. Over.

SPT Okay, I understand, Bruce. Tb-n_ you, and Just

to verify; I do have my EPC RATE GYRO switch in
UP/DOWN in SECONDARY and in LEFT/RIGHT in PRIMARY.

210 15 01 39 CC Roger; we copy.

210 15 05 00 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 6 minutes.

Out.

PLT Roger. I Just finished the potable water chlori -

chlorination, and when I tried to get the water
back into the buffer, it leaked quite badly. But
I've been cleaning it up, so everything's copaeetic.

CC Roger. Think you can handle it?

PLT Yes, sir. Yes. What happened, apparently, is that

little plastic cap that's supposed to back up
as you let the water in didn't back up, and it Just
leaked the water right past it. It didn't get
cockeyed in there like I've heard it could do.
It's still perpendicular; it's Just that the
water went right by the edges of it and then, when
I took off the cap, the cap was I%_1] of water.

CC Okay. We copy that, and we ,11 look at the hardware

down here to see if there's anything we can do on
fUture missions.

210 15 06 09 SPT Well, Houston, I presume you're ready for us to

go ahead and enable star tracker control with
Canopus a_so the selected star.
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CC Roger, 0wen.

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS. Next station

contact is through Beraada in 5 minutes at the
time of 15:15. Over.

SPT Okay, and we're working on the P50 now, Bruce.

2_10 15 l0 34 CC Roger. Out.

210 15 15 14 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for about 7-1/2

minutes. For the SPT, we'd like to reconfirm
your star tracker pad angles. INNER GIMBAL is
minus 0789, and the Ob'r_ GIMBAL, say again,
OUTER GIMBAL is plus 0540. Over.

SPT I thought you were probably watching those down

there. Very good. I Just checked the ATMDC
Reference Data Book. And I'd reversed them.
I'd normally expect to get the outer gimbal first,
and I wrote it down that way. So I'll Just go on
over and reverse the gimbals. Glad you caught it.

210 15 17 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're coming up on a 45-second

voice cc_m dropout. We'll give you a call on the
other side. No reply necessary. Out.

2_10 15 18 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you again for about

4 minutes now, still through Bermuda. Be advised
that on your next station, which is Canary, we'll
be dumping the voice and data tape recorder. Out.

210 15 21 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact is a combined Canary-Ascension
pass with AOS Canary at 15:24 in about 2 minutes.
Out.

210 15 23 09 CC And, Commander; this is Houston. We copied your

torquing angles. No need to send them down.

210 15 2_ 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and

Ascension for 15 minutes. And, for the Commander,
we copied your torquing angles.

CDR Okay. In other words, you don't need anything.

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CC That's affirmative.

CDR Okay.

CC And, SPT, this is Houston. If you can verify

that you are through with the ATM C&D panel, we
need to load a drift update on the Y-2 rate gyro.
0ver.

SPT Roger. l'm through. I 'ii be off the DAS.

CC Okay. And again for the C.......

_nder, no reply
necessary; we'll be configured to receive your
E-memory dump whenever you're ready.

210 15 26 15 CDR And, Houston_ CDR. I still have a few more

stowage items. I'm going to work those. And then
I'll come back and power down the SCS G&N.

CC Okay, Alan, we copy that. But before you leave

the command module or get engrossed in the stowage,
we'd like to get the E-memory dump, HIGH BIT RATE,
and VERB 74 ENTER.

CDR Okay, I guess I didn't give you HIGH BIT RATE;

I'll go give you that. I gave you the 74; I'll
give that again.

210 15 27 40 CDR How does that look to you?

CC That looks great to us, Al. Th_n_ you.

210 15 32 25 CC SPT, from Houston. For your information, we're

through commanding on the DAS. And we have also
inhibited the star tracker outer gimbal update
to the computer by ground cr,,mand per SOP having
gotten the star tracker data in. Out.

210 15 39 07 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension; 1 minute to

LOS. Next station is Honeysuckle in half an hour
at 16:09. Out.

210 16 12 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston through HoneyBuckle for

the next 5-1/2 minutes. Out.

CDR Roger.
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CC And for your information, Skylab, we have resumed

unattended operation of the ATM and are currently
in the EXPERIMENT POINTING MODE. And when Jack
has a moment, we'd like to inquire as to whether
his tapping on the meter did any good on the WMC
dump line. We're considering other possibilities
for getting the system back in operation. And
sometime before LOS here, we'd like to get an
update from the three of you as to where you are
in the Activation Checklist. Over.

PLT Bruce, it didn't do any good to tap on the meter.

CC Roger.

SPT I'm still - I'm in the WMC right now, Houston,

working on the UCTA sampling. And the water
dump pressure on the meter right here is still
pegged too high.

CC Okay. Th_nk you, Owen.

PLT And the PLT is in the middle of the water system

activation in the wardroom. We're doing the
sterilization this time. We're putting the high
concentration iodine in the system and waiting.

CC Okay. Thank you, Jack.

CDR Sorry to ask this question so many times, but

would you verify that this is day 210?

CC Roger. This is day 2.

CDR OH, no, no, no. Two, one, zero, day of year.

CC Okay, 210. I thought you said 2 again.

CDR Thank you very much, Bruce.

CDR And, Houston, CDR is still working on stowage.

CC Roger, CDR.

210 16 16 34 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 m_uute to LOS. Next

station is Hawaii at 16:30 or 13 minutes from
now. Out.
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210 16 29 57 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

approximately 9 minutes. Out.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

210 16 31 19 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, sir.

CDR Just a second, let me see if we can stop the -

there we stopped the squawks. It's becoming
obvious to us, as it probably is to you, that
we're Just not as spry up here right now as we'd
like to be. We - None of us has been able to
eat all our breakfast reakfast and it's dinner time
now and we're really not too keen on eating too
much of that either. We feel okay, except in the
stomach, if you knowwhat I mean. And our
thinking is that we're not going to be able to
work much faster than are right now for the rest
of the day, if that fast. There's a desire to
maybe take a break for an hour or 2 and get in
the bunk and Just stay still for a while.
Although, we could keep moving around at a slow
pace and work at the level we're working at,
which isn't near fast enough, hut that's the
best we can do. Now, with this in mind, it kind
of appears to us that maybe you ought to think
about somehow exchanging our day off from about
5 days or 6 days from now until tomorrow. That
would let us sort of regroup, get our water level
up, rest a little bit more, and sort of get our
stomachs settled down. We all feel good in the
head, it's merely a matter of if we move around
too much, we feel like we better not move around
any more for awhile, and, of course, that slows
us down.

216 16 33 O_ CC Okay, AI, we copy all tb-t. The rate at which

you're worklng is quite satisfactory to us.
We're sort of planning around it. If you all
want to take an hour or so and get in the sack
or do something to stabilize, why, go right
ahead. When you have a moment, keep us - keep
us posted on where you are and what you're
doing, so that we can keep track down here and
go into a dynRm_c - well, we are in a dynamic
planning mode, and we've got your comment about
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switching the days off around and we'll evaluate

that internally here and be back to you on that
later. Over.

CDR Roger. It would be my sort of subjective opinion

right now that a couple of days from now, we'd
have a hard time goind EVA. That'd be my guess,
Just from the rate of adaptation we're having
at the moment.

210 16 BB 59 CC Okay, we have likewise factored that one into

the system, and when y'all are through with lunch
and back on the Job, I've got a location and
description for Jack perhaps to bang on the
transducer that feeds the WMC dump pressure gauge.
Over.

CDR Okay, why don't you give me that, and I'll copy
it down?

210 16 B_ 27 CC Okay, when you open up the door underneath the

water squeezer, I th_nk it's 829, the WMC vent
valve, panel 831, is right there on your left if
you're standing up in one g, and directly in
behind it is the transducer; I'm looking at the
photograph, it looks like it's about 2 inches
by 2 inches by 4 inches, a little, apparently
solid metal box with a quarter-inch stainless
steel line going in the top of it and an electrical
connector coming out the bottom. You can either
do - do it at your convenience. And we suggest
that he tap or bang on it with his fingertips or
some small object and see if that affects the
pressure read_ng. Over.

2_1016 35 24 CDR Okay, we're going to have to call you back on

that. We were blocked out for a little while
there with a MASTER ALARM from the command module.
We're going to work that problem and then we'll
call you Just as soon as we can.

CC Roger. Out.

PLT I heard all that, Bruce. I'll remember it.

CC Okay, it's pretty obvious, Jack. It's the only

instrumentation-looking box back there behind the
dump valve.
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PLT Okay.

210 16 37 09 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, CDR.

CDR Roger. We've had about three MASTER ALARMS from

the command module this morning. And each time
when we've gone there, we've found that no light
was on. We called the recall and couldn't get a
light. And we Just, of course, Just had one a
few moments ago and the same thing occurred.

CC Okay, Alan, we're showing the same thing down

here. About all I can say is that we will keep
a close eye on it. As you may realize, not all
of the command module parameters are available to
the memory in the comm-nd module. There's only
about half of them that are hooked up to that.
Over.

CDR Roger.

210 16 38 36 CC This is Houston. 30 seconds to LOS at Hawaii.

Next station is Goldstone in 3-1/2 minutes. Out.

210 16 h2 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

almost 6 minutes. Out.

210 16 h4 21 CDR Houston, do you know where the two spare tape
recorders are stowed?

CC We'll have an answer for you on that in Just a

second.

CC A-

CDR Front or back?

CC They' re in A-9, A1.

CDR Okay.

210 16 46 52 CC Skylab Commander, this is Houston. Over.

CDR Go ahead.
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CC Okay, A1. We've got a minute to LOS at Goldstone.

Four minutes from now, I'Ii pick you up at MLA.
We're going to have a briefing discussion with
you, coming up on Ascension at 17:08, regarding
what we feel we need to get finished up today.
But for the time being, we'd recommend that you
take your own advice and go into the local
horizontal mode or something like that and Just
rest for a while. And I guess one of the things
that apparently doesn't need to be accomplished
today is the airlock module tape recorder
replacement, so you can Just hold off on that
and relax for a while. Over.

CDR Sounds like a good idea.

210 16 47 4B CC Okay, we'll give you a call over MLA in a few

minutes. Excuse me, over Bermuda in a few
minutes. No response required.

210 16 54 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

8-1/2 minutes. No reply required. Out.

CDR Go ahead, Houston.

CC Okay, A1, I was Just telling you that we were

here in contact. Coming up on Ascension which
is still about 15 minutes away, we'd like you
to have the yellow pages portion of your
Activation Checklist; that is, the Flight Plan
section open, and we'll read off to you those
hlocks that we feel need to be accomplished
today. And you can Just check them off or
circle them, or do something like that. I think
we can handle the whole thing that way. Over.

CDR Sounds like a good way. We'll be ready.

CC Roger. Out.

210 17 01 56 CC Skylab, Houston." 30 seconds to LOS. We'll pick

you up through Ascension in 6-1/2 minutes. Out.

210 17 08 44 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension. We've

got you for about lO minutes here. And if the
Commander has his checklist out, we're ready to
run through the things that we feel probably
ought to be accomplished today. Over.
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! CDR Okay,Just a second.

SPT While you're waiting there, Bruce, I Just finished

all the UCTA sampling. And I 'm looking for that
little map that shows where each of the samples
are supposed to be pl - placed in the freezer.
I though it was in our Activation Checklist,
maybe it's not. If you could Just show me where
that map is, I'd appreciate it. And when you're
through with this other, why, you can tell me.

CC Okay, we'll locate the map for you, Owen, in Just

a second here.

210 17 l0 05 CDR Okay, Bruce, ready to go on the other.

CC Okay, A1. On page small g for Golf, at about

- about 13:50 in your col_,mn, CSM G&N/SCS
powerdown per page 2-20, we want to accomplish.
And - and over in Jack's COllrmn, wardroom water
system activation per page 2-15. Over.

CDR Okay, got both of those.

CC Next page, little h for Hotel. SPT UCTA sampling,

which 0wen reports to me he has Just completed,
is all that we require out of b_m. In the PLT
column, opposite about 15:20, the 100 parts per
million drain and flush operation on page 2-35,
the water system flush on page 2-39, and the
wardroom water system bleed, down at the bottom
on page 2-45_ Over.

CDR Okay, I've got those.

CC Next page, little i for India. The PLT at

approximately 17:20 indicated, we want to do the
bed 2 bakeout termination for 2-55. Over.

_H Okay.

CC And the tool sieve A activation per 2-63.

CDR Okay.
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210 17 ll 42 CC In your column, about equal to the toolsieve A I

activation, we'd like to write in a 'Bat A charge
termination" that - which should occur around
18:40 Zulu, although the timing is not real
critical at all on this. What we'd like to do
is get the bat A charge terminated prior to doing
the following steps for you. Over.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, next page, page j for Juliett, the items

that I'm calling out here are pretty much a part
of the quiescent panel configuration, but all that
we really want to do is do the single inverter
operation configuration per page systems 4-7,
which is referenced if you go to the quiescent
panel configuration 2-76 in the Activation Check-
list. And configure panels 275 and panel 250.
Those are the two electrical panels; one for the
inverter control and the bus tie type thing, and
the other for the batteries per quiescent panel con-
figuration. And one write-in is we need to get a
waste water dump from the command module to the _--
workshop, while you're up there, at the same time.
This is per page systems checklist 4-16, that's
Command Module Systems Checklist 4-16. And for
your information, we expect that probably two
more water dumps will req - be required. So we
recommend, although it's your option, that you
omit the two steps which cause you to take the
plumbing apart, and Just leave the system hooked
up to save time on the future ones. Over.

CDR Sounds like a good idea.

210 17 14 26 CC Okay, for the SPT, the stowage map for urine is
on page 9-9 of the Biomed Experiment Checklist
and Log. What it says basically is all six have
urine samples from the UCTA go in slot number 1
of the urine tray. Over.

SPT Okay, understand. Thank you, Bruce.

CC Okay. And for the Commander, we're requesting

that when you all avail yourself of the sackout
time, that you each take a scop/Dex tablet. And
next time somebody happens to be up in the CSM
over a site, we'd like to get the TAPE RECORDER
FORWARD/REWIND switch put to the OFF position,
maybe we can get the DSE operating properly again.
Over.
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i CDR Okay,
We youdo
'ii go want
thatthe TAPEnow.
right RECORDER FORWARD,OFF.

CC Okay, if you feel like it.

210 17 16 31 CDR TAPE RECORDER, FORWARD, OFF.

CC Okay, thank you, A1.

PLT And, Bruce, Just for information, I'm having a

hard time getting the portable water tank drained
because the waste processor exhaust pressure keeps
going up above 0.08. So I've cycled the DUMP
valve from OFF to ON, and probably after a while
the water tank will be drained. You concur with
that?

CC Okay, Jack. We concur with that. I know it takes

a little while, but that's the way we'd like to
get it done.

210 17 17 49 CC And for the CDR, this is Houston. On your way by

panel 207 in the STS, prior to sacking out, we'd
like you to INHIBIT the ACS MALF, RATE GYR0
switch from the ATM again so that you don't get
a caution and warning if we have a redundancy
management. Over.

CDR Okay, Bruce.

210 17 18 57 CC And 22 seconds to LOS. Next station is Carnarvon

in 22 minutes. And we'll give you a call there.
Over.

CDR Okay.

SPT Hey, how's your chanuel B doing down there, Bruce?

CC We'll check on that, Owen. I don't know that

we've positive feedback yet on anything from
channel B.

SPT Okay. I'm going to put a little bit of stuff

on it right -next few minutes.

210 17 19 27 CC Okay.
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210 17 h3 ii CC Skylab, this Houston through Carnarvon for the

next 8-1/2 minutes. We have a couple of items
associated with the command module waste water
dump when the Commander 's available, and we wonder
if you're feeling any better since you took the
scop/Dex. Over

CDR Roger. I don't think anybody's gone to bed yet,

Houston. So I don't think anybody's taken the
scop/Dex. And I'm standing by for the note on -
waste water dump.

CC Okay, it's two small notes. The first is to

verify that the condensate holding tank inlet
hose is connected to panel 393 and to the
condensate inlet port. And the second item is that
in step ll of the command module waste water dump
to 0WS procedure, page Sh-17, we want you to delete
the last operation which says : "Airlock module 230
and 232 HEAT EXCHANGER A CONDENSATE isolation
valve, to OPEN" - since we haven't powered up the
condensate system yet. Over.

210 17 h_ 3h CDR Understand. I've gone through the condensate

System prep. I mean the H0_ plate wetting prep,
but I don't think we've don_ the rest.

CC That's correct - -

CDR I got those two notes.

CC Right, you have not done the rest. Now our plan
here is that, following LOS at Carnarvon, we're
not going to give you any more calls on the radio
for - oh - probably 3 or h hours. If you want
to contact us, go ahead and put lO,O00 in the
ATM DAS, but do not ENTER. And we'll call you
the next time we see it over a station. Over.

CDR Okay, thank you.

910 17 h5 37 CC And, A1, to correct a possible misimpression on

my last transmission, regarding the scop/Dex,
we'd like you to go ahead and take it at the
present time, so it'll have a little chance to
act. 0ver.

CDR Okay, will do.

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210 17 51 14 CC Skylab, this is Houston with about 45 seconds to

LOS from Carnarvon. This will be our last call
until - oh, about dinnertime - 3 or h hours from
now. For the PLT, our reco,,,,-endation would be
Just to stop the wardroom water system activation
wherever is convenient for you and to go ahead
and hit the sack with the rest of the guys. Over.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

210 18 38 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda. We'd

like you to terminate bat A charge in the commaud
module at this time. Acknowledge. Over.

CDR Okay. We'll do it right now.

210 18 38 51 CC Roger. Out.

210 19 19 2_ CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

7-1/2 minutes. We see 10000 on the DAS. Over.

PLT Yes, Bruce. We were down there resting and got

a MASTER ALARM. Turned out to be a MAIN A
UNDERVOLT. And came up here and looked at it in
the command module, and noticed that the MAIN A
was down around 25 volts for a little while, and
the fuel cell was putting out a lot of current.
Then it went down and went back to norm-1. And
then it made a couple of more spikes, very
intermittently, a couple of times. And I'm kind
of suspecting the heaters, although I don't know
for sure. I put all the heaters in the opposite
position to see if we can get aMAIN B the next
time, and isolate it to the heater system. But
looked like it was putting a lot of load on the
fuel cell. The only other thing we can think of
is there's a lot of water in the waste tAnK. Of
course, there's plenty of room in the potable
t_nk; that wouldn't be any problem. The only
other thing we got running are the - is the
glycol pump and the fUel cell pumps, they're ac,
but we didn't get any ac indication at all.

CC Okay. I think we're probably going to want to

ask you a few more questions on this subject,
Jack. You say the fuel cell were - was putting
out a lot of current. Was this fuel cell l?
And - oh, I guess you got the buses tied
together. What sort of current are you tal_ing
about?

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210 19 21 07 PLT Okay, we had - we're normally running between

20 and 25 amps on both - both buses, and for the
little while we had the main A, why - main A -
the service module source 1 was putting out -
fuel cell 1 was putting out 40 amps.

CC Okay. Did you check to see what fuel cell

number 3 was doing at that time? Over.

PLT Yes. It was only putting out 20 amps.

CC Okay. We copy that. Th_nk you.

210 19 21 39 PLT And the buses are not tied together yet.

CC Roger. That was my error.

210 19 2_ 55 CC Hey, Jack, you still there?

CDR Roger. Go ahead.

CC You don't sound like Jack, but I guess you'll

do. Looking at the MAIN A UNDERVOLT, it appears
to us that it was due to a stacking up of the
heater loads all at once. And what we'd like
to do is to have you turn the HEATERS and FANS
in HYDROGEN TANK number l, OFF, and the HEATER
for OXYGEN TANK number l, OFF, and then complete
the panel configurations for panel 250 and
panel 226, per Systems Checklist, page 3-8.
Over.

CDR Okay, we'll go - go through that quiescent panel.

We were to there anyway, and we were Just getting
ready to settle down. We'll go back and put that
thing in quiescent and do the things you said,
Bruce.

210 19 26 O1 CC Oh, I don't think you have to - -

CDR We may have to put the heaters back - the original

heaters back on.
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CC Okay. I don't think you have to go through the

whole quiescent checklist. This is - Just what
we want to get here is the configuration of some
of these heaters.

SPT We'll work on it; then we'll take a break.

CC Okay.

210 19 26 24 CC We've got about 40 seconds to LOS here at

Carnarvon. The next station coming up is Guam
in about 7 minutes, and if you like, we can
give you a call there or we can Just be standing
by. And if you want something, you can give us
a call. That's at 19:33. Over.

CDR Go ahead and give us a call.

210 19 26 47 CC We'll do it.

END OF TAPE

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

210 19 33 34 CC SkYlab, this is Houston through Guam for a little

over 8 minutes. Out.

CDR Roger. We Just went over to single inverter

operation, and we're now configuring panel 5,
and we're going to press on from there.

CC Okay. Do I interpret what you're saying is

you're going to do the whole quiescent configura-
tion in the command module at this time? Over.

CDR Roger. It won't take us that long, and then

we'll have it done right.

CC Beautiful. We concur.

CDR Give us a recap on the 02 and H 2 heaters and

fan switches that you'd like. Wewant to
make sure we're right.

CC Okay. Stand by Just a second.

CDR And also any comments about the fuel cell

pumps or anything else.

210 19 35 07 CC Okay, Skylab. What we want is H2 TANK number i

HEATERS, OFF ; H 2 TANK 2, HEATERS to AUTO ;

H2 TANK 1 FAN, OFF; H 2 TANK 2 FAN, AUTO;

OXYGEN TANK i HEATERS, OFF; OXYGEN TANK 2 HEATERS
to AUTO. And the nominal configuration on the
fuel cell pumps: FUEL CELL l, AC l; FUEL CELL 3,
AC 2; but you'll be powering both AC BUS 1 and 2
off of the one inverter, so it really doesn't
mA_e any difference on that point. Over.

CDR And we got it that way, and we're going to put -

as we mentioned, we're going to put the heaters
back as they were before this problem.

CC All right. This is the cryo heaters you're

talking about. Over.
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210 19 36 08 CDR We're ta1_ng about RCS heaters, package heaters,

et cetera.

CC Okay. And you Just put that all back to the

preconfiguration. Do you need any more information
from us on those 9•

CDR No, not to put them back, lmsess you have any
other suggestions.

210 19 B8 42 CC Skylab, Houston. Wh_le we're taS_Tng to you on

the subject of quiescent configurations, did
you receive our teleprinter message last night
which was change number 1 to CSM Systems Checklist,
general message 202 Charlie, with the cryo
configuration in it? Over.

CDR We did, and we also got the one about the RCS
switches, and we've set them correctly.

CC Roger ; out.

CDR Thanks for checking, though.

120 19 _0 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're noticing that we're not

getting any data back on the circadian rhythm
data system. We're wondering if you could check
the position, but not change, on panel 5,
EXPERIMENT BUS MAIN A and MAIN B circuit breakers
and EXPERIMENT POWER, B, EXPERIMENT. Over.

CDR Tell us exactly what you want. We don't think

we did, but we could have. If it just recently
went off, it's probable, because we've been work-
ing on that panel.

CC Okay. We got 15 seconds to LOS. We want to find

out what the position of the EXPERIMENT BUS
MAIN A and MAIN B circuit breakers and
EXPERIMENT - -

CDR They're out per the quiescent checklist. A's open,

B's closed.

CC Okay; A, open; B, closed. How about EXPERIMENT

POWER, B, EXPERIMENT? That's the middle one
over to the right.

CDR It 's in.

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CC Okay. Thank you. We've got 9 - 15 minutes to

A0$ at Goldstone. I think we'll probably give
you a call at Goldstone, also.

210 lO 42 16 CDR Okay, and we'll try to work that problem, too.

210 19 57 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone and

stateside stations for 15 minutes. We've got
some questions for you regarding the configuration
of the S071/72 experiments when you have a
minute.

CDR We've got it right now. Go ahead, Bruce.

CC Okay, over on MDC panel 5, if you'll look down

there in the lower right-hand corner, there is a
group of five circuit breakers having to do
with the experiments.

PLT Roger, Bruce. We got MAIN A is open, and the

other four are closed.

210 19 50 05 CC Okay, what we're lookin_ for, reading from left

to right, is EXPER_ BUS, MAIN A, CLOSED;
MAIN B, CLOSED ; EXPERIMENT POWER A, OPEN ;
B CLOSED; AND C, CLOSED. Over.

PLT Okay, and the middle one is open.

CC Middle one is open, and the other four are

closed.

PLT That's the way we've got them right now.

CC Okay.

PLT How about 227 now? Did you say to do something

on there? Panel 227, SCI instrumentation?

CC No, we did not. But on panel 227, we'd like you

to confirm the S071 power switch to ON, and the
S072 switch to POWER. Over.

210 19 58 55 PLT That's verified.

CC Okay, we copy.
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SPT We're Just making landfall now, Bruce. What part

of the coastline are we crossing?

CC I'm sorry, Ow_n, I didn't copy. Can you say

again, please?

SPT We're just making landfall now. I wondered what

part of the coast we were crossing.

CC Okay, Just looking at the chart here in

Mission Control, looks like you're up above
Washin ton State. We can get you a little better
hack than that in a second.

SPT Well, that's close enough. Got a little info on

the w - wardroom window here, whenever you're
not too busy on the power stuff.

CDR Okay, I've got a couple of comments for you,

Bruce.

210 19 59 h5 CC Okay, Alan, go ahead.

CDR Okay, we left the potable water heater on until

we finished with the water heater. And in one
other switch ***

CC Go ahead, you've dropped out.

210 20 00 02 CDR Okay, on - Just a second. We noticed that it's

got the - on panel 352, PRESSURE RELIEF valve
to OFF. And we presently don't have that in OFF.
And I'm Just wondering if, in order to keep get-
ting water from the command module for drinking
purposes, should we go ahead and put it in OFF
or leave it right where it is?

CC Stand by Just a second.

CDR It's in RELIEF.

CC Okay, on 352, Alan, go ahead and leave the valve

in the RELIEF position.

CDR Okay, now when we finish using water up here

after we get the wardroom water activated, should
we then put that to OFF per the checklist?
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210 20 Ol 09 CC That's affirmative.

CDR Okay, if you'll keep track of those two for us,

we'd appreciate it - that the pressure RELIEF
valve is in OFF - I mean, is not in OFF, and the
potable water heater is on. And when we finally
get the rest of it done, give us a reminder.
We'll probably remember, but this way, two of us
will be working on it.

CC Will do.

PLT How is the instrumentation on the gnats and rats

now, Bruce?

CC It's still NO GO, Jack. There must be something

else that we haven't figured out.

PLT I 'm kind of wondering if maybe the spikes we had

on MAIN A were - that thing shorting out.

CC Well, we've been discussing that possibility down

here but, at the present time, we don't - don't
have any definite opinion on that.

PLT Okay. Well, those spikes that we had weren't

typical heater - on spikes. That spike's - It
wasn't really a spike. It went up there and
stayed for a while, and then came down and then
spiked up a couple of times.

CC Can you give us any estimate of how long it was

at that higher level? I know it took you a while
to get up there and look.

PLT Both A1 and I saw it to stay up there for a couple

of seconds - two differenct times at least.

210 20 02 31 CC About what mission t_me was this? We can go back

and reconstruct when we get A0S with you, but we
don't know exactly how far before that it happened.

PLT About l0 minutes before we called.

CC Okay. Thank you

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210 20 02 46 PLT Okay. And we've been getting caution and warning
all morning. You know - just intermittents and
we get up here and we can't find out what it is,
but - but that wouldn't have been MAIN A, because
it locks up.

CC Roger; we copy.

PLT So I think that was the first ***

210 20 0B 17 CC Okay, Jack, your last comment got cut out there
on a handover within the stateside group.

CC PLT, Houston. Your last comment got cut out by

ground-station handover. Over.

PLT Now you hearing me, Bruce? Sounds like we've got
up-link but no down-link.

CC Yes, we're reading you now, Jack. I was saying

your last previous co_en was cut out, because
we were having a handover here from Goldstone to
Texas.

PLT Okay, I'll repeat. We got the quiescent setup

about complete. And we've got both buses tied
together, and in total they're pulling between
30 and 40 amps off the -

210 20 Oh hO CC Say again about the current.

PLT The total amperage is between 30 and h0 amps; it's

varying.

CO Okay, we've got it.

CDR And we finished the qniescent check in the command

module, Houston.

CC Okay, Alan, we copy. And we'd like to get you to

cycle the two power switches - the one for SO71,
the one for S072, on panel 277, if you would,
please.

CDR/PLT Okay.
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210 20 05 h2 CDR When I first went up to the command module for

this low condition, Bruce, the fuel cell 1 was
Jumping almost to max flow, and it was Jumping
up to max and then about three-quarters of the
way down, and then up to max and then about halfway
down and then up to max. And it didn't act like
any heater that I've ever seen come on, unless the
heater itself was somehow shorting out, because
it was taking a big load. The fuel cells were
going as rapidly as possible to match it, but they,
of course, could not. And this occured about four
or five times. I called Jack; he came up. He
saw it a couple of times, and it's been normal
since then. And it became normal before we
switched the heaters. Of course, we came into the
sunlight some time around then. We're not sure,
because we've got all our window covers up. But
it Just didn't act like heaters to me. It acted
more like scme sort of short on the bus that may
have burned away.

PLT I concur with that. That was like no heater I

ever saw before. And I cycled you switches on
the - the 277.

210 20 06 50 CC Okay, we copy the input and the fact that you
cycled the switches. Thank you.

SPT There's Houston, 12 o'clock low, Bruce.

CC Okay, I guess we say there is Skylab at 12 o'clock

high. Thank you, Owen.

SPT You know we can almost pick out the NASA Manned
Spacecraft Center - Johnson Center - right down
there.

CC Is there anybody up on Pete Conrad's roof?

SPT That I can't make out without bincoulars.

SPT Comment on this wardroom window, if you're through

with that systems stuff for a minute.

SPT The wardroom window, when I uncovered it here,

it has a pane of frost about i0 centimeters or
about 2-1/2 - about h inches or i0 centimeters in
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diameter; and right in the center of that frost,

there is a little round bubble of either water
or ice - -

CC Break, break.

SPT Go ahead.

CC We need to talk to CSM again here for a second.

SPT Right.

210 20 07 56 CC Can you all get at the S015 control panel, Alan?

CDR Sure can.

CC Okay, we'd like you to cycle the 40X. Hole it

on - the 40X switch on SO15, and observe the frame
rate on the camera. It - hold it in the TEST
postion. And it's supposed to be about one flash
every 12 seconds or so.

CDR Will do it ; 40X.

210 20 08 22 CC And ve've got a handover here in about l0 seconds.

I'll call you when we're on the other side.

CC Okay, we're back in business there, Alan.

CC Back in business there, A1.

CC Skylab, Houston. Back to you through MLA at

this time.

210 20 l0 03 cC Skylab, Houston. Back to you through MLA with a

little over 2 minutes until LOS.

CDR ... stay on as long as I remain in TEST.

CC I only heard the last part of your transmission,

A1. Something about remaining in TEST. Over.

CDR As long as I remain in TEST, it's on for 5, off

for 7, on for 5, off for 7-
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CC Okay, we copy that and back over here on panel 8

[sic], with respect to these experiment circuit
breakers, we'd like to establish whether that
one on the left-hand side of the group of five
EXPERIMENT BUS, MAIN A, popped out, or whether
you all pulled that out in configuring the
panel. Over.

PLT Well, you know, Bruce, one of those breakers was

out. And I thought that's the one that it was.
And it may not have been, although I don't know.

q CC Okay, but when you guys went through the quiescent

panel checks in that area, it looked to you like
it was already in configuration? Is that correct?

210 20 ii B0 CDR I don't think we're sure, Bruce. We took a look

at the circuit breaker, and then we went through
quiescent panel configuration immediately
thereafter; and we've done every circuit breaker
in the spacecraft, and l'm afraid we Just can't
remember that particular one.

CC (Laughter) Okay, we'll believe that.

CC And we've got about _0 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact is Vanguard in ll minutes, and
we'll give you a call through there. And my
apologies to the SPT for not being able to listen
to his comments on the wardroom window at that -
this time. We'll try and pick him up over
Vanguard.

SPT Perfectly understood, Bruce. I didn't want to

work it in unless you had a little spare time,
but I spotted you all the way across the whole
bay of Mexico there - Gulf of Mexico.

210 20 12 27 CC Beautiful.

210 20 23 56 PLT We're here if you're there.

CC Okay, Jack, we're reading you weA_ly, but the

signal strength is coming up rapidly now. Through
Vanguard for approximately 7 minutes. What we'd
like you to do in connection with S071/72 is take
the EXPERIMENT POWER Bravo EXPERIMENT circuit
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Breaker on panel 5, _ch is the fourth one over

the right, that is, over toward the SPS heater
side, and cycle that out and back in, and then
cycle the S071/72 power switches again, please.
Over.

210 20 24 44 PLT Okay, that's the Bravo circuit breaker. Now that's
the fifth one from the right. Is Bravo the one
you want?

CC It's the one in between the EXPERIMENT POWER

Alfa and Charlie circuit breakers.

PLT Well, it looks a lot like Bravo than.

CC Right.

PLT Okay, you want me - Open, close, and then recycle,

right ?

CC Yes. Then recycle the switches on 277.

PLT Okay, Just recycled the circuit breaker and now

I'll get the switches.

CC Okay.

210 20 25 29 PLT Okay, everything's back on.

CC Okay, Jack, while we're standing by here, we've

got some more developments wetre trying to track
down here. Maybe we can get a report from Owen
on his wardroom window problem.

SPT Why don't you go ahead and finish that one up

and then I'll task to you about it?

PLT He's not too worried about talking about it for

a while, Bruce.

CC Roger.

PLT Okay, better get her closed and let her bleed down
a fair amount. You got 9 minutes?

210 20 27 56 CC Skylab, Houston.

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PLT Thirteen. Go ahead, I was t,1_ng to the wrong

guy there, Bruce.

CC Okay, Jack, for your information, it turns out

that the power for $071/SO72 experiments is drawn
directly off of service module bus Alfa through
on 15-amp fuse for each experiment, and that the
power that comes through the circuit breakers
and the switches up in the command module is
logic and control power. At the present time, our
suspicion is that we may have blown one or more
of these fuses; however, we've got a few data
system comm_nds that can be sent. So what we'd
like to do is leave the command module end of it
properly configured for the time heing but not
put any more crew time into troubleshooting at
the present time. Over.

210 20 28 49 PLT Okay, Just tell me how you want it and I'll put
it there. Do you like it the way it is?

CC Yes, we like it the way it is with the experiment

BUS breakers, in ; and EXPERIMENT POWER A/C in;
and the switches, on.

PLT Okay, meanwhile, we're moving along slowly here.

We got the wardroom water full of iodine; we're
flushing that out now. The problem is that you
can't dump it for 30 minutes straight. You've got
to cycle on and off, so it's t_ng a little extra
time to do that.

210 20 29 23 CC Okay, we copy that, Jack. And I got my tongue

tied on this last one. The circuit breaker
configuration that you've got up there we think is
correct. The EXPERIMENT POWER breakers, we won't
enter the B and C breakers. We copy your comments
on the wardroom water system. Basically, our
philosophy has been that you guys should slow down
and take it easy, and anything that you can get
done and work along in sequence in the checklist
is fine, but we're more interested in getting you
guys acclimatized to the enviroment right now
than anything else. Over.

PLT ...
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210 20 30 i0 CC I'm sorry, I missed that last one. We got some

noise. We're coming through Vanguard, and they're
anchored in the harbor there.

PLT Yes, our sentiments are pretty much the same. I

terminated the - the BED 2 bakeout pretty much
on time, about 17:hO, I guess it was. And I
Couldn't go ahead and get mol sieve A up, of course,
because we don't have the - the certain watering
water condensate plates serviced yet.

CC Okay, Jack, we don't need them up. Go ahead and

activate the mol sieve. We 'ii worry a_out the
condensing heat exchanger and the condensate plates
later on. The little bit of water that the sieve
collects will probably be okay until we get to
it. Over.

PLT Oh, all right. I thought maybe that it's collect

more water that we ought to get in the BEDs, but
you say it's all right to go ahead. It looks
like the dew point's around 57, last I checked,
so that means I crank up sieve A then.

210 20 31 16 CC Yes, sir. Just leave the coolant valve to the

condensate plates closed off. We got i0 seconds
to LOS at Vanguard. Our next station contact is
Goldstone in an hour and 3 minutes; :_nd, for
Owen, we've dumped data tape recorder. We believe
you're still recording on channel A, though, at
this point in the configuration, since we found n
nothing on B.

CDR Well, I didn't record anything on A. I did put a

comment to the biomed people on channel B a
couple of hours ago. That's all.

CC Right. That would have been lost.

CDR I'll do it again.

CC On A, please.

210 20 31 57 CDR Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

210 21 35 08 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone and

Texas for the next 12 minutes. Over.

PLT Hello, Bruce. Well, we're still up here in the

Command module; at least I am. And this time I
was up here for a FUEL CELL 3 light.

CC Boy, it sounds like you found a home up there in

the command module. Go ahead, though.

PLT Yes, I couldn't find anything wrong when I got

here. The condenser - except the condenser exhaust
was down a little low. And it may have been
below 150 but - and it got back up before I got
here. So I don't know exactly why we got that,
but the condenser exhaust is rising a little bit ;
it's almost to the green now. And I haven't got
around to checking my - my FUEL CELL RAD OUT T_MP,
but I guess you can probably see that down there.
The SKIN TEMP hasn't changed appreciably.

210 21 36 04 CC Okay, Jack. We concur that it was the condensate

exhaust that caused the MASTER ALARM there and
that it's going back up. Got a little bit of
information for you regarding your previous MAIN A
problem. We've played back the tapes down here
on the ground and looked at them closely and we
concur that it was, indeed a short circuit on
MAIN A. We show spikes as - or excuse me, on
BUS A. We show spikes as high as 70 amperes fluc-
tuating and voltages down as low as 25 volts, sup-
porting your contention that it was not on a nor-
mal heater cycling situation. In very close time
correlation to these current spikes, we lost the
circadian rhythm data system, and our present
belief is that it was a short in this data system
that caused your problems and that it finally
failed in the open position. So this probably
implies that you won't have any more problems
on MAIN A and that the data system is lost.
However, we want to leave the command module
switches and circuit breakers in their present
configuration for the time being. Over.
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PLT Okay, I copy all that. Probably one of those

mice is sitting on an open terminal down
there. He'll get off it after a while.

210 21 B7 26 CC I thought maybe he got hungry and decided

he'd like Teflon insulation or something
to eat.

CC And for the SPT or whoever is at the ATMDC,

we'd like to get the i0,000 cleared off the DAS.
And then, Jack, we have one more request for
you if you feel up to it. We'd like to go
ahead and get the water condensate system
activated by going through the water separator
flight servicing procedures on page 2-27 of
Activation Checklist and then the condensate
system activation right after it on 2-35,
if you could. And our feeling is that this
probably ought to take priority over finishing
up the water system activation, if you feel
like you can do it and work it in; otherwise,
you could probably split the taskup with
A1 on it. Over.

210 21 B8 27 PLT Okay. We'll look it over and see if we can

hack that, and we sL]most got the wardroom
water thing taken care of, I believe.

CC Okay, sounds mighty fine. Break, break for

the commander. Over.

CDR Go ahead.

210 21 B8 _5 CC Okay, A1. We request that all three of you

take another scop/Dex. Acknowledge. Over.

CDR Okay. Right now, you mean?

CC Yes, indeed. And I've got some instructions

for you that we believe will hasten your
vestibular adaptation.

CDR We're sure listening for that.

210 21 B9 l0 CC Okay. I'm informed that ground-base studies

in slow-rotation rooms have shown that
adaptation and loss of motion sickness with
head movements, while protected with medication, _
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CC Occurs within hours or a day at most. And

the following procedures are based on these
and aimed at helping you adapt. As I've
indicated, you should take a scop/Dex capsule and
then wait for the pill to take ma×imum effect,
which is approximately 1 hour after ingestion.
With your body stationary, perform right-left
head movements of the yawing type; i.e.,
yaw right, yaw left at a rate of approximately
30 per minute for a 10-minute period for
accumulated durations of 30 or 40 minutes.
I guess this comes out to 900 to 1200 yawing
movements, but don't allow any m_Jor symptoms
to occur during this period of head movement.
If these simple right-left head movements
can be tolerated, they'd like you to attempt
complex head movements in the four planes
as defined in the M131 experiment. The more
of these movements that can be done, the_more
rapid will be the adaptation. But we're not
implying that you use the M131 hardware.
The primary factor underlying these procedures
is that vestibular adaptation will not occur
without head movements. The anti-motion-
sickness pill should prevent symptoms and
allow head movements to be made. And we also
feel that probably, if you all can Just keep
going slowly on some of the tasks as you
feel up to it, you would, indeed, benefit from
the movements - Just normal adjuncts to
these tasks - also helping you to adapt while
you've got the scop/Dex in effect. Over.

210 21 41 G6 CDR Okay, we understand. In fact, what we've

been thinking about - as you know, we all three
went through this conditioning thing with
the scop/Dex on the rotating chair. And
one of the things that's been crossing my
mind is maybe that sort of set us up because
Jack was very good on that chair and did all
those movements and the whole business and -
and he hasn't adapted - yet. Neither has
Owen or myself, and we went through that
whole protocol. We'll take them and do the
head movements, but that's what we did the week
before the flight. So it seems to me that - -
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CC Okay, we're coming up on a handover here.

CDR - - ... Just didn't happen to work on the

three of us for some reason, but we'll work
on it.

210 21 41 46 CC Okay, A1. We've got a handover in progress

right now. I'll get back to you in a second.

CC Okay. Belay that. Handover complete, and

we copied your response.

PLT Hey, Bruce, you think we ought to do anything

to keep this condenser exhaust from coming on
every time we go into darkness? I got a hunch
the thing cools off and then warms up again in
the sunshine.

210 21 42 22 CC Stand by a second on that, Jack, we're discussing

it right now.

210 21 46 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We've got a minute

and a half to LOS here at Texas. We're going
to be dumping the voice and data recorder next
pass, Vanguard, which comes up in 14 minutes at
22:00. And a final comment regarding these
vestibular motion procedures - we are aware of
the preflight protocol that you all went through
and have certainly been discussing that a good
bit. But I think that, in the present state,
the procedures that we Just read up to you are
our best effort at determining something that'll
hasten your adaptation. Over.

SPT Okay, Bruce. And check channel A when you

get it down on the tape.

210 21 46 54 CC Okay, Owen, we'll check channel A.

210 21 47 15 CC Skylab PLT, this is Houston. For right now

we'd like to go 4-A to INHIBIT on the CAUTION
and WARNING, which is FUEL CELL B, condenser
exhaust temperature. We're going to be varying
the loads on the system by ground command most
likely to bring the load up a little and compen-
sate for a loss of the circadian rythm data
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system, which we think'll keep it within limits,

but this way it'll get rid of the nuisance trips.
Over.

210 21 47 41 PLT 4-A's INHIBIT.

CC Roger; out. See you at Vanguard.

PLT Okay, tbAn_ you. We're in 1 inverter also,

by the way.

210 21 47 48 CC Roger. We copy.

210 22 01 04 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard

for 6-1/2 minutes. We've done a little switching
in the command module. Basically what we've
turned on to take up the circadian rhythm data
system power drop is the two power amplifiers ;
i.e., the primary and secondary power amps
are both on HIGH, strictly to use up a little
power and keep the environmental temperatures
in the command module up to where they ought
to be. Over.

PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you.

CC And I guess when you have a free moment or some

time here, either this pass or the next station
or something we could use a few comments from
you on what your druthers are, with respect to
plans for this evening and when you feel like
eating supper and this sort of thing. Over.

CDR Why don't you let us talk about it in here for

a while and see what everybody thinks.

210 22 02 15 CC Yes _ sure. I wasn't intending to - to get the

answer now _,I was merely throwing the question
in a hopper so to speak. And we can actually
- you know, we are in no rush, we can get the
results from you over Hawaii next time, which
is about an hour from now. Over.

CDR Okay, what - what were you really looking

for, Bruce?

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CC Well, nothing in particular. We're Just sort

of operating here with nothing planned and you
3- to h-hour rest period got interrupted by the
caution and warnings and, from talking to you
all, it seems like you're slowly pressing on,
getting some of the activation tasks accomplished.
And we were Just trying to start making our plans
for tomorrow and see what you're going to be
doing this evening and where we stood.

210 22 03 09 CDR Okay, I think you got it right. We are Just

sort of pressing along and trying to get these
things slowly, l'm working on the water sep
plate and we dumped the command module water,
and Owen and Jack are working on their things.
l'm hoping that - that we - we plan pretty slack
tomorrow because we're - we're always in - I
think that's what we need is a little slack time
here to get some free time to not move so fast.

CC Roger. We concur.

210 22 03 52 CDR We have got quite a number of things that we

are going to have to update you on as far
as the - ... water ... our total diet is
much less than we were operating on preflight.
But that's really all we can take at the moment.
And we - we seem to be getting - improving
a little bit. But we're trying not to over -
overcommlt right now.

CC Okay, we copied the beginning and the end of

that, AI, but you went right over the top
of the Vanguard and they had to slew their
antenna around, so we missed your middle couple
of words.

CDR At the risk of repeating myself, the - we've

been moving along slowly Just as you indicated.
We kind of think we'd like to have a big
block of free time the rest of the day as we
try to get this done, without trying to meet
some schedule, and the same thing with tomorrow.
But my suggestion would be for planning tomorrow,
to plan on Just letting us keep going on this
activation as best we can. We're Just working
it in sequential order, like you suggested earlier.
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CDR And we'll know a lot more when we wake up tomor-

row morning, too. Right? We thought we'd be
feeling better this morning, but - and we were
for a while.

210 22 05 23 CC Okay. We'll do that. And I guess we'll Just

try to work you some sort of a real skeleton-type
thing on get up, postsleep, this type of thing,
and you all work along and keep us posted on
what you're doing and how you are progressing
and what sort of support you need from us, if
any. Over.

CDR Okay, we're going to be working on the activation,

so we've got a - a full plan there that we could
move out on as rapidly as we could do it. We've
got no shortage of work, I'll tell you that.

CC Okay, we realize that. Thank you.

210 22 06 27 CDR It might be interesting to know - as we're working

on this heat exchanger plate, wetting the - I've
only got one of them so far, but it's - it's
very wet, I'm going to wet it some more with the
procedure, but it looks through and through wet
at the moment.

CC Okay, I understand that when you removed the

plate from the mol sieve to commence the
procedure, it already looked wet?

210 22 06 50 CDR Sure did, very wet, and I'm going to wet it some
more, but it might be a data point for next time.

CC Okay, A1, thank you for the - the data point on

that. We suspect that with the - the dewpoint
where it is, it Just went ahead and wetted itself,
and maybe we can work something out for the next
mission based on this. We're 30 seconds to LOS.
Next station is Hawaii in i hour and 2 minutes from
now, and we'll give you a call over there.

210 22 07 33 CDR Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

210 23 09 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

4-1/2 minutes. Over.

CDR Okay, Houston. I read you loud and clear ....

Water separator ... in heat exchanger A in both
mol sieve A and B, and it looked to me like,
during the whole procedure, I never saw the gage
on the little metal adapter move at all, which
I think means that it's already completely
water-soaked. So it appears to me that those
two , four plates could have - you could have
Just turned it on and gone with that. What -
do you concur or not?

CC Okay, A1, we concur with your analysis of the

situation. And we had a little bit of noise right
at the beginning, but I understand that you have
completed the water separator plate servicing for
both tool sieves, and they are installed. Over.

CDR That's right. I did the heat exchanger A on both

mol sieves. I didn!t think we ever used B, so
I didn't do those.

210 23 ll 16 CDR I could sure do them if you wanted to, but they'd
probably dry out before we ever use them.

CC A1, we're happy with the configuration the way

you got it. When somebody has a chance, perhaps
this pass, we'd like to get a reading on the
waste processor exhaust pressure down there in
panel 800 in the WMC so we can compare out telem-
etry with your onboard read-outs of that quantity.
Over.

SPT Okay. WASTE PROCESSOR/EXHAUST PRESSURE is

sitting on 0.061.

CC Okay, thank you, Owen.

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CC Just for your information, on telemetry we're

showing a comparable reading of 0.013. We'd like
to, over a period, I guess, of a couple of hours
or so as the mission progresses, get some
additional data points, and we'll be back to you
with an analysis of the problem. Over.

210 23 iS 01 SPT Okay, now - We were having to cycle that dump

valve very frequently to avoid exceeding the max
exhaust pressure listed in the checklist, which
is 0.08, and we would cycle it to dump for 2, 3,
or 4 minutes and then have to go back to CLOSE in
order not to exceed that pressure, suggesting,
perhaps, that our meter on board was reading too
high, Does that make sense?

210 23 13 28 CC Roger, 0wen. That's why we asked you for a

comparative readout. That's our suspicion right
now, but we don't feel strongly enough about it
at the present time to tell you to go ahead and
disregard the meter, so stick with the checklist
as printed for the time being.

SPT Well, we' re already through with that procedure

anyway; we have managed to - to dump for a full
30 minutes integrated total. That pressure is
less than 0.08, as shown on our meter, and we're
proceeding on with the water activation nearly
complete.

CC Roger. Beautiful.

CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS at the present

time. Next station is Vanguard in 22 minutes at
23:36, and we'll be dumping the tape recorder
there. We did get some voice from somebody
recorded on the tape recorder the last dump. We're
still trying to track down what it was you said,
but don't tell us and spoil the suspense. Over.

SPT What was the subject?

210 23 14 40 SPT You've got us in suspense.

210 23 37 34 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for

9 minutes. Over.
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CDR Loud and clear, Houston.

CC Okay. We see a - -

CDR ... begin to activate - Are you still there?

CC Yes. We see a CAUTION and WARNING, and it looks

like it might be a GAS FLOW on M0L SIEVE A. Over.

CDR Roger. We're kind of thinking about it. We Just

got the mol sieve A activitated. It's Just, went
in 15 minutes and shifted. BED 2 is on ADSORB,
BED i is on DESORB, and the minute it shifted, it
gave us a caution and warning, and it's given us
about three intermittent ones since then. Usually
when we get over there, the light's out.

210 23 38 27 CDR Everything else looks exactly right.

CDR And perhaps this is the place that I can give

you a status report on how we're doing. You'd
indicated you might like one sent.

CC Okay, AI. This sieve flow problem that you're

having is the same thing that we saw on activation
of the first Skylab mission, and it Just seems
to take a little while for things to settle down
after you first activate the sieve at the
beginning of the mission. We recommend you
inhibit the sieve flow input to caution and
warning system, and we'll keep an eye on that -_
one from down here. Over.

210 2B 39 21 CDR Okay, Just did. Now, can I bring - you got a
few moments for me to bring you up to date?

CC Yes, fire away.

210 23 39 29 CDR Okay, if you've got your little yellow Flight

Plan out, I can tell you the things that we have
not done. And I think that would be - probably
be the best way.

CC Okay. Go.

CDR Let's look on G - page G.

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CC Go.

CC Go ahead, A1.

23-0 23 39 53 CDR Okay. We have not done the waste _anagement

compartment water activation, but we will complete
that very shortly. So that's one that you don't
have to worry about, but we haven't done it yet.
The wardroom water activation is essentially
complete. We're Just checking it out and taking
a sample.

CC Okay.

CDR Okay. Next page.

CC Go.

CDR AM tape recorder replacement has not been done.

CC Roger.

CDR Okay. The PPCO - correction - PPO 2 sensor

replacement has not been done, CO 2 filter

replacement not done; SOP/SOMA reconfig not done;
CO samples, not done. Next page.

CC Okay, we copy - -

2]-0 23 40 52 CDR The LSU transfer, not done. We've not done the
returned water container fill and transfer, the
CM stowage transfer on 1.

CC Okay. Back on page H, we - -

CDR We have not - -

CC - - copied that you had completed the - -

CDR - - done the SMMD transfer in CAL. We've not

done the film transfer of the weigh food residue.
And we haven't done anything after that point.

CC Okay, and did we copy back on page H that you

did the condensate blanket installation and the
suit drying, second suit, up at the top of the page?
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CDR That's affirm-tive. We did that. __ _ _

CC Very g°°d-

CDR We're going to keep working here as best we can.

And I noticed that with the two pills and the
moving around quite a bit that we're feeling a
little bit better. But we'll Just have to keep
working at a nnm_nal pace. None of us feel like
eating very much. We usually Just - maybe take
one thing, and when we 're feeling best, eat it
and then press on from there. So we really
haven't sat down to anybig meals. We Just
haven't been able to take it.

CC Okay. We copy, and that's pretty much the way

we'd like you keep on operating, and it sounds
good.

CDR Okay, and we will, of course, bring the food

people upto date when we finally get squared
away. We felt that it's probably - they don't -
they probably - The information that we could
furnish them tomorrow would probably be as good
as today. I don't think anybody wants to try
to guaff down any pills right now, either.

210 23 42 35 CC No, indeed. Just for your planning purposes,

we have you scheduled on the timeline_for an
evening status report next station pass, which
is Hawaii at 00:44 Zulu. And the one following
that is a Vanguard private medical conference,
scheduled to begin at 01:15 Zulu. Over.

CDR Okay. We'll take part in those when they come.

CC And when you have a chance, if somebody's up in

the command module, we' d like to go ahead and
shut down the S071/72 experiments - over a site
and - -

CDR Throw the switches off or what?

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210 23 43 20 CC Right. It's the two switches, S071 to OFF and

S072 POWER to OFF, and we'd like to do that in
station contact if we can. Over.

CDR We'll do it right now.

CC Okay, we'll be watching, and someone who is not

headed for the command module, I'd like to get
to cycle the circuit breaker down on panel 613
and then check the panel 800 water dump pressure
so we can see if the meter is functioning properly.

SPT Okay, Just a minute, Bruce. I was Just opening

the WATER DUMP valve and trying to get this water
dump pressure down below 2 psi, down toward 0.7
where it indicates on page 2-51. And even though
I had the water dump open, I couldn't get the
pressure to drop further down, so what did you
want cycled over on the electrical panel?

CC Okay, 0wen. Panel 613, the circuit breaker

displays, DISPLAY P0_ RECORD_R CONTROL BUS 1
circuit breaker, we'd like you to open. And
then come back and read the WATER DUMP PRESSURE
meetle - meter on panel 800. Over.

SPT Stand by.

210 23 44 41 CDR 0kay_ and we've turned OFF both those switches,
Hous t on.

CC Okay ; thank you, A1.

SPT Was that BUS 1 or BUS 2 you wanted, Bruce?

CC That was BUS l, 0wen. And break, break; for A1.

When you turned those switches OFF, we were
watching the current up there in the command
module and, had the equipment been functioning,
we would have seen a drop of approximately 5 amps.
We saw nothing indicating that the gear had
already failed. Over.

210 23 45 38 SPT Okay, Bruce. I turned off BUS 1 and the WATER
DUMP PRESSURE is now reading full scale low.
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CC Okay, we copy, Owen. And you can go ahead and

reclose that circuit breaker, and we'll continue
to work on the problem.

SPT Okay. It looks like I 'm not going to be able to

get this dump press down below 2 psi.

210 23 46 01 CC Roger. We feel that there's a problem either

in the meter or in the transducer, and we've got
30 seconds until LOS. So, your next contact, as
noted earlier, is Hawaii in about 58 minutes.

SPT Roger.

CC Okay, Owen, on that dump pressure on the squeezer

bag, Just go ahead and do it by the seat of your
pants or by feel. We're not too terribly worried
about the actual pressure. Over.

SPT Okay, I understand, and I've reclosed the circuit

breaker.

CC Roger. Out.

PLT And, Bruce, the iodine concentration in the

wardroom water is 7.0. Just sampled it.

210 23 h7 01 CC Understand. 7.0 iodine in the wardroom water.

Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

211 00 43 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Hawaii for i0 minutes.

211 00 _3 58 SPT Roger.

CDR Roger, Houston. Just a second.

CC Roger. Standing by.

SFT We noticed 8055's doing a little MAR on the

center of the sun there and S052 looks llke
they're Just cranked up for a " either stam_*_d
or a - probably a standard mode, is that right?

211 00 _4 29 CC That's - that's affiz,,ative, 0wen. And be ad-

vised, we are doing some other commnanding here
at this pass. We're going to update one of the
rate gyros and also update RU Z. And this is the
pass for the evening status report. And after
that I have a couple other things we would like
for you to do in the C_,-,.andmodule before bed-
time. And then I would like to t-]k to the CDR
a little bit about the Flight Plan before the
pass is over; and we still got about 9 minutes.

211 00 _4 56 CDR Okay, this is CDR. Let me give you the evening
status report.

CDR Let me go and get one of the squawk boxes; it's

squawking.

CC Roger.

211 00 45 ii SPT While he's gone, do you want to tell me what you
want in the comm_ud module?

CC Roger, Owen, why don't I read them to you and

let's get ahead real quick. One thing we'd like
to do is in the Systems Checklist, page S/4-8,
Dual inverter reinitiate is the name of the
procedure. We want to go back to dual in-
verter operation to get our loads better squared
away for the evening. And then we want a do
some reconfiguration on the 02 system. We want
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the MAIN 02 REGS to CLOSE; then we want the

CABIN REPRESS valve to open, which is clockwise.
Then we'd like the POTABLE H20 W_TER to OFF.
And finally on panel 352 the PRESSURE RELIEF
valve to OFF.

211 00 46 19 CDR Okay, I got that Houston.

CC Roger. And one thing also we wanted to add that

I'd forgot on my list was a fuel cell purge.

211 00 46 35 CDR Will do.

211 00 46 38 CDR Okay, here's the night report. Urine: we

sampled it today, but there is no way to measure
it and so it will come home with tracer in it, so
that's not applicable. Drinking water gun read-
ing: we Just got it activated, let me give you
the initial reading, 4490, 7330, 5475.

CC Roger, I got those, A1.

CDR Ok_7_ bod_" mass: 6.250, 6.274, 6.278; now the

SPT,_6.035, 6.035, 6.035; pilot, 6.958, 7.025,
7.000. And the CDR weight was short and in pencil
and we don't know how SPT and pilot did, but
they' ll tell you tomorrow.

CC Roger. I'm not sure I copied on the PLT's - the

first BMMD reading for PLT.

CDR 6.958.

211 00 47 48 CC Okay, A1, I got all that so far. Go ahead.

CDR No exercise. Medication: CDR, two scop/Dex;

SPT, two scop/Dex; PLT, two scop/Dex.

CC Roger.

CDR Okay, now I'm hesitant on reading the food log

because it is so different from what we did.
Let me tell you what we did.

211 00 48 15 CC Okay; go ahead.

CDR Okay CDR - Just a second I got to get the log.

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211 00 48 45 CDR Okay, the CDR had corn fl_kes, 'vanilla wafers t
orange drink, chicken and rice, butterscotch
pudding, and he's probably going to have some
other things before bed, but I don't know what
they are and I can tell you about -l'll give you
a recap on all of this food tomorrow.

CC Okay, and l've copied that so far on the CDR.

CDR Okay, the SPT had one piece of bread, namely one
half of a can; he had an orange drink, a choco-
late instant breakfast ; eight - and he will report
his meal C tomorrow.

CC Okay.

211 00 _9 3_ PLT Jack had an applesauce and he is going to have

some more for dinner, and he had 7-1/2 ounces of
co--,_ad module water plus 20 squirts of command
module water.

CC Roger, I got that.

211 00 49 51 CDR Okay, also the SPT had eight squirts from the
command module, H20 gun. CDR had 27 squirts from
the command module gun.

CC Okay.

211 00 50 i0 CDR Equipment relocation - let me talk about that.

We took some scop/Dex from the large can in 706
and the small container moved to - moved to the
rack in W-707. And we moved i0 trash bags from
569 to 568. And I've already given you a run-
down on the work we're doing. Right now l'm in
the process of transferring the Flight Data File
into the ...

CC Roger.

211 00 50 5_ CDR Can you think of anything you know of, Dick?

CC Yes - that's all you have; I do have a couple of

other things, but I Just wanted to make sure that
you were through.

CDR Ok ay.
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211 O0 51 05 CC Okay, first of all, I'm not sure I said right

what we wanted done in the command module awhile
ago. It's an 02 fuel cell purge that we want
done in addition to that other list of things.
And we did have a question as to what you got
done yesterday. Did you, on around page 1-50
of the checklist, the rate gyro six-pack assembly
and the comm_d module stowage, did that get
accompli shed?

211 00 51 3h CDR No, it didn't. It's partially done in that

they're out and in the neighborhood of where
they should be, but they are not bolted down and
attached correctly. There's not but about 2-1/2
man hours of work left.

CC Roger, AI. That's perfectly okay with us, but

we Just wanted to keep our record straight about
how much, you know, we had gotten done. I would
like to shoot the breeze with you a little bit
about some flight planning for the next 3 or
days. We have some ideas and I would like to
pass them on to you and see what you think and -
and then if we have time I have another thing
to talk to you about before LOS.

211 00 52 08 CDR Sounds good; go ahead.

CC Okay. Essentially, what we thought we'd do is,

tomorrow Just have you get up and continuing to
press on as you see fit, right on through to
complete the Activation Checklist. Initial]y, we
think we would like to slip the EVA to day 5,
vice day h and that, in turn, will allow us to
put the activation regroup time and the EVA pre-
preprep - preprep on day 4. And we Just want you -
to make sure that you know we're happy with
this kind of a schedule and we wanted to be sure
that you were before we continued our planning.

CDR Roger; we couldn't ask for better than that. The

only other thing, I propose that you Just don't
wake us up tomorrow morning, and when we get up,
we'll start working.

211 O0 52 56 CC Okay, why don't we Just wait for you to put a

10,000 DO NOT ENTER in the DAS and we'll call you
when we see it.
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CDR Okay.

CC Okay, one more thing AI. You know yesterday we

had some problems driving the optics in the
comm-nd module. And right - In case we go LOS
here, we're about i minute away and your next
. pass is at V---_ard at 01:15; and that's • reed
conference. On the optics, we think it was
strictly eoinci - coincidence, and there's nothing
wrong with the optics. What we think happened
was when you PROed on - in on the VERB 50, NOUN
25, 204 display in P40 gimbal check, it turns out
that this disconnects the computer-to-optics
interface and increases the sensitivity of the
servo optics - servo loop to the hand controller.
And then when you exit P40 it reconnects this
interface. And it turns out, by looking at the
data, that it appears that it Just was a coinci-
dence that this was the time that we feel like
some of the problems had occurred. And this is
normal operations for the optics, and the way to
avoid the problem obviously would be to, if it
ever happened again, would Just be to complete
the star check and zero the optics prior to
PROing on the 204 display for the gimbal check.
Over.

211 00 54 13 CDR Okay, that's good news.

CC Okay, we're going LOS and we'll see you at -

The next pass is the med conference at Van_,-_d
and then I 'ii pick you up at Ascension.

211 O0 54 26 CDR Okay, good.

CC Righto.

211 00 54 34 CC And CDR, if you're there, I said that wrong.

The next pass will be another Vanguard pass and
I'll call you there.

211 O0 54 42 CDR Okay.

211 Ol 24 43 CC Skylab, Houston. I understand we got you here

Just for a second after the med conference. We're
about to go LOS; we expect Hawaii at 02:25.
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SPT Okay, Dick. And Just for information - I got

the ED52 passive cooler up into our chiller

211 Ol 2h 57 CC Roger.

211 01 24 59 PLT And the - -

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211 02 22 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 2-1/2 minutes.

211 02 22 55 PLT 0_y, Dick, we got the command module stuff done.
Was there anything else you wanted done there?

CC Well, as a matter of fact, I did have a couple of

other things for you. One is - it's on panel 202.
We noticed that the ILCA INVERTER TEMP has gone up
a little bit. On panel 202, we'd like somebody to
pull ILCAHEATERS i circuit breaker to OPEN, and
we're going to watch it in between here at Hawaii
and Vanguard, which is your last pass prior to going
to bed. And when we get to Vanguard, we're either
going to get you to pull the HEATERS 2 circuit
breaker open or not, depending on how the temps
go in between here and there.

PLT Do you want Just one of them OPEN?

CC Yes, Just one. ILCA HEATERS i circuit breaker,

OPEN, and we're going to watch the temps.

PLT Okay.

CC And while l'm talking to you, also, we wanted to

confirm that your RATE GYRO INHIBIT switch to the
CAUTION AND WARNING is still - verify that it's
still inhibited prior to going to bed because we
are still getting some funnies off of GYRO Y-2.
And at the LOS of the last pass, you were telling
us about putting something in the chiller, and I
copied down you - ED52, and we're pretty sure you
meant ED32 in the chiller. And then I thought
somebody else gave me some status on something after
that, but that got cut off by the LOS.

211 02 24 32 PLT Wait i.

211 02 22 36 PLT Yes, I think I was telling you then that we got
everything done in the command module, Dick.

CC Okay, good. And the only other thing I have here

is, is you're not going to be needing any of that
block data in the Entry Checklist, but Just in case
you did, the day 213 data is also no good due to
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bad weather, Just like the day 210 data was that
I read up to you yesterday afternoon.

SPT You're right. I'm sorry I called 52; it should

have been ED32.

CC Roger, 0wen. That's right. We didn't want to chill

down the spiders.

SPT (Laughter)

CC And, Skylab; Houston. This is a very low elevation

pass that we're going to be coming up on LOS shortly.
We'll see you at Vanguard at 02:53.

SPT 0kay, Dick.

211 02 25 44 CDR Okay, Dick, the ILCA number 1 - ILCA HEATERS number
1 is OPEN.

CC Roger. Thank you very much. And we still show

2 minutes on the clock here, but it is low elevation.
But I'm standing by; if you need to call, try.

CDR Hey, Dick, one thing has been bothering me all day.
You still there?

CC Yes, sir; go ahead.

CDR I still can't believe that those two tape recorders

we brought up here were in A-7; I haven't been able
to find those things. Now maybe I took them out
last night and set them somewhere, but I bet I've
looked in every box in this spacecraft.

CC I'm told A-9, A-9.

CDR Okay, that saves lot of problems. I've wasted a

little time hunting them, then.

CC Roger, A1. I think they're in A-9, and Gary Doerre's

showing me - leading me to page 1-50A in the
Activation Checklist about halfway down the left
side.

CDR Copy says one- A-9, huh?

CC Yes. Or it might be written such that you couldn't

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read it, or maybe you read it as A-7. It does

say A-9.

CDR Yes, maybe it's the speed. I Just couldn't read

it.

211 02 27 28 CC Roger.

211 02 53 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS Vanguard for i0 minutes.

211 02 53 ii SPT Okay. Then we can either talk, or you can listen
to music; take your choice.

CC (Laughter) Well, let me talk for Just a second

here. One thing we'd noticed, that we have a slow
decrease in condensate DELTA-P of about 0.2 to
0.3 psi per hour. And EGIL says if this keeps on
in a linear fashion, that you might trip a CAUTION
AND WARNING at about a little over 8 hours from
now. So to ma_e sure you guys get a good night's
sleep, we'd suggest inhibiting that input to the
CAUTION/WARNING, which is CONDENSATE TANK DELTA-P;
that's panel 207. We will take a real close look
at it tonight, and we won't let it get down so it
gives you any problems. And we can talk about
troubleshooting it tomorrow.

SPT Okay, Dick, we'll inhibit that. And do you want

a - one of the heat exchangers turned off, so we
can see which one might be leaking a little bit?

CC Stand by.

211 02 5_ 37 CC Skylab, Houston. In answer to your question:

negative; we'd Just as soon watch it. We are not
real sure that we really have a decent leak rate.
So we would like to stay in this present configu-
ration for tonight and ta1_ about that trouble-
shooting, if required, in the morning. And we have
looked at that inverter on ILCA, and we would like
to pull ILCA circuit breaker HEATERS, two, to OPEN.

SPT Okay, we'll do that, Dick, and another comment or

two here. I think the Flight Surgeon mentioned
that you'd be interested in a few temperatures
which I was going to report to him in the morning,
but we have already taken them, so 1,11 go ahead
and give you the numbers down now. I incidentally
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took them on two thermometers, Just to double i

check, since we probably haven't had them cali-

brated for a while. And the PLT on the two
thermometers, in order, were 96.6 and 96.2. The
SPT was 97.2 and 97.2 and the CDR was 97.0. And
I never got around to catching him with the second
thermometer. And we've all finished, or Just about
finished our supper for the evening, and are all
feeling much more comfortable at this point.
Over.

211 02 55 48 CC Hey, that sounds real good.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. We have also noticed the

beds in the mol sieve A don't seem to be cycling
properly, or cycling at all. And we'd like for
you to select MOL SIEVE A TIMER switch to SECONDARY.

211 02 56 17 CDR Okay.

CC And if you would, if somebody'll do that now while

we can watch it, we still got about 7 minutes here
at Vanguard, and I'm standingby. _-

PLT Okay, we' re on our way to do that.

CC Okay.

CDR Tell them the kid is coming back.

CC Roger.

(Music)
CC Roger; that's - (laughter)

(Music)

211 02 57 _5 CC Sounds like a party going on up there.

CDR Say, Dick, I Just took a look at them. MOL SIEVE A

is - I mean BED 1 is in DESORB. BED 2 is in ADSORB,
and I selected the SECONDARY timers, do you want
me to do anything else with that now?

CC Stand by Just a second, A1. I'll get right back

to you.
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CDR I think m_ybe we have Just found out what was

wrong. I looked at the nitrogen supply; it was
not completely open.

CC Roger. Stand by Just a second. I'll get right

back to you when I get that new input.

CDR Before we lose co_n here, you may want me to Just

switch them around, so we won't bother that one
BED that's been in ADSORB so long.

CC Roger. EGIL is looking. And, incidentally, the

mat in case we do go LOS here - stand by 1. I'm
Just about to get a procedure for you.

CDR Okay.

CDR I'm suspicious it's the nitrogen pressure.

211 02 59 45 CC And, CDR; Houston, we will like for you to take

the MOL SIEVE A TIMER switch and cycle it again
back to PRIMARY and then back to SECONDARY.

CDR I didn't have - the SECONDARY has Just shifted it

over; I saw it go.

CC Roger.

211 02 59 54 CDR Okay, but I'll go back to PRIMARY now. Gosh, you
can hear them. Okay, they have shifted over. Do
you want me to go back to PRIMARY now?

211 0B 00 09 CC Stand by.

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211 03 O0 05 CDR Okay, they've shifted over. You want me to

go back to PRIMARY now?

CC Stand by -

211 03 00 34 CC CDR, Houston. Would you verify - verify for us,

is the switch in PRIMARY or SECONDARY now?

CDR It is in SECONDARY, as instructed, -

CC Roger.

CDR But I think the problem was the nitrogen.

211 03 O0 45 CC Okay, A1. We would like to leave the switch

in SECONDARY.

CDR Okay, consider it done. Yes, you're right, I

was looking at the DELTA-P. It's down to -
about 2-1/2 indicated on our small tank here.

211 03 O1 03 CC Roger. We are real happy now. Looks like the

beds are cycling normally, and we'll keep a
good watch during the evening.

211 03 01 13 CDR Okay.

211 03 02 12 SPT Say, Dick, would you ask the - the BMMD people
down there to turn those numbers we sent down
in evening status report into pounds and send
them up on the teleprinter tomorrow morning?

211 03 02 17 CC Roger. We'll - we'll get them up to you, Owen.

We are about 1 minute from LOS here at Vanguard,
and Flight's been around the room, and we have
looked at the bird. It looks real good for
the night. So you guys sleep tight and give
us - put the enter - entry in on the DAS when
you want to be called in the morning, and we
will talk to you then.

211 03 02 _6 SPT Okay. Good night, Dick.

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211 ii 06 28 SPT Hello, Houston.

CC Good morning, Owen. We've got you for about

16 minutes.

CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you for about

16 minutes. How do you read, Owen?

CC Skylab, Houston.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the states

for about 15 minutes. How do you read now?

211 Ii 07 42 PLT Roger. Coming in good.

CC Roger, Jack. We're AOS for about 15 minutes.

Do you read okay?

PLT Hello, Houston. How do you read?

CC Loud and clear. How me?

211 11 08 02 PLT Okay. We got up a little early. We heard some

gas pulsing into the workshop towards the STS
area. And we came up here, and we been listen-
ing to it. We get rapid pulses of gas and
sometimes a constant on, and it sounds like
the Junction where the - the cabin regs dump
into the workshop ducts. And we seem to be
unable to do much about it. We don't know
if this is a normal operation or - we haven't
heard it before. And if it's not, we haven't
been able to isolate it to a particular cabin
reg or anything like that.

CC Okay, Jack. l'm having a little difficulty

reading you. Maybe if you got a little bit
closer to the mike. The problem on that is
we've got the 02 and N2 FILL VALVES, OPEN,
because we were losing cabin pressure last
night. And we never were able to locate why
we got it down to about _.7, and we decided
to go ahead and open it up and start filling
it rather than wake you gums up.
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211 ii 09 08 PLT Okay. I guess we didn't hear it until Just

a little while ago, then, and we hadn 't been
able to psych out the problem here, and we ...
these regs?

CC Jack, I'm having still a pretty bad time

trying to read you. We would like to know
if perhaps someone got up around - oh, around
05:00 GMT and did anything that might have
caused this to start losing cabin pressure.

CDR No, the first time anybody got up was when we

heard this gas coming in. It is coming in
intermittently is the thing that puzzles us
a little bit. Also we tried a couple of trouble-
shooting procedures, but I think he explained
that we turned off the 120 psi reg. And we
notice that the pressure con - continues to
go down, but that's ... fill valves. We also
turned off the cabin pressure reg, and it
continued to go down.

PLT Houston, do you wantus to go around and close

some of the pressure relief valves?

211 ll l0 26 CC Okay, stand by just one moment, Jack.

CC Skylab, Houston. I guess we didn't quite get

everything you saidyou were doing there
regarding the cabin pressure, but we would
like you to go back to a nominal configuration
on the - on the 02/N 2 panel there.

211 ll ll 08 PLT Okay, we're in nominal configuration. We

noticed that whenever we turned off the main
reg, the pressure kept on coming down, so
apparently it wants to keep dumping into the
cabin.

CC Jack, I'm really having a difficult time

reading you. I was receiving A1 okay a while
ago. I don't know if it's the box you're
using or what, but you're - you're coming in
very - very scratchy and garbled.

PLT How do you read me now, Crip?

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CC Skylab, Houston. If somebody is in the

vicinity of the DAS, if you could go ahead
and clear that 10,O00 code for us, we'd
appreciate it.

PLT How do you read me now, Crip?

211 ll 12 21 PLT Crip, are you reading me any better now?

CC Yes, Jack. That 's somewhat better now.

PLT Okay, what we've been hearing is cycling on

and off of gas emission. We hear it most
distinctly right where the sieves dump into
the - the duct that goes into the workshop
or to the MDA. And we happen to know that's
where the cabin regs d,-.p.02 into the system.
And they're cycling on intermittently.

211 ii 12 55 CC Okay, Jack. We copied that. And we can

attribute that to the way we're doing the -
the fill on these 02/N 2 valves now.

PLT Okay. I asked you a little while ago if you

wanted us to go around and close some cabin
relief valves.

211 ll 13 50 CC Skylab, Houston. What we would recommend is

that you would get your rapid DELTA-P cue card
and go through the portion of it that has you
go around and looking for possible leaks.

PLT ...

211 ll 14 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We recommend that you get

your rapid DELTA-P cue card and go through the
portions of it that has you looking for various
leaks.

CDR Okay, we 're working on it.

CC Okay, thank you.

211 ll 16 h9 CDR Are you still there, Houston?

CC That's affirmative, A1. We've still got you

for about 5-1/2 minutes.
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CDR Okay. We've closed the forward AM hatch per

procedure and closed the forward hatch on the
MDA. That's the forward hatch on the lock
and the forward hatch on the MDA. It's quit
taking up oxygen at the moment. We can feel
a flow of air from the OWS to us, but - Okay,
just a s_cond, let's check it.

CC Okay, A1. Really what we were interested in

Was the - the leak isolation area of the cue
card, if you go - if you could go around and -
and check the various places the - there might
be leaks.

CDR Roger. We went through the first part to see

if we could maybe isolate as to which compart-
ment ; then we could work in that compartment.

CC Roger.

211 ii 19 h7 CDR Houston, when you said 05:00, did you mean
GMT?

• CC That 's affirmative, A1. Should have been a

couple of hours a1_ter you went - went to bed.
One of the items we suspected maybe was, that
somebody went to the waste management compart-
ment, and some item in there might have caused
some leaks.

CDR We can check it out. I'll tell you what we

did do, we dumped the trash airlock a couple
of times too, at about 05:00.

CC Okay. You might check to make sure that

handle is in the full detent on the PRESS,
PRESS position.

CDR That's a good idea. We'll give it a go.

CDR Our indications, as we played with the hatches

here, indicate that it is down in the OWS.
MY guess is that that's exactly what it is.
We're going to go down and look at it.

CC 0kay.
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211 ii 21 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.

b We'll have you iagain over Madrid at 11:27,
11:27.

CDR Okay, we took a look at the trash airlock.

Indeed, the handle wasn't positioned properly,
and we also hear a slight hissing noise out
of the trash airlock.

CC Okay. Hope we've found it then.

CDR Okay. We'll fool with it a little bit.

211 ii 21 55 CC Okedoke, thank you.

211 ll 26 h6 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you AOS over Madrid

for the next 7 minutes.

CDR Roger. I went back and looked at that handle

again and the handle was halfway between - I'm
not down there to read the label, it's either
VENT or CLOSE, and I •must asstlne that, after
we finished last night, I either left
it there or when - when I was floating back
and forth between the head and the sleep com-
partment, and the wardroom, I gave it a nudge
with my foot, and put it midway between them.

PLT Yes, it was halfwaybetween close vent and

press, Crip.

CC Roger. We copy, thank you.

211 ll 27 30 CDR Roger. Also, when I got down there, I could

put my ear to it, and hear it leak. In fact,
if I Just take the handle now and move it
midway, you can hear it as i_c puts pressure
into the trash airlock, but I ass_e it Just
doesn't hold it. It also vents it when it's
halfway between. It's got to be one or the
other position and it doesn't look like that
vent position has a - has a - a detent.

CC Okay. We copy that. I'm informed that that

happened a couple of times last mission, also.
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We assume that that was the leak then, and d

we're going to back out of this fill that we
were doing with the airlock fill valve, and
go bgck to normal configuration on your pres-
surization.

211 ll 28 15 CDR Okay, but how about explaining to me before

you go, how they can fill and not Just keep
it going. Do they somehow have a regulator
they can work through?

CC Those are Just pressure switches, A1, and they

were Just cycling with the pressure.

211 ll 28 32 CDR Okay. So when they go to fill, it cycles at

a certain pressure to let 02 and N2 or just
02?
CC It's - it's to let - to let both in.

PLT Were you filling in the airlock fill, or in

the workshop fill, Crip?

CC It was the airlock _ill, Jack.

PLT Okay. Now that apparently comes in at the

same place where the cabin regs dump in. Is
that right ?

CC That 's - that 's affirmative, Jack. That 's

where it dumps in. Through the ECS ducts.

PLT Okay, so that was the intermittent - on and

off - the intermittent condition that we were
hearing.

211 ll 29 13 CC That's affirmative. And we kind of - we sus-

pected that you might be able to hear it, but
I guess we were given that option, or sitting
here and letting a caution and warning go off
on you.

PLT Does that come in downstream of the cabin regs?

CC I'm sorry, would you say that again?

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t PLT Does that come in downstreamof the cabin reg?

CC We'll check that.

CC Jack, that is downstream of the - the cabin

regs, so - Stand by 1.

PLT Jack, that's - that's really a parallel flow

of - to the regs and the - and the fill valves.
So it's not really in series at all.

PLT Okay, well, i was wondering why I couldn't shut

off the condition of - gas by turning off the
cabin regs. I turned them off and it Just kept
coming in.

CC That 's affirmative. You could turn them off

and that wouldn't affect the fill valves.

PLT Okay. That explains it then. Thank you.

211 ll 32 _3 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS.

We'll have you again at Honeysuckle at 12:13,
12:13. Sorry you were so rudely awakened. I
hope everybody's feeling good this morning.

SPT I think so, Bob.

CC Very good, Owen.

SPT We're going back to bed for a while now.

CC Okay. Do you want me to give you a call at

Honeysuckle or not?

SPT I think not, Bob. As you can tell, we were

up a little late. We did stay up until mid-
night Houston time. 05 Zulu with that trash
airlock and then doing some food stuff. So we
really only had about 6 hours or so in the
pad, and I think we' ll probably get a couple
more.

CC Okay, that sounds good. If you'll Just give us

another i0,000 when you'd like us to give you -
to start talking to you, that'd be fine.

211 ll 33 28 PLT Wilco.

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211 15 26 i0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

8 minutes and 20 seconds. Good morning. Over.

PLT Good morning, Bruce. How are you doing?

CC Hello. We're doing real fine down her. How

are y'all doing?

PLT We're getting our blood drawn.

CC You're evading the issue.

211 15 26 40 PLT What's new on the ground?

CC Not a great deal, Jack. We've Just been

sitting around here monitoring systems and
letting y'all get a - a good night's rest. I
have a few things this morning and when you
all feel like getting to work and all that,
why, we're ready to go to work with you.

PLT Well, we've been up since about 8 o'clock

working. We're going throught the postsleep
stuff and getting some of the other things
done that got - we got behind on.

211 15 27 15 CC Oks_, when you have a break or get a chance,

you might tell us the things that you've
accomplished and we can check them off down
here on our Flight Plan and we'll know more
about where you are.

PLT Well, we got the blood drawn and we're about

to put it on the centrifuge. The rest of the
stuff we'll tell you about later, but don't
hold your breath.

CC I'm not in the habit of holding m_ breath.

211 15 31 16 CDR Houston, CDR.

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CC Go ahead, CDR.

CDR When I was putting the checklist changes is

the SWS System Handbook today, I noticed that
I only had one set, whereas there's two of
those on board. Is it your plan Just to keep
one of them updated or what?

CDR Also, I noticed we got two solar activity pads.

Maybe somehow we got two of those instead of
two of the other.

211 15 32 16 CC We're discussing that now, A1. And in the

mean time, we'll Just give you a couple of
quick ones. When somebody goes by the ATM
next time, we'd like to get the l0,000 cleared
out of the DAS. It's no problem this site
but we may be doing some commanding over
Hawaii the next one. And a little later on
this morning, we're going to be asking you to
do a modified malfunction procedure on the
condensate system, since you've lost CONDENSATE
TANK DELTA-P and the dewpoint is creeping,
up there. Over.

2_1115 32 _9 CDR Okay, I kind of suspected you would. I - I'ii

be ready to do them. I'm Just finishing
breakfast here and I've got my postsleep stuff
done. I'll be ready to start on that whenever
you are. And then I Can do my other things
afterwards, before, anyway you want to work
it.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're showing 1 minute to

LOS; and next station contact is over Hawaii
at 15:46 in about 13 minutes. We're working
the problem of number of messages we sent up,
here. Right now it locks like we only sent
up one SAP. I wonder if you could check in
a minute and see if you have two copies of
message 311 - 0311 Charlie on board. Over.

211 15 33 59 CDR I'm looking at the SAP right now and I've
got - it's number 0311 Charlie and I got
two of those.
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CC Okay, thank you.

211 15 3h 09 CDR Okeydoke.

211 15 h7 00 SPT Hello, Houston.

CC Go ahead, Skylab.

211 15 47 04 SPT Okay, Bruce. Let me give you some report on the
ii0 that was done - stock numbers and so forth.
The ASPs used were the following in the order of
CDH, SPT, and PLT. CDR, 159; 155, and 135. The
BSVs in the same order, CDR, 022; SPT, 023;
PLT, 02h. Those are the stock numbers on the
three. The ASPs are being centrifuged right
now. And the BSVs are taped in the chiller
compartment. Now I obtained the ASP and syringes
from the SL2 kit and thought perhaps I could get
the BSVs out of there. But apparently there were
Just barely enough BSVs to go around, because there
were no extra BSVs in the LS-2 box, and I had to
open our own SL-3 box to get these three BSVs
out. Now there was one other problem when I got
inside of our blood-drawing kit there. The first
BSV that I pulled out had, somehow or other, had
its seal broken, because all of the liquid inside
the little vial has come out and then has apparently
solidified on the inside of the celophane package.
Now this m_y not be familiar to you unless you are
familiar with what this BSV looks like, but
the biomed people should understand all these
comments. So the impact of this is we have one
fewer BSV in the SL-3 kit than we had planned
and there were apparently no spares in the SL-2
kit, so the next time I have to use them at
the end of the mission, if there aren't any
extras in there, which I didn't see, I'll have
to go to SL-_ to get it. Is that straight
so far? Over.

211 15 48 58 CC Okay, Owen. Copy your comments on the BSVs and

I'm f_miliar with the configuration on them. Let
me read back these ASP and BSV numbers to you.
CDR, SPT, and PLT: the ASPs were 159, 155, and
135; the BSVs were 020, 023, and 02h. Over.

SPT Yes, that's right. And they are also, of

course, coded with a little colored dot, so I
guess that 's Just backup. But, anyway, we
figure the ... all through with the ll0 and the
centrifuge will turn off on time.
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211 15 49 B2 CC Okay, we copy. And we are talking to you

through Hawaii with about 6 minutes left in
this pass.

SPT Okay, nothing else from me here. Sort of a

late start; I'm Just now getting to my breakfast.

211 15 49 49 CC Okay, no rush. We can hear some music going in

the background, so it sounds like things are
looking up.

211 15 49 54 SPT I think so.

211 15 50 09 SPT I'm Just planning to throw away this ruined

BSV unless there's some reason somebody wants
it brought back home. All it amounts to is
apparently the fluid has leaked out and then
it's a sort of a yellow deposit all on the
inside of the celophane bag. I don't imagine
it's of any use to anybody. I'll throw it away
unless told otherwise.

CC Okay, Owen. We concur on that.

9_ll15 50 52 SPT You might be able to verify also that each

of these kits only has the six BSVs in it and
no more. Could you do that - is that correct?

CC I believe that is correct. We will verify it.

SPT Thank you.

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute until LOS Hawaii.

Next site is Goldstone at 15 plus 58 in
approximately 3-1/2 minutes. Out.

211 15 54 40 SPT Okay, Bruce. See you there.

211 15 58 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

approximately 6-1/2 minutes. Out.

211 16 00 02 CDR Houston, why don't I give you the PRD readings
for this morning?

CC Wy don't you?
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CDR Okay. 45012, 19005, 07012.

211 16 00 19 CC Okay. 45012, 19005, and 07012. While we're

talking with you, AI, I guess we've got a
philosophical question here. There are some
checklists, such as the SWS Systems Checklist,
for which you have multiple copies on board.
And I guess our feeling is that we should either
update all copies or should disregard - discard
the extra ones and Just stick with the number
you need to operate with. We're prepared to
send you up multiple copies of the changes if
you would like to go that way. What's your
feeling? Over.

CDR I guess the SWS Systems Checklist is the only

one we really have that way, isn't it? Or are
there some others?

211 16 01 15 CC We're tracking that down now, AI; I'ii have

an answer for you. The SWS Systpms is the most
obvious one.

CDR I'ii tell you what, we probably ought to start

doing both of them and, if it turns out that
it is a big time consumer, then fall back and
Just do one and we'll take the other book and
put it away somewhere where we won't get it.

211 16 01 h9 CC Okay, we copy; and your multiple changes will

be on the way. In this particular case, we have
a change to the change, so we're going to be
sending you two more copies of what was change
number 2 and is now change number 2 Alfa to the
SWS Systems Checklist, and an additional copy for
one change. Over.

CDR Sounds good. And I'ii stick those in and then

we'll - we'll see how it goes - see what level
of traffic we have on that checklist. I'm
hoping that - You know several of them this
morning were things we discussed that never got
in, and so maybe that'll stop - maybe we won't
have near the traffice on them any more.
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211 i0 02 30 CC Okay. And while we're getting statuses squared

away, has anybody taken any medication this morning?
Over.

CDR Jack took a scop Dex; I did not. Let me ask

Owen. And Owen did not.

CC Okay; we copy.

211 16 02 53 CDR I know you're wondering. Subjectively, it looks

like that - that - I'd say 0wen is about the
same as he was yesterday morning. He improved
through the day until yesterday evening; he was
quite frisky. I'm not quite as frisky as I was
late yesterday but I feel good, and I was able
to get down all breakfast. So at least we got a
fighting start there. Jack is not feeling too
good still. He was feeling better yesterday late,
and then getting up this morning he's - he's
a little bit slow. So essentially I think that
he's not going to be working as fast as - as
we'd like him. And I don't think that Owen and
I are going to be working fast as we'd like our-
selves to either.

CC Okay, we copy all of that, A1. We've got about

40 seconds to LOS here. The next station will
be Bermuda in 4 minutes.

211 16 04 00 CDR Okay.

211 16 09 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

9 minutes. Out.

211 16 09 36 CDR Okay, Bruce.

211 16 13 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston with about 5 minutes to

LOS. When someone is free, we have a malfunction
procedure with a modification that we'd like to
read up to you for the condensate DELTA-P problem.
Over.

CDR Okay, go ahead then.

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P 211 16 lh 05 CC Okay, AI. Basically we'd like you to perform -

ECS malf number 30 with mods to blocks 3 and 7.
Let me read them through and, if you want to get
your book out, then I can read them over again.
In block 3, we want to add "Report position of
the bladder in the airlock module condensate
tank." And in block 7, we want to change it to
read on the first bullet to "Perform airlock
module condensate t-nk dump to waste tank per
SWS Systems Checklist, page 9-6, instead of the
holding t-nk dump," as it shows in the m=lf
procedure. Over.

CDR Say the last two sentences again, please.

211 16 lh 58 CC Okay. Change block 7 in the ECS m_If 30 to read

"Perform AM condensate t-n_
accordance with SWS Syst_ma
instead of the holding tank
called out in the malfunction
now. Over.
dump waste tank in
Checklist, page 9-6,
dump," as it's
procedure right

CDR Okay, understand.

CC And in the SWS Systems Checklist, you can disregard

the caution to keep the waste processor exhaust

I pressure below 0.08 psia for this dump. Over.

CDR Okay.

211 16 17 37 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS at Bermuda.

Next station will be Ascension at 16 plus 25
in approximately 7-1/2 minutes.

211 16 25 12 CC Skyl_b, this is Houston through Ascension for

i0 minutes. We have a few comments for you when
you have a chance. Over.

SPT Go ahead, Bruce. What are your comments?

211 16 25 49 CC Okay, Owen, for your information, the S055 door

hung up during unattended ops last night on
opening five times when the sunrise signal was
issued. Each time, it opened after the pr_m-_y
drive motor was cycled OFF and then back ON, and
then a DOOR OPEN command reissued. We've up dated
the X-2 rate gyro compensation by a small amount
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and we'll Just keep you posted whenever we do this.

If we do have a CMG SAT condition, we want to
rectify it with TACS control until our quad B
problem is completely analyzed and procedures
resolved. And when one of you has a moment to
enable us to continue our inverter/LCA temperature
troubleshooting procedures up on panel 202, we'd
like to get the ILCA B-_.ATERS, number 2 only, circuit
breaker, CLOSED. Over.

SPT ILCA number 2 circuit breaker. Stand by.

CC Okay, tb_k you - -

211 16 27 00 SPT A1 is on his way up right not.

CC Thank you.

SPT How is the Y-2 looking?

211 16 27 14 CC Well, not much I can say - I can say on Y-2, Owen,
other than the fact that it's sort of performing
like it has been for the past couple of days. We're
concerned over the fact that we have to continually
update it and are continuing to examine our
options down here. Over.

SPT Okay.

211 16 27 40 CDR Okay, the circuit breaker's on, Bruce.

CC Okay, AI, and you probably have some teleprinter

messages, including the checklist changes, in
the process of coming up right now; we hope to
have them all up by the end of this pass at
Ascension. Over.

CDR Oka_v, I'll wait a few minutes before I pick

them up there.

CC Okay.

211 16 28 02 SC You wanted a report on the bladder in the

condensate tank - it is completely at the empty
end.

CC Okay, thank you, A1.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

211 16 31 13 CDR Bruce, I'm Just getting out the SWS Malfunction
procedures, and I'm wondering - I have had a chance
to update this book with any changes that we might
have brought up. Are there any? Or should I Just
go ahead and use the procedures that I - that's
been up here all along?

CC Okay, A1, I don't show any in the book we got here,

we show the date of 7 March. We are checking with
the back room on that though.

211 16 32 05 CC Okay, A1, that is the latest page for that proce-
dure. Of course, other pages in the book have
been updated.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, this is Houston with 1 minute until LOS.

Next station contact is Carnarvon at 16 plus 58
in 23 minutes from now. Out.

211 i6 35 lO CDR Okay, Bruce.

211 16 58 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

9-1/2 minutes. Out.

211 17 07 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One m_nute to LOS. Next

station contact will be Guam at 17:13 in approxi-
mately 7 minutes. For your information, the ILCA
temperature is down to h3 degrees now, and it looks
like it's okay. We're going to leave the circuit
breaker in and continue to monitor on telemetry.
Over Guam, we'd like to get an update from you all
on your status with regard to progress through the
activation task for each crewman. And if the
Commander is listening, the items that we found
on the Flight Data File with multiple copies are,
the EREP Checklist, 2 copies ; SWS Systems, 2 ;
and Deactivation, 3. Over.

CDR Okay, I guess we're going to have to have changes

to ,I I of them for deactivation, what we can prob-
ably do if it - if we - yes, that would be
the one thing to do for that. For the EREP we use the
cards, so we'll change the cards, and only a single
item appears on the card. We use the cards as
opposed to the checklist anyway.
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211 17 08 ll CC Roger. Out.

CDR As far as getting anything done, as far as acti-

vation, we did our postsleep checklist, Bruce,
and then, since that time, we've been
troubleshootlng.

CC Okay, I copy, A1.

CDR And so when we start working on that other, I'll

let you know.

211 17 08 32 CC Roger. Out.

211 17 13 B0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 7-1/2 min-

utes. For your information, we'll be dumping the
data and voicetape recorder next pass at Gold-
stone. Out.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, this is Houston. On telemetry, we're

watching your condensate tank DELTA-P and show
it is about 1.6. We're wondering if you'd care
to give us a status on where you are in the malf,
and if there's any way we can assist you. Over.

CDR Okay. I got to the malf to the point where it

said step 7, where you said go dump the AM con-
densate tank dump. Now, as I reported to you,
the bladder was at that end of the tank anyway;
in other words, the empty end. So I've presently
dumped it per your instructions. And it's going
to be completely empty in a second.

211 17 16 40 CC Roger. We understood your call on the position,

and Roger your actions.

CDR Okay, now. The thing that puzzles me on this, it

says, "Observe bladder during dump and ... bladder
bottoming out before next operation." Well, see,
the bladder was already bottomed out.

211 17 17 02 CC Roger. We copy. Our feeling is that we probably

got ambient cabin pressure, both in the condensate
holding tan_ down in the workshop, and on the
backside of the bladder, at this stage of the
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game s with the gas on the backside of the bladder

leaking in through that vented cap and through
the pressurization valve, so it's probably two
problems. We'd like to go ahead and go through
the malfunction procedure.

CDR Okay. How long do you want me to wait before I

assume that the bladder is near empty, and go to
CONDENSATE TANK PRESSURE valve to VACUUM?

CC You can go ahead and do that now, /%1.

211 17 17 45 CDR Okay, I'll do it.

CC Skylab, Houston. We saw your condensate tank

DELTA-P build up to about 2-1/2 and then it dropped
back pretty rapidly to 0.6 and is now 0.9. Is
there any problem? Over.

211 17 19 3h CDR Just following the procedure. It builds up to

this 2-1/2 when we began, and the CONDENSATE TANK
H20 valve was in DUMP and it was configured llke
all - the procedure on page 9-6. Okay, then I
went up, the bladder was near empty. In fact,
it was against the bottom, as I mentioned, and I
put the CONDENSATE TANK PRESSURE valve to VACUUM
and that's when it dropped the pressure.

211 17 20 05 CC Going to VACUUM dropped the pressure on you?

CDR It dropped the DELTA-P, yes. It had the 2-1/2

when we were - when the CONDENSATE TANK I_FRSURE
valve was in PRESS.

CC Roger. Out. And we have about 30 seconds to LOS.

Next station contact is Goldstone at 17:37 in
16 minutes.

CDR Okay, and you'll notice it's building up slowly

now.

CC Roger. We copy.

CDR Okay.

CC And we think the system is acting as designed.

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211 17 20 _B CDR Concur. Hope we don't overstress the bladder.

CC No comment.

CDR It's your feeling then, that it's not the rater
separator plates that are not - that are letting
the air in, huh?

CC We don't know enough Just yet, A1, to make a

Judgment on that. You go on through the malf;
that should become obvious later on.

211 17 21 17 CDR Okay.

211 17 36 57 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

6 minutes. Out.

CDR Okay, I'm still working on the proce - -

PLT Hey, Bruce, is this page 2-11?

CC Yes, it is, Jack.

PLT Thank you.

211 17 37 18 CDR Okay, here's what occurred. I went through

step 12 and then I ass,linedthat the dewpoint was
left in the heat exchanger out temperature. So
I went over to block 13. I established DELTA-P
and then I turned off both HEAT EXCHANGER A
CONDENSATE isolation valves, and I'm taking a
look at the arrangement now and the DELTA-P is
3-1/2, which is the highest it's been all day.

CDR It says, DELTA-P decreasing? Answer, no, because

actually the DELTA-P is increasing.

CC Okay ; stand by.

CDR Roger .... a little.

211 17 38 35 CC Skylab, Houston. Your assumption that the dew-

point was less than the heat exchanger output
temperature was not a correct one. In fact, the
dewpoint is a fair amount hi_her. It's up about
53 degrees. Over.
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CDR Okay, I noticed that we're getting a lot of

bubbles and water in the condensate tank now.
It seems to pulse. Now the pressure drops 2-1/2
and it has been a little bit higher.

CC Okay, we're showing about 3 on telemetry at the

present time, and the dewpoint is 53 degrees.

211 17 39 16 CDR Okay, and it Just went up to 3-1/2. Something

was wrong, so I'm going to go back to block 12
and go to block 14.

CC Roger.

CDR It's really pi_ng up the DELTA-P, now.

CC Okay, and we're dumping your data and voice tape

recorder this pass, in case .you're wondering
about that.

211 17 40 47 CDR I Just opened both HEAT EXCHANGER A valve, and

the DELTA-P now is about 3-1/2.

CC Okay, understand you opened both HEAT EXCHANGER A

valves. Over.

CDR That 's affirmative. I 'm backing up.

CC One minute to LOS, Skylab. Next station contact

will he through Texas at 17 :43 ; a handover.

211 17 42 36 CDR Okay.

211 17 44 25 CC Skylab, Houston, now coming to you through MLA

for the next ll minutes. And be advised that we
were unable to dump the data voice tape recorder
over Goldstone. We're going to do it at the
present time.

CDR Why is it that we never get a DELTA-P higher than

about 2-1/27

CC In work.

211 17 46 16 CC Whatever it is you're doing right now, A1, we're

up to about 3-1/2, 3.6 on telemetry.
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CDR Yes, that 's looking good.

CDR What I did was turn off sieve B - I mean, check

it for B leakage. I turned off A per block 14.

CC Okay. Understand you turned off the HEAT

EXCHANGER A in sieve B per block 14. Over.

CDR That's right. The MOL SIEVE B, HEAT EXCHANGER A,

CONDENSATE isolation valve, CLOSED. That's what
we did.

211 17 47 08 CC Yes, we're going to get to the guy that gave you
an A and B condensate system in A and B sieves,
one of these days.

CDR He must be related to the fellow that named all

these oxygen and condensate hoses. Every single
one of them sounds the same.

211 17 47 B8 SPY Houston, SPT is going to be starting on the 172

now, it'll be a while before I actually get to
the calibration portion. I suppose you were
planning to do a GG dump on the next night pass?

CC That was our plan. And have you all eaten lunch
yet, or what's the status on that with regards
with the food trays?

SPT No, we haven't eaten lunch. And since we finished

breakfast late, I was hoping that I would be able
to get the food trays done before lunch.

CC Okay, very good. Do you think that you will be in

the calibration maneuver next night pass, or you
think it will take you that long to get set up,
so we should go ahead and do our dump?

211 17 48 21 SPT I sort of think I'll be started on it before the

end of the night pass. Now I was going to ask
how badly you really want that dump, whether I
should wait on it, if necessary?

CC Okay, Owen. We'd be happy to go ahead and inhibit

momentum dump next pass if it'll help you out,
and we got about 30 seconds to a station handover
with momentary dropout. Over.
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SPT Okay, I'ii go ahead and get started on it and

assume that momentum dump will be handled.

211 17 49 06 CC Right, we will inb_bit.

211 17 h9 hl CDR Houston, how long do you think I should stay in

step 14 before I go to the next one?

CC We'll be right back in a minute, A1.

211 17 50 12 CDR Okay.

211 17 51 21 CC CDR, Houston. Are you still holding in block lh?

We Just noticed the bottom fall out from under
the condensate tank DELTA-P.

CDR I noticed that too, and that's affirm; I'm

holding at 14.

211 17 51 35 CC Okay.

211 17 52 39 CC CDR, Houston. We'd like you to take the PRESS

valve on CONDENSATE module and go to VACUUM. We
suspect that what may be happening is that cabin
gas is leaking back in through the press valve
to the back side of the bladder causing this
particular drop in DELTA-P. Over.

CDR Roger.

CDR Didn't seem to help much, did it?

CC No, it didn't.

211 17 54 12 CC CDR, Houston. How are you reestablishing the

DELTA-P in your system when you are doing it?
And Just looking at things here, we wonder if the
overboard vent or if a vacuum vent is open to
provide vacuum to that press valve.

CDR That's affirm. We've left it open while we've

done these procedures and it worked several times.
And the way I established vacuum was exactly how
they did it on page 9-6 and then they went over
to 9-7 and it says for DELTA-P stabilize, go to
filter close, and that's what I did. Essentially
I did the procedure on page 9-6 and -7 each time
we lost pressure.
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CC Roger; we copy.

2il 17 54 56 CDR I'll go check that valve myself again, and I'll
also look at the pressure in the tank.

CC Okay, we're coming up with a little over 1 minute

to LOS at Bermuda here. The next station contact
will be Ascension at 18:05 in approximately
l0 minutes. Over.

PLT Okay, Bruce. And one other thing, I had a who -

I had a whole lot of trouble finding the little
ferrite slug in the big condensate tank with the
stud finder. Is there any magic formula to that?
It worked real good on the water tank, but I
can't seem to get it on the condensate tank.

CC Okay, Jack. We understand that the metal strip

inside does not cover 360 degrees of the - of
the diaphragm. And we'll have to check and get
the particular an£nilar segment that is covered
for you, and get it to you over Ascension.

211 17 56 14 PLT Well, I've got two black lines lined up on the
flanges and it's supposed to be along that line
somewhere but I'll be doggone if I can find it.

CC Okay. In that case, we don't have any fUrther

intelligence for you right now, but we'll work
on it.

PLT But there's one in there, right?

211 17 56 32 CC Right.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

211 18 05 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

5 minutes. Over.

CDR That condensate in step 14 - the pressure Just

goes up and it'll get up maybe 3-1/2 and then it'll
drop to 2, and then it'll go up to 3-1/2 and go
to somewhere else. Real strange.

211 18 05 38 CC Okay, Alan, what we'd like you to do is to close

off both HEAT EXCHANGER A CONDENSATE isolation
valves; that is, put you in a configuration where
all four of the condensate isolation valves are
closed. Then reestablish the DELTA-P using the
procedure that you have been using, and wait;
see if it holds pressure. If it does hold
pressure, then open one heat exchanger condensate
valve and check and see if we're getting a
breakthrough on that one and then we can go
ahead and close that and open the other HEAT
EXCHANGER A when we think we may be getting
breakthrough on both HEAT EXCHANGER A sets of
plates. Over.

CDR That's kind of what I'd guess, too. It - it builds

up until it gets a good DELTA-P and then it
finally lets the air through.

CC Yes. So if we shut all four of these valves off

and see if we can build up to 4-1/2 or 5 and -
if it holds, then we got a pretty good hack on
what 's happening. Over.

211 18 07 20 CDR Okay. They're both closed now.

CC Roger.

211 18 07 35 CDR The way this 96 has been ... best is go to the
H20 valve to DUMP, and the other, VACUUM; so that's
where I'm going to go.

CC Roger.

211 18 07 59 PLT Say, Bruce, do you want us to go ahead and do the

S149 Stow-1 on page 3-3?
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CC Stand by.

CC Jack, when did you do the retract on that? Over.

PLT We didn't do a retract. The thing was sticking

out all along. We noticed it during docking the
other day it was out there, but the wings shut - or
the doors were shut on it.

211 18 08 57 CC Jack, this is Houston. Prior to doing the Slh9

stow, we need to do a 149 retract. In Activation
Checklist, it's called out on page 2-89 and that
references you to 3-9 of the SAL Experiments Check-
list and then there's a wait period prior to doing
the stow.

PLT Okay, we overlooked that yesterday. And I'll do

the retract if you want me to do that; then Just
wait on the stow.

211 18 09 33 CC Roger. That' ll be fine with us and we 're run-

ning out of station contact time here at Ascen-
sion; 45 seconds left. We'll see you over
Carnarvon in about 25 minutes at time of 18:35.
Over.

211 18 35 4h CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

l0 minutes. Standing by for the CDR. Over.

CDR Go ahead, Bruce.

CC Okay, Alan. What have you done while we were

out of station contact on the condensate system?
Over.

CDR I have all the HEAT EXCHANGER A OFF in both tool

sieves. I attempted to get a large DELTA-P, the
maximum I could get is what you see at the
moment, 2-1/2. Which I guess means, and this is
what has been puzzling me all along. I guess it
means that the lib is not in - leak is not in
the water plate, it 's somewhere else, because
we've got the water plates cut off.

211 18 36 47 CC Okay. That's certainly what we're thinking also

if you've got all four water plates cut off.
What we'd like you to do is establish as high a
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vacuum as you can and then disconnect the QD

from the dump port on the side of the condensate
module that 's in use. I 'm informed that there' s
a label that says '_)mnp" right next to the QD
that's involved. And then we'll watch the system
and see what happens to the pressure. We're
suspecting gas leakage in the plumbing of the
condensate module. Over.

211 18 37 19 CDR Okay. Now, one other question. You're happy

with the position that I have these two valves
in? It's per the checklist but I've sort of
wondered about it. The H20 is in DUMP, and the
CONDENSATE TANK is in VACUUM.

CC Roger. We are happy.

CDR Okay. I 'm going to leave it Just like that and

remove that dump line. Is that correct?

CC Stand by.

211 18 38 47 CC Skylah, Houston. We're trying to establish a

higher DELTA-P prior to disconnecting. So we'd
like to turn on the airlock module PRIMARY VENT
HEATERS, panel 216. And then open up the PRIMARY
airlock module VENT VALVE; again on 216. Over.

CDR Okay. Do you want me to delay anytime between

that - those two operations?

CC Negative. We feel you'll be venting only gas

overboard.

211 18 39 25 CDR Good suggestion. There it goes.

CC Say again.

CDR I said the DELTA-P is moving up_ good suggestion.

CC Roger.

211 18 40 00 CDR When it reaches 5, I'll remove the dump port - -

211 18 40 04 CC Stand by, A1. We may want to reconfigure a

valve or two before you pop that QD loose.
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CDR 0kay.

CDR Looks like about 4.3 is all we're going to get

for a while.

211 18 41 30 CC Okay, AI. We're copying that, and we're showing

about 4.34 down here. What we'd like you to do
is to go ahead and close the VENT VALVE first on
panel 216 and then as close to simultaneously
as you can, pop the QD loose. Over.

211 18 h2 06 CDR Okay, that's complete. And the heater's still

on.

CC Roger; we concur. And we're watching the pressure

now.

211 18 h2 48 CC Okay, A1, we can probably see the pressure change

faster than you can with our resolution here.
It's slowly deteriorating, and we'll have s_ne
words for you in a minute.

CDR Okay.

CC Okay, we'd like the WATER valve to FILL, please,

A1.

CDR Okay.

CDR It pulled a nice bubble into the tank.

CC A bubble of air? Over.

211 18 h3 48 CDR I can't tell against that black bladder whether

it's a bubble of water or a bubble of air.

CC Roger; we copy.

CC Okay, A1, we've got 1 minute to LOS here. Next

station contact is Gl,am in about h-l/2 minutes.
We're still showing a drop in pressure. We'd
like you to pull the fill QD loose from the con-
densate module; thereby completely isolating the
condensate module from the plumbing but leaving
it hooked up electrically and it should hold
pressure for about 15 minutes. So don't do
anything between now and G13nm and we can both
take a look at it over Guam. Over.
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211 18 45 17 CDR Okay, I Just pulled it.

211 18 51 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're with you through

G1_am for a little over 7-1/2 minutes ; for the
Cnm_ander. 0ver.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, Alan. We think we have a leak in the

plumbing internal to the condensate tank itself.
We need to discuss matters a little more down
here before we make any decision on what to do
with respect to that tank, so in the mean time
we'd like you to sort of leave that part of the
system as it is. I think we can mere profitably
have you go ahead and run thro1_h a condensate
holding tank dump operation which is housekeeping
60 Bravo found on page 9-3; that's 9-3 of the
SWS Syt_ Checklist, since this has to be done
anyway. We think that using the stud finder
you'll be able to locate your little ferrite
reference approximately 180 degrees out frum the
marks that were installed on the tank. We believe
that the SL-2 crew located this position and put
some pencil marks on the outside of the tanks,
so you might take a look for those. Over.

CDR Okay, we'll give it a go.

211 18 52 36 CC Okay, and I guess for Owen and Jack, we'd ap-
preciate a comment as to how you're coming on
the 172 cal and 149 retraction, when they have
a minute.

211 18 52 54 CDR I think I can answer; we Just got the equipment

out of the command module to mount the batteries,
et cetera, on the 172, so Owen's in the process
of doing that. Jack is, as far as I know at
the moment, not doing anything about 149. He's
backed up in his checklist to the first day and
we're proceeding through there systematically to
make sure we don't skip anything and get out of
phase. So that's where he is at the moment.

CC Okay, we copy.
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CDR Also, that's what I'm doing between the time of

this troubleshooting, what little there is between
time.

211 18 53 42 CC Okay, Al, we copy your update. We Just come into

sunrise here, and we had inhibited momentum dump
during the night pass to facilitate the M172 cal,
because we thought he was about ready to run it.
At the present time, we cannot guarantee you a
momentum inhibit next night pass, so be sure and
keep us posted on how he progresses. Over.

211 18 54 i0 CDR Will do. We'll run into a continual probl_n in

that, when we go to hunt something the place
that it was up until about S or 4 days ago; in
the co-,,and module, it ain't there no more. And
so we've been doing a little searching, but we're
finding them.

211 18 58 27 CC Roger; we copy. And if you have any questions or

problems on specific locations ; although we under-
stand that the configurations - the problem
you're facing, i f you give us a call down here,
we may still be able to suggest some locations
where they could be. Over.

CDR We'll do that, Bruce. And do you want me to turn

OFF the AM heater - DUMP HEATER, or Just leave it
ON?

211 18 58 05 CC That's affirmative, AI; you can go ahead and shut

it OFF now.

211 18 58 i0 CDR Complete.

CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute until LOS;

next station will be Goldstone at 19:1_, or
16 minutes from now for a string of stateside con-
tacts. Out.

211 18 58 20 CC And we have Rk_NABLED the MDMENTUM DUMP. Out.

211 19 lh ll CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone at the

States for about 16 minutes. Over.

CDR " Hello.

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211 19 14 22 CC Hello' What we want to do, A1, is wind up dumping

the condensate holding tank as per our request,
last station pass. And then hook the condensate
holding tan_ back up to the system and use that
for pulling the vacuum on the system. Leave the
condensate modules and the airlock module d/s-
connected and open up the condensing m_.&T EX-
CHANGER A valves in MOL SIEVES A and B and see
if we got a system operating. Periodically, we'll
request that you hook the condensate module fill
QD up, with the water valve in the FILL position
and give us a reading on DELTA-P, since by leaving
the tanks disconnected from the plumbing, we've
lost both the onboard and the telemetry indications
of condensate tank DELTA-P. Over.

211 19 15 19 CDR Okay, I understand that, Bruce. Now, that's one

problem as I hunted for snme of this hardware.
I've got _Imost all of it done except one thing.
Let me see if I can find it here.

CC 0kay.

CDR Okay, right at the bottom of page 9-3, it says,

"Insert condensate press fitting into holding
t-n_ pressure valve fort - port." I got the last
part; I - I don't know where to find the condensate
press fitting.

CC Okay. Stand by a second here.

211 19 15 59 CC We understand that it should be on the tAn_,

mounted on the tank in a QD or a d_J,-,,,_
receptacle
of some sort.

CDR Well, I looked around and I saw one called depress

fitting. Let me go up and look again.

CC Okay.

211 19 16 32 CC Okay, A1, it looks like any fitting that will let
let air in on the back side of that bellow so
that you can, in fact, use cabin pressure coming
in through the press valve on the condensate tank
to force the liquid out through the dump lines
down into the waste tan_ will do the Job. And
we're checking on the nomenclature on that thing.
We show it on our diagrams as the condensate press
fitting.
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211 19 17 ii CDR Well, I think we can clear it up. Do you have

anything on your diagram called a condensate
depress fitting?

CC Yes, sir, AI. We have one of those shown down

in the WMC, but that's not the right thing. We
don't think it'll fit. Over.

211 19 17 56 CDR Okay. Let's - Well this one was mounted on the
tank and that may Just be mislabelled. Let me
see if it'll fit.

CC Why don't you - with the valve - the press valve

closed, see if that fitting will fit?

211 19 18 23 CC Okay, AI, we'll get the input here that the con-
densate press fitting should be mounted on one
of the feet underneath the ta-_ as it's in posi-
tion up there on the dame. Over.

211 19 18 51 CDR Okay, that's - that's were I got this thing. And
if there isn't a depress fitting that's supposed
to be mounted, this is it. l'm - l'm still -
l'm back over there at the tanks, so I won't call
you back for a few minutes.

CC Roger; out.

21] 19 21 17 CDR Okay, I found it Bruce, the clue was that it was
down by the feet. Thanks.

CC It was downby thewhat,please?

CDR It was down by the mounting feet of the tun_.

A11 the rest of the valves are up on the top.
And I went around there and saw it. Than_s.

CC Roger.

211 19 24 21 CDR Okay, Houston; I've initiated the holding tank

d_mp.

211 19 2h 25 CC Okay, we're handing over right now. I'll call

you in a few seconds.
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211 19 24 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back in business.

CC And, Alan, were you successful in locating the

bellows position using your stud finder? Over.

CDR The reason we couldn't locate it earlier was be-

cause it was too near the end. Now that it is
being moved back across, I 'm going to take the
stud finder and see if I can locate it; I'm pretty
sure I can. I see the marks on there that Pete
left and don't - don't see any reason why we
can't find it.

CC Okay, our best guess is that it is going to take

at least an hour to complete this dump, so you
better plan on leaving it in configuration and
Just chenk_ng it periodically. I don't imagine
it hurts anything, if it goes for longer than the
required -mount of time.

CDR Okay, I felt the fitting, you know, that the air
is supposed to come in when you apply a vacuum
to the condensate side and it didn't appear that
it was sucking excessively. You can feel that
there is indeed a vacuum being pulled, but it's
not very much. It is going to take quite a while.

CC Okay; Roger.

211 19 26 31 CC Okay. Skylab, Houston. You might change my last

there. What we would like to do is dmnp for about
an hour even, and then even though the tank may
not be completely empty at that point, go ahead
and reconfigure and start getting some water
removal, because our dewpoint is up to 53.7 and
we are concerned that we may be taking too m_ch
out with the molecular sieves. Over.

PLT A/ says to tell you, "Yes."

211 19 27 14 CC Okay, you can tell AI, "Roger," for me.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

211 19 30 06 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS through

Mila. We'll see you over Vanguard in
l0 minutes at the time of 19:h0 for about
a 5-minute pass. Over.

SPT How much time we got until sunset, Bruce?

CC Until sunset, you have 21 minutes, sir.

SPT Okay, I'm - I was Just putting on my last

tray now, and so I should have the BMMD
complete by sunset.

CC Go, msn; go.

CDR Okay, I found the stud - used the stud finder,

and found the bellows and I'm watching it
move across now. I'm going to mark it as it
moves, so the next time we play the game we
can find it faster.

211 19 30 56 CC Roger, A1.

211 19 hl 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard on

a 6-minute pass. A note for the SPT.
Momentum dump will eo--.enee at 19:51:37, or
in l0 minutes and ll seconds from now. I
can give you a mark if you'd like. Over.

SPT No, I don't need it; that's good enough,

Bruce. Now I've completed all of the
mass measurements, and I'm unstowing the
chair _ain, now. There is a final mass
measurement to be done with everything
unstowed again, which is Just a repeat of
the very first one; but that's such low_Ifs,
and therefore, such short a period, that l
can't imagine the GG dump would have affected
it, or even, really, for that matter, amy of
the rest. And it is a repeat of the first
one ma_e, so I th_n_ it's perfectly all right
If you Just go ahead and do this one, even if
the GO dump has co-,,euced, myself. Over.
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211 19 h2 13 PLT While you're thinking about that, the land

we Just came over had hundreds and hundreds
of small fires in it. Must be burning out
the crops or something.

CC Okay. Well, we got you over Vanguard now,

so looks like you're coming over
western Brazil and maybe northern Argentina.

SPT Looks like my suggestions didn't meet with

immediat e enthusiasm.

CC No, it didn't really meet with _mmediate

enthusiasm. What we'd like you to do,
since it is with all the masses off, is Just
go ahead and come back and do that one run at
next sunrise after one dump has been
accomplished. They say that it's a very
sensitive measurement. Over.

211 19 42 56 SPT Okay, that m-kes sense. I'll do it then.

After the next sunrise I'll go do it.

CC Skylab, this is Houston, with 2 minutes until

LOS at Vanguard. Your next station contact
will be Goldstone at 20:51, or an hour and
5 minutes from now. At that time, we'd like
to discuss with you our plans and your desires
for flight planning the mission day tomorrow,
and also to get an update from you on any
major task in activation that you may have
completed by that time. Over.

211 19 h6 02 CDR Okay.

211 20 51 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone

and stateside passes for 12 minutes. Over.

CDR - Read you real good, Houston.

CC Roger. Reading you the same, Alan, and we

got a couple of quick ones here. And then I would
like to discuss your status. First, on the
S055 door, we've operated that in every
conceivable configuration, both primary and
secondary motors alone, and with computer and
ground commands ; and it 's intermittently

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hanging up. Conseq1,_ntly on this pass,

we're going to select two - motor operation
and see if that clears up the problem. And
then I have a quick change to general
message 0337-A which was your Flight Plan
message for todsy. You ready to copy?

211 20 52 00 CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. You were directed in presleep to

powerdown the ATM C and D panel per the
unattended operations cue card. And what
we would 1_ke to do is have you powerdown
the C and D per the ATM presleep confi6_xratio_
page 2-91 of the SWS Activation Checklist.
That is, Just like you were finishing up day 2.
And what that does is Just turns off the
displays, the lighting in the DAS, and it leaves
you in the proper configuration for doing the
ATM checkout later on. Over.

211 20 52 41 CDR Okay; m_es sense. I got it, 2-91 on page -

use 2-91.

CC Roger.

! CC And now, if you could take a minute, we'd like

to get an update on your statuses as you progress
! through the Activation Checklist. Over.

i CDR Okay, let me -instea_l of giving you the exact

! details, let me Just t-1_ about it for a
few minutes. And -mybe that can make it solve
things better.

211 20 53 16 CC Okay, and then maybe I can ask you some blocks - -

CDR First of all - First of all, today, Jack has had

a scop/Dex and Owen has had a scop/Dex. So
everyone isn't - still isn't as ste=,__ as he
would like to be. Next. We see_ to end up with
about as many chores to de new, as we do chores
to do old. And so it tends to - to keep us
from really progressing on the activation. The
condensate work is taking quite a bit of time.
0wen went in to use his urine separator, and it
decided it wouldn't separate. So he is now in
the - he Just told me he got it fixed. But he

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spent about an hour working on it, trying to get

it to work. We had those problems last evening
with the fill valve and with the condensate tank
yesterday, also. The whole point of the thing is,
we 're - we 're having difficluty progressing
because we- we're - we're doing other work.
What we were hoping would hap - What we were
hoping would happen today was we'd end up with
sort of not much to do, where we could get
caught up on day 2 and then we'd have then a
day 3 tomorrow. And I think even with this, we
might make - we might finish the activation for
day 2, but we will not be able to finish for
day B. There's Just no way we can do it.

211 20 54 58 CC Roger, A1. We concur with that. What we were

trying to do is to make our own plans down here
as far as scheduling shifts to support activation
and getting people lined up and planning ahead
towards the EVA day, and that's the reason for
our inquiring as to your progress on these tasks.
Over.

CDR Okay, let me get out mY Flight Plan. I've got it

right in front of me, and I think I can tell you
the additional items that we have picked up.

CC Okay, mighty fine.

211 20 55 47 CDR I've been working this morning, when time was
available, doing the C_4 stowage reconfiguration.
I got the rate gyros out and got them nearly
complete. And all - most all the rest of the
items are finished. But they're -whatever comes
after the rate gyros is not. I don't have my
list in front of me, but that needs to be
completed.

CC Okay.

CDR Jack finished doing the items that were in his

day i presleep checklist, Just a few moments ago.

CC Roger.
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211 20 56 25 CDR Of course, we got all of the water system

activated in both the wardroom and the washroom;
we dried all three of the suits. Let me tell
you a few things we haven't done, and then if I
don't say anything about it, then you'll know
we've done it. We still haven't done the

PPO 2 sensor replacement, the CO 2 filter replacement,

the SOPA/SOMA reconfig [sic], the C02 sampling

and the AM tLpe recorder replacement. Now mY
guess is we'll get that done today.
b
CC Okay, that's a good input.

' 211 20 57 ii CDR Okay, I 'm not completely finished transferring

the flight data file; l've transferred all the
items. But I haven't found the change sheet.
l've got the change sheet, I Just haven't taken
them around and put them in each book. So there
is probably a couple of hours there. Now - I
' don't know whether I will be able to finish that
today.

211 20 57 34 CDR Jack finished the return water container fill-up,

and he is now working on the command module
stowage transfer. We have not done the
I PCU/LSU transfer, SMMD transfer cal, as you know,
i
i
J
we did the other c_e per the Flight Plan todd.
211 20 58 05 CC Oh, we had a handover there, AI. You cut out at
1 the beginning of your transmission. Over.

I CDR We have not done the S_I_D transfer cal, but we

will get to it today. The CSM quiescent panel
config [sic] is, complete. We are going to work
on the film transfer today, if we can. We've
weighed all our food residue, and tonight I'll
give you a report that will include, accurately,
all the food and water for the 3 days we've been
here so that the food people can know exactly
where we stand.

CC At1 righty, fine. I'm sure they'll appreciate

getting that.
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211 20 58 42 CDR Okay, we have done the entry batt isolation, the
02 fUel cell purge, we have got all the suits
done. SI_9 retract, we have not done, but will,
if we can get to it. We have not done ED52 TV,
and we probably will not get to it. We have not
done anything on page P, which is day 3.

211 20 59 17 CDR Essentiallv, what we wanted to do today was try

to use this day to get done with day 2. But I
think it's going to be marginal, now. Also,
looking at the general state of equilibrium,my
guess is we probably - in thinking about the fact
that before we take this two - Dole sunshade
outside, we're going to have to take a look at
it in here, assemble it and put the rings on it,
and really go over it real closely to make sure
that it's shipshape. And the 149 and the rest
of it that I don't think we ought to try pulling
off an EVA prep at all tomorrow. It seems to me
that t_norrow, if it could be lighter than today,
we can conceivably get this place shipshape. It
Just takes a long time to get - to get where you
can live in it. Eve_ime you go to do something
like get your doc [?] kit out and shave, you
find that there's no heads there, and you have
to go hunt the heads that are in the command
module sGnewhere. So it Just takes a little
bit longer to get in - get going in a used
spacecraft, so to speak, than it does when
everything is right in it's proper place.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

211 21 00 36 CC Okay, AI, we concur on that, on your march [sic]

about a light schedule, and we're going to slant
our Flight Plan for tomorrow in that direction
very strongly. Over.

CDR Roger. I think tomorrow, also, we'll have a bet_ter -,

handle on how - on how everybody's feeling. It
seems to me that - that - we - there's Just no
way I - I think of that we could pull off an EVA
day after tomorrow, but the day after that is
possible. So I think we Just got to have time
to get these - get the things shipshape, and when
we do, then we can go from there.

CC Okay, A1, we're copying all of that. One question

that we've got for you is, did you get the ED
experiment transfer and preparation completed?
Over.

SPT No, it's not complete. I did transfer ED32,

as I reported yesterday, but I'ii have to finish
that up by today.

CC Okay, do you think you will get that done today,

- though, Owen?

SPT I think so. Now, as I recall, there's nothing

time critical in there except the - we don't
want to wait too many days on the spiders, but
outside that, there's no hurry, is there?

CC Okay, we're checking on that right now. I think

your assessment is correct. We have sent you up
a message on the teleprinter and - correction, we
are sending you a message on the teleprinter and,
contrary to the header, there is no time criticality
as to reporting it. We can get the info on the
evening status report, since Al's update and
assessment of your progress and condition has
been quite adequate for making our flight-planning
decisions. Over.

. 211 21 02 27 CDR Okay, one other thing. We - I ran an hour putting

the vacuum on the holding tank. I've got -
correction - dumping the holding tank. That's -
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let it go about three quarters - the bellows go

about three quarters of the way, and I marked
very carefully where it went. I presently got the
vacuum being applied to the bellows. It said to
do it for 18 minutes, and right now we are in
about the 16th minute of it. When that's finished,
as soon as I can get a bite to eat here, so I
don't slip too far behind On that, I'll go up and
connect it to the MOL SIEVES, as well - ought to
have some good suction. I hope we do.

CC Okay, A1, mighty fine. Now, we've got about

30 seconds until LOS. Next station contact is
over Vanguard in 13 minutes, and I think when we
can get that condensate collection system going,
why we'll all be a little happier - breathe easier
down here. Over.

211 21 03 22 CDR Okay. We're with you.

211 21 17 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for the

next 6-1/2 minutes. How do you read? Over.

CDR Loud and clear, Bruce.

CC Okay, Alan, we've got a few items for you with

respect to the Flight Plan for tomorrow. Our plan
is to schedule general activation for tomorrow
morning up through noon and to leave tomorrow
afternoon open for regroup operation, as desired
by you all on board. EVA will be no earlier than
day 6. Over.

PLT Okay, I understand, and A1 heard all that, also.

CDR That 's good news.

CC And in connection with that and to - to give us

maximum flexibilty in your operations and our
planning down here, we'd like to try to get y'all
back on a normal cycle of turning in on time and
getting up in the morning, so that we don't get
your circadian rhythms changed around. And then
I got a few little systems notes, if somebody's
ready. Over.
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211 21 18 42 CDR We agree with you i00 percent on that. As you

can see, we are out of phase here several hours
by trying - trying to get something done - Just -
you know, Just one last-minute thing before you
eat. Okay, go ahead with those notes.

CC Okay, panel 207, when you get a chance, we'd like

to ENABLE the SIEVE A CAUTION and WARNING parameter,
since we believe it to be operating properly now.
And we're going to reset the battery volt talkback
and light with respect to CBRM. 15 down here on
the ground, so that after that's completed you
can extinguish the alert light by selecting CBRM
17. Over.

CDR Sounds good.

211 21 19 31 CC And that about wraps up the prepared traffic we

have down here. Do you have any comments or
anything for us?

CDR Not a thing. We'll Just keep going.

CC Okay. Interestingly enough, in looking at the

optics problem that you had during rendezvous, we
found from telemetry - belay that. I understand
it's already been read up.

CDR That's right. One thing I'm still puzzling about,

maybe you can find out and pass it up sometime.
I 'm still wondering how we ended up with an
8-foot-per-second midcourse Z. I got to thinking
last night ; I was wondering if somehow we could
have had - sc_e sort of optics problem there.

211 21 20 24 CC Okay, AI we don't think that was an optics problem,

but we're still working on the real answer to your
question.

PLT Hey, Bruce, I got one for you.

CC Fire away, Jack.

PLT Now, I'm getting all the film and stuff out of the
command module and I'm leaving this Hasselblad in
here, but taking the magazine downstairs, and I'd
sure would like to have a cover for the back glass
of this Hasselblad. You know where there is one?
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CC Let me check on that, Jack.

211 21 21 45 CC Hey, Jack, the word that we get here is that you
do not have a back cover on board for that Reseau
plate. I think if you can arrange to stow it in
such a location that _here's nothing up against
the glass, that's about the best that we can do
right now. And then we have a - question for you.
You have not yet accomplished the S149 Stow-1
operation, have you?

PLT No, Bruce, what we've done is we've all gone back
to the beginning and worked from that direction.
And I figure that since S149 has been out there
so long, another day won't hurt it; what do you
think?

CC No, it won't hurt it. We were Just going to send

you up a film pad so that we can get some movies
or some pictures of this stowage and retract when
the time does come. So we'll go ahead and pump
it on up to you in the normal sequence of events.

211 21 22 40 PLT Yes, go ahead. I don't think I'm going to get to

it right away.

CC All right. It'll be tomorrow or sometime.

PLT I'm feeling much better with those scop/Dex now.

It's permitting me to have something to eat with-
out losing it, and haven't felt like tossing up
all day, and feel very good now.

CC Yes, I'll bet you'll eat all of the food for SL-3
and 4 if you're getting back to feeling like your
old self.

PLT _ Yes, I got some behind from yesterday and day

before I got to eat yet.

PLT I think my problem before with the scop/Dex was

that I didn't lay around long enough letting it
take hold before I got up and moved about, and
that upset me.
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CC Okay. We copy. We got about i minute left in

this Vanguard pass. Next contact is Hawaii in a
little over i hour.

CC And that Hawaii AOS time is 22:26.

211 21 24 09 PLT And I put that Hasselblad back in U-I and it looks
like it stows pretty good there without scratching
up the Reseau.

CC Roger, Jack. I think the big thing to avoid is

any actual scratches in that. If something touches
it, it probably wouldn't do much harm; we can
always brush it off later.

PLT Oh, it 's in good shape now. I think it 's

supposed to be left in U-I, according to my book
here.

211 21 24 32 CC Okay.

211 22 25 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Hawaii for 3 minutes.

SPT Hello there, Dick. How's everything in Hawaii?

CC Hey, I - I bet it's great. I wish I was over

there looking up at you. Things - things are
going great in Houston, though. Hey, the last
pass we had we got tr&pped by an LOS, and l'm not
sure whether we got all of that evening questions
pad up. And in the interim we modified it very
slightly, and we are retransmitting that message
here at Hawaii. So when you get around to
answering that later on this evening, answer the
one that's co_Ling up on the teleprinter this pass
and forget that other one.

SPT Okay. And one little piece of information for you,

on page 2-78 of the Activation Checklist, the PRD
in the cow--and module was reading 32016.

211 22 26 18 CC Roger, I got that, And if you guys don't have

anything else for me, l've got a little procedure
on the condensate holding tan_ that we'd like to -
at least talk about this pass and partially set
up, and if we don't get it done here we would
like to get it accomplished down at Vanguard.
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SPT One thing I got for you, Dick, I put a long

message on channel A, relative to the M172 cali-
bration results. And I'd Just like word back from
you, when you get it dumped, and if it all came
through okay.

CC Okay, we'll sure do that.

CDR Go ahead on the condensate thing, Dick.

2_1122 27 13 CC Okay, what we would like to end up doing is putting

those - the condensate tank back in the system long
enough to compare a meter reading on panel 216 to
our ground readings so that we kind of get a
baseline for some long-term operation. So what
we'd like to - for you to do to set up for this
is the follow - the following: First of all,
install the dry separator plate on the heat
exchanger plate servicing adaptor; secondly,
connect the heat exchanging plate servicing hose
to the separator plate and to M303; and, thirdly,
to monitor the pressure on the heat exchanger
plate servicing adaptor. And after you get that
set up and then when we're over a STDN site, we
want to connect the fill QD to the condensate
tank. And then we'll get you to report the
separator and adaptor meter readings and also the -
the panel 216 meter readings to us, and we will
look at our TM data. Over.

211 22 28 06 CDR Okay, I'll tell you what I have done. I've taken
the condensate tank and pumped it down - emptied
it. Then I put a vacuum on it. Now a little - a
funny thing happened when I put a vacuum on it -
I didn't understand it exactly. As I dumped, the
bellows went from the end it was in to the opposite
end while I was watching it, with - with the stud
finder. Then when I put a vacuum on the same
place - you put a vacuum in the same place that
the air comes in the first time - I thought, maybe
that - that - that bellows would travel back maybe
a third of the way or some small distance; but it
didn't. It traveled all the way back to the same
end it was at, initially, before we started the
dump. I checked the inlets to the tank by pushing
in on the QD and found it did have a vacuum inside.
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211 22 31 04 CC Break, break, CDR. We're going LOS, we will see

you at Haw - Vanguard at 22:53.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

2_11 22 53 08 CC Skylab, Houston; Vanguard for i0 minutes.

CDR Okay, Dick. I got a dry sep plate, and I got

the adaptors, and I connected up the 303 and
got 2.75 Delta.

CC Say again the reading, please, A1.

CDR 2.75. Now, what you may want me to do - I don't

know if you heard me Just as you went LOS last
time, but I had already connected the holding
tank to both tool sieve heat exchangers A.

CC Roger.

211 22 53 47 CDR You may want me to disconnect them or turn them

off for the check.

CC Negative. We'd like to leave them connected,

and as a matter of fact, I think that was about
the only part of your transmission that we did
not get as we got cut off on LOS. So - so if
you're connected up to that point, we're - sounds
like we're ready to go ahead and connect the
FILL QD to the little condensate - to the con-
densate tank and report the separator adaptor
meter readings and also the panel 216 meter read-
ing after you do that. And we'll be watching
you on data.

CDR Okay, give me a second.

CC Okay.

211 22 55 22 CDR Okay, they're now connected, but you may want
selectors on the condensate t_n_ in scae different
positions. Which ones - where would you like them?

CC Stand by 1 on that, A1.

211 22 55 53 CDR I disconnected for a minute because I did't want

to take a chance on losing m_ vacuum.
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CC Roger, A1. The WATER valve on the tank we want

to the FILL position, and the - the PRESS valve,
it doesn't really matter. But we want the WATER
valve to FILL.

211 22 56 12 CDR 0kay_ that's where it is, now.

CC Roger.

CDR Our DELTA-P gage at the moment reads zero.

CC Roger.

CC And be advised, our TM is also reading zero

there and we're continuing to look at it, so
Just stand by a second please.

211 22 56 h6 CDR Okay, now let me explain this hookup. I've got
one end of the hose connected to 303, and that's
connected to the dry heat exchanger plate, then
the gage is on the top, and then the hose from
the back of the gage is connected to the conden-
sate module - to the fill part of the condensate
module, to the fill connector.

CC Roger.

211 22 57 h9 CC CDR, Houston, I'm not sure we are in the proper

configuration. Why don't you let me read to
you again the - the note I have from EGIL on the
configuration you want and you confirm whether
or not we are there or not?

CDR Okay.

CC Okay. Step 1 was to install the dry separator

plate on the heat exchanger plate servicing
adaptor.

CDR Okay, I've done that.

CC Okay. Next was to connect the heat exchanger

plate servicing hose to the separator plate and
to M303.
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CDR Okay, that 's done.

211 22 58 22 CC Okay, and then the next thing was Just to monitor
the pressure on the heat exchanger plate servic-
ing adaptor and then overstating, which we are,
connect the FIL QD to the condensate tank.

CDR I got you. I see what you're trying to do.

CDR Okay, I thought you wanted the other end of the

hose that was attached to the separator plate,
attached to the FIL. But it's not now, and I
see that both of these gage readings are the same.

211 22 59 ll CC Roger. And then, after the FIL QD is connected

to the condensate tank, A1, we want a reading on
the separator adaptor meter reading, and also the
panel 216 meterac - meter reading.

CDR They both read 2.5 at the moment, but when I

checked it out a few moments ago, Just with the
separator plate connected to 303, finally crept
up 2.75.

CC Roger.

CC CDR, Houston. We are satisfied with the look

we've had now, both on board and TM, and we
would like to disconnect the FIL QD to the con-
densate t_nk.

CDR Okay, that 's done.

211 23 00 32 CC CDR, Houston. Now what we'd like to do is Just

remain in the present configuration. Do not
connect the condensate tank up any more and you
can use the gage on the heat exchanger plate
servicing adaptor as DELTA-P gage now and we'll
collect water. And we'll continue to watch it
here on the ground.

CDR Okay. Was that as big a DELTA-P as they expected,

or did he expect something up around 5? And if
it wasn't 5, I wonder why?
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CC Stand by on that one.

211 23 01 16 CC CDR, Houston. I was under the impression that

you had already disconnected the FIL QD to the
condensate tRnk. Is that correct?

CDR Roger. I Just did, when you told me to.

CC Roger. Okay. Now leave it disconnected. We'll

stay in this configuration. And I think on - I
think on these numbers we - we don't think that
we got as hard a vacuum on the water side because
we only left it open for an - for an hour, as
compared to the gas side that's down there in the
holding t-nks. So right now, we are satisfied
with the pressure - the pressure readings we have
now.

CDR Okay, would you also ask EGIL, why that - if he's
satisfied with the fact that that bellow seems
to travel from - from one end of the tank to the
other, when you dump. And then it travels back
to its original end when you put a vacuum on it.

211 23 02 l0 CC Roger, A1. We've been thinking about that one

since you told us last pass and - and I'll be
getting back to you on the answer for that one.

CDR Yes. It Just doesn't act like I - I think bel-

lows ought - ought to react.

CC Roger that, A1. We're about a minute from LOS.

We're going to see you at Hawaii at O0:O1 and be
advised when we get to Hawaii, we're going to be
dumping the airlock module data tape recorder.

211 23 02 40 CDR Okay.

212 00 00 h5 CC SIw{lab, Houston. AOS Hawaii for 9 minutes.

PLT Okay.

CDR All, it's scheduled for the evening status, and

it's at - it's the next Hawaii pass on rev from
now and the time is 01:39.
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CDR Thank you.

212 00 01 32 CC And I'm not sure what you guys are up to now,
but I've got a couple little things to chatter
about. One was the procedure - the changes we
sent up to you earlier on ECS malf 20, blocks B
and 7 were, as of now were on-time-only changes
for today. And if we decided to permanently
change that malf, we'll fire you up a message
that has a checklist change for that page. And
we Just want to make sure that you didn't per-
manently change that mall in your book.

CDR Okay.

CC And another thing was, we wondering if you were

successful in resetting the alert light on the
CBRM 15 awhile ago.

212 O0 02 36 CDR We didn't try, Dick.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 00 02 45 CC Roger. What we'd like to do sometime this evening

is verify that the talkback is gray and see if
you can reset that alert light, and to do that,
you need to select CERM 17 and we think that'll
reset the light. Another thing I had on m_
list was we think a while ago we cut off Owen
in a middle of a conversation trying to tell us
something about the wardroom window and we wanted
to give him a cb-nce to tell us that sometimes
this evening, if he wants to, - or anybody.

SPT Okay, Just a moment. I 'ii see if there' s anything

up there that AI wants to get across first, Dick.

CC Okay, Owen. Standing by. We got lots of time -

about 7 m_nutes left.

SPT Okay. As I recall, this is the co,.,-entI was

m-_ng along about 24 hours ago but it wasn't
a very high priority item, and I'm not so sure
but what it may have been commented by the mission
2 crew 81so_ but there is a spot of condensation
right in the middle of the wardroom window and
as we come out at sunrise it is shout 4 inches
or i0 centimeters across and then during the
daylight pass when the Earth essentially fills
the wardroom window, its size will d_mlnlsh to
about h_f of that i0 - from centimeter down to
say, 5 centimeters. Rather interesting thing,
right in the center of that is a little lens of
either water or ice, and I assume that it is ice,
that it is so perfectly formed that it -,_es a
demagnifying glass. And you - when you look
through that lens in the center of this
condensation, maythingyou see on the ground is
reduced in size by about a factor of 0.i and the
focal length's about - oh, 12 inches or so. When
you hold your head back about 12 inches from the
window, the terrain beneath you comes into a very
sh_p focus. Not a fuzzy one, but a very sharp
focus and reduced in size to about 0.i. It's
possible from that that somebody can calculate
Just how much moisture is inside on that window
if they wanted to. We also see, occasionally, a
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streak out towards 9 o'clock. Let's see, I don't

know whether that would be nearer the sunrise or
sunset terminator but I'd have to check. Just
thinking back, I remember as we stand - call
it erect - in front of the wardroom window with
our feet on the grid, it's out toward 9 o'clock
as if there were a little drift of moisture out
in that direction. I can't imagine the window
is really - as if breathing in and out but it
sort of looks as if that little trail leading
off toward 9 o'clock had suggested that. And
this little condensation has been with us ever
since we opened the wind - wardroom window over
24 hours ago. Over.

212 00 05 33 CC Roger, Owen. Copied all of that and I remember

talking to the guys several times about this
and I don't remember any conversation with SL-2
crew about the - about the little demagnifying
piece of ice or water in the center. And as far
as the 9 o'clock goes, that is over towards the -
towards those ports, but we'll certainly think
about that one. Thank you much. Sorry we cut
you out earlier. I also ranted to pass up to you
that we are satisfied with the DELTA-P that we
got that I was talking to A1 about while ago.
And we think that the bellows operation that he
witnessed was - is normal and it's caused by the
fact that when we dump the - we dump the water
side of that tank for about 1 hour and so it did
have some %_ater pressure - vapor pressure in it.
So when the gas side's at a vacuum it goes full
to one end and then, when the gas side during
dump is to 5 psi, it goes full to the other. So
we're pretty happy with that one.

212 O0 06 40 SPT Fantastic view of the the Hawaiian Island just

passing beneath us here, Dick. Look right down
all the way from Kauai over to the Big Island -
see the big volcanos there - right into Honolulu
harbor and all up the sides of the volcanos. It's
a really a beautiful sight of the whole archipelago.

CC Roger. Thank you much.

CC And, Skylah; Houston. We'd like to get MOL SIEVE

Bravo FAN PRIMARY to ON, please.
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212 00 07 32 CDR Coming ON.

CC Thank you.

CDR And I tried that - setting it on 17 and it worked

perfectly, Dick.

CC Hey, good. ThAnk you very much.

CDR Thank you.

212 00 08 07 SPT And, Dick, I've completed the exchange of the

SMMD here in the wardroom and I'm Just getting
to - fixing to calibrate it now and we going to
try to work up a - a - a television shot of that
and put it on the VTR. I don't know whether or
not there are any more direct TV passes tonight
but if not we'll try to get some of it on VTR.

CC Okay. Fine. Thanks for letting us know.

212 00 09 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We're going to see you at the Vanguard at 00:31.
And, 0wen, for your information - Owen, for your
information, I checked with INC0 and VTR as it is,
is at the start of tape and so you can use it
tonight as desired.

212 00 32 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Vanguard for 9 minutes.

SPT Roger, Dick.

CDR Got a funny problem here, Dick.

CC Roger ; go ahead.

212 00 32 25 CDR I'm replacing the 02 sensors and, as you know, you
have to insert them and - where it says R and
rotate them to L. N1-,_ers 1 and 3 do it real well
and no trouble, quite smooth, and I've tried
several different ones of them and they - they
work well. The n,s,ber 2, I can get any sensor in
there, but I can't get it to rotate and I've tried
pushing in hard and rotating, pulling out a little
bit and rotating. I haven't applied particularly
much force to it because I didn't want to take any
chances of shorting anything out in there. So, as
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it presently stands, I've got a sensor in i and B

and, in 2, I can put one in but I - it Just won't
rotate.

CC Okay, AI. I copied that one and, while EGIL's

thinking about that one, l've got a couple of other
notes for you. One is, is you've got a new decal
on board that you carried up to - for a changeout
of the EREP tape recorder and you were to take
off the old decal and put the new one on. We're
having some second thoughts about the procedure
that's on that new decal and it involves the - the
power configuration that it puts the tape recorder
in. So, what we'd appreciate it is - if you do
not install that new decal for changeout of the
EREP tape recorder. We'll continue to think about
it and, when we figure out which of the two decals
ve want on there, we'll get back to you.

212 00 3_ 01 CDR Sounds good to me. l'm just going to leave the
02 sensors like they are. I'ii leave number 2
with the sensor in there but not rotated and then
I'ii put it on - CONTROL on i and MONITOR on B.
Just leave 2 out of the loop at the moment.

CC Roger, AI. We concur with that. That's a good

configuration. And, Skylab; Houston. We would
appreciate sometime during this Vanguard pass
if somebody would have the time to give us another
read-out on the condensate system and how the
DELTA-P's holding up.

CDR Okay. I'ii check right now.

CC Thank you.

212 O0 34 50 CDR 2.1.

CC 2.1. Thank you.

CDR And, in position i, is serial number B9 and in

position B is serial number BI.

CC Roger. Thank you, AI.

CDR And l'm going to put 50 in the number 2 unrotated.

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CC Roger. Understand. Serial m,m_er 50 is the one

in number 2. Thank you.

212 00 36 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got about 4-1/2

minutes here at Vanguard. We're seeing some
funnies on the STAR TRACKER and we'd like some-
. body to go up to the panel if possible and tell
us the configuration of STAR TRACKER SHUTTER.
We _re in a _uap _*-euTer an_ we continue_ to -
we issued a comm_nd and continued to track the
star for a while. We Just lost star presence
and we would like to know whether the shutter
is open or closed.

SPT The STAR TRACKER shows a barber pole, but with

a - the DOOR OPEN.

CC Thank you.

SPT The ACQUISTION is barber pole and the SHUTTER,

OPEN.

CC Okay, 0wen, thank you very much.

SPT Do you want me to put it somewhere for you?

CC Stand by Just a second. Yes, GNS would like to

CLOSE, please.

212 00 B7 17 SPT I just tried to close it with the switch and

it wouldn't close.

CC Owen, we're going to ask you to go to MANUAL

and park and STAR TRACKER in some angles and
I'm getting angles now, so I'll have them up to
you in Just a second.

SPT Okay. I'ii go to MANUAL and wait.

CC Roger.

212 00 39 00 SPT You still there, Houston?

CC That 's _ffir_tive, Owen. We are.

: SPT Okay. I've got it set on OUTER. I - I don't

: have it set; it's sitting on outer, plus 876,
andinner, minus781.

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CC Roger. Thank you. We got about a minute and a

half left, and I'II get right back to you.

212 00 B9 39 SPT Would you like for me to try another manual

closure now that I'm in - at MANUAL?

CC Roger. Why don't you? That won't hurt.

212 00 39 56 SPT No. All it did was chaage my STAR ACQ flag from
MANUAL to barber pole and so I went back to
MANUAL and the - -

CC Roger.

SPT - - DOOR's still OPEN.

CC Roger. And, SPT, here are your angles. We'd

like it parked at an inner gimbal of minus 18O0
and an outer gimbal of plus 4200

SPT Roger.

212 00 40 20 CC Roger. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

The next pass is - is at Hawaii at 01:39, and
I'll be standing by there to copy your evening
status report.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 01 38 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for about

7 minutes. Before you start giving me your evening
status report, l've got a procedure that l'd like
to read up to you that we'd like to, sometime
between now and the time you go to bed, we'd
like - you to configure the condensate system for
us for the evening. Over.

CDR Go ahead.

212 01 39 04 CC Okay. We'd like somebody to give us a DELTA-P

reading now from the CONDENSING HEAT EXCHANGER
PLATE SERVICE device. While semebody is looking
for that, on panel 230 we'd like HEAT EXCHANGER
A WATER ISOLATION valve to CLOSE which is clock-
wise. Next, on panel 233 we 'd like CONDENSATE
HEAT EXCHANGER AIR FLOW valve to Bravo. Then

thirdly, on panel 232, w_.AT EXCHANGER A H20

ISOLATIONS valve to OPEN, verify. That's - the
one we closed was mol sieve A; this one that's
open is mol sieve B. Then we'd like to disconnect
this kluge that we have, which is disconnect the
CONDENSING HEAT EXCHANGER PLATE SERVICING device,
and we'd like you to inspect the GAS TO WAT_
SEPARATOR SUS loop to insure that that connection
is not leaking. What we're seeing is a slow
decrease in DELTA-P in the big tank. We're not
exactly sure whether or not we have a leak some-
where or whether or not we Just need to reservice
the plates, either of which we plan to chase in
the morning.

CDR Okay.

212 01 40 48 CDR Say, Dick, I checked that gage a few moments ago
and it was setting at 1.9.

CC Roger. Looks like it still is going down. Also,

we'd like some help on the star tracker again.
We need to repark it. - Those numbers again were
OUTER GIMBAL, plus 4200; INNER GIMBAL, minus
1800, and then close the star tracker door.

way.
_i_ CDR Okay, on the
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CC And - -

CDR Are you ready for the evening status report?

212 01 4i 2T CC Roger. We got about 4-i/2 minutes left in this

pass so I'll give you an LOS call. Your next
pass is the medical conference at Vanguard which
020 - correction - 02:10. After that we have one
more Ascension pass before you go to bed, and
we'll make sure the condensate system is squared
away there. So go ahead with the evening status.

CDR Okay. Do you want me to go through these seven

items from the teleprinter pad first or save
those for the medical report?

212 01 42 09 CC A1, why don't you save that for the next pass
and - won't be amy problem there, and then we
will be sure and get this other evening status
stuff here.

212 01 42 17 CDR 0kay, here we go: Starting with volume there.

CC Go ahead.

CDR 090,080,080. Okay, drinking water gun reading:

4507; 7360; 5481. BMMD: 6.269, 6.270, 6.275;
SPT, 5.993, 5.99h, 5.99h; PLT, 6.876, 6.970,
6.900. No exercise. Medication: CD - CDR, none;
SPT, two scop/Dex; PLT, three scop/Dex. Sleep:
CDR 5/fair; SPT T/fair to good; PLT, T/fair.

CC Okay, I got all that, go ahead.

212 01 43 26 CDR Okay, about the Food Log. Here's the deviation.
First of all, CDR. No salt used. Deviation:
peanut butter, two; biscuit, two - make that
three; strawberry drink; butterscotch pudding.
Also crewman l, on his Jelly, didn't eat it all.
And here is the SMMD food reading: 2.07782,
2.0778h, 2.07793. Okay, next comes the SPT: no
salt, and he ate only cornflakes, orange drink,
both of those for breakfast. PLT: he did not
eat - first of all, no salt. And deviation:
sausage, chicken and gravy, pineapple, turkey and
gravy, two corn, biscuit, butterscotch pudding,
lemon pudding, and chocolate Instant Breakfast.
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CC Okay, keep going.

212 01 44 37 CC While you're hesitating there, A1, we got about

1 minute to LOS. Your next pass is the doctor
at Vanguard at 02:10. Go ahead.

CDR Okay, I'll skip the photo log. I'll go down to

inoperable equipment. The only one I - you're
aware of them - both of them - the condensate
system and, of course, this 02 sensor number 2
which we t=Iked about - -

CC Break, break - -

CDR Now a couple - a couple of things we're going to

have to do tomorrow, in addition to trying to
get finished cleaning up and getting this place
livable, we've got to ... - -

CC Break, break. Skylab, Houston. We 'd like to

check the star tracker OUTER GIMBAL angle should
be plus 4200; we see 4800. Sorry to bust in on
you there.

CDR Okay, we'll get it 4200.

CC Thank you.

212 01 45 24 CC And, A1, we're about 20 seconds from LOS here at

Hawaii. Why don't we go ahead and - and secure
getting the rest of this information and we'll
get it at Ascension, which is the pass after the
medical conference. I got ali you've read so far.

CDR Okay, we'll be waiting.

CC And - and after you reset the star tracker be

sure and hit the SH_A-,'_ switch to CLOSE for us.
Thank you much.

SPT I tried that, Dick, and it wouldn't close.

212 01 45 55 CC Roger. Understand - Roger. We want it hit there

for a gimbal hold. So we would like you to hit
the switch anyway Owen.

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SPT Yes, I know that's what you wanted. Incidentally,

when I was up here before it was flipping between
OPEN and STAR. Now it seems to be locked on in
STAR position, but I'll go to 4200 - sorry I
missed that - and then try to close it manually
again.

212 01 46 16 CC Okay, thank you.

212 02 18 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. I understand that you all are

through talking to the doctor. We've got about a
minute and _0 seconds here left at Vanguard.
And we notice that the star tracker shutter is
closed and we're planning on ta_ng power off of
it. We do need the MPC inhibited and we were
ondering what you - what action you had taken to
get the star tracker shutter closed.

SPT I left the - left up there about 15 m_nutes ago.

I tried to close it manually and there was no
change in behavior. It still stayed to OPEN and
fluctuated between OPEN and STAR, so it must have
done it on its Own.

212 02 18 41 CC Roger. Okay, we'll - we'll take care of the rest

of the work with star tracker tonight by command.
And I'm still co - standing by to copy the remainder
of the evi - evening status report and also some of
the questions on that evening questions pad - so
go ahead; we've got about a minute left.

CDR Okay, let me hit the photo pad. It occurred day

211, and it was a rendezvous docking and the
supply is CX07 percent remaining was 50 percent -
and I reported that I believe. 70 millimeters:
CX10, 090.

212 02 19 20 CC Roger. And, A1, we're getting close to LOS here.

I'll give you a call at Ascension. What we'll
need there is the remainder of evening status, the
answers to the evening questions of which I
already have the answers, I think, to number 2,
4, and 6. And that'll probably Just about get
it.

CDR Okay. We have ***tion on Owen's food for today,

too.
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212 02 19 h3 CC That's right, I need that. And also, if we had

time, we were going to ask 0wen to tell us the
problems he had with the urine separator also.
I'll see you at Ascension.

212 02 23 35 CC Skylab Houston, we're A0S at Ascension for about

7-1/2 minutes. And, if possible, we'd like to
start by getting the answers to our evening
question pad, n_-,_er 3h0-D.

SPT Okay, Dick. Al's on his way down. Just a moment.

CC Okay, real fine. And, llke I said before, I

think I already have the qu - answers to 2, h, and 6,
and so it's the other ones we need filled in.

CDR Okay - -

SPT I've got some barber poles on the star tracker

up here now. I don't know how they got here.

CC Roger.

CDR In nl]mher i, when you asked if teleprinter

message _48 - 03388 was received and followed,
the answer is yes.

CC Roger. Go ahead.

212 02 2h 30 CDR And 2, you know the answer to, and they were
taken on h-hour intervals.

CC Roger. Got that.

CDR Three: Any vomiting today? No. So the rest

of it 's not applicable.

CC Okay, and h I thank I have or at least I will

when you finish with the evening status report.
How about 5?

CDR Okay, 5: We didn't go in there and measure it

again because we ,11 be measuring it tomorrow
m_rn_. _. _,WKkT. the C_l _ had _ut
four, the _ ]um had akout three, and the
h== ha4 about two. low you'_e wem_ the to-
tal vea_mm; ueore I_%m8 to _ • _m •t it
and we ,11 see bow e/nee we _ tommm_w moraln6.

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I'd s_V mine's about 700, SPT's about 600, m-ybe,

and the PLT, he ss_-s a medium _unt.

PLT Milliliters.

212 02 25 21 CC Okay, fine. And I think the answer per the -

your last thing, to number 6, is no, and how
about 7?

CDR Seven, we got the answers to those. CDR: pulse,

76; temperature, 96.3; blood pressure, ii0 over 70.
SPT: 130 over 75 for blood pressure; 80, pulse;
98 degrees - that's 98.0 degrees for temp. Pilot:
132 over 78, h8 beats per minute.

CC Okay. Go ahead.

PLT 96.8.

CC Roger.

PLT 96.8, t emp for the PL - -

CDR And Jack's temperature was 96.8.

CC Okay. I think that satisfies me on all-those

answers, A1. And now I'd like to finish up getting
the evening status report stuff.

212 02 26 23 CDR Okay, and on this 6, where it _says any PG or ERG

exercises been performed? We wanted to but we
Just never could get time to do it today. And
we're hoping that there's time available tomorrow,
so that we can do it.

212 02 26 37 CC Roger. We sure hope so, too. And Just a reminder,

we need the MPC to INHIBIT. And go ahead with the
evening status.

CDR Let me give you some more information on - on the

SPT's food. I mentioned he ate corn flakes, orange
drink. Okay, here's the other things he ate:
potato soup, biscuit, butterscotch pudding, grape
drink. And he says he'll probably eat some more
before bedt_-_.
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CC Roger.

212 02 27 09 CDR Gener_11y - generally speaking, everybody feels

pretty good until it comes to mealtime, and then
it gets a little tough right then. And if you can
get through the mealtime, then you feel pretty good
the rest of the t_m_ until the next one. And I
assume that this is probably true with other forms
of motion sit, hess, although I never spent 2 or
3 days doing it. So - that's kind of the way we
psyche it out. If we could Just kind of take it
easy for a day or so, I think we could completely
recover here and be ready to go full steam. But
the a - the a - like I said, everybody today
worked all day long - worked all day long. There
wasn't a moment's hesitation from the t_m_. we got
up until right now. In fact, everybody's still
working.

212 02 27 54 CC Roger. Understand, AI; go ahead.

SPT Star tracker flag opened back up again.

CC Tba_ you, Owen.

SPT Already done the MPC, A1. I'm talking about the
flag.

CDR And - -

CC Roger, We Just comm-nded power OFF. We Just

commanded STAR TRACkE_ POWER, OFF, so that explains
that one and that should put it to bed for the
night. Go ahead.

CDR And I think, Dick, I probably finished the - the -

report. The things that - I mentioned we want to
try to get the m_Ying screen cleaned tomorrow.
The screens to the fans going into the CSM need
cleaning. We Just need to put the place in livable
condition, which it's not in at the moment. And
we need to get some exercise, and we also need to
get some rest. So all those things mount up to
quite a - quite a big order, especially when you
are thinking about condensate tank troubleshooting
and things of that nature.

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CC Roger. We concur and we're going to be looking

at the condensate tank tonight, and we should
have our troubleshooting stuff, if we have to do
any, lined up when you get up in the morning.
We still got about 4 minutes here. Is there any-
thing else you want to tell us tonight about what
else you got done between the last t_me you gave
us an update on the - in the activation checklist.

212 02 29 17 CDR Roger. We got all of the film in the f_lm vault.
We got the rate gyro package up, connected, and
everything else we should have done. We finished
the stowage there, and we inserted two out of
three of the 02 sensors.

212 02 29 32 CC Roger.

CDR We've got the clothing and water over in the

command module. We - I haven't - I haven't
bothered to set down and take a close look. We've
Just been working along as we could.

CC Okay, A1.

212 02 29 52 SPT I've got - I've got the S - I've got the SMMD
calibrated in the wardroom, not yet in the head.
And I'll not read down the numbers - they're very
lengthy - on channel A, until I get verification
that channel A, with the BMMD, has been taken off.
And I would also like any repeat on any update
you Bad about firing up the ergometer. Maybe
you could do it on the teleprinter or something
if there was any difference in the procedure. I
think we know how to do it nominally. Over.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 02 30 16 CC Okay, Owen. We'll take a look at that and if

there is anything we need to tell you about that
we'll get up to you tonight.

CC Skylab, Houston. We still got about 2 minutes

left here at Ascension. One of the things if
0wen could - encapsulate real quick some of the
problems he had on his urine separator. We were
wondering about that.

SPT I sure can do it quickly. It was a procedural

error on my part. It turns out that no suction
is available when that a - when the drawer is
even cracked open and I should have known that
and didn't. Over.

CC Okay, real fine, I'm sure it'll be working fine

for you, then.

SPT It is.

212 02 31 37 SPT Can you verify that that information on the B_94D
has been taken off of ch-nnel A?

CC Negative, 0wen. We have not verified that, so

why don't you sit on that other data and we will
verify it in the morning and you can put the other
data on there?

SPT Roger.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're about l minute from

LOS. We would like for you guys to go ahead then
sack out when you can so get a good night's sleep
and we'll see you in the morning.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. I'm assnm_ng we are going

to give you a wake-up call at the normal time in
the morning. Is that okay with you, A1, or do
you want to call us?

212 02 32 03 PLT Yes, that's okay, call us at the normal time

which is, what, about ll:00?

CC That's - that's affirm, Jack, it will be the first

pass after ll:00 Z?
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PLT Okay, and we are going to bed now and we don't

expect to hear from you until morning. We hope
the caution and warning stays off tonight.

CC Us too.

CC Houston. One thing you might check is make sure

that the RATE GYRO input to the CAUTION/WARNING
is INHIBITED and that'll give us a lot more chance
on that particular item.

CDR I'ii do it now.

212 02 32 56 CC Good show.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 Ii 20 56 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS over Carnarvon

for about 2 minutes.

PLT Good morning down there, space fans.

CC Morning, Jack. You sound mighty chipper this

morning.

CC Skylab, Houston. We'll have LOS in 1 minute.

We'll see you again at Goldstone at 11:59, 11:59.

212 Ii 22 24 CDR Okay, Bob.

212 Ii 58 51 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the States; that's for

the next 17 minutes, 17 minutes.

PLT Okay, Bob. Just for verification, did you happen

to dump the VTR last night? Find we put about
•i0 minutes of the SMMD CAL with some voice comments
on the - from channel A onto the voice track of the
VTR. Could you verify that was dumped?

CC We got all but about 2 or 3 minutes, and we

observed it down here, and it looked good.
Appreciate the demonstration.

212 ii 59 22 PLT Okay. Just wanted to make sure that we had all
the switches and things right, since we - it's
the first time we tried to light it off.

CC Worked good.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger. I don't know if you've picked up your

messages yet, but there's one in there that deals
with the checklist change in the stowage book for
the day 3 transfers. You'll need to make that
change prior to doing the day 3 transfers today.
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212 12 00 02 CDR Okay. Thank you. I got the message.

CDR How did the mol sieve heat exchangers look this
morning?

CC Well, we're still scratching our head over the

problem. We're trying to come up with a way to
attract - attack the whole condensate leak, and
we'll probably be asking you to perform that
tomorrow.

CDR Okay.

CC For your information, the small condensate tank

, the pressure in it's been holding good since you
left it. And since we have no telemetry, we don't -
don't know exactly what's been happening with the
condensate holding tank.

212 12 03 30 CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, Y-2 has

been holding pretty steady all night. However,
Just when we came up over the States here, we had
had - had discompare between the two, so we're
currently resetting that caution and warning
condition and going back to the Y-l, Y-2
configuration.

212 12 06 01 SI_f H llo, Houston; SPT.

CC Go ahead, 0wen.

SPT We've got a little company up here on board. I

don't know whether you believe that or not.

CC Well, I'll believe anything.

SPT We've got a couple of little minnows at the moment

that are just swiH,_ng all over the place. We
just opened up the IN_S kit with these minnows in
it, and both these fellows are really swimming
full speed. And, as a matter of fact, they
seem to be completely disoriented, except for the
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fact, for the first couple of minutes here, and

they're still doing it, more or less, they're all
swin_ning pitch down in small circles. So - they'll
apparently think they' re climbing or something,
due to the zero g, and are pitching down in
order to overcc_e that. And they're swimming in
very tight circles. The length of these minnows
is on the order of 1 to l-l/2 centimeters, and
it's almost as if they were pivoting about a
point, oh, somewhere near their tail, or even
a little closer to their center of gravity. So
it's a very tight outside loop that they're
swimming in. And I've brought them over closer
to the window now, and it's not clear whether or
not they're going to sort of take an orientation
from the light or not. But at least their
initial response when we pulled them out of the
can was to swim -

212 12 07 50 SPT Hello, Houston. Are you still there?

CC Affirm, Owen. We got most of your description.

It's very good. I missed - we got dropped out
Just about the time you said you took them over to
the window and you didn't know whether the
light was going to affect them.

212 12 08 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?

212 12 09 30 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?

SPT Loud and clear now, Bob. I guess we dropped

out there momentarily.

CC Yes, we had some kind of a problem. I'm not

sure what it was. A very good description
on the minnows. We've got everything up to
the point where you said you took them over
to the window and you didn't know whether
the - the light was going to affect them or not.

SPT Yes, I Just thought they might try to orient

toward the light, but they don't seem to be
doing that yet. And particularly the little
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minnow is still continuing in - belly toward the

wall of the container, no, back into outside loops
again. They are still confused, both of them
going in outside loops. There are a number of
bubbles in the container, and they'll bounce off
the bubbles and Just continue swimming around in
sort of random fashion in outside loops.

212 12 i0 27 CC Roger. Poor little fellows sound confused.

For your information, our comm bounced out again
briefly there, and I had you very, very faintly.
And we're not sure what the problem is, but we're
looking at it.

SPT Okay, fair enough. And of course it's too early

to see any development on the eggs, but there is
clearly a number of these that are coming along.
You can see the embryo inside a number of them
just by eye without putting a magnifying glass on
them. So we'll get this stashed away where we
can check it from day to day and see how our
friends are coming along.

212 12 i0 58 CC Okay; very good.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over Madrid at 12:20, 12:20. And
also we will be doing a data recorder dump over
Madrid. For your information, the VTR is all
cleaned off and rewound, if you have any reason
to want to use it today.

212 12 lh 58 SPT Thank you, Bob.

212 12 20 43 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S over Madrid for 9 minutes;

and we'll be doing a data recorder dump.

CDR Okay, Robert.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go, CDR.

212 12 22 38 CDR On these urine bags, we're suppose to record the

serial number and each bag has two. It's got a
red one and a black one, both located on the
little metal fitting that attaches to the sample
bag.
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CC Okay, AI. We're - we're checking that out.

You're talking about the serial number on the
sample bags, right?

CDR That 's affirmative.

CC CDR, Houston. The number in red is the one we

want recorded, please.

212 12 28 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from LOS.

We'll see you again over Honeysuckle at 13:07,
13 :07.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 13 06 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

5-1/2 minutes. Out.

PLT Hello, Bruce.

CC Good morning, Jack. How you doing up there?

212 13 07 05 PLT Oh, we're moving around now.

212 13 ll 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 45 seconds to LOS.

Next station is Hawaii at 13:26 in approximately
15 minutes. Out.

212 13 26 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through Hawaii

for 7 minutes.

SPT Very good, Story. Let me ask you a question here.

CC Go, 0wen.

SPT I've got the ergometer lid off, and it operates

as advertised. We can set in the amount of work,
and pedal at that rate. But one thing about the
simple procedure that you sent up, does not pro-
vide for any displays. We can, for example, not
read out our TOTAL WORK in WATT-MINUTES on the
624A, nor can we set in an EVENT TIME or anything
like that up on the main 623 panel. The first
one was felt to be the most important. We'd like
to have the read-out of total work available, so
that we could pedal for 2, 3, 4000, whatever we
wanted to do. I wonder if you would check, or -
if you are not familiar with what modification,
if there is a simple one, to the procedure you
sent up so as to provide us with the display
read-out. Over.

CC Okay, Owen. Is the power supply circuit breaker

closed?

212 13 27 43 PLT Well, we have several - we have several power

supply circuit breakers. I think they're all
closed.

CC All the SYSTEM A circuit breakers are CLOSED, on,

up [sic]?
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PLT Oh, no. Not all of them. I have ESS and - I

guess Just the ESS circuit breaker in the power
panel is on, SYSTEM A SELECT, of course.

CC Okay, the ESS. And you'll need the PS one, up

to get the WATT-METER display.

PLT Okay. Good enough. I'll Just add that to the

other list, then.

212 13 28 26 PLT Hey, Story. This is Jack. I'm in the process

of changing the tape recorder. I'm going to re-
configure some of your switches and to to onboard
control for a short time. Is that okay to do that
now?

CC Stand by l, Jack. You're GO on that, Jack.

PLT Okay.

SPT ... backup on displays very nicely, Story. We'll

be doing a little bit of exercising, today, I'm
sure, and we'll report on it.

CC Okay, Owen. Good.

CC Jack, Houston.

212 13 33 25 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 1 minute. We'll pick

you up over Goldstone at 13:35. And, PLT, we'd
like to know the serial number of the - of the
tape recorder. Could you verify that serial
number 32?

PLT Huh-uh. That 's a negative, Story. The serial

number is number 22, and the way I found which
one it was, was to find a little number i on the
connector plate.

212 13 34 15 CC Okay. We're going LOS here. We'll pick you up

in 1 minute and discuss it then.

PLT Okay.

213 13 36 h0 CC Skylab, we've got you through Goldstone for

9 minutes.
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CC And, PLT, it's tape recorder number 32 that we

wish to install.

PLT Okay, Story. I thought you had asked the number

of the one that's coming out. We're taking
number 22 out, and we'll get number 32 in there.

CC That's right, Jack. And we need a switch thrown

up on main display console number 3 in the com-
mand module. That's FUEL CELL 1 and FUEL CELL 3
to EMERGENCY BYPASS.

PLT All right. That's on the radiators, right?

CC That's affirmative.

PLT Okay, Story, let me reconfirm. Do you want both

fuel cells put in EMERGENCY BYPASS?

213 13 39 h3 CC That's affirmative, Jack.

PLT Don't you - before you need to do that, CLOSE

the RAD BAT RELAY circuit breakers?

CC Stand by i.

CC Okay, Jack. On panel 226, FUEL CELL 1 and FUEL

CELL 3, RAD BAT RELAY, we need that OPEN - CLOSED.

PLT Roger. You want the circuit breakers closed

before the switch will work right?

CC That 's affirmative.

PLT Okay. Then you want me to reopen the CBs?

CC That's affirmative.

PLT Okay.

213 13 41 21 PLT Okay. I went to H_ERGENCY BYPASS on both fuel

cells. How does it look?

CC We'll be looking at it during the day. It's a

slow response, Jack.
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PLT Okay. I guess the only way you can tell is by

temperatures. I'll go ahead and open the circuit
breakers again, assuming that the valves opened
okay. All right ?

CC That 's fine, Jack.

CC No need to reply, Jack, but we had to do the

same thing on Skylab 2.

PLT Right.

212 13 43 30 CDR Story, are you still there?

CC Yes, be here for another minute.

CDR Okay, the problem is, when I stashed that tape

recorder there, I stashed it there by number on
the bag. And the number on the bag is correct ;
I Just checked it. The only two tape recorders
we brought up, I think, are 34 and 37.

CC We think you brought up 32 and 34.

212 13 44 13 CC We're going LOS in 20 seconds. We'll he with you

over Bermuda in 4 minutes.

212 13 48 21 CC And, Skylab, we're back with you over Bermuda for
6 minutes.

CDR We figured it out, Story. There's a big serial

number on the cold plate part of the tape recorder,
and it's 34. But the tape recorder placard has
the correct number on it, 32.

CC Okay, that's what we were looking for. Feel a

lot better now, thank you.

CDR Okay. It was in the right bag, also.

CC Roger.

PLT ... hooked up and ... COMMAND. See how you like
it.
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212 13 51 19 CC Say that again, Jack. We didn't get that.

PLT I got,the tape recorder hooked up, and it's back

in COMMAND; see how you like it.

CC Okay, good.

213 13 53 54 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll be picking

you up over Canaries in 3 minutes. And the tape
recorder you put in is running.

213 13 57 32 CC Skylab, we've got you through Canary for 9 minutes.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 lh 05 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be going LOS in i minute.

Be picking you up over Honeysuckle at 14:42. And
we'll be dumping the tape recorders at that time
over Honeysuckle. Sometime this morning, if
possible, we'd like to get a DELTA-P reading on
the condensate holding tank.

CDR 2.2

212 14 06 18 CC Okay. Thank you.

CDR You bet.

212 lh 42 55 CC Skylab, we've got you through Honeysuckle for

9 minutes.

SPT Okay, Story. I Just went through the 171 protocol

on the bicycle here. I'll ...

CC You're too far down in the mud to read you, Owen.

SPT Okay. I was Just now reporting that I Just went

through the 171 protocol on the bicycle ergometer,
and I'll put the information over on channel A.

CC Got it. Okay, good. Thanks a lot.

212 14 44 15 SPT Okay, Story. I finished doing the SOP/SOMA

reconfiguration. Let me read you the pressures on
them.

CC Okay. I'm not sure I understood you. We're

working on the comm problem, (>wen. The pressure
we were looking for was the - the DELTA-P on the
holding - the condensate holding tank.

SPT ... next one?

CC It's the kluge on 303.

SPT Okay, Just a second. I have to connect it up.

212 14 45 01 SPT It'll take Just a second for this pressure gage
to start reading correctly. And I assume you
want it connected to panel 301 - servicing
connector 303 again.
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CC That's affirmative.

SPT Okay. Let's give it a few minutes here. While

we're waiting let me read you the SOP/SOMA pres-
sures, sleep compartment wall, 013 at 6000;
wardroom wall, 016 at 6200; dome is 554 and O10
at 6000; MDA, 010 at 6000; command module, 015
at 6000.

CC It - -

212 14 46 07 CDR So far, the DELTA-P is indicating zero. It may

be that the holding tank doesn't have pressure in
it - a - a vacuum in it anymore.

212 14 49 55 CC Skylab, Houston. Could you give us a short count,

please?

212 14 50 01 SPT Okay. Short count follows: l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4,

3, 2, 1. Over.

CC Okay. You're loud and clear at this time. Those

numbers you read to us previously, we were unable
to copy them. Could we get them again - what
they were?

CDR Okay. Just a second.

CC Seeing
we'regoingLO - -

CDR By the way, the DELTA - -

CC We're going LOS in about 30 seconds. We probably

better wait until the next station. It'll be
Hawaii at 15:02, and we'll be dumping the voice
recorders over Hawaii.

212 14 50 51 CDR Okay. By the way, the DELTA-P on 303 shows zero,
so we may have lost vacuum in the holding tank.

CC Okay, we'll work that tomorrow, and understand

it's zero?

212 14 51 07 CDR That's affirmative.

212 15 02 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through Hawaii

for i0 minutes.
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PLT Roger.

CC And, for Owen, we'd like him to know that we have

- have his _MD cal data.

SPT 0kay, fine. Thank you, Story. It did come up

on the teleprinter, also. Thank you, and I'll be
putting the SMM data on channel A, as soon as I
finish the one here in the head.

CC Okay, we'd like to swing over there to channel B

as per after the completion of activation, Owen.
And we can do that by going to panel 204,
INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS RECORDER AUDIO switch to
Bravo, B.

212 15 03 04 SPT You want to do that now, I guess. Al's on his

way up to the MDA to do it.

CC Okay. That'd be fine.

SPT We knew it was a little furtherdown in the

' activationchecklist. We Just hadn't got to that
step yet, but we'll do it now.

CC Okay. And we'd like to find out how you all are
feeling today.

212 15 03 29 SPT I'll go ahead and answer for myself here. I'm
feeling very fine, Story, essentially going full
speed, and ate - I think I ate everything on my
breakfastmenu. There might have been one or
two i - one item or something that I didn't finish
yet, but I'm feeling 95 percent of ground level.

212 15 03 h8 CDR Okay. This is the CDR. I'm pretty much the same.
Nobody's had any Scop/Dex today. Everybody's
having the opportunity to move a little bit slower
today. So I think we're probably going to be in
pretty good shape by the end of the day. I'll
let Jack say what he's got on his mind.

CC Okay.

212 15 Oh 08 PLT I'm - I'm feeling - This is Jack. I'm feeling

better today. I haven't taken any scop/Dex, and
I'm moving around about the same as I did yesterday,
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with no adverse feelings. I didn't eat all of

my breakfast, but I ate most of it. And I feel
pretty good right now.

CC Okay. That's about all we need. But we would

like some BMMD readings on you, Jack.

212 15 04 31 CDR Okay. They're recorded, and Jack will read them
in a second. I think the test is going to come
about lunch and dinner, if we can all eat all our
food, Story. As long as you can get through the
meal, you're great between them. It's the
mealtime that gets a little tough.

CC Roger.

CDR Here, let him read you down the urine volumes and
also the counters on the water gun. That may
give you some feeling, also, for how we did yester-
day.

CC Thank you.

212 15 05 01 CDR By the way, I Just ran the CO test, and the
initial color was about equivalent to 20 parts per
million or the 20 on the gage. After the test,
it was still the same color. Now I looked at all
the little sample stems, and most of them were
that color, also. So none of them were really
at the zero. I assume that, during the heat or
during just the time it set up here, somehow they
discolored slightly.

CC Okay.

212 15 05 35 PLT Here are the BMMD ma - measurements made this

morning for each person. CDR, 6.240, 6.246,
6.246; SPT is 5.988, 5.987, 5.991; PLT is 7.015,
7.048, 6.946. Over.

CC We got them. Thank you.

PLT And, Story, here comes the morning urine volume

readings and drinking water gun readings in the
same order for the three: 720, 750, 700; water
gun, 4534, 7408, 5524. Over.
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CC We got them.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS in 30 seconds.

We'll see 3(ou over Goldstone in 2 minutes.

212 15 ll 41 SPT Story, I'm going to be starting that SMMD cal.

You might think about whether you want to inhibit
dump on the next night or not. I'm not sure I'll
be through by then.

CC We'll work it, 0wen.

212 15 14 22 CC Skylab. We've got you over Goldstone for

7 minutes.

CC And, Jack, sometime in the next 6 minutes, I'd

like to talk to you about S149 retract.

PLT Okay, Story. Here I am.

212 15 15 46 CC Jack, you only need 30 minutes between the S149

retract and repressurizing the SAL. The cue card
will not give you any information, and the SAL
Checklist, page 3-11, will say that there's an
hour and 42 minutes required. But you only need
30 minutes between retracting S149 and repres-
surizing the SAL.

212 15 16 24 PLT Okay. I copied down there, for 149, we need

30 minutes between the retract and the repressuriza-
tion of the SAL. Is that affirm?

CC That 's it, Jack.

PLT Thank you.

SPT Say, Story?

CC Go ahead.

212 15 18 52 SPT I understand we had a nice M-7 flare the other

day. I'm wondering if S054 happened to be taking
any exposures about that time and if there is any
geomagnetic affects expected. And if so, about
how many more hours?

CC I'll get you a report on that, Owen.

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SPT Also, Story, I've forgotten the active region

that flare came from, but I was wondering if that
wasn't old active region 58 on the preceding
rotation.

212 15 20 22 CC Okay, I'll get that information for you, too.

We did not record any data on that flare. We're
working on any geomagnetic information, and I'll
get you what active region it was. We're going
LOS here in about 30 seconds, and we'll pick you
up over Bermuda in 2 minutes.

212 15 25 22 CC Skylab, we've got you through Bermuda for 6 minutes.

And, Owen, that is affirmative; that was
active region 58 on the previous rev. That flare
did produce a geomagnetic storm which is ending
at this time.

SPT Okay. Now that you know, we might keep an eye

out for an aurora. I'm not quite sure; you might
check to see when - what GMT the most likely
opportunity would be for us to see an aurora, if
one exists.

212 15 25 52 CC Okay, we'll do it.

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SKXLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 15 34 12 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 30 seconds. See you

over Canaries in 2 minutes.

CDR Roger.

212 15 36 22 CC And we're back with you through Canaries and

Ascension for 16 minutes.

SPT That's a nice long pass, Story. I can't remem-

ber for sure, but as I seem to recall, you're
able to carry a reasonable tune, aren't you?
Just a simple melody?

CC Not I, Owen.

212 15 36 48 SPT Well, maybe you can find another more adept
CAP COMM there. Here's my problem. Today hap-
pens to be my father's birthday. And I wonder
if you could give him a call collect, up in
Enid, Oklahoma. His name is Owen Garriott also.
And Just give him a call collect and wish him a
happy birthday from me from Skylab. Singing -
singing telegram type.

CC I'll certainly do it, Owen.

212 15 37 ll SPT Thank you, Story.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, A1.

CDR I'm putting in the change sheets to the EREP book

and I noticed that I've got a change sheet for
615 target - correction, site 615-B for EREP site 2.
And we think that's an EREP 1 - crewman 1 site.
But we want to make sure we don't stick it in
the wrong book. Could you check on that? 615-B.

CC Okay.

212 15 40 05 SPT Story, I estimate about i0 more minutes on the

SMMD cal. That may give you time to complete it
and still get a dump in.
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CC That's right, 0wen. Looks like we've got about

23 minutes more of day.

212 15 40 17 SPT Okay. That'll do it for sure.

212 15 51 39 CC Skylab, Houston; going LOS in 30 seconds. See

you over Carnarvon at 16:15.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 16 15 15 CC Skylab, Hous.ton. We have you through Carnarvon

for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger.

CC And, A1, there's no need to acknowledge. And

we're sorry to take so long, but site 615 belongs
to both the CDR and the PLT.

CDR Okay. We went ahead and put it in book 2, and

that's where it should be. Thanks.

SPT Story, I Just got through putting all of the data

ou the two SMMD calibrations on channel B. So -
might give me a report, when that's dumped,
whether or not it all came out all right.

CC Will do it, _en.

212 16 16 25 CC And, Skylab, we're 15 seconds to a slight keyhole

here.

212 16 17 22 PLT Hello, Story. Are you there?

CC Yes.

PLT Okay, this is Jack. I've got two questions. I've

gone through the film transporter loading pad, and
we got one thing we're going to have to change a
little bit, I guess. Transporter 3 is already
loaded. The supply is CIIS_ it has 86 percent
remaining. The takeup is CIIT. Ask them if they
want me to leave it that way or run all that film
through or cut it, or Just what do they want me
to do?

CC Okay, Jack.

PLT And I've got one more question on the 5-millimeter

lenses. I know that we have some more on board
to replace the ones that are up here. What do you
want me to do with the ones that are up here?

CC Copy.
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212 16 24 02 CC Skylab, we're going LOS. We'll see you over Guam
in 6 minutes. And, in answer to your question
on the 5-millimeter lenses, put red tape on them
and restow them in F-527.

212 16 24 15 PLT 527.

212 16 29 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you over Guam for 6

minutes.

CDR Story, CDR. I was Just finishing up the Flight

Data File changeout. And I had some change pages
for the ATM Log. And I can't find the ATM Logbook
itself anywhere. Maybe you can give me a clue
where it started out, where it was supposed to
move to, or whatever else. Just can't seem to
locate it anywhere.

CC That's the ATM Log?

CDR That's affirm.

CC Okay.

CDR And, Story, I note in my Activation Checklist, it

says it was in W-742, but I Just can't seem to
find it there or at the ATM panel.

CC Okay. Thanks, A1. We're working it.

212 16 35 52 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See you over

Hawaii in 7 minutes.

212 16 42 28 CC Skylab, we've got you through Hawaii for 1 minute.

CC And, A1, concerning the ATM Log. We assume you

did check M-126. Looking at our records here,
we think you transferred the ATM Log from W-742
to M-126.

PLT Okay, Story, he's riding the bicycle right now,

and he can't answer you. But he has looked in
126, and apparently it's not there. But he'll
check.

CC Okay, we'll pursue it further.

212 16 44 31 CC And, Skylab, we're going LOS in 20 seconds. See

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you over Goldstone at 16:53.

212 16 53 30 CC Skylab, we've got you over Goldstone for 6 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story. I Just put about 3 minutes on the

VTR of fish swimming loose out here. Just might -
thought that I - you coming over Goldstone, I
should have sent it out to you direct. But there's
Just a little short segment on there, on the fish.
I don't have the closeup lens on the camera again,
so it's not as good a picture as we'll be able to
provide a little later. But we'll do the Job
properly a little bit later; thought you might want
a glimpse of what it looks like now.

CC Okay. And, for Owen. The best time for looking

at the aurora will be from 17:46 to 17:53. The
wardroom will not be a good window. Now, we
recommend one of the STS windows and probably window
243 will be the best.

SPT Okay; 17:46 to 17:53, and STS window 243.

CC That's affirmative.

CC And, Jack, we'd like a clarification on your

questions regarding supply CI18 and takeup CI17.

PLT I didn't hear what you said, Story. Say again.

212 16 55 04 CC We'd like a clarificla - clarification on your

question regarding supply CI18 and takeup CI17.

PLT You say you have an answer?

CC No. We need a clarification on the question.

PLT Yes. What do you want me to do with it? They

loaded from the last flight, and the photo pad
that you sent up told me to load it with something
else. And that - that transporter's still got 86
percent film on it. So it seems like it'd be a
waste of film to run it off there, if it's any
good.

CC Okay. We understand the question. We'll work it.

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212 16 56 17 CC And, Skylab, if it's okay with you, we'll be

rewinding the VTR and dumping it over MLA in about
5 minutes.

PLT Okay.

212 16 58 46 CC Skylab. No need to acknowledge. We're 30 seconds

to LOS. We'll be seeing you over Texas in
1 minute. And there's an EREP Checklist pad in
the teleprinter for you.END OF TAPE

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 17 00 29 CC Skylab, wetre back with you for 12 minutes over

Texas, and we'll be dumping the tape recorders
over MLA.

CDR Okay. Story, I Just got finished with a 171 run -

protocol on the bike. It wasn't a 171; it wasn't
instrumented. And ran the protocol, and at -
the rate l, heart was ll7; rate 2, 136; rate 3, 170.
And the total watt-minutes was 1425.

CC Okay. Thanks, A1. That's good data.

CDR Roger. We're going to try to run some more,

each of us, today.

CC Okay.

212 17 09 04 CC Skylab, the VTR is yours again.

CDR Roger.

CC And on our dump, we did not notice any modulation

on the VTR. Did you put any voice on it this
time?

CDR No, I did not put any voice with it.

CC Okay.

CC Jack, you available?

CDR No, he's floating around in the middle of the

workshop right now. What - He can hear you.

CC Okay. No need to acknowledge. You can use

transporter 03. And supply CI18 for doing your
M151with the S149. And then on the evening status
report, we'll get the report on what you did.

212 17 l0 09 CDR Roger.

212 17 12 31 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 30 seconds. See you

over Ascension at 17:21.
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212 17 22 05 CC Skylab, we have you over Ascension for 6 minutes. !

SPT Okay, Story. I have ED63 prep complete. The

vials with the leaves are stowed in their
proper spot up by the light in the wardroom. And
the foot-lamberts lu - luminance that point is 18,
18 foot-lamberts as measured with the spotmeter.
I hope that is somewhere in the vicinity of what
you were looking for or the investigators were
looking for. I do note that out the window it's
much brighter, 600 foot-lamberts, in case that's
not enough illumination. Those vials could be
temporarily placed over by the wardroom for a
period - or wardroom window - if 18 foot-lamberts
is insufficient.

CC Okay, Owen. We'll let you know on that. And,

Owen, while I've got you, using the VTR for re-
cording the spider, could you put some voice on
the VTR so we can check that out at that time?

SPT I sure can. I assume that we're - the VTR is

still connected to channel A voice, I assume,
whereas our nominal recording, otherwise, is
on channel B now. I presume that - that is your
understanding.

212 17 23 31 CC It's on channel B, Owen.

SPT Okay. I Just got the word from A1, also. My

mistake. So channel B for voice on the VTR also.

CC Roger. And when we come over MLA at 18:37, we'll

be able to accept about l0 minutes of real-time TV,
if it's convenient for you to put anything on
TV; that's your option.

SPT Okay, fine. That's about an hour.

212 lT 26 31 CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

over Carnarvon at 17:51. And, for the CDR, the
next location we'd like you to look for the
ATM Log would be 7h3, and if it's not there,
check 7hh. And if you still don't find it, use
the SL-_ book, which you'll find in 7h5, and let
us know what you've done.
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CDR Okay, we've checked the first two, and I guess

we'll use the SL-h one until ours shows up.

CC 0kay, AI.

CDR Which locker was theirs in?

cc w-745.

212 17 27 i0 CDR Thank you.

212 17 52 lh CC Skylab, we have you through Carnarvon for 9 minutes.

SC ...

CC You were too far down for us to read you, Skylab.

SC I was Just commenting, no luck on any auroral dis-

plays.

212 17 52 58 CC I guess we better stand by until we can read you,

Skylab.

212 17 53 49 CC Let's try it now, Skylab.

SPT I was Just reporting no luck on any auroral dis-

play, Story.

CC Okay, you're still too far down. Stand by, and

we'll work on the comm.

CDR Hey, Story; CDR.

CC We can hear you talking, but we can't distinguish

what you're saying.

212 17 58 27 CC Skylab, we should be able to read you loud and c

clear now.

CDR Okay, how's that?

CC That 's good.

SPT I was Just going to say, no luck on the aurora;

and, secondly, on that fish down-link, you ought
to let Dr. Dick Simmonds over in building 37 know
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about that. He's the one who supplied the fish

and can provide you with any other pertinent
comments in the absence of any down-link voice.
So you might give him a call. I think A1
has something for you here, too.

CC We'll do that, Owen.

212 17 59 ll CDR Say, Story, if it's okay with you, we'll omit
that TV until later. We're still trying to get
finished up with the activation, and that takes
about 1 man-hour out of doing it.

CC Okay. That'll be fine, A1.

CDR Okay. As soon as we can get all this work done

and get it all put together as a good place to
live in, we'll give you lots of TV.

CC Roger.

212 18 02 06 CC Skylab, 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you over

Guam in 3 minutes.

212 18 05 h3 CC Skylab. We have you through Guam for l0 minutes.

And, Owen, the ED63 - the 18 foot-lambert is
satisfactory.

SPT Okay.

212 18 07 42 CC And, Skylab. No need to reply, but we're looking

at the acrobatic fish.

SPT It's pretty fascinating, isn't it, Dick? It seems

like when you stir the bag up a little bit, well,
then they'll swim in the outside loops for
5 or l0 seconds. And then they'll apparently
decide that's not getting them anywhere, so
they'll quiet down. One of the things that
Dr. Simmonds had suggested was that they might,
when placed against the wall, sort of assume that
the wall was the down direction. And it did seem,
sort of, as if there were a tendency to do that
after they'd been undisturbed for a while. They
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would usually float with their belly toward the

wall. And then after doing that for a while,
then they'd swim in outside loops again. So
apparently they can't make up their mind which
way is up and down, either.

212 18 08 40 CC Yes, sir. Good observation.

212 18 14 58 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See you over

Goldstone at 18:30.

212 18 15 05 CDR Roger.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 18 30 27 CC Skylab, we've got you over the States for 17 min-
untes.

PLT Roger, Houston.

212 18 31 06 CC And we'll be dumping the recorders over MLA at

18 :37.

212 18 41 h4 CC Skylab, we've got another 6 minutes to LOS and

we were real interested in how you're coming a-
long.

CDR Owen's doing ED52 setup and he's done everything

before that. Jack is in his transfers s_id he's
done everything - command module stowage transfer,
and he's done everything before that. And I 'm in
day 3 transfers and I've done everything before
that.

CC Okay. Thanks. Has Jack ridden the bike today?

CDR No, he's going to try it this afternoon. And

we'll all try to get in a lick or two.

CC Okay. Great.

212 18 42 4h CDR We've found the only tough part is, like I men-
tioned earlier, everybody feels pretty good be-
tween meals. Then the mealtime comes, and we're
caught in a - kind of in the squeeze, Dick. We're
trzring to decide whether we ought to try to eat
all that we have to, you know, keep our stomach
full and keep our strength up, or eat about what
we want to, which isn't very much. So, usually,
mealtime is kind of tough. And then for about an
hour afterwards, you don't feel so grand, and then -
you start feeling better until the next meal
rolls around. So I don't know how we're going
to handle that exactly. Maybe the medical group
has some advice on what to do about that specific
point, because it seems to bother all three of us.

CC Okay. Thanks, AI. We copy that.

CDR Yes, because if I - if it was the same case and

I were on Earth and, you know, felt the same way,
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I - I wouldn't eat very much. I'd eat some tea and

some soup and some other things. But I know that
we're not there.

CC Okay.

212 18 h3 h7 CDR Let me give a little thought to planning, too,

so it ... your thinking, at least to what ours
is up here. We're getting better, no doubt about
it. Nobody's had any scop/Dex today. And if we
Just be careful, everything's copacetic. But,
we certainly don't feel good. And nobody does.
And I suspicioned that - that there's no way we
could pull off an EVA in the next couple days.
I think the thing we're going to have to do is
plan to work s_ne medical experiments and any
other experiments where we stay inside and work
them at a relatively slow pace, until we get back
to feeling good. And I don't know when that's
going to be, but my guess is, it isn't going to
be in the next 2 days, Just Judging from the rap-
idity with which we've developed so far. As I
say, nobody's been sick today, but nobody's felt
good either, and I don't think we want to take
any undue - effort like an EVA until everybody
starts feeling good. Then we can give it a go.

212 18 44 55 CC Okay. Thanks, AI. At present, we're looking at

day 8 for your EVA. But, we'll see how you do
on days 5, 6, and 7.

CDR I'll tell you, that appeals to us a lot more.

It takes the pressure off. I think a lot of it
has been, we know we're running behind, so we've
got kind of a pressure to get well. So everybody
stuffs his food down, trying to get well. And
I'm not sure that isn't self-defeating. And
we'll Just have to press on. We're getting bet-
ter, it's just taking a little bit longer than
we thought.

CC Okay. Day 8 is the earliest we're looking at for

the EVA.

CDR That's good news. And - this whole activation

operation is - is awfully time consuming. Even
when you're working as fast as you can, there an
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: incredibleamountof - of work to be done to get

all this stuff moved over. And when you get ready
to put it somewhere, usually there's quite a num-
ber of things that you have to do to - to the box,
or the place you're going to put it, before you
can stow it. So it's - it's - None of us have
been resting at all today. We've been on the go,
trying to get these things done. And I Just hope,
by the end of the day, we will - we will have
finished. But I don't know.

212 18 )46 ii CC Yes sir.

212 18 h6 B2 CC Okay. We're not going to firm up any EVA day un-
til we've checked with you, A1.

212 18 h7 16 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS; see you over

Vanguard at 18:58.

212 18 58 52 CC Skylab, we've got you through Vanguard for h

minutes.

CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll pick you

up over Carnarvon at 19 :B2.

212 19 02 28 SPT Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 20 07 hi CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you stateside for 14

minutes.

CDR Got a few questions for you. First, where are the
utility gloves? Second, we were supposed to
transfer two drug cans to 706, but 706 is completely
full. We stuck it in 732 temporarily, waiting
your recommendation. And we need to know where
the utility power cables are stowed.

CC Okay, we'll be right with you.

SPT And one more. Those power cables I'm going to

use on page 2-5 of the Student Project Checklist
to hook up the light to the ED52 experiment.
Similarly, on the preceding page 2-4 it calls
for the photography of that experiment. And
apparently we've not received any pads for the use
of the DAC and you could - you might run down
that for me so that I could complete something
else by ED52.

CC Okay, Owen.

212 20 09 09 SPT And one more while we're on the subject of not
enough things that we can find. I don't have
the Biomed Checklist out with me right now, but
when I finished calibrations of the BMMD M172
yesterday, the clips and springs were to be taken
off and stowed at a location which apparently has
no label and is no locker. I suspect it's a
location on the floor or something like that, and
my question is where do these springs and clips
go that were used for M172 calibration?

CC Okay.

212 20 l0 58 SPT Boy, it's an amazing view of the San Francisco

Bay area. It's - looking out the window while
I came over to talk to you here, Dick - perfectly
clear. You can see the whole breadth of the place.

CC Okay.
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CDR We all decided to take a look. It's fantastic.

You can see San Francisco and Los Angles all in
the same view.

CC Roger.

212 20 12 07 SPT You might say there's still a little bit of tourist
left in him.

CDR You can see Vegas out to the side, too.

CC Roger. Wish we were at some of those places

looking up at you.

CDR I know what you mean. I can even see three of my

EREP sites from here - four, five, see about
eight Of them from here.

CC Owen?

SPT Say again.

212 20 13 05 CC Owen, the photo pad for ED52 went up on day 2, and
if you don't have it convenient there to you, I
can read it to you.

SPT I was afraid you were going to tell me something

like that. I guess you better read it to me.

CC You ready?

SPT Go.

CC ED52 pre, 100 percent required; D-412, DAC 06;

A-2, transporter 03; DAC 06 is in F-527.

SPT Okay, I've got it Dick. I was afraid it came up

earlier and we must have misplaced it or I didn't
put it where I was supposed to. Thank you very
much.

CC And, Owen, if you need the thread pad part of that

I've got that also?

SPT I'm sorry; I missed that Dick.

212 20 14 28 CC I've got the film thread pad for DAC 06 if you
need it.
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SPT You were cut out - apparently a handover.

CC Okay, I've got the film thread pad for DAC 06,
if you need _it.

SPT I'll need it.

CC Okay.

SPT Maybe we don't need it, Dick. I guess I already

threaded it.

CC Okay.

212 20 14 59 PLT Excuse me, Story. You haven't told us about the
utility gloves yet, have you?

CC We 're working.

CC Skylab, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

212 20 20 ii CC We had an interruption when we sent you up the

general message concerning med status and legband
usage; that's 0431 Alfa. Count the lines on that
to be sure you didn't lose anything in the inter-
rupt.

CDR Roger.

CC Answer to the SPT: We suggest you restrain the

clips and springs to the CAL mass adaptor in any
way you'd like - or strap it to the grid beside
the BMMD.

SPT Sure enough. That's the only thing I could figure

I could do with it. I think the location that
was given on the Biomed Checklist was a nonexistent
locker.

CC Roger.

212 20 21 01 PLT Hey, Story, if you're still waiting for the location
of those utility gloves, I could call a S149 in.
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CC Yes, we're still working now. We've got about

B0 seconds to LOS. We will see you over Vanguard
in l0 minutes and we should have the answers then.

PLT Thank you.

CC And as we go over the hill, leave the drug cans

in 732, that's fine for now.

SPT Okay.

212 20 32 22 CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard. We've got you

for 9 minutes.

CC And no need to acknowledge. The utility gloves

are located in your clothing module. The utility
power cables, of which there are a total of eight,
may be found in D-435, D-440, or possibly in use
at D-407; that's above the ring lockers.

212 20 33 03 PLT Okay, thank you, Story. We got this S149 retracted,
and we got the SAL door closed, but we can't
get the rod pulled through the panel all the way
so that we could get the latch - latch to mate.
We think maybe it's Just cold and we're going to
let it warm up for awhile so we could pull in a
little further. It lacks about an inch of - of
coming in far enough. And we noticed as we were
pulling that in that it really wanted to go off by
itself. You really got to hold on to that thing
and make sure you get the door closed.

CC Okay, copy that.

CC Jack, we need some clarification on your S149

operation.

212 20 35 20 PLT Okay, Story. I was working uh the checklist for

S149 retract. And one little interesting thing
we noted was that it suddenly started pulling
around and wanted to go off by itself very readily.
If we - if there hadn't been somebody on the end
of it it would have gone right on out. So we're
going to be very careful of that. That's just a
note. Okay, now - we can't get the rod - the last
rod - rod A, pulled back far enough so that when
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you unscrew it, the little latch will catch the

stuff that's holding the S149. And, so we think
maybe if we let them warm up a little bit, we'll
be able to pull it in another inch or so. And
then when we unscrew rod A, the latch will come
up and mate with the stub so that it won't go out
any further.

CC Okay_ understand.

212 20 39 52 CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Just a minute, we're getting the ice cream out.

CC Say again.

PLT I said Just a minute, we're getting the the ice

cream out. First things first.

PLT Okay, go ahead, Story.

CC Verify that the SAL DOOR is CLOSED.

212 20 40 27 PLT Verified.

CC Okay. We agree with your action to sit and let

the experiment warm up. And as for the two drug
cans that you temporarily put in 732, you might
look for a slot in 707, 708, or 709, the IMSS
lockers, if possible.

PLT Okay.

PLT The problem is that the drugs from SL-2 are in

those lockers. I guess we'll have to take _hem
out and put them somewhere, huh?

CC Skylab, Houston. In the blind, we're going LOS

at this time. We'll see you over Goldstone at
21:47.

212 20 42 24 PLT Okay.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 21 47 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're Goldstone for 40 minutes.

SPT Hello, Dick. How are you?

CC Doing real fine. How are guys doing today?

SPT Doing pretty well. I just finished the ED52

setup and want to - Just check it out to make
sure that the light and everything - the
sensitivities were Just right. And found on
that no - and found that no amount of voltage
generated ... would turned the lights ... about
to pick up - essentially it's a malfunction
procedure but they Just refer you over to ED52
adjust, page 2-13, which resets all of the gains
and adjusts it for sensivity. So I'm going to be
picking that up right now unless somebody there
has an objection?

CC Owen, I didn't copy some of that as to exactly

what your problems were because it was a lot of
static on the line, and before I get back to you
I have two or three things I'd like to get up
to you and a couple of them I'd like to get ahead
of this ED52. The first one is - has to do with
our friend the condensate holding tank. We have
some time scheduled in tomorrow's Flight Plan
for some troubleshooting. In order to get ahead
on that troubleshooting this evening, we'd like
to get the holding tank dumped, and I have some
short procedures that I'd like to read up to you
that we'd like to have done by this evening and
let it sit there for 2 or 3 hours, get dumped,
and then secure it, if you would.

SPT Go ahead with procedures.

212 21 48 54 CC Okay, what we'd like for you to do on - First is

panel 393, to disconnect the holding tank QD and
then, of course, then down on panel 800 turn the
dump heater - DUMP HEATERS WATER switch to 2, and
make sure that the H20 light that's for the
DUMP HEATER's ON. And then in the SWS Systems
Checklist perform housekeeping 60 Bravo, 60 Bravo,
Page 9-3. And the steps that we'd like performed
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out of there are steps 3, 4, 5, and 6. Then after

this is completed on panel 393, we'd like for
you to reconnect the holding tank QD long enough
to reconnect the Kluge at DELTA-P meter and report
to us the DELTA-P and then finally to disconnect
the holding t_nk QD again on panel 393, and we're
going to let it sit that way all night. This
way it will get us ahead on the troubleshooting
tomorrow and it will also get - let us get a
overnight check on that part of the system as
far - as to see if it's holding the DELTA-P.
The next thing that I had if you got that one
was a couple of notes for Jack on the S149.

212 21 50 18 PLT Go ahead.

CC Okay, what we - well, per the - I guess that

the configuration is still as it was before,
Jack, that you described. We think you're
following the correct procedure. So we'd like
for you to let it sit there for awhile and try
it again. If you're still unsuccessful, we'd
like for you to pressurize the scientific air
lock, and this ought to let the experiment warm
up still further and let it sit there for about
another hour and try it again. If finally,
this evening, we are still unsucessful we'd
Just like to leave ROD A attached and just remove
that from the SAL and we'll let it sit indoors
and let us continue to think about that one.
We probably will - we can go ahead and use that
with ROD A as sticking in there although it'll -
may hurt us on the stowage. One reminder on
that is you need to unscrew ROD A a little bit -
slightly, in order to let that latch engage.
We're getting fairly close to LOS and we're -
we'll see you in Vanguard in a few minutes.
Go ahead.

PLT Okay, Dick; we'll do like you say on 149.

212 21 51 36 CC Okay, real fine, and I'll give you A0S call at
Vanguard.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 22 09 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Vanguard for

i0 minutes.

212 22 l0 07 CC Skylab, Houston - -

SPT Okay, Dick - Okay, Dick. Now let me tell you

where I am in the Student Project Experiment
Checklist. The problem turned up with ED52.
Over.

CC Roger, Owen. Why don't you take Just a minute.

We did relisten to the tape and there was a lot
of static and I was going to tell you that you
were GO, to go ahead and do that mal. But it
probably wouldn't hurt for us to listen to it
again real quickly.

SPT Well, I'm beyond that now, anyway. I've already

performed that MAL, and it's not working and
that's what I wanted to tell you about.

CC Go ahead.

212 22 i0 40 SPT I went to the ED52 Adjust on page 2-13, turned

both pods counterclockwise just as it said. And
then down on step 7 it says, "Lights come on,
stay on for several seconds, go off and then
come back on." As a matter of fact, it doesn't
happen that way. The lights come on of course
when you put S-I on; they stay on for about
i to 2 seconds; they go off and then they stay
off. They do not come back on. And when you
put your ear down close to the electronic
assembly, you can hear the relay which turns the
lights off, and about a second or so later, you
can hear another fainter relay click, but it does
not turn the lights back on, as one might assume
that second relay click was supposed to do. So
something in the internal circuitry is not
permitting the trigger to turn the lights and
the camera, if it were connected, back on again.
And I don't know whether there's anything that
can be done to fix that or not, but I'ii
leave it in your hands and the designers' hands
to think about it for awahile. Over.
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212 22 Ii B5 CC Okay. I think we certainly understand, from

that description, what it is and we will think
about it, Owen. I've got another couple of things
to ask you guys. One is on channel B recording.
We dumped about a - and incidentally I forgot
to warn you, I think we are dumping the airlock
data recorder this site. But we dumped about
2 hours ago and we did not find any modulation
on channel Bravo. And as long as you guys did
not record anything on channel B during that
period, we're happy with that, but we Just wanted
to make sure t_hat we were in a proper configuration
for channel B recording. And while we're on that
subject, we've also noticed that we are recording
your intercom conversations on the command module
DSE. And on that one, we think probably the
reason that we are is that your panel 6 INTERCOM
switch is in T/R vice OFF, and if you want a
reference in the checklist, that's Systems
Checklist, page 3-3. We have not been dumping
that recorded voice and so it hasn't been getting
out, but I thought you ought be aware of that
and reconfigure if you desire.

212 22 12 52 SPT Okay. We were talking about that at lunch time

and sort of had come to the same conclusion that
that's probably how we were configured. And I
don't know whether Al's hearing this or not.
He probably will want to talk to you about it.
On the channel B recording, I'm not sure I'm too
happy about that, because I spent probably
15 minutes putting all the SMMD calibrations,
both wardroom and head on there. I don't know
whether those got dumped on the preceding rev
or preceding dump, or whether it was this last
time. Do you - can you verify that all of the
SMMD eals were taken off?

CC Stand by Just a second.

212 22 13 38 CC SPT, Houston. I'm unable to verify yes or no

right now, but as soon as I can we'll certainly
get back to you on SMMD cal, but don't put the
information back on there until I get back to
you.
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SPT Okay. And A1 Just coasted by and mentioned the

fact that he had reconfigured the command module
intercom, off, 2 or 3 hours ago. So it shouldn't
be - INTERCOM shouldn't be ON the - on the tape
up in the co,_and module any longer. Over.

212 22 14 05 CC Okay. Real fine. Let me ask you a couple of

other questions from - from the Activation
Checklist folk. There are two or three items
that you haven't reported, and we'd like to know
whether or not you've completed them. And then,
after we get these answers, since we've had to
skip around in the time line and activation has
been extended a little bit, they'd sure appreciate
it if you guys would take a little bit of time
in that checklist, when you think you are through
with it, and turn the pages and Just make sure
that we haven't skipped anything.

SPT Okay. What do you want to ask us about?

CC Okay. First is the command module stowage

transfer, which is page 2-70 and 2-71.

212 22 14 52 SPT Okay. I want to get A1 to answer that. He's

been looking after most of that. Is there anything
over in my columns that you were - -

212 22 14 57 CC Okay. Well, I'm not real sure that - I have two
other items, 0wen. And I'm not looking at the
checklist at the moment. The other two items are
plenum bag stowage, and the third item was the
day 3 miscellaneous transfers that we sent up on
the message this morning, and it's located
actually in the stowage book.

PLT Dick, pages 2-70 and 2-71, I
the plenum bag stowage isn't
tomorrow because we're still
stuff in it. And other than
only thing I have left to do
TV and the 149 stow.
took care of. And
going to happen until
putting a little
that I guess the
is the water sampling

CDR And the day 3 transfers are complete. Would you

do one thing for me, Dick? Are the three good
lenses - I want to verify that we got them correct,
5, 6, and 7, the 5-millimeters?
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212 22 15 47 CC That is correct, A1. And I think that gives us

the answers on all the things, and we think we're
pretty happy with knowing exactly where the whole
Activation Checklist is. But if you would take
5 or l0 minutes between you and Just take a look
and make sure you can't find anything that you
remember skipping, we'd sure appreciate it.

CDR Okay, we had that sort of on our minds, and we'll

go through that thing when we get a moment here.
But we think we've finished that except for those
two items that Jack mentioned, and we got a
couple of plenum bags completely full now. That
kind of gives you a feeling for the amount of
filler we've had.

CC Roger. I understand.

212 22 16 35 CC And we got about 3 minutes left here at Vanguard,

I'm standing by.

CDR We've got that dump ready to go. I'm Just

waiting until the heater gets hot. As soon as it
gets hot I'll turn it on. It's all connected up.

CC Okay. Thank you.

CDR It's a lot easier once you've found all the parts
up here, believe me.

212 22 17 3h CC Skylab, Houston. One thing that we were a little

bit confused on as to what you said about the
Activation Checklist. We think we copied you
said that you were going to set up the TV in
order to record the water sampling. We thought
you'd already done the water sampling. If you
have already completed the water sampling, we
sure don't want to ask you to repeat it in order
Just to get it on television.

CDR Understand.

CC Okay.

PLT The water sampling is complete.

CC Okay. We're happy.

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212 22 18 13 CC And, Skylab; Houston. In order to make sure for

channel Bravo recording, you might - somebody,
next time they float by panel 204, they might
check and make sure it's configured there properly.

CC And we'll go - -

CDR I just checked it. It was on B. Whenever you

mentioned it wasn't anything there, I went up and
looked. It's switched to B.

CC Okay, AI. Thank you much.

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

see you at Hawaii at 23:18. We are going to dump
the data recorder again there. And we were
wondering, when you did do the water sampling,
did you use the decal that had you take a look
at the iodine concentration after it was in the
chiller for 15 minutes?

PLT That's a negative because we had done the water

sampling prior to that message.

212 22 19 15 CC I see. Okay, thank you much. That's all right.

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SKYIAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

212 23 17 34 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Hawaii for 9 minutes.

CDR Say, Dick; CDR.

CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.

CDR Say, we ended up with our two llthlma hydroxide

canisters - the ones ie used in the command
module down in the workshop - we can't seem to
find a note anywhere exactly what we are supposed
to do with them. Are we supposed to _ettison
them out the trash airlock?

CC Okay, what - we' Ii get an answer to you as Icon

as we can on that. They're talklng - they'll
t-l_ a_out it in the back room. And I got two
or three things to talk to yOU about if yOu don't
have anything else.

CDR Go ahead.

212 23 18 2h CC Okay, first of A11, the last time we looked into

the tape recorder business and the last time
that we got any modulatten on the dumps to the
site was a Bermuda pass at 17:00 Zulu. And as
far as we can search, we - sometime during that
period, must have been when Oven put the
stuff on - because we don't have that. And we'd
like for you sometime in between now end the
upccLing Ven_,-_d pass, which is in the next
30 minutes, to make at least a 30-second test
recQrdinK on channel B because we'd like to dump
it and get right on top of this problem in case
we've got any hardware problems.

CDR Ok_7, we'll do that right now.

CC Okay. Next thing is - is - and, CDR, Houston;

we are dumping the tape recorder here at Hawaii,
so why don't you wait until after L_ to do that
test recording for us?
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CDR Unde rs t an d.

212 23 19 24 CC Okay, next thing. The other day you mentioned

about, prior to the EVA, looking at all the
hardware and getting ahead on things for the EVA_
and one thing we - be sure and don't want you to
do is to actually pull the sail out of the bag,
because _e think it _uld really he curtains for
getting it back installed in the bag. For your
information, we are going to pull a sail that
has been stowed in a bag over at Marshall the
day prior to the EVA and check its condition.
The next item that I have, A1, is - our G&C is
watching the oxidizer tank pressure for the
engine up in the c_nd module; and the pressure
is decreasing due to a helium ingestion in the
oxidizer. We do not have a leak, but it's getting
kind of close to the caution and warning limit ;
and in order to ,_, sure you don't get waked
up in the middle of the night or startled by it,
we' d recommend you INHIBIT Charlie 7.

CDR Okay, that' s done.

212 23 20 39 CC Okay. I got a couple more items and these are

on your Flight Plan for tomorrow that was up-linked
a while ago. Two items on that. You've got a -
the PLT and SPT are - the PLT's the subject, he
has got an MI31 Just before lunch. And there's
some extra time that is stuck in there, we think
about 30 m4nutes for both those guys, and that
does not include an extra 15 minutes that we've
put in there because it's the first time you ran.
Therefore, we think that he can get some extra
PT time right following that M131; and on the
Flight Plan, it looks like he got shortchanged,
hut we think he can change that 30 minutes
probably almost to an hour. Also, if possible,
we' d like during that same period to get Owen to
set up TV-3 Alfa in the TV OPS Book, because
we'd like to accomplish TV-3 Alfa during the
lunch meal tomorrow.

CDR Okay.
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212 23 21 43 CC Okay, and that will be an addition to O_en's

detail pad, and I figure the PT, you can Just play
that by ear, you know, as you get it. And the
only other thing l have on here is wondering if
there's any more further status on Slh9.

CDR Sure is. We let it warm up, we p-l led it out,

and it's now sitting over in the corner with the
cover on the end, and everything is copacetic
and tidy.

CC Roger; understand. You did ma_e the latch and

got rod A out there.

CDR When it warmed up a little bit, everything was

okay.

CC Hey, real fine; good.

212 23 22 33 CC And, S_ylab, Houston. We have an answer for

you on the lithium hydroxide. It should go down
the trash airlock.

CDR Okay, understand.

CC And that's the efld of my ]tst that's written down

here. We've still got 4 minutes here at Hawaii,
so I'm standing by.

212 23 24 13 SPT Dick, I l_,lled off the teleprinter stuff here

about 15 minutes ago; and at that time, it only
had the CDR and PLT deta/ls for tomorrow. Just
the last minute or so, the SPT details have come
up. It's only seven lines long, followed by a
general Flight Plan that's 58 lines long. I guess
that must be what you want though, seven lines
of SPT details.

CC That's right, SPT - I'm looking at it, Owen and

the SPT details is seven lines long. And the
thing to do is Just Jot down in there the TV-3
Alfa, you know, and I'll give you a time off the
s,,-,,_ryright now.

SPT Good enough. I get what it is.

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212 23 25 C_ CC Cks_. !

212 23 48 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A06 at V=-_,=_d for

9 minutes, and we're going to be _,ping the data
tape recorder here.

CDR Okay, I tell you what we did, Dick. We put some

information on it - channel B, both froa the
console and headset that Owen used to put his
data on, and also down from the _mA-_lroom. I'm
Just playing the squawk box, so there ought to
he two sets of data on there Just t=1_Ing about
it.

CC Oks_, I understand you used the wardroom speaker

box. Where was the other speaker box on - in
between these two sites that yon did use?

CDR The one up there by the A_ console and Owen used

a headset and m_ke with it.

212 23 48 55 CC Okay, AI; tbAnk you. I only had one question

this pass and that is for Owen, and we're back
to trying to understand completely this ED52
thing. And what we're not sure that we copied
because of the garble, and we'd like to clarify,
is on pete 2-6 of the checklist, step 30; we'd
like to know ex_ctly what it says: Move hand
around and verify the light and the camera come
on and sts_ on for 10 seconds. And it's at that
point that we' d like to understand what happened
that caused him to go over to page 2-13 and start
the ED52 adjust procedure.

212 23 49 37 SPT Okay, stand by. I'll have to get the checklist
out so I can see Just what page and item you're
t-lking about; it'll be a moment.

CC Okay, Owen, I think that'd he a good idea,

and then we' ii get sq_,=_ed aw_7 and get the
problem solved.

CDR Okay, Dick. I've had a vacu,-- on that tank for

quite sometime - I mean not a vacuum but dump
going into the tank, pulling out the water. I
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CDR Okay, Dick. I've had a vacuum on that tank for

quite sometime - I mean not a vacuum but dump
goi_ into the tank, l_,11tng out the water. I
checked the slug a few moments ago, and it moved
down to the far end of the tank, indicating that
it was empty. I was going to leave it 3_e that
for a few more m_-utes, perhaps 30, I don't know.
What do you recu,_endT

CC Stand by 1.

212 23 50 13 CDR It has a maximum pull about 1 inch from the flange.
That m_y be as far as it travels, or it still may
travel some more. That's why I was _ndering.

CC Okay, stand by.

SPT Okay. l'm ready to tAl_ about this pa_e 2-6

if - if you're prepared there, Dick.

CC Sk_'lab, Houston; that tranm_ssion vas kind of

garbled. I didn't get it. Say a_ain, please.

SPT Okay, I'm ready to talk about page 2-6. Are you
ready thereT

CC Yes. Okay, go ahead.

212 23 51 00 SPT Okay. It was at Just where you said on step 30.
We should be able to retFIF_er that autcaatie
circuitry by moving our hands around inside the
cage. And I did that and snapped fingers and
even tapped the walls and did everything I could
to get another trigger of the lights and camera.
And there was no way for me to trigger an auto-atic
sequence, i0 seconds to a sequence of exposures,
after I first turned it on. And the note that is
at the bottom of step 30, then, sa_s to refer
to 52 adjust if required, and so I then went over
to 52 adjust and followed down through, let me
see, step 6, step 7, 8, and then at step 9. Just
a ,wm_nt ; no, not that far. Step 7 - it's supposed
to be that at step 7 the light will come on, stay
on, go off, and then come hack on. But that one
did not happen in step 7 on page 2-13. They'll
come on, stay for a second or 2, then go off and
never come back on again. Over.
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CC Okay, thanks for the info, Owen. And we're not
real sure whether or not we've got a checklist
problem or _=_dware problem; and we're t=_king
about that; and we'll get - get - he _etting
back to y_u as soon an we can on a straight answer.

Okay, fine.

CC Roger.

212 23 52 54 CC And, CDR, Houston. The EGIL reco-_uds that we

zet about another 15 minutes worth of dumping
on the holding tank, and then you can - can continue
on with the procedure that I read up a while ago.

CDR Okay, Dick.

CC Okay.

212 23 53 32 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised on that dump here at

Vanguard out at the site, we did see voice mod-
ulatio_ on the subfrmne as we _,mped it. We're
going to bring it back in here to Houston and
listen to the tapes and _ke sure that we got a
modulation from either 1, 2, or 3 of those sources
that you _-tioned. So we'll get back to you
later when we understand it.

212 23 53 56 SPT Okay, if you don't have it from all three sources,
that's box 131 with the lightweight headset and
on the speaker box, as well as down here 702
directly from the box.

CC Okay, and we' 11 let you know when we get it back

here in Houston and listen to it.

CC Skylab, Houston. One note that I had here and

I'm - quite frankly, I can't remember whether
I passed it up to you or not; and that was the
drug locations when Story was Just going off duty
there. What we want to end up with is the SL-2
drug cans in W-732 and the SL-3 drug cans in
w-706.

SPT We copy, Dick.

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CC Thank you.

CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute to LOS at Vanguard.

We're going to see you at Hawaii at 00:55, and
we'll be standing by there, A1, to copy the evening
status report.

212 23 56 _5 CDR Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

213 00 55 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS Hawaii for

7-1/2 minutes.

CDR Okay, Dick, I'm ready for that nightly status

report.

CC Roger. Me too, AI, and I believe I have already

have the urine volume, the drinking-water gun
reading and the BMMD masses from this morning
that you read down earlier.

CDR Okay, go to exercise?

CC Okay, go ahead.

CDR Okay. CDR, 2/15/1425; SPT, 2/15/2000; PLT,

2/15/3026

CC Go ahead.

CDR Okay, under medication the CDR and SPT both

used some nasal emollient. The CDR would
like to think about using a Seconal tonight.
Okay, sleep: CDR, 5/good, 2/fair; SPT, 6/good;
PLT, 7/good. Okay, now I'll read you the food
log. CDR deleted chili; biscuits, two; vanilla
wafers, two. SPT deleted - By the way, CDR had
two salts. SPT deleted Jam, chicken and gravy,
lemon pudding, asparagus, butterscotch pudding,
apricots, strawberry drink, one-third of a can
of bacon wafers.

CC Okay. Go ahead.

CDR PLT ate the following: corn flakes, grapefruit

drink, cocoa, pea soup, tea, port loin, apple-
sauce, and lemonade.

CC Roger. Go ahead.

CDR No photo today. Flight Plan deviation: We

looked over the Flight Plans; they looked good
to us. We were a little bit worried about the
M131, but we'll - we'll Just be careful. Our
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concern was the fact that everybody's a

little unsettled yet, and so they were afraid
if they got into a malaise 2A they might not
be able to recover very fast like you can on
Earth because it unsettles you there, as you
well know. And since your settling ability
is just not that good at the moment.

CC Roger. I understand, A1. And we realize that,

so we will Just leave it up to your judgment
as to how to proceed and let us know.

213 00 58 20 CDR Okay, we knew you did and been thinking about it.
We're going to Rive it a go and Just be careful.
Shopping list: the only thing we did, we inter-
changed the SAL tripods while we had S073
out of there and they both fit now. Inoperable
equipment : you know about that. And unscheduled
stowage item changes: we've reported those
already also.

CC Okay, I got all of that. Is there anything else

on the status report you'd like to add?

CDR No, did you - wanted a previous status report

or a previous food report and we weren't sure
which day.

CC I'll tell you what, I'm - it was day 210, AI,

which I believe was mission day 2, I think.

CDR Okay, let me read those, please.

CC Stand by i.

CDR Okay.

CC Roger, CDR. Go ahead. It was mission day 2.

Go ahead.

CDR Okay. CDR: delete biscuits, two; orange drink; chili;

peanut butter. SPT, he ate the following:
Instant Breakfast, one-half bread, orange drink,
chicken and rice, ambrosia, vanilla wafers.
PLT ate the following: applesauce, cocoa, peaches,
tea. And in addition to that, the CDR had
27 squirts of command module water, and the
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PLT had 7-1/2 ounces of command module water

plus 20 squirts.

CC Roger. Go ahead.

CDR I didn't have down the SPT's water and he

doesn't recall it. That completes the food
there, I believe.

213 O1 00 hO CC Okay, A1, thank you very much. I've got a

couple of things here. First of all on the
ED52, we are afraid that we do have a - some
sort of a hardware malfunction but we're - so
we're going to think about that one, and the only
thing we'd like to ask you guys to do tonight
is on the ED52 equipment turn the S-l, Sierra 1
switch to OFF.

CDR Owen reports he's done that already.

CC Okay. Next thing, we listened to that channel B

dump and we got a - a nothing but a bunch of
loud noise and no intelligible conversation.
It turns out at the same time we did have the
experiment 2 recorder running, and so we're
dumping that here at Hawaii and we're going to
listen to that recorder to see if it's a record-
er problem or something else. And I do
have - we've noticed in the command module that -
that we're reading about a 70 or 71 percent
reading in the waste water tank and we - so
we're not too sure that's accurate and I have
a - couple of things I'd like you to check in the
command module. However, I see that I'm about
h5 seconds from LOS. Your next pass is at
Vanguard at 01:26 and it's a medical conference
and I'll catch you again at Ascension and I'll
have this stuff squared away, and I can tell
you what we would like at Ascension.

CDR Okay, what do you want me to do, go read the

waste water and tell you?
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CC Yes, we want you to read the - put the MAIN

REGs, two of them to OPEN. Then read the waste
water. If it's greater than 60 percent perform
the service module water tank activation which
is on page S/h-16; if it's less than 60 percent,
close the MAIN REGS and open the CABIN REPRESS
valve.

CDR Understand.

CC Okay, good.

213 01 02 29 CDR But, do you want me to dump the water if it's

CC Negative and I forgot to say prior to starting

this procedure, CABIN REPRESS valve to CLOSE.

CDR Okay, I understand then. So, in other words,

it if is greater, Just turn those things on and
leave them there, but don't dump the water.

CC That's affirmative, and we also want to get

another holding tank at - no.

213 01 03 01 CC Belay that last, A1, I'li catch you at Ascension.

213 01 41 17 CC Skylab, Houston; Ascension for 7 minutes.

CDR Okay, Dick, let me tell you what we got.

CC Go ahead.

CDR WE went through the first part of the procedures

in the comm_ud module, checked the water, it's
at 75 percent. We didn't - we knew how to
follow the rest of the procedure, but we just
wanted to make sure that you wanted us to do
that one because when we were going out of
sight, it sounded like you had a little something
else on your mind.

CC Well, as a matter fact, what we had on our minds

would - didn't have anything to do with that.
So the procedure that I did read - you ought
to follow for the part which is to perform that
water tank activation, page 4-16. So that one
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was okay. What I was trying to get up to you,

A1, was at the time that - we assume by now
you've secured the condensate holding tank and
I wanted to get a DELTA-P reading on that tank
that you took, I think, right after you secured
it.

CDR Okay, hold on, I'll give it to you, and then

I'll disconnect at that panel 930 or 390 or
whatever it's called.

CC Roger.

CDR It'll take about 2 minutes or about 30 seconds.

CC Okay. And while you're going up there, if

somebody's listening, one thing that we do need
as far as the evening status report is your
drawer A - drawer Alpha configuration in the
film vault, sometime this evening in either this
pass or the next one, so that we can do our
photo pads properly for tomorrow and our planning.
And also, be advise, we will be up-linking a
pad tonight for your tomorrow's menus.

CDR It's h.25, 4.25.

CC Okay, AI, thank you - thank you much and - -

CDR Now I'm going to go back and disconnect it, and

put a cap on the end of that line.

CC Okay, A1, and is Owen listening?

CDR He sure is.

213 01 43 19 CC Key, Owen, I just wanted you to know that I

just called up and talked to your Dad and had
a very pleasant conversation with him and
wished him a Happy Birthday. And he said to
pass on the best of luck from everybody in Enid
to you, and they've been real concerned about
how you guys were feeling and getting along.
And I assured them that as each day went by you
were feeling a lot better and really having a
lot of fun. I sure enjoyed talking to him.

SPT Very good, thanks a lot, Dick.

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CC Roger

CDR Okay, disconnect complete.

CC Okay, thank you.

CC And Skylab, Houston. I don't know if you checked

the tape recorder a while ago, we did send up
an S192 alignment pad. And after we got it up
there we had some second thoughts about some
minor things on it, and we have Just uplinked
another S192 alignment pad that should replace
the one you got earlier. And the good one is
message number 0529. You can throw the other
one away.

CDR Okay, Dick; understand.

213 01 44 59 CC Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got about

2-1/2 minutes to LOS. And let me tell you real
briefly about one minor problem that we're taking
a looking at and still talking about it, because
I might have to talk to you again about it at
our last pass of the evening which is at Guam.
The temperatures - the dew point in the spacecraft
has risen to a point where we're afraid that we
may start collecting - Where the temperature
in the heat exchangers is lower than the dew
point. So we're thinking about, possibly
tonight, turning off the heat exchangers and,
of course, the bad part of that is that during
the evening the temperature in the spacecraft
will rise and the estimate is somewhere like
3 degrees or so. I Just wanted to alert you to
that before we got to Guam. We'll be talking
about in between here and there. Over.

CDR Understand, Dick. Thank you.

CC And, of course, the other side of the coin, other

than letting the temps go on up tonight, is if
we should - If this trend continues, of course,
we might deposit some water in the heat exchangers
and the fans. It might take us 2 or 3 days to
dry them out so - so I guess it's some good
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news and some bad news there. And we'll let

you know at Guam. We're about a minute from
LOS here at Ascension and the Guam AOS is 02:26.

CDR Roger. There's no way that we could, for example,

hook up that condensate tank and then Just
continue to pull a vacuum on the back side of it
through the SAL airlock?

CC I guess we hadn't really thought about that one,

A1, but the condensate holding tank, we're
satisfied, is - We'd like to let it sit all
night, if that's what you're asking about, and
check the pressure in the morning.

213 01 _7 59 CDR I didn't know whether - since you were worried

about the humidity you might not want to pull
the water out tonight if you could, and then
make the test tomorrow day or tomorrow night.
It doesn't make any difference to us; we can
stand the 3 degrees. I Just didn't know what
you want to do. We'll see you next tee - next -
next site.

CC Okay, A1.

PLT Hey, Dick the film is Just as they asked me to

load it on the pad this morning. I got all the
numbers if you want it but that's the way it is.

CC Okay, I'll check in between sites, Jack, and if

I need them I'll get them at Guam.

PLT Yes, we didn't use any of it at all.

CC Okay, thank you.

213 01 48 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're satisfied with that on

the film, so I will not need anymore information
from you when we get there.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

213 02 26 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for 4 minutes.

CDR Okay, Dick; one question. We've got to start

using the 0WS food tomorrow, only I noticed you
didn't do - had me doing Housekeeping 60E until
after lunch. What shall we do for breakfast and
dinner - or breakfast and lunch?

213 02 26 26 CC Roger, AI. I'll get you a question - I'll get

you an answer back on that, this pass. On the
problem with the heat exchangers - what we've
decided to do is turn the fans off in the OWS
and airlock heat exchangers. And let me tell
you which switches they are. I think you already
know, but then I'll give you the rationale and -
and our - our thoughts on the subject. What we
want on panel 390 is the OWS HEAT EXCHANGER FANS,
four switches, OFF. And also on panel 293,
AM FAN CIRC, three swi - three switches, to OFF.
Essentially what we've - we think this is the
best approach, AI, because we're - we're - we're
trading a short-term problem tonight which may -
which - in which we think the temp in the
spacecraft is going to go up approximately
3 degrees, versus a very long-time - term problem,
in the event that we did get the heat exchangers
wet tonight. As a matter of fact, we don't know
how many days it would take us to recover from
that, and during that time the temp would keep
going up. So our decision is - is to turn the
fans off tonight. If the temp has gone up more
than 3 degrees tonight, we'll certainly get the
fans on first thing in the morning. Over.

CDR Okay. CIRC FANS, three and then the HEAT EXCHANGER
FANS, four. We'll get them.

213 02 27 47 CC Okay. One more thing. We had no Joy on the

channel B that we dumped on the experiment tape
recorder, so I got two things I want you to do
there now. One is, right away while we still
got you, we've still got about 2 minutes. We'd
like sc_ebody to m_ke an intercom check on
channel B and report to us how that comes out.
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CC We want to see if we have a generic problem in

the channel B itself. And, secondly, after we
go LOS, we'd like you to go to panel 20h and go
back to recording on channel A. And we' d like
you to - to m-ke us a 30-second test, as you did
before on channel A. And we'll dump that later
in the evening, and we'll be researching this
problem during the night. Over.

CDR Okay. I can give you a hint already. We tried

B whenever we were making the check, and we found
it okay. But let me switch over and talk to
Owen, and I'll see you right now.

CC Roger.

213 02 28 58 CDR Say, Dick, we Just tried it, and the only thing
we noticed is - the volume isn't quite as high
on B as it is on A. It's probably two-thirds as
high.

CC Okay. Thank you, AI. Stand by, please.

PLT Probably getting 6 - to 10-dB difference.

CC Roger.

CC CDR, Houston. On the question on the menus.

We're working up a pad for you this evening on
the menus, and it will be made up of food that
you can get to readily in time for breakfast.
We are about 30 seconds from LOS here at Guam.
This is the last pass of the evening, so you
guys get a real good night's sleep, and we'll
see you in the morning.

CDR Okay, and the CIRC FANS are OFF already.

CC Okay.

213 02 29 59 CDR And everything else is okay. We tried B; I'm

going to A right now. On RECORD.

CC Roger that.
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CDR And we'll record a message on A when we get a

chance.

213 02 30 lh CC Roger.

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REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

213 ii 16 58 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning. We're with you

for about 15 minutes stateside.

PLT Good morning, Houston.

CDR Howdy, howdy.

CC Hello there. How you all doing this morning?

CDR Sound asleep until the call.

213 ii 17 23 PLT Too early to know.

213 ii 21 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got two things for you

during the postsleep this morning, whenever it's
convenient. One is a change to CDR Flight Plan.
And the other is a little procedure we want to
run through to see if we can track down the
problem with the channel B RECORD. Whenever it's
convenient, Just give us a call.

CDR How about right now?

CC Okay. The Flight Plan change for the CDR is

at 13:00 on the Flight Plan. We'd like for you
to perform the Housekeeping 60 Echo, instead of
the S190 film stow. And then at 18:00, we'll
do the film stow. And anything - the time that's
left over there, will be the - be for open
housekeeping.

213 ii 22 50 CDR That's good, because we can sure use that. And
the other thing's a little procedure on the AM
voice record. Whenever it's convenient for some-
body to work that, Just give a call.

CDR Right now.

CC Okay, AI. Like to get someone to look at panel 200.

The AUDIO SYSTEM, BUFFER AMPLIFIER 2 circuit
breaker. We'd like to check that one.

213 ii 23 36 CDR BUFFER AMPLIFIER 2, AUDIO SYSTEM is CLOSED.

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CC It is CLOSED? Okay. What we'd like for you

to do, is cycle that circuit breaker OFF and
ON three times, then. And then leave it in the
CLOSED position.

CDR Complete.

CC Okay. And if you would, what we'd like for you

to do now, is compose a little test message and
record it on comm channel A. You have to put
your INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM, RECORDER AUDIO,
on panel 204 to channel B, and record on that
channel. And then we want you to record the same
message on channel A. And what we're going to
do, then, is dump both of those and compare them.

213 ll 24 32 CDR Okay. I will start doing that right now. And
I'll do B first, as requested.

213 ll 26 ll CC Skylab, Houston.

CDR Okay, we put them on A and B.

CC Okay; real good. I guess we should have started

with A, since that's the way you're configured.
We'd like you to leave it configured to RECORD
on channel A. And we'd also like to know if
you've noticed any difference on the intercom,
on the audio level, between channels A and B.

213 ii 27 04 CDR Okay, Houston. Yesterday, we noticed that on

B channel it was lower than on A. And we Just
took another check, and it seems to be the same
way this morning, although the difference isn't
quite so pronounced. Owen, who's an expert,
says it's about 3 dB lower on B than it is on A.

CC Roger; copy. And we are configured now for

recording on channel A, is that correct?

CDR You bet.

213 ii 27 34 CC Okay. That - let us get the tapes down and

take a look at it, then. And you'll probably
also notice when you empty the teleprinter this
morning, there was a - some checklist
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changes for the systems - CSM systems checklist

and deact checklist, in regard to the quad B
failure. For the next few days, we'll probably
be dribbling those procedure changes up to them -
up to you, as we sort them out down here on the
ground to try to take into account that quad B
loss.

213 ii 28 00 CDR Okay. One that I'm hoping they'll work on is

the cue card that we got in the CSM for attitude
control takeover, in the event of some funny
with the CMGs. Been thinking about that the
last couple of days. I suspect our technique
there for restoring the command module, Just
with the SCS, may not work. But I don't know.
That probably ought to be one of the higher
priority items.

CC Okay. That is in work, AI.

213 ii 28 29 CDR Okay. Let me help you with some of this con-
densate loop troubleshooting. Last night, as
you know, I gave you the DELTA-P as the result
of putting the kluge pressure gage on the loop
at servicing panel 303. Now when I got finished
doing that, I disconnected back in - I think
it's called 393. I never remember the number,
hut it's the connector at the aft end of the
lock compartment, or the - yes, that's not the
aft end of the lock. It's the aft compartment
back there. When I did, I noticed when I looked
at the heat exchanger plate, kluge pressure gage
again, that it had immediately gone to zero;
giving me a feeling that either the quick dis-
connect didn't work, or that that line in the
lock compartment was leaking. What I've done
this morning, since we started talking, was
connect the holding tank up again. And I'm going
to give you a pressure gage reading, so that'll
give you view of what the holding tank did last
night. And I'm also going to disconnect it
again so it won't leak down - and then look at
it again and tell you what happened between
303 and that 393. So, Just a second.

CC Okay.
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213 ii 29 46 CDR Okay. The holding tank, just in a few minutes

here, has gone to 4.2; which is, as I recall,
roughly the same as it was last night. If it
wasn't, it's pretty doggone close. But it gives
you a feeling the holding tank and the line up
to it are doing okay. Let me now go back and
disconnect the - the disconnect. Hold on.

213 ll B0 30 CDR I disconnected the disconnect, and I noticed

that it's holding 4.3 now. Let me watch it
for the next couple of minutes to see if it
leaks down, or if it stays the same.

CC Okay, A1. And I guess, overnight, we worked

up a troubleshooting procedure for that con-
densate system, and it should be in the tele-
printer now. In fact, all the messages should
be up now.

213 ll 31 00 CDR Okay, Jack picked them up. I hadn't looked at

them. I Just noticed this last night, and I
thought it may aid you in your thinking while
we Just - because we don't troubleshoot it until
a little while later.

CC Okay. We'll be mulling that over. And we're

about 1 minute from LOS now. And we'll be
coming up on Madrid at 37.

CDR Okay.

213 ll B1 40 CDR Okay, to help your thinking, the DELTA-P on

that kluge meter right now is down to 2. So
it's lost 2 psi Just in the time we've been talk-
ing, which gives me a feeling that either it's
in that connector BOB, which I've got something
connected to, or it's in the - service - the
heat exchanger little line there that's running
to the kluge; or it's in the hard line that
rums through the lock compartment. Or, I guess
the one that went through the lock compartment,
also fans around and goes down to the mol sieve
and things. So, at least, we can say - at
least, my guess would be, nevertheless, if it
isn't in the holding tank and the line up to
there, it's from that point onward.
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CC Roger. We'll talk about it a little more at

Madrid.

213 ll 32 h4 CDR ... it could be M0L SIEVE HEAT EXCHANGER A,

since it's OPEN.

213 ll 36 53 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 9 minutes.

And we'll be dumping the recorder at this site.

213 ii h3 00 SPT Okay, Houston; another thing we found the SL-3

ATM log yesterday. And we went ahead and wrote
4 on it and stuck it down in the 4 place, be-
cause we'd taken theirs, as you know, and writ-
ten 3 on it and stuck it up - and made some
changes to it and stuck it in the 3 place.

CC Roger ; copy.

213 ll hh 25 CDR Houston, one problem here. This morning chow

that you've given us, you called our CSM chow.
Is that the day 57 chow that's presently in the
CSM, or some other chow?

CC Stand by 1.

CDR Say again.

CC Stand by, A1.

213 ll 45 23 CC $kylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from

LOS. Those meals should be from the first
couple of days' food, A1. You shouldn't have
to touch day 57 or any of that. And we'll be
coming up on Honeysuckle at 23.

CDR Okay, we'll search around.

CC Those are meals A, B, C, and D. From what you

read down, those things should be remaining.

CDR Okay, and I gather, then, that some of them

:may be in somebody else's food. For example,
I think you got me down for cornflakes, and I've
eaten all my cornflakes, I know.

213 ll 46 07 CC That's affirmative, A1.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

213 12 23 30 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle, 5 minutes.

PLT Okay. We're eating breakfast.

CC Roger.

213 12 25 03 SPT Hello, Houston; SPT.

CC Go ahead.

SPT How much time we got left?

CC About 3 minutes 20 seconds.

SPT Okay, Hank. Reference to general message

0431 Alfa, several questions that need to be
answered this morning, if you're ready to
copy those.

CC Roger. Go ahead.

213 12 25 27 SPT Okay. On the question i, we're all feeling in

very good shape this morning. There's been no
scop/Dex taken by anyone since day before
yesterday, as reported On the evening status
report. And the BMMD readings are as follow:
for the CDR, 6.250, 6.244, 6.251; SPT, 5.985,
5.994, 5.990; PLT, 6.938, 6.934, 6.947. And
I think biomeds will be more happy with the
smaller scatter about all these numbers. They
asked for day 210 food update, which was
covered on last night's status report. I think
they may really.have wanted a report on day 211,
which I had promised on channel B. I did have
a can of apricots that night before going to
sleep, and I'm not sure that ever got reported
on the evening of that day 211. And I believe
those are the only other comments on general
message 0_31 Alfa that have not been aswered
,Dr require an answer. Over.

CC Roger. We copy. Thank you.

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213 12 27 59 CC Skylab, Houston. About 30 seconds to LOS. We'll

be coming up on Hawaii at 44.

213 12 44 40 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, 4 minutes.

SPT Okay, Houston; SPT. I'm going to voice down

some PRD readings until they get straightened
out on which of our tape recorder channels is
working well. And, still - I am also not
going to put that SMM data back on tape recorder
channel until it's verified. If there's a
1000 or so numbers involved, I don't like to
repeat them any more than I have to. So here's
our three PRDs for the morning: CDR is 45021;
SPT, 19012; PLT, 07024. Over, Hank.

CC Roger, we copy.

213 12 46 13 SPT Hank, we also transferred our PRDs to their more

permanent location. The PLT's down in the sleep
compartment, the SPT's above the centrifuge, and
the CDR's over by the minus-Z airlock. We'd like
to get confirmation that that's satisfactory for
us to leave them there from now on.

CC Okay. We'll work on that. And also we have a

procedure we'd like for you to run through to
reconfigure the comm. i guess we decided that
channel A is the best one to record on, so we'd
like to go - go over - switch over to use chan-
nel B for air-to-ground and channel A for record,
if you want to copy this procedure down.

SPT Okay. Stand by a minute please, Hank.

SPT Go ahead.

213 12 47 16 CC Okay, it's - the procedure we want you to follow

is in the CSM Systems Checklist, page 4-12,
paragraph F, OA alternate. And in addition to
that, we want to make sure you connect up the
VTR audio cable to SIA 116. Switch that over to
channel A, and put the channel A switch to PTT
and switch channel B OFF. And also, we'd like
for you to verify that you do have the RECORD
switch on panel 204 in A.
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PLT Okay. We'll get all that done.

CC And of course, in all your checklists from now

on you'll have to reverse the A and B when it's
referred to. And we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 52.

CDR Roger.

213 12 48 27 CC And, Skylab, before we lose comm here: also,

when you do put something on channel A for the
first time, we'd lik for you to notify us so
we can get a verification on how it's working
out.

PLT Okay, we'll put another test message on it Just

to make sure, and the first time we dump any
VTR on channel A you might give us a confirmation
on all those things.

213 12 48 47 CC Okay. Will do.

213 12 51 37 CC Skylab, Hou ton through Goldstone 9-1/2 minutes.

213 12 53 31 CC Skylab, Houston. Were you calling?

CDR Negative.

213 13 00 46 CC Skylab, Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Bermuda

at 05.

213 13 04 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you over Bermuda for

6 minutes.

CDR Okay, Story.

CDR Story, CDR. Let me get you to put something on

the schedule tomorrow, if you can. We're out of
urine bags and so we'll need some time to resupply
those, whatever housekeeping item that is. And
then if you could throw in for the CDR some time
tomorrow about 2 extra hours of general house-
keeping, I think we could really finish this
thing up in good shape.
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CC Okay, we'll do it, AI.

213 13 05 16 CDR We've got to make it tomorrow on the general;

well, maybethe day after is okay, but we need
that urine bag supply tomorrow.

CC Okay.

CC And, AI, could you give us the status on any

drugs you used yesterday or today?

CDR CDR took one Seconal last night, and that's it.

CC Thank you.

213 13 06 20 CDR Also - Those were good breakfast menus today,

they weren't so big. This is the first morning
we've been up here - first time we've been up here
that after a meal everybody felt good. So, maybe
we eat all these little meals today, we'll
really start getting in good shape. Everybody
feels real good right now. Best since we've
been here.

CC Okay. Good.

213 13 09 57 CC Skylab, LOS in 30 seconds. See you over

Canaries in 4 minutes.

213 13 14 26 CC Skylab, AOS through Canaries for 9 minutes.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, A1.

213 13 17 05 CDR Okay, we're getting ready to change the transmission

to the ground to B, and the record to A. So I
guess when we come over the next site, we'll be
up on B.

CC Okay.

PLT Okeydoke.

CDR It may ever be in the middle of this site. We're

working on it now, or Jack is.
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CC Okay; 6 minutes to LOS.

CC Skylab, Houston. Are you there? For 30 more

seconds?

213 13 23 05 PLT Roger. What part of paragraph F did you want

me to do? There's several subparagraphs. You
want me to do them all, or a specific one?

CC Just OA alternate.

PLT OA alternate. Thank you.

213 13 23 20 CC And we're going LOS in about l0 seconds. See

you over Honeysuckle at 13:58. And we'll be
dumping the tape recorders at that time.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

213 13 59 06 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Honeysuckle for

l0 minutes.

CDR Loud and clear, Houston.

213 13 59 23 CDR Okay. We have to put the volume controls on our

VOXs up about 80 degrees to get the equivalent
volume that we were getting on channel A. So
channel A is - I mean is apparently degraded in
some way.

CC Okay. Well, my sample of one - l'm reading you

a lot clearer than I was on the other channel.

CDR Well, good. Volume control has to he up around

11:30, where previously it only had to be around
9 o'clock.

213 13 59 55 CC Okay, and understnad you do have the VTR switched

over on SIA 116?

213 14 00 03 CDR You bet.

CC Okay, thank you.

SPT Story, just to make sure, my worklist today shows

my first task here,is biomed activation, the
checklist calls it med activation. There is no
biomed in the cross correlation table so l'm working
on med activation.

CC That's the same thing, Owen. And if you recorded

anything on channel A, we're commencing a dump
right now; we'd like to look at it.

213 14 00 44 SPT Yes, hold on just a minute, Story - -

CDR ... hold, we'll put some on right now.

CC We've started the dump; hold on.

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SPT Now if you could hold it up for just a minute,

Story. I'm sorry we didn't get it on.

CC The dump's already commenced. We'll - we'll -

we'll catch it next time.

SPT Roger.

213 lh 01 17 SPT Okay. If you can't hold it up, why we'll Just put
some on channel A after this LOS. Is that your
side procedure?

CC That'll be fine, sir.

SPT Okay.

213 14 07 25 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 30 seconds. See you

over Hawaii in l0 minutes.

213 14 18 19 CC Skylab, A0S through Hawaii for l0 minutes.

213 lh 20 01 SPT Story, one thing that might be of interest to

your biomed people. In the checkout of the MA
here, over on page 12-3. When you turn the - when
I turned the MAIN POWER ON, it only took about
3 seconds for the ION PUMP PRESS light to go out,
although we could hae had up to a minute. And
when you turn the ION PUMP POWER, ON, it's only
about 3 seconds for the MS INHIBIT status light to
go out. And after turning wT2CTRONIC POWER, ON,
I never even saw the MS INHIBIT status light on.
It was out almost immediately. So looks as if
there had been a very good vacuum kept in the
spectrometer - mass spectrometer during the
interval here since mission 1. And we've now
completed on down through where we've got the
LOOP running CLOSED. Over.

CC Okay, sounds real good, Owen. Thank you.

213 lh 21 18 SPT The ZERO adjusts were a little bit high, but not
far. It didn't take very much touching up to
bring the ZERO adjusts back in CAL.

CC Copy, 0wen.
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213 14 27 46 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See you over

Goldstone in 2 minutes.

213 14 31 51 CC Skylab, we're A0S through Goldstone for

8 minutes.

CC And no need to acknowledge. We're happy with the

PRD locations.

SPT Say, Story, we put another test message on

channel A.

CC Okay, thanks. We'll be dumping over Bermuda at

14 :41.

SPT I wonder if we ought to go put a test message

on the VTR and get a couple of minutes of that,
just to make sure we get some audio on that, too?

213 14 32 16 SPT Did you get may last question, Story?

CC Yes, sir. We've just been working it over. We

would appreciate, at your option, some VTR and
some voice on the VTR.

SPT Okay. We won't have any VTR running, that'll

take a little too long right now. But I can
run up there and turn it on and then just put a
little bit of audio from -

CC Okay.

SPT ... a little bit of audio on channels A - on

channel A, so you can check to make sure you
got the audio channel working, even there's no -
even though there's no video.

CC Okay. That'll be fine. 0wen.

213 14 37 22 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about 20 seconds.

We'll see you over Bermuda in h minutes and
we'll be dumping the tape recorders over Bermuda.

213 14 43 04 CC Skylab, we're A0S over Bermuda for 8 minutes.

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CC And, Owen, to check out the voice recording on

the VTR, we do need a video input.

SPT Okay, we'll do it later, when we do our TV thing.

CC And if you're pressed for time now, we can pick

it up at about 17:00.

213 14 4_ 04 SPT ... With only an hour to put out the food, it's
going to take me 2-1/2, probably. We got all
this overage we got to reposition.

CC Okay. And one other question on the comm. Is

the handheld mike plugged into any SIA?

SPT No.

CC And it has not been?

SPT No.

CC Thank you.

213 14 47 19 SPT You there, Houston?

CC Go ahead.

SOT Okay, Story. I'm not sure about the tape

recorders, so I'm Just going to put this directly
to you. S1, the orientation is as follows: I
retracted it; side Bravo was at 12 o'clock.
There was only one way to install that thing, so
I assume that they already had that information on
the ground.

CC Okay, copy.

CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 30 seconds. See

you over Canaries in 2 minutes.

213 14 50 30 CDR W'II be looking for you.

213 14 50 32 CC Okay.
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213 14 52 18 CC Skylab, we've got you A0S through Canaries and

Ascension for 17 minutes. We'll be dumping the
recorders over Ascension at 14:59.

CC Skylab, after this pass, we'll be coming up with

a 30-minute LOS. We're looking ahead to the day's
activities. We'd like a "How goes it?" report
from you.

213 14 54 45 PLT Say again, Houston?

CC We'd like a status report on your morning

activities.

213 14 54 57 CDR Owen's just about finished with the med activation;
l'm still in the midst of the food transfer.
One other thing that I think would be good, about
2 or 3 days from now, whenever they quit sending up
special menus, then we'll need a couple of hours
to stow all this overage food somewhere and label
it and the like. It's - we've got a lot of it all
over the place in bags.

CC We'll get you that.

PLT Okay. Story, here's an answer to the question

the EREP guys gave on the real procedure, Alfa.
The number of threads from the thermal focus ring
to the focus barrel is 15 reds and 16 blue.

CC Copied that, Jack.

213 lh 59 04 CC Skylab, we're coming up on a 1 minute keyhole.

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213 15 00 49 CC And we're back with you, Skylab.

CDR Okay, Story. Got a question for the food people.

CC Go ahead.

CDR I put - finished putting out the food in the big

cans and the little cans, and I started to put
out the beverages, and I've looked for red
beverage can 1. It's missing. I've got red
beverage can 2, et cetera. All the little slots
are filled in the food storage. It's Just -
Just doesn't seem to be there. Also in 2, it
starts with day 7, as opposed to day 5.

CC We'll work it, A1.

213 15 05 18 CDR Okay, Story, we found it. It's listed under

beverage 3. Day 5 is in beverage 3; no strain
now.

CC Okay, you're all straight. Understand there's

no more question on that?

CDR No, they Just mislabelled the can. No trouble.

CC Okay.

213 15 07 59 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See you over

Carnarvon at 15:34.

2/3 15 32 29 CC Skylab, we're A0S through Carnarvon for 6 minutes.

We'll be cc_ing up on a keyhole in 1 minute.

CDR Okay, and I've finished putting the food out, and
I'm working on the condensate dump malf procedures
at the moment. And I'm on step 3, waiting for
the condensate DELTA-P gage to build up.

CC Okay, thanks, A1.

CDR Jack's nearly finishedwith that EREP check, and

I think he found samething to question. I'll
let him tell you about it in a few minutes. He's
almost finished.
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CC Okay.

CDR He might want to ts]k with one of them, so you

may have them listening in.

213 15 35 27 PLT Hello, Story. You got some EREP guys listening?

CC Go, Jack.

PLT Okay, I went through the mal A procedures requested,

and I - we failed step ll. When you look at the
core detector as it's positioned in the one-g
trainer, it turns out that the two screws holding
the - the detector down on the right side are
both all the way down to their shoulders. And
I have turned the feeler gage in, and the - the
detector is held down more tightly at the top
bolt than it is at the bottom. It turns out
that you can get 3/i000 of an inch, starting at
1 inch from the top. And as you go downward, the
gap gets bigger. At the lowest extremity, I was
able to insert the 3/1000-inch feeler gage plus
my sleep cue card that I carry around in by little
blue book. And for orientation again, the lower
part, as we view it in the one-g trainer, the
lower part being the section that has the
electronics and the switching package in it.

213 15 37 00 CC Can you remember the number on the screw? Was

that number h, on page A-37

PLT Okay. The side where screws number 2 and 3 are

located are both tight. Now, screws number 1 and h
are the ones that are all the way bottomed out.
If you go about 1 inch - if you look at the drawing
in figure 1 on page A-3 in the malfunction proce-
dures, if you go 1 inch to the left of screw 4,
you start picking up 3/lO00-of-an-inch gap. If
you continue further left past screw 1 and all the
way past the hold-down plate, right up against the
curved part of the preamplifier electronics, that's
where you're able to slip in the 3/1000-inch feeler
gage plus the Sleep Checklist Cue Card that I carry
around in my little blue book. You copy all of
that? You understand it?
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CC Yes _ sir. Copy it and understand it.

PLT Okay. I'm going to put the lid back on and wait
for you guys to regroup.

213 15 38 27 CC And how about step 47 Is the D wire loose? Is

the dewar [?] loose, Jack?

PLT Negative. The only step we failed was number ii.

I checked 4 and that's tight.

CC Thanks a lot.

21B 15 hO 05 CDR The DELTA-P in the holding tank is 4.25.

CC Okay, we got it. And press right on with

step 4, AI.

213 15 40 19 CDR Okeydoke.

213 15 hi 59 CC We're 30 seconds to LOS. See you over Guam in

6 minutes.

CDR Okay. Still waiting for the heater to warm up

so we can dump the condensate tank.

21B 15 h2 09 CC Okay.

213 15 47 55 CC Skylab, we're AOS Guam for 2 minutes.

SPT Hello, Story; I'm over working on the MA - MA cal

number 1 procedures right now. I think that that's
really a part of mid activation. Although I 're
finished that section on mid activation, I
have not finished the section on MA cal number l,
and I'm still working away on that.

CC Thanks, Owen.

213 15 50 09 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See you over

Hawaii in 8 minutes.

213 15 58 21 CC Skylab, we've got you through Hawaii for 4 minutes.

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CDR Hello, Houston.

CC Go ahead.

CDR Okay, Houston. Over on page 9-8 now of SWS

Systems Checklist. When the bladder was empty,
I put the CONDENSATE TANK PRESSURE valve to
VACUUM; thought I'd made a mistakem so I put it
back to DUMP but still I hadn't, so I put it
back to VACUUM. And the DELTA-P now is
stabilized. Let me tell you where. Well, maybe
it's not. It's at h.1 now and slowly climbing.
I'll wait a few minutes.

CC Okay. That's a good idea, A1. And we're looking

at that on the ground.

CDR Okay.

213 16 00 25 CDR It's 4.4 now, and slowly climbing.

CC Copy.

CDR Now, in your note, you indicated that I'm supposed

to leave the CONDENSATE TANK PRESS valve in
VACUUM. How about the other valves on - in
paragraph 3 there, on page 9-8? Do you want me
to configure them just as it shows, all the
way down the line, or stop right where I am at the
moment ?

CC Leave that one in the VACUUM position, A1, and

the others in the checklist position.

CDR Okay.

9-1316 01 h3 CDR Okay. It's been steady at h.h for quite a little
while. I'm going to go ahead and finish that
paragraph.

CC Okay. Press on.

CC And we're 20 seconds to LOS. See you over Gold-

stone at 16:09.

CDR Okay.
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CDR Well, one thing puzzles me. You want me to leave

that in VACUUM, yet you want me to CLOSE the VENT
valve? I'm going to leave the VENT valve, OPEN,
until I see you next time.

CC That's affirmative, A1.

CDR Affirmative, in that you want me to Just hold -

leave the VENT valve, OPEN?

L CC ShuttheVENTvalve,
AI.

i 213 16 03 13 CDR Okeydoke.

i
213 16 09 1,2 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for 7 minutes.
i,
CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, we'd like to help you work this malf, AI.

Could you verify that the PRESS valve is in VACUUM
and the WATER valve is in fill?

CDR You're going to have to wait a few minutes; you're

cutting in and out.

CDR Have we got a good lockup now?

CC I'm reading you loud and clear. How are you

reading me?

CDR Hello, Houston. How do you read now?

CC Reading you loud and clear, A1.

CDR Okay, we had poor lockup. What did you say again?

CDR Go ahead, Houston.

CC Okay, I'm reading you loud and clear now, A1.

CDR Okay. You asked me a question which I could not

hear because we weren't locked up good.

213 16 ll 26 CC Okay, looks like we got good co-,, now. We're

working this condensate problem with you down
here, and we'd like a verificationthat the PRESS
valve is in VACUUM and the water valve is in FILL.
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CDR You got it. That's when it is, and the dump line
is disconnected.

CC Okay, and the fill line disconnected, too?

CDR That's affirm. It has not been connected today.

CC And what's the position of the bladder, Al?

CDR I was Just going to say it's full empty, and since
the last 7 minutes, the DELTA-P in the tank is gone,
and let me tell you from where. It was 4.4; now
it's about 3.95. Let me check.

CC And we' re looking at it and concur, A1.

CDR Okay, now I'm not sure, maybe it has lost a little
bit of it as I disconnected the quick disconnect
for the dump line, but I don't think so.

213 16 13 34 CDR Seems to be holding pretty steady at 3.95. It's

conceivable that when I disconnected that discon-
nect, it somehow dropped those 3 or 4 tenths.

CC Okay, that's possible, A1. We'd like to Just sit

here and - and watch it through the rest of this
Goldstone pass.

CDR Okay, I'll keep an eye on it with you.

SPT Story, SPT. I'd like to give you same information

about a problem I've had on the med activation.

CC Go ahead, Owen.

213 16 lh 03 SPT I've finished down the med activation and going
on the MA cal number l, and went through the first
procedures on the MA cal number l; have the pump
hooke up to the hose and into the EXPIRATION SPIRO-
METER INLET. And went through the first calibration
wherever the cal pumps set at l-l2 liters, and
pump it five times. And I have same numbers which
I don't like particularly well. MINUTE VOLUME
was 26.7 on the first one. However, then I tried
the CYCLE reset and - to stroke the cal pump again,
l0 times. This is the CYCLE RESET, but somehow or
other, there is now a pressure building up inside
the cal pump and into the EXPIRATION SPIROMETER.
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And I can only press that handle down about two

times, and that pressure is not released, somehow,
inside the expirometer. And so I've been unable
to proceed beyond that point. I'll give you my
readings on the first cal there. 02 consumed was

4.037; RATIO 0.231; MINUTE-VOLUME 26.7, MA C0p was

0.9. I'm not too pleased at those readings on
the - on the first cal, and I was unable to do the
second eal because of this pressure buildup.
Perhaps you could give me some advice as to -
either what's wrong procedurally, or how to get
around it. Over.

213 16 15 26 CC Okay, I - we're working that. We're going LOS at

this point. We'll pick you up in 1 minute over
Texas.

213 16 18 00 CC And, Skylab we're back with you for 9 minutes.

CC And, CDE, we'd like a verification from you that

the HEAT EXCHANGER ISOLATION valves A and B are
both CLOSED.

CC That's on both mol sieves.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

213 16 19 14 CC We'd like a verification that on both mol sieves

HEAT EXCHANGER A and B ISOLATION valves ere CLOSED.

CDR They ere both - all four, that is - CLOSED.

CC Roger. And proceed to step 9 now, A1.

CDR Okay. Going to 9-

CDR It's been holding at 3.95, for quite a while now,

hasn't it?

CC That's verified.

CDR Yes, I guess it did decrease when I did un - when

I did - did the quick disconnect. Going to step 9.

213 16 20 18 CDR Okay. It's connected.

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CC Roger.
J

CDR Well, it dropped down to 1 so far.

CC We're looking at it.

CDR And it's continuing to decrease, unfortunately.

Course, maybe it's Just picking up some water
in the line already.

CC Okay. We're looking at that, A1, and we've got a

regroup here for you.

CDR Okay.

CC Could you look at the bladder position for us?

213 16 23 13 CDR You bet. The bladder position has a big bubble
in it, and you cannot tell, against the black
bladder, whether it's water or air. But it's
about the same size bubble that I reported day 2
when we were trying to perform this the first time.
It may be the same bubble. I take that back; it's
a little bit bigger than it was then.

CC Okay. I've got four steps here for you, A1.

CC You ready to -

CDR Go ahead, I'll copy.

CC One, disconnect the FILL QD. Go back and do

steps 4 and 5 again. Then disconnect the gas
separator, and then repeat step 9.

CDR I'm not sure I know where the gas separator is.

CC It's behind panel 217.

213 16 2h 46 CDR Okay. Going to work on it right now.

CC Roger.

CC And, A1, no need to acknowledge, but it's Just the

one connector in the middle of the separator.

CDR Oh, yes. I know which one you're thinking about,

now. Okay. When's our next AOS, Story?
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CC We're going LOS in about _ minutes, and we'll be

picking you up over Ascension at 16:38.

CDR Thank you.

213 16 26 57 CDR Let's wait a few more minutes for the heaters.

CC Okay.

CDR I can disconnect the gas separator before I do

steps 4 and 5, can't I?

CC That's affirm, A1.

213 16 27 38 CDR Okay. Center connector removed.

CC Roger.

213 16 29 08 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll have you

over Ascension in 9 minutes. And, Owen, we'll
have some answers for you at that time.

CDR Okay. We 're starting to dump now.

CC Roger.

CDR Dump looks complete.

213 16 29 38 CC Roger.

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213 16 38 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through Ascension

for 7 minutes.

CDR Okay. And I'm in the middle of step 9, and you

can see the prep. By the way, when I made that
disconnect, it did drop a couple of tenths. So
we'll see what happens. After connection, I mean.

CC Okay. Just stand by on that for a second, A1.

And we're working on tomorrow and the next day's
Flight Plan. We've got a couple of things we'd
like to discuss with you.

213 16 39 36 CDR Go ahead.

CC There - those 2 hours of general housekeeping you

wanted, tomorrow or the next day. Is it all right
if we schedule the PLT for that tomorrow?

CC Or did you need that time for yourself?

CDR No, I think you can do with the PLT, and we'll
Just make up a list tonight. That's okay; we've
got a lot of things to do.

CC Okay. We'll give him 2 hours for that tomorrow.

And we're still planning for the EVA for day 8.
How's that sound with you?

CDR Perfect.

CC Okay.

213 16 _0 20 CDR But, now, you've got to give us some good time,
day 7 to get these poles and things out. I know
we're not going to fool with the bags. But I'd like
to get these poles and things out, assemble them,
look at them, and look at all the rest of the gear,
and put it in the lock compartment, make sure it
all fits - because some of it's been up here a
while. And some of it we Just unpacked, and I
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wouldn't be surprised if, somehow, we haven't

got a few pieces in places we don't think they
are. We'd also like to check the grommet, and
I guess that's going to take 3-1/2 hours or so to
do. That's in addition to the regular prep. That's
just a - call it a preconfiguration insurance.

213 16 41 06 CC Okay. And we were looking at about 3 hours for

EVA prep on day 7, A1. And on board now is the
teleprinter pad concerning day 7.

CDR Okay, I'll go look at it. And that's in addition -

Whatever prep we were planning, anyhow, I'd like
to have before that, to get that done. if we come
up with extra time, if we get finished with that
early, we'll - we'll stick it into general house-
keeping and things. But we want to make sure
that those - all those pieces of hardware are
ready to go. And we know where they are.

CC Okay.

213 16 41 52 CC And did you put a cap on 303, where you put the
gaging? Have you capped that disconnect, Al?

CDR I started to do it, and decided since it wasn't

on the procedure, I would not. But I'd be glad
to do it now.

CC Yes, let's do that, A1. And, SPT, Houston.

CDR He's listening; go.

213 16 42 lh CC Okay. I've got about three steps I need him to

copy here before we go over the hill.

SPT Go ahead.

CC On our - On checking out the EXPIRATION SPIRO-

METER on the MA, the things we want to verify are,
that we do have nitrogen pressure going to those
valves, and that the electronics are all right.
In order to check the nitrogen pressure, we'd
like to see that the following valves are open.
That's on panel 225, check that that valve is
OPEN. And on panel 500, that's the ESS/171.valve
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between the water tanks, check that that one is

OPEN. And, also, check on panel 620 and 622.

213 16 43 01 CDR Water valve is - I mean that 303 valve capped, now.

CC Roger.

SPT Okay. 620 is OPEN, I'll also check 622.

CC And after you've done that, connect the hose to

the INSPIRATION SPIROMETER, and the other end of
the hose to the inspiration part of the valve.
And then pump five times to see if the INSPIRATION
SPIROMETER responds correctly.

SPT Okay. Disconnect from the expiration and connect

it to the inspiration, and pump five times to see
if that valve works, right?

213 16 43 33 CC That's correct. And then put the hose, of course,

on the inspiration part of the valve. So you'll
be sucking air with the pump from the inspiration
spirometer.

SPT Put it to the blue inspiration spirometer outlet,

is that what you're saying?

CC That 's correct.

SPT Okay. We'll get on with that. I'm over with

Jack on the OGI right now. So I'll probably
finish OGI 131 before I pick up on this.

CC That 's excellent, 0wen.

213 16 44 15 CDR One of the things that's plagued us from day 1

here, Story. And I guess it comes along with
starting out with some equipment that's been set-
ting around awhile, is that on every other thing
we do doesn't exactly work like it's suppose to. ._
And you have to go into a mode of trying to figure
it out. Either the thing isn't exactly where you
thought, or when you get ready to check it, it
doesn't exactly check out. So usually, that's
Just what's been adding quite a bit of time. This
spirometer is no - no bad example of it, either.

213 16 44 45 CC We copy that, AI.

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SPT Okay, Story. On the N2, panel 620 is verified

OPEN - both knobs there. And the GAS SUPPLY is

OPEN on panel 622, which I presume is the N2

you're talking about. I'll have to go up and
check 225, and the water tank, and that sort of
stuff later.

CC Okay. And a quick check to verify you do have

nitrogen pressure, O_en, is to cycle the ELEC-
TRONICS valve. And, hear, if you can listen the
hiss of nitrogen as the pressure is released.

SPT Which - Okay, is the ELECTRONICS switch on OFF?

213 16 45 17 CC Yes. And as long as you have the GAS SUPPLY

valve on, you will of course, be venting nitrogen
into the cabin when you have the ELECTRONICS, OFF.
Just cycle that once and see if you hear a hiss.

SPT Okay, now, I heard it hiss the first time. I'll

have to give it a fairly little time to build up
pressure.

CC Roger. And, A1, we need you to pull the FILL

line QD.

213 16 45 49 SPT Okay, I've not gotten the second hiss out of those
valves. I don't know how long it takes for them
to build pressure back up again.

213 16 h5 59 CC Pull the FILL line QD and leave it OFF to Carnarvon.

We're going LOS at this time. We'll see you at
Carnarvon at 17:08. And we'll be dumping the
tape recorders at that time.

213 17 09 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through Carnarvon

for l0 minutes.

CDR Roger. How do you like the condensate loop at the

moment?

CC Okay. The word's out we don't like it at all.

CDR Yes. I agree with you. Looks like some of those

hard lines.
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213 17 i0 04 CC Okay. At present, AI, we're thinking the leak

is in the line going to the mol sieve, and we've
got a regroup procedure here, but at present we'd
like you to do steps 4, 5, and 6 again.

CDR Four, 5, and 6 again, okay. And by the way, how

do you know it isn't the line that runs from the -
from the fitting, back there at the 393 panel up
towards the front end of the lock compartment and
then over to the condensate tank?

213 17 i0 46 CC We meant all the plumbing, AI, and that line "is a
possibility.

CDR Okay. And now you want 3, 4, 5, which are on

page 9, 7, and 8. Will do.

CC Steps 4, 5, and 6, A/. On the message.

CDR Oh, okay.

213 17 ii 58 CDR We were talking about it last night, and that's

what we were afraid, too. We ran a couple of
little checks the day before on our own, by
disconnecting it several points along these lines
and we kinda of felt that's exactly where it was.
But we weren't sure because we don't know where
these lines go. They go behind panels and you
don't know which way they come out. So we felt
it wasn't either of the tanks, that it wasn't
either of the heat exchangers, because we had
those cut off, so we figured it had to be the lines.

213 17 12 26 CC Okay. A1.

CDR The only fix for that is to use this putty we've
got and go around and fill them. Or is there some
other way to do it?

CC We're afraid that's probably the next step, if

indeed we isolate it where we think it is.

CDR Okay. The thing that worries me, Just a little

bit is like I say, there's a lot of fittings around
where you can see them, and it looks to me like
there's a bunch of fittings where you can't see
them. You can't get to them.
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213 17 13 07 CDR Okay, dump complete. I'll finish it up.

CC Okay.

CDR Story, l'd like to talk to my wife on the private

comm sometime tonight, if you can set it up.
Whichever pass you think is a good one. If we
got one coming across the States where I'm not
going to be tied up, I'd sure like to do it then,
if you could get her and make sure she's home.

CC Okay, A1.

CDR Thank you.

213 17 14 38 CDR You'll also have to send us up a small procedure

on how to work that VHF correctly. We think we
know, but a little checklist would help. Then we
can post it there.

CC We'll get you one.

CDR Also, we noticed when we switched over to using

B down-link, and went to the procedures in the CSM
checklist, it left the INTERCOM switch ON in the
command module. We thought that shouldn't have
been correct so we turned it OFF. Is that okay?
Seems to be working okay.

CC Was that panel 6 or 9, Al?

CDR CDR's panel.

CC Okay.

213 17 15 26 CDR Okay. It looks like we got the maximum DELTA-P

here. I'll continue.

CC Okay. We'd like a verification that the FILL QD

is disconnected and that the DUMP line QD is
disconnected.

213 17 15 40 CDR It's not; DUMP line's on. I'll take it off right
now, if you like.

213 17 15 53 CC And on these QDs, A1, when you disconnect them,

be sure to verify that the poppet is flush.
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CDR Now this time through, do you want me to put the

PRESSURE valve to CLOSE or leave it in VENT as you
have before?

CC Leave it in VENT, AI.

CDR Okay.

213 17 16 hh CC And I've got about h or 5 - -

CDR We won't be using the HEATER anymore. I'm going

to turn it OFF.

CC That's fine, AI. And the VENT valve's CLOSED too,

isn't it?

CC And when you're ready, I've got one more thing

for you to do, and then about four verifies.

213 17 17 27 CDR Okay, now let me tell you where all these things
are. We got the VENT valve OFF and the HEATER,
OFF. We got both disconnects disconnected, and

the poppets are flush. We got the H20 valve in

FILL and the PRESSURE valve is in VACUUM.

CC Roger.

CDR Okay. And standing by.

CC Okay, would you cap on 393; the CONDENSATE DUMP

PORT.

CDR Verified ON.

CC Okay, and on 316, that the VACUUM SOURCE is CLOSED.

Verify.

213 17 18 21 CDR Okay, Just a second.

213 17 18 55 CC And we're going LOS here in about i0 seconds.

We'll see you over Guam in 2 minutes.

213 17 22 09 CC And, Skylab, we've got you over Guam for i0 minutes.

CDR Roger. The answer to 316 is, it's OFF and they -
or CLOSED, I can't remember which it says_ and
it's capped.
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CC Good, and I got three other verifys we may have

hit before.

CDR Go ahead.

CC One of them is a cap on 303.

213 17 22 31 CDR It's on

CC Verify the gas separator hose QD is disconnected

and the - -

CDR It's disconnected. Let me check the poppet.

213 17 22 39 CC Okay.

213 17 22 h3 CDR Looks okay to me, but you know those are hard to
tell. They could have a small leak, and you'd
never know it.

CC And I'm sure this is true, but verify the WATER

ISOLATION valves on the HEAT EXCHANGERS MOL SIEVES
are CLOSED.

CDR Right. They're CLOSED tight as I can get them.

Four of them.

213 17 23 37 CC Okay, A1. Now connect the FILL QD and do it as

rapidly as possible so as not to let air into the
system.

CDR Okay.

CC And if you can, give us a mark.

213 17 24 Oh CDR MARK. 2 seconds ago.

CC Could you mate and remate it, Al?

CDR I Just pushed in on it, and it didn't lock, and

then I pushed in again. Now I don't know whether
it actually opened the poppet or not.

CC Okay, Just hang on where you are, A1.

CDR I'll be right here.

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213 17 25 08 CDR One thing I noticed, I got today an item called

S190 film stow, and I look in the book and it's
got a mark near by it in the index. And I'm
looking at the EREP Checklist, and then I go over
to page 6-i where it's supposed to be - oh, there
it - there it is. I found it. My eyes aren't
to good today.

CC Okay.

CC AI, we'd like to leave the condensate system in the

present configuration and watch it a while. So
you're free to press on with lunch or whatever
you'd like.

CDR Okay, good.

213 17 26 16 CDR If you want it, before I go, I could bring up the
DELTA-P on that thing for you.

CC It's not necessary, A1.

CDR Okay.

CDR We're going to be eating lunch a little late today

because this - this 131 is still in process.
And then after that, we'll eat it and put it on -
put the TV on VTR.

CC Okay, if you're still near the STS, we might run

a comm check to try to get you some more volumes
in the SIAs.

CDR Sounds good; go ahead.

213 17 26 57 CC Okay, On Panel 200, INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM, the

AUDIO SYSTEMS, BUFFER AMP 1 circuit breaker, OPEN.

CDR Hold on.

213 17 27 16 CC Let me know when it's OPEN. I'll give you a long
count.

213 17 27 21 CDR Okay. It's OPENED.

CC Okay. Here we go - l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

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CDR ... new. It's Just like it was with in CLOSED.

CC Okay. CLOSE that circuit breaker and then on

panel 200 right next to it, open up the BUFFER
AMP 2 circuit breaker.

CDR Okay. Go ahead.

CC Roger. i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, i0.

213 17 28 02 CDR Nothing changed.

CC Okay, thank you and then CLOSE that circuit breaker,

the BUFFER AMP 2 circuit breaker.

CDR Both CLOSED. All intercom boxes now take about

ii o'clock position, l've noticed.

CC Roger.

213 17 28 29 CDR Give us a long count now, Story.

cc i, 2, 3, h, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, lO.

CDR On 131, at least, it's still up at ii o'clock.

CC Okay.

PLT A lot louder down in the experiment compartment and

with the ... closed ... it wasn't this way.

213 17 30 13 CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC You've probably moved away from that area. If

possible, we'd like you to remate the condensate
dump line QD.

CDR I'll go remate the dump line QD, and by the way, it
has improved the volume down here on 702. It Just
didn't up by the ATM. I don't understand why, but
things are better down in the workshop now. I 'm
going to go mate the dump QD.

CC Roger.
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213 17 31 54 CDE Dump QD is mated.

CC Okay, thanks, AI. We'll be going LOS here in

i0 seconds. See you over Goldstone at 17:47.

CDR Okay.

SPT Story, we still haven't verified that we've got a

channel A record capability, have we?

CC That's affirmative. We have verified that, Owen.

213 17 32 20 SPT Oh, okay. We got a bunch of stuff we can put on

there if it's up and working well.

213 17 48 39 CC Skylab, we have you stateside for 16 minutes.

SPT Hello, Houston. Which station coverage are we

coming through now?

CC Say again, Skylab.

SPT What ground station are we over now?

CC Goldstone.

213 17 49 54 SPT Roger. I didn't hear you call there. Now, we were
Just putting our TV-BAon the VTR. We started about
5 or l0 minutes ago. If you'd like I'll go turn
the VTR OFF and see if you can get it direct.

CC Okay. We're picking it up direct in 2 minutes,

Owen.

SPT Okay. If I turn the VTR OFF, I don't know whether

you can get it in parallel with the VTR or the
VTR switch has to be OFF for you to get it.

CC We c_m get it in real time, while you're record-

ing, Owen.

SPT Okay. Well I'ii Just go ahead and turn VTR OFF
right now, because you'll be picking it up direct
in Just a moment. And we do have a handheld mike,
also_ plugged in down here. So, we'll be giving
you a little voice with it. I'll go up and turn
the %"l_ROFF now.
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213 17 50 49 CC Okay.

213 17 51 52 CC And, Skylab. We're looking at you eating in

wardroom. •

CC Skylab. We are receiving real-time TV.

CDR ... TV, Story.

CC Yes, sir, we are.

CDR Okay. Did you hear our voice, even though we're
talking on A on the TV when - real time?

213 17 52 38 CDR Of course, right now we're on B so you hear that.

I was Just wondering since we recorded on the
VTR on A, what happens there.

CC Now, we can't hear the voices on the VTR, AI, but

we are getting you real time.

CDR Okay. Well, what do you want us to do, stay with

our voices on VTR, or switch over and talk to
you on B?

CC We'll take you real time here.

213 17 53 l0 CDR I'm not sure what you meant. Stay Just like we are?

213 17 53 14 CC That's affirmative. And could you verify that

after our comm check you did CLOSE both BUFFER
AMP circuit breakers?

CDR Sure did.

CC Okay.

CC And, Owen, how'd you make out with the MA?

213 17 53 45 SPT Okay, Story. I haven't had a chance to check out

the MA any further. But, there was an N2 valve
CLOSED up on panel 225. And after opening that
valve, then the expiration valve did cycle down
on the MA. So, I've not completed that MA check-
out, but I'm much more confident now that things
will work right.
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CC Okay, Jack, I was not at all clear the first time

around. What we'd like is the 22:30 block in the
update message pad to be done first and, after
that, do the 20:00 block - the EREP checkout.

SPT Okay, Story. Jack and I are over trying to run

131-1 on me now. However, before we came over,
I did check the primp handle or the pump over on
the inspiration side, and it will also build u_
pressure in there without the valves opening.
Then went back and did reverify that we did have
N2 at panel 500 open, and N2 valves on 620 and
622 were all open; so l'm still puzzled.

CC Okay, in both - Both barometers are unlocked,

aren't they?

SPT That's affirm.

CC Ckay.

213 19 26 hl PLT Ckay, Story, I'm looking at my pad and my

checklist. It looks like what you want me to do
is to do the 22:30 stuff, verify the switches,
work through the malfunction procedures, and
then go back to 20:00 and - and perform the
EREP checkout as per checklist starting on page i-I.
Is that right?

CC That's affirmative, Jack.

PLT Okay, then when I come to the alignment cheek,

do you still want me to do that as part of the
EREP checkout, right?

CC That's affirmative ; alignment check.

PLT Okay, I understand then. Thank you.

CC That's the check instead of the procedure.

PLT Roger.
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SKYLAB A/R-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

213 18 01 25 CDR Hello, Houston, how do you read here?

CC About 4 by 5.

SPT Okay, we are using a handheld microphone now.

We were trying to rig up a device - rig it up in
such a way that we could Just have an open
microphone, without a lot of feedback. But it
turns out, the way we got it rigged now, even
though we got a handheld mike, we have to hold
our hand on the key up here also. See if I can
get that off. I suppose that I can Just bring
it down and hold it in my hand here. This will
do it. Okay. We now have a portable microphone
that we can use and, as you can see, we're Just
about to finish uR our lunch here. I'm a little
behind, I think. A1, for some reason, thinks
that eating upside down was a more convenient
location today. And Just to m_ke out meal more
pleasant, we've selected some special music,
especially for keeping the CDR happy and in a
good frame of mind. We'll give you just a
glimpse of that up here, too.

213 18 02 26 (Classical music)

213 18 02 48 SPT l'm not sure he appreciates that as much as Jack

and I might.

PLT That's the music he used to dance to, back when

he was a kid, back there in the old days - before
Owen and me.

213 18 03 06 CC Skylab, can you read me with that mike keyed?

PLT What did you say?

CC Can you read me with your mike keyed?

PLT Yes, sir.

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213 18 03 15 CC Okay. We've handed over to Bermuda and we've

lost the TV but we appreciated it.

CC And, Skylah, we're going LOS in about i0 seconds.

We'll pick you up over Carnarvon at 18:h7.

213 18 04 38 PLT Okay, Houston.

213 18 h7 13 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon. We've got

you for 6 minutes.

CC And, A1, we've got some information concerning

your S073 prep.

213 18 48 26 CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, A1. When you're - when you've got the

photometer extended for the DAC film install, do
a visual preflight of the photometer for any
obvious damage, including taking a look at the
antisolar sunshield. Be sure they're rigid and
not dented. And look down into the sunshield.

CDR Okay.

CDR Anything else?

213 18 49 lO CC No, that's all for S073. And if you see anything
significant, let us know.

CDR Sure will. And on this film low - film stow,

which I'm doing now. I Just put them on the
reels; I don't load them, do I? I have to take
off the tape to get them on the reel, and then
I Just extend the film down in there an inch or
2 and Just leave it, is that correct? EREP film.

CC Stand by 1.

213 19 53 Ii
CC

CDR

CC
We concur

Okay.
with that, A1.

I'm going back up there and work on it.

Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS in i0 seconds.

We'll _?ick you up over Guam in 8 minutes.
i
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213 19 02 08 CC Skylab, we have you through Guam for 5 minutes.

SPT Well, Story, I Just went up through page 12-10 on

the MA cal again and once again I can't pump the
pump handle. It's building up pressure in the
expiration line.

CC Okay, Owen. How did it work on the inspiration

side?

SPT I didn't do that, since I thought we'd probably

found the problem. I went back and Just redid it
on the expiration end thinking that we'd found the
difficulty. Let me turn the ELECTRONICS POWER,
OFF, again and see if it continues to cycle that
valve.

CC Okay. And understand you do have nitrogen pressure.

You hear the hiss when you cycle that switch?

SPT That's what I'm just going to check again right

now.

213 19 03 38 SPT Yes. It was a steady hiss for about 5 to

8 seconds and then cut off.

CC Okay.

SPT Is that what it's supposed to do?

SPT It Just did it again. Same thing when I go to

ELECTRONICS POWER, OFF.

CC Okay.

213 19 04 21 CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead, Story.

CC We've got a revision to your EREP checkout, Jack.

PLT Okay. This is a good time for it, because l'm

working on it.
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CC Okay. That's a "Do the mal A complete." Do

that at about 20:00 or start with that now. Do
the alignment check after doing the real A.

SPT And, Story, I Just went to CYCLE INHIBIT on the

MA panel. I think that will close off the cal
bottle, and I'll Just leave it in that configuration
until we come up with another idea or I have a
chance to go trY the inspiration side.

CC Okay.

PLT Well, StorY, I already did part of mal A. You

know I did that part this morning. Now, at
20:00, it says do an alignment check instead of
an alignment.

CC Okay. Do the EREP checkout following the real A

complete.

213 19 05 41 CC Reverse those two blocks. And during the

alignment check on page 2-18 through 2-20, if you
get no readings, use the preflight numbers on
page 10-10 for the thermal, and the numbers on
page 10-3 for the visible. And during the
checkout, the C&D meters may be out of tolerance
for the checkout, but - and that's on page 1-8,
but continue even if they are out of tolerance.

213 19 06 31 CC And we're going LOS in l0 seconds. We'll pick

you up over Goldstone at 19:24.

213 19 24 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you stateside for

14 minutes.

PLT Okay, Houston. This is the PLT. I need you to

be a little more specific on that EREP checkout.
It looks like to me if I go right ahead with the
detector align - or detector check, then I'm not
going to have enough switches on to do the job.
Would you be more specific in outlining the
procedure, please?
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CC Okay. That ought to be the problem.

SPT Okay. I've got a handheld mike here, also, plugged

into channel A. I'm wondering if that's going
on to the VTR, - or on to our down-link video?

213 17 54 23 CC We'll start the VTR running now, Owen, and that'll
give us a check of the audio.

213 17 55 20 CC Owen, there's no need to acknowledge, but we'd like

I to put off the MA cal to anotherday. And I'll
Just have you press on with the Flight Plan,
including M092 and M171.

SPT Understand,but I've nearly got us halfway through

that final MA cal procedure; and if it's not too
much of a problem, I'd like to sort of finish it
up instead of leaving it halfway in limbo. I'll
still try to get the other stuff done, too.
i

CC Okay, we concur with that, Owen.

213 17 57 13 CC Owen_ we'd like to verify that on the MA, that you
are not in one of the cal gas modes.

SPT I'll go check that again, but I'm confident that

b I turnedthebottleoff.

CC Okay. We'd like to be sitting in cabin air when

I you are away from the MA for any length of time.

CC We're noticing down here that nothing stops Jack
from eating.

213 17 58 l0 PLT You can talk all you want to, but first things
first. Food taste a lot better today.

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213 19 29 5h CC And sometime along here, we'd like you to review

the pad we sent up regarding the mission day 7
activities, that's your day-off activities; and
give us a feeling on that.

213 19 30 Oh CDR Okay, we'll be doing some thinking about it.

CC Roger.

CDR The only thing that - I'm wondering about this

20 to 23:00 Z time. That is the pre-prep plan
that we had premission for that time. Is that
correct?

CC Yes, premission we had 2 hours, and we put 1 more

hour on there.

CDR Okay, I'll get out the EVA Checklist in a few

minutes and see what's in there and try and guess
how much other time it's going to take. And then
that will allow us to do some thinking. Okay,
thanks. How soon do you have to know, Story?

CC Oh, about in the next hour, hour and a half, A1.

CDR Okay, I'll Just let S073 go in the hole for a few
minutes and figure this out.

CC Don't do that, A1. That's about the only time-

critical thing we have today.

CDR Okay.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC A1, we don't like to keep bugging you, but we'd

like to put this condensate m_]fi to bed today, if
possible. We'd like you to, again, connect the
inlet hose to the CONDENSATE DUMP PORT, leave it
connected until we give you a MARK, and then
disconnect it. And we will be doing that about
30 seconds after you connect it.
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213 19 33 39 CDR Okay, now we got to make sure we get the words
right. You want the inlet hose frc_ the HOLDING
TANK connected at 393?

213 19 33 49 CC That's affirmative. And we'd like to do this over

station passage here so we can watch it. We've
got about 4 minutes until LOS.

CDR I'm going to connect the one on - right - This

is the same one I did for i0 seconds, correct?

CC That's affirmative.

213 19 34 03 CDR Okay, I'm going to do it now, and when I hear you
say turn if off, I'll pull it off.

CC Roger.

213 19 34 56 PLT He got it connected, Story.

CC Okay.

CC Okay, A1, you can disconnect it and cap the side

on the condensate tank.

CDR Okay. Now I gather S073 doesn't become time-

critical until 23:00, is that correct?

213 19 36 04 CC That's affirmative.

213 19 36 29 CDR Also, Story, on that 73 mal, I gather the mal

that you want me to go through is Just the one you
read up and not anything else?

CC Stand by i.

CDR I didn't see anything else in the checklist.

CC A1, there's one other thing to do on that and

that's in our SWS cue card. That's the
T027/S073-S009 repair.

CDR Okay. That's what they want done. Will do. I

was looking at the Flight Plan correlation
matrix and couldn't find anythlRg there. That's
what threw me. Okay.

CC Roger.
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CC And have you got the cap on the 393 QD, AI?

CDR It's disconnected and capped. Is that what you

wanted?

CC Yes, sir.

CDR Okay. It's done.

213 19 38 13 CC We're going LOS in about i0 seconds, and we'll

pick you up over Vanguard at 19:49.

213 19 54 36 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard. AOS for 4 minutes

on VHF in simplex Alfa.

CC Skylab, we have a site problem at Vanguard. We

have an antenna that's hardover. And do not
reconfigure your comm for VHF.

213 19 58 03 CC Skylab, Houston in the blind. We have one more

procedure for the condensate malfunction procedure.
One, open up both mol sieve covers. Disconnect
CONDENSATE HEAT EXCHANGER. A QDs from the vent
plugs. Okay, stand by on those procedures. We'll
have to wait until we get communications with you.
We're going LOS in l0 seconds. Pick you up over
Goldstone at 21:0h. And, SPT, if you can make
the metabolic analyzer work, run M171 with it. If
you can not bring it up, run M171 without the
metabolic analyzer.

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213 21 05 02 CC Skylab, Houston. Have you through Goldstone for

4 minutes.

SPT Okay, Dick. Have you verified that we're getting

stuff off of channel A tape recorder?

SPT Got a couple more questions, too, if you're going

to work on that one.

CC We think we are getting a good voice on channel A,

and we're going to check it out again as soon as
possible.

SPT Okay, Story. And the next question is we're setting

up to run 92/171, and I'm wondering if you think
there's any way we could use the metabolic analyzer.
Apparently, we Just have to leave that part of it
out if we run 171. You agree?

CC That 's affirmative.

SPT Okay, now A1 is making one more check of that

calibration to see if we could get it properly
calibrated before this run; otherwise, we'll go
ahead and run it without it. We can't ever - For
example, we Just pumped it with the hand pump again,
and the valves appear to cycle. That's the way
they did the first time I tried it this morning,
but after the first time through, then they would
stick and wouldn't cycle anymore. So we'll give
it one more try and then run 92/171 with or with-
out it.

213 21 06 39 CC Okay, that's a good plan, 0wen. And is CDR

available?

CDR I can hear you.

CC Okay, CDR. I need you to copy a condensate pro-

cedure.

CDR Go ahead.
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CC Okay. On alrlock module panel 232, M0L SIEVE B

HEAT EXCHANGER A CONDENSATION ISOLATE valve, OPEN.

CDR Good.

CC Then remove MOL SIEVE B cover. In panel 232,

disconnect MOL SIEVE B HEAT EXCHANGER B water
separator plate QDs, two of them, from the launch
stowage QDs.

CC Are you with me?

CDR Okay, let me read it back.

CC No, l've got some more for you. Re - -

CDR Give me some more, and then I'ii read it back.

213 21 07 58 CC Reinstall MOL SIEVE B cover, and remove MOL SIEVE

A cover. And on airlock module panel 230, dis-
connect the MOL SIEVE A HEAT EXCHANGER B water
separator plate QD, two, from the launch stowage
QDs.

CC And then reinstall MOL SIEVE B cover.

CDR Okay.

CC And, lastly, on panel 393, connect CONDENSATE DUMP

PORT to the inlet hose.

CDR I get the impression what we're doing is dis-

connecting the mol sieves - -

213 21 00 55 CC We'll be going LOS in l0 seconds, AI.

CDR We're disconnecting MOL SIEVE A and B HEAT

EXCHANGER B connectors, and then connecting all
the rest back up, is that correct?

CC Just one of them, A1. We're going LOS, and we'll

pick you up over Vanguard at 21:26.

CDR Yes. You disconnecting B - HEAT EXCHANGER B;

and A, HEAT EXCHANGER B. Is that correct?

2/3 21 09 38 CC Okay, we're going to miss Vanguard; their S-band

antenna is out. We'll pick you up over Hawaii
at 22:3_.
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213 21 26 42 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard.

CDR It' s smazing. Loud and clear.

CC Okay. We got you for 9 minutes.

CDR Okay. We got that MA cal perfect. Jack found

a couple of problems with EREP he'll tell you
about. We're not able to get either 151, because
we've got about 18 thousand things to do, as you
know, from all these updates. I'm getting ready
to work on - the condensate system right now and
then go back and put 0WEN in 1 - in the 92/151.

CC Okay, AI, and we're showing no power on the S073

down here. Could you turn the power on on that?

213 21 27 21 CDR Sure can. I didn't realize you wanted me to leave

it on. It's stowed - I mean it's in position
extended and everything, and I'ii - I'll put
the power on it right now.

CC That's for thermal reasons. And we're running

short on the tape. When you run the MD92/MI71,
could you turn the tape off between the two
experiments ?

CDR You bit - -

CC That's to save tape.

PLT Hello, Story. The EREP guys available?

CC Yes, sir.

213 21 28 09 PLT Okay, I'm working page A-2 of the malfunction

procedures. We loosened the detector/cooler here
on the bench and tightened her down again. And
I got it all tightened down again. And the
shoulders of - shoulders of the screws don't
touch the bench, and there's no place around it
where I can get the 3/1000 feeler gage in, so I'm
confident that it's fastened tightly now. And
I had to modify the tightening down procedure a
little bit, because I noticed that number 3 -
numbers - when I had numbers l, 2, and h tightened
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down, there's still a little bit of clearance

on number 3, so I had to put the clamp on that
and tighten it down separately. I think maybe
the bench was just a smidgen warped. But I
got it tightened down so that it's good and flat
now.

CC Okay. Copy that, Jack.

213 21 29 22 CDR I need a little bit of clarification on these

condensate procedures. I gather, from what you
said, what you want me to do is both mol sieves -
that's mol sieves A and B - I put HEAT EXCHANGER A
on and then take the B connectors off. Is that
correct?

CC That's only mol sieve B, A1.

CDR Okay, let me say it again, then. I said it wrong.

Mol sieve B, I take the connector off and turn
on A. MOL SIEVE A, I take the connector off
HEAT EXCHANGER B, but leave mol - I mean HEAT
EXCHANGER A closed. Is that correct now?

213 21 30 23 CC Hey, AI? I think we got 6 minutes - -

CDR Go ahead.

CC I got 6 minutes - -

CDR Say again.

CC I got 6 minutes to LOS. I'd like to read the

message to you again.

CDR Okay. Read it slow.

CC AM panel 232. M0L SIEVE B HEAT EXCHANGER A

CONDENSATE ISOLATION valve, OPEN.

CDR That 's complete.

CC That's the only isolation valve we're going to

open. Remove MOL SIEVE B cover. On panel 232,
disconnect MDL SIEVE B HEAT EXCHANGER B water
separator plates QDs, two, from the launch
stowage - -
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CDR Okay. I got that; I'ii do it.

CC Say again?

CDR Okay, go to the next step.

CC Reinstall MOL SIEVE B cover.

CDR Okay, go to the next step.

CC Remove MOL SIEVE A cover.

213 21 BI 37 CDR Keep going.

CC Panel 230. Disconnect MOL SIEVE A HEAT EXCHANGER B

water separator plate QDs from the launch stowage
QDs.

CDR Okay. I understand that completely. I 'ii have

it done in about 5 minutes.

CC Okay. Put the cover back; and then, on panel

393, connect CONDENSATE DUMP PORT to inlet hose.

CDR I understand, and I'll do it.

CDR Okay. Let me answer the question that you sent

up today about what we ought to do on day 7.

CC Go.

213 21 32 27 CDR Okay. We'd like to do that EREP pass. That's

first. If that happens to be the first EREP pass
we ever do, we'd like to start 1 hour earlier on
the prep than normal. And if it turns out we're
going to do EREP before then, the same thing
applies to whenever we do that. The thing that
we've noticed is, Just when we start, it takes
longer the first tlme; and we Just - we Just
tend to fall behind, because it Just takes us
longer. Okay. After that, right after the pass,
then after the post procedures, then we'd like
you to set away - set aside, for all three of
us, 2 hours called EVA twin pole sunshade inspec-
tion.

CC Copy.
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CDR Okay. And we are going to have the normal EVA

prep like you've got it ... And it seems
to me the thing you might want to do, then, is
in the blank spaces between, send us up ...
all three working with ATM and SO19 .... And
then we'll work the EVA and the EREP real hard.
And any spare time we've got, we'll run those
others.

231 21 3h ii CC Skylab, Houston. Okay. The last couple of

minutes, Skylab, you've been breaking up very
badly. We're going to pick you up over Hawaii
at 22: 3h.

PLT Are you still there, Story?

CC Yes, we Just came back in. We've lost comm

with you for about the last 2 minutes.

PLT Okay, on the EREP malfunction procedures

then, l've completed through step 20, and it
was good through there. Step 21 was unnecessary,
and step 22 was accomplished on both axes.
And we'll start on EREP checkout now.

CC Okay.

CC If you didn't get my LOS call, we're going LOS

in about 1 minute. Hawaii at 22:34.

213 21 35 33 CREW Okay ....

213 22 33 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Hawaii for 8 minutes.

CDR Okay, Houston. This is CDR.

CC Roger. Go ahead.

CDR Okay, I got all the things done on the condensate

dump that you asked for; namely, I've got both
B-sets of heat exchangers disconnected from their
launch stowage position. On MOL SIEVE B, I
think HEAT EXCHANGER A is OPEN and, on A, it's
CLOSED. And I've connected up the dtnnp tanks.
I believe that's Just what you wanted.

CC Roger. We concur. A1, have you got anything

else for me? And I got two or three things and
a couple of questions for you.
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213 22 34 42 CDR Well, I got a question for you. We were Just

running this M092/171 with SPT. And on the
second level, the 40, he had a syn - presyncope
feeling. His heart rate had gone up to around
85. It started decreasing, and then his systolic
and diastolic started to converge. I have the
numbers but, of course, they're on the tape.
And so, we aborted the run right there and finished
the run Just at ambient pressure. We discussed
the matter of doing the 171 afterwards and did
not know of any groundreal [sic] that prevented
doing 171 after the 92. And we reaSize that the
92 was largely a blood-pooling experiment, where-
as 171 was cardiovascular conditioning. And
so we've rigged up to do the 171, but we have
not performed it yet. And we'd like to have
a GO from you on that.

CC Roger. Why don't you give us a couple of

minutes, A1, and be thinking about that one.
Have you got anything else?

CDR That 's it. Go ahead with yours.

213 22 36 02 CC Okay, AI. First of all, the comm when we left

Vanguard the last time was - got real ratty the
last couple of minutes. And back to your answers
to our day 7 questions. I have a couple of
questions for you, Just so that we can clarify
it. You want 2 hours of inspection on the EVA
gear and then a normal EVA prep. And the first
question I have is, is on the EVA prep, we -
did you want 2 hours on that, which was the pre-
mission nominal, or 3 hours, which was what we
had planned on giving you? So, our real question
is, do you want 4 or 5 hours total dealing with
EVA on mission day 7?

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

213 22 36 4h CDR We want 5. And we want 2 of them right after the

EREP pass is over, and then the other B when you
got them in there. Since we got this twin pole
sunshade in 149 - 149, we want to make sure that
all that hardware is in order and in place. We're
going to take it in there and stow it in the lock
and everything, so that we know that everything is
shipshape. As far as the film transport part, we
could easily do that in 2 hours, but we Just want
to have everything rigged out. That's why I'm
hoping that for that period, you will send up, you
know, the pads and things. If we get finished
early, then we'll start working ATM and SOl9. If
we don't, or run late, then we'll Just omit them
until we can get going. And that way, we'll have
the pads.

213 22 37 27 CC Okay, that sounds good to us. The other part that
cut out and you - I think you Just filled in for
us was the mention of S019. As we understand it,
we're going to beprepared for you to do an EREP.
We're going to have some S019 and ATM work for you,
if you have time in the 5 hours of EVA; and we
concur with all of that.

CDR And we want you, on the EVA, to give us an extra -

to get us started on the prep an hour before the
normal time. Because this is the first time out,
and we'd like to make sure we m-ke it on time,
Just right.

213 22 38 17 CC Roger, CDR. We'll certainly do that. Here's a

couple of more things for you. We're up-linking,
this pass, a checklist change to a Cue Card. I'm
not sure you're aware that this one is in, but in
your command module cue card kit, you have a cue
card that's called "Private Comm," which sets up
the communication for your VHF phone calls and so
forth. We are up-linking, this pass, a checklist
change that completely replaces that cue card; and
when you take a look at the switches, you'll see
what it gives you. Real briefly, it lets you -
it gives you two configurations. Either you can
do it on a headset or on the command module speaker
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box, and then the third section of it is the recon-

figuration. And I - and I think if you'll glance
it over, you'll see it meets your needs there.

CDR Okay, sounds good. We'd asked for that card, but
I didn't know it made it. We'll go find it and
post it.

213 22 39 14 CC Okay. Two more command module things for you.

With the problems we've been having with our updata
link and the DSE running, we would like to ask you
to do no more COMMAND RESETS until - unless we
advise you differently. Nominally, we don't expect
any, but we Just thought we'd let you know to not
do COMMAND RESETS, because it can get us into mis -
some misconfiguration problems. The second thing
is, as you noticed this morning, we started up-
linking a whole raft of command module, primarily
command module, and Deactivation Checklist changes
due to the loss of quad Bravo. And when you go up
to the command module this evening, we have one
switch we'd like you to - to throw to put the
command module in a configuration consistent with
all those checklist procedures changes. And that
switch is on panel 2, SERVICE MODULE RCS, QUA])
SECONDARY FUEL PRESSURE Bravo to OPEN. Over.

213 22 40 20 CDR Okay. That's the QUAD SECONDARY FUEL PRESSURE for
Bravo, OPEN. I'll go do that right now and rest
assured we won't do any COMMAND RESETS.

CC Okay. You had - you guys had an earlier question

today about - that you wanted to be advised when
we confirm that we did get channel A recording for
the M31 [sic] this morning. And be advised we -
we did get that information on the first run; and
we're confident that we will on the second, al-
we aren't that far into the data yet.

SPT Okay. I'll send you all the SMMD stuff and other
material, then, Dick.

213 22 41 44 PLT Hello, Dick. This is Jack.

CC Oo ahead.

PLT Roger. There any more reasonable opportunities for

a call home after dinner tonight besides the one
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that Al's going to be using? Maybe Owen and I

could - Owen or I could use it?

CC Let us look for - look at the station passes, Jack.

And we'll get back to you. Incidentally, on the
one that A1 - we set it up at 00:ll at Hawaii, as
you've already been advised. That's also the
station that we had - originally had planned for
the evening status report, and I'm Just assuming
that either Jack or Owen is going to read us down
that evening status at that time.

213 22 42 21 PLT Okay, but you don't have any stateside pass to-
night, right?

CC Negative, we do not. But let us see what we can

do, later on some of the others - other passes
tonight. I'll get back to you probably down at
Vanguard.

PLT Thank you.

213 22 42 39 CC And, Skylab, Houston. You are GO to continue and

accomplish the M171 with your normal precautions
in the - in the protocol.

CDE Sounds good. That's what we thought; we thought

we'd check with you. Thanks.

213 22 42 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you at Vanguard at 23:0h. And one more
thing as we go over the hill, just for Al's infor-
mation, that Hawaii pass is about 9-1/2 minutes
long, that we've set up the phone call.

213 23 05 Ol CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for 9 minutes.

PLT Hello, Dick. We're running MI71.

CC Okay, real fine.

CDR Dick, we Just started S073 on time. Got a couple

of questions on the pad, though; maybe the
gentleman that made it up can explain.

CC Okay, hang on a second. Let me get it out so I

can look at it while you talk to me. Hang on.
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213 23 06 08 CC Go ahead, CDR. We're looking at the pad.

CDR Okay. By the way, I put the SECONDARY QUAD FUEL

PROPELLANT valve to ON. Of course, both barber
poles still remained. That's the command module.

CC Roger.

CDR Okay. Now, there's Just a little - some funnies

here that are different from our card; and the way
we understand it, we - we need to get it straight
so we won't foul it up. They gave us a 23:00
operate start time, with a window of 23:03 to
23:08. And we had on our checklist card, and
understood from our trainer, that that was a nom-
inal 10-minute task. So, you would think that
maybe the op time would have been something like
22:53, or something like that. Because if it did
take l0 minutes, we would have missed the window.

213 23 07 04 CC Stand by at i second, please.

CDR Okay.

CC CDR, Houston. You're exactly right. The optimum

start time is 23:03, so the required time for the
setup should have been earlier. It was a flight
planning problem that we did talk about last night
and decided not to change, but the ops time on the
pad should have been an earlier time to meet an
optimum start-program start time of 23:03.

213 23 08 06 CDR Okay, because we're keying off that and we don't
always know what these are; and if we show up
up there, we're going to muff the time. The next
one was a little bit funny, too. They called for
a 4-A program. I checked my 4-A program and it -
it says the SHAFT and TRUNNION are as indicated
here. But - correction it says the SHAFT is as
indicated there. But it says the TRUNNION, instead
of being 074 to 004, as on the pad, it's 024 to 2.
Now, there - I need to understand if - whether -
what the story is there, I guess. And next, the
book says this - or the checklist, says to start
with the SHAFT and TRUNNION, SHAFT in zero, TRUN-
NION, 2. Now, if I had done shaft, zero, trunnion
2; but had the TRUNNION limit 074 in 4, it wouldn't
have worked. Because I understand that the shaft
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and t_Innion limits, but - I mean, where it starts

must be within the limits. So, apparently there's
also something a little different there than the
way we've been trained.

213 23 09 ll CC Okay, CDR. Stand by.

CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your question, we did

have some conversation with the PI. And due to
the particular pointing of this, we did send you
a correct pad; and we failed to alert you to the
fact that there was an inconsistency with what's
on page 6-35 of your checklist. So, you should use
the trunnion angle that's in the pad, and also
the upper and lower limits that's in the pad.

CDR Okay, now, is this correct pad - did it Just come

up, or am I operating on an old pad here?

213 23 ll l0 CC You ought to be looking at pad 0520 Bravo.

CDR That's the one I'm looking at.

CC Okay. That pad is the one I'm looking at also,

A1; and that's a good pad.

CDR Well, see, it's still the problem. You not only
need the upper and lower limb, - oh, I got you -
I see what you mean.

CDR I understand now, and I will make sure we do it

right the next time, but we ended up doing it
right anyway. I Just wanted to make sure I
could read the pad. Understand; thanks.

213 23 ii 59 CC Okay, AI. And, I think it's a good thing, when

we do send up things on these pads that are con-
fusing at all, we might as well talk them out and
straighten them out, too. And we'll do some
little - some talking after LOS, and understand
ourselves exactly how we made this mistake in
this - and try not to happen again.

CDR Okay, I think maybe a good thing to do would Just

be put down in remarks - say - feel the - you
know, TRUNNION different from nominal checklist
procedures, or something. And then I'll be aware
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that something's new, and play it by - by the

numbers you gave me. So, it - it's working right,
or should be. I haven't checked it lately. I'll
go check it in a minute.

CC Okay, real fine.

213 23 12 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Hawaii at 00:ii. And I'ii be
standing by for an evening status report there.
And, A1, you can be standing by in the command
module for your phone call. The COMM TECH will
call you first and set it up. We've also set up
a call for Jack Lousma at 02:20, and another call
for Owen at 02:33. That's 02:20 and 02:33. And
both of those are about 9 or l0 minutes long.

213 23 13 18 CREW Roger, ...

CC And as you go over the hill, could you let us know

how you're progressing on E - EREP checkout?

SPT Yes, it's going pretty slow. I just got the tape
recorder unloaded.

CC Okay, real fine. We can hear more about that in

the remarks from the evening status, so we'll see
you at the next pass, which is Hawaii at 00:ll.

CDR Okay, that's about an hour from now. We'll sure

give you a call. Or you can give us a call.

213 23 13 49 CDR And S073 seems to be running just - -

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8KTLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

21_ 00 i0 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Vanguard for 9 minutes.

214 00 i0 53 8PT Okay, Houston; Skylah. SPT here. Do you want the
evening status report, now?

CO I'm standing by; I didn't quite understand you.

I'm standing by for the evening status report,
Owen. And I already have the BMMD body manses,
but nothing else, I think.

SPT Okay, that was going to be my first question -

see how much you had so I'd know what to omit.
Urine volume : 780, 900, 970 • Drin_ ng water gun
readings are 4579, 7477, 5551. BMMDs, you've
got. Exercise: CDR, none; SPT has 2/15/1875;
PLT has 3 Mark 1/20 Alfas. - That's 20 Alfas.
That's the amount of the type with the Mark 1
work. Is that okay so far, Dick?

CC It 's affirmative. Go ahead.

SPT Medication: CDR, one seconal; SPT, PLT, none.

Sleep : 7/good; 7/very good ; 7/good.

CDR Hey, Owen, Just a minute.

CC Okay, go ahead.

SPT Just a moment, Dick.

CC Okay.

PLT Hey, Dick, this is Jack. Al's trying to call the

comm tech. We hear the C0_4 TECH: he does not
hear us.

CC Okay, stand by a second and let me see if I can

help you.

PLT We used the right VHF antenna.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. The right VHF antenna should

be the best one, and I've passed that word on to
C0_4 TECH.
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214 00 12 58 SPT Okay, they've got it hooked up now; that's doing

fine. Now, the food status is as follows: CDR
ate all on his menu for the day. That menu is
on the message 0532 Charlie. The SPT ate the
0532 Charlie message except omit one Jam, one
prime rib, and one chicken and gravy, one lemon-
ade, and one grapefruit drink. The PLT ate all
on 0532 Charlie except bread and mashed potatoes.
He added one apple drink, one lemonade, and one
tea with lemon and sugar. Now I might mention
that that is the - Really, we have not all eaten
that yet, because we still haven't had time for
supper. This is our present intent and, if there's
any deviation from that, we'll mention it in the
morning. But this is what we expect to have eat-
en by the time we get to bed tonight. And as I
mentioned, we still haven't had our supper to-
night. Okay, back to photo log; no change from
yesterday. We've had no time for pictures. We
did miss a 151 this afternoon because we didn't
have time to work that in. Flight Plan deviations:
A1 reports that the food transfers should take
1 - l-l/2 hours instead of the 1 hours - 1 hour
listed. Inoperable equipment: The only thing
listed under there is that fact that we have a
lot of food overage stashed around the wardroom
here. It's our intent to leave that food overage
more or less, conveniently placed as long as
we're on a rather flexible diet. And at the time
we get back to a more permanent, set menu, then
we'll talk with you again about where the overage
food should be placed and how to lock it - log
it. Now, unscheduled stow - stowage items: We've
removed, from dome 418, towels - three red, two
white, and six blue. We've, in the area of food,
taken one cornflakes from 555; one egg from 550;
one tea with lemon and sugar from the top of 556;
one apple drink from the top of 556; one hard
candy from the top of 556; one grapefruit drink,
560; one pineapple from 559, can 33; one salmon
salad from 550. And I think that runs all the -
all the information on the evening status report,
Dick. Over.

CC Okay, Owen. Give me Just a second and let me

gather my thoughts here, and I'll corn - be right
back to you with some questions.
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214 00 15 41 SPT Roger.

214 00 15 48 CC One thing, 0wen. We made a cockpit error here on

the ground in the teleprinter when we up-linked
your Flight Plan for tomorrow - Not your details ;
they're okay - but your Flight Plan. We up-linked
page i of the Flight Plan twice and then page 2,
so we don't think we have to do that again. If
you'll Just 10ok carefully down there, you'll
find where to cut the top of it off, and you'll
have a good Flight Plan. If it did get garbled,
though, Just let us know and we'll up-link a new
one during the evening. But I think it - when you
look at it, it'll probably be ok_7. And we wanted
you to check to make sure that the experiment 1
and 2 tape recorder settings on the panel in the
experiment compartment are set to Charlie Charlie
for S073.

SI_E Okay, we had them - I believe it was on either 1

Bravo or 1 Easy. I've forgotten which it was for
the 171 run. And as soon as we were through with
171, then we should have switched them over to
Charlie. Now that may very well mean that we did
not get the first part of that S073 data onto the
tape recorders because we were _mning 171 and
73 simultaneously there for a while. Over.

CC Roger. That's about the way we had psyched it

out, and we're satisfied with that. But Just -
please make sure that they are - they were put
in Charlie Charlie. And, finally, I'd llke to
get a - a status on the PLT on the EREP checkout,
and we realize you guys are mmn_ng behind. Does
he - Has he or does he expect to finish tonight?
And if he does not expect to finish tonight, let
us know where in the checklist he is, in that we
might have a couple of suggestions to save him a
little time.

SPT Roger. I don't know whether he can hear this or

not. Jack, if you are on the line, would you
answer, please?

SPT Sounds like I'm going to have to relay the ques-

tion to him - - answer at the next pass, Dick.
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PLT Yes, I 'm here.

SPT - - and he'll have to answer it at the next pass,

Dick.

CC Okay. Owen - -

SPT Did you hear the question, Jack?

PLT Okay, I'm right on the VTS alignment at the mo-

ment. Everything's gone smoothly so far. The
only thing I got a question about is the desic-
cants. You look at them, and they all look blue-
ish-pinkish-white. I broke out one that hadn't
been used before, and it looked the same color.
So we only got four that are not out of the bag.
So, unless you say otherwise, I'm Just going to
leave them in like they are.

CC Okay, Jack. Stand by on that one.

214 00 18 ii SPT And I've Just verified that both tape recorders
are in 1 Charlie.

214 00 18 16 CC Okay, thank you, Owen. Jack, the question I

asked, also, while we're thinking about the de-
siccants, is do you expect to finish the checkout
tonight ?

PLT Gee whiz, I don't know. I - I would like to leave

the 190 film threading until tomorrow. I haven't
done that yet. I got to look and see how far I
got to go yet. I'm Just moving along as fast as
I can.

CC Okay, Jack. Let us - let - let - - let us propose

a couple of changes to you for your work tonight.
It might save you some time. First of all, on
page - page 1-8, on the S192 check, we'd suggest
Just skip that and pick it up tomorrow either in
housekeeping or in your scheduled 192 alignment
activity. And also, Just stop tonight on the
bottom of page 1-9 and accomplish page 1-10 to-
morrow.

214 00 19 29 CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you at - Well, you'll be at Vanguard
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at 00:42. And you'll have - be set up for the

medical conference at Vanguard, 00:42.

SPT Okay, fine, Dick. Thank you.

_4 00 19 45 CC Okay.

214 00 48 36 CC Skylab, Houston. I understand you're through

with your ned conference, and I 're got you back
for a couple of minutes. How do you read?

214 00 48 42 SPT Loud and clear, Dick. And how does S073 look to
you down there now?

CC We've - The corollary officer Just said that he

was looking at the data, and it looks real good.

CC I do have one question from the last pass. We

never got a "Roger" from Jack that he heard my
suggestions on how to cut short the EREP check-
out, if he desires, tonight. I wonder if he
heard that and, if he did, if he intends to cut
it short.

214 00 49 ll PLT Here's what I'm doing, Dick. I went through the
VTS alignment checkout. It worked - worked out
real good. And I Just went through the S192 a-
lignment check, and it says to twizzle the dials
in here, but I don't think I will. I Just took
the readings; and I'll record them down, if you
want, or read them down to you right now. And I
have two of them. They don't want me to do any-
thing with those adjustments tonight.

CC Roger. We're pretty close to LOS. We'll get you

at Ascension. So why don't you be prepared to
read those readings down also? One more question,
as we go over the hill, on the evening status
report. We would like a drawer A configuration.
We need that in order to continue to give you
good film-thread pads. And so s_etime tonight,
we'd sure appreciate it if one of you guys on the
photo log would - would be prepared to read us
down a drawer Alfa configuration in the film
vault.

SPT Wilco. M_ fault for not having it.

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21_ O0 50 13 CC No problem there. We'll see you at Ascension at

00 :58.

214 00 59 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Ascensioa for 3 min-

k_tes.

SPT Here's your drawer A configuration if you want it.

CC Go ahead.

SPT Alfa l: the transport, 02, CI24, 100 percent,

CI19; A-2: 07, CI_0, 100 percent, CI09; A-B:
06, CI39, 100 percent, CI13; A-_ is 05, CI_l,
100 percent, CI16. And this is exactly the same
as on that last photo pad, I believe. Over.

CC Okay, Owen. Thank you very much for that. And

does Jack have those 192 align numbers?

PLT Yes, I got them, Dick.

CC Roger. Before you read them down - I'll get them

right after this, Jack. We - I've got some ra-
tionale as to where we stand on the condensate,
the troubleshooting; although this is a fairly
short pass • I thought I'd save that until later.
We are tryiiag to isolate a potential contribution
to the leak, so I have one valve that I'd like to
make sure I get up and you throw this pass. It's
on panel 3 -- correction, panel 232, MOL SIEVE
Bravo HEAT EXCHANGER Alfa CONDENSATE ISOLATION
valve to CL_)SE. And one of the upcoming passes,
I'll tell you where we think we are in the system,
and we'll look at - look at the leak in the system
for the nex_ hour or so and see what effect this
has. We've still got about a minute and _0 se-
conds in th_.s pass, so go ahead with the 192 a-
lign number_3.

PLT Okay. Afte:r reseating it and looking at the num-

bers now, t?ae VISIBLE channel read 20 percent left
and 50 perc, ent right. And I Just prematurely
fiddled aro und with the dial, and I got it up to
75 percent left and 30 percent right. And I backed
it up, per instructions, to 72 left and 43 percent
right. I did not fool around with the focus. Now
the THERMAL_ read 13 percent on the right meter.
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The X-adjustment was 527. The Z was 5176. And I

didn't fool around with the thermal alignment be-
cause I think it's going to take a longer time
than I've got to spend on it tonight.

21h O1 02 29 CC Okay, Jack. Thank you very much. We got those

numbers. And - and I want to confirm you got the
information about the panel 232 valve.

214 01 02 41 CDR MOL SIEVE B HEAT EXCHANGER A valve is CLOSED. Now

that means every valve we got's closed. Right?

CC That's affirmative, AI. And we're going to leave

it that way for the next hour, hour and a half,
and - and check the - the way that the DELTA-P's
going down. And when we get to the next pass, I'll
tell you exactly what our rationale is and where
we are in our troubleshooting.

CDR Okay. Say, if you got any friends among the flight
planners down there, they keep telling us they're
going to give us snme- a little spare time to do
this Job, but it never seems to happen. We've been
working from sunrise to right now, and welre still
not finished. We haven't even started the day 5
transfers, and we hustled all the time. Tell them
to give us a little more pad, if they possibly can,
because I've looked out that window 5 minutes in
5 days. And the rest of the time, we've been
hustling.

CC Understand, AI. And they hear you. We'll - -

CDR They hear you, but they don't change the operation.

214 01 03 47 CC Roger, CDR. I copy. We're - be at Vanguard AOS

at 02:20.

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214 02 20 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for

i0 minutes.

SPT Okay, Houston. We can hear the C0M TECH on VHF

calling up, but he apparently cannot hear the PLT.
Can you give us any help on making that connection?

CC Stand by Just a second. Let hi - let me let him

know; hang on a second.

CC Owen, Houston. We're checking the configuration,

and we'll try to help you out as soon as we can.

SPT Roger; anything else for us?

CC Yes, I do have a couple of things. First of all,

I have - I want to secure this condensate tank
business for the evening, and then I have a few
words here l'd like to try to describe to you guys
what we - what the configurations we've been through
and where we think the leak is and generally what
we're doing about it. But first, l'd llke to tell
you what the valves and switches and so forth are
that we'd like to do, and this will be it for
tonight.

SPT Okay, A1 Just looked by here. I expect he'll

want to hear this. Go ahead.

CC Okay, first of all, we'd like to open the valve

he closed awhile ago, which is on panel 232 - MOL
SIEVE B HEAT EXCHANGER A CONDENSATE ISOLATION valve
to OPEN. We'd like to do that now and also for
the evening, and we're assl,m_ng you want to do
this, we'd like to turn ON the four OWS W_AT
EXCHANGER FANS on panel 390, and, also we'd like
to turn back ON the AIRLOCK MODULE CIRC FANS -
there's three of them - to HIGH on panel 203.
And stand by. Let me talk to COMM TECH for a
second.

PLT Okay, while you're talking to COMM TECH, A1 has

performed all of those requested operations.

-_ 214 02 22 29 CC Roger; stand by Just i second.

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CC Skylab, Houston. Vanguard reports that we are

not receiving any down-link on VHF and would like
to make sure that Jack is configured properly up
there on - on the center panel VHF to T/R. If he I
i

has that message we up-linked awhile ago, we'd

like to make sure that he's configured per that
mess age.

CDR Okay, we'll check it. We thought we were, but

we're checking it against the message right now.
And apparently the up-link is okay, but we're
checking the switches.

CC Roger.

214 02 23 37 CC And, Owen, while he's doing that - Incidentally,

I have this configuration in front of me if - if
he has any questions about it, so break in if he
does. Let me tell you a little bit about the
condensate troubleshooting.

SPT Okay, still we got an up-link but no down-link on

VHF, and say again your last request, Dick.

CC Nothing, Owen. I have this explanation on some of

the condensate, but I guess we'd like to get this
co_ squared away; so I'll hold off if you don't
want to listen right now.

CC Skylab, Houston. One thing that might help me,

if I knew - know whether or not Jack is trying to
configure per the headset or the speaker box CSM
portion of that cue card.

SPT Headset.

CC Okay, he ought to check VHF AM Bravo to DUPLEX,

VHF antenna to RIGHT, and S-BAND - and INTERCOM -
on panel 10, S-BAND and INTERCOM, OFF, and VHF AM
to T/R. And connect the headset SUIT POWER to ON
and make sure he's keying when he's trying to talk.
We're not getting any down-link.

SPT Okay, he's got the message in hand (chuckle)

checking it all over, and he'll switch right now.

CC Roger.
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214 02 25 55 SPT No, still one way.

SPT Sounds like exactly the same problem we had a

couple of hours ago with AI.

CC Roger, Owen. We are checking with the Vanguard.

They do have two VHF receivers on, and they haven't
received any down-link, but we're hustling as hard
as we can to try to see if it's a ground problem.

SPT Thank you.

SPT While we're waiting here Just a minute, Dick, I

have still not been able to do the M133 tape trans-
fers, and I think that it might be advisable for
me to delay the sleep part of the experiment for
another night. Would you concur with that?

21h 02 27 01 CC Roger. Stand by on that, 0wen. You might pass

along to A1, incidentally, since our last pass,
we've taken a look at the - tomorrow's Flight Plan
as a starter to giving y'all some more time, and
we have a number of deletions from tomorrow's
Flight Plan that we are considering, based on the
various experiment priorities, and we are going
to have a decision during the evening, and - and
we'll get them back to you first thing in the
morning. The - -

CDR That'd be great, Dick.

CC Okay, the things that we are considering are the

131 runs, one of the S073, and a prep for the SO19.
We really haven't ironed it out all yet; but,
during your postsleep checklist in the morning,
we'll have all the information for you, and we'll
try to give you some more time.

CDR Okay, I think after a few days of getting it going

here - we Just been working full steam for 2 -
we'll be able to get you to add them all back in
there. We'll get all the time back for you. It's
Just - we can't make it now. We had to miss those
two 151s; we're still not finished tonight. We're
doing five transfers and a couple of other items
we didn't finish.
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214 02 28 21 SPT Dick, Jack says he checked the configuration on

the VHF both with the headset and with the intercom
box, and it doesn't work either way.

CC Roger, Owen. We'll - I'm sure sorry about that.

We got about 2 minutes left in this pass and, if
we miss this whole pass, we'll - we can set the
same thing up and do it right. We're still going
to try to be set up also at Ascension, and we've
- we're checking on it.

SPT Roger.

214 02 29 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and a half

from LOS. We're going to to see you at Ascension
at 02:33. Be advised at Vanguard we - we ended
up trying four different receivers, and we never
got a down-link, so you might - We really don't
know what to suggest about configuration, because
after we squared the problem away with A1 before,
we had a good - a good reception. The only thing
that I have left here on my list of things for this
Ascension pass for the other guys is - is my little
explanation of where we are on the condensate
system, if you'd like to hear it tonight; it can
wait until in the morning if you like. And I did
have some news that you haven't heard any at all
from - on the whole mission, and if you're in a
listening mood I can - I can read that up to you.
So we're about 45 seconds from Vanguard and LOS,
and we'll see you at Ascension.

CDR Okay, give us the information on the condensate

if you can, Dick, and then whatever time's left,
give us the news. You're right. We've sure been
out of it here for 5.

CC Okay, and I'll call Gratia here in Just a second

and talk to her about this pass, and we'll set -
set that back up at your request.

214 02 30 37 CC And, Skylab; Houston. As we go over the hill, we

can delay that 133 tape transfer that 0wen asked
about - to - pass tonight.

214 02 33 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension for

10-1/2 minutes.
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214 02 3h 13 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension for i0 minutes.

CDR Houston, how do you read Skylab?

CC Skylab, Houston. Loud and clear. How me?

CDR Read you the same. Been reading you; standing by

for whatever you want to say, Dick.

CC Roger. First of all, on the condensate trouble-

shooting, A1, I know that we've been bugging you
for a long time, but we've been working our - our
hearts out to try to get the leaks stopped in the
condensate system. And essentially, what we have
done, in the various configurations that we've gone
to, is that we've determined that the hard-line
plumbing that connects between the condensate
heat - the heat exchangers water removal plates
and eventually ends up at that panel 393 connection
that - that you connect the holding tank to has
a leak in that hard line somewhere. What we did
during the last hour, when we had you close and
then reopen that valve to the heat exchanger was
just to try to determine if that heat exchanger
was contributing to that leak that we know is there
in the hard line. We're looking at a - at several
options in order to achieve water removal in the
spacecraft. And I'll tell you what we're thinking
about, but they're not necessarily in an order of
priority, and - and I'll Just try to let you know
what we're thinking about. One is we're considering
activating mol sieve Bravo, which would put both
mol sieves on the line. Another one is, which is
obviously an optional one, but not a very desirable
one, and that is using the system as it is on a
periodic basis, which puts a burden on you and also
really doesn't solve the problem of the leak. We're
looking -we're looking at hoses and connecters that
we may - that we may - have to install, some sort
of a kluge to hook the heat exchanger plates directly
to the condensate tank - holding tank and bypassing
this leaky hard line. Fourth, we're considering
activating the command module suit loop. However,
this doesn't help us much, because there's not
enough percentage of the air that flows over it.
And finally, of course, we're trying to think how
we could find and repair the leak; however, we did
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take a trip over to the trainer awhile ago and

looked at that hard line and the number of B-nuts
on it, and that doesn't seem to be - that's seems
to be a horrendous Job in - in checking those. So
that's essentially what we're doing, and we'll be
getting back to you as soon as we've sorted out
how we want to further pursue the problem.

214 02 37 07 CDR 0nly one thing I don't understand, Dick. How

would putting tool sieve B on the line help? Do
you think it's only a leak in the A-side hard lines
or what ?

CC Negative, CDR. What happens is, is the beds them-

selves in the mol sieve absorb some water. So by
putting the two mol sieves on the line, we would
improve the situation a little bit. That's not to
say we're going to do that, but that - that was
the thinking behind that option.

CDR Okay, understand now.

214 02 37 40 CC Okay, one other thing. We're apparently receiv-

ing - this phone call here at Ascension is going
okay, and we were wondering if you did anything
different on board in the way of configuration.
You don't really have to answer that now, if you
have to disturb Owen up there. But we would - we
would like an answer sooner or later. Another
question before I get to the news. We kind of need
to know where Jack got in the EREP checkout so we
can do tomorrow's planning. Go ahead.

PLT This is Jack right here. Now Owen's got the comm
set up the same way as I had it. He Just took
over the headset. Nothing different.

CC Okay.

PLT And, as far as EREP goes, I still didn't get the

190 threading done, although I got through the
part -through the checkout, except for the
threading.

214 02 38 35 CC PLT, did you stop the - Stand by i.

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CDR Say, Dick. I Just checked with Owen; he said he's

switched to the other antenna. It worked, and now
he's back to the one Jack was on.

CC Okay, A1. Thank you very much.

CC PLT, Houston. One more question on the EREP thing.

Did you do pages 1-8 and 1-10? That's the
192 check, and then the 190 filters, and the tape
recorder head cleaning?

PLT Dick, I got through page 1-10 in the EREP Checklist,

except for the 190 film threading.

214 02 39 39 CC Okay, thank you very much. We've still got about
4 minutes here. Time's kind of short. So I'll
read you a couple of things that've been handed
me by the news folks. One of the most powerful
Co_anist leaders in the world died today. Walter
Ulbricht, leader of East Ger - GermAny, had sur-
vived purge after purge in the Communist portion
of Germany, and he was 80 years old. Today in
Russia, Soviet President Podgorny was presented
with a sample of lunar soil collected by U.S.
astronauts. The soil, which will be on display
in the Moscow Minuyal - Mineral [Minerological]
- I'll skip that word - Museum in Moscow, was
picked up by the Apollo 17 guys. And the sample
was presented to the Soviet people By President
Nixon. Locally, here in Houston, Lo Cunningham,
wife of former Astronaut Walter Cunningham is
expected to file soon for a slot on the Houston
City Council. And all day today, we were pelted
by heavy rains and with the flood warnings being
posted in many areas. In Boston yesterday, there
was a crash of a DC-9 airliner. One of 89 persons
survived the crass - crash, and the airplane was
trying to land in a dense fog. And for - for
Jack there, he was not flooded (laughter).

PLT Thank you. I was about to ask you.

21h 02 _i 17 CC On the sports scene Tom Weiskopf won the Canadian

Open with the _35,000 first prize, and he's won
over $200,000 playing this year. And last Saturday,
in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the San Francisco
49ers beat the Patriots 20 to 7.
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PLT How did Palmer do?

CC Don't know; I'll find out for you. It doesn't -

that was all it has on here.

214 02 41 50 CDR Say, Dick, also nobody's more interested than we

are in getting the condensate loop fixed, so you're
not bugging us a bit. The only problem is the one
I mentioned earlier, is - We - we - it takes time
away from trying to get that tight Flight Plan
done, and there's Just no way to get all those
things done.

CC Roger. I guess our only concern, A1, is it seems

like the - that we were thinking that you might
think we were very haphazard in the number of
things we tried, and so forth. And there has been
some method to our madness in trying to look at
various configurations for periods of time. And
some of the calls have been, you know, put up
without much rationale. We Just want to make sure
that you knew that we think we understand a little
bit more about where the leak is, and we just got
to get this system operating right so we can stop
working on it and get on with other business.

CDR Right. We didn't think that. If there's one

thing I've known since I've been here is that MC-H
doesn't do anything irrational.

CC Roger that.

214 02 43 01 PLT Hey, Dick. Tell my wife I'm sorry I missed the
call. I could hear her talking at the other end;
she couldn't hear me. And I just came back down
to finish my steak and ice cream.

CC Hey, Jack, we got about a minute left. We've got

a Guam pass that's about 03"17. It's the next time
around. That's about 10:17 here in Houston. If
you'd like, I'm sure that we'd like to try it
again, if you'd like to set us up and - for that
pass.

PLT Okay, I'll try it again. That's about a half an

hour away from bedtime. That's all right. I'll
take it.
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214 02 h3 37 CO Okay, I'ii tell you what. We'll try to set that
up at Guam at 03:17 Zulu. I will not give you a -
an S-band call over air-to-ground. And - but if
you want to Zalk to us on S-band, please - please
feel free to do so.

PLT ()kay
; Roger.

214 02 43 53 CC Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

21h l0 h6 23 CC Skylab, Houston. Did you call?

21h l0 47 16 CC Skylab, Houston. Did you call?

CDR That's affirmative, Houston. Hcf're you doing?

CC Okay. Did you get a MASTER ALARM on board then?

CDR Sure did. We got one for the command module RCS.
It looks like quad D temp is below 80 degrees.
We didn't switch heaters or anything. We thought
we'd talk with you and see what you thought we
should do.

CC Roger. We saw that and we verify that was what

it's for and we're - I think we're going to turn
some heaters on. Let you know in a sec.

214 l0 48 12 CDR All right; sounds good.

CDR And, on the VTR, I saw the little green light on;
didn't think we were over a site and turned it
off, so you may have to recommand the VTR on,
if you want it to dump or whatever you all were
doing with it.

CC 0kay, thank you.

21h i0 h9 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about to go LOS. We'll

be coming up on Madrid in about 4 minutes.

21h l0 53 39 CC Skylab_ Houston through Madrid, 9 minutes.

PLT Morning, H_nk.

CC How are we doing this morning?

CDR We're doing good. Let me ask you for a couple of

favors.

CC Go ahead.

CDR Think you could get me a list this morning of the

items that are stowed inside checklists at various
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places? I know we got decals and feeler gages and

things, and I don't know exactly where the list
is that - that points out those. I want to go
collect those things before we use the books too
much and lose them. But I don't know which books
to go look in, and where.

21_ l0 5_ 32 CC Okay, we'll work that one. And are you up in the
co_nand module now?

CDR No, but I'm headed up that way. So I'd be glad

to drop through and do something for you.

CC Okay, I guess we'd like to switch heaters on that

QUAD Delta, on panel 5, RCS HEATERS ENGINE PACK-
AGE, Delta, we'd like to go to position 2.

214 l0 55 00 CDR Okay, we'll sure do that. Next one is, I noticed
that after we've unloaded the command module,
there's still several items in there, and it's
probable that we Just - as we unloaded them with
our checklist, we forgot them. One of them is an
SO19 package. But I believe we have two aboard,
one of which I moved to the film vault. The other
one, I noticed, is in the command module. And I'm
wondering if you could check and see if it's sup-
posed to stay there for a while or we're supposed
to move it to the film vault somewhere, and tell
me where, and we'll go do it.

CC Roger.

214 l0 55 39 CDR Another item is, you asked the other day whether
or not we'd completely finished the activation.
We all looked over our checklist closely yesterday,
and we think it's complete except for the fire
rapid DELTA-P drill. And so, maybe if you all
could put that on the schedule in the next couple
of days, that would be a good thing.

21h l0 56 02 CC Roger. We copy.

CDR One other question that's been bothering me a

little bit, I gather we do not ever do the fuel
cell purge unless you call up and tell us. So
even though it's on - might be on a presleep check-
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list for me, generally, it means I've got to hear

frc_ you to do it. Would you verify that?

CC Okay, I'llwork that one, A1.

214 l0 58 12 CC Skylab, Houston for anyone. During the night,

we noticed that the S073 run two REPS and - and
stopped. And what we'd like to get right away_
if it's convenient for someone to check the pro-
gr,mmer and give us the REPS reaaout. See if it
is 02 or 12.

CDR It's on 02.

CC Roger. In that case, what we'd like for you to

do is set FILTER WHEEL A to 3. And, if we could,
at 11:33 GMT, we'd like to get you to start it.
And that will give us a couple of REPS on it before
we have to shut it down because of a recorder con-
flict with M092.

214 i0 59 52 CDR Okay, FILTER WHEEL going to 3 and, at 11:33, we'll

start it off again.

CC Okay, thank you a lot.

CDR What do you want on the REPS now?

CC Just leave it on 2, and that'll give us two REPS

Just right for - prior to the M092.

CDR Okay.

CC And, A1, in answer to your question about the fuel

cell purge, that will be a scheduled item and we'll
put it in your detail pads when you're scheduled
to do it.

214 ii 00 30 CDR Okay. On that pad that came up, was that supposed
to be a REP 12 and I set it at 2; is that what oc-
curred?

CC That's affirmative.

CDR Okay.
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CC Those - On this S073, those REPS would have been

in a checklist under the particular program.

CDR Okay; it wasn't on the pad itself?

214 ll 01 26 CC That's affirmative. That's in the checklist, un-

der the program you're running.

CDR Let me take a look.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

All your pads are on board. We'll be coming up
on Honeysuckle at h0, and we'll have a few Flight
Plan deletions for you there, and a few little
odds and ends we'd like to pick up.

CDR Sounds good. And I Just checked the checklist and

it does say 12; I missed that one.

21h ll 02 19 CC Roger.

21h ll 39 53 CC Skylab, Houston, through Honeysuckle for 2 minutes

with Flight Plan changes for the CDR.

SPT Okay, Houston; this is SPT here. We're Just ob-

serving a very interesting auroral display out
the wardroom window here I'd like to describe when
you've got an extra minute.

CC How about letting me give you your Flight Plan

changes then?

CDR Okay, we're right here, go ahead.

214 ll 40 35 CC Okay. For the CDR at 14:00, we'd like to delete

the TV-21 setup. At a little after 17:00, delete
the M131. A little after 20:00, delete S073 2 Alfa.
At 22:00, following the S073 retract, we would like
for you to do M151. Now we didn't have that sche-
duled originally because you were only going to
pull it in two rods under our original plan. But
now we're going to retract all seven rods and we'd
like to get the M151. And you'll do that with the
same setup that you were using for the S073 ex-
tend/M151. I can give you a pad for that, if you
like, but it's the same setup. And it may cause
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you to run out of film during the S073 stow, but

that's no problem. Do you want a pad for that?

CDR No. Did the pad for the setup come today?

CC That's affirmative.

CDR No. That will be okay then; that's good.

214 ll 41 46 CC Okay. And we also delete the SO19 prep. And on

your details, the only deletions there are at
20:15, your S073 2 Alfa; and at 22:45 the remarks
regarding S019. And we're Just about to LOS.
We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 08.

CDR Okay, let me give you the dosimeter readings for

the last few seconds here. Starting red, white,
and blue: 45030, 19015, 0703.

CC Roger; we copy.

CDR That's 07034. Excuse me.

214 ii 42 32 CC Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

214 12 08 04 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone, 8-1/2 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston for the CDR.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger. First order of priority here - first order

of priority, A1, we'd like to get you to isolate
quad Delta. That's on E-l-17 of the CSM Systems
Checklist. We notice that the - looks like the
helit_ t-nk pressure's come down on that quad about
20 psi. And the PACKAGE TEMP has dropped rather
remarkably. So we'd like to isolate it here, as
soon as we can.

CDR You mean, you think that our previous isolation

has somehow gotten loose?

CC That was quad Bravo. We want to work on Delta now.

CDR Oh, okay. That's a good deal. Okay. We'll go do

it right now. Say that page again?

CC 1-17 in the CSM Systems.

CDR Did you say - say it again, we're breaking up.

CC Roger. The CSM Systems Checklist, E-l-17.

CDR Okay. E-I-17. Will do.

21h 12 ii 30 CDR Houston, do you read the CDR?

CC Roger, CDR. Go ahead.

CDR Do you want us to fire the one Jet in affected

quad or Just close the helium valves?

CC Roger. We'd like for you to go ahead and fire one

Jet in the quad and clear the lines out, A1.

CDR Okay. I'Ii do that.

CC CDR, Houston. If you haven't fired those - the

- Jet yet, how about holding up on that?
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CDR And, Houston, we think we ran through the procedure

correctly, with exception of firing the Jet. And
the thing that we're kind of puzzled over is
step l, which says, "service module RCS helium 1
and 2." We only have one service module RCS heli_n
switch, as far as we know.

CC Okay. I had the guys working on that before AOS

there, A1. And we - we think there may be an error
in the checklist there. I think what they're
talking about is two isol valves there. We've
got one switch that does them both. I think the
checklist probably refers back to something we
had before.

CDR Could be. So we've - we've secured the helium in

the quad. And I don't know whether you want me to
open the secondaries on that one or not. I'll go
turn off the RCS.

CC Okay. And I guess you copied, we do not want to

fire the Jet.

CDR Understand.

214 12 14 57 CDR That's sort of interesting. When we were looking

out the wardroom window this morning, we noticed
there were lots of sparklers in the air. We
thought that was unusual, but we'd Just dumped -
used the vacuum line in the workshop here to get
ready for Mll0, you know, and vacuate the aft.
So we thought perhaps there'd been a little bit
of water in the line. We notice now, there's
still sparklers out there. And I don't know whether
they're from that quad or whether or not it's
from - in the line. But we'll probably know in
a little while. One of the things that we did do
was go up and look out the command module windows.
We didn't see too many out there. We looked out
the AM windows and didn't see too many. So, it
looked like there was more of them around the
workshop, so we sort of suspected it was from
there. But we're still doing the ll0, so we can't
tell. After a few orbits, we can see what's going
on, probably.

CC Okay. We're - we're looking at that quad very

carefully down here, too. And we don't know what
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the full story is yet. The - the PACKAGE TEMP

really came down there and it did it in a hurry,
in less than an hour, snme 50 - 60 degrees, and
we're not sure why.

CDR Okay.

CDR And, Houston ; CDR.

CC Go ahead.

214 12 16 57 CDR Let me have a recap now on where you want each
of the valves. You want - I 'm t_]king about
Bravo and Delta. You want the heli_m_ off on Bravo
and Delta -

CC We had a handover there, AI. Would you say again?

CC CDR, Houston, We had a keyhole there at Texas.

Would you say again your question regarding the
quad switches?

21h 12 20 52 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?

CDR Apparently we're reading intermittently at the

moment. Still standing by for the positions you
want on the secondary valve.

CC Okay, we're working that. And the HELIUM and

PROP ISOL, valves both should be CLOSED on Bravo
and Delta.

CDR Okay, they are. I Just d/dn't know what to do

with the secondaries.

CC Okay, the secondaries should be already closed.

Is that correct?

CDR They close down when you punch the PRIMARY,

CLOSE, but I didn't know whether you wanted them
opened up again.

CC Negative. We'll leave those closed.

CDR Okay, now, all six valves are closed then.

214 12 2_ 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of the keyhole now.

-_ We'd like to get sQmeone to check S073. We're
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getting funny-looking telemetry here. Like to get

someone to verify that the POWER is ON, and that
the EXPERIMENT SELECT is set up for S073.

CDR Okay, here's the problem with 73. We turned the

experiment power - well, it turned itself off.
We went back up there and started it, and it
stayed on for about 3 seconds and then turned off.
And we did that several times, changing the GAIN
and also insuring that the shutters - the others
were closed. We attempted to change the filters
during the brief 2- or B-second interval that
it was on and were unable to do that. And so,
presently, we Just let it shut itself down and
then we turned off the tape recorders. And we're
Just standing by to get some opinion from y'all
on what you'd like to do.

CC Okay, we'll smoke that one over, and we've got

about a minute left here. I'd like to get the
SPT's Flight Plan changes if I could. His is
rather simple. He scrubs the TV-21 and both of
the MlBls.

CDR Okay, good.

214 12 25 54 PLT Hey, Hank, I'm supposed to make a urine bag re-
supply. You have some preferred location from
which to take those, or do I Just pick some?

CC Stand by.

214 12 26 20 CC Skylab, Houston. In regard to S073, we would like

to leave the POWER, ON to keep the thing warmed
up and the PROGRAMMER, OFF.

PLT POWER, ON; PROGRAMMER, OFF.

PLT The trouble is the POWER won't stay ON. It trips

itself off. The light and everything go out.

CC Okay, we copy.

214 12 26 54 CC And we're about LOS now. Be coming up on Canaries

at 31.

CDR Okay, I turned the POWER, ON again; it kicked

itself off, but I left the POWER switch itself ON.
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214 12 27 04 CC Roger; copy.

214 12 31 04 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries for 9 minutes.

And with an answer to the CDR, the S019 fl]m pack
should go in drawer D in the film vault.

CC Skylab, Houston ; for the PLT.

PLT Go ahead, Hank.

CC Roger. The urine bags should come from Delta h02.

And I have a couple of Flight Plan changes I'd
like to t_]k ovmr with you.

PLT Stand by.

PLT Okay, go ahead with the Flight Plan change.

CC Okay. l'd like to ask you a question first, Jack.

Have you started the arm and back exercises yet?

PLT No, I haven't had time. l've been too darned

busy doing other things.

CC Okay. Well, what we were going to ask you to do

was TV-61 at 18:00. In other words, move your PT
and personal hygiene up to 18:00 and do TV-61,
which is of that. Now it's your option. If you
don't think you can do a good Job of that, we can
forget it. In any event, during housekeeping
there, at 18:00 or 20:00, we'd like to do the
S190 film thread, getting ready for the EREP.

PLT Okay. The un - housekeeping will include the film

thread, and you want some TV-61 at about 18:00
with - using a Mark I, I guess, huh?

CC That's at your option, Jack, if you want to do it.

PLT Okay, I'll give it a whirl. I've got a little bit

of work on that thing yesterday, but I didn't have
time to finish up.

214 12 34 33 CC Okay; and, of course, we're scrubbing your MI31

there at 21:00.

PLT Okay.
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CC And, CDR; Houston.

PLT He's listening.

PLT Go ahead, Hank. He's listening.

CC Oh, okay. I don't know whether he heard my answer

to the question or not. The S019 is still in the
command module. We'd like to get that stored in
a drawer D of the film vault. And also, we up-
linked two checklist changes to the EREP Checklist,
number 2 and 3. And he needs to get those incorpor-
ated today, especially number 3, because he'll be
using some of that stuff today with the S192, or
it will be used with the S192.

PLT He'll get it.

CC And also for the CDR; he's got a message regarding

the - turning the - installing the EREP down-link
box. And we want him to do all of that procedure
that's in the checklist except the last two steps
where you turn the TV on. We want to install
it, but we do not want to turn the TV on.

CDR Okay.

CC And as a general question, where do we stand now

on the checklist changes that we've sent up in the
past couple of days? Have you had a chance to get
those in - incorporated in the checklist?

CDR We've haven't got the changes put in that you sent
up in the last 2 days. No. We got all the rest
of them in before that. But we haven't had any
time to do it since then.

CC Roger, A1. We copy.

214 12 36 49 CC Skylab, Houston. Our telemetry shows in regard

to S073 that the SHUTTER and CAP are - are OPEN.
And we really need to get those CLOSED. We'd
like you at your first opportunity, to check
those and CLOSE them if you can.

CDR They show CLOSED here. We' ll turn it on and cycle

them a couple of times - if we can get it on long
enough.
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CC Okay, if they are showing CLOSED to you, A1, that's

what we want.

CDR Right. They - they're all showing CLOSED. We

thought of that at first, and maybe it was tripping
it off. But they all show CLOSED.

CC And, A1, while - Just to let you be thinking about

it, we've put together a couple of Flight Plans
here for day 7, one with EREP and one without.
And it - it turns out to be a pretty fUll day.
If - if you do the EREP, it -mounts to the fact
there is no way to work in your showers. You'll
have to go about an hour and a half into your
presleep activities to do your pre-EVA preps.
We don't get in any corollaries or ATM. There is
a good bit of housekeeping; we could probably back
off on that. Getting our tagup, as normally
scheduled for that day, is going to be a little
difficult. Now the no-_RREP day turns out to be
_Imost as bad. No ATM or corollary, and we have
to cut you short 30 minutes on the extra hour
you'd requested for the pre-EVA prep. Still a
good bit of housekeeping, and we get a schedule
conflict between your showers and your PT. In
other words, you'll wind up with one guy has PT
after his shower. In that, we managed to get a
little bit of time off, like ranging from 20 min-
utes for one crewmember, to an hour and a half for
the other. They're both pretty tight time lines.
And I Just wanted to m-ke you aware of these and
see if you had any comments on them.

21_ 12 39 15 CDR We don't mind missing the shower. We've been

taking sort of a sponge baths up here, and they
work pretty good. Everybody looks clean and feels
clean. So we could stand that. I'd say try to
go with the EREP if we could, and then cut out
some of the housekeeping that could be delayed,
but not put it on the shopping list. But Just put
it in as a scheduled item for later on - the ones
that can be delayed past 7.

CC Okay. And, for your information now, A1, the

weather right now is - is pretty much blotto for
the EREP. It doesn't look too good. However,
we're going to take another check on it later on
.'-_ this afternoon. And we can priorterize [sic]
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the housekeeping so that we should be able to push

some of that back a little bit if we have to.

CDR That's a good idea. Just be sure we get that EREP

prep that we asked for, and if you can prioritize,
that's good. If we finish our EREP - correction,
our EVA prep early, then we'll go ahead and
work on the housekeeping.

214 12 40 24 CC Okay, and we're about LOS now.

214 13 16 23 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.

CDR Okay, loud and clear.

SPT Houston, SPT, with a question for biomed.

CC Go ahead, Owen.

SPT Okay, Story, completed the ll0 and centrifuging,

and I'm about ready to stow it in the freezer.
However, there was one problem I had with the
PLT sample. I'm - I didn't shake the blood well
enough in the syringe to mix it thoroughly with
the anticoagulant and, as a result, when I centri-
fuged it, I did not get a plasma cartridge full,
only a little bit of plasma flowed into it. Now
I do have the full ASP still, and it - it has been
centrifuged and reasonably well separated. I
can even do it again. But I'm wondering if this
ASP filled, without the plasma cartridge filled,
is adequate, or if they'd like to have me take
another sample on the PLT and do the Job over.
Over.

CC Okay, we'll get you an answer, Owen.

214 13 17 50 CDR Okay_ also, Story, I'm going through some of the
changes. One of them happens to be change number 3
to the SWS Systems Checklist, RS flush number
80 - it's housekeeping number 84M. Now as I - I
received one copy of it, and as I look in one of
my books here, of which there's two, I notice
that I already have a housekeeping 8_M, change
number 2. Does this replace that or what? Yes,
I believe it says it does. I guess then I need
another copy so that I can put it in the other
checklist.
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i CC Okay.

214 13 20 41 CC (>wen, we're working on an answer on the M]I0 for

you. We'd like anybody to set up the TV at some
station and turn it on, and we'll manage it from
there. And probably you'd want to use TV-61,
since you'll need that in the afternoon.

CC Skylab, we had a com_n dropout there for about a

minute. And did you get mY call on setting up
the TV at any station, and probably the most
convenient for you, the TV-61 station?

CDR Okay.

CC And, Skylab, if you get tight on the Flight Plan

today - if you get behind, the S073 and ATM should
be the first to go.

CDR Okay.

CC And, A1, we're working on a cue card for you for

0A takeover with the CSM. We've got to update
what we had because of the problems of quad Delta.

CDR We been kind of waiting for it.

CC Okay.

214 13 22 33 CC And EGIL would like to know the status of the power
system alert light. Is it on or off?

CDR We'll check it right now. It's been on quite a

bit lately; we'll go up there and look.

CC Okay.

CC And, Owen, the Mll0 people would like another

sample from the PLT, if possible. And, if
necessary, you can use the Skylab 4 ASP.

SPT Okay.

CC And, Owen, no need to acknowledge. We're sending

up a star tracker checkout pad for you. I Run
that at your convenience, but we will need it for
the EREP.
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SPT Roger. And the power system's light is off. I

have not yet gone through the _0 - postsleep
configuration check, however, on page 3-1. I'm
just about to do that right now, but at the moment
there is no alert light.

CC Roger.

CDR Okay, still talking about this SWS Systems change,

Story, the RS flush one, change 3. Is it change
37

214 13 24 13 CC That's affirmative. That's change 3.

CDR I had in my book and - also a change 3 that was

called SUS heater fill. Did I misnt_nber that?

CC Stand by l, A1.

CC And while we're on that subject, we sent you up

a permanent general message number 2, and you
still don't have a number 1 on board. We'll send
you a number 1 later.

CDR Okay.

214 13 25 00 CC And we're going LOS here. We'll pick you up over
Hawaii at 13 :35.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

214 13 35 16 CC Skylab, we've got you over Hawaii for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger.

CDR Story. I'm now looking at this change number 2

to the CSM Systems Checklist.

CC Okay.

CDR And I'm over on page 6-3. And it says at 6-3,

"Change service module RCS quad propellant" et
cetera. I notice the line above that is the
service module RCS quad helium. And I suspicion
they wanted to have a change there to make the
helium read 3 also, and then quad B barber pole.
But - it isn't on this list, but you might check.

CC Okay.

214 13 36 42 CC Do you need further clarification on your SWS

Systems Checklist change 3?

CDR I sure do.

CC Okay. Change number l, was the SUS heater mes-

sage 0329 ; two was the refrigeration system - that
was number two; and three was a reprint to that.
And that's 0535.

CDR Okay. I was puzzling over that. Would you do

me a favor? I talked out my - that message
number 1. Could you look at the one that came
up and see what number's on that thing?

214 13 37 36 CC The SUS heater one, change pages 9-55 and 9-56.

CDR Okay. I kind of wondered when I wrote those in

the book, originally, about 2 or 3 days ago, why
they were 2 and 3. But now I understand. Thanks.

CC Okay.

CDR But you do plan to send me a second number 3,

don' t you?
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214 13 38 59 CC That's affirmative.

CDR Okay. Thanks.

CDR I notice that, throughout this change, they're

not putting - changing the HELIUM B to OFF. So
maybe they don't want to put the HELIUM B, OFF,
just the propellants, l'm not sure.

CC We'll get you an answer.

214 13 44 19 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See you over

Goldstone in 2 minutes.

214 13 47 09 CC Skylab, we've got you through Goldstone for 8

minutes.

CDR Roger.

CC Skylab, we' re going LOS. We' ll see you over

Bermuda in 4 minutes. And, A1, we would like the
QUA]) Bravo HELIUM, OPEN.

214 13 54 08 CDR Okay. We'll put it OPEN right now.

CDR Do you want BravHELIUM or Delta HELIUM?

CC Stand by i, AI, until the next station.

214 13 53 24 CDR Okay, we'll stand by. We thought you said Bravo,
but we're not sure you meant it.

214 13 58 51 CC Skylah, Houston. We've got you through Bermuda

for 8 minutes.

CDR Okay, Story. Is that Bravo?

CC Stand by l, A1.

SPT Houston, SPT. Would you like the star tracker

put on to Canopus at this time?

CC I'm getting an answer. And while I've got you,

Owen, we believe that the response to the M092
that we saw yesterday is probably due to a - a
low hydration. And, if possible, we'd like all
crewmen to take as much salt as they can within
the constraints of the diet.
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214 13 59 48 SPT Roger. It's a good point. We haven't been sup-

plementing our food with much salt as much as
anything because of the extra inconvenience to
get over there and get it out of the locker and
put on our food. And we'll take special note of
that.

CC Okay, and we sent you up a message yesterday on

the use of the legbands - that was step 8. Do
you have a little - did you cut that out so you
could put it near the legbands, for which ones
to use?

SPT I've got that note on my checklist now, and I did

Just what you've asked. I've got that note over
there. You will, of course, note if you've read
channel A that I did use one of those bands that
you requested I not use, on my M092 yesterday.
But we'll break out new bands and substitute it
on the 92 runs today.

214 14 00 32 CC Okay; good, Owen.

SPT It looks like the data we got yesterday with the

legbands used was satisfactory though. Is that
not correct?

CC Say again.

SPT It looks like the legbands we used yesterday were

still satisfactory, however. I didn't see any
indication that there was not adequate range in
their - in their value.

CC Okay, I'll check.

SPT Owen, the legbands stayed within range yesterday.

214 14 O1 21 SPT Okay, fine; thank you. I Just put the Mll0 data
on channel A, and I'm going to go put all that
old SMMD data on channel A at this time. There's
an awful lot of numbers.

CC Okay.
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CC CDR, Houston.

PLT Story, l've got the TV hooked up in the TV-61

location. You want me Just to leave it on and
you're going to run it when you get a chance; is
that right?

214 14 02 59 CC That's affirmative.

CDR Go ahead, Story.

CC Regarding the helium quads the message - the re-

ferences on page 6-3 is correct. If we do a soft
undocking, we've opened up all four quad helium
valves, in case you need that quad for emergency
purposes.

CDR Okay, I noticed that they have done that all the
way through, and it really makes sense. Okay.

214 14 02 27 PLT Story, l'm going to, for this little while, until
we get the use of this on exercise - this TV,
modify the pointing a little bit so it takes M092
and 171, if that's all right with you.

CC Yes, that's great, Jack.

PLT Notice you guys have got the tape recorder run-
ning right now.

CC Affirmative.

214 14 03 23 CC Okay, Owen don't lock the star tracker on now.

We're up-linking the star tracker pad to you at
this time.

SPT Okay, I did get a star tracker pad for Canopus

a little earlier. I'ii wait and, as soon as I
get this new pad, I'Ii lock on a new star and I
presume you fellas will take care of - of enabling
and do the update and so forth as you like. I'ii
just put it on and leave it in auto.

CC That's affirmative.

SPT And, for your information, we do have a POWER

SYSTEM ALERT light now.
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CC Thank you.

214 14 04 49 CDR And, Story, clarify again the helium valve that
you wanted open now in the CSM.

CC We don't want any of them open now, A1.

CDR Oh, you changed. Okay, I understand.

CDR You might pass this to the Deactivation Checklist,

troops, Story. Since we're starting to get some
changes to that checklist, and I suspect a lot
more as a result of these quads we've got, in
addition to probably other things, I've taken the
three books and called one of them CDR, one of
them SPT, and one of them PLT. So if they'll
call out which one of those three books the change
applies to, we'll Just put it in that book.

CC Okay. That's a good idea, A1.

214 14 06 09 CDR Okay, we've finished the checklist updates to the

Deact books and the SWS Systems books - yes, SWS
Systems book, one of them anyway - not the other
yet, because we haven't got that message. It's
probably there and we haven't seen it. And I'm
going to go do the EREP Checklist one now, and
then do that. And then, later on, i'll try to get
the G&N one some time.

21h 14 06 28 CC Okay. Going LOS in 15 seconds. See you over

Canaries in 1 minute.

214 14 08 3h CC Skylab, we're back with you over Canaries and

Ascension for 16 minutes. And, Owen, your star
tracker pad is on board. No need to acknowledge.

214 14 16 13 CC No need to acknowledge, Skylab. We'll be losing

you for 1 minute in the keyhole here.

214 14 17 27 CC And we're back with you, Skylab.

214 14 20 03 CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC We're concerned about the S073 thermal, and we

may have a power supply problem in that experiment.
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We've got a couple things we'd like to do over

this station passage.

CDR Okay. Do you want me to stop doing this EREP

box now and go work on 73?

CC That's affirmative, if possible, A1.

214 14 20 36 CDR Okay, sure possible. What - I'll head down by

73 and give you a call.

CC Okay.

CDR Okay, I'm right next to 73.

214 14 21 12 CC Cycle the POWER switch, OFF; then ON. And once
you've done that, place SHAFT to DECREASE.

CDR Okay, now when I turn it on, it only takes 3

seconds for it to kick off. And it doesn't look
like there's any way that I can decrease the shaft
during that period. I'll - I'll give it a try a
couple of times, if they don't mind me turning
it off and on several times.

CC That's correct; do that, A1.

214 14 22 01 CDR It won't stay on long enough to move, and it's at

375 at the moment. It just won't stay on. It's
only on about 2 or 3 seconds and nothing moves.
Incidentally, when I ran that malf procedure the
other day, I found that the black connector that
they asked me to check first looked like it had
backed off about 20 degrees. So I closed it com-
pletely, and it seemed to run okay then. And
that's all the malf procedure that was needed to
go through.

CC Roger.

CC A1, in some way, we'd like to get the SHAFT to

040 and TRUNNION, 000. The previous crew had
success using the shorting plug.

CDR Okay, we'll get out the checklist. We got the

shorting plug in our hand and we'll get out the
checklist and start working on it.
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CC Okay, AI, we got an update for you. Just hold on

that. Go back to the EREP, and then pick up S073
as per the Flight Plan.

214 14 24 15 CDR All right, we're going to Just leave S073 turned
off; we're going right back to EREP.

214 14 24 23 CC Thank you, sir; and we're going AOS in i0 seconds.

We'll pick you up over Carnarvon at 14:50.

CDR Okay, in the event - When I pick up with 73 do

you want me to use a shorting plug and do what
you said?

CC That 's affirmative.

214 14 24 37 CDR Okay.

214 14 50 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through Carnarvon

and Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger. Jack and Owen are doing 92/171, and l'm
busily changing this G&N Checklist. l've con-
nected up the EREP box but didn't turn of the TV
power because I didn't think you wanted it on.
Everything's connected, though, ready for when-
ever you need it.

CC Okay.

CDR And 73 is Just setting up there.

SPT Hello, Houston.

CC Go ahead.

214 14 52 lh SPT I've got an awful lot of data on channel A now.

Some Mll0 data and both M1 - correction, SMM
cals for both the wardroom and the head. So when
that stuff gets dumped, I'd appreciate a verifi-
cation that it all got down satis - satisfactorily.

CC We'll get it to you, Owen.

CC And, CDR, no need to reply, but the SWS Systems

Checklist change number B is on board.

214 14 55 B5 SPT Hello, Story. I've got a question on legbands

for the LBNP.
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214 14 55 47 SPT Hello, Houston.

214 14 55 55 SPT Hello, Houston.

214 14 56 02 F Skylab, FLIGHT; do you read?

214 lh 56 05 SPT FLIGHT, Skylab. I read you. Is the CAP COMM out
for coffee?

F Negative. He's having a headset problem,

apparently.

SPT Very good. Glad to talk to you for a change. I

have a short question for you here. It's on the -
the legbands for the LBNP. The ones that are
down there in our drawer - have several which
are on the "do-not-use" list. I have in my left
hand here four which we brought up with us, but
none of these are on the list that we should use.
So I'm a little perplexed as to what we're ex-
pected to use, since the ones we've got are
"don't use," and _e don't have the ones that we're
supposed to use, unless they're somewhere where
I don't know about it. So if they're over in
the spare locker, I'll take another look in the
spare locker and see if that's where they're lo-
cated.

214 lh 56 49 CC That sounds like a reasonable question. We'll

have to get the answer.

214 14 56 53 SPT Thank you very much.

PLT Is that you, Milt?

F That's affirm.

CC CDR, Houston - -

PLT Did you have a ... this time?

CC CDR, Houston.

214 14 57 24 PLT Boy, it's just barely readable with a voice like
that. We were sure reading that other fellow a
lot better.
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CDR Go ahead.

CC Now we' re - we 're showing the BAT CHARGER is -

is connected to BAT BUS A, and it should be OFF,
and we're wondering how it got that way.

CDR We'll sure check it.

CDR We'll check it. It probably got that way this

morning in the dark when we were trying to get
the caution and warnings looked at and look at
quad D.

CC Okay, A1.

214 lh 59 h5 CC Skylab, Houston, we're going LOS in 20 seconds.

See you over Hawaii at 15:13. And for the SPT,
use any legbands available today.

SPT Okay. And I did find some of those on the okay

list over in the other spare locker, Story.
Thank you.

21_ 15 00 02 CC Great, Owen.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

214 15 14 ii CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 8 minutes.

21h 15 19 41 CC Skylab, we're 15 seconds to a 1-minute keyhole.

CC We're back with you, Skylab. And, CDR, we've

got some answers to your questions on decals and
EREP feeler gages.

CDR Okay. Go ahead.

CC Now, we launched seven decals and one S192 scribe

and one S192 feeler gage, plus one EREP shim.

CC All of them are located in the transfer data card

kit, that was in R-3 and should now be in W742.
The EREP shim can be located inside the pages of
the cover of the EREP malfunction procedure. That's
located at Mll0.

214 15 22 00 CDR Okay. Good. We knew where those were and we

thought maybe there were some others. But if
that's it, we've got them all. Thanks.

CC Okay. And one other thing here, A1. On the S073,

leave that switch on. Even if the displays go
blank, you still have 28-volt heater power. So
when you pass by the experiment, if you haven't,
leave the switch on.

CDR I'll go check it and put it on right now.

CC Thank you, sir.

214 15 22 34 CC We're going LOS here. We'll pick you up over

Goldstone in 4 minutes.

214 15 25 59 CC Skylah, Houston. Have you through Goldstone for

5 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story. You ought to have real-time TV,

if you want to take a look at it.

CC Say again, please.

PLT We should be sending you down TV at this time.

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CC Okay, we're looking for it.

PLT Okay. We're going to run the LBNP, and Al's go-
ing to be working on the bicycle for a little
exercise.

CC Roger.

214 15 28 45 CDR Story, is the general feeling down there that both
of these quads now are isolated and we're not
losing either propellant or helium out of them?

CC That's affirmative, A1.

CDR Is also the general feeling that, if we had to

use them some time from now, that we could turn
them on and use them?

CC We're looking at that very hard right now, A1,

especially how much time we could get out of quad
Delta.

CDR What do you mean, how much time out of quad Delta?

CC How much burn time and how many duty cycles we

could get out of it.

CDR You mean from the point of view of turning on the

propellant and the helium, and then making a burn
and then turning off the propellant and the helium?

CC That's affirmative.

CDR Okay. What's the opinion down there, generally,

that one of these valves is stuck open on each
of those quads somewhere, either putting out ox-
idizer or propellant?

21_ 15 30 45 CC Alan, on quad Bravo, we think it is an oxidizer

valve partially open. On Delta, it could be a
valve or the connection to the quad.

CDR Okay, understand.

CC But we are still working that real hard. We're

going LOS here. We'll see you over MLA in
3 minutes.
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214 15 31 08 CDR Okay.

214 15 34 06 CC Skylab, we've got you through MLA and Bermuda for
l0 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorders
over Bermuda at 15:35.

214 15 4B 03 CC Skylab, Houston.

SPT Go ahead, Story.

CC Can all three crewmen hear me, sir?

SPT Well, Just barely. Jack 's in the LBNP, Just

starting that run. A1 is on the ergometer pedal-
ing, and I'm the observer, of course, at the
squawk box. So we're all here in one group but
we're all sort of working. Maybe we can hear you
all right. I'll turn the volume up a bit.

214 15 43 hl CC Okay. We' re - we're working these quad Bravo

and quad Delta problems real hard down here.
Because of those problems, we' d like to cancel
the EVA that's presently scheduled for day 8.
And we'd like to have a management operational
discussion with you all over Goldstone at 18:40,
or possibly over Goldstone at 20:18.

SPT Stand by and I'll check those times.

CDR 18:40 is probably good, isn't it?

CC Yes, sir.

CDR Okay, we'll be ready.

CC If we can't pull all the data together by then,

it will be at 20:18.

214 15 44 30 CDR Okay, give us about 30 minutes' notice, would

you?

CC We'll do that. And one other thing; we don't

like disturbing you on the bike. Did you turn
the S073 POWER switch, ON? We're getting good
telemetry now.

CDR I turned it ON, but the lights went on and then

kicked off again Just as they have been doing.
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CC Okay, we Just wanted to verify that you did throw

the switch.

CDR Okay, I mi@ht try moving the shaft and trunnion

when I get off here, even though the lights are
off. Perhaps that would work. I don't know.

214 15 45 06 CC We'll take care of that when we get to the sched-

uled time for S073. We're going LOS here in
about 40 seconds. We'll see you over Ascension,
15:52. And as we go over the hill, turn the TV
camera, OFF, at your convenience.

214 15 45 23 CDR Okay.

214 15 52 39 CC Skylab, we have you through Ascension for I0 min-

utes.

SPT Roger.

214 16 01 52 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over Carnarvon at 16:24.

214 16 25 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through Carnarvon

for l0 minutes.

CC A1, you working S073 now?

CDR I'm - I'm over here by the 73 and I was - and it

Just won't do. It won't - it comes on and clicks
off. I can't point it to the pad numbers. I
tried putting the programer in the correct con-
figuration; that didn't help either. You turn
on the power switch_ 2 seconds later it kicks off.
Now I might be able to Just - Well, there's no-
thing I can do as far as I can tell. I'll get
out the malf procedures and start working on that
if you recommend it.

CC Okay, we've got some stuff here for you. Now

configure the - -

CDR Okay.

214 16 26 03 CC Configure the tape recorder select switch so that

we can have telemetry. Check that you've got that
and then try mode 6.
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CDR Try mode 6. Okay, Just a second.

214 16 27 01 CDR I tried mode 6. It came on for about B seconds,

then kicke_ off again.

CC Okay, A1, install the shorting plug, the A-10,

and try to drive the photometer to SHAFT, B40,
and TRUNNION, 000. The normal is 040 and 000,
but B40 on the shaft ought to do it.

CDR Okay 5 we'll try.

214 16 29 B0 CDR I installed the shorting plug, tried to move it

and I moved it three or four steps before it
kicked off. It looks like if I do that repeat-
edly I can get the numbers you want maybe.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

214 16 30 48 CC AI, we see it moving. Keep getting all you

can to get to a retract position. And remind
the M092/MI71 people downstrairs that when they
get ready to run that, they've got priority on
the tape recorders and set them back to the
MI71 position.

CDR Okay, now it doesn't show it running here.

It moved that few times when I called you,
but now it seems to be stuck on 375, 00h.

214 16 32 02 CC A1, take the SHAFT switch to OFF and then to

DECREASE.

CDR Okay, I've done that a couple of times. I

can move the trunnion. It's the shaft I can't
move. Doesn't seem to want to go either
direction.

CDR Hasn't moved in the last couple of minutes.

And the SHAFT is in DECREASE.

214 16 32 48 CC Okay, A1. Put the TRUNNION to 000. Do what

you can with the shaft, and then install the
Jumper cable via the cue card.

CDR Okay. In work.

21h 16 3_ 52 CDR Okay, I'm going to do - make that Jnmper cable

changeout and, to do it, I'm going to discon-
nect from telemetry here and disconnect the
power.

CC Okay, A1. And that Jumper cable procedure is

at - at your convenience any time. It's not
time critical. Just be sure to leave the
POWER switch, ON.

CDR Okay. Well, I'm going to disconnect it for

a minute here, so I can take that cable off.

214 16 35 20 CC Good idea. We're i0 seconds to LOS here.

We'll he picking you up over Guam in
3 minutes.
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214 16 38 51 CC Skylah, we've got you over Guam for i0 minutes.

CDR Okay. Story, l've replaced the Jumper cable

and ens.ured that both ends of the connector
are tight. And l've attempted to move the
shaft, but no luck

CC The TRUNNION switch has got to be in the center

position for the shaft to work, A1.

CDR It's in the center, OFF position stud I put the

TRUNNION in zero.

CC Roger.

CC A1, I think it's lunch time now.

CDR Okay. I'll Just leave the POWER, ON, and

I do not have the programer hooked up at the
moment. I have a shorting plug in. Is that
the way you want it?

CC Yes, that's affirmative. And remind the boys

downstairs to reconfigure tape recorders for
M171.

CDR Will do.

CDR It's strange that the shaft went out to 375,

because the limit was B74.

CC Copy that.

CDR Is this where it stuck on SL-2?

214 16 41 04 CC That's similar, A1.

214 16 47 1B CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

CC If you've completed the isolation check on

the electrodes, could you be sure the ISOLATION
switch is in the OFF position?

SPT Very good, you caught that - promptly. We're

getting a dead short on the isolation. I
guess we - well, we think we've loosened the
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blood pressure cuff and I'm confident that

the short is in that blood pressure cuff, to
ground. It's a normal occurrence. We're
pressing on, even though it does show a dead
short on ISOLATION. Over.

CC That's - that's fine, Owen. We got - 30 seconds

to LOS here. We'll see you over at Goldstone
at 17:04.

214 16 48 04 SPT Thanks for catching that.

21h 17 04 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you stateside for

15 minutes.

SPT Okay, Story. We're about 15 minutes into the

171 now.

CC Okay.

CC No need to acknowledge, Owen, but t_e data

looks good.

214 17 07 45 SPT You'll notice those blood pressure measurements

are a bit erratic. Now that last one was a
good one, 202, because he held his left arm
off the bicycle. But it's difficult to do that
when that's your only means of restraint. The
preceding, which is higher, l'm sure was
erroneous.

CC Yes. We caught that, Owen. Thank you.

214 17 i0 00 CC Skylab, we're 15 seconds to a 1-minute keyhole.

214 17 ii 04 CC And we're back with you.

214 17.14 24 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, AI,

CDR Okay. I'm running through this housekeeping

CM7 check right now. And I was looking at the
CM RCS injector valve temps. And they're
supposed to be greater than i. 5, and I noticed
a couple of them are not. B-9 is about l.h,
at least on this gage.
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CC Copy.

CDR And B-6 is 1.4.

CC Okay.

214 17 20 21 CC Skylab, We're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see

you over Carnarvon at 18:03.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

214 18 03 17 CC Skylab, we have you through Carnarvon for

7 minutes.

PLT Here we are.

CC And what's everybody doing now?

PLT Well, we're getting our cameras out, and we're

getting a little chow and running behind, as
usual.

CC Okay. Today, that's fine. Now your management

conference is still on, over Goldstone, at
18:_0.

PLT Okay.

CC And for that reason, it's probably best that you

slip the beginning of M092/M171 until right
after that conference.

CDR Sounds like a good idea. We just brought S019

film load down. And, unfortunately, the EC
magazine and the other S019 are in the D locker.
And you got any other suggestions?

214 18 04 27 CC Would you explain that again, Al?

I CDR Okay. We've got two SO19 film canistersaboard.

And this morning, I wondered where to put the
second one. You indicated it was - Houston
indicated it was the D locker. I think they
did - maybe it is a different one. And I went
down there and looked and there's already
one in there. That's the first one I brought
up, plus the TC magazine. So there's no room
for this second one in there, that I can see.

CC Okay. You'd like an answer on where to put the

second one?

CDR Roger. I've got it in a bag down here. I'm

just waiting to slip it in somewhere. It won't
fit in a normal film drawer; it's Just a little
too big - a little too high.
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CC Okay.

214 18 05 15 SPT Hey, Story, SPT. I'm a little late getting you
your BMMD readings. Do you want to get those
down now this morning?

CC That's affirmative, 0wen.

SPT Okay. Everyone's top shape. No medications,

and the BMMD readings, three for each of us in
turn: 6.23_, 6.230, 6.235; 5.995, 6.003, 5.995;
6.955, 6.954, 6.949. And lot less scattered.

CC Got it.

CC CDR, Houston.

214 18 05 52 CC A1, did you get the fuel cell purge done last
night?

CDR I did not. I made a - I asked if you wanted

one and I didn't see one to do. Was there one
on the plan and I missed it?

CC That's housekeeping, command module 4. And you

could do that today when you finish up command
module 7.

CDR Okay, I think I asked about that. I was - earlier

yesterday whether you wanted me to do it or wait
for a message from the ground. But I guess the
housekeeping _, that was enough. I'll go do it
Just as soon as we finish this. It's - Presently
ECS is _ning and, when I turn it off, I'll do
the fuel cell check.

CC Okay, and there's no hurry on this. And for the

rest of the day there are no time-critical events.
The VTR presently is inoperative. I'll leave it
in its present status because we're going to do
some troubleshooting. And so, from now on, any
TV we get will have to be real time.

CDR Okay.

CC The quad temps you reported earlier, we considered

okay. If necessary, if we need to use the quads,
we'll use the heaters. And considering your
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film stowage, take the ETC mag out of D and put

it in J, and then your second S019 mag, put in D.

214 18 l0 19 CC And we're going LOS here at this time. We'll

see you over at Guam in 7 minutes.

214 18 17 30 CC Skylab, we have you through Guam for 6 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story.

CC And who's closest to the ATM panel this time?

SPT A1 says he's on the way. What do you want?

CC Okay. We would prefer to back up the CMGs with

the TACS instead of the CSM, because of quad
problems. So, we'd like to _ABLE CMG RESET,
and ENABLE the six TACS switches.

SPT Okay. We'll take care of it.

CC And you need to get the TACS switches, but

we can get the CMG RESET from the ground,if
you prefer, or I can give you a DAS command.

SPT No, we'll check the DAS command on the little

pad, right there, and put it in and just put
on the TACS switches.

CC Okay. Thanks.

214 18 19 39 SPT Okay, Story. You ought to see it on the ground

now. The AUTO RESET enabled and the TACS
switches are - of course, they don't see those,
but they're all on.

CC We're seeing them, Owen.

214 18 23 13 CC Skylab, Houston, l0 seconds to LOS. We'll be

picking you up over Goldstone at 18:40. And
could you turn EXPERIMENT l, TAPE RECORDER, OFF,
please. We'd like to make a dump.

CDR It looked off to us, Story.

CC Say again.

CDR It looked like it was off.

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214 18 24 00 CC Roger.

214 18 40 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you stateside for

16 minutes.

CDR Roger.

MCC Hey, A1. This is Chris Kraft.

CDR Go ahead, Chris.

MCC We Just had a meeting to Sl_mmarize the status of

where we think we stand, and I'd like to give
you a rundown on that, if you're ready.

CDR We're ready.

MCC As far as the RCS system is concerned we really

can't determine, at this particular moment,
whether we have a generic problem or whether
we have some - two unique problems with these
quads. Now what I mean by that is that we're
chasing down the possibilities of any contamination
in the - in the propellant and, particularly,
the oxidizer. Offhand, we don't see any, but
we're running that down. We're also checking
any problems we might have had at the Cape, and
the instrumentation on the system, or anything
else that looks like we may have something that
connects the ground test with what we're seeing
in flight. But, offhand, we don't see any
generic problems. Secondly, we feel fairly
confident that we've got two quads for attitude
control, should we have a problem with anything
that would result in _mmediate need for reentry.
We have the command module attitude system as a
backup to that. And we feel, indeed, if we needed
a backup for the SPS, that we could use the RCS
for a backup reentry. So we feel fairly
confident in that system. Now, just to be
prudent, however, we have started the preparation
of the vehicle at the Cape, on a - on an
accelerated basis, so that we would have a rescue
vehicle available to us, should that become
necessary. By the way, I'm talking on the open
loop here, A1.

CDR Understand.
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214 18 42 47 MCC Now, let me talk a little bit about the EVA.
We think there it would be prudent to probably
delay that, and we aren't prepared to say how
long, whether that's 24, 48 hours, or what.
But we feel it would be prudent to delay that
EVA to allow us some additional procedural
development here on the ground for both reentry
under the conditions we now have, that is two
quads, and to assure proper OWS performance
during the EVA. What I'm talking about there
is the problems we've had with the condensate
loop and so forth. We'd just like to make
sure that we've got that all squared away so
that, if we had some problems during the EVA,
that we'd know precisely how to handle them.
Therefore, on that - on that basis, we think
we ought to take a little more time in
developing those procedures. Not that we're
not satisfied with the ones you have on board,
we Just think it'd be a good idea to take that
extra time.

CDR Unders tand.

214 18 43 52 MCC Okay. Now I guess, in - in concluding, I'd

like to say that - further, that we're
proceeding here with - as if we're going to
have a nominal mission. And as far as your
work is concerned and the flight planning is
concerned, with the exception of sending you
up some possible modifications to procedures
for emergency situations under the two-quad
case, that we're going to plan your workdays
and your of fdays and the use of the onboard
equipment as if it were a perfectly nominal
mission. And we feel that's the proper way to
go also. Now I'll conclude my input here and
say that - that's our input to you. And if
you feel like you need any further discussion
on this thing, you can free - feel free to
call us in any way in which you want to.

214 18 44 45 CDR None. You Just said the right words. We've
been hoping you'd say that all day. Ever
since we found out that that was a true
problem that we had with our quads this
morning_ we've been sort of concerned. And
I think that I speak for Jack and Owen, and
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I know for myself, when I say we're pretty happy

with the way things are going at the moment.
And we agree with everything you've said about
the capability that exist right now in the
spacecraft and the capability that would exlst,
even if we had some further problems. We don't
plan on any. But, even if we did, we still
have plenty of capability to return home safely.
And we agree lO0 percent with what you Just
s/Ino_L_ced.

MCC Okay. So be it.

21h 18 45 36 CC Okay, Skylab. CAP COMM's back with you.

CDR Great. Everybody's happy up here.

CC Okay.

21_ 18 48 41 PLT Hello, Story, you there?

CC Yes, sir, for another 7-1/2 minutes.

PLT You'd better be there for another 56 days.

CC I will.

PLT Okay, here's the message I want to get across.

That EREP Checklist you sent me to change this
morning, I made the change, number 003. But
you only teleprinted up one thermal square
search pattern, page 10-11, to stick in the
checklist and I got two books. Are you
planning on sending another one?

CC Stand by l, Jack.

CC Jack, we can send you another change.

PLT Okay.

214 18 55 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS.

We'll pick you up in Vanguard in l0 minutes.
And the TV we got with the CDR doing PT was
great, and we'd like to cancel the rest of
the TV for the day

214 18 55 52 CDR Okay.

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21h 19 07 20 CC Skylab, we have you through Vanguard for 7 minutes.

PLT Hello, Story. We've completed housekeeping CM-7,

and we've got the fuel cells all purged and
purge 1 heater's off.

CC Okay, copy that. And while I have you, concerning

all the checklist changes we sent up this
morning, delete those CSM changes.

PLT Oh, we already got the CSM changes incorporated.

In fact, I think we've got them all incorporated.

CC Okay, we copy that. We're going to send you

up the incorporate quad Bravo and Delta changes.

214 19 14 ll CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 1 minute. See you

over Goldstone at 20:18.

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214 20 18 25 CC Skylab; Houston. We've got you through

Goldstone and Texas for ll minutes. We'll
have a keyhole about a minute from now.

CC And we're coming up on the keyhole now.

PLT Hello, Story. The EREP guys listening?

CC Go ahead.

214 20 20 h7 PLT Okay. I started to load this film, but I got

a couple of questions. It isn't going to take
me long once I get into it, but I started
loading the first one, and the leader didn't
look much like the picture in the book. I'm
referring to page 12-4 of the EREP sys -
EREP Checklist. And I'll tell you what the
picture looks like, and then you can tell me
what to do. I got a hunch what I'm supposed
to do but I Just want to verify it with you.

CC Okay.

PLT Now, those - those punched numbers representing

the stage - station number and the film load
are about 3 inches from the end. And then
there's two holes that overlap each other;
they're only 13 inches from the end instead
of - instead of 2 feet. And then the first
hole that is Just before the sensitometry, is
5 feet away from those two punched holes that
are 13 inches from the end of the leader.
And there's supposed to be, according to the
picture, only a distance of 12 inches there.
So I want you to tell me what you want me to put
in the - how you want me to lo_d the f_Im.

214 20 22 13 CC Stand by l, Jack. And, Jack, we have sent up

message 0631 Charlie. Have you got that?

PLT I haven't looked yet, but it's probably there.

So, in snmmary, I want to say this, the two
punched holes overlap each other, and they're
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13 inches from the end. The single hole is

5 feet after the double-punched hole. So I
want you to tell me what cue I ought to use to
load the film.

CC We're working on it.

214 20 22 51 PLT And I also - also noticed that the dull - the
dull side - of the film is out forward. I
presume that's the emulsion, but the shiny
side is in, and the dull side is out.

CC Copy.

CC And, Jack, we're going to be running some stuff

up on the teleprinter right now, so don't
touch it. And the dewpoint is such here that
we're - we're approaching a point where we're
going to flood the fans. We're going to need
to dump the condesate holding tank and, until
we can get to that, I'd like to give you a
procedure for shutting down the fans.

214 20 23 51 PLT Okay, go ahead.

CC That's on panel 390, OWS HEAT EXCHANGER FANS,

1 through _, four, OFF.

PLT Okay.

CC And on panel 203, AM FANS, slant CIRCULATION

1 through 3, three, OFF.

PLT Okay.

214 20 24 17 CC And when the CDR gets through with M171, we'll
have him do a condensate holding tA_k dump.

PLT Okay. But. Well, I can turn the fans off now.
Is that right?

CC That's correct. Get them off now. For the

SPT, and no need to acknowledge, the SMMD data,
it was loud, but slightly garbled, but we did
get it.
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SPT You don't need any repeats. Is that right?

CC That's right for the SPT. The channel A data

was good..

SPT Oh, fine. I thought you were talking about

the SMMD data.

214 20 25 28 CC That's what I was talking about, and it's good.

SPT Okay, fine. TbA,_ you. And you should be get-

ting real-time data on the CDR bicycle now.

CC Okay. And, for the CDR, and please do not ac--

knowledge , we've got another 8073 procedure. So
don't do anything with it until we call it up.

214 20 28 48 CC Skylab, we're going L0S in 30 seconds. We'll

see you over Vanguard in 15 minutes. That's
at 20 :44, and we 'll be dumping the tape
recorders over Vanguard.

214 20 42 50 _ CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through the

Vanguard for 8 minutes.

CC And, CDR, when available, I've got about three

messages for you.

CDR Okay, go ahead.

CC Since you're doing housekeeping command module 7

today, you don't need to do command module 2.
It's scheduled at 02:30 on your detail pad.

CDR That's good news. We've finished 7 already.

214 20 43 30 CC And we've got another S073 procedure for you.

We are interested in getting the experiment
out so we can use the ETC on an EREP pass,
and I've got another procedure for you.

CDR Let me get a piece of paper.

CC Okay.

CDR Okay, Story, go ahead.

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214 20 44 12 CC That's drive TRUNNION in INCREASE until you

get about 010 octal and then try SHAFT, DECREASE.
And if no luck on that, try SHAFT, INCREASE a
few times, remembering there are six electrical
stops and you'll need to cycle the switch to
get through them. And, if no luck on that,
reconnect the automatic programer and try
mode 6 again.

CDR Okay, copied all those.

214 20 44 59 CC That's the S073. And, after that, we've got

a message up to you; that is 0640A. That's
the condensate holding tank dump.

CDR Okay. You mean that's the message on the

teleprinter?

CC Roger. That's up on the teleprinter.

CDR Okay, we'll go check and get it out. Anything

else?

214 20 45 28 CC Stand by 1. And on the S073, A1, configure

the tape recorder selector so that we can see
your good work.

CDR Okay, I'll go work on that right now, matter

of fact.

SPT I have a question for you, Story. At 21:15 -

21:30 on my Flight Plan - it's the ATM block,
my SPT details give me an ATM pass, special
powerup/powerdown procedures for general
message 0625 and 626. Have those recently
come up? Or when was I supposed to get those
general messages?

214 20 46 38 CC Could you clarify that for us, (>wen?

SPT Yes. On my Flight Plan, I have an ATM block

scheduled at 21:30, and in my SPT details,
21:15, it says ATM pad, use special powerup/
powerdown procedures for general message ATM
powerup 0625, and powerdown, 0626. And I'm
trying to find those two general messages which
presumably were up on the teleprinter. I
wonder if they've come recently, or is this
somethig I supposed to - supposelyhad some
time ago? Over.
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214 20 47 18 CC We sent those up last night, 0wen.

214 20 47 25 SPT Okay, we haven't found them yet. I'll go see

if I ca_ track them down.

CC Stand by Just i.

CC (>wen, Houston.

SPT Go.

CC The ATM pass was for TV. And since the VTR
is broken and we have a sparsity of TV passes
and we are going to send you some good ATM
tomorrow, we suggest you delete the ATM today.

214 20 48 27 SPT Okay, I'ii delete that and how about that star
tracker procedure that you - we talked about
earlier this morning. Do you want to get that
star tracker procedure moved around and locked
on to Canopus if we can?

CC Yes, sir. We'd like that.

SPT All right. If this is a convenient time, I'll

run up there and go through that star tracker
procedure now for you.

CC That's correct. We're showing down here

4 minutes of day remaining.

214 20 48 56 SPT Okay, I understand I'm suppose to wait until

nighttime, so I'll wait Just 4 more minutes.

CC Roger.

CC And, PLT, we hope to have a procedure for you

in about 1 more minute. We're 3 minutes to
LOS.

CDR Okay, Story. I've tried all three of those

S073 procedures. I was able to move the
TRUNNION to O10, as you suggested, but was not
able to accomplish any of the other things
you suggested.

CC Okay, copy.
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21h 20 50 22 CDR You want me to leave the recorders - two

experiment recorders on or turn them off now?

CC PLT, Houston.

CDR Go ahead, he's listening.

CC Okay, there is a threading procedure to help

you out, Jack, on page 8-3. Follow this
procedure which implies there's enough film
for two holes on the platen. And it is
possible to have holes overlap because they're
manually punched. Having the dull side out
is correct and, if you have any further
questions, check to see that the supply
cassette is properly configured.

214 20 52 08 PLT Okay, I understand the procedure. I read all

that stuff in 8-3, and I'll assume that the
two holes that overlap 13 inches from the end
are the ones that are supposed to be 2 feet
from the end. Then, I'll position them in the
middle of the frame.

CC That's right, Jack.

PLT Okay, that's what I thought you'd say, but

I wanted to make sure.

214 20 52 30 CC Yes, sir.

PLT Thank you very much.

214 20 52 34 CC Okay, and we're I0 seconds to LOS. Be picking

you up over Hawaii at 21:52, and we'll be
dumping the tape recorders then. And_ as we
go over the hill here, we'd like - we have
an S073 operation for you. That's MODE 1
Bravo; TRUNNION 002, GAIN, 8; FIELD OF VIEW,
i; REP, 15; start at 21:02.

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SKYIAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

214 21 50 56 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Hawaii for 6 minutes, and

we'll be doing a data recorder dump.

CDR Sounds good, Crip. Good to hear your voice and

we Just started the bat charge, and it's charging
away on BAT 6.

CC Very good. Nice to hear you guys again.

CDR Yes. Say, when Story went over the hill, he gave
us a fast call for an S073, which nobody h d a
pencil near, so we didn't do it. But not only
that, S073 doesn't do anything, and I'm Just
kind of wondering what our next move is.

CC Okay. Story was afraid that y'all didn't get that.

And all they were trying to do was to take advan-
tage of why it was out there and see if we could
get some operations on it. We got Corollary trying
to come up with a plan of action for you, and we'll
get some word to you right quick.

CDR Boy, if we get - Whenever we get that thing in

again we ought to operate it inside in all modes
and make sure the thing works before we stick it
out the door again.

CC Yes, it seems like we've seen this problem before.

CDR You said it.

214 21 52 08 SPT Robert, SPT. Let me talk to you about star tracker
for a moment.

CC Okay, Owen. Go ahead.

Sl°T What's this - the procedure on 0639 Alfa message?

And the first time down through, I Just tried -
but I got the STAR TRACKER SHUTI_R talkback. It
was in OPEN. Not - That was the way I found the
panel. So, I tried to close it by a manual clo-
sure, and it would not close. It remained open.
So I then turned the STAR TRACKER POWER, OFF;
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and when I turned the power back on again, then

the _ER went barber pole. And then I went to
MANUAL. I went ahead and went to the appropriate
inner-outer, gimbal angles for Canopus. I did not
find a star there, but I think it may have been
because the GG dump had already come in. And
then, went to MANUAL to - to - or rather to
CLOSE - to close the doors and leave the gimbals
where they were. So, let me Just check to see if
they're still not there right now.

214 21 53 08 CC Okay. Copy that, 0wen. Then the door did close
when you closed it that last time?

SPT Yes. The door did close then; and the door's
still barber pole now; and the gimbals are still
where I left them about 30 or 40 minutes ago. And
so, it looks like it ought to be ready to go again
any time Canopus is available. I have not tried
to cha - I did notice on the status board that
Canopus is a selected star, but I've not updated
any information. Y'all - you all are handling
the - the orbit plane updates and so on. So I'm
a little curious as to the sort of behavior of
the STAR TRACKER at this point. Could you give
me a clue as to what degree it has been m_1 func-
tioning and whether or not you think it's working
okay? Over.

214 21 53 54 CC Okay, let me see if I can get you a story on that.

CDR One question on the photo - prep.

CC I 'm sorry. Say that again, AI.

CDR I got a question for the photo troop. I was

looking on our card here - interior and exterior
photos. It mentions that the Nikon camera CX
film has a speed of 64. Yet when I took the f_Im
out of the locker, the little gray tape on the
side said a speed of 500. I thought - I tho_ght
that was CI film.

CC Okay. Let us check that, please.

CDR And Crip, we'd like to make another request if

we can.
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CC Okay, go ahead.

214 21 55 05 CDR Our chiller has gotten mostly I_S hardware in

there. NA4nly, the cooler we brought up in the
command module. Owen had talked to several people
before we left about removing the cooler and
Just leaving the contents in there. And then,
several days prior to the time we come home, put
the cooler back in. That way, we could have the
chiller open. Now we can't hardly get anything
in it because of those items. Could you ask
them to come up with where we - they - we should
put the two parts of the chiller in the interim
and make sure it's okay to do it?

SPT Want me to explain that, Al?

CDR Say again?

SPT ...

CDR Go ahead.

214 21 55 49 SPT Yes, Bob. I talked to Dr. Kel Ferguson over at

building 37, is the man who packed all this, and
the IMSS ; and we did have the procedure worked
out to where it could be removed, the contents
left in the chiller, and then strapped to the
floor. But since we did not have a formal pro-
cedure on that, we thought we ought to check with
y' all to make sure you were aware of what we were
doing, and that no one else had any complaints
about it.

CC Okay. I understand. You Just want blessing on

doing that and also recommendations for where to -
where to put the container?

PLT That 's affirm, although the only recommendation

we had at launch was Just to strap it to the
floor up in the top half somewhere.

CC Okay. We'll start somebody working on it. I

thought that had already been cleared through,
myself. But we'll check it.
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CDR Okay, I've got an answer to something that you

sent up about the ILCA.
i

CC Okay. Go ahead, A1.

214 21 56 43 CDR Okay. Question one. I won't read the question,

but - but I'll Just say the answer, that is all.
Question 2: we don't know, but we do not think
we used it after this time. And what's the pre-
sent configuration of the NUMERIC? It's in DIM,
and INTERVAL light switch is - INTERVAL switch is
OFF.

CC Okeydoke.

CDR And by the way, that isn't true, this instance,

but that's been the - generally true during all
this period.

CC Okeydoke.

214 21 57 B2 CDR And Owen can give you where they are now. l'm
pretty sure that NUMERIC is ON and SRIGHT, the
same with INTERVAL. But generally speaking, during
this period, it was otherwise.

SPT At the moment, all the lighting switches are IN-

VARIABLE. And I had another question for somebody
down there, Bob. It's been puzzling me here a
little bit. And that is that I'm not sure if you
have s_ne internal power turned off in the C&D
panel at this point or - or not, but we only get
displays in BUS 2 position, none in the BUS 1
position. And I'm wondering if there is any fur-
ther powerup that we need to be aware of before
we get the ATM panel into proper configuration.

214 21 58 14 CC Okay. We'll check that out for you. And we got
about B0 seconds until LOS. We're going to have you
again at Vanguard at 22:20, 22:20. And meanwhile,
on S073, AI, if you could, we'd like you to posi-
tion the TRUNNION switch to OFF and the SHAFT to
DECREASE. And we suspect that maybe the heater
on the shaft has failed. And this'll give us a -
give us a hint at it.
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CDR Okay. I'ii do that. By the way, the condensate

holding tank is being dumped. It looks like it's
almost done.

CC Okay. We'll look at that over Vanguard then.

And I'll try to have some answers to these other
questions for you.

SPY Bob, I don't know whether it's more work or too

much work for y'all, but answers on the teleprinter
are fine.

CC It's probably easier to do it by voice if you

want them quick.

214 21 59 08 SPT Okay.

214 22 21 49 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard for about

8 minutes; and if you gentlemen are through with
the experiment 1 recorder, we want to dump it.

SPT Experiment 1 is Just on at your request on that

S073 stuff, Bob.

CC Okay. Stand by 1 on that. Owen, if possible.

We would like you to go ahead and try to reacquire
a star with the star tracker now. We think that
problem that you experienced probably was Just
sticky talkb ack.

214 22 22 23 SPT Well, I gave it a couple of taps and it wouldn't

shake loose. You - are the Canopus gimbal angles
still good at this time?

CC That's affirmative. And CDR, Houston. Regarding

your question on the film awhile ago. If we un-
derstood you correctly, you were saying that on
a CX magazine, it said the speed was 64. If that
is what you said, then that is correct. That is
exterior film, and that is the correct speed for
exterior. CI, which is interior film, has a
speed of 500.

CDR That was the problem. It said CX with a speed

of 500.

CC Okay. Sounds like it 's mislabled.

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CDR Could be. I - let me tell you where I got it,

and you can tell me which it really is.

CC Okay. If St says CX 500, that's incorrect.

CDR Okay, Just a second. I'll tell you which one it

was.

MCC The CX. If it says CX, that's it. That's affirm.

214 22 24 07 CC And Skylab, Houston. We are doing a - a data

recorder dump.

CDR Okay, I got that out of H-ll.

CC Understand out of A-11 and - -

CDR That 's negative - H.

CC - - H-11. Okay.

CDR Hotel ii.

CC Roger, copy. And you can ass_ne the CX is cor-

rect, that the correct speed is 64. The 500 is
incorrect.

CDR Okay. I'ii tell you what. I checked the tank a

minute ago on the dump. Looked like it was com-
pletely empty, but l've been letting it dump
since then also.

CC Okay. Copied that ; and I 're got some more S073

stuff, if you can copy.

214 22 24 53 SPT I Just got a manual lock ON on Canopus and

switched to AUTO, Robert.

CC Okay, very good, Owen.

CDR Okay, go ahead.

CC Okay. We'd like you to turn the SHAFT to OFF.

Position the TRUNNION to AUTO 120, 120. Turn the
SHAFT, OFF and TRUNNION, OFF. Okay, when you get
the switches like that, we would like you to don
the utility gloves and retract S073 until the
photometer head contacts the vehicle. And we
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want you to torque the extension rods lightly,

both clockwise and counterclockwise. After doing
that, we would like you to extend it back out,
pull two rods, put the SHAFT to DECHEASE. Copy
that ?

214 22 25 53 CDR Roger. Let me read it back again. SHAFT, OFF.

TRUNNION to 120. Then OFF, also. Don the gloves,
retract 73 until it bumps into the side of the
vehicle. Then torque it right and left a little
bit. Try to loosen things up, I gather. Then
extend it - two rods and try to get the SHAFT to
DECREASE.

CC That's affirmative. And if that doesn't work,

we would like you to tap lightly on the aft end
on the left as you're facing the unit, to see if
we can free up a relay that may be sticking in
there.

214 22 26 38 CDR Okay. The aft - aft end, left. Is that as I'm
standing at the control panel?

CC No, it's the - as you - standing at the end where

the rods go in it.

CDR Okay. l'm standing at the end with the rods,

looking towards minus-Z, and I go over to the
left side there and bang on it?

CC That's affirmative. And, of course, you need to -

need to be cautious on such pretty good moment
arm.

CDR He's got a point. Okay.

214 22 27 21 CC And, Owen, for your information, we copied that

the computer did close the STAR TRACKER SHUTTER
normally due to occultation. So that looks like
it worked proper then.

SPT Very good. So you don't hink there's any problem

at all now?
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CC That's affirm. And if A1 is still there, if the

SHAFT does not drive after the tapping, we'd like
you to put the SHAI_f, OFF again. And we'll want
to pull the shorting plug - excuse me - put the
shorting plug on and then put SHAFT to DECREASE
and leave all night.

CDR Okay, understand.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We've

got a nice long one.

21h 22 29 Oh CC We'll see you again at Hawaii at 23:27. 23:27.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

214 23 27 08 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii for i0 minutes.

CC And, Skylab, for the SPT, I have an answer

regarding your IMHS container out of the chiller,
if you would like it.

214 23 27 42 SPT Hey, Crip, here's a little news for the EREP
world, l'm in the last 192 alignment. I Just
finished the - or - correction, - the visible,
and I'm working on the thermal. But - the
visible gave me left meter 82 percent, right
meter 66 percent.

CC Roger. Left, 82 ; right, 66.

SPT Right.

CC Sounds pretty good.

SPT It's better than the numbers I got before.

CC Yes. And we'd like - like y'all to stay off of

the DAS; we are going to do a Nu z update, if

anybody is in that area.

SPT Okay, and I'm ready for the news on the IMSS.

CC Okay, you have our GO to go ahead and remove the

container, Just to put the items themselves back
into the chiller. Our reco_nendation for stowage,
and it's Just that, a recnmmendation, is to go
ahead and put the two halves of the container
together and to stow it at the foot of the LBNFD
in the area between the - the bnl_head and the
ESS there. Just take a long strap and tie it
dO_ •

SPT Okay, sounds like a good idea. We'll keep you

advised. And I was wondering about our spiders
up here. You know, the malfunction that we had
about 2 days ago, I suspect they have been working
on and thinking about it over there to see if
there isn't seine way to make that box get in
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automatic trigger the way it's suppose to. I

haven't heard anything about it since then, but
as a minimum, of course, we could go ahead and
release those spiders into the cage and then take
still photographs of any activity that might be
produced, if they spin a web - if she spins a
web. And I'm wondering if you've had any thoughts
about that in the last 48 hours or so.

CC Okay, I'll see if we can get some words to you

on that, Owen. Also - -

SPT And I suspect we don't want to leave it in the

vial too long.

CC Right. You are absolutely correct. Regarding

your comment earlier on the unable [sic] to get
displays except on BUS 2 off the ATM C&D, I guess
we would like you to check the circuit breakers
for the inverter lighting control assembly
number 1 and AC-1 on the ATM C&D at your conven-
ience.

214 2B 29 52 SFT Now that you mention it, I believe number 1 is

open; 1,11 go check it, yes.

214 2B 30 24 CC Okay. And, CDR, when you get a chance, if you

could give us an update on the condensate holding
tank dump, we would appreciate it.

214 23 30 45 CDR Roger, Crip. The dump's complete. I sm now

putting a vacuum on the tank.

CC Okay, we copy that.

CDR Crip, we Just had our dinner, and I'm getting

ready to start working on S07B. And the other
day, we started talking about the fact that the
utility gloves were in our clothing module. I
just spent about l0 minutes completely taking
everything out of my clothing module, and I can't
find any utility gloves in there, although, I
agree with you; they are suppose to be in there.
Wonder where they might be.
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CC 0-o-o-o. Okay, we'll see if we can get our

stowage people to come up with an answer on that.
They should have been in the module, right. I
can't give you a good one, right now; we'll - we'll
think about it. Is that where you stand on S073
right now? You were ready to pull it in and can't
find the gloves?

CDR That's affirmative. I have not done a single bit

of the procedure you gave me. We Just got fin-
ished eating dinner.

CC Oh. Okeydoke.

CDR But I was trying to round those up. The other day
Jack had the ..., and he couldn't find his either_
but we Just didn't have time to hunt for them. So
I thought I'd Just go ahead and get - at least
find mind, then I could tell him where. Maybe
they are in one of the pants pockets or something
like that, in one of the modules, but I could
never locate them.

CC Okay, I was under the impression they were stowed

on that little flap. Just as soon as you opened
it up, they should have been right there.

CDR Sounds good on paper. Let me look in some of the

other clothing modules.

CC Okeydoke.

21h 23 32 13 SPT Hey, Bob, the MAIN to INVERTER/LCA i and 2 circuit

breakers are both CLOSED.

CC Okay, and the AC-I is also CLOSED? Is that

affirmative?

214 23 32 22 SPT INVERTER to AC-I and 2 is CLOSED. Or are.

CC Okay.

CC If somebody's got a pencil handy, I've got about

three questions we'd like - like for you to answer
for us on the evening questions or evening status
report tonight.
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CDR Go ahead.

214 23 32 51 CC Okay, the first one is - first two of them are

for the PLT regarding some comments he made during
film threading. The first one is, was film thread-
ing complete for drawer K and L today? N_nber 2
is, during the film threading, you estimated ex-
posing some film. Can you give us the number of
feet estimated exposed and which cassette was in-
volved in the exposure?

214 23 33 29 PLT No.

CC Okay. And question number 3, we would like to

know which functions are inhibited on panel 207,
caution and warning panel?

SPT Okay, just a moment. I'll tell you that.

CC Okay, no big hurry on that, Owen. If you could

Just give it to us at the status report, then
that'll be fine.

SPT It's easier right now.

CC Okay.

SPT RATE GYRO, CONDENSATE TANK DELTA-P, SIEVE B

PPC CO 2 - PPC02, SIEVE B GAS FLOW, SIEVE A

PPCO 2 , and SIEVE A GAS FLOW. And RATE GYRO.

Those are the ones, Bob.

CC Okeydoke.

214 23 3h 41 PLT Crip, on the EREP film, I loaded the cassettes in

drawer K, and I've got yet to do them in drawer L.
The first cassete in drawer K, I exposed film about
1 foot past the - the first dot in the reading of
the sensitometry.

CC Okay, - -

PLT The rest of the cassettes were not exposed at all.

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CC Okay, you don't happen to know that - the number

of that cassette offhand, do you? I can probably
verify it from here.

PLT I think it was S-1.

214 23 35 22 CC Okay. I understand you have completed drawer K,

you have not got to L yet, and cassette S-I it -
exposed about 1 foot of it.

PLT Right; 1 foot past the dot which leads the sensi-
tometry. That's about 6 feet of film. And - I've
got a question. In all of the empty cassettes,
I'm finding a little - spool clamp. Should I go
abead an6 use that to wind the tape on the spool,
or should I Just use tape, or can I use both?

CC See if I can get an answer for you on that. I'll

probably have to get you that answer and give it
to you over Vanguard. We're about 1 minute from
LOS currently, and we'll see you at Vanguard at
23:59. And we will also be doing a data recorder
dump there.

PLT Roger.

214 23 36 30 CC And, Owen, regarding your displays, our recom-

mendation would be to cycle the circuit breaker
for inverter lighting control assembly number 1.
Pull it out, put it back in. Check to see if that
give you - gives you back BUS 1 displays.

SPT Roger.

CC And you can do that at your convenience.

SPT Thank you.

CC Before we go over the hill, Jack, throw the clamp

away and use tape only. Correction - clip, rather.

214 23 37 i0 PLT Roger.

214 23 58 51 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS over Vanguard for the next

7 minutes.
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CC And we need you to stay off the DAS so we can go

back to solar inertial.

214 23 59 i0 SPT Okay, I'll stay clear of it there, Bob. And I'm
of the opinion that we've lost AC-1 in the C&D
panel distribution here. I've recycled both the
INVERTER LCA-1 and the AC-1 circuit breakers.
They're both staying closed. But we have none of
the display functions on BUS l, only on BUS 2.
And checked the integral lighting on the variable,
which is fed from BUS i. We have it on FIXED,
fed from BUS 2, but not on BUS 1. So, I thought
perhaps you'd had another command or something that
could have secured power. We have no readout on
board, of course. But I thought - I think you'd -
you do have telemetry for verifying the voltage on
AC-1 and the C&D distribution. Over.

214 23 59 54 CC We'll recheck that, but I'm pretty - no, unfor-

tunately, we don't have any telemetry on that at
all.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROb-ND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

215 00 O0 02 CC We copy what you say and understand it's inop.

I've got an answer for you on that ED52. We
sent up a general message - a permanent general
message earlier today. It was permanent general
message number 2, which dealt with the procedure
for ED52. And our intent was for you to run that
as a shopping list item. Do you know the message
I'm talking about?

SPT No, I'm afraid I don't, Bob. I'ii go look it up,

though.

CC Okay. It was permanent general message number 2

and the message number on it was 0635, if that'll
help. And if there's a problem with it - if it's
lost or anything, well, we can always retransmit
it. And - -

SPT Roger. I'll check it. Thank you.

CC Okeydoke. And if somebody could turn off

EXPERIMENT 1 and 2 TAPE RECORDERS for us we would
appreciate it.

215 00 00 51 SPT I'll go do it.

CC Also, for the CDR. I've got a question on his

gloves. And we were all fouled up.

SPT Stand by.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. A1, all of the gloves are in D-hl6. They

are in a contingency clothing module up there.

CDR D-hl6. I'll go find them. Thanks.

CC Yes sir.

CC Also, you gentlemen, I think, had a question ear-

lier regarding the MI31 tally cards _s to whether
you could erase them or not. We would prefer for
you to not. We've had a - somewhat of a data
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problem here that we're trying to sift through,

and we may require you to read s_ne of that data
for us later.

SPT I felt certain we'd done it all, Bob, but I ...

if we've still got it.

CC I'm sorry, that transmission was unreadable due

to the feedback.

SPT Roger. Sorry. I've got to go turn the speaker box off.

215 00 02 14 CDR Yes, I'm Just reporting that we won't erase any-
thing we've got, but I'm not certain we still
have that in its completeness.

CC Okay. Understand.

CC And for your information, we are going to be

trying to get your Flight Plan up as soon as we
can. It'll probably be like another rev here.

SPT What'd you say?

SPT I don't have it either.

SPT Houston, Skylab.

CC Go.

215 00 05 12 SPT I don't think we've got general message number

2. At least, everybody around here denies knowledge
of it.

CC Okay. We'll -we'll send you another one. We'll

try to get it up tonight.

SPT There must be somebody else up here wAS king off

with those things.

CC Right. I'll tell you what. As much paper as we

flow through there, it -

215 00 05 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We

won't have you again until we pass Vanguard once
more at 01:37. We'll be looking forward to your
status report at that particular time. And also,
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I _less, EGIL was wondering what was going on

with the condensate tank. Getting a little
anx_ ous.

CDR I was unconnecting it right now.

215 00 06 20 CC 0keydoke. Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

215 01 36 21 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Vanguard for i0 minutes.

Standing by for your status report. And Skylah,
we'll need you off the DAS while we select
experiment pointing mode.

PLT Roger.

CDR Okay, Houston. Status report follows. Urine

volume: 80, 90, i18. Drinking water gun: 907:
4625, 7550, 5596. BMMD: 6.234, 6.230, 6.235 - -

SPT They had all that.

CDR - - 5.995, 6.003, 5.995; 6.955, 6.954, 6.949.

Exercise: 1/20/1685. Also for the CDR, 3/10,
plus the 171 run. SPT, none; PLT, i - correction,
he had a 171 run which was the 1/15/3C28. Medica-
tion, none, none, none. Sleep, 6, good;
5-1/2, good; 6, good. Okay food log follows:
CDR, 7 salt packs, deleted chicken and rice,
biscuits, and wafers - two, and lemonade. He
drank an additional i0 ounces of water. SPT,
3 salt packs, he ate all meal i, all 2, and 4,
plus, lemonade, peanuts, grapefruit drink, pork
loin, with remaining amount measured in SMMD as
2.160. PLT, 6 salt packs, ate all except beef
hash and mashed potatoes. Okay, on the photo log.
16-millimeter: M092/171, CI24, 50 percent, CI19.
The 35-millimeter, 70 millimeter, ETC, et cetera,
no change. EREP, of course, no change. Drawer A
configuration: A-l, 02, CI24, 50 percent,
CI19; A-2, A-3, A-4 position are no change since
the morning thread pad. So just read the thread
pad, and you got it.

215 01 40 26 CC Okay, Skylab. We copied all of that. For

your information, we should be sending you up
your Flight Plan for tomorrow on this pass, we
will not have the SPT's details. We'll try to
get that a little bit later.
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CDR Okay. What was the last part of the transmission i

that I said that you read?

CC On this last on the status reports, copied down

through saying that the A-2, 3, and 4 film
drawers were as per - film thread pad - film
thread pad.

CDR Okay. Let me give you the shopping list

accomplished.

CC Okeydoke.

215 01 41 03 CDR We've made the bicycle mod. We - we modified

the camera for AT_ TV. We took all the multiple
clothes out of the command module and stowed them
somewhere. We configured all the cameras now.
We incorporated all the checklist changes. We
think we're up to date. There's one problem.
Several general messages apparently were missed.
The only general message that I have on board -
and I put it - stuck it with Scotch tape in the
Flight Plan was general message 1. As far as I
know, we have not received any other general mes-
sages. So if there are anymore, please send us
another copy. We cleaned up all the fan screens
in the spacecraft. Let me mention some stowage
changes. D-402 to the waste management compart-
ment, we moved one urine supply module. We had
to put in a urine supply module; we ran out of
bags. We moved one strawberries to the top of
the food locker. S019, to film locker D and
the Earth terrain camera then moved up to B,
per you suggestion. The off-duty calculator,
removed from S-930 to W-718. We got a number of
items, if you got a few moments, that we'd like
to call out the names of. We don't know exactly
where they should go and maybe you could tell us
tomorrow on a pad, if you would.

215 01 42 53 CC Press on. We got about 4 more minutes on this

pass and we'll be glad to copy them for you.
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215 01 43 i0 CDR Okay. One of them is the replacement water valve

1 to the - one - in - in the waste managementcom-
partment. We brought up two. I found one here.
And it told us where to put the other ones but I
couldn't find the locker. I don't recall the
number now, but it must be on top of another
locker or something, because I couldn't find a
locker by that name. But maybe you could give
me a little bit more information on that. Next
is the - the window vent, that's the one that's
been - that's going to clear the water out of
the wardroom window. The little packet of - I
believe it's either - it's nylon that we're
going to put out on EVA where the day - where
the patch was put out last time. I don't know
where to stow that. The S009 motor we have,
and we don't know exactly where you want - you
want us to put that. And the other, I think is
the - I think is the ATM water separator. It
doesn't quite look like it - It's a filter with
a plug on both ends. And it goes in the AM,
but I'm not exactly sure what the name of it is
right now.

215 01 4h 39 CC Okay. Is that the complete list?

CDR That's the list. We've probably got several

others. We've moved everything over to the work-
shop and tried to put it somewhere so we could
get the command module cleaned out and have it
nice and tidy. And it is right now. That's
another thing we did today. So, there' ii be
several items over the next few days we'll
probably call down and say - where is it? Or -
we got one and we need to know where to put it
officially. So, there'll be some of those.

CC Okay. Very fine and we copied all of that.

215 Ol 45 12 CDR Now one of the items that we can't locate and
we'd like to find is the timer for S054. We're
pretty sure we o - unstowed it and put it in its
proper place, but we don't know where that is
and can't seem to find it in the stowage list.
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CC Okay, I'ii see - see - if I can get you an a

answer for that one.

215 01 h5 36 CDR We're Just- we're wondering if it ever came up

for sure. We can't find it anyhow.

CC Fairly certain it was on board. We'll - we'll

try to get you a specific answer on that.

CDR I wouldn't be surprised if there are three of

four items that are stashed somewhere right now
where we can't exactly put our fingers on them,
of all the hundreds we moved in here.

CC Yes, that's a pretty big place to keep track of

it all. We're about 1 minute from - -

CDR Yes, I'm going to open a clothing store when I

leave the program. We've got enough clothes up
here to run one, I'll tell you.

215 01 h6 08 CC Sounds like it. We're about h5 seconds from

LOS now, AI. And, next pass is at Ascension -
Ascension at 01:50. And we'll be doing a data
recorder dump at Ascension and also that'll be
your med - medical conference.

CDR Okay. By the way, I tried everything that

you mentioned on S073. Every single thing,
none of it was workable. I put it - I put
in the shorting plug and put it into DECREASE
and that's where it sets right now.

CC Roger.

215 01 h6 39 CDR I banged it a lot on the sides. Could change

the trunnion, but never the shaft.

215 01 46 h3 CC Okeydoke. That timer was in A-9, by the way.

And the next pass is going to be, after Ascension,
is Guam at 02:35, and I've got some news for you
there if you'd like it.

CDR Sounds good. I'm not sure we won't be - Okay.

We'll be waiting to hear from you. What's our
wake-up time tomorrow morning?
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215 01 47 09 CC Scheduled for ll:O0 GMT.

CDR Okay. And what time does EREP prep start •

then?

CC In the blind. It should be on your pad coming

up to you.

215 01 59 08 CC Hello Skylab, I've got you for about 1 minute

here. As I said, we are going to have next
pass at Guam at 02:35. I would like to get some
fans back on, if somebody could copy the figure.

PLT Go ahead.

215 01 59 24 CC Okay, on panel 390, if we could put the CWS

HEAT EXCHANGER FANS 1 through 4, all to OWS and
on panel 203, the air lock module CIRCULATION
FANS 1 through B, all to HIGH.

PLT They'll be there in a few moments.

CC Thank you very much.

215 01 59 54 CC Okay, and we are about 30 seconds from LOS and

we will see you again at Guam on that 02:35.

215 02 34 23 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Guam for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger. Loud and clear. We were Just admiring

Japan as we whirled over it.

CC Very good. I'm sure it's a pretty sight. I've

got a few items I need to run over with you.
AI, one of them was the - something on the even-
ing report. Specifically, transporter A-3, we'd
like to find out whether that's mounted on the
spider cage or is it in the drawer?

CDR Everything's in the drawer - we only mounted

it momentarily on the spider cage and when
the equipment didn't work, we took it off
and - took it off and put it back in the -
in the vault.
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CC Okay. We copied that. And like to find

out for sure whether or not Jack got to the
drawer L configuration for Sl90.

CDR You bet. He never misses. Mister EREP strikes

again. How'd you like that alignment he did?

CC That's beautiful. I appreciated that optical.

Can you tell us the results of the thermal?

215 02 35 21 PLT I put all that stuff on channel A, but Just to

review, I got the thermal magnified at h5 percent,
which is 5 percent greater than the book number.

CC Okay. That's real good, Jack. Appreciate

it.

SPT W - He's hard to live with. He's feeling awful

cocky up here tonight.

CC Oh my. Marines are like that.

SPT Aren't they.

CC Regarding S073, we'd like to insure that the

configuration we've got it in for this evening
is with the shorting plug installed and the
SHAFT in DECREASE.

CDR You got it right.

215 02 35 56 CC Okay, very good. Also, I'm not sure whether

this item has been discussed with you or not,
but our recommendation is to leave the TACS
ENABT.k
_n and CMG AUTO RESET ENABLED for tonight,
considering our CSM posture.

CDR That's affirm. We don't plan to touch it anymore

until you tell us to do something.

CC Okeydoke.

CC Okay. We'd also like to find out if you've

got 133 activated for tonight?
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215 02 36 23 PLT Sorry, Bob. I have not got it activated and

I did find the general message number 2 in that
ATM pad. There was a logistics problem up here.
I've got them in hand now; of course, it's too
late to do it.

CC Okay. Understand we won't have any MI3B tonight

and that you did get that general message num-
ber 2. You'll probably note later that we've
got that scheduled for - for tomorrow.

CDR We found - Okay. We - we got some of those mes-

sages. We've got - we had them stashed in a
place we didn't think we were stashing them, but
we think we got organized and we won't miss them
anymore.

215 02 37 02 CC Okay. Very good. Regarding the question

earlier on the S054 timer. According to our in-
formation, that should're been launched in A-9.
It was an A-9 at launch and it was listed down
here on your day 5 transfers to be transferred
over to the ATM C&D. And that's the best poop
we've got available on it right now.

CDR Could you check and see what it was packed in?
If it was packed in a sock or, loose, or what.
We can't locate it. We may go up around the ATM
and it may be in with some other experiment or
something.

CC Okay; we'll see if we can get a good answer for

you on that. That's really all the specific
items I've got for you. I could read you some
evening news if you'd like, or have you got anything
for us?

CDR No, read us some news. What are they saying

about Skylah these days?

215 02 37 45 CC Well, there was something weird in there about

the command module having a quad problem.

CDR What does it say?

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CC Unfortunately, I really don't - haven't had an

evening newspaper, AI. And I really don't have
anything that they've said about that. I'll
see if I can find out for you. If we can't
find out this evening, we'll tell you in
"ma_ ana."

CDR Yes, I'd like to know.

CC Okeydoke. I can give you some other items, if

you're interested in them. Would you like me
to read some other stuff?

CDR Yes, go ahead.

215 02 38 19 CC Okeydoke. Treasury Secretary George Schultz

today challenged the growing idea that the
economy will drop into a recession. He said,
"I don't think there's much chance of that." And
he said in testimony before a Joint economic com-
mittee today also they have - -

PLT What do you think, Crip?

215 02 38 36 CC (Laughter) I refuse to comm_ent. They had some

torrential rains struck the northeast part of
the United States today, flooding and stalling
traffic and interrupting telephone service -
about 2-1/2 inches in the New York metropolitan
area. That was ASmost as much as we had here
yesterday, I believe. The Senate Commerce Com-
mittee today approved a bill that would requir@
every state to adopt a no-fault insurance plan,
assuring all auto accident victims broad payments
regardless of who was to blame. A broad outline
has been framed by the United States and Hanoi
negotiators on economic aid for North Viet Nam,
but American officials denied a formal agreement
has been reached.

CDR Hey, Crip?

CC Yes.
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215 02 39 20 CDR Talking about that no-fault insurance, we were

Just talking yesterday - Owen mentioned that
he was thinking about getting with a call into
his insurance company and have them cut his
rates because he can't drown up here. And also,
he can't have an auto accident.

CC Yes, but there are some other things you could

have. I think - you reckon we could get the
Skylab insured?

CDR I don't know, but it sounds to us like that's

what happened to most people, so we ought to be
able to get some sort of cut.

215 02 39 46 CC I think you're right. Might be interested to

know that the backers of trans-Alaska pipelines
scored a victory when the House rejected a move
to permit environmental law suits against the
project. And if you'd read before launch on
J. Paul Getty's grandson, I guess the kidnappers
now are demanding a $17 million ranson for him.
And I'm sure everybody's glad to know that the
bill raising the minimum wage to $2.20 has been
extending its protection. It passed the Senate
today.

215 02 40 19 CC Also, the Senate has voted an end to the meat

price freeze immediately, and the House passed a
similar bill. The stock market today - 30 indus-
trials dropped nearly two points and it's the
fourth straight day of losses. And hurray, hur-
ray, the Astros won a game. They beat the
Dodgers last night, 5-0. And they're playing
the same - playing the Dodgers tonight in the
Astrodome. I haven't heard the results of that.
And tomorrow, the Oilers are out against the
New York Jets. And you might remember that the
Jets were the only team we managed to beat last
year. That's about all the real exciting news
we have here. And I don't guess I'm going to
be able to get a piece of paper here that says
what - what the news was saying regarding the
Skylab. But we'll try to get you something on
that in the morning, for breakfast.
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215 02 41 12 CDR Good idea. As you know, the three of us

probably - that's the part of the paper we read
most every day when we're on Earth. So, that's
kind of what we're most interested up here in,
too. Any sort of space news or airplane news
or anything like that is what we think about all
the time. So, that's the kind of news we'd like
to hear.

CC Okay. We'll see if We can round some of that

up for you.

PLT Where's the weekly golf tournament being played

this week?

CC Westchester, I'm informed.

PLT Let me know how they're doing tomorrow.

215 02 41 47 CC Okay, we'll try to do that. Jack, can you tell

us when you completed that thermal alignment,
were the indicators up against the stops -
where the focus rings?

PLT No; on the thermal alignment, the - the focus

ring was exactly two turns from the micrometer
end.

CC I understand two turns from the micrometer

end.

SPT You know, on that S05h package, we had one stow-

age list up here which called for being trans-
ferred to $920, Bob. I don't know where I got
some dope on that. I don't find it around the ATM
panel anywhere.

215 02 42 37 CC Okay. We've got 1 minute until LOS and we'll

be saying goodnight. I guess about the best I
can do for you is on the day 5 transfer list,
it - on page 2-32 of the stowage list, is where
it calls for transfer from A-9 to 130 according
to the thing we have here.
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SPT Okay, I remember when we were looking for it

yesterday, and we never found it in A-9 at that
time and thought perhaps we had transferred it
o_% earlier. But we'll find it.

CC Okay. We'll - I'm being informed that it was

launched in a sacklike affair. And we'll try
to get you some better details in the morning.
Correction, my last; that was a sock, s-o-c-k.

215 02 43 36 PLT Hey, Crip, have the doctor add one more orange
juice to my menu today, would you please? I
just am swilling it down right now.

CC Ssy, what were you eating, Jack?

PLT I'm having an extra orange juice.

215 02 43 52 CC Orange juice. Roger.

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SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

215 ll 2h 50 CC Good morning, good morning, Skylab.

CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS over the States

for the next 18 minutes.

CDR Morning, Crip.

CDR You gave us a little extra sleep this morning

didn't you?

CC Didn't get much.

CDR No, I said you gave us a little extra.

CC Oh, well, no; this is actually the first pass

we've had.

CDR I thought I heard the S-band lock up at Just

about ll:00 Zulu back there, but I guess that
was something else.

CC Well, it w_s about 2 minutes prior, and we

didn't consider that a fair one.

215 ii 26 ii CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised - I don't know

whether you've managed to get your teleprinter
messages yet or not, but we are going to have
same Flight Plan changes that we're going to have
to feed up to you a little bit later. We'll
give you a chance to get up and get scurrying
about.

CDR Roger.

215 ll 29 59 PLT Hello Crip, are you there?

CC Say again, Jack.

CC Skylab, Houston. You called?

PLT Yes, I Just wanted you to know that the tele-

printer message this morning was longer than
the firemau's pole.
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CC I thought we set some kind of new record. We -

And we've still got a couple more going for you.

CC Skylab, Houston. I don't know whether you copied

my last or not, but we still have got a couple of
more teleprinter messages that we're sending up
which des/with the master anomaly list.

CC And also be advised we've got an indication that

the teleprinter paper is getting low, so after
we finish that s_netime, we're going to need to
get the paper changed.

215 ll 32 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to get one quick

question in while you're scurrying around there
this morning and help the guys out that are work-
ing over the procedures. Have you brought any
of your CSM cue cards up to date as a result of
the checklist changes we've sent you?

PLT Only the cue cards you told us to modify. We

haven't modified any others.

CC Okay, we copy.

PLT Hey, Hank, what do I do with all these Flight

Plans? They're all different.

CC You should have one for EREP and one for no EREP.

PLT Okay, it sure would be nice if you would label

them so we could tell what they were.

215 ll 33 15 CC The one that has got EREP on it is the EREP one.

PLT Yes, I can figure that out, but it would be nice

if you would Just put the heading on so you won't
have to read down the whole thing to find out what
it is.

CC The first one is always the prime, which is the

EREP, and the last one does say, ''If no EREP.''

CC PLT, Houston. I wasn't trying to be funny about

that. That does come out all one big string there,
and I guess it is a little difficult to separate
them out. Although they are - normally you get
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the prime and then the alternate, which is the

no-EREP thing. I guess it is difficult to sort
it out. We're about 30 seconds from a little
dropout for about 40 seconds. We'll be right
back with you in Bermuda.

215 Ii 35 43 PLT Okay.

215 ii hi 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

We'll be c_ning up on Madrid at 47. And if it's
convenient at Madrid, we'd like to get started on
a few of the Flight Plau updates.

PLT Okay.

215 ll 47 18 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes.

And, for information, we're going to be up-linking
a nav update and a single-memory load to give us
a monitor capability on one of the ATMDC para-
meters. So, if you'd remain free of the DAS.

CDR Okay, Hnnk, will do.

CC And Skylab, Houston; like to go through - get

started on the Flight Plan changes if we could
now, for whichever one's available first.

CDR Okay, CDR; I'm available.

CC Okay, based on the things you told us last night

you'd already accomplished, at about 13:3_ - 45
there, we'd like to delete the EREP mag and sub-
stitute S073 ops. And down around, Just prior
to 19:00, we want to add in S073 ops. And at
22:45 roughly scratch out the SO19 FS. And if
you'll look over your details there, we'll add
in two items there that - right at the top, we'll
add 13:40, S073 ops, and you got a pad for that.
And at 18:57, S073 ops, and you have a pad for
that.

215 ll h9 17 CDR Okay, understand. And the one you cut out there
on mag, was - was that loading the mags, or what?

CC That 's affirmative.

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CC You did that - -

CDR Okay, good.

CC You did that yesterday, A1; that's what we un-

derstood.

CDR Yeah, We - Jack got them loaded; everything is

tidy. I Just wanted to make sure.

CC Okay, SPT, do you have your Flight Plan available?

SPT Not yet, but I'll go right down and get it.

CC While we're waiting here, A1, I might point out

that we got resolution on the EREP tape recorder
changeover during a pass. We would like the -
if the occasion comes up that you have to do that,
you're clear to go ahead and do it and use the
same decal that SL-2 crew used, the one that's
on the panel there now.

215 ll 50 39 PLT It's already been changed out, Hank. We've got
the new one on.

CC Oh, you've already put your new one on?

PLT We had one in our decal package to put on, and

it 's already been put on.

SPT SPT has his Flight Plan in hand.

CC Okay, SPT, at 14:00, a little after that, we -

delete the star tracker checkout because you've
already done it. And the same for 15:00, star
tracker checkout. And delete all activities be-
tween 16:B0 and 19:00 that relates to the TV2B
and aSS the ETC activities.

SPT Complete.

CDR And on your details, delete everything but the

MIB3 at 02:48. And during your free time there,
SPT, first order of priority some time today, we
hope, is to get the MIBB activated because tomor-
row we're going to - our Flight Plan is going to
call for that.
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SPT Okay, I'Ii be sure to get M133 activated. If I -

I didn't get that last item about 02 something.
Wonl_ you - my Flight Plan kept talking about
23:30. Would you tell me again?

CC Okay, this was on your details - SPT details.

We wanted to delete all the items there except
the M133, which is at 02:48. That's why I want
to get the thing activated s_me time during the
day.

215 ii 52 21 SPT Okay, I've got you now. But all those details
can go except 1337

CC Right, because all those details do pertain to

the star trackers and RTC, which we're not doing
tod_y.

SPT Yeah, now I see. I've got that complete. Thank

you.

CC And, PLT, are you ready to go over yours?

PLT Okay, Hank. Yes, I'm getting it out now.

PLT Go shead.

CC Okay, at 13:30 roughly, delete the photo act,

since you've already done that. And at around
20:00, in place of the S019 prep, we want you
to do S073 real, and we haven't up-linked that
yet. It'll be coming up in time for you to do
the malfunction procedure at that time. And at
about 22:00 there, Just prior to where we got
the SO19 ops, we're going to do an S073 Jett,
if it turns out that's required. In any event,
we're going to do an S073 stow 1 after we've
Just done our troubleshooting on it. And if
you'll look over to your detail pad, we want to
delete the 13:20 item relating to the photo act.
And I'll give you a Jett time in case it's re-
quired aud we don't have contact. The Jet time
will be 21:44:28, and that's S073 Jett if re-
quired. And that'll be followed by S073 stow 1.

215 ll 54 32 PLT Okay, I'm not going to jett unless I hear from
you _gain to definitely Jett.
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CC Roger. We'll be talking about it after you run

the real. I Just wanted to give you that time so
you'd have it there.

PLT Okay.

215 ll 5_ 56 PLT And when do we get the word whether or not to

go ahead with an EREP day or a non-EREP day?

CC Skylab, Houston. We're GO for EREP at this

time. And one quick question, when you put that
decal on, did you Just tape it - tape it right
over the other one?

PLT That 's affirmative.

CC Do you think it would be possible to pull it off

of there and go back to the SL-2?

PLT Well, I'll give it a try. What's wrong with it?

CC Well, after a lot of study of the procedure, we

decided the SL-2 procedure was the better way
to go.

PLT Okay, I'll give it a whirl then, H_k.

CC You see, the new procedure calls for bringing

down bus l, and that has some serious implica-
tions for S192. And we're about l0 seconds from
LOS now. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle at
32, and we'll have a recorder dump there.

PLT Okay. Why don't you Just have them find out
what to cross off the old - the new decal and
that might work too.

215 ll 56 ll CC Okay, it looks pretty complicated at first cut,

but we'll be looking at that during LOS.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

215 12 32 06 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for

9 minutes with a data recorder dump.

SPT Hank, I wanted to make sure that ETC load was

still included in my schedule, even though ETC
ops has been deleted. Is that correct?

CC That's affirmative, Owen. And we're Just getting

ready for tomorrow. And I've got a couple more
items for you, if it's convenient now.

SPT Okay, let me pull my Flight Plan out again. Just

a minute.

SPT Go ahead.

215 12 32 57 CC We had a couple of items that we had in our

Sn,_,,,ary
Flight Plan and failed to get up on the
up-link. We goofed, and we'd like to add them
back in. T003-5 before and after you eat, and a
T003-7 before and after doffing clothes in prep
for the shower.

SPT Okay, 3-5 and 3-7 before and after eat, before
and after clothes for shower. I didn't notice
the shower on our list today. Oh yes, house-
keeping 7A. Okay, thank you.

CC And in regard to that shower, we do have a GO

for the showers. They were - we are, however,
considering the possibility, nothing final yet,
on maybe bringing the other heat exchanger up
to reduce the hl_,_dity somewhat.

SPT Roger.

215 12 33 56 CC And we have one other request for you, Owen.

Since we - the VTR is broke and the TV that we
had scheduled for today real time was the ETC
activities, we were wondering if at about 16:20,
over Goldstone, Texas, and MLA you could take
the TV and Just sort of pan over the CDR and
PLT while they are running the EREP pass.
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SPT I think we can manage that, and I'll put it on

my Flight Plan to give you some real time TV at
16:20.

CC Okay, good show.

CDR Say, Hank, CDR. There's a couple of us that

feel pretty clean. We might not take that
shower, but don't fill in the time though. Give
us some more chance to give this stuff - this
place squared away.

CC Roger, we didn't hear that. And for Jack, we

goofed again. The Jett time we gave you was
for mission day 8. We will get you another Jett
time if it is required prior to the time it is
requi re d.

215 12 35 22 CDR By the way, last night we got the foot restraints
on - the new foot restraints on, in the head.
And they work pretty good. We haven't had a
chance to really evaluate them yet. Today,
sometime, we'll try to get the ones on in the
wardroom, plus some other things like that.

CC Roger, we copy. And another item we need to

get to sometime, at the earliest convenient time,
is to get a paper change on the teleprinter.

SPT Roger, understand. And also this T003-5 before

and after eat, is that any particular meal?
We've obviously missed before breakfast.

CC That 's the noon meal, Owen.

SPT Thank you.

215 12 36 36 CC CDR, Houston. We thought, that unless you

wanted to continue, that we would discontinue
the menu pad.

CDR Good idea.

CDR Hank, could you put on the factor into the

flight planning 2 days from now for the CDR to
have 2 hours to stow overage food, label it,
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and also out of that same place send up where

they would like it all put? We've got quite a
lot of it up here. We'll stick it all in cans
and put it somewhere, wherever Rita Rapp and her
friends would llke it.

CC Roger, copy. You'd like 2 hours for overage

food storage.

CDR That's right, plus instructions.

215 12 40 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Hawaii at 52.

215 12 51 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you through Hawaii for

l0 minutes.

SPT Okay, Story. Just finishing breakfast. Then

I'm going to go up and change that teleprinter
paper. So I guess you won't be sending up any
messages for a little bit, will you?

SPT Hello, Story?

CC I'm getting an answer now, Owen.

CC Okay. Press on, Owen. We won't send any messages

up.

SPT Okay.

CDR And there's a message - -

CC Yes, sir?

215 13 01 06 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see

you over Goldstone in 2 minutes.

215 13 0h 40 CC Skylab, we have you through Goldstone for 8 minutes.

CDR Okay, we're Just finishing up breakfast and

getting to work.

CC Roger.
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CDR Story, we were checking our Flight Plan trying

to understand something. We knew that the day
off that we gave up was going to be Friday, which
is today, 'but we looked at our Flight Plan,
preflight, and it was going to be tomorrow. What -
what's now the plan?

CC Stand by 1.

SPT And the teleprinter paper is changed. You might

give it a try and make sure she's all working
right from the ground.

CC Okay, I copy that, Owen. And did you all find

the S054 timer that was wrapped up in a sock in
A-97

CDR Not yet.

CC Okay.

215 13 07 03 CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. At present, we got a standard on-orbit

day for you, including probably an EREP pass,
an M092/171, a 131, and a couple corollaries.

CDR That's tomorrow?

CC Yes, sir. And also about four ATM orbits.

CDR Okay, that's good. Just trying to get our things

straightened out up here in our minds so we
know where we are and what we're doing. Good.

CC Okay.

CC And Skylab, no need to reply, but we're looking

at day l0 or ll for your EVA, and we're fluctuating
between those two because of a potential EREP
pass over the United States and Africa on day 10.

CDR That's great, we'll be ready.

CC Okay.
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CC And, Owen, we'd like a verification that, on

panel209, the teleprinteris in the COOl, AND
position.

SPT Stand by, I left it in ON. And it'll be in CON_4AND

in Just a moment.

CC Okay.

215 13 l0 18 SPT There you go.

CC Okay, we'll give it a whirl. We're going LOS

here in about 30 seconds. We'll pick you up
over Bermuda in 4 minutes.

215 13 15 19 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Bermuda for 7 minutes.

CC Skylab, we're coming up on a 1-minute keyhole.

215 13 18 03 CC We're back with you, Skylab.

CC And is anybody near the STS?

CDR No, but we can be in a second.

CC Okay. At your convenience, we'd like, on panel

230, MOL SIEVE A, HEAT EXCHANGER A, OPEN.

CDR MOL SIEVE A, HEAT EXCHANGER A, OPEN. Okay, Just

a second.

CC Affirmative.

215 13 19 38 CDR MOL SIEVE A, HEAT EXCHANGER A, OPEN.

CC Thank you.

CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 1 minute. We'll see

you over Canaries in 2 minutes. And we'd like
to know from the PLT if he was able to change out
those EHEP decals?

CDR He hasn't gotten to it yet, but he's going to go

work on it Just as soon as he finishes cleaning
up.
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CC Okay, if you can't, we'd like to know as early

as possible so we can get a teleprinter pad up
to you.

215 13 22 12 CDR Okay.

215 13 24 26 CC Skylab, we're back with you over Canary for

7 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story. It was a ripoff. I Just ripped

off the new decal, and the old one's okay.

215 13 25 21 CC Okay. Understand it's okay. Thanks, Jack.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

215 13 35 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We've handed over to Ascension.

We've got you for 5 more minutes. And who's near-
est the mol sieve?

215 13 35 41 PLT Al's closest to the mol sieve, and I got to talk
to you about the desiccants. They all look like
they 're a very pale purple.

CC Copy.

PLT That's the ones that are in the S190, the ones
that are in the stowage box. Also, I can't find
that disposal bag with 12 desiccants in it.
That's supposed to be in M-130. It's not there.

CC We'll work on that, Jack.

215 13 36 33 CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC AI, we'd like to flow some air over CONDENSING

HEAT EXCHANGER, ALFA on MOL SIEVE, A, panel 233;
CONDENSING HEAT EXCHANGER AIR FLOW, we'd like that
valve to go to A.

215 13 36 56 CDR Okay, it's moved to A now.

CC Thank you.

CDR You all are getting all sorts of confidence down

there.

215 13 37 33 PLT Hey, Story, I'm starting to find the contingency

fecal bags with the desiccants, and I've found six
of them so far. I'll look around for some more.

CC Okay.

215 13 38 01 CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.
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CC Is - are we understanding correct that the desic-

cants both in the S-190 and those in the stowage
box are all pale purple?

PLT They all look the same color to me, and I - we

call it pale purple.

CC Okay, in that event, we don't want you to replace

any of the same color.

215 13 38 32 PLT Okay. If that's the color you like, I like it.

CC Okay.

215 13 39 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS in 1 minute.

We'll see you over Carnarvon at 14:07. And for
the PLT, if you have any desiccants that are white
or red, we'd like you to bake those out per the
procedure. And Owen, no need to reply, but we do
have your Nu Z updates accomplished; and we're back
in INHIBIT again.

215 14 07 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through Carnarvon

and Honeysuckle for lO minutes.

215 14 07 5_ PLT Hold it, Hank. Let me put the S190 guys' minds
at ease on the desiccant business. The - the -
desiccants that my good friend and colleague,
Paul Weitz bagged out for me in the contingency
bags, where there were six of them, and they were
R11 a very nice blue color. Therefore, I decided
that all other desiccants, both those in the S190
and those in M-130, were inferior. I put the six
blue desiccants into S190; I took 12 of the other
desiccants and put them in the fecal dryers. I'll
put 12 more in some other time_ but what I need to
know is how long I've got to cook them.

215 14 08 44 CC Copy that, Jack; and I'ii get you an answer.

PLT Thank you.

215 14 08 50 CDR Story, CDR.

CC Go ahead, A1.

CDR Let - let me get another box; this one's squawking.

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CC Okay.

CDR Yes, this is better. Could you tell me on board

where there might be either our own personal ear-
pieces for these lightweight headsets, or some of
these, you know, pink plastic ones that are uni-
versal for everybody, but of various - -

215 14 09 54 CC You broke off about 20 seconds ago, A1.

CDR Roger. Did you get my call about the ear plugs?

CC No. We lost about the last 30 seconds during a

handover to Honeysuckle.

215 14 l0 12 CDR Okay. Just wondering, maybe you can ask the stow-
age fellows, where the personal earpieces for the
lightweight headsets might be. I'd like to find
mine, and if there's none on board now, I know
there's some in the 509 ear protection kit, but
I'm not sure those are the kind you hook up to
the lightweight headsets. Those may Just be solid.
But, anyhow, there may be another set aboard. If
not, where are the universal pink ones, so I can
go find a pink one that's the right size? And I
don't want to take mine out of the command module.
It's presently in there; probably ought to stay.

215 14 l0 49 CC Okay. We'll find those for you. And we're coming
up on a keyhole for a minute.

215 14 15 28 CC CDR, Houston.

215 14 15 36 CDR Go ahead.

CC A1, the universal earpieces are in the left-arm

pocket of the coveralls in the U-2.

CC And also, A1, we're showing on S073 that the FILTER

WHEEL is in position A. We'd like it to be in A/B.

215 14 16 17 CDR Let me check it.

215 14 16 23 CC And we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll be picking you

up over Hawaii in 12 minutes. We'll be dumping the
tape recorders over Hawaii. And for the PLT, the
desiccants will probably have to be dried about
48 to 72 hours. But in any event, dry them until
they' re dark blue.
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215 14 16 41 PLT Okay. Thank you.

215 14 16 43 CDR And, Story, it is in A/B. It's in AUTO and A/B.

215 14 16 48 CC Copy.

CDR It always was. Let me cycle it.

CC Okay.

PLT Story, is that - -

215 14 16 56 CDR Now you're in A.

215 14 17 01 CDR Now it's in B.

CC Okay.

215 14 17 05 CDR Now it's in A/B, again.

CC Roger.

CDR I noticed when I ran the first part of the test

that you do on page 6-11, and I reported it on
chan A, that it never cycled anything but FILTER
W_k_L, A. And I reported it as a real, and said
I'd run it again after this and see what would
happen. But the thing is in A/B.

CC Roger. Go ahead, PLT.

215 14 17 36 PLT That - that thing about the desiccants, is that

with the heater ON or with the heater OFF?

215 14 17 46 CC We'll get you over Hawaii.

215 14 29 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through Hawaii

for l0 minutes.

PLT Roger.

215 14 30 02 CC And no need to acknowledge, PLT, we are going to

use the heaters on the desiccant bakeout.

215 14 32 01 SPT Hello, Houston, SPT.

CC Go ahead, Owen.
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215 14 32 05 SPT Okay, here's the morning report. Everybody's in

excellent shape. And no medication. BMD - B_94D
needing - readings are as follows: 6.223, 6.222,
6.225; 5.992, 5.996, 5.995; 6.940, 6.942, 6.936.
Over.

CC I got them.

215 14 35 06 CDR Houston,.CDR.

CC Go ahead, A1.

CDR Let me read you which filters are on the cameras

in EREP and make sure we got it right.

CC Okay.

215 14 35 17 CDR I'll read them in order. CC, DD, EE, FF, BB, AA.
And you might tell EREP troops that everything is
nice and clean with the optics. Up on the side
where the film slides past, I can see some slight
scratch marks on the platen; but other than that,
it's perfect. I dusted them off with the camel's
hair brush, and there Just wasn't enough dust on
there to worry about. There's not anything on
there that it looks to me like you could improve
by further cleaning.

CC Okay. We'll have an answer for you shortly on

the filters. Other than the universal earpieces,
the only other ones we have are the personal ear-
pieces that are in the command module on the
lightweight headsets.

CDR Okay, I found mine - found it actually in the

right-hand coat pocket, as you said. And I'm -
we're leaving our - light other one in the
command module all the time.

215 14 36 39 CC Okay, and while we're talking about comm, a slight

message for you. On the handheld mike, hold it at
least 3 inches away from the mouth and, optimally,
3 to 6 inches away from the mouth.

CDR Okay.
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215 14 38 19 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll pick you

up over Goldstone in about 40 seconds. No need
to acknowledge. We'll be dumping the VTR over
Goldstone. There should be a teleprinter test
message up.

215 14 38 41 CC And A1, those filters on the EREP are - are correct.

215 lh 42 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you through Goldstone

for 6 minutes.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

211 14 45 34 CC SPT, Houston.

211 14 45 39 SPT Go ahead.

CC Owen, on board there is an S073 pad for you. We

do realize that you are not the prime crewman for
S073, but in the event that we have to eject that
experiment later on today or tomorrow, we'd like
to get as much data as possible with it. So we
have scheduled you for something in the 16:00 to
17:00 time period.

SPT Roger. How does this match the EREP time frame?
I'm going to be doing rate gyro pack prep at the
moment, and then I thought I was going to be doing
rate gyro checkout during that interval, and also
handheld TV.

CC Okay, Owen, we'd like the photography and the rate

gyro checkout to have priority. If possible, set
these experiments up prior to the data take; and
if possible, get them started.

SPT Okay, I'm doing rate gyro prep right now, and then
I'll do the S093 [sic] next. And it looks to me
like your real-time TV is apt to go down the drain.

CC Owen, we would like to have the TV. It also has

priority over the S073. Take a look at the pad
and Just give us what you can.

SPT I'ii give her a look, Story.

CC Okay.

215 14 47 54 CC We're coming up on LOS at this time. We'll pick

you up over Bermuda in 4 minutes.

215 lh 52 07 CC Skylab, we're back with you over Bermuda for

lO minutes.

215 15 01 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll

see you over Ascension in l0 minutes.
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215 15 08 30 CC Skylab, we have you through Ascension for

l0 minutes.

215 15 ii 08 CC Skylab, we show the S073 still running. We'd like

to turn it off by cycling the POWER switch from
OFF to ON.

CDR Okay. That's consistent with what I mentioned

about that earlier test. I think the problem is
it never switches to B, so it Just keeps cycling
forever. I'll go turn it off. I can select B
MANUAL for you and run the B part, if you want.
But I'll Just turn it off now, and await your
instructions.

CC Okay, A1.

CC For now, A1, and no need to reply, Just cycling

the POWER switch will be fine; OFF and then to ON.

CDR Okay, and do you want me toturn off the experiment

lights? Experiment recorders, that is, 1 and 2.

CC Yes, you can turn those off now.

CDR Hey, Houston; CDR. I'm going to try to run that

calibration again and see if it'll work this time
on S073.

CC A1, at the present time, we're getting a light

leak from the Sun into the shutter, and we'd
like to power the experiment down for a couple
of orbits.

CDR Okay. I'll Just omit that and let it sit where
it is. And I had noticed that, although it didn't
kick out, the intensity was, during the previous
calibration - was up in the 5's, generally.

CC Okay.

CDR Do you still want the - it to run with the - at

15:50? I'll set that up right now, and then Owen
will Just have to turn it on.

CC A1, we saw you go to MEDIUM GAIN. You can leave

it powered up. We're okay, now.
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CDR Okay. I'Ii turn the power back on and let it cal
again.

CC And that'll be great to set that up for Owen's

run, A1.

CDR Okay. Now I'm _oin@ to let it run on cal, here

a while. And as soon as it finishes, if it ever
does, which I suspect it won't - I'll come back and
check it in 3 or 4 minutes. If it doesn't, I'll
Just turn it off and set it up for Owen's run, and
all he'll have to do is hit PROGRAM START.

CC That 'll be fine, AI.

SPT Now we've got the Y and the X number 5 and number 6
rate gyros spinning up right now. And it looks
like there may be only a few tenths of a volt noise
on Y-6. We'll, of course, get it calibrated prop-
erly during the Z-LV maneuver.

215 15 17 _9 CC Okay, 0wen.

215 15 18 36 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over Carnarvon at 15:41.

215 15 41 34 CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon for

l0 minutes.

CDR CMay, Houston; got a question. We've - Per yes-

terday's Flight Plan or day before, I can't remem-
ber for sure which, we hooked up the EREP BOX to
the TV - the diagnostic kit to the TELEVISION
POWER, 133 panel. Now we don't think we can run
that at the same time we run the other TV, but
maybe you're not planning to run that, and Just
leave that off. So we're kind of wondering about
that.

CDR Story, did you copy our question on the TV and

EREP malf box?

CC Yes, we're discussing it now, AI.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.
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CC A1, you could plug the TV into the airlock module

TV input station and turn the MDA TV input station
off.

CDR Okay, we can do that, but then you won't get the
data - I gather you're not planning to use the EREP
checkout box data then. We knew you couldn't get
them both at once.

CC That 's affirmative, A1. We 're not planning on

using that.

CDR Okay, we'll - Now we can Just disconnect that from

that TV input station, if you want, and leave the
box connected into the line. Is that correct?
That'd be a lot easier.

CC Okay, that'll be fine, A1.

CDR Okay, we're going to leave the box in the line,

put both ends of its connectors connected as it
is now. We'll disconnect the line that runs to
the TV cable power station, and that's where we'll
drive the TV from.

CC That 's affirmative.

CDR Okay.

CDR It seems like we're beating a dead horse, but let

me verify one thing now. It's okay for the box
to stay in the line there as long as it's in the
OFF position and both ends - both of the connectors
out of the box are connected to their proper EREP
connectors. Is that okay?

CC That's fine, A1.

CC CDR, Houston.

215 15 50 02 CDR Go ahead.

215 15 50 05 CC We've got an S073 malfunction procedure for you,

A1, to get the filter wheels in sync.

CDR Just a moment, I'm - How long is this task?

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CC Oh, it shouldn't take more than about 2 minutes.

CDR Okay, Just a second.

CC AI, we're coming up on 40 seconds to LOS here.

We'd probably better get this over Guam, and we'll
be there in about 4 minutes.

215 15 50 58 CDR That's a Iot better. Good.

215 15 55 02 CC Skylab, we've got you through Guam for 9 minutes.

PLT C_ay, Story; what's the cloud coverage in the

Houston area?

CC Stand by i, Jack.

CDR I'm standing by to copy procedure on ...

CC Okay, AI. Cycle POWER OFF, then ON. MANUALLY step

FILTER WHEEL A switch. When second zero appears,
POWER OFF _mmediately. Release FILTER WHEEL
switch. POWER back ON. And go to normal pad ops.

CDR Okay.

CC Jack• the weather expected in Houston on your pass

will be clear, with the exception of c_mulus build-
ups, possibly up to a coverage of 0.h to 0.7. The
front is south of Galveston, out toward the Pa-
lacios area.

PLT Okay. ThRnk you, Story.

215 15 58 19 CDR Okay, I performed that S073 procedure. The FILTER

WHEELS A and B are now sitting at zero.

CC It looks good from down here • A1.

215 15 58 31 CDR I'm leaving POWER ON and I'm pressing back to EREP.

CC Okay, and you're clear to start it.

CDR You want me to start S073?

CC Yes. Now is the time, A1. And turn the TAPE

RECORDERS ON for S073.

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CDR Okay, PROGRAM START.

CC Th-nk you.

215 15 59 01 CDR No, WHEEL A is starting with a 1. We've got to

go back EREP in it.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

215 16 05 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. We'll see

you over Go ldstone at 16:20 and be looking for
the TV.

215 16 20 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you stateside for

19 minutes.

CC Skylab, in case you missed my call, we're

stateside for 18 minutes. No need to acknowledge.

SPT Okay, Story. We're right here. We did miss

your call; it didn't come through. And you ought
to be getting down-link TV.

CC Okay. We're looking for it.

215 16 22 06 CC And we have it.

PLT Very good.

SPT I can tell Jack and A1 are Just m-king preparations

for our first Earth - Earth resources pass, which
is Just about an hour ahead of us at this point.
See the control and display panel all set up - and
the tracking equipment, in order to track specific
targets on the ground.

CC Copy.

SPT That's the site map that Jack had in his left
hand. Over in his right hand, now, is a map of
the United States. And he was Just reporting
that one of his targets for today is the Bonneville
Salt Flats. Guess you're pointing it out right
now, aren't you, Jack?

SPT Right down across the U.S. there, it looks like

we approach over the northwest coast, come right
down across the middle of the U.S., out over the
Gulf of Mexico; Portland, Oregon; Salt Lake City;
Junction, Colorado; Texas; and out into the Gulf.
I guess I should have - m-ke that more clear.
Houston, Texas and exit across the Gulf.
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CC Copy.

215 16 23 56 SPT This is the back-side view of the Commander,

Captain Alan Bean. He's working on the controls
and displays panel for an Earth resources
experiment. He'll initiate the operation of a
wide variety of sensors, which are used to measure
temperatures, make various photographs of various
spectral wavelengths. Just above him there,
that round dome is our tunnel into the command
module. They have an sir duct going through it
to circulate sir from the MDA, where the three
of us are now located, up through the command
module and keep ventilation going.

SPT Another of the things that we'll be doing on

this first Earth resources pass is checking out
a new package of rate gyros that we brought up
with us in our command module. As you - most of
you may know, we have had some problems with
our rate gyros, which measure the changes of
attitude of the spacecraft. And as a result,
we've brought along a couple of replacement
packages. Two packages, each with gyros about
each of the three orthogonal axes. We have those
mounted inside the MDA, here; and I can move the
camera around to one side and show you where those
are mounted on the wall of the MDA. We also have
a little meter connected up to them so we can see
whether or not their outputs are we - are as we
would expect them to be. I'll switch the camera
over there in Just a moment to show you our
rate gyro package. Before I get to that, however,
Captain Bean Just pointed out here one of things
we can do is open the window, which is the port
through which our Earth resources cameras will
look. And I'll bring the camera over there to
take a look. It's apt to be too bright, and so
you may have to wait Just a moment while I stop
down the camera. Then we'll see if we can see
out.

215 16 27 25 SPT That's the Oahe Reservoir, and we think it's

in North Dakota. We don't have our charts out
at the moment. As you can see, it's a nice
bright day up here, and Just a few scattered
clouds. You can probably get a glimpse of the
river down there. Normally, when an EREP pass
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takes place, we'll have six multispectral cameras

looking down through that window and taking data
that can be use_ in the future for crop informa-
tion, for agriculture, for water surveys, snow
surveys, multiple other things that I'm Sure you're
very f_m_liar with. The cameras are loaded now.
They're sort of up in a cocked position. As we
get closer to the EREP pass time, we'll put them
down. We're checked them out to make sure that
they all are operating properly; and then, at the
right time, we'll turn them on - turn them on; and
they'll take sequential photos across the U.S. in
six different spectral ranges. As all of you are -
were well aware, some things appear different in
different spectral ranges ; for example, crop
disease appears in infrared much better than it
does in the - the visual light range. And the
same thing is t._n/eof others. Wetre getting ready
to pass over Chicago, and so now this ought to be
a good picture of Chicago.

215 16 28 58 SPT As you can see, we move along at a fairly fast

clip. One of the things that's been hardest to
get used to up here is Just how fast you cover
the world. Once around in 93 minutes, and across
the United States in nlmost the blink of an eye.
We're in a 235-nautical-mile orbit. And from
our altitude the other day, we happened to look
out and we could see San Francisco, Las Vegas,
all the way down to San Diego, all in one sweep
of the eye. The weather was clear, and it was
a fantastic sight. We're passing over C_ncinnati,
Ohio right now, although it doesn't appear to
have too much contrast - contrast with the
surrounding terrain. As you can see, a manned
space station would have a great application
for weather ***

SPT And we 're approaching Virginia/North Carolina.

In about i minute, you'll see us cross the
coastline - in South Carolina, so that oug=ht to
be a spectacular sight as far as contrast is
concerned. We hope it's showing up well on
the TV. When we've completed this pass and
gone out over to the ocean, we'll remove the
camera, and we'll get our EREP cameras in place
and continue checking out the EREP and getting
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it ready for our - our pass across the central

United States, which will take place about
93 minutes from now.

215 16 31 h8 SPT As you can see - much more cloudy in this area.
Difficult to see the ground. Looks like we're
going to cross the coast about 50 miles north
of W_Smin_ton. We're crossing the coastline
right now. The clouds are obscuring it somewhat,
but I th_n_ if you look out now, you'll be able
to see we're moving out into the ocean ....
progress since man took 6 months to travel from
coast to coast by covered wagon or horse. Okay,
I'ii take a moment to reset my camera and try to
give you another inside shot of our rate gyro
package.

CC Okay.

215 16 34 34 SPT We had one brief view looking back towards the
workshop there, but it was Just a black hole at
that point because I've got all the lights turned
off while changing film in some cameras down in
the workshop area. So after this pass is
complete, why I'll finish the film transfer and
then get the lights back on.

CC Copy, Owen. And you've got h minutes to LOS.

SPT Roger.

215 16 35 31 SPT As you see, when it's necessary to restrain

yourself, we find these shoes with triangle
cleats convenient. There's one little grid
that A1 has Just moved out of there with his
shoes that he uses to hold himself in position
when working at the C&D panel. There he Just
locked in as you can see. Now Jack at the
moment is not using anything for foot restraints.
He's Just floating around freely.

SPT A little later in the day, we plan to take

down our fireman's pole in the workshop, and
try it for a while without a pole, and then
try it with a strap back and forth, Just to see
which - aid is the most convenient for getting
back and forth. It's a relatively simple matter
Just to fly back and forth with nothing to hold
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onto at all. But it's sometimes a convenient

thing to use if you want to stop at midway and
transfer over to one side or scmething like that.
We'll give it a try later today.

215 16 37 52 CC Okay, Skylab. We've lost the TV. We enjoyed

every second of it. Thank you.

SPT Sure enough, Story.

CC Okay. And we're coming up on a minute to LOS.

The next station will be Carnarvon about
40 minutes from now at 17:19. We have firmed
up the EVA. That is looking like mission day 10.
And we hope to get any revision of the procedures
to you tomorrow night.

SPT Roger. Day i0. Sounds good.

CDR Like to get a little ATM film into those

machines out there so we can start taking some
Sun pictures.

215 16 38 B1 CC Yes sir.

215 17 19 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you through Carnarvon

for lO minutes.

PLT Okay, Story. How about, Just for the heck of it,
have one of the EREP guys, maybe Ron Weitenhagen
or whoever dream up a 45-degree time on Lake
Somerville ?

CC Okay. They copied you, and they're going to do

it. Jack, the weather in Houston is a lot better
than we expected. And it might be good to run
a Houston multiple site acquisition program.
That's entirely at your option.

PLT Okay. It looks like to me that the time will be

about 05:43 or something like that. I can't
remember now but it looks like I'd have to
substitute it for that one data swath.

CC And we've got - included in this _ltiple site

acquisition program is Lake Sc_erville.
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215 17 20 23 PLT Roger. That's the one I need the gimbal angles
on.

CC Okay. Would you like the pad on that?

CDR He's been wishing you'd ask him. Yes, he

wants it.

CC Okay. Here we go. Descending, sites 410, 420,

415, 425. Let me know - -

PLT Okay. I know the sites, Just give me the times

and angles.

CC Okay. Curtail the first special 01 at 0h:00.

Site 410, acquisition at 05:12, 45 degrees,
left 3.6.

PLT 0kay.

CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Owen, we've got a cable connected to the rate

gyro package which has hot pins on it. We'd
like to get that cable off the rite - the rate
gyro package.

215 17 21 54 SPT Okay. The one going to the multimeter, is that

the one you're t-lking about?

CC That's the one that's got the rate gyro outputs.

And if you are ready to copy, I've got a
procedure for you.

SI_Y Okay, stand by. Go ahead, I'll copy it here,

go ahead.

CC Rate gyros 5 and 6 circuit breakers, six, OFF.

That 's on panel 141.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Disconnect signal cable assembly from panel lhl,

that's J-2 and restrain the cable.
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SPT Okay.

215 17 22 38 CC And after you've got the cable off and restrained,
rate gyro 5 and 6 circuit breakers, six, all ON.

SPT Then back on.

CC And leave the cable disconnected until we pass

it up to you to reconnect it.

SPT Okay, I want to make sure what signal cable

you're talking about. Are you t-]king about
the signal cab -the multimeter tamp cable or
another signal cable?

CC It's the IVA signal cable; that's on panel 141.

SPT Okay, I understand. Thank you.

CC Okay.

215 17 25 30 SPT Story, the J-2's disconnected and the gyros

are back on again.

CC C_ay, Oven. And we will not remate that cable

unless we need to use the rate gyros.

SPT Roger; understand.

CC And, Skylab, we're going LOS here. We'll pick

you up over Guam in 5 minutes. And if possible,
we have an S073 call for you, Owen. It has not
started. Either stop the tape recorders experi-
ment 1 and 2, or start S073 and change the BETs
from 16 to 50.

SPT Okay, just give me a call whichever you want.

CC We'd prefer you to start it if possible.

SPT Okay. You want me to do it now, or do you want

to make a decision as to which alternative you
want ?

215 17 26 37 CC Right now would be fine to start it. And use

the pad. Except change the BETs from 16 to 50.
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SPT Roger.

CC ThRn_ you.

215 17 28 47 CDR Story, sorry to bother you again. Did you say
tape recorders off?

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

215 17 33 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you through Guam for

8 minutes.

CDR Roger.

CDR Okay, I'm pushing to talk.

CDR Turn on A over there and see if you hear me,

0wen. But then turn it off. How do - turn on A.
How do you do? Okay? Jack - -

CDR ...

SPT Houston, Skylab. We've started our Z-LV maneuver.

CC Okay. We're looking at it, (>wen.

CDR ... you can help me with mine.

PLT How's it doing, Big 07

CDR I like the way you've got that up there, Jack.

That 's a winner.

215 17 36 12 CC And AI, we're reading you down here, and the
maneuver looks good.

CDR Perfect.

PLT How you read me, Story?

CC Loud and clear.

CDR I'm set up on A, which is where we should be.

CDR I'm voiced for the ground all the time now on
EREP, Story?

CC Yes, you are. You're hot mike.

CDR I'm trying to figure out why T minus 3 - it says

verify re -
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215 17 37 16 CC You broke off about 30 seconds ago.

CDR Back up and look.

SPT How do you read me, Story?

CC Loud and clear.

SPT ... Okay. Good.

CDH Five minutes. Okay.

SPT Houston, your EGILs might be interested to know

that our Y-knot frc_ the ATM panel is reading
about 0.67 correction, 0.067, 0.068 degrees per
second. And digital volt meter, all but Y-6, is
reading about 30.2 volts, which is Just about
exactly right according to my calibration curve.

CC Copy, Owen.

215 17 38 20 CDR How's the comm now, Story? We changed the VOX
semsitivity slightly.

CC Loud and clear, A1.

CDR Okay. He thinks it's loud and clear. Okay.

We're coming up on 12 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story. I changed the VOX. Does that -

Any improvement?
CC That's fine, Jack.

PLT Okay.

215 17 39 07 CDR When we ran the check on the cameras, they all
cycled 40 times, as they should have and
everything is checked out okay, so far.

CDR Ready to go?

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215 17 39 57 CDR Five minutes. You got 5 more minutes to go. I

don't know why they always wait until the end.
And I put the door open on 192 at 5 minutes. So
everything's 5 minutes, except we've got the
door open already on 190. Check it. Looks nice.

SPT Story, did I wait too long to go to star tracker

AUTO. I don't think you got a star tracker
lockon before we started the Maneuver. I'ii have
to slew it over and get set up for the star
tracker on the completion of the MAneuver.

CDR What time are you supposed to pass through that

point that you can pick it up?

CC That 's fine, Owen.

CDR There's another one with one time only. Okay,

that's the one you got to hit. You got 13
minutes, but you got to hit it right at that
time. No, it's - Just sometime.

SPT ...

215 17 41 04 CDR Okay. You got to hit it on that time or it'll -

our orbit rate ... us you know. Okay, we're past
l0 minutes. RECORD switch to RECORD, momentarily.
Okeydoke.

215 17 41 18 CC Skylab, we;re coming up on 20 seconds to LOS.

See you at stateside in 15 minutes at 16:20 [sic].

CDR Okeydokey. See you there, Story.

SPT Check them. Check all the readings on monitor

dec al.

CDR ... time again.

PLT How's maneuver, 0.?

215 17 41 37 CDR Okay, I'm checking all readings; i shows 46 percent;

2 shows 60 percent; 3, 86 percent; 4, 71 percent;
5, 65 percent; 6, 0714. No, no need to do that;
those were all A's. Now come the B's: B-l, 42;
B-2, 52; (static)
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215 17 56 48 CDR I love ... Owen, switch over to A and see if you
can hear me down there. Can you hear me now?
Okay.

SPT It sure is cloudy in this part of the country.

PLT Turn you light off.

215 17 57 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're reading you loud and

clear. We have you stateside for 15 minutes.
We show your attitude is good, and you fired
one mib.

CDR Okay. That sounds good to us. Everything is

running along okay. And scene 1 looked good.

PLT What's a ... my friend.

CDR It looks like we got a good nadir align.

CC Roger.

PLT A few mibs among friends doesn't amount to much,

does it, Story?

CC I'm not sure Jerry would agree with that.

215 17 57 41 CDR Did we fire some mibs?

PLT Ah, we're coming out of the clouds there.

CDR Okay, A-1 and B-1. A-1 is ... B-1 is 42 ...

SPT ... now as ... the star lockon was the following:
... plus 2123. Inner gimbal angle minus 986.
That was at 53 plus 15.

PLT MODE to I, 5812. We are in STANDBY.

SPT I don't believe the star trackers have any more

use to you now at this point. - - ... OPS ... - -

PLT - - I suggest I go back to manual and stop the -

hold the gimbal angles where they are.

215 17 58 28 CC And that's correct, 0wen. Either reacquire or

close the shutter.
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CDR ... ON or R, ON ... 59 ...

SPT Okay, I have CLOSED the SHUTTER at this point.

Now the talkbacks again are not behaving quite
right. A while ago when we were locked on STAR,
at the time I gave you, I went to CLOSE, - -

CDR 5910.

SPT And I'ii have to explain it to you a little later.

CDR 5910.

PLT Nice light reflection off the water.

215 17 58 58 CDR Okay. Coming up on 5910. We've got to put on

POLE 1 on 93. 5910, we're getting good scans.
Okay, 59, POLARIZATION 1. 1840, we go to S,
STANDBY.

SPT Story, we have the ... on and - ... you got

down-link capability here or not.

215 17 59 35 CC Owen, we can record it at the site. We will not

have real time in Houston.

SPT Roger.

CDR ... 040.

PLT Okay, good.

FLT Nice, . .. Houston, there's the Salt Flats.

PLT Got a little clouds over the Salt Flats, not bad.

CDR 42 ...

215 18 O1 16 PLT Okay, we're taking data, Houston, VTS.

CC Roger.
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PLT Pick another place, Houston, with the VTS. All

... area this time is uniform.

215 18 02 01 PLT Okay, we're picking a third point, Houston, with

the 191, we're tracking it. - -

CDR ... so something strange on that one.

PLT We got three different areas in the Salt Flats

we're taking data on, Houston, with S191. And
we're Just running out of gimbal angles. Run
her up to zero. - -

CDR -- ... ON. R, OFF, 253 ...

PLT Okay, we've got her 00, Houston. All fine. BET
magnification, 00. Go time is 232. I've passed
it already. CAMERA, ON. There's no clouds down
there.

215 18 02 56 CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK lights.

PLT I'll keep this up until 4 minutes. Okay, there

is a few clouds coming up in that area, but not
many though. Looks like some of that weather
moved out. There's a little bit of clouds
over the Salt Flats, Houston, on the north side.
So I picked all my sites in the south end of the
Salt Flats, and I picked three different ones
two light ones and a little darker one. Copy?

CC We copy, Jack

PLT Okay. All right this nadir swath on clouds is

in GAIN that's cause there aren't mauy clouds.

CC Okay.

215 18 0B 56 PLT And I'm coming up to 45 and B.6 less than a

minute. Okay, there's _ minutes; 5 and 3.6 left.
There you go, 45 and 36. Stand by for 05:12. I'm
all set for Lake Somerville, Houston. A little
hazy down there. Uh - oh. Coming in about 0.5
coverage. Bad news. Coming in about 0.6 ...
Afraid I don't see any Lake Somerville.
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215 18 05 12 PLT Mark, 05:12. Delay my last, Houston, I see a

Lake Somerville. Okay, Houston. We're taking
data on Lake Somerville.

CC Copy.

PLT ... 25 gimbals. I see the dam very clearly in

Lake Somerville. VTS is working nice.

CDR ...

215 18 06 41 PLT Okay, I can't seem to find Eagle Lake. Going

up to the coast .... Lake is under the clouds
too.

PLT Okay, we couldn't get the other three Just due to

clouds.

CC Copy, Jack.

PLT Okay, stand by for 11:32. Lake Somerville is the

only one I can see due to clouds and haze down
there, Story.

CC We got that, Jack.

PLT Too, thick a nadir swath, I guess. I saw where

San Bernard Basin was, but it was too many clouds
over it to take any good data on the ground. It
would have been good data on the clouds above it.
All I could see was the coast line.

CDR The ... still on. I'm thinking about watching

it; I'm not sure why .... READY lights ... ON.
I'm going to STANDBY. STANDBY. ON... 21 .... R,
OFF.

PLT Okay, the VTS is coming on here.

215 18 ll 33 PLT MARK. Camera, ON.

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215 18 ll 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll

see you over the Vanguard at 18:23. And, A1,
you're coming in real weak, and you dropped out
altogether from about 01:30 on up to about 09:00.

CDR Okay, how do you hear now?

CC Loud and clear.

CDR Must have Just been talking to myself, low.

Okay?

CC Thank you.

CDR Thank you. R, OFF. 93 A range 66. 12:22, A ON.

CC Loud and clear now.

215 18 12 23 CDR Okay, I was Just mumbling. That's my fault.

Forgot I was recording ....

CDR ... 1404. 1404.

CDR 30 ...

215 18 28 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through Vanguard

for about 2-1/2 minutes. We had a complete data
and voice dropout for the first 5 minutes over
Vanguard.

CDR Okay. We noticed that our tape recorder is in

STOP at the moment, tape recorder 1.

CC Okay.

CDR We're in the midst of our maneuver back to solar

inertial, and we're working on rate gyros here.

CC Okay, A1. And, if possible, can you remember

what meter readings A-l, D-l, and C-1 you
accepted for Nadir align?

CDR - I can think about it a minute, but I recorded

them. You're saying that it didn't get on the
recorder?
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215 18 29 32 CC We're not sure that it did. And we'd really like
them. And if we go LOS here without getting them,
if possible you could write down the best you can
recall.

CDR Okay. I'll do that. But we're working on rate

gyros. I'll get them for you. Do the best I
can.

CDR 55, h5, and 86, Jack and I as best remember of

it. But it should be on the tape.

CC 55, 45, and 86. Roger.

215 18 30 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We've seen a shift in the

drift of Y-2. We would like you to use Y-1 rate
gyro and inhibit redundancy management.

SPT Inhibit redundancy, and what's the other?

CC Use rate gyro Y-1.

SPT Okay. It'll take us a moment to do that.

CC You don't need to do it unless there's a failure.

CDR Okay. We'll just cool it and watch then.

215 18 31 32 CC We're going LOS here. We'll see you over

Goldstone at 19:34.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

215 19 34 40 CC Skylab, Houston; through Goldstone and Texas for

13 minutes.

215 19 35 21 CC SPT, Houston.

CDR He's listening.

CC Okay, we see you back in SI, and we see a low

drift rate on Y-2. Looks good.

CDR Right. We monitored. Nothing ever went wrong.

We got all the rate gyros coming out. So that was
okay. We'll give you the data later. I guess
you've noticed that our tape recorder's ground to
a halt. I guess it was the end of the tape or
something. I'm not sure at what point in the EREP
pass that occurred.

CC Okay. That's okay, A1. We should have all the

voice on experiment 1 tape recorder.

215 19 36 00 CDR Okay. Let me give you some information from some
of those numlners that we read - supposed to voice
record.

CDR D-T, 31 percent; A-7, 81 percent_ A-8, 84 percent;

C-8, 51 percent - it was varying between 51 per-
cent and 42 percent, oscillating. The tape dis-
tance from the end of the reel is l-l/16 inches.
And the reason that number is so small is that I
accidentally left the tape recorder - not the tape
recorder - 192 running from minus 5 minutes through
the first site pass.

CC Copy.

CDR Okay.

215 19 36 57 CC And, CDR; I've got another S073 procedure for you.

CDR Okay. Now is this - We were hunting a few minutes

ago for this malf procedure that you were going to
send up. Did you send that up or is this going to
be it?
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CC It's going up on this pass. It's - -

CDR Okay. Is that the one you're talking about, or do

you have a verbal one also?

CC Got a verbal one also. And that is that we are

unable to observe rotation about SHAFT, So we'd
like one of you to rotate the experiment in SHAFT
while another crewman looks out the wardroom win-
dow to try to verify that we have no rotation in
SHAFT. You may have to rotate in TRUNNION to make
215 19 37 42 the experiment visible.

CDR Okay. We'll give that a try. Now - we haven't

had shaft rotation in days. I don't understand
what you mean. You think it's rotating now?

215 19 38 00 CC Both you and - and we on the ground are sharing

the same telemetry point, and we would Just like
to verify for certain that it is not rotating in
shaft.

CDR Oh, okay. We'll sure do that. Now, one of the

things that Owen noticed, when we were up there
the other day working with it, is that when I
would drive it in TRUNNION and he held on to the
pole, then he would feel it drive. In fact, he'd
say, "Okay, it's driving now," and I'd say, "Yes,
I'm driving in TRUNNION." When I tried to drive
in SHAFT, he never said anything. So, subjectively,
Just holding on to the pole, you can tell it drives
in TRUNNION; you can't do it in SHAFT. Now,
whether that's true on Earth I don't know or not,
but we'll try to look out this window and see it.
We haven't had much luck seeing it so far, because
it's only out on two poles, but we'll give it a go.

215 19 38 46 CC Okay, that's an excellent point, A1, and you may

not be able to see it. And we're going to ENABLE
the AM PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP here. You will get a
LOW FLOW CAUTION and WARNING. I just punched off
the MASTER ALARM.

CDR Okay.

215 19 39 16 CDR Let me pass another piece of data on this S08B we

Just r - 73, we Just ran a few (cough) - got a dry
throat - Just ran a few moments ago.
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CC Go ahead.

215 19 39 35 CDR I did two cals on that before the program. One
was GAIN HIGH in FIELD OF VIEW, l, because that's
what was on the pad for the program. And then I
did one with GAIN zero, FIELD OF VIEW - correction,
GAIN MEDIUM, FIELD OF VIEW, ZERO, because that's
what's normally done in the cal. And then I ran
the experiment. I don't know if it's still run-
ning up there. I haven't been up in the last few
minutes.

215 19 39 55 CC Okay. And is the SPT available?

CDR Okay. I'ii go reset MASTER ALARM. I'ii get him.

CC Roger.

SPT Okay, SPT 's here.

215 19 40 ll CC Okay, the S073 pad is up, A1. And, Owen, could
you verify that the ETC is loaded with high-reso-
lution color f_]m?

SPT I loaded it with the film that was on the pad. I'm
not sure whether that's high-resolution color or
not. I think it was - I'll have to check here and
see something.

CC That's okay, Owen. If it's what's on the pad, it's

what we want.

SPT And a couple other things here. I can give you

now; the information on the gyro pack that we
obtained while returning to solar inertial, and
also a little bit more information that was ob-
tained extra while we were in Z-LV attitudes. Are
you ready to copy that?

215 19 40 50 CC I've got an awful lot of stuff to get up to you in

the next 6 minutes, Owen. If - we're real interes-
ted in that, but I'd like to delay it to be sure I
get these other things up to you.

SPT Go right ahead. Don't worry. I'll by it.

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CC Dr. Frost would like to come down here and monitor

the M13B tonight. Are you going to activate that
this afternoon?

SPT That 's affirm.

215 19 hl 08 CC Okay, thank you. And you do have an off-duty

period this afternoon, and this is up to your
option. But we're looking at the Flight Plan
for tomorrow. We were wondering if you were in-
terested in doing the ATM C&D powerup and activa-
tion. We kind of need to know this now, because
if not done today, we need to schedule that tomor-
row. And because of Flight Plan constraints, we'll
have to have A1 do it. The other reason we were
interested in this is if we can get that done to-
day, we can get some time tomorrow for the S07B
Jettison, if necessary. If I confused you, I was
Just wondering if you were going to do the ATM
powerup and checkout today.

CDR What happened to you, Story? Did the comm go doom7

215 19 4B B0 CC Yes, I'm still here. I was waiting for you all.
Did - did - did Owen read my message about the
powerup of ATM C&D panel?

CDR Roger. Thought maybe something like that had

happened. He wants to do that. He says he'll
have to not do the solar inertial rate gyro things
today because he's got also exercise and 1BB. And
if he - if that was all right with you, that he'd
be - he'd love to do the panel - powerup.

CDR Did you copy me, or did we have another comm

dropout ?

CC We're working on that, A1.

CDR Okay.

215 19 44 35 CC Okay. That's on - that's a real good plan. That'll

allow us to get one more chance at rectifying the
S07B, and also get some data on that during the
night, if we have to Jettison it tomorrow. And
they've got one other thing today concerning to-
day's Flight Plan. We will have a VTR trouble-
shooting session over a pass. We'll need to do
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that or change it out prior to the EVA. And,

0wen, I'm ready to start copying the data on the
rate gyro package.

215 19 45 25 SPT Okay. Co_ing out of solar inertial first, Story.

How much time do we have?

CC We've got about a minute and 50 seconds, and after

that we'll be coming up at Vanguard in 13 minutes.

215 19 _5 39 SPT Okay, plenty of time. Cc_ing back to solar iner-

tial from Z-LV, there was a more or less constant
rate displayed on the ATM panels. Those values
are for PHI-dot-X plus 0.00_ degrees per second;
PHI-dot-Y, minus 0.068; Z plus 0.0015. The cor-
responding rate gyros were reading: rate gyro 5
for X, minus 1.8 volts; Y, minus B0.8 volts; and
Z, plus 0.7 volts. Rate gyro 6 was reading minus
1.6 volts, minus 30.7 volts, plus 0.5 volts. And
rate gyro 6 appeared to have somewhat more noise
on it than did rate gyro 5. Those readings all
looked pretty good. There is a slight discrepancy
on the X component, but since the - the panel dis-
play of X was so small, I think it's probably all
right. Now there's also a lot of information
accumulated during the time we were in Z-LV. I
monitored voltages for several minutes of duration,
looking at Y-6 during the time we were in Z-LV
attitude. The panel display of PHI-Y, dot was
approximately 0.06_, plus or minus 0.0015 degrees
per second during the Z-LV mnneuver. The voltmeter
was reading plus 28.8, plus or minus 0.1 volt dur-
ing the Z-LV maneuver. And I think that gives an
indication of the relative magnitudes of the noise
as well. It looks like our packages inside
probably have - oh, three or four times less noise
on them than does the rate gyro that we're dis-
playing on the C&D panel. Over.

215 19 47 B0 CC Okay, th_nks. We got all of that, Owen. We're

going LOS at this time. See you over Vanguard in
13 minutes at 20:00.

215 20 00 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you through the Vanguard

for 8 minutes.

PLT I hope you don'twant Owen. He got loose in the

middle of the dome, and he can't reach onto any-
thing.
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CC Okay. I'ii catch him there and talk to him, and

he can't talk back to me.

CDR Yes, it looks like he's getting to the gravity

gradient, stabilizing, it looks like.

CC Okay, and I've got something for you, A1.

215 20 01 33 CDR Okay. Go ahead.

CC On the S073 pad that we sent up to you, that's

line 9 left at 21:57. The 2-B is complete in the
pad. You don't have to refer to the checklist
there.

CDR Say those both again, would you - would you, Story?

CC On your S073 pad, be running 21:57. The pad is

complete concerning 2-B.

CDR Roger. How about the information about line 9 left?

CC That's the same thing, A1.

CDR Okay.

CC Okay, and that's for the PLT. Sorry, A1.

CDR Okay.

215 20 04 36 CC And Owen, we're 3 minutes to LOS. We'd like to

speak with you prior to LOS.

SPT Okay. Go ahead, Story.

CC Okay, Owen. Concerning your ATM C&D checkout, be

sure to refer to ATM experiment checklist, change
number 002, that we sent up to you. And also on
the ATM schedule pad, ignore the time 20:51, but
follow the rest of that pad.

SPT Okay, I'll make sure I've got change 002 and ignore
20:51 and retain the rest.

215 20 05 35 CC And concerning the voltages you sent us on the

rate gyros, they all had the wrong signs. In other
words, the polarity was reversed. We're wondering
if you had the banana plug upside down.
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SPT I have the banana plug with the right terminal to

the - red terminal to the right, and the white
terminal to the left. That's plus to the right,
and ground to the left, which I'd have thought
would have been probably standard.

CC We copied that, 0wen.

215 20 06 19 SPT I do see now that the multimeter itself has in

black underneath that, "Reversed Polarity." So
you can invert the signs on all of those voltages.

CC Okay. Thank you. And Skylab, for anyone, we 'd

like to get the experiment tape recorders off.

215 20 07 l0 CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you over

Hawaii at 21 :08.

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SKYIAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

215 21 09 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you through Hawa/i for

6 minutes.

SPT Okay, Houston. And we are looking to get a

picture of the Sun at this point and have - getting
started through the ATM powerup.

CC Copy, Owen.

SPT A ccmmuent for S052 people. They've asked, here

that we put our little crosspointer on up, plus 8,
and right, plus 16, and use that for the alignment
of the vertical/horizonal cross-pointers. It
turns out that's so close to the 20 arc-second
discriminator that the READY light keeps popping
in and out. And I think we may modi - want to
modify that a little bit so that we'll be sure and
stay in a ready condition and not interrupt the
exposures. I've got it sitting at plus 8, plus 16
right now, and if they're where they can monitor
it, why they can see that their READY light pops
in and out at that point. Also, there was one
other thing that I had to change, and that is
we still apparently do not have AC-I, and I'm
unable to get power to the experiment in the
EXPERIMENT BUS 1 NUMERIC LIGHTING BUS position.
I had to go to EXPERIMENT BUS 2/AC BUS 2 in
order to get power to S052. And I've not gone
through the rest of the experiments yet, but I
would like to get your concurrence that that
is a satisfactory procedure to put the experiment
power switches to their down position - EXPERIMENT
BUS 2/AC BUS 2 in order to power up the experi-
ments. Over.

CC Copy that, Owen. We'll let you know right away.

215 21 11 56 CC Okay, Owen. You're GO on _mning those experi-

ments on BUS 2.

SPT Roger. And did you have sc_e way that you men-
tioned yesterday of observing whether or not we
have voltage on C&D panel AC-l?

CC We 'll look at it.

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215 21 13 22 CC PLT, Houston.

SPT He can hear you.

CC Okay, I need a response here on how he's doing

on S073.

PLT S073 is sitting there waiting for me. My first

pad is 21:32, Story.

CC Copy.

215 21 14 01 CDR If you're talking about that procedure of looking

out the window and a - looking and see if it moves
in SHAFT and TRUNNION ; I performed that about
30 seconds ago, and I'm looking at it right now.
In fact, you can see it rather easily. We Just
never looked up in that direction, I guess. And
it works great in TRUNNION, but it Just doesn't
move at all in SHAFT.

CC Okay, copy, AI_ and there's another last-ditch

effort in the teleprinter for Jack.

CDR Okay.

PLT Oh, okay, Story. And did you want me to go

through that malf, before I do the ops? I assumed
it was the other way around.

CC Yes. That's message number 744 Alfa. Go with

that first, Jack, and we are going LOS here at
this time. We'll pick you up over Vanguard at
21:36. We'll be dumping the tape recorders over
Vanguard.

PLT Roger; ...

215 21 14 56 CC Okay.

215 21 36 21 CDR Hello, Houston.

CC Hello, Captain Bean. We're AOS over the Vanguard

for about l0 minutes here.

CDR Tell you what we've been doing.

CC Okeydoke.
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CDR We went through the malf procedure on 73, and

it didn't work. So we extended the - the 73
out to FULL 7 rod and took some looks at it.
Then we went to FULL TRUNNION and then MIN TRUN-
NION. And, at these points, we moved the shaft
with our hands backwards and forwards because we
noticed there was a lot of give in the extendable
boom, of course, in hopes that the momentum of
the camera itself at MAX TRUNNION might free the
gears. But it did not. And we tried it MIN
and MAX and every way we could think of.

215 21 37 15 SPT Bill, we looked it over - -

CDR We looked it over. All the wires are in the

right place. It doesn't look like any wires
are caught in gear - gear teeth or anything
like that. Now what we could do if you like -
we could get the TV camera and take a TV picture
of - we don't have a recorder anymore, so we'd
have to do it live; but we could give you a TV
picture of it and show you moving in TRUNNION
and not in SHAFT, and maybe your experts down
there could look at it and get some better ideas.

CC Okay, A1. We copied all that. Stand by i,

please.

CDR Okay. It looks nice and tidy out there; it Just

won't move in SHAFT. It works great and looks
great - in TRUNNION.

CDR We hate to see it go.

215 21 38 15 CC CDR, Houston. I guess right now we can't see

that we're going to really learn anything by
looking at it on TV. We did have one more
procedure which sounds somewhat similar to what
you Just did, but let me - let me read it to you
and see whether it's worthwhile to go through it
or not. It was - -

CDR Okay.

CC Okay. It was - We wanted to go ahead - what we

were thinking of is the two RODS extended out to
three rods and set the TRUNNION at I00. And then
as soon as you could get to it, take the SHAFt
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switch and go from DECREASE, wait 2 seconds, and

then go to INCREASE, and keep repeating that at
2-second intervals.

215 21 38 53 CDR Well, we didn't try that; we'll sure give it a

go.

CC Yes, and - -

CDR We're getting ready to run a program right now

that you wanted us to; so whenever that's complete,
we'll try your procedure. Unless you want us to
do that first.

CC I think we'd prefer for you to go ahead and do

that first. Our troubleshooting procedure, we
were going to give priority over - over the
program.

CDR Okay, we're going to do that right now then.

We'll put it out on three rods, we'll move the
THUNNION to 100, and then we'll try the 2-second
cycle.

215 21 39 36 SPT Hello, Crip. A few comments for the backroom

ATM people.

CC Roger, Owen. Stand by l, if you would, please.

SPT Sure. No hurry.

CC CDR, Houston. I guess I said that switch cycling

wrong. What we'd like to do is to go SHAFT to
DECREASE for 2 seconds, then SHAPT to INCREASE
momentarily, and then back to DECREASE for
2 seconds. And we'd keep repeating it like that.

CDR Okay, I understand. We'll cycle it a few times

that way.

CC Okay. And also, I guess, this is about our - our

last ditch. We - we really can't come up with
anything other than this. The only other
suggestion we might have is to tap it against
the side again. That's - that's what worked on
Skylab 2. I know you did it last night, and that
still didn't work. But tomorrow I guess, we're -
we're planning on shoving it overboard.
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CDR Okay. Well tell you what we'll do. We'll try
that. And did you have a recommended TRUNNION for
tapping it on the side, by the way?

CC I'll see if I can get one for you. Break, break -

Owen, go ahead. And I could co-,,ent, Owen, that,
regarding those voltages on AC-1, we have no
readout capability of that here.

SPT Roger. Someplace I had in mind that you'd sent

up - there was a w_y to - send some co--,ands and
after that, but I guess I was Just dreaming last
night. The other comment that I had was for the
backroom ATM people. That we got a pretty nice
picture of the corona at this point. Not remark-
ably high resolution, but I think about like it was
before. The XUV mon picture without integration
is Just barely visible, but with integration, it
stands - The _3V picture stands out very nicely.
There are a number of bright points visible all
across the disk of the Sun. And with our camera,
_ I think we may be in - may be able to identify
a number of bright - bright points to - to use
in talking to you a little later on. H-alpha
looks good and H-alpha 1 has a little bit of
Jitter in it as it did on SL 2. H-alpha 2 looks
real good.

215 21 41 47 CC Okeydoke. Copy that. Appreciate the words.

CDR The cycling's not doing a thing, Crip. We've

done it about 25 times.

CC Okay - -

CDR I think we'll bring it in and bang it on the side.

We were wondering last time we did it Just how
hard we could bang it on the side in - in complete
safety.

215 21 42 07 CC Okay. You - I guess you can use your discretion

on that. Our recommended TRUNNION setting for
it is 120, 120.

PLT Okay, Crip. I got a - a couple of operate pads

here. What do you want me to do with them?
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CC I guess I 'd hold up on them until we see what

your - your tapping does. If that doesn't seem
to do anything, well, you can go ahead with your -
with your program if you got - still got time.

CDR Okay. We're going to go rap it s_ne more. And

I'll be off the comma minute.

215 21 44 07 CC SPT, Houston. If you got a moment.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Roger, Owen. Regarding your AC-I problem; I

guess - apparently, we're concluding that you
Just haven't got an AC-1. And one of the things
that you can do to sort of help out your panel
configuration is that you can select FIXED on
INTEGRAL, if you so desire INTEGRAL, and NUMERIC
LIGHTING. And that will allow you to go back
_to BUS 1 positions on 811 the other switches.

SPT Oh, that's good news. I've - I've already

selected that FIXED on the INTEGRAL, but I will
select FIXED on the NUMERIC, and then go back
to BUS i. Yes, that'll be convenient.

CC Yes. That - that Just mi - primarily for panel

configuration. Actually, what that's doing is -
is feeding bus I, the numeric bus, through AC,2.
So you' re actually using AC-2.

SPT I see. So we still only have a single bus

capability?

CC That's affirm.

SPT Any clues as to what might have caused AC-I to

disappear?

215 21 45 18 CC That's negative, Owen. We're trying to come up

with something that could troubleshoot it for
you, but we haven't got it all together yet.

SPT Thank you.

CDR Say, Crip, this may be a crazy thing, but you

know these cables we keep taking apart and putting
in the shorting cable and all that business?
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Is there one pin on there that provides drive

power to the shaft motor? We got a multimeter
up here this time. We could go look at that pin
and see if any power's coming through the box
out there, and if it isn't then maybe we could
Just open the box by unscrewing it, and reach
in - you know, go in there and find what's wrong.
Maybe we could Just so-call hot-wire here in a
little while. We could unplug it, you know,
where it'd be nice and safe, find the pin, and
make a couple of connections and manually drive
it over there.

215 21 46 08 CC Okay, we copied that. And we'll scratch our

heads on it. We're going to go lOS in about
BO seconds. And we'll not see you again until
22:44, 22:4)4.

CDR Okay. We got all sorts of gear up here. We ought

to be able to do scmething.

CC Owen, Just a reminder. You will need to close

your doors manually.

SPT Okay, thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

215 22 43 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Hawaii for

i0 minutes.

SPT With this AOS, do you want to go ahead and complete

these steps on S05h powerup?

CC Hello, Owen, I'm sorry. We dropped out there right

after acquisition, and I missed your question.
Say again regarding S05_ powerup.

SPT Okay, I'm on page 1-17, and it wants me to wait

before powering up the image dissector until we're
AOS so you can watch that from the ground at the
same time. So I'm on page 1-17, now, waiting
until you are ready for me to go ahead with those
three steps.

CC You've got a GO on that, Owen.

SPT Okay.

CC CDR, Houston. If you got a moment, I need to talk

to you about the condensate holding tank.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger. We're going to need to get that thing

dumped sometime pretty soon. And also, I'd like
you - since this is going to be a daily operation,
I guess we can start scheduling it. I'd like for
you to give some thought as to the kind of time
you might like for us to schedule it in, daily.

CDR Okay, let me think about that a little bit, and

I'll go up there and start dumping it in Just a
few minutes. I'm on the bike right now.

CC Okay, no big rush.

CDR I've got the vacuum hose hooked up to the wardroom

window. I'm trying to get the water out of there
right now.
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CC Okay, we copy that. Nice to get that one out of

the road.

CDR Did you get any answers on those - about five or

six items that I passed along the other night that
we didn't know exactly where they went, but we had
them at hand?

215 22 h5 h8 CC You're a good straight man. Yes, I was standing

by to ask you some questions on that. I believe
I can give you the answers. On the S054 timer,
the best information that we had on that was that
it was stowed and wrapped up in a sock in
locker A-9, at launch. And I'm not sure, since
that was - Owen was up for that, now, and I'm not
sure whether he's found it or not.

215 22 46 lh SPT Negative.

CC Okay, has anybody had a chance to relook in A-9?

CDR We've looked all over the co_nand module. We've

got two things we can't find, right now, of all
that stuff we moved in. Just a second. Something's
ringing.

CC Okay. If somebody could make a note, S009 motor

should be stowed in M-157.

CDR Okay, I've got that. The other thing that we can't
find is that rejuvenation kit for the 133. Those
two items we can't find, and we think we've got
everything else found. Go ahead on those others.

CC Okay. On the ATM C&D water filter, we'd like to

leave that stowed in A-5; and the reason is that's
where your procedures call for you to get it.

CDR Okay, we 'll go put it back.

CC Okay, on the parasol fabric, again, for the same

reason, we'd like that stowed back in A-9.

CDR Okay.

CC And on the waste management compartment water dis-

penser valve, those should be in D-438 which is
the water equipment container.
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CDR Did you say E-438 or D?

CC D as in dog.

CDR Okay, got that.

CC And the wardroom window coupling, I guess, is

academic now, if you have already started it.

CDR I've started it, and we've found the other washroom
valve, also.

CC I guess that - you're saying the other WMC water

dispenser valve?

CDR Yes, we only found one the other day. Now we got
them; we found them both. We think we only have
two missing items.

CC Oh, okay; I understand now. You've got both of

them that we launched. And - -

215 22 48 29 CDR That's affirmative. And the reason we off loaded

everything from the command module was that there
is still a lot of gear up there that - There is
padding and widen, not widen, towels and tissues
and all sorts of things. And when we started
hunting for these items, we were Just looking all
over. And we said well, we 'd get everything out
of the command module and get it down here, except
command module things, and then we' ll only have to
look around down here. But it still didn't help
for those two items I mentioned.

215 22 48 58 CC Roger, AI. And I guess - go along with that except

that - it's going to foul you up on some of our
procedures a little bit later on. That's why we
were asking for you to put those particular items
that I called out back - back up in the command
module.

CDR Well, that's not a bit of trouble, and we'll go

put those back. And if it was something that didn't
have a place, we - we called you about. Everything
else we got in the right spot.
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CC Okay. Got any good words on 73? Did you have any
luck with that?

CDR Well, we tried everything we could think of. We

brought it in, and we torqued it, and we put it
out and torqued it, and followed everything we
could think of. We could not get a budge out of
the shaft. I took off the new Jumper plug that
I'd installed, and installed the old one again,
hoping that maybe banging it after that would work;
that didn't seem to work either. Unless you can
come up with some sort of pin or something that
we could Just apply power to, which looks like
ought to be possible, then we - we're out of ideas
up here.

CC Okay, we haven't managed to psych that one out,

whether there is anything worthwhile to do in that
particular area. Regarding your question on the
restoration kit for M133, it should have been in
A-8, up in the command module at launch.

CDR Roger. We went up there to hunt it, and couldn't

find it. It's up somewhere, but we haven't found
it.

CDR Like moving into a new house. You saw it yesterday,

but you can't remember where.

CC You've got a few things to keep track of up there.

PLT Hey, Crip, I need some clarification on a procedure.

CC Go ahead, Jack.

PLT Okay, I'm in Systems Checklist, page 16-8, which

photographs Don Lind's experiment. And I notice
in there that some Of the settings tell you to take
the photograph at, say f/8 and 7 feet and then take
a half a stop off the meter. So the half a stop
off the meter and the conflict. So I don't know
what you really want.

CC I'll get some of our photographic people to clarify

that.
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215 22 51 22 PLT Thank you. And take a looking down at the experi-
ment, it appears to have more contamination on it
now than I remember seeing on the photograph that
he showed us. It - it looks all colors of the
spectrum on the side which is facing the window,
more than it seems, as I remember, in the photo-
graph. The only thing that doesn't look too dis-
colored is the left mode strip. As my head
faces - as my head points to the Sun, the left
mode strip, about 2-1/2 to 3 inches wide, appears
to be more silver on both of the collectors than
the rest of the area on both collectors.

215 22 52 14 CC Okay. Don's sitting here all ears, and appreciates

all the comments.

PLT Will you ask Don to ask me more questions to re-

fresh my memory as to other observations that I
could make from the window on his experiment?

CC No, Just to bring in the collectors when we're

supposed to.

PLT Okay. And by the way, I want to slap my good

backup pilot on the back there, and also, E. Lay
from Martin and some of the others for working out
the good procedures on 192 alarm. They worked
swell_ and those guys did a lot of work on them
and initiated a lot of - an effort in - getting
more malfunction procedures cranked up.

CC Okay, appreciate those words. We're about 1 minute

form LOS ; we will have you a@ain at Vanguard at
23:15.

CC Okay. And, Owen, we need the EVA AUTO DOOR switch

to ENABLE. And apparently, you skipped over the
X-REA turn on on page 1-8 of your checklist.

215 22 53 28 SPT Negative. I did the X-REA POWER, ON. I've got
the POWER, ON switch right now. I did not see
the switch position to put EVA AUTO DOOR to ENABLE,
however. If that's in the checklist here, I did
miss that one. But the X-REA POWER is ON right
now.

CC Okay, maybe we've got a telemetry problem.

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SPT And also, might point out for S055 that I ... two
of their ... INTERLOCKS. I've stopped now while
finishing up S054, and I'll go back and give them
four more in a few minutes.

215 22 5h 00 CC Roger. That was kind of garbled. Think we got

most of it.

215 23 15 14 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Vanguard for 8 minutes, and

we will be doing a data recorder dump.

CDR Okay, and in that case, I Just - I Just completed

a charge on BAT 6 of the M509 and begun the charge
onBAT 7-

CC Roger. Copy that. And, Owen, are you still at the

ATM panel, or have you departed there?

SPT Stand by a minute. I'm still here. I'ii give you

a call in about a minute here, Bob.

CC Doke.

CC And, Jack, if you got a moment, I think I can ex-

plain that camera setting problem to you.

PLT Go ahead, Bob.

CC Roger. What they want you to do is to go ahead

and take your meter reading, add a f/8 stop; and
after you've got that, then back off a half a stop
from f/8, half way between f/8 and - f - about
5-6.

PLT Okay, thank you. (Music)

PLT Okay, Bob. I was Just completing that last

GRATING, AUTO SCAN; no INTERLOCK there. And I
completed about 3-1/2 GRATING AUTO SCANS with no
INTERLOCKS, before reaching the 400-kilometer
point. And I was Just completing the fourth one
at the time you called a moment ago. Now there are
about two unusual things that I've noted so far.
The first is on - Have you got time to hear this
for a minute?

CC Go ahead.
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SPT First, I'ii relate to S052. I told you on an

earlier round that it looked like the plus 8
plus 16 ALIGN POINTING was too close to the
20 arc-second discriminator. It was causing the
READY/OPERATE light to kick off and on, the READY
light to turn off and on.

215 23 17 4B SPT As it turns out, even when I go back to ALIGN

POINTING ZERO, the READY light will intermittently
go off and on. So it's not the 20 arc-second dis-
criminator, but something else. And when it was
on momentarily, I did start the sequence. And then
the OPERATE light c_,_ on, normally, 9 seconds
later and completed the fUll 12 exposures, and
then came back to READY with the READY light oper-
ating intermittently again. So in order to see
whether or not it was really ready, even though the
light was out, I did start another STANDARD MODE
when the READY light was off. And, again, it did
start normally. And so it appears that there is
some sort of an intermittence in the READY light
to the panel, which causes the READY light to
disappear, although, in fact, the instrument may
be fully ready to operate, because if the instru-
ment did begin to take the next sequence of pic-
tures when I started it, even though the READY
light was momentarily out at that time. And the
next unusual thing relates to the S054 experiment.
After going through that sequence of switches, the
IMAGE DISSECT0 switched to ENABLE, X-RAY IMAGE,
ENABLE, and PHOTOMULTIPLIER, ENABLE. I should
have had an electronic sweep on the X-ray image.
The PHOTOMULTIPLIER COUNT is showing, and the
IMAGE INTENSITY COUNT is reading in the vicinity -
or was in the vicinity of a 5 or l0 count. But
the X-RAY IMAGE display itself shoved no trace ;
even when I turned the BRIGHTNESS up to full max.
And so, for some reason, the CRT is, apparently,
inoperative. I don't know whether there's any
power switching that could be done to remedy that
or not. But at least, at the moment, the X-RAY
IMAGE display is not operative. And I think
everything else checked out normally. Over.
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215 23 19 50 CC Okay. Copied all _that, Owen. And Just before -

Just before I went over the hill, previously,
when I asked about X-REA power, really, what we
wanted to insure was that the ALUMINUM and BERYLLIUM
HIGH VOLTAGE POWERhad been turned ON per page 1-8,
and we're not indicating that's ON. Also, on that
EVA AUTO DOOR switch, that one's picked up normal-
ly on your checklist on page 1-23. It was abad _
call on our part getting it up early.

215 23 20 19 SPT Okay. I didn't think I had missed it, and I have
gone to EVA AUTO DOOR ENABLE now. I thought I'd
see if it closed the door near sunset. And it
looks like it - yes, it looks like it's closed
all the doors for me. Now on page 1-8 - -

CC Okay, why don't you - "

SPT - - I believe - it's been my impression that we

wanted to wait until after EVA to turn the HIGH
VOLTAGE POWER ON, BERYLLIUM and ALUMINUM. Let
me go back and doublecheck that again.

CC Okay. That was confusion on the way the checklist

was marked up for you. BUt we did want you to go
ahead and - and do that at this time. And I'd
like to mention to CDR, if he's got a moment
before I go LOS here, about S073, and/or the PLT.

CDR Okay. CDR here and he's listening.

CC Okay. Now we really weren't able to come up with

anything reasonable regarding, you know, shorting
plugs or Jumping a crosscable or anything like
that. So what we'd like to do is go ahead and
get one more night's operation out of the thing.
And there is an ops pad on board that I'd like to
modify slightly for a pass tonight. And I'm not
sure who has that, whether you or Jack has it.

215 23 21 36 CDH Jack's got it, and he's listening. He can take
down the message.

215 23 2_I 40 CC Okay. Program start time, we'd like to change to

23:48. And we'd like to modify the rep to ll
vice 12. And that's on the last S073 you have.
Should be start time 23:48 vice 22:15. And the
rep - -
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PLT Okay, I got that, Crip.

CC - - Okay, and the rep should be ii.

PLT Okay, thank you.

SPT Ah, two quick comments, Crip. First of all, on

page 1-7, you did send up a note to not power up
the beryllium or al_im_num until 24 hours after
the EVA. And the second thing is, l'd like to
find out if you want to do M133, even though I
do not have the caps injected with that new fluid.
Do you want me to use an old cap the way it is
and run it tonight?

CC Okay. We'll try to get an answer to you on that,

Owen. And we're about i minute from LOS. And
we'll have you again at Hawaii at 00:25. I take
it, sinceyou couldn'tfind that stuff - it was
supposed to have been in A-8 moved to S-909.

SPT 909 or 913? Anyway, it's neither location at

the moment.

CC Roger. It should've been in an IMMS can.

SPT Oh, with the syringe?

CC It's packaged like an IMMS equipment and labeled - -

CDR Okay. We've probably got it then. We'll find her.

SPT Yes, I know where that is now. Thank you. We

hadn't lost it after all. Okay, that's only one
item to hunt.

CC Hunting for the timer. Roger.

215 2B 25 26 CDR That's it. It's got to be somewhere.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

216 00 23 53 CC Skylab• Houston. We are AOS with about a 1-minute

pass over Hawaii.

CDR Okay; Robert.

CC And for the SPT on his question regarding M133•

if you did not find the reconstitution kit• we
would like you to check in D-_12 for some caps
and to look at the electrodes before using to
make sure they' re moist.

SPT We found them immediately. As soon as you men-

tioned that IMBS can similarity, we knew exactly
where it was. And I've got them in hand. Tb-nk
you• Bob.

CC Okay; very good• 0wen.

211 00 24 30 SPT We've been hunting in the sock while - now that
you mention it, I thln_ it did probably come in-
side of the sock but the can was the thing that
reminded us.

CC C_ay; very good. We're going to go LOS in about

30 seconds • and we will have you again at Vanguard
at 00:53. I'm sorry about that. You've got about -
got about 2 more minutes.

CC And, SPT; we had a little bit of confusion on that

S056 Just as we went over the hill previously.
The intent of the note that we had sent up for you
wss to delete the note that said not to turn it
on until EVA, and we did want to go ahead and turn
on both the aluminum and beryllium high voltage.

216 00 25 36 SPT C_ay. Well, I'll have to do that tomorrow. Now

I have already configured it for unattended ops for
tonight; I won't be able to get back to it this
evening. And then if you like I'll pick that up
and turn that on tomorrow for the next time I'm
at the panel and also have to give S055 about three
more of those grating interlock scans if they want
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them for calibration purposes. Also, let's see

I - I think it'd probably be better for us to
avoid leaving INTEGRAL and NUMERIC LIGHTING in
FI_, because that will leave them on bright all
day. And If that's so, why we can go back to
VARIABLE on those two controls and then Just
switch to DISPLAY and EXPERIMENTS in the BUS 2
position. You might think about that overnight,
which one will be the better, and then let us
know what the alternatives are. And I guess you
got the two apparent mar functions on S052 and
S054 that I called out, didn't you?

216 00 26 37 CC That's affirmative, and we're looking into those.

We'll also have a reco-,,endation for you on the
lighting.

SPT Very good, thank you. I

CC And, Skylab; you have a medical status teleprinter

message in your teleprinter and the doctor would
appreciate it if you would take a look at that
prior to your reed conference tonight so you can
task about it then. We are about 30 seconds from
LOS this time, I hope, and we'll again see you at
Vanguard at 00 :53.

CDR Roger, Bob.

216 00 52 50 CC Sk_lab, Houston. AOS through the Vanguard for i0

minutes.

CDR Loud and clear, Crip. We ran out of wipes in the

washroom. Is there any special place that the
stowage folks would like us to get the ... next
flight ?

CC I'll get an answer for you to that in a moment.

Al, have you had a chance to get your s_-,.-.ary
Flight Plan out of the teleprinter yet?

CDR Sure did.

216 00 53 27 CC Okay; that was a little bit garbled. If you did,

I've got some modifications on your line.
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CDR Roger. We were getting feedback. I was Just

trying to stop it. Let me get mine out.

CC Okeydoke.

CDR Go ahead.

216 00 54 03 CC Okay. At the period from around - under the CDR -

from around 13:45 down to about 14:30, it has ATM
checkout. We're going to eliminate that and add
Jettison, SOTS and stow, SOTS. And then following
that we have a VTR troubleshooting procedure that
_'ii run with you and we'll be doing that over a
station where we can do it in real time.

CDR Okay.

CC And that was all the ...

216 00 54 45 CDR Okay; and I've been dumping the holding tank and
I'm getting ready to pull the vacuum out in a few
minutes.

CC Okay. Very good.

CDR And I've thought about it and I think the best

time to do that is nighttime.

CC Okay. Would you like us to in any way put that

in the - on the Flight Plan?

216 O0 55 08 CDR I guess I can put it on my presleep checklist -

and I won't forget. Now one question - the
same question I had several days ago and still a
little confused on. You sent me up housekeeping -
I think 3K or something like that for the co, and
mod - No, no, that's dumb. I - I'm trying - I -
it's hard for me to tell exactly when you mean
for me to purge the CSM fuel cells.

CC Okay. Understand it's not clear as to when you're

supposed to do it in that procedure.

CDR Just a second.

CC We'll - we'll try to get you a good straight story

on that purging of the fuel cell.
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216 O0 56 24 CDR Okay. My little presleep says - -

CDR - - housekeeping 3A and fuel cell purge as required.

CC Okay. That's on your presleep checklist right?

CDR That's right, and I see no other - I see no other

co.,,ents about purge at all anywhere so I suspicion
I don't.

216 00 57 07 CC Okay; we copied that AI, and this - we'll try to

get you a straight story on it. I think that we
actually end up putting down on your schedule the
times that you're supposed to do it - when we
want you to do it, and that's Just the appropriate
time.

CDR Okay. The - the other ds_, I was asked in the

morning if I did one, and I said no, I didn't do
one. And I got to thinking today, I'm not really
sure from reading this whether I sin. Housekeeping
3K - I better look that up. Okay.

CC Okay, very good and would you like us to do a

regular checklist kind of change for you and add
that dumping the condensate tank to your presleep
checkli st ?

CDR That's a good idea. I'ii do it, but that way it

will all be written down. That's a good idea,
Crip.

CC 0keydoke.

CDR And any special ones -other ones that - where it

would fit in.

216 O0 58 i0 CDR One other co--,ent. I noticed in the book they

tell me to pull a vacuum on that tank for 18
minutes. Is that critical or is that Just a number
from 9omewhere? There's minimum time you can do
it and can you go ahead and pull it longer, or is
that 18 minutes a critical time?

CC I'll check that.

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SPT Just a note, Crip. I did get the M133 tape re-
corder changed out and all set up for the elec-
trode prep.

CC Roger. Understand you got it all ready to go,

Owen_ so the medics appreciate that.

216 00 59 ll CC And, CDR_ Houston. Regarding that 18 minutes -

that's - we consider that sort of a minimum time.
It's okay to go longer.

CDR Okay, good.

CC CDR, Houston. Regarding the wipes for the waste

management compartment. You can get those out of
ii
oeker 723.

216 00 59 52 CDR ()kay. Thanks.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

216 Ol Ol 19 CC CDR, Houston. Regarding the fuel cell purge.

It's put in you're presleep checklist as written
down, but we always schedule it. So, we'll put it
down on your Flight Plan when you're supposed to
do it.

CDR Okay. Sounds good. In other words, you'll say

02 fuel cell p_rge, or 02/H 2 purge or Just fuel
cell purge, huh?

CC We'll schedule it as C_ 2 or 4, which is what

your - in your Systems Checklist, call for.

CDR Okeydokey.

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

have you again at Ascension at 01:07. And at that
time, we'll be doing a data recorder dump, and
we'll also be standing by for the evening status
report. And, incidentally, we'll have a couple
of questions regarding the S192 alignment at that
time.

CDR Okay. We 'll be ready.

PLT And one other question came up here today, Crip,

is - we got change number 2 to the panel experiment
checklist, but we never did find change number I.

CC Okay, I'll research that one for you, Jack.

216 01 02 44 PLT Thank you.

216 01 07 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through Ascension

for 9 minutes, and we're standing by for your
evening status report.

CC And while you are getting that ready, Jack, I can

answer your question reguarding the SAL Checklist,
we sent that message up with a - in error. It was
suppose to be change 1 for the SAL Checklist and
that's all there has been, one change.
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PLT Okay, good. Thank you, Crip.

216 01 07 56 CC And we are doing a data recorder dump this pass.

CDR Okay, let me give you the report. Urine volume:

76, 105, 190. Drinking water gun: 4642, 7606;
5606. You have the BMMD things from this morning.
Exercise: CDR, 2/25/2752; 3/15 mark l; SPT does
not have any yet but he plans to get some later;
PLT 1/05/0500; 2/0 - 2/10/2000. That completed
the first line; and I'll continue on with the
PLT. 3 mark l; 50 A's, 20 B's, 20 D's and 20
back exercises, total of 20 minutes. Medication:
none for anybody. Sleep: CDE, 7/good; SPT,
7/good; PLT, 7/good. Okay, here comes the food
log: CDR, l0 salts, plus a strawberry drink,
minus part of some strawberries. And here's the
weight, SMMD weight: 2.07535, 2.07536, 2.07535.
SPT has not finished his eating and he would like
to give you that information on the last half of
the evening. PLT, six salt packs; he added one
grape drink plus two apple drinks, so a total of
three extra drinks. Okay, here comes the photo
log: 35-millimeter: C199,16. Now we'll talk
about EREP set, S,1 - okay, 7835; second one,
0029; 7551; 6935; 8705; 7607. And the 16-millimeter
cameras in drawer A, no change from yesterday.
Okay, Flight Plan deviations, task time constraint,
and okay next day's Flight Plan: no comment there,
everything went well.

216 01 12 03 CC Okay, CDR. We've copied all of that and we've

got a few questions if we could as them, please.

CDR Plaeas do.

CC Okay, can you tell us what - what went on with

ED52 today?

CDR Not a thing. Owen got it on his mind, to do right

after supper.

CC Okay, very good. And what about T003. We had a

couple of those items were at crew option. Can
you give us a status report on that?

CDR We got them all.

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216 01 12 3h CC Got them all. Very good. How does the window
look now?

CDR Oops, let me - We - I can't open it now, because

73 is there, but I put the vacuum on it for a
while. I wasn't able, of course, to then put
dry air through the dryer because we can't close
the hatch because that's the one 73 is in. But
I'm using the vacuum hose now to dump the waste
tank and a - put a vacuum on the waste tank and
so, tomorrow, I'll put the vacuum hose back on
the window for a while and then after we Jettison
73, I'll close the airlock and put some dry air
into the window and seal it off. So we have
got it about half done. And it looked like it
pulled off everything except a small rir_ in the
center, which looked dried, like dried contami-
nate matter as opposed to any moisture but
that may go away with some more vacuum time.

216 01 13 26 CC Okay, that's very good. And I have some ques-

tion regarding 192 alignment, if perhaps - if
Jack' s available for it.

CDR Okay. One question before he does that. When

is S073 going to cut off, so we can turn off
the two tape recorders?

CC I'll get a time for you on that. Okay, CDR,

S073 is going to be running all night long and
we'll give you a call on it in the morning
when you can turn it off, or turn off the
Recorders.

PLT Go ahead on 192.

CC Okay, Jack. The first one on the alignment:

Was the system very elastic? That is, how
long after hands off the alignment controls
before the meter readings came back?

PLT Immediately.

CC Came hack _mmediately. Very good. Okay. How

many times did the PL - did you try to reseat
the thermal focus control after peaking X and Y?

CC Yes. Really, Just how many iterations did you -

did you go through on it?
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216 01 15 04 PLT I changed that in 1/12th increments, as outlined

in the checklist and then I had to go back 1/24th
of a turn, so I turned it all up - all in all, I
turned it 25 24th turns from where it was.

CC Okay, Jack. I guess we're still not clear on that.

How many - how many cycles. You set it up once and
then you - After you tweaked X and Y, you went
back and - and turned the knob once more. Is
that correct?

216 01 15 51 PLT No, I changed the focus, then I changed X and Y

and I changed the focus and I changed X and Y,
and I did that at least, must have been 12 or 13
time s.

CC Okay, that --

PLT It took me 2 or 3 hours to do it.

216 01 16 04 CC Okay. That would be the answer we were looking

for, about 12 or 13 times. We are about
30 seconds from LOS; next station pass is Gn_m
at 01:53 and that will be your medical conference.
Following that, we'll have Vanguard at 02:30, and
we will be talking about anomalies or the anomaly
list that that time.

PLT Say, Crip, I made a notation of all of the turns

and all of the dial twizzling [sic] that I did
on S192, both visible and thermal, and I wrote
it down on my checklist. I can bring it home,
if you want.

216 01 16 39 CC Okay, sounds good.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GEOUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

216 02 30 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS throl_h the Vangna_d

for ll minutes.

SPT Okay, Crip.

CC And, Skylab; we are copying that the EXPERIMENT 2

RECORDER is OFF, and we need it ON for S073 this
evening.

SPT Okay. We're on our way to turn it on. And I'd

like to give you an update on my food intake for
the day. I didn't get it in - eaten in time to
include it in the night status report.

CC Okay, Owen. At your convenience.

SPT Okay. Ate all of meal 1. Meal 2, I eliminated

asparagus. Meal 3_ I eliminated apricots, butter-
scotch pudding. Meal 5, I eliminated green beans.
I added Jelly, and I added shrimp. And that's it.

216 02 31 15 CC Okay, Owen. While I've got you here, I think

I can clear - clear up your S05h CRT problem if
you'd like to hear it.

SPT Good. What's the word?

CC ' Okay. What we passed up earlier - the bit about

going to FIXED on NUMERIC and INTEGRAL solving all
your AC problems. That was true with one exception.
And that was the SO5h CRT - -

SPT Yes, I was afraid it wassomething like that.

CC Yes. You're going to - you're going to have to go

on your console distribution panel and put - for
S05h, select BUS 2.

SPT Okay. Well, it may be that we want to actually

run all the experiments and displays on bus 2, the
way I mentioned before, and I'll wait until I hear
from you tomorrow.

216 02 31 57 CC Okay. Actually, that really doesn't help us out

much, since you haven't got any variable available
to you, and you're Just going to have to turn those
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things on and off at - anyhow, to keep them

from burning bright.

SPT Oh, I see your point. Okay. Well, maybe let's

do it the way you first suggested, then, switch
the lighting down to FIXED.

CC Okay. It's really - whatever seems easiest to

you guys.

SPT Is there any problem on that NUMERIC with switch-

ing it back and forth between OFF and FIXED?

CC We'll check that.

216 02 32 34 SPT Or the INTEGRAL. There was some con - concern

I had about switching it instead of using the
pot. And I Just wanted to make sure that there
was no problem as long as we were using the main
ILCA - LCA - that there would be no problem
using the switch and not the pot.

CC There should be no constraint at all.

SPT Okay. We'll Just go down to FIXED.

PLT Hey, Crip, we tried to reset the recorder. It

went off by itself, and we can't get it back in.
It's probably - at stop up there.

CC Okay. We copied that.

216 02 33 20 CDR Is this the pass where we have discussion, Crip?

CC I'm sorry. Would you say again your last, please?

CDR CDR. Is this the pass where we were going to have

a discussion of next week's activities? ,

CC That's affirmative. We've got it set aside to

discuss status. Really, I guess, we had been
intending to discuss that anomaly list. We
could if you'd like. I don't know - let me
check and see if we're prepared to discuss next
week.

CDR Okay. I Just saw it on the schedule. Maybe I'm

wrong.
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CC Yes. It was set aside as a status session.

216 02 33 59 CDR Yes. The only question I had on the anomaly

list was on this ... I gather you feel if we
hadn't ... turned. I'd like to see a procedure
come up that - that if we - if we're - if it's
okay to use quad B. I noticed all our pro-
cedures that are up have us not using it. So
I'm just wondering what the strategy is.

CC CDR, Houston. We plan on - plan on up-linking

you tonight a series of changes that deal with
the quad D and B problem. And we'll set aside
a couple of passes tomorrow evening to discuss
them in detail with you.

CDR Roger. I think that would be a good idea for

us to be ... together. We can also discuss at
this time a little bit about techniques somebody
might have for no comm entry, and the best way
to go to attitudes, and that sort of thing.

CC We'll - we'll be glad to go over that with you

in detail, and Vance and the guys have been look-
ing at it.

CDR Yes. I figured he was probably down there watch-

ing the store. That's great. So that - that's
fine. I'd like to understand best what - what
all the options are exactly from a technique
point of view; which would we use first, and if
that didn't work, or didn't work too well, what
would you use next. All the way down through
• the options, so that I could understand the total
number, and which is the best, and right on down.
And I assume that I have to have some information
on the teleprinter to understand it, rather - in
addition to talking about it.

216 02 36 03 CC Okay. I believe we've got a pretty good story

lined up for you on that. I can say right now
that quad B is available for emergency use as
long as B-3 is isolated electronically.

CDR Did you say B-3?

CC That's affirmative. B-3 is isolated electrically.

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CDR Okay. Now here's another question. No, I

guess - I guess I answered it myself. Go ahead.

216 02 36 50 CC Hou - Skylab, we suspect that that experiment 2

recorder went off because it was full, and we're
dumping it. And as soon as we get it dumped,
we'll let you know so you can try turning it
back on again.

CDR Okay. By the ws_v, the holding tank's back on.

Full of condensate, I hope.

216 02 37 08 CC Okay. Looks good here.

SPT Say, Bob. One quick word. I did not get to the
ED52 and would appreciate it if it could be
rescheduled for me tomorrow.

CC Okay, Owen. We copy.

CDR Okay. Now, let's talk about that master anomaly

list a few moments. I got it and started putting
it in the book with scotch tape. And it turned
out that after an hour of scattering those around
different places, in addition to the other
changes, I decided that what I'd better do with
the master anomaly list is look at the anomalies
as they come up and then pick the ones that we
want to have information on board on. And the
ones that are closed, or really don't apply to
us too much, then Just discard. So my master
anomaly list on board is going to be a little
bit different from yours in order to save man-
hours. I've been spending at least l-l/2 man-
hours per day - checklist changes, and general
message printing, and permanent message sticking,
and that - that sort of thing. It's no trouble
other than it Just takes man-hours, and I don't
really think we're going to want to use them
for that sort of thing, although we got to do
them to a certain degree. So I'll try to look
over each of them real closely and, of course,
all the checklist changes and everything we have
to make, and will make, and have been making. I
think we got them all in right now. But it
sounds like you're getting ready to send up a
couple more man-hours to do it.
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216 02 38 31 CC Roger. CDR, Houston. We appreciate the problem.

To keep us - or to enable us to cross reference
so that we'll know what we're talking about
between us, we recommend, if you can, to save
the number on the items that you keep.

CDR Okay. That'll be a good idea. I tell you - the

thing - maybe the way to do it is when we go
over them, then I'll Just glance through the
book and show you - tell you which ones I kept.
And that way, you sort of have a general status.
And I can do that anytime you want.

CC 0kay. That sounds like a good idea.

216 02 39 26 CC Skylab, we have about, oh, a minute and a half

left on this pass. I've got some evening news
I'll be glad to send up for you over Ascension,
which we are going to get in a few minutes. I
know you guys are getting ready to go to bed,
too. So, it's - it's your call. If you'd like
to hear it, we're going to have Ascension at 02:hh.

CDR Love to hear it, Crip.

CC Okay, we'll - we'll give it at that time. And

we've got about a minute until LOS on this pass.

216 02 39 54 CDR Okay, great.

I 216 02 44 12 CC Skylab,got
we've Houston.
about a We're A0S pass.
7-minute over Ascension, and
And if you'd
like, I can give you the evening news.

CDR We're listening, Crip.

CC 0keydoke. To pick off this morning's paper, I

can give you the headlines. If you're interested
in a little bit of Skylab news, it says, "Rescue
craft ready, but space crew is calm. As engineers
on the ground began an around-the-clock program
to ready a rescue ship, the second Skylab crew
proceeded Thursday as though an emergency that
could imperil their mission did not happen.
Captain Alan L. Bean, Major Jack R. Lousma, and
Dr. Owen K. Garriott continued routine operations
to get the nation's first space station ready
for a normal 59-day stay after being told of the
possibility of a rescue mission. As the crew
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slept early Thursday, the problem, leaking oxi-

dizer from a second set of faulty thrusters,
crept silently aboard the docked Apollo that is
supposed to ferry the astronauts to and from the
space station. After the problem was brainstormed
and the options to combat it were thrashed out
for about 7 hours, Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.,
/ Director of the Johnson Space Center, was able
to tell the Bean crew, 'We're proceeding as if
we are going to have a normal mission.'" And
it's - basically it goes on in the same vein. A
little other news. The meat shortage continues
to get a little bit worse here. The Senate has
voted to end the price freeze, but it appears it
will stay on until mid-Decem - mid-September.
By then, it's been reported, the Skylab crew may
be the only Americans eating meat regularly.

216 02 45 52 CDR That could be true (laughter).

CC You didn't know how lucky you guys were, did you?
Boy Scouts from 50 states and 20 foreign countries
are spending a week at two national jamborees
going on presently. The national jambobee -
Jamboree is being held near Butler, Pennsylvania.
The Jamboree west is near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
A little DOD information. The Senate Armed
Services Committee has cut the Air Force B-I
bomber budget by one-hundred million. Today the
committee restored a 50-percent cut in the Navy's
Trident submarine program. Meanwhile, the Defense
Department says there will be more militaa7 bases
closing around the country if the D0D budget cut
proposals are upheld. And to show you that the
Navy's always the first in line, it says that
that airline that talks about the "Wings of man"
may have to add _ P.S. to its motto. Eastern
Airlines just graduated its first woman pilot.
She's 23-year old Barbara Barrett. She has flown
cargo for a Detroit firm for l0 months before
Joining the airlines. And for Jack, the big
item is the $250,000 Westchester Golf classic.
And, unfortunately, play scheduled to start yes-
terday was delayed due to rain. Tom Weiskopf is
the favorite, coming off his big win last week
in the Canadian Open. Top money is going to be
$50,000. Pro football news: tonight the New
York Jets-are, of course, playing in the Astro-
dome against the Oilers. Also tonight, the
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Detroit Lions are at Washington to play the Red-

skins. And Dallas is at Los Angeles. The balance
of the teams are going to be playing on Saturday
and Sunday. I don't know if we've got any tennis
fans up there,, but Billie Jean King and Bobby
Riggs have signed to play their best-of-five
tennis matches at the Astrodome on September
the 20th. And it's a winner-take-all $i00,000
purse. And that ought to be rather interesting.
Last night at the Astrodome, the Astros lost to
the Dodgers in ll innings by a score of 4 to 2.
And Houston remains 12 games off the pace. And
that's really about - about all for the evening
news. And I guess you gt_s are coming up for
beddy-bye time. Anything else you've got of
significance you'd like us to do for you this
evening?

216 02 48 06 CDR No, Crip. Thanks. That was more interesting

news than we normally have. And if you can kind
of keep it up like that every night, we'd sure
appreciate it.

CC Okay. We're working on it. And by the way, in

the third quarter the Jets are leading i0 to 3.

CDR Oh-oh !

SPT Yhanks a lot_ Crip.

CDR Night. See you tomorrow.

CC Okay. Good night.

SPT Don't forget the recorder.

CC We're looking after it. And hope - hope you

won't be quite as flooded by paper tomorrow
morning.

SPT Yes, it must have been a record, one-fireman's-

pole. We'll see how it is tomorrow.

216 02 48 50 CC ()kay. No more records.

216 03 28 38 CC Skylab, Houston. You got a problem?

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CDR Well, we got a return one, Crip. We got a MASTER

ALARM in the command module. We went up there
and looked at our - looked at things pretty
closely. Couldn't see anything unusual except
the 02 press seemed a little low on number i tank.
And we never - the recall didn't serve any func-
tion, and - we don't know exactly what happened.
Just calling you to let you know, and ask you to
look it over real close.

CC Okay, we are in process of doing so.

216 03 29 21 CDR We've also been kind of wondering why the hydro-
gen quantity is low in tank 1 and not in 2.
That's just the way they feed?

CC That's the current Ky- cryro [sic] plan.

That's - bluplinp - can't talk, Yes. That's
the one tank we've got on right now.

216 03 30 27 CDR Another thing we got to talking about, Crip.

Might be a good idea to send up tomorrow when
you are sending the information about entry and
the like. We - we don't know if we have the
latest information on board on how we do the
backup attitude hold for the workshop in the
event we have some rate gyro problems.

CC Okay, I'm informed that's going to be coming up

tonight.

CDR That 's good.

216 03 31 06 CC And, Skylab, we're doing a doublecheck on every-

thing, but right now everything looks normal to
us.

CDR Okay.

216 03 32 01 CC CDR, Houston. Can you give us the approximate

time that that caution and warning went off on
you?

CDR Roger. I would say between 7 and l0 minutes

ago. Or it could be between 5 and 10.

CC Okeydoke.
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216 03 33 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We've given the vehicle a good

going over. Everything looks good to us. Guess
our recommendation is to go ahead and try to go
back to sleep. Sorry you got the rude awakening,
and we will keep a lifted sharp eye on it all
night long for you.

216 03 33 49 CDR Thank you, Crip.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

216 ii 04 36 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8 minutes.

Good morning.

CDR Morning, HA_W. You sure it's morning?

CC Well, it sure seems like it. How is it up there?

CDR Middle of the night. Dark.

CC Better raise up your shades there; it out to be

daylight.

SPT 73 quit r_ning.

CC Say again.

CDR His S073 quit. We've had to have them closed most
of yesterday to protect it.

CC Stand by.

CC It appears that they've been working normally

tonight, A1.

216 ll 06 40 CC Skylab, Houston. While you're getting started up

here this morning, I'd like to brief you on what
ihas occurred during the evening. As you recall,
you had the MASTER ALARM last night. Well, we've
been pouring over the data and we've picked up
some funnies during the evening, and we've about
traced it down, we think. Apparently, we had a
pretty big short in the ATM power transfer
distributor. They were somewhere around 350 amps,
the best we can guess, between ATM, BUS 2 and
'N, BUS 2. And it lasted for about 3 seconds and
,quit. And the indication is we probably lost the
TV, BUS 2. And this is probably what caused your
CSM and MASTER ALARM. And we also showed a record
of an AM warning; you didn't mention that last
night. And we've lost the FINE SUN SENSOR wedge
position indicators.
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And the short seems to be cleared up now. And we

also suspect, though, that we may have popped the
REG BUS TIE circuit breakers. So when it's
convenient we'd like to get somebody up in that
end of the bird. And we want to take a look at
those REG BUS TIE, and also take a look at what
your readout is on the wedge positions. And we've
got a couple of other switches we want you to get -
get the high voltage off, because at about the
time this occurred, we noticed the canister
pressure went up some.

CDR Okay. I'm right by the ATM; Just tell me what

you need.

216 ll 08 18 CC Okay. On the X-RAY SPEC, we need to get the

IMAGE DISSECTOR switch OFF and the PHOTOMULTIPLIER,
OFF.

216 ll 08 32 CDR Okay, they're OFF. And it did not pop the BUS TIE
circuit breakers - -

CC Okay. That's good.

CDR - - We did - we also did not see a AM CAUTION

WARNING that I - that I recalled. And Owen agrees;
he stayed here and looked. Okay, we're ready for
the next one.

CC Okay. Those are the only two there we wanted to

get. And can you give us a readout on the wedge
position?

CDR Owen's working on it.

CC We did see that warning on the telemetry. It may

not have activated on the bird.

216 ll 09 30 SPT Okay. UP/DOWN is minus 60, and LEFT/RIGHT is minus

25 ARC SECONDS.

CC Minus 60 and minus 25.

CDR One thing we have been noticing that we wanted to

ask you about, though, is the fact that the vehicle
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seems to be warming up in here. I noticed being

a little bit warmer last night than other nights.
And I'm wondering if it's because that S073 is on
all the time, and that puts out a lot of heat.
Or there's something else occurring that you're -
you know about that we haven't heard?

CC I don't know of anything, A1; but we'll sure

look into it.

SPT You say, Hank, that we've lost indication of wedge

positions? Do you mean that the two numbers that
I Just read out here are not necessarily accurate?
Or is it the - only the ground down-link that's
been lost on the FINE SUN SENSOR position? Over.

216 ll ll 13 CC Stand by and let me search that. We did lose our

down-link indication of the wedge positions. Let
me check and see what the onboard will do.

216 ii ii 57 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute to

LOS. We' ii be coming up on Honeysuckle at 49.
And on the ATM console, we'd like to verify that
you have under the power system, your selector
switch in BEG or BAT and CBRM 17, SELECTED. That
way, you shouldn't have a power alert light.

SPT Okay. I did not have it that way. I will put it

that way right now and m_ke sure that the power
system light disappears.

SPT I've been sitting in either BAT or REG with an 18

SELECTED, as a matter of fact, and I Just checked
the buses. Now I did, of course, get this out,
probably eliminated by calling up that alert
display. And that's probably - it'll remain on by
changing 17 the way you suggested.

216 ii 13 04 CC Okay.

216 ii _9 02 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle, 6 minutes.

PLT Okay. We had another funny with the ATM. We'll

:Let the SPT talk about it.
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CC Go ahead.

CC We're seeing two REG OFF, SPT, could you give us

a rundown?

216 ll 49 35 SPT Yes, I can now. You were asking me about being
in the REG or BAT position with the CBRM 17
SELECTED. I think we went over the hill as I
was doing that. I had my SELECT switch in the
1/12 position and not the 13/18, so when I did
go back and put it on BAT and SELECT 17, then the
ALERT light disappeared. But at the same time it
kicked the REG OFF. And so then I selected the
CBRM number 16, by Just rotating one position,
and that kicked the number 16 REG OFF. So I
rotated no further and have not yet attempted to
reset the REG, although I have no reason to think
it will not reset. I wanted to let you know about
it and see if you were ready for a REG RESET on
16 and 17. Over

216 ll 50 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like for you to leave that

switch where it is and we're going to think about
it and we're considering the possibility of trying
commanding the REG back on through the up-link

SPT Okay. I, of course, am still in the 16 position.

So I could go REG, ON, on 16 right here without
changing that rotary any further.

CC We'd like to stay right where we are now, Owen,

and Just think about it a little bit before we
do anything, since we've been having _]I these
electrical funnies.

SPT I see you Just set 16 right there. It's back OFF.
The REG is ON. The light is off.

CC Copy.

SPT And now you've RESET 17. It's back on.

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216 ll 52 47 CC SPT, Houston. Just so you can be thinking about

it, we told you before we had the funny with the
FINE SUN SENSOR WEDGE. We think there's a
possibility we may have lost the feedback loop in
the FINE sun SENSOR circuitry number 1. So part
of your ATM pass today is going to be some
troubleshooting and we'll do that real time.

SPT Okay. I understand.

CC And, SPT, Houston. The reason you were reading

the numbers you were on the wedges and not zero,
like we were, is due to the biases then. You
have the FINE SUN SENSOR bias in and that's the
bias numbers that we have in there.

SPT Okay. Fine. I think we probably left the canister

somewhere near zero when I shut it down for
unattended ops last night. I don't know what you may
have done with it, of course, over the nighttime.

CC Roger. I think it's still Sun centered.

216 ll 5h 07 CC And we're about 1 minute from LOS, Skylab. And

we'll be coming up on Hawaii at l0 and there, I'd
like to get in a couple of small Flight Plan changes.

SPT Okay. I think I've figured what you got in that

electrode rejuvenation kit. I think it must have
been glue. 133 experiments.

CC (Laughter) Roger.

CC And before we go over the hill, if it's convenient

some time in the next 5 or l0 minutes, we'd like
to get someone to go to MEDIUM GAIN on the S073.

CDR Is that fast enough for you?

CC Outstanding. That's pretty quick.

216 ll 55 19 CDR We start slow -

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

216 12 I0 15 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, 7 minutes.

CDR Houston, Skylab. We're all taking half urine

samples today, as indicated on our Flight Plan.
But the way we count them up, this is actually a
day early from our normal Flight Plan. Do you
agree with that, or do you agree that this is the
normal day that we should have been taking half
_smples? Over.

CC We'll get you an answer on that. And - I - I'd

like to talk a little about day 9 Flight Plan
:real quick so we can start hauling out the problems
:for tomorrow, if it's okay.

CDR Go ahead.

216 12 ll 15 CC Okay. What we've done, AI, we've built a Flight

]Plan that is essentially - In a nutshell, it's
_EP in the morning and EVA prep in the afternoon.
Now, in order to get the EREP in and get a little
bit - or get the ETC work done, it takes up the
entire morning. We've also thrown in a few minutes
early out of the postsleep for the SPT, Just to
get a little XUV mon TV down-link. That doesn't
take but about 5 minutes out of his postsleep.
But in doing this, we - we were unable to work
in any PT or the food stowage transfer that you
w_uted. At least, we couldn't get it scheduled
in the morning. And that is back-to-back track
61/62 in the morning. But we have from roughly
3.8:15 on to bedtime is essentially all yours.
_at's for - to do the twin-pole sunshade inspection
and your pre-EVA preps. We have one ATM pass that
we've thrown in in the postsleep - and - it's
presleep - and it's optional. But we figured that
leaving the whole afternoon up to you, that you
could probably find a place to work in your PT
and the food storage. And if not, we can schedule
the food storage mother day. How does that sound
to you?
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CDR Well, I'll tell you how these things sound to me.
I've found out - The - there's no way to work -
You know, when you've got the day scheduled, there
is no way to work in the other stuff, I've found
out, because it Just won't fit. You've got 4 hours
scheduled and 4 hours available, and you can't
stick in an extra hour's worth of something else.
I think it's okay, but I think the doctor's got
to be aware that there ain't going to be any PT
tomorrow, because there's Just not going to be
any way to get it in.

CC Okay, we'll - -

216 12 13 2_ CDR There's only an 8-hour - We've got no - no comp-

laint, but it's Just that you can't - you know,
there's no way to make l0 hours out of an 8-hour
day, we've found out up here. That's what hurt
us the first 2 or 3 days. We kept trying to fit
in, and we - there's no way to fit in.

CC Okay, we copy. I guess we thought there was a

little fat in the - the EVA prep thing, since we
had an extra hour on the prep and then 2 hours
for the sunshade inspection.

CDR Well, there may be, but we don't think so. And
if it turns out to be, we'll do the PT. But I
think everybody should have on their minds it
doesn't appear to be that way now. Because in
addition to that, you know, there's a lot of these
other things that come up that fill in those
little blank spaces: real-time troubleshooting,
checklist changes, general message, this and that.
So there's - it's always filled with other things,
too.

216 12 14 19 CC Okay. I guess our only option then, A1, is drop

one of the tracks on the EREP. So we'll sort of -
that will give you a morning PT.

CDR Well, I think - I think maybe - Let me compromise

somehow and think this over with you. Let's -
let's go ahead and back-to-back EREP, but let's
don't have anything else along with it, and then
that - maybe we can get some of the exercise
earlier in the morning. Owen can exercise during
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the time that we're doing EREP, and he's doing

less of the ETC, because it doesn't take him
quite as long to prep as it does for us. And then
that will mean that only Jack and I have to exer-
cise. And maybe we can have 0wen working with the
twin poles and the sunshade while we exercise.
So don't give us anything else except the two EREPS
and the EVA prep. And if we get finished early,
we'll call you and get some pads and go to work on
something else.

216 12 15 13 CC What - what we have now is basically that, AI,

for the CDR and the PLT. It's nothing but EREP
and EVA prep. And the SPT has a S019 stow and a
little bit of housekeeping, most of which is
mandatory.

CDR Okay, just send it all up and we'll give it a go,

because we don't want to miss those EREP passes.
I know you don't either. And we'll give it a go,
and we'll Just stay up late if we have to. The
thing that Just has not worked out like we thought
it would is the extra time. There Just never is
any. We are - were going to crowd some things in
there, and we Just haven't found it yet. But
we're getting better organized, and maybe we'll
find it by then. We're - we're much faster this
morning. Okay--

CC 0kay - -

CDR We 'll do it.

216 12 16 17 CC Okay. We - we - we - we understand, A1. We're

trying to do our best here, and we'll see what
we can do with it. You probably noticed, on the -
on the message regarding the G&C Checklist
changes, there was a seven-line gap in it. And I
meant to tell you that on the first pass. Don't
get alarmed_ that gap was an accident.

CDR Okay. One thing puzzled us on last night's pad.

I - I was the VTS operator and noticed also that
the sites that we are going to run, I guess, are
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the ones - that I'm going to run, and yet this

morning's pad shows it the other way. Which way
do you plan for us to do it?

CC Stand by l_

216 12 17 06 CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS now. We'll be

coming up on stateside here, Goldstone at 20, and
we'll try to get an answer for you.

216 12 20 34 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 7 minutes.

And, CDR; Houston. We checked that out, and our
pads are in error. CDR should be doing the VTS.

CDR Okay.

CC There is one little correction to the Flight

Plan itself. We had designated the SPT as the
number 2 crewman for preslip - presleep, and it
should be the other why - other way around. SPT
and the PLT should swap, because the PLT is - the
SP - the number 3 goes with the guy doing the ATM
pass.

216 12 21 34 CC And, Skylab, we do have a GO for doing EREP at

this time, and so we probably won't be doing the
alternate Flight Plan. And, in that case, we sent
up two messages, 827 and 825. They pertain to
PPO 2 sensor and CBRM 17. We'd like for you to
hang on to those - until we can schedule those
activities.

CC Skylab, Houston. For info only, we've had a S055

door hang up; we had one last night. We're going
to go ahead and run a malf procedure and get the
door closed. No action required on your part.

216 12 23 52 CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead, Hank.

CC Okay. On you maneuver pad for the Z-LV on your

EREP: In the remarks there, we said that the
maneuver to Z-LV starts at ll4 degrees before
orbit noon. That should read, "After orbit noon."
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PLT Okay.

216 12 25 00 CDR Houston, CDR. A couple of other quick questions.

CC Go ahead.

CDR You know these rate gyros that we brought up to

fix? We presently have them running. We've had
them running since yesterday, and we wondered if
you wanted - wanted us to keep them _inn_ng. And
we were also kind of wondering if that's what
maybe is making the vehicle hotter. But that
doesn't make sense, either, because I don't think
they have that big of heaters in them. That's
question 1. And question 2: The other day as we
finished up the EREP, y'all made some comments
about - well, you didn't, Crisp did, he said -
maybe it wasn't Crip; I'm trying to remember. I
think it was Story. Just as we went out - LOS,
he said, "If you have some rate gyro discompare
problems, do the following." And then he told us
what to do. We went over and looked up the numbers
and had them ready. Do you suppose that you could
start sending us on a daily basis a - since we do
have these rate gyros that are a little erratic -
on a daily basis or every time it changes, what
gyro is being - you feel is the prime area in each
axis, particularly the Y-axis, so that in the event
we do have a discompare or something, we know
which Y-axis, particularly - but others too -
to select as the primary one. And then when you -
if you change your mind on that sort of thing, you
maybe send us a new one. And if you could send a
pad such that it says sort of this way: In the
event of a Y-axis discompare - and if this is true
- and - and manual selection has to be _ade, do
the following. And then give the actual code
numbers, and then say, "This will do such and such
to the Y-axis." Do you understand what I 'm shooting
_br?

216 12 27 02 CC Roger. We understand, and we'll work on it.

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CDR Right. We'll put that up there by the rate gyros,

and then we'll have it on board sort of as _mme-
diate procedure. And you can just say, go to
the rate gyro information of the day if you have
a problem. And then we can go there, and it'll
have the commands and everything, and time won't
be wasted looking up commands. And that way we
might save some mibs or something.

216 12 27 27 CC Roger, we agree. And we're about l0 seconds from

LOS now. Bermuda at B1.

216 12 32 B2 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 6 minutes.

CC And, CDR, Houston. In answer to the question about

the rate gyro pack, we would like to leave those
powered up.

CDR Okay, you've got it.

CC And in regard to the half urine samples, today

was a scheduled half urine sample day, and after
day 18, we're going to start revising the schedule
to take care of the extended mission. However,
per preflight agreement, you will do those as we
put them on the Flight Plan. That's the best way
to keep up with them.

CDR Okay, that's what I was afraid we - you were

thinking about here on these samples. Now, we've
been labeling our samples as following, and putting
them in the appropriate slot. Today is day 8,
of course, but we sampled day 7 volume, and so we
would have - we have been planning to put them into
the day 7 slot. In the day 1 slot and ..., we
actually only had five UCTAs, but that filled up
slot 1. Then in day 2, we had three bags, which
we sampled on day B, and we put them in day 2, and
so, you see, each day we're filling up the slots
for the preceeding day. And that's the thing
that throws it out of schedule with all our - 1
day off with everything in our data pack, and it's
the reason for m_ believing that we were really
wanting to fill up day 7 slots on day 8. So we'll
put these into slot number 8 and that'll leave
slot number 7 vacant for the moment until we get
these numbering syst_s sorted out. Over.
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2_16 12 3h 20 CC Roger. We copy.

216 12 h0 hl CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries, 9-1/2 minutes

and w_'re going to do a nay update here, if you
could give us the DAS a little while.

216 12 41 00 CDR You got it.

CC _l_nankyou, sir.

CDR Houston, you still there?

CC Go ahead.

CDR I'm looking over the CSM - the OA emergency cue

card change number 1. Do you happen to have that
at hand down there?

CC Stand by 1.

CC Okay, go ahead.

216 12 hh Oh CDR Okay, I noticed one of my dots along my line was

missing. It's the first -the first line down
says, "Delete RHC POWER DIRECT, two, MAIN A and
MAIN B."

CC [Roger.

CDR Okay, I've got a skip of several spaces, and then

it says, "Delete SM RCS CSM 1 HELIUM, OPEN." Was
that the next thing, or should there have been a
line in between?

CC That 's the next thing.

CDR Okay, thanks.

216 12 h5 59 CC SPT, Houston. We researched this urine thing again,

and we did make an error in the Flight Plan. We
did intend for day 8 to be the half sample which
you would have done on day 9, and we m_Lde an error
and put it in day 8's Flight Plan. So what we'd
like you to do is move day 7 samples, the one you
Just did, the half sample, along with the spacers
over into the day 7 slot.

SPT ()kay. That's the only thing we can figure it out;

we'll do that.
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216 12 49 01 CC Skylab, Houston_ we're through up-linking. We

got the nav updates in, and we're about a minute
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle at 26.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

216 13 25 57 CC Skylab, we have you through Honeysuckle for

9 minutes.

CDR Okay, Story. We're working on checklist changes.

CC Roger.

CDR _d we're ready to go with that check 60 K or

whatever it is. We're ready.

216 13 27 13 CC Okay, AI. We're ready to send the signal. And

Just a reminder, of course, we did do a flip
flop on the comm channel. We're running on D.

CDR Okay.

CDR Okay. We've got it, Houston.

CC Roger.

PLT Story, I think you wanted to keep that tone

going while I give a test comm, don't you?

CC That's affirmative.

PLT Okay. How about giving us a tone back?

216 13 28 h2 CC And when you're ready, we're ready to send CREW

ALERT, too.

PLT ()kay, Story, here is a test count, l, 2, 3, h,

5. How about giving me a call back?

CC ()kay. Reading you loud and clear, l, 2, 3, h, 5.

PLT ()kay. We're getting the tone superimposed on a

CAUTION and WARNING.

CC Roger.

216 13 30 02 PLT Okay, Story. We're ready to repeat the test

for your signal 2 crew ALERT.

CC ()kay.
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PLT Okay. We got it. i, 2, 3, 4, 5. How about

givingme a shortcountoff?

CC Reading you loud and clear, l, 2, 3, 4, 5.

PLT Okay. Your voice is coming through well on top

of the tone.

216 13 30 45 PLT Okay, Story. That test is complete and every-

thing checks out well.

CC Okay. Thanks, Jack.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go.

CC Hey, A1, we'd like a verification that, on S073,

when you were making contact with the side of
the vehicle, that you were trying to retract
the experiment over contact with the vehicle.

CDR I don't understand the last sentence. Say that

again, now.

216 13 31 25 CC Have you tried to retract the experiment even

though it's making contact with the vehicle?

CDR Yes, we have. I tried to pull it in and we

tried to rotate it as we pnlled it in and all
that sort of thing. We haven't had any luck
with it. We could try it again today if you
like. It doesn't take that long.

CC Okay. That's enough, A1. And I guess we ought

to press on with the Jettison procedure. And
I've got an update to that procedure for you.

CDR Okay. Just a second.

CDR Okay. Ready to copy.

216 13 32 21 CC Okay. To square away the c.g., we'd like to

drive the TRUNNION to zero. We'd like to drive
it from 90 to 0. While it is driving, try to
stop it by placing SHAFT to DECREASE. And tell
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us what the results of those are. Does the

TRUNNION stop driving? And that's engineering
data. It does not affect the outcome of the
ejection.

CDR Okay. Now let me see if it's running now.

CC And I got - -

CDR I'll try that right now for you.

CC - - I've got a couple of other things for you

on the ejection procedure.

CDR Okay. I won't try it now. Go ahead.

216 13 33 03 CC Disconnect power to the experiment before

beginning the ejection procedures. Have the
carrot [?] available. And after ejection, close
the SAL door and repressurize prior to the
S073 stowage.

CDR Hey, that last one is not a bad idea.

CC Well, it's rather intuitive if you follow the

SAL decal.

CDR I'm not sure you can get it off there if you
don't. Okeydokey.

CC And I'm sure you found the procedure, A1, but

it's on page 6-14 of the Experiment Malfunction
Book.

CDR Okay.

216 13 33 56 CC We're l0 seconds to LOS. We'll pick you up in

12 minutes over Hawaii. And we'll be dumping
the tape recorders over Hawaii.

216 13 h5 h5 CC Skylab, we have you through Hawaii for 9 minutes.

CDR Okay, Story. We're getting ready tO Jettison

this thing. We found we could not do it with
two rods because one part of the procedure
requires releasing the latch on rod C. If you
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only have two rods in, it wants to extend, and

so if you release the latch, you'd lose the
rod that's in there. So we had to put on an -
another rod. So we now have three rods on there
we're going to jettison. Make sure that's okay.
The procedure does not say how many to use.
Doesn't look like it's possible with two, but
possible with any number after that.

CC That's fine, A1.

216 13 46 38 CC And are the other two in the middle of M131, Al?

SPT Negative, Story. We haven't got that far.

CC Okay, 0wen. On a noninterference basis only,

we'd like to try getting some TV of the ejection
out the wardroom window.

CDR I know you're speaking about noninterference,

but we're probably running a little bit behind
right now. I can go break the PL - -

SPT I was Just on the TV 13-A set up right now. I'm

going to get started on that. Now I can knock
that off and get the TV over here.

CC Forget it, Owen. And if possible, also on a

noninterference basis, instead of TV if a crew-
man could look out the wardroom window during
the ejection procedure, that might be helpful.

SPT Roger. We'll try that at the minimt_n and maybe

get a still photo. How would that be?

CC That's your option, sir.

216 13 48 01 SPT You know, at this point we've only got one camera
that's working properly, so we've got to move
that one around. The other camera we've not had
any malfunction work on yet.

CC Understand.
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PLT I think we're going to have TV for you in a min-

ute, Story. We're going to be using the faulty
TV.

CC Say again.

PLT We're trying to set up the TV for the Jettison,

but it's going to be the faulty TV.

CC Okay, and I've got some f-stops and the like for
you.

PLT Go ahead with them right now.

CC F-stop, h; LINEAR, and PEAK.

PLT I got it.

CC And we suggest maybe a ZOOM on 75.

216 1B 51 56 CC You may have to adjust that ZOOM realtime, though.

CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

CC 0wen, if you have not set up for TV 13-A, don't

do it. Until we find out about that short in the
ATM, we're not going to power up the ATM.

SPT Okay, understand. I'll Just leave it clipped

here. In fact, I may take this good TV down and
try to get it out the window for you.

CC That 'd be excellent, Owen.

216 13 53 56 PLT Hey, Story, looks like the malf procedure

worked on the TV; we got a full picture now. We
spun the color wheel; It seems to work okay.

CC Great, Jack.

216 13 55 ll CC And, Jack, no need to acknowledge, if you have

set up the previously faulty TV, that's okay.
We'd like to take a look at it. We're going LOS
here in about l0 seconds. We'll pick you up
over Goldstone in a couple of minutes.
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216 13 58 19 CC Skylab, we've got you through Goldstone for

7 minutes.

CDR And, Houston, you might want us to wait on the

Jettison Just a few more minutes because the
Sun's not - is up, but it's not quite ill1_m_uating
the 73 yet.

CC Copy, AI.

CDR We can go right on time, but you won't have any

TV. My recommendation would be to wait 3 or 4 min-
utes and then do it.

CC We're working it.

216 13 59 33 CC Okay, A1. We get a report from the site; the

TV's coming down. We don't have it yet and the
most we can delay here is about 3 minutes.

CDR Okay. We'll delay 2. How's that?

CC Sounds fine.

CDR Okay. That ought to be a good picture for you.

As you can see, the wiring and all looks okay
out there and in the right position.

CC Okay, A1. We're not getting real-time TV in

Houston yet.

CDR Okay. We're going to Jettison in 30 seconds.

216 14 01 36 CC Now is an excellent Time, A1.

PLT Did you get a TV yet?

CC We don't have the lines between the site and

Houston. The site reports excellent TV.

PLT Okay, we're going to infinity on the lens and -

CDR There we go.

216 14 02 20 PLT There she goes.

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PLT She's drifting out of the picture. I'ii ZOOM

her in a little bit.

CC Okay.

216 14 04 15 CC Skylab, we're going LOS here in about l0 seconds.

We'll pick you up over Bermuda in 4 minutes.

216 14 08 56 CC Skylab, we have you over Bermuda for l0 minutes.

CC And I've got a couple of questions, while it's

still fresh in your mind. Which TV camera did
you use?

CDR We used number 2, the old on- the one in the

command module that hadn't worked satisfactorily
on launch day.

CC Roger.

CDR We went through the procedure that you sent up;

namely, to spin the color wheel by hand manually.
When I went in there and did that, I noticed that
the color wheel didn't appear to be stuck at all.
It didn't appear to have any dirt or anything in
it. However, it did work correctly this morning.

CC Copy, A1. And could you tell us, when you tried
to drive the TRUNNION to zero, could you stop it
by placing the SHAFT to DECREASE?

216 14 09 49 CDR No, still the same problem. We tried to retract

it again and did all the little techniques that
we could think of and still no luck. So we
Jettisoned.

CC Copy. And, A1, we hit you with an awful lot of

teleprinter pads and checklist changes today.
We know there is a lot of work involved there
and we're looking in the Flight Plan when we can
give you some time to do it, and it will probably
be about day 12.

CDR Okay. We're - we got on it real fast this morn-

ing. We're getting a little bit faster up here.
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We've got the - the - the spacecraft in better

shape than we had it before, so we don't have to
setting up housekeeping. So we're about two-thirds
with - through with those changes now. My guess
is we'll probably get them today. It looks to me
like the tough day is going to be tomorrow. We'll
make those changes. And in a couple of days from
now, we'll let you know if we need any more house-
keeping time.

CC Very good. We Just understand down here what

we've hit you with.

216 14 l0 49 CDR Okay. Because those things do take a lot of time,

we're finding out. But last night, as we men-
tioned to - to - to Crip, we're - we're going to
have to look through some of those changes, not
the checklist changes - we'll put all those in -
but some of them to the anomaly list, et cetera,
and see if they're really critical to us. If they
are, we'll put them in. If they're not, we won't.
And then periodically, we'll give you an update
whenever you want on which ones we're keeping and
which ones we're throwing away, because a lot of
those that came up, regards to anomaly list, real-
ly don't affect our operation. They've - they're
important, but they don't make us do something
different. And those are the ones we want to save.

216 14 ll 29 CC Roger.

CDR The one thing that we have not found here is Just
extra time. There hasn't been a night that we
haven't, you know, that we never - that we didn't
get to bed after ll:00 Houston time. And - al-
though some of the guys have been asking about
sighs out the window, I'll bet our total out-
the-_vindow viewing time has been - all three of
us put together - has been something less than -
less than 2 hours, maybe even less than an hour.

CC Copy. And we hope to improve upon that a little,

in the future.

CDR Well, we think we're improving too, so no strain.

But Just, wanted to let you know what we're doing
all day long is we're hustling.
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CC Okay.

216 14 14 02 CDR Houston, I notice you've got me up for a 7B stow

i; and l'm wondering why you don't want me to do
a stow 2?

CC Working that, AI.

216 14 14 54 CC You're right, A1. That's a stow 2 we'd like.

216 14 17 33 CC SPT, Houston.

SPT I reached over and flipped the switch there.

What'd he say?

CC Is that the SPT?

SPT Right.

CC Okay, Owen. We have canceled all ATM for the day

in order to get your ETC prep done. There's
nothing time critical about housekeeping all the
70 series there, so you can slide that as much as
you want. We do have a VTR malf that we'll be
doing with you over Goldstone at 15:37. The
procedures will come up real-time. All you need
to do is get in the vicinity of the VTR at that
pass and we'll remind you about that, the pass
prior to Goldstone.

SPT Roger, Story. Thank you.

216 14 18 31 CC And we're going LOS here. We'll pick you up over
Ascension - in about 7 minutes.

216 14 21 39 CC And, Skylab, we have you A0S over Canary for

2 minutes.

216 14 23 23 CDR How's the weather out in Colorado for those EREP
sites today?

CC We'll get it for you.

CDR Hate to say that but we got a sticker on board.

a decal which nobody is really sure of what it
goes to. Let me read it a little bit to you and
then maybe somebody can figure it out.
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CC We're going LOS right here, AI. We'll see you in

2 minutes at Ascension.

216 14 23 56 CDR Okeydoke.

216 14 25 33 CC Skylab, we've got you back again over Ascension

for i0 minutes, and go ahead on the decal, AI.

CDR Okay, it's got exposure protocol on the front, and

then it's got one pass FR-I ... We suspicion it
might be S020 or T025 that we're not doing.

CC Hey, we had a comm dropout there about the last

minute. I think you'll have to repeat from ex-
posure protocol on, AI.

CDR Okay, it's got two big headings, one cA11ed "one-
day pass ," and the other day called "Two-day
pass." And it says FR-1, 30 minutes ; FR-2,
l0 minutes; FR-B, 3 minutes; FR-4, 1 minute; and
et cetera. Now, we suspicion that it might be
for T025 or S020 that we're not doing.

CC It sounds like S020, but we'll verify that and

then confirm it, A1.

CDR Okay. And then that way we'll take it up and

stow it with the S020 things.

216 14 26 46 CC Roger.

216 14 27 46 CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Due to our reconfiguration on the ATM Flight Plan,

we've got three switches for you to throw at the
ATM C&D, AI.

CDR I'll be up there in i0 seconds.

CC Okay.

CDR Go.
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CC X/UV MON POWER, OFF. And the SYNC GENERATOR, OFF.

And the MON 1 POWER, OFF.

216 lh 28 4h CDR Complete.

CC Thank you.

216 14 35 37 CC Skylab. We're about 15 seconds from LOS. We'll

see you over Carnarvon at 14:58.

216 14 58 13 CC Skylab, we have you through Carnarvon for

9 minutes.

CDR Hello, Story.

CC Yes sir, AI.

CDR Good news for the 509 battery cat. Lee Ramon
will like this. Let me read you the battery in-
formation on BAT 6.

CC Okay. BAT 6.

CDR Okay. BAT 6, day 216, time 14:55. And I'll Just
start down reading them through 23 and then the
BAT. 1.327, 1.331, 1.324, 1.329, 1.326, 1.325,
1.329, 1.329, 1.328, 1.326, 1.325, 1.327, 1.326,
1.325, 1.329, 1.327, 1.330, 1.329, 1.326, 1.328,
1.327, 1.328, 1.323. And the BATTERY was 30.5,
so it passed all the way.

216 15 00 32 CC Copy all of that, AI.

CDR And I'm going to stow the gear.

CC Roger.

CC And no need to acknowledge; we got the playback

of the S073 ejection. It was beautiful.

CDR Were the experimenters satisfied with the way the

wiring looked as it Jettisoned? I'm talking about
the ones out on the photometer head. We figured
we rigged it correctly, but - it looked correctly
to us, but we wondered what their opinion was.

CC No. We couldn't see anything wrong with it at

all, AI.
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CDR Yes. We should have never put that thing out.

We should have run that whole thing inside a
couple of times to be make it worked before we
stuck it out the window. Maybe they can bring
up the insides on - with Jerry Carr and Bill and
Ed.

CC We'll think about it, A1. There's no doubt you

all did the best you could.

CC And no need to acknowledge, A1. We're playing

back your EREP pass here in the MOCR. And every
time we have an EREP pass, we're going to play
it back. It was a classic example of a perfect
pass.

CDR We wasted some tape, but I think everything else

was okay.

216 14 02 56 CC Roger.

216 14 07 XX CC Skylab, We're going LOS in 30 seconds. We'll

see you over Guam in 6 minutes.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

216 15 13 16 CC Skylab, we have you A0S through Guam for

7minutes.

CDR Tape transfer complete.

CC Copy.

216 15 16 42 CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Owen, for our VTR check over Goldstone at 15:37,

we need a TV camera on at any station, and we'd
like to verify here over Guam that we've got
the TV on. Could you turn any TV on?

SPT You mean Just the station on, without any TV

camera plugged in?

CC No, we need the TV camera plugged in. Possibly,

that one down in the STS would be a good one to
turn on.

SPT Okay, we'll get one of them turned on in Just a

moment. You don't need the one at the ATM panel,
apparently.

CC That's your option, Owen. We'll need it on in the

next 3 minutes, if possible.

SPT Okay, and I've tried to find - set up for that

ETC prep; the EAC is apparently not located on
F-9. We're having to get the DAC from some other
location. And I'ii get the TV turned on.

CC Roger.

216 15 18 07 CDR Okay, Story. The TV's on.

CC Thanks.

CDR Got a recommended setting for viewing the ATM

panel?
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CC Stand by i.

CC Is that the TV-13 settings you wanted?

CDR Yes, that will be okay. I'm Just trying to put

it somewhere for you to see. I notice the monitor
has a lot of interference on it at the moment.

CC Okay. You can point that at anything you'd like,

A1. All we need is any picture at all. And we're
going LOS here in 30 seconds. We'll see you
over Goldstone at 15:37. And if Owen's got his
ETC prep done at that time, we will need him at
the VTR panel at about 15:37.

SPT Okay. I'll not have the VTR prep done, but I'll
be at the panel.

2i6 15 20 58 CC And as we go over the hill here, if you need a

DAC, you can use DAC 7, 8, or 9, located in
F-527.

216 15 36 h6 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you stateside for about

19 minutes with a 1-minute dropout between
Goldstone and Texas.

SPT Okay, Story. You've got a lot of noise on your

signal.

CC How about now?

SPT Still get an awful lot of static. I can read

you. What do you want on the panel?

CC Okay, we don't want to have this interfere with

your ETC ops or your PT, Owen.

SPT I was going to knock out the PT for now; I'ii

Just have to catch it later. I'll get the ETC
ops, so go ahead.

CC Okay. Could you listen to the tape transporter

module? And what you're listening for is
samething like a "kl,lnk" when the tape pressure
shoe pulls in.
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SPT When the tape what p,_11s in?

I
I

CC The tape pressure shoe pulls in; you'll hear a

klunk.

SPT Okay, give me 15 seconds and then give it a try.

216 15 37 58 CC MARK.

SPT That's affirm. I heard sort of a "tap, _llmk"

Just the way you described it. Amd both of -
sort of a double beat was audible on your mark.
Over.

CC Okay, good, Owen. And how about the recorder

light status?

SPT We have the VIDEO MOTOR green light on; how-

ever, it was on before your mark, as well.
Over.

CC Okay, that's good.

SPT What else can I do for you?

CC Stand by l; we're working it.

CC Okay, Owen, we'd llke you to go to V_ C0_@4AND

NORMAL, BACKUP switch to BACKUP.

216 15 40 09 SPT It's in BACKUP.

CC Okay, Owen, listen to the tape transporter

module, and listen for that same kl,_n_ again.

SPT Okay, give me l0 seconds.

CC Did you hear the klunk then, 0wen?

216 15 40 50 SPT Yes, I heard the klunk, and the green light was
a slight flicker Just as the relays were closing
in there.

216 15 h0 59 CC Okay, is the RECORD light status on?

SPT Negative, Just that HEAD W_L DRIVE green

light is on.
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CC Okay. I
i

SPT Okay, 0wen. We've got an interrupt in our VTR

troubleshooting. A star is available now.
Could you lock up the star tracker for us?

SPT Yes, I could. That might have been the status

light you were talking about. There is no light
labeled status, so that HEAD DRIVE green light
may be the thing you were talking about.

CC That's the RECORD light we were querying about,

Owen.

SPT Okay, and what gimbal angles do you want me to

use?

CC The pad angles, 0wen.

CC If they are not handy, we'll read them up.

SPT I've got them.

CC Okay.

CC And no need to acknowledge now, 0wen, but we're

ready for the next VTR step. When you have the
star tracker locked on, give us a ring.

SPT Okay, the star tracker is locked up at 0b'2ER

GIMBAL, plus 1526 ; INNER GIMBAL, minus 756 ; and
I'm ready for the VTR.

CC Okay.

CC Okay, the VTR CO}_4AND NORMAL, BACKUP switch

back to NORMAL.

216 15 4B 21 SPT Complete.

CC We're handing over here, 0wen, for a minute.

SPT Are you still there?

CC Yes, we're handing over.

SPT Okay, you were cutting out there, Story. Say

again.
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CC We Just handed over to Texas, 0wen. What's the

1 VTR RECORD light status now?

SPT HEAD DRIVE only.

CC Okay.

CC Owen, we think we ought to be seeing both the

HEAD WHEEL and the RECORD light now. Have you
got two lights?

SPT Negative. 0nly the one left-hand green light by

the HEAD MOTOR DRIVE switch.

CC Copy.

MCC Okay, stand by.

CDR Hey, Story, we were Just remove -

SPT Just came on.

216 15 _4 47 CC What's the RECORD light status now, Oven?

216 15 44 49 SPT It Just came on_ Just about 5 seconds ago.

CC Roger.

CDR Story, I was Just reviewing the manuever pad for

EREP and noticed that the maneuver time is 35
minutes. Is that correct?

CC We 'll let you know.

CC Okay, Owen. You can listen for that kl;mk again.

That's affirmative, A1. Maneuver time is 35
minutes.

CC Did you hear the klunk, Owen?

CDR He 's still listening.

216 15 45 41 SPT It sounded more like Just the first of the two
klunks I had heard before. And the RECORD light
is now out. But I heard the first relay, and it
may not have been quite exactly the same sound
as the earlier one.
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216 15 47 Oh CC Okay, Owen, we're going to be cleaning the heads !

here for 6 minutes, and we'll need you back in
about 6 minutes.

216 15 51 45 CC Did you c_l, Skylab?

SPT Story, I've misplaced that pad here a minute ago.

Would you give me the DAC settings for the 151
of the - of the 190B loading procedures? It's
Just the camera settings is what I've misplaced.

CC Okay.

CC Okay, 0wen that 's F-9.

SPT Go.

CC Stand by l, Owen.

CC We're getting them, 0wen.

CC Okay, Owen, we've got a VTR procedure for you.

We'll be getting you the DAC settings.

SPT Go ahead.

CC VTR TAPEHEAD CLEAN switch to CLEAN position

momentarily. And verify the HEAD CLEAN light is
on.

216 15 55 24 SPT That's verified.

CC Okay.

PLT Hey, Story, this is Jack. The results of Owen's

M31-2 is on channel A.

CC Thanks.

216 15 56 23 CC We're going LOS here, Skylab. We'll pick you

up over Ascension in 8 minutes. And I'll have
the DAC settings for you then.

216 16 05 42 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, A1.
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I CDR Would you ask the EKEP fellows to start putting,

in addition - on the VTS pads, the T-zero times.
Today, I think it's about - 17:00, because every-
thing is keyed to that time. Yet it's not on the
VTS pad; it is on the other one.

CC Okay, I'll have them do it. And we're AOS

Ascension for about _ minutes.

CDR And the place where they got, "Start Z-LV maneuver"
- Like today, they got, Start Z-LV maneuver
16:27:00". Then they could say, "T-zero
time," and then put that in right there. And
that gives the VTS operator all he needs to know.

CC Okay. We'll do it.

CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Which photo prep did you want? Was that the

camera settings or the SPT photos, Owen?

SPT It was on my cue card. That's the reason I

couldn't find the pad for it, but I've already
got it. Thank you.

CC Yes, it was on page 5-1 of the che_kSist.

SPT Okay, it's on my cue card, and I've got it set

now. Thank you.

CC The VTR procedures are complete. Thank you.

You can leave the TV camera on until the next
station. We'll give you a call on that. And
we're interested in which camera you used.

SPT Okay. We're Just going to call up a numbering

system. Now we're going to call this one number
i. It came from locker B-I, and it's the one
that's been good all along. That's the one that
we've got turned on now. It's up here in the STS.
Number 2 camera is the one that originally had that
stuck color wheel. We have that down in the
wardroom area now.

CC Okay. We copy the number system. And we need the

TAPEHEAD switch to CLEAN momentarily.
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SPT Roger.

CC And that's all on the VTR for you, Owen.

CC Okay. No need to acknowledge. Just verify that

you get the CLEAN light on.

216 16 08 19 SPT We did.

216 16 08 20 CC Roger.

216 16 09 h9 CC Skylab, we're at 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see

you over Carnarvon at 16:35.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

216 16 35 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you AOS through

Carnarvon for i0 minutes; no need to acknowledge.
We see you in Z-LV, and it looks good.

CDR If you're not using the VTR TV anymore, Houston,

we'll turn it off.

CC Leave it on; we're using it, AI.

CDR Okay.

CC But you could turn the TV camera off for us in

about I0 minutes.

CDR Okay, call whenever you need us.

216 16 36 57 CC Roger.

216 16 44 56 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over Guam in 4 minutes.

CC And as we go over the hill, could you turn off

the TV camera?

216 16 49 03 CC Skylab, AOS Guam, i0 minutes.

CDR Roger.

CDR Story, CDR.

CC Go ahead, AI.

CDR How about passing a message to Roger Goodrum and

Ron Weitenhagen, our VTS fellows with EREP? Tell
them that the alignment cross, in this VTS up
here, appears at ll degrees left, instead of 12
degrees left, llke the trainer. And all the
checklists show 12, and we practiced at 12, and
they can shift it over there. It's really ll.

CC Thanks, A1.

CDR You bet.

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SPT You sure you fellows want the RECORD left on?

CC Stand by 1.

SPT I wasn't calling the ground. I was trying to

call - Oh, I see. You've got us tied together.
My RECORD light's on, A1; I'm going to turn it
off.

PLT Hey, O., did you shut me off RECORD?

216 16 56 22 CC Skylab, we're working with the VTR. Disregard

any lights you see on it.

216 16 57 45 CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

over Goldstone in 15 minutes at 17:13.

216 17 14 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you stateside for 15

minutes. You're looking good in Z-LV, and you've
used no mibs.

CDR We're not reading you on A. And understand. We've

got the star locked on for you.

CC Great.

SPT Hey, Story, I don't know why you're not able to

read us, but you're not reading us on channel A,
on the ...

CC Okay. You're breaking up pretty bad then. We

have not been listening to your operate pad.

PLT Can you hear us down there on the operate pad?

CC I'm hearing you now.

PLT Well, I had to go to channel B. Apparently,

you're not hearing us on channel A.

CC That's correct. We're not hearing you run down

the pad.

PLT Go VOX on the ICOM/PTT.

PLT How do you hear me, Story?

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! CC Resd/ng you loud an_ cleem.

PLT Ck_7.

CC It's the first we've heard in about 5 minutes.

216 17 21 36 PLT Yes. Okay, at 21: 36, SCAT, STANDBY.

216 17 21 38 38, RAD, STANDBY. 21:48, next.

216 17 21 48 RAD, OFF. 21:54, next. A, ON. 54.

216 17 21 54 MARK. A, ON.

193, angle zero. Angle set to zero. 22:56,

next. Standing by on the S192. S192 has a
good visible thermal this morning. It's up to
about 80 and 65 for the visible 8rid h6 for the
thermal. Do a little ad hoc check on that. 22:56,
Stand by -

216 17 22 56 PLT MARK. MODE to READY. 24:12, next. Oh-oh, A1.

Here. You'll want that. Let me get it for you.

PLT Darn near lost Toledo Bend in the command module.

That's a bad place for Toledo Bend. There's
haze here over Toledo Bend ....

PLT Tape recorder is hanging in there.

PLT MALF light if off. TAPE MOTION is on. We're in

READY. Charlie 8 meter hangs in there real
steady when we got 60 ips going. It's hanging
in there, 27 percent at the moment. Otherwise,
it oscillates plus or minus 5 percent. 24:12,
we 're going to CHECK.

216 17 2_ 13 PLT MARK. MODE to CHECK. 25 ... next.

PLT Hello, Story. He must not be with us anymore.

CC We're reading you loud and clear, Jack.

216 17 24 38 PLT Okay, th_nk you. I was saying that this tape
recorder meter Charlie 8, it oscillates plus
and minus 7 percent when you're in the low
speed. When you go to high speed, why it's in
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there real solid. Just a little information.

Okay, A and R to STANDBY on the hour - the
minute. A and R to STANDBY.

216 17 25 04 PLT MARK. On the minute. SCAT - -

CDR Okay. I was probably off the top for awhile

there, Story. I went back and changed. I had
the panel for the command module ... to the
sixth. I changed it, got back, and I think we
got both targets. So we got comm on both targets
and everything else. It got a little hazy right
overhead, but as long as we were looking at it
from an angle, it looked pretty good. I tried
the haze filter, and it didn't seem to work too
well. I took the haze filter out, then. I'd
drifted off the target. I went back on the
target and took some more.

CC Okay. Copy, A1. Great. And that was supposed

to be hazy down there in Louisiana.

CDR 25:48, 25:58, 30:12; that's what I was looking

for. Probably didn't hear. I don't know if you
heard the first part. We got both targets, by
the way. And both alignments were Just perfect.
The one coming into Colorado was right on. I
zoomed in, and we were Just a little bit south
of the field; so I moved up, and that was it.

CC Copy.

PLT Standing by for POLAR 1 in - on the minute.

216 17 27 01 PLT MARK. POLAR 1 on the minute. Standing by for

27 :20.

CDE 27:06 at the time. We got a GO at 30:12. Gee,

I guess they'd want CAMERA for this one. It
doesn't say no camera. Okay. In zoom, that's
what they want. Okay.

216 17 27 h2 PLT And the READY light is out. MODE to STANDBY - -

CDR 743, Jack. - - is at 28:02.

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216 17 27 50 PLT UNITS to 8.

216 17 27 51 PLT INTERVALS, 10. 190 is set and ready to go. I

got a long way until 32 minutes here.

PLT What ground tracks are we going to have tomorrow,

Story? Do you know?

CDR 28:16; We got a back-to-back. So we ought to

have some good ... tomorrow.

PLT What ones are they, I wonder.

CDR i don 't know.

CC Ground tracks for tomorrow are 61 and 62.

PLT Thank you. 61, 62 the doctor says.

CDR Okay, 28 :33.

PLT Oh, stand by here for 32 minutes is a long ways

off. It' s 3 minutes off.

216 17 29 23 PLT Looks like we' re going to have about 20 or

25 percent left on this tape recorder, Story.
Too bad we got to run it off.

216 17 29 32 CC Roger.

PLT Maybe they want me to go MODE to READY a little

bit on 1927

CDR 30:12, turn on the camera.

PLT We could lay some extra data on there.

CC We'd like you to fly Just the pad, Jack.

PLT That's what I figured.

CDR 30:12 coming up. Everything looks good here.

Don't have any clouds this time, although it's
very hazy. Here come some clouds.

216 17 30 15 CDR CAMERA, ON.

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CC We're at 30 seconds to LOS, Skylab. We'll see

you in 12 minutes at Vanguard. That's at 17:h0.

PLT Roger. We'll still be running.

216 17 30 32 PLT We're going to say hello to South America with

EREP today, I guess.

216 17 39 49 PLT Get our attention, there, Story.

216 17 40 32 PLT 2 to READY. Standing by.

216 17 40 39 PLT MODE to READY. 190 to AUTO at 44.

216 17 40 44 PLT MARK. 190 to AUTO. SCAT to STANDBY at 50.

216 17 40 51 PLT MABK. STAND BY on the SCAT. hl, SCAT and BAD,
0N, on the minute.

CC Jack, we're reading you loud and clear. - -

216 17 41 01 PLT MARK.

216 17 hl 02 PLT MARK.

CC - - We've got you over Vanguard for 6 minutes.

PLT SCAT and RAD, ON. Okay. Hello, there, Story.

CDR Okay, we Just started our move - maneuvers back

to SI.

CC Roger. We 're looking at it.

SPT Our pad shows we're still taking 190B pictures.

Didn't we take a few of those Just coming back?

CC Okay, Owen, and while we've got you there, what

camera did you use at F/97

216 17 hl 36 PLT Ready on 190. 192 MODE to STANDBY. You're

right, A1, it's fine. It's okay. 192 MODE to
STANDBY. 190 is in STANDBY. SCAT and RAD are
in STANDBY.

SPT Say again your question, Story.

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CC Which camera did you use at F/97

SPT Oh, I'll have to go check that.

216 17 42 12 PLT END OF TAPE. We have END OF TAPE. How about

that? We got END OF TAPE with a 21 percent
left on the - on the meter Charlie. Is that
where the END OF TAPE is supposed to be down
there, Story? Charlie 8 is reading 21 percent.
We got END OF TAPE and RECORDER MALF lights.
Is that consistent?

CC That's about to be expected, Jack. It's about

right.

PLT (_ay, real good. You guys worked it out perfectly.

We Just got 192 OFF, and the END OF TAPE came
ON shortly thereafter. I might as well turn the __
rest of these things off. SCAT's OFF. RAD's
OFF .... _ ,_.
-

216 17 43 l0 PLT EREP to STOP. That's it.

CC There was a lot of laughter

said we worked it out perfe_

PLT You did. What did you expec

going to do that. So did I. _t__
home any blank tape. Our fr_n is turning
on all the alarms. Gkay, let's see if this
thing turned off.

216 17 43 52 CC Skylab, you're in the South Atlantic anomaly.

PLT Can't feel a thing, Story. Everything's going

to be all right°

PLT Oh, you must be talking about the flare alarm.

Owen's got the fire bell going. You guys got
any questions down there on any meter readings
or anything on the EREP pass before I put all
my data away?

CC Stand by l, Jack.

CC No, we don't need anything, Jack.

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216 17 44 49 PLT Did you get all the channel A business - the tape
record?

CC We 'll let you know.

PLT Okay. And as long as you're listening, let me

Just tell you that Bravo 7 is reading 30 percent
instead of putting it on the recorder. You got
that ?

CC Bravo 7, 30 percent.

PLT Roger.

CDB Okay, Houston; CDR.

CC Go ahead, A1.

_16_]zz-_5.2_ CDR Okay, we had a funny there. We had a fire alarm

go off down in the wardroom; that was 633-2. And
when I got down here, Owen said that Just before
that we had a complete power interruption down
here on the camera, the ETC camera. And, then
_w_ediately after that we got the trip of the
fire alarm. We reset it, and then about l0 seconds
later we got it again. Now we're down here looking
around; there's no fire, obviously, but we're a
little bit puzzled. And you're right, it may be
the South Atlantic anomaly in some way. The ward-
room window is open, so it's conceivable that we
got a little UV in here on the way back and
triggered the light because that light is the one
that sort of looks through the wardroom window.
It's the one that's over by the entertainment
center and sort of looking this way. So it's
conceivable that it got a zap out of UV some way.
Everything's okay, though.

CC Qkay, copy that, A1.

216 17 _6 29 CDR Also, we Just got another power interrupt on the

ETC. It Just stopped. Doesn't seem to affect any
of the electrics down here other than that. No
lights blinked or anything, and the ETC Just ground
to a halt. It may have finished the sequence.
I don't know.
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PLT A1, do you have an auto cal monitor required in

your pad? Do you have an auto cal monitor required
on your pad?

216 17 47 07 SPT I can describe a little bit more about this ETC
camera. There, it Just came back on. You might
have heard it. It's been sitting in STANDBY all
this time with the power connected ...

CC Okay, Skylab, we're going LOS here in about

l0 seconds. We're going to pick you up over
Goldstone at 18:50. All the systems that we can
look at down here are looking good. We would like
some data on the nadir align at the next pass.

CDR Sounds good.

CC As we go over the hill, 0wen, you can leave the

camera that's at F/9. You can leave it in that
position.

216 17 47 42 SPT Okay, Story. Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

216 18 51 O1 CC Skylab, we have you through Goldstone and Texas

for 13 minutes.

PLT Hello there, Story.

CC Hello.

PLT Do you want the nadir align meter?

CC Yes, sir, if you've got it handy.

216 18 51 24 PLT Okay. Alfa l, 55 percent; Bravo l, 45 percent;

Charlie l, 83 percent. Is that all you want?

CC Yes. Say the third one again.

PLT Charlie l, 83 percent.

CC Okay.

216 18 52 O1 CC And, Skylab, looking at your systems from down

here, they all look good. And assume you have
had no more further problems with the FIRE ALARM.

PLT That' s correct, Story.

CC And pursuing that ETC interrupt: we'd like to

know which power outlet the ETC was hooked to,
and which power outlet the S073 was hooked to
- lor 2?

SPT Yes, the ETC was hooked to the minus-Z power

outlet number 1. That's the left connector.
And on the S073, I'd have to check with A1 or
Jack. Stand by.

CDR The answer is same one.

CC Okay, both of them were to one.

SPT Appears to be correct.

216 18 54 02 CDR Okay, Story, I Just finished Housekeeping 7C,

correction, 7D. And I reported on the record
loop that behind panel 202 the ATM C&D water
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reservoir was completely full; at least it

looks that way. And then behind panel 223 and
224, it looks like those are nearly full, if not
completely .full. It's difficult to tell. They
are both hard to access, and it is difficult to
tell because when they are completely full, the
_11 area is obscured by the bladder. So they
all look real nice.

CC We got that, A1.

CC And, CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

216 18 55 02 CC We're looking at your Flight Plan for tomorrow,

AI. And with two back-to-back EREP passes and
the 5 hours prep for the EVA, it was impossible
to work in the PT for each of you, which we
think is very important. So on the schedule
we scheduled you for two back-to-back EREP passes,
h hours of EVA prep, and 1 hour each of PT. If
you need that fifth hour of EVA prep, we can
get that prior to going to sleep. You'll go to
sleep an hour late, and we'll let you sleep in
an extra hour EVA day.

CDR That 's a good approach. Thanks.

CC Okay, good. And plans for the EVA are to deploy

the twin-pole sunshade, then do the nominal EVA-1
film replacement, remove a stop - a door stop on
S055. At the end of the film replacement, deploy
Slh9, and then perform the S230 task. And also
during the EVA, now you may want to take a look
at CSM quads Bravo and Delta.

216 18 56 ll CDR You are going to send us a lot of details on

some of those I guess.

CC Roger. We've got EVA procedures updates for you.

And hopefully, we'll get those up tonight.

CDR We've been kind of wondering on 55 if you meant

a pin or a stop.

CC That is a door stop. We think - -

CDR Okay. We've got Jack Lousma here that is going

to handle that Job.
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! CC Did the other two crewmen re_ me on that?

CDR Yes, everybo_7 is rea_.

CC Okay.

216 18 58 16 CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

216 18 58 20 CC We need a star tracker lockon so we can get

our Nu Z updated for S019 ops. And we'd like
that done in the next I0 or 15 minutes.

SPT Okay_ I'ii be up there to do it in about

5 minutes, if you are in no big hurry.

CC And before I le_ you get away, l've got some

other things for you here. Do you remember
which camera that was, which DAC you had on
F-97

SPT It's still there; l'll go check it for you.

216 18 58 44 CC And in your Flight Plan today, Owen, delete

the ATM pass at 00:40, and perform Housekeeping
60 Echo, that's ambient food transfers.

SPT Good decision.

216 18 59 03 CDR Where are we right now, Story? Over BaJa

California?

CC That - that looks good, looking at the chart

up there.

CDR Thank you, Say, is it conceivable that we could

have power to everything else through that
connector, and not have it to the shaft motor?

CC Are you talking about S073?

CDR You bet.

CC We don't think so.

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CDR I don't think so either. And I'm not sure !

I didn't swop that thing around a couple of
times Just for fun during all the troubleshooting
we did. But we sure ought to do some thinking
about it.

CC Okay.

216 18 59 45 PLT Story, could you refresh my memory on where

the tape - where the EREP tape goes when I take
it into the command module? Is that A-8?

CC Stand by 1.

216 19 00 21 CC That's Alfa 9, Jack.

PLT Thank you.

SPT That's DAC 04, transporter 02 that we used up

there on 131.

CC Got it, Owen.

CC And, Jack, for your S019, it's mag 005 you want
to use.

216 19 01 00 PLT 005.

216 19 03 08 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll be

picking you up over the Vanguard at 19:16.
And no need to reply, but you can use both
TV cameras.

216 19 15 50 CC Skylab, we have you through Vanguard for

7 minutes.

216 19 16 24 CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

CC Jack, we're showing doBm here that we still don't

have a star tracker lockon.

CDR That was my fault, Story; I was running the

DAS.
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216 19 16 47 CC Okay, I was thinking maybe you were getting

started on the M092, and I'd have Jack do it.
That's your option.

CDR I'm still Waiting that hour.

CC Okay. Fine.

PLT I thought maybe you may have got the idea that
it must have been goofed up.

CC I wouldn't think something like thsl.

PLT I know. I'm trying to keep my sense of humor.

216 19 17 37 PLT Looks like we're locked on some star there, but
it's not Canopus. I'll go over there and get
Canopus.

CC We can verify it's not the proper star.

216 19 18 52 PLT How do you like that one?

CC That's better.

216 19 23 13 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in a minute. We'll

see you in 1 hour over Hawaii at 20:25.

216 19 23 27 CC And I guess I had low signal strength on that

transmission. We're going LOS in about a
minute. See you over Hawaii in 1 hour at 20:25.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

216 20 25 20 CC Skylab, we have you through Hawaii for 3 minutes.

216 20 27 03 SPT Story, I Just wanted to verify you guys are

going to inhibit momentum dump for me on the
S019 night pass.

CC That's accomplished already.

SPT Thank you.

216 20 27 44 CC Skylab, we are at 30 seconds to LOS, we'll see

you over the Vanguard at 20:52 and we will be
dumping the tape recorders then.

216 20 54 13 CC Skylab, we have you over the Vanguard for

9 minutes.

CDR Okay. We're running the SPT on LBNP. He's

up to h0. He's been there for about 2-1/2 minutes
and everything looks real nice.

CC We're looking at it down here, AI. Looks good.

216 20 54 34 CDR Yes, he even looks good. And another nice thing
that occurred was we found the S052 - S05h box.
Yes, we found it and it was in A-9. So everything
- we got them all now.

CC Yes, that was inside a sock, wasn't it?

CDR The box was inside of a sock and the electrical

cord was coming out of the sock and it ran for
umpteen feet. I kept looking in there for it,
could never find it because I saw this thing in
a sock with a cord on it. And Jack was in there
today stowing the EREP film and he says, "Wonder
what this is?" And there it was.

CC Okay.

SPT Got the EREP, saving the ATM again.

CC Copy.
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21620 5954 CC PLT,Houston. I

216 21 00 03 CDR He's busy, go ahead; I'll relate to him.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUNDVOICETRANSCRIPTION

216 21 00 06 CC Okay, if he has not extended S019, we'd llke him

to wait the 3 or 4 minutes it'll take until yott're
through venting M092 and then continue with the
pad.

CDR We'll sure tell him.

CC Thanks, AI.

PLT Okay, Story. I got the word Just in time. I was

about ready to let her fly.

CC Good.

216 21 02 12 CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

over Hawaii at 22:00 even.

CDR Roger. He made it with flying colors.

216 21 02 22 CC Okay.

216 22 O0 30 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii, lO minutes.

PLT Hello there, Crlp.

CC How are you doing, Jack?

PLT Say, I've got some words for our friend, Karl
Henize on S019. Is he hanging around there?

CC No, but I'm sure we can get it to blm.

216 22 00 49 PLT I already put it on the recorder but it might be

a while before you take it out and I think he will
want to work on it now.

CC Go ahead.

216 22 00 58 PLT I ran his pad off and everything went smoothly
except there is one discrepancy between the little
timer on top of the AMS and real time. When you
_, set the timer to 270 seconds, it times off
200 seconds instead. I made two runs on it,
200 seconds and 202 seconds. When you set his
little on 90 seconds, the two runs I got were
72 seconds and 69 seconds. And finally when you
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set his little lever at 30 seconds, the two runs

I made on it, they timed out at 26 and 26.5. And
now the question is this, does he want us to use
his little timer on top of the AMS, which is not
really a - a real time and just get his exposures
that way, or does he want us to time it on the
watch? And that's the 270-second exposure is pre-
cisely 270, and 90 is a 90, and a 30 is a 30.

CC Okay. We got your question and we will get an

answer for you, Jack.

PLT Thank you, Crip.

CC Jack, also at somebody's convenience, could we

get the MPC inhibited? It was left enabled after
the last - acquiring a star.

PLT I 'ii do that.

216 22 02 23 CC And Skylab, we're currently going to be selecting

solar inertial so please nobody use the DAS.

216 22 06 13 PLT Say, Crip, is that really a fact that I'm suppose
to do another Ml31 OGI in motion sensitivity? I
just did one a couple of days ago.

CC Jack, that's affirmative. They do want to do

another run on you. And in answer to your ques-
tion on SO19, I was wrong about Karl, he was
hiding in the back room and they were aware of
that timer problem. They've taken that into
account in the pads. They want to go ahead and
continue using the timer on the AMS and - only
thing to emphasize is they - just -what's really
needing is for you to give marks for him, when
you start and end the exposure.

PLT Okay. We'll use the timer on the AMS and I am

giving marks on and off.

CC Okeydoke. Very good.

216 22 07 ll PLT And on that last one, we got seven exposures

completed. We didn't have time for the last
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90 seconds and two 700 - 270-second exposure.

The first five exposures I did on his timer and
exposure numbers 6 and 7, I did on my timer, which
were each 4-1/2 minutes, were not exactly the way
he wants them, number 6 and 7. But for here on
out, we'll do it on the basis of the timer that's
on the AMS.

CC Okeydoke, Jack. And Jack - we - that - exposures

6 and 7 are no problem Just so you gave us the
marks. That's really what we need.

216 22 07 58 PLT Yes, you got the marks, shutter open and shutter
close, on all of them and the only difference is
that 6 and 7 were h-l/2 minutes each. And, like
I said before, the only two that we didn't get
were the 90-second in one on field 620 and the
270-second one on field 576. The whole operation
went quite smoothly. We had to start a little
bit late because of the LBNP dump.

CC Okay. Very good. PI thought that you were rather

alert to catch his timer being off like that.

216 22 09 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over the Vanguard at 22:32. And
Jack, for your information, the reason that we do
want to stick with the AMS timer is that is what
controls the widening mechanism and, therefore,
we're really stuck with the fact that that timer
is running fast.

216 22 09 h8 PLT Yes, that's right. Thank you.

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i SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

216 22 31 33 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS over the Vanguard for 9

minutes.

CDR Roger.

216 22 32 08 CC CDR, Houston. I know you're probably busy exer-

cising, but sometine this evening I'd like to talk
to you a little bit about philosophy of when we're
going over some of the checklist changes that we're
feeding up to you and some that we've got yet to
go, like on the EVA.

CDR Start talking.

216 22 32 26 CC Okay. Last night we sent up a considerable amount

of Command Module Checklist changes, and we said
that we could go over those with you this evening.
We still have the changes that go in your Deactiva-
tion Checklist to go, and we're planning on
up-linking those this evening. We are prepared
to go over with you, either in philosophy or in
detail, this evening - any of those changes -
as kind of your option. We could also try to
work it in tomorrow, probably late in the day.
We really haven't gotten any time specifically
scheduled for it, though. If we can't get it in
before the EVA, we're probably going to schedule
it on day ll, some specific time to go over them.
Also, on the EVA checklist changes, we're going
to be sending those up tonight and would recom-
mend that the best time to go over them would
be sometime between 13:00 and 21:00 tomorrow,
when the EVA execute team is on.

216 22 33 32 CDR That's probably a real good idea. I think maybe

tonight is a good time to go over Just the philos-
ophy of the changes. We've been looking over - them
over, and have gotten half of them or more in
already, and we were going to try to get the rest
tonight. I guess probably we Just need to talk
techniques and philosophy, and the specific changes
usually are pretty straightforward once you under-
stand what you're trying to do. We think we know
what you're trying to do, but we'd like to hear
it all.
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CC Okay, then, I guess we need to look at a specific

pass on it, and let me see if I can come up with
a recommendation for you.

216 22 34 21 CDR Somebody's done a lot of work on those things.

They're - they had a lot of - kind of interesting
little offshoots that we hadn't thought of, like
this MAIN A and not to activate that. We hadn't
really thought about the - directly, that is.

CC Yes, we've had quite a few guys going over those

rather extensively.

CDR I bet you have. I gather when we do reenter, we're

going to do a single burn, huh?

CC I'm sorry, A1. I missed your last comment.

216 22 34 59 CDR I gather when we do have to enter at the end of

59 days, we're going to do a single burn entry.

CC That's what we understand right now.

CDR Yes, that makes sense to us - the only thing I

want to make sure that we ended up doing, since
there's going to be a little flying technique
involved, and I will not have flown for a couple
of months, although that's not one of the tougher
things to do, I suspect that we want to make sure
that we got plenty of time in that Deactivation
Checklist between the time we get in the command
module and the time we undock. I 'm talking like
3 or 4 hours. And we got a lot of everything but
RCS. So we can get in there and that'd give us
plenty of time to get arranged and undocked, with
plenty of pad, too, so that I could get the atti-
tude and, let's say, stay in attitude another
20 - 30 minutes so we make sure that we got the
attitude right on. We're not hustling to get
somewhere and don't have to worry about dropping
the platform or anything like that. So put some
pad in there for getting deactivated in the
command module, in case - you know, so we don't
get in a problem where our tunnel won't seal, or
something that would really throw us behind.
And we don't want to be hustling.
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E 216 22 36 20 CC Okay, we've got your comment. Unfortunately, I'm

not that familiar - or this team isn't that familiar
with all of the changes they have made to your
Deactivation Checklist, but we will pass that on
to Gary and the people that are working it.

CDR Okay.

216 22 38 58 CC CDR, Houston. In reviewing the passes we got

coming up tonight, about the best time - is
following your report - is going to be about, 02:10
this evening, 02:10 where you'll have a little
over l0 minutes through Canary and Madrid that we
can review those with you, and we'll get the
appropriate people in here to talk about it. Also,
you can do the condensate holding tank dump at
your - at your direction, whenever you're ready
for it. And we are - still going to send you a
checklist change to put that in your presleep
Checklist.

216 22 40 00 CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll

see you again at Hawaii at 23:39, and we'll be
doing a data dump at that time. And also, we
probably are going to have a pretty good size
momentum dump coming up as a result of the LBNPD
venting, and you'll probably - or could end up
losing your star tracker lockon.

216 22 40 21 CDR Thanks for the info, Crip.

216 23 39 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii for 6 min-

utes, and we'll be doing a data recorder dump.

SPT Okay, Crip.

CC And is the CDR available for a moment?

PLT Yes, he's here somewhere. He'll be right _-ith you.

SPT I think he stepped out for a bite of lunch.

CC (Laughter) Roger. I hope he didn't step too far

out.

CDR Go ahead, Crip.

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J
CC Roger, A1. We Just discovered we had a little
configuration problem with this condensate dump.
Have you started that yet?

CDR No, I have not.

216 23 39 54 CC Okay, that's good. Our problem is that when you

get ready to pull a vacuum back on the condensate
holding tank, you have to do it through the minus-2
airlock. And we've got the SO19 in there, and
that's - that's not compatible. So I guess right
now our options are we either have to pull SO19
out of this SAL tonight and do the holding tank
dump, or our data shows we've got about 9 hours
on it, and we can gamble on it and try to do it in
the morning. We do have some time in the morning
scheduled to pull SO19 out. Our option - I guess
our preference - would be, if you guys think you
could work it in, to try to go ahead and do it
tonight.

CDR We'll get it out tonight; no sweat, Crip.

CC Okay.

CDR Get it out and park it somewhere.

216 23 hO 40 CC Okay, and we're currently reviewing the problem

of how we're going to handle this in the future,
because we're going to have to dump it every night,
and normally we leave things in the airlock.

CDR I sure wish that hose would reach over to the other
side. That would make it nice.

CC We - we're investigating that, investigating moving

the tank, and a few other things.

SPT That's not a bad idea, either.

CDR Okay, I'm in the command module now, I'm heading

back the other direction.

CC Hiding from the guys, huh?

CDR No, I went up there to get the Entry Checklist.

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CC Roger.

216 23 41 3_ CDR No way to hide. I thought of - one time of getting

down in that T027 box and staying there for Just
a little while, (laughter) let them hunt around.

CC Understand; with the urine separators. That's

where we got all of those hid. (Laughter) You
could try the plenum area.

CDR Okay.

216 23 42 22 CDR Two questions, Crip. Have you figured out why we
thought it was hot yesterday and last night in here
and it doesn't seem that way today, other than
psychological? And second, have y'all looked into
the possibility of that S073 having a problem with
the power plug?

CC Okay, we have looked into the S073 power plug, and

we can find no correlation at all. And I guess
the answer to your temperature question was no, we
can't find any - any reason to think that it was
w_rm.

216 23 43 29 CC And for Jack or Owen, we're not really sure where
you are on the 131 run, but if you're in the run,
we do need the experiment 1 recorder on.

CDR They were between runs there. They had two parts,
and they stopped and got out and fixed their dinner.
And then they are getting back on it right now, so
they haven't started taking data yet. And I'll
sure remind them.

CC Okay, thank you very much, A1.

CDR Okay.

216 23 4_ 20 CC And CDR, Houston. We apparently have a little -

small problem with the star tracker. It looks like
it's locked onto the solar wing. We either need
you to reacquire the star for us or to Just shut
the shutter. And we're i minute from LOS; have
you again at Vanguard at 00:10.
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CDR We'll Just shut the shutter. You've got your 4

update for today, don't you? - three of them for
today?

CC We've got it.

216 23 4_ 46 CDR Okay, I'ii Just shut the shutter.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

217 00 09 36 CC Skylab, Houston, A0S over Vanguard for i0 minutes,

for l0 minutes.

CDR Good to hear your voice, Crip. We got the SO19

out of it. I'm busily putting the vacuum on it.
As soon as that is finished, we'll dump the con-
densate and lay a vacuum on it.

CC Sounds good, A1.

CDR Okay, we've got to keep our little home up here

free of water as we possibly can. By the way, how
is the - are the heat exchangers doing these days?

CC See if I can get a good report for you.

CDR Okay.

CC Okay.

SPT All the bio_ed data should be on experiment 1 tape

recorder. Outside from the fact I started it a
little bit late - but there is still plenty data
on there because Jack Just went 150 head move-
ments at 20 rpm.

CC Okay. Sounds like he 's doing good. For A1, I

guess the heat exchangers look like they are
working good right now.

CDR Okay. Good news, good news.

217 00 i0 h4 CDR What did you ever find out from your tests of the
VTR today?

CC Stand by 1.

CC I guess our investigation today - it looks like

the thing is broke, probably in the electronics.
And we're planning on changing it out, but it's
going to be after the EVA.

CDR Why don't you send us the procedures - or maybe

we already have them. We've tried it once - once
or twice. We'll try to get it done for you
somehow.
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CC Oh - 0kay, we've - we've got - we're going to

schedule it for you. No sweat. And you should
have a procedure on board. I believe we got a
slight mod for you that a - that changes from
channel A to B or something like that. We'll be
sending it up.

217 00 ii 44 CDR Okay.

217 00 17 55 CC Skylab, Houston. For your information we're get-

ting ready to send a command to S052 to close the
door. For some unexplained reason here, our in-
dications are that it's not closed. So we're
going to try to close it.

SPT Okay. Do you want us to go close it manually or -

watch it for you or anything? If you stand by for
a minute I'ii go up and see what our flag says.

CC It's your option, 0wen, if you would like to.

SPT Okay. I'm free for a minute. Just stand by.

SPT Yes, that flag shows up - that I-8 door's open

up here also, Bob.

CC Okay. We're going to go LOS here in about 30 sec-

onds, and I'll have you again at 00:25.

SPT Why don't you command it from the ground? And

I'll see if it closes it.

CC Okay. We're going to issue it.

CC We've sent the command.

SPT Okay. It still shows gray. Would you like for

me to back it up on the panel?

CC Affirmative.

SPT Still shows gray. I could give it some DAS and

double door - double motor commands if you would
like.

CC Will catch them next site.

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, SPT Roger.

217 00 19 47 CC Just stand by, O.

217 00 25 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Ascension for

6 minutes.

SPT Go ahead, Bob.

CC Okay. We're trying to get a course of action for

you here, Owen.

CDR And we're now dumping the water tank - holding

tank, that is.

CC Okay. Thank you, A1.

CC SPT, we're getting ready to send a ground command

to turn on the main power to 52 to give us a bet-
ter telemetry indication to what's going on.

SPT Roger.

SPT Okay, I 've got a READY light.

CC Okay. We copied that. And it looks to us like

the door is open.

SPT I'm sure they haven't forgotten about it, but I

can put the mirror down so that it reflects the
image into the TV camera. Of course, there's
still refraction and sunrise to worry about.

CC Okay. Stand by on that, Owen. I don't think we

want to do that right now. And Owen, that's a
negative. We don't want - don't want to use the
TV because we still don't understand that elec-
trical problem we had last night.

SPT Understand.

217 00 29 07 CC And SPT, Houston. We're going - currently going

through our malf procedure for the doors and we're
t_king the primary motor off and putting the
secondary on.

SPT Okay. The door flag Just went white.

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CC Yes_ That was when we removedthe power.

CC Okay. We Just put the secondary motor on.

SPT And l've got a barber pole now.

CC Roger. And that's the false indications you get

when you reenable the motor. Okay, we're now
commanding it close.

SPT Okay. MY barber pole took a flicker there -

as if it had already been closed.

217 00 31 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We

won't have you again until Guam at 01:09. And
we're going to command 52's door open and then
try to reclose it again and verify that we did
have it closed.

SPT Roger. It went white and then gray and I got a

READY light.

CC We're now closing it.

SPT Shows properly up here, Bob.

CC Okay. Looks closed from here. Looks good.

SPT Well, we can view the next sunrise with a bit

more comfort now.

CC Okay. We need you to put the POWER back to

STANDBY.

SPT Okay. My switch is in STANDBY now.

217 00 B2 42 CC Okay. Thank you, Owen.

217 01 09 50 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Guam, 5 minutes.

CDR 0keydoke.

CC And for your information, as best as we can de-

termine, that switch was - S052 door occurred Just
about the time that we selected solar inertial and
we're taking a better look at it to see if we can
pin it down exactly.
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217 01 i0 Oh CC And Skylab. We are inhibiting the secondary

, motor now so we won't have any motor on it, Just
to insure that we won't get another glitch like
that.

CDR Okay, Crip. Sounds good.

217 01 14 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS. We'll see you again over the Vanguard at
01:47, that's 01:47. And we will be standing by
at that time for the evening status report. Also,
CDR, if you would like, we could get an update on
which master anomaly that you did keep on board.
If we've got time.

CDR Okay. If we've got time, we'll sure do it, Crip.

217 01 14 47 CC Okay. Thank you, A1.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

217 O1 26 52 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard for

ll minutes, and we're standing by for your
evening status report.

CDR Okay, Crip.

CC Go ahead whenever you' re ready.

CDR Okay, let 's go with the urine volume first : 89,
125, 175. Drinking water gun: 4671, 7679, 5628.
You have the B_4D. CDR is presently exercising.
I'll report his the last half of the night.
SPT, 2/25/3000; mark l, 50 reps, A; mark 2,
20 reps, B. 0 Okay, I'm sorry about that, the
second one should not have been mark 2, 20 reps,
but mark l, 20 reps, B. And here's some
additional ones from yester - wait I'll give you
that later. PLT: 2/10/2500; 3, 20 and - and then
ma_k l, he got 50 As 20 Bs, 20 Ds, 20 back bends.
Okay. Medication, none. Sleep: CDH, 6/F_ SPT,
5-1/2/F; PLT, 6/G. Food log, I'll read that.
Okay, CDR : four salt packs and no deviations ;
SPT: eight salt packs, and he ate one extra
coffee cake. PLT: six salt packs plus two
apple drinks. Give you the food log in a
minute; Jack's up there getting it together.

CC Okeydoke.

CDR Flight Plan deviations, constraints, et cetera;

everything went along okay. Shopping list it_m_
accomplished: we finished the water - I mean
the window water removal, got it completely dry,
and put some dry air back in it. And it looks
okay except for a small dot about 1/2 inch in
diameter, and it's very thin. And I assume it
must be the dirt that collected in there on the
droplet of the water, and when it evaporated, it
deposited the dirt. It doesn't look like it's
going to go, anyway. Let me give you Owen's
excercise from yesterday - or actually it's an
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addition from yesterday: 2/20/3000; 1 55A-2,

20 reps; 2 i0 A-l, 50 reps. Inoperable equipment:
I don't - I think we discussed everything there,
nothing new. And unscheduled storage item
location: since we finished with that little
valve for the window, we were wondering where
you'd want it put. We're in the process now
of moving the food down to the wardroom per
your Flight Plan change.

217 01 51 06 CC D-440 was where the valve for the window should
be stowed.

217 01 51 21 CDR Here come the photo pad: 35 millimeter: CI99,

17; 70 millimeter: CXll, 038. Okay. EREP, set
F, 7946; 0139; 7662; 70h5; 8815; 7717. Drawer A
configuration: 02, CI24, 35, CI19. A-2 is 03,
CI18, 85, CI17. A-3: 06, CI39, 25, CI13. A-h:
05, CIhl, 99, CI16 .... 07, CI40, 90, CI09. I
think that does it.

CC Roger, A1. And in answer to your question on

that valve for the window, we'd like it stowed
in D-4h0.

CDR Okay.

217 01 53 ll CC And, CDR, we need the 16-millimeter and the ETC

info, also, for the photo stuff.

CDR Okay, will do. I was trying to - okay, here

we go. VTS: track 48-D, CI01, 75 percent;
MO92/171 prep ... Ml51: CI39, 70. CI13 on the
other side of it - I won't read those a second
time. MI31-1, CI39, 25; ETC prep, CI24, h0.

CC Roger, AI. We broke up a little bit. Could I

get you to go back? I copied your 16-millimeter
stuff through M092/171/151, and could you repeat
after that?

CDR Okay, then we had Ml31-1: CI39 and 25. ETC

prep, after that, CI2h, 40. Just a second on
ETC; Owen's getting it.
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217 01 55 14 CDR Okay. We'll give you the ETC one at the final
pass also.

CDR Do you want me now to go over the status list?

CC Say that last again, please.

217 O1 55 31 CDR Do you want me to go to - over the anomaly list

now?

CC I'd like to hold up on that. We had a couple

of questions here. One deals with mission day 7
on Housekeeping 7 Bravo 3 and 7 Bravo 4, which
was biocide cleaning the towel holders and the
urine receiver cover areas. There was some
question here as to whether that got done or
not.

CDR The answer: It did get done.

CC Okay, I understand it was done. Also - -

CDR That's affirm. Hey, that reminds me of one

thing. We had a 003-6 scheduled yesterday, and
we actually did it today.

CC -- ...

CDR - - correctly on the sheet.

CC Okay, we copied that. Can you give us the status

on ED527 How's the spider vent mal work?

SPT I have yet to have a chance to work on that ED52,

Bob. I would like to do it instead of ED63,
cytoplasmic streaming, tonight. And I think
we ought to let the spiders out into the cage,
even if the mal does not work. Do you concur?

CC Okay, we concur with that.

SPT Okay. And on the ETC I should have got that in

the log here a minute ago. The number is reset
on the camera. I called it down on channel B,
and my recollection is that it's ll6. But I'd
appreciate it if you could catch that on channel B
to verify that that number is correct.
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217 01 56 53 CC Okay, we'll do that. No problem. We're about

1 minute from LOS, and the next pass is Ascension
at 01 - correction - 02:00. And that's going to
be your me& status pass. We'll get those - that
anomaly thing at some other - some later time, A1.

CDR Okay. I don't think there's any strain on it

anyway. We're in good shape.

CC Roger. We concur.

CDR ... whenever we get ...

217 01 57 20 CC Okeydoke.

217 02 08 47 CC Skylab, Houston. I've got you back here for

about a minute and a half. CDR, got a housekeep-
ing task I'd like to see if we could get performed,
if you're available, or PLT, or anybody.

SPT What do you need? He's up in the dome right now.

CC Okay, 0wen. Because of that electrical problem

we had last night, we'd like to get Housekeeping
70 Bravo run, which is on page 2-16 of the SWS
Systems Book, and basically what that does is
go around and verify the position of all of the -
of all of the circuit breakers. And we do know
there have been - -

SPT Okay, 70 Bravo.

CC Roger. There have been a couple of purposeful

changes to that thing, but we'd like you to Just
record all - all changes that are not in the
book. Okay, we're about 30 seconds from LOS,
and we'll drop out for about a minute and have
you again over Canary and at that time Vance
will come up and y'all can go over some of
these command module changes.

CDR Sounds like a good idea, and I guess the only

thing we'd like tonight, really, is that, besides
my exercise and putting up this food and getting
in 70 Bravo, is to do the fuel cell purge on the
command module.
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217 02 i0 02 CC Roger.

217 02 ii 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We are A0S through Canary for

about 7-1/2 minutes. And here's Vance, and you
guys can talk about the command module.

MCC Hey, AI, are you up?

CDR You must have been working hard for the last
week or so.

MCC Oh, we've been working away at it, but not

working as hard as you guys are.

CDR I don't know. We are having pretty much fun up

here; was kind of rocky for 3 days, but after
that everything's been on the up-swing. We got
everything done today, and really hauled it
around. We're on the move, I think.

217 02 ii 46 MCC Hey, that's super. Hey, A1, I know that you've
gotten a lot of changes. There's been little
time - well, there has been little station
passage time to have things explained, so it's
your nickel. We'll try to answer some of the
philosophy, et cetera.

CDR Okay. What kind of time were you - are you

thinking about having between getting in the
command module and, you know, closing the hatch,
putting in the probe and droque and all that
business, and undocking?

MCC Okay, it's nominal, and if anything it'll be

a little more time than what you are used to,
I believe.

CDR Yes, a lot more, I hope.

MCC It will be a lot more. As a matter of fact, the

other night we were discussing that maybe there'd
be too much time for you in suits.
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CDR No, I don't think so. The suits aren't bad to

wear up here, I've noticed. And so we have
plenty of time that we will be in our suits, and
we can get that tunnel closed out and everything.
And I noticed your - your changes had us -
once we did that, we took our suits off, and
that would be a good idea, too. That way, then
when we undocked and flew it, we wouldn't have
our suits on.

217 02 13 03 MCC Okay, that's great. Since it's a single

impluse-type thing, we were thinking that there
would be enough time for you to doff suits after
undocking and before the SEP burn, but if you
would like to do it before undocking, great.
The only thing we could see is if you have any
kind of tunnel problem that it would be messy
after you took your suits off.

CDR Well, I guess what we could do is - is - get

the - get the suits, you know, get the tunnel
checked out, make sure it's not leaking and
everything like that, and then get our suits off.

MCC Okay.

CDR And, you know, doublecheck the probe and make

sure it's in there, electrically connected
and everything, and it 's all redundant, and we
shouldn't have any probl_m_. If we do, I guess
we Just aren't going to be able to undock that
time, because there's no way to put the suits
back on and get up there and troubleshoot, but
the chances of having to are small, too. We've
never seen undocking problems, I don't think.

MCC Okay, AI, that's the way we will work it.

217 02 14 01 CDR Another one. I've been doing a lot of thinking

about this quad B, and I gather that you feel
that it's okay to turn it on for short periods,
and that we really won't get a lot of impluse
out of - out of the leak, or the materials itself
won't affect the - the firing of the other thrusters.

MCC Did you say Bravo or Delta?

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CDR Bravo, I think.

MCC Okay, yes, here's the word on Bravo. We would

like to hav_ the thruster we feel leaks - that
is leaking, B-3, off all of the time but we feel
that it's a - safe to use the other three thrusters
on that quad for certain things. For example, for
rate control, emergency OA rate control. We
also feel that it's okay in a completion burn to
use D-_. And let's see, that was one other -
oh, yes, CM - CM/SM separation, we feel it's
okay to have both B and Delta on.

CDR You cut out there, Vance, say again.

MCC Yes. For CM/SM SEP, we think it's okay to have

both Bravo and Delta on to get a good SEP.

CDR Yes, I noticed that. I gather the one that leaks

- well - okeydoke - another question. I
noticed when we did the SEP, we are - did the
RCS check, we went to the ACCEL CO_4AND, instead
of MIN IMPULSE. I wasn't able to figure that
out, exactly.

MCC Okay, mainly because history has shown that

with - the ground has a hard time to seeing it
with MIN IMPULSE, and this will make them surely
able to see it.

217 02 15 _6 CDR Okay - I guess that and making sure we got - by

the way, have you - if you tried this in the
simulator by using the translational controller
to control yaw, have you noticed that you built
up much cross-range error or it tends to average
out so that you kind of meander along on your
same orbital path that you were on to begin with?

MCC It's - as near as we can tell it's insignificant,

AI. We haven't had much
incidentally, we've done
control mode lately, and
even - working on a - an
using the docked DAP, but
anything about that yet.
problem at all. And
a lot of flying on that
it works good. We 're
attitude hold capability,
we haven't told you

CDR That'd be nice. That'd be a good idea.

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MCC We tried it in the simulator today, and it works

super good, you can even do VERB 49 maneuvers
with it.

CDR Now that'd really be slick. We'd be - that

would minimize the change from the normal operations,
wouldn't it? You'd make the burn that way, too.
You'd go to that attitude; once you are there,
change the DAP and make the burn.

MCC Yes. And I might add that - for the future we've
also looked at three quads out, and we have a
good control mode with one SM quad plus three
thrusters off the CM RCS, and that - that works
good, too.

217 02 17 02 CDR Great Scott! (Laughter) You guys are okay;

y'all have really been putting in the hours. Let
me ask one other question. It hasn't got anything
to do with entry, but it's been bothering me a lot.
Why do you think we've got the 8-foot-per-second
second midcourse correction?

MCC Let us get back to you on that one, A1. Everybody

is unprepared for that at the moment. We Just
have the wrong guys on.

CDR Okay, well - I'd like to have that as an action

items, because I'd like to kind of understand
what happened there.

MCC Okay and I kind - if you got - have time, I would

like to talk to you on the next pass and give you
some more information of a general nature - kind
of talk rapidly.

CDR That's a great idea. We'll be right here.

CC Okay, A1, we're about 1 minute from LOS now, and

the next pass is at Guam at 02:4_.

216 02 18 09 CDR Okay, and thanks.

MCC Okay, and so I'll keep talking until we run out of

time. If you have a - had a two-quad SM RCS
deorbit, A1, and you had B-h thruster on, we feel
that you could make the deorbit and be 101 pounds
above the red line. If you again did the same
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thing but did not turn B quad on at all, we feel

that you can m_e a hybrid, and you'd have 160 pounds
above the red line.

CDR Okay, you would have 160 above the red line,
counting the 80-foot per second out of the hybrid,
or something like that?

CC That's correct.

CDR I guess I don't always understand what B is doing

for you in a two - two-Jet burn, Just tending to
hold attitude?

217 02 18 55 CC That's right; it holds attitude, and you don't have

to use that to yaw.

217 02 44 12 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over Guam for l0 minutes.

CDR Roger.

CC Okay, and Just so we don't get confused, we are

sending you up an ATM schedule pad as well as the
SAP. But ATM operations are still NO GO until
we get a better hand on the funnies that have
been occurring. Also - -

CDR Understand, Crip.

CC Also, A1, we need you to record for us your PT

readings tonight on voice. And on the BMMD
readings, we can't find them anyplace; so if
you'd record those also, we'd appreciate it.

CDR You mean Owen's BMMD - oh, mine?

CC Everybody's. And - -

CDR Okay, we'll record them or give them to you now,

whichever you like.

CC Why don't you Just record them? We'd like to save

this air-to-ground to talk about the command module.
Also, we've got some confusion as to when we're
suppose to get them. Do you plan on giving those
in the morning on recording - in the morning on
air-to-ground or in the evening status report?
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CDR We had planned to do it in the evening status

report, but we had some requests several days ago
to do it in the morning, so rather than Just
repeat the.same numbers we've been saying, well,
we gave them to you in the morning_ but we' d
be glad to hold them for the after - until the
evening. That's what our plan was premission.

217 02 45 41 CC Okay. That was - that was a special request

earlier, and we Just as soon get them in the
evening, live, on air-to-ground.

CDR We're with you. We'll do it.

CC Okay, and here's Vance. You've got it.

MCC Hello, again, A1. Out of that last pass we had,

first of all, are there any things you'd like
cleared up?

CDR No, Just keep going. It sounds like y'all are

doing kind of - some amazing - type work besides
Just hard, hard work.

MCC Okay, then let me go down through the list. First

thing, you have a change in your quiescent checklist.
We hope that you'll - after we get through here
tonight, go to that configuration, the new quiescent
configuration tonight.

CDR I wonder - did it - wonder when it came up? The

la - Did it come up yesterday or this morning?

MCC Well, what it deals with, A1, is - is mainly our

RCS reconfigurations, and it came up last night.

21_ 02 46 4B CDR Okay, we'll get it in the book. We've got half
put in, and we got all the entry stuff put in the
entry cue cards. That must have come up for the
systems book.

MCC That 's correct.

CDR Okay, we'll get it in and get it in there tonight.

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MCC Okay. The next point, the ground says they'll

fix up your DAP in the CM computer tomorrow.

CDR You mean fix it up to it's new quiescent config-

uration DAP?

MCC That's correct.

CDR Well, then maybe I ought to wait until tomorrow

to go to quiescent. Should I or shouldn't I?

MCC No, negative. You know, your emergency procedures

are SCS, so it doesn't matter that much.

CDR Okay, understand. I'll do that today.

MCC Okay, next point. Let me explain the deorbit a

little bit to you. We've got a single impulse
deorbit planned for a couple of reasons. Main
reason, it minimizes RCS propellant expenditure
and wear and tear, and it seems Just generally
good to make a minimum-time deorbit. The - -

CDR Concur.

MCC - - next thing, you're going to activate the

CM RCS before undocking. That's Just because it
would be nice to verify that it will activate
early in the game. Next point.

CDR Okay.

MCC You're not going to have a SEP maneuver. Your

SEP will be about 0.h of a foot per second from
the spring force when you undock. No flyaround,
and you will ullage two Jet for your deorbit burn.
You've got a good ullage control capability, even
in YAW, when you're using the THC to hold attitude.

CDR Roger. Do you have to watch it much to keep the

THC - to keep the YAW in pretty close, or does it
tend to stay there on its own in the simulator?
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217 02 _8 22 MCC Well, in the simulator, it's good to have 20 seconds,

because that gives you time to let it make a little
excursion in YAW and then control it back to where
it should be. You have to - it's moderately
sensitive. You don't have to be too concerned
about it, but - it's not bad. And it can be that
you won't have to worry about that control at all
if we come up with this procedure I told you about
earlier, later, the dock DAP-type attitude-hold
procedure. Okay, nominally, there will be no
usage of Bor D quads. However, there are special -
and - and that's during a nominal deorbit. There
are some emergency cases when you would use them
that are - you would use that are off-nominal,
that I'ii explain later. Okay, your splash point
be near the nominal point off the California coast.
I was going to explain the rationale of changing
our RCS configuration for quiescent, but I think
I'ii let you read it first, and we can answer
that tomorrow. Basically, Just ahead of time,
we're putting PSM on line rather than quads in
the quiescent - quad RCS in the quiescent
configuration for several reasons. Okay, the
AUTO RCS switches are optimized for your emergency
rate control procedures and your emergency undoeking
procedures. That's how your 16 RCS are set up and
why. Okay. Do not use B and D quads unless -
and here are the cases: For SM Jets, you will
use D, and that's the only time.

217 02 20 55 CDR You mean D or B or both?

MCC Delta.

MCC Think both of them.

MCC Both.

MCC Both. Actually, for SM Jet you will use Delta

and Bravo, but that's the only place - -

CDR Okay. Change ... - -

MCC That's the only place you use Delta.

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CDR Understand.

MCC Now you use Bravo in other cases. For example,

emergency OA rate contol, you would use B-1 and
B-2. The procedures reflect that. And in a
c_npletion burn, you would use Bravo 4. Okay.
The dock DAP is good for CSM control of the cluster
in SOLAR INERTIAL, Z-LOCAL VERTICAL, dead band,
et cetera. But we don't want you to use it,
mainly because of contamination. And we don't
want you to use anymore of your RCS than you have
now. There will be no CSM desat manuevers or trim
manuevers with - using the SM RCS. And one big
reason is that that A Jet can't - contaminates
pretty badly. We are working on six-pack installa-
tion procedures, as you know, and they're in good
shape. But we have massaged around how we hold
attitude. Just like to know - let you know that
we'll probably have the SWS hold its own attitude,
and the mechanism will be for the acquisition Sun
sensors output to be differentiated to give a
rate while you have the rate gyros off the line.
That's not certain; Just being worked on.

CDR Roger.

M_C Okay, A1. One thing I wanted to make sure that

you understand - stood from the last station
pass. You have SM RCS deorbit capability; that
is, if you had no SPS engines. Naturally, that's
not a problem, but it's Just a nice thing to
know.

217 02 53 ll CDR Roger. Sounds like we got DAS; we got then the
hybrid, and, of course, then we got - we actually
got the service module; so we got at least three
ways to do it.

MCC That's right. And you've got 1 minute to LOS,

and let's see what else we've got. Oh, yes. Let
me hit these, since we have time, the RCS rationale.
We're putting the PSM in the quite configuration -
quiescent configuration on your AC quads, and we're
leaving the quad propellant isolated. And there
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are a couple of reasons for this. We have -

PSM has a lot more progellant for one thing, and
it gives us the advantage of isolating B and D
quads both electricelly and propellantwise. Also
we have more electrical redundancy if we open
and close the PSM using the manifold isolation
valve.

CC Vanguard, A0S is going to be at 03:24. We'll

not call unless you want us.

CDR Yes, give a call, Crip.

CC Okay. Will do.

MCC Sleep tight. See you later.

CDR Thank you, Vance. Hang in there.

217 02 54 29 MCC Right-0.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

217 03 24 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard

for 9 minutes. Past your bedtime.

CDR Okay. Just a second. Crip, let me ask you a

question.

CC Go.

CDR The other day I charged bat 6 for 509 and we

checked it and it checked out okay. Did we start
charging bat 77

CC 'Fnat's affirmative. We were supposed to.

CDR Okay. I Just found out. When I went by there

and looked, it wasn't being charged and Jack
Just told me he was the one that completed the
charge. Everything's okay. I knew I'd started
:it but I couldn't figure out what happened to it.
'Fnought maybe I'd Just forgotten.

CC Okay. Very good. If somebody had an opportunity

to run that housekeeping 70 Bravo, we would be
interested in getting the - the details over
air-to-ground if you got them. And we're
going - -

PLT Okay, Crip. I Just put that on channel A, but

I'll give it to you in Just a second.

CC Okay, Jack. We'd appreciate it.

PLT It turns out that all the circuit breakers are

configured but 70 Bravo, except the ones that
everybody knows they're open anyway.

CC Okay, Jack. That sounds good.

217 03 26 01 PLT To be more specific about it, if anybody's looking

at page 2-16. I found out that the - all the
circuit breakers that were supposed to be closed
are closed and those that are supposed to be
opened are open on the airlock module panels.
Except for on panel 200, the M0L SIEVE B FAN,
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SECONDARY breaker is OPEN. We knew about that.

The ILCA number 1 HEATER breaker is OPEN. We
knew about that. And same story on the workshop
panels except that on panel 611, the PRIMARY
RADIATOR BYPASS VALVES circuit breaker is OPEN,
and we knew about that.

CC Okay. We copied all that. Sounds good. We're

Just trying to tie together all these funnies
that have been occurring in the ATM, including
the problems you have with setting the CBRMs today,
and the 52 door opening, and the stuff that we
had last night. And so we Just wanted to make
sure we knew what the current onboard status
14_S.

CDR We're glad you're watching. Let me give you some

more data here, Crip. Okay, the B_94D. Here they
go: 6.232, 6.232, 6.238; 5.995, 5.991; 6.954,
6.961, 6.957.

CC Okay - -

217 03 27 27 CDR Here comes the CDR's exercise: 2/29/3502; 3 mark

l, 40 As, l0 Bs, l0 Cs, 20 Ds, 30 Es. And that was
a total of 20 minutes - for the mark 1.

CC Okay. We copied all that.

CDR Okay. I think we've done everything except purge

the fUel cells. I got the heaters on right now
and I 'm going to go up and do housekeeping 4,
whatever it is. After you give the news or
whatever you've got.

CC Okay.

CDR Nothing happened in the world, huh?

CC Well, not very much. I sort of - I did have some

news, which I haven't really had a chance to scan
myself, but I saved it because we had - we were
so busy on air-to-ground tonight. I could run
through a couple of items if you're interested
in listening to them.

CDR Roger. Unless you had something else, we sure

would.
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CC Okay. Hey, we'd also be interested in finding

out whether 0wen got around to that working on
the spiders tonight at all.

PLT Just about 1 minute ago and he took it up there

and he's going to release it from captivity.

CC Okeydoke. Very good. Do you know how the mal

went or - -

CDR Negative is the answer.

CC Okay. First item I have here says the Skylab

ERR? pass over the Gulf of Mexico tomorrow, with
over 130 fishing boats in the pass area, is drawing
a lot of attention in the news today. A wire
service estimates that there will be at least
500 fishermen aboard the 130 boats. Spot the
good areas for us, will you?

217 03 30 03 CDR Okay. We'll sure get them tomorrow.

CC Okay. It says the planet Venus, previously thought

to be smooth, is said to be pock-marked with
craters. That word came from the Jet Propulsion
Lab in Pasadena, California. The radar mapping
data was a complete surprise to the JPL scientists
who said that craters as large as i00 miles
wide were found. American B-52 bombers are still
supporting Cambodian troops. Comnunist forces
have continued to advance towards Phnom Penh
despite the U.S. air support. The Italian
government has declared war on pollution. The
program disguised - described as the toughest in
Europe, would recruit young people to reforest
rapidly deteriorating woods. Cities will be
required to build waste treatment plants and
factories will face shutdown if they pollute the
enviroment. The first Soviet tanker to dock in
U.S. waters in more than 20 years arrived in
Delaware City, Delaware. The tanker carried some
320,000 barrels of European crude oil. The
biggest problem on the mind of the American
consumer is meat, or more properly, the growing
lack of meat. One shopper in New York ssid the
buying habits of the housewives reminds her of
how her mother bought sugar at the start of
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World War II. Former Astronaut, Colonel

Dave Scott has been named Deputy Director of
NASA Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force
Base. He'll take over his new post in late
August. I Just learned that myself. In
pro football last night, the Oilers put up a good
fight but lost 16 to 13 to the New York Jets.
Over 45,000 fans attended the charity game in
the Astrodome. The Dallas Cowboys were tough
last night. They whipped the Los Angeles Rams
by a score of 24 to 7. The Redskins were upset
by the Lions. The Lions belted the Skins 17 to lB.
And Tom Weiskopf, in the Westchester Classic
holds a one-stroke lead after the second round.
The course was hit by hard rains Thursday, which
we talked about, is now being played under
weather - under conditions. And Weiskopf has
a 36-hole score of 13B. Dewltt Weaver is in
second place and Den Sikes is in third. We're
about 30 seconds from LOS now. And we'll wish
you good night and see you manana.

CDR You bet. And how about sending our congratulations

to Dave. That's real great.

217 03 32 51 CC Yes. Sounds good.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

217 ii 06 24 CC Skylab, Houston, through Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.

Good morning.

CDR Hello there, Hank.

CC How are y'all doing this morning?

CDR So far, fine. Just great. Just waking up.

CDR How's the EREPweather look?

CC Stand by.

CC It's not too bad this morning. Quite a bit of

0.4 to 0.7 with some zero to 0.3.

CDR Good show; Jack will get them.

SPT What did Dr. Frost think of his sleep data the
last two nights?

CC Stand by. Let me get an answer to that one.

He says the data looks real good, Owen.

SPT Might send me up a s._,,aryon a pad, of the hours

accumulated for the various stages - on the
teleprinter.

CC Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. During the evening we've noticed

a slight torquing of the vehicle. We picked it
up in our momentum samples, s_nething in the
neighborhood of 0.35 foot/pounds. And it
correlates out to match up with perhaps the SAL
leaking a little bit. And sometime here this
morning we'd like for you to verify that the SAL
was closed out properly after the condensate
t_nk dump last night.

CDR Roger, Hank.

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217 ii i0 31 CC Going along with that, we did notice a drop in

the cabin pressure of 0.1 psi, which does indicate
that we are - have the possibility of leaking out
somewhere.

CDR Hank, you're right. It was not closed. It was

left in VENT, PRESSURIZE.

CC Roger. Copy.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

be coming up on Hawaii at 26.

CC A1, when you say it was in the VENT, was the door
cracked open also?

CDR That was it. I had the door open and venting the
tank and then when I finished venting the tank,
I went to PRESS but I did not close the door.
The door was in VENT, so it was venting out the
little vent port there.

217 ll ll 59 CC Roger. Copy.

217 ll 26 41 CC Skylab, Houston, through Hawaii, 6-1/2 minutes.

CDR Okay.

CC And CDR, Houton. We're still looking at that last

problem we had on the vent. If it was the inlet -
desiccant inlet valve open - if it was, that would
have given us a path all the way out which would
account for the thing.

CDR The answer is yes. The a - when I finished venting

and I repressed the little area behind the - there
hasn't been an experiment in there today for the
first - yesterday for the first time, and I let -
when I repressed it, I didn't close the door. I
had the door partially cracked, as it is for
venting, and the press valve and the open valve
are there, so it not only put air in there, but
it put air out through the side of the lock.
That was it. No doubt about it.
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CC Okay. That explains it then, A1. Thank you very

much. And we would like to get one other thing.
Another thing we've noticed during the night,
A1, is we'v? had several indications of reservoir
low on the primary AM coolant loop occurring Just
prior to sunrise as the reservoir cools off out-
side. And I was wondering if you could verify,
at your convenience, on panel 203, whether you
have the little peanut light there indicating
reservoir low. We show it's indicating low now
on our telemetry.

CDR Okay. Go - we'll go take a look.

CDR The PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP RESERVOIR LOW.

CC Roger. Copy. The light 's on.

CDR You bet.

217 ll 29 14 CDR Do y'all think it is low or think the lights -

the transistor down there has had a failure?

CC No, it's going on and off, A1. We think we are

definitely getting the reservoir bottoming out.
But we 're not quite sure whether we 're really
low on fluid or whether it's Just the system is
cooling down in the night pass. We're at a real
low Beta now, and it could be getting cold enough
on the outside there that Just normal contraction
of the fluid's causing the reservoir to bottom
out.

CDR 0keydoke.

CC We'd like to watch it a little while longer.

CC Skylab, Houston. Have you picked up your

teleprinter messages yet this morning?

CDR Sure have, H_k. We were Just reading them.

CC Oh, okay. Well we neglected to get out last slew

in here this morning, and - but if you've already
picked them up, then I'm sure that you got
anything that might have been tucked under the
cover there. Also like to tell you that message
914, the EREP C&D prep, has a 7-line space in
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it. We got a paper advance in there inadvertently

when we got a reject, and that accounts for that.

CC And CDR, while you are looking at that C&D pad

for EREP n11mber B, you might note that we are
calling out for some switch throwing on the EREP
down-link box, which is entered into the pad
there as BWN.

CDR I 'm glad you pointed that one out. That would
have thrown us.

217 ll 32 42 CC And Skylab. We're about _5 seconds from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 35.

217 ll 35 13 CC Skylab, Houston, through Goldstone for 8 minutes.

CC And Skylab, for info, if you'll give us the DAS

a little bit, we're going to put in a nav update.
Correction on that, a Y-2 drift update.

CDR Okay. You've got it. We hadn't done it this

morning.

CC And Skylab, Houston. Just so we can close this

possibility out. Yesterday morning or day before,
or whenever it was, we had the little power glitch,
it was past your bedtime. But, Just to make sure,
was anybody at the C&D console?

CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out there for a minute.

Was wondering, Just so we can close it out in our
troubleshooting of the power glitch, was anybody
active at the C&D console when the power - the
inadvertent or anom_1ous caution and warning
occurred on the CSM?

CDR You talking about yesterday?

CC That's right.

CDR No. We were all getting ready for bed back here.

CC Okay. That's what we thought, but we Just wanted

to make sure in case that came up.
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2.17ii 38 06 CC SPT, Houston. We've got an answer on your ETC

shutdown yesterday. The power loss on that EREP
pass 2 was due to overheating of the magazine or
shutter drive motors, and it caused the thermal
breakers to open, which was normal under the
temperatures that we were experiencing there.
The operating time before those breakers opened is
somewhat reduced now because of the high SAL
temperatures. The camera power is going to be
turned off as per the pad now between frequencies
and that should cure that problem.

SPT Oh, very good. You know, it's Just lucky that
the first interruption occurred Just less than a
minute, I think, after the termination of the
last pass. So, it turned out to not lose any
data there.

CC Yes, that was pretty good.

CC CDR, Houston. As you notice, per your request

yesterday, we have sent you up a message concerning
the RATE GYROS and what to do if you have a
failure. We would, however, still like to caution
you that if you do have a failure outside of
STDN contact that we would like for you to go
ahead and run the real, and make sure it isn't the
one that we think is best that has failed.

CDR Okay now, if I run the mal, you got a specific

one in mind? Generally our procedure is to
observe the - redundancy management work itself,
through the computer.

217 ii _0 27 CC I'Ii get that real number for you from G&S right
now, AI.

CDR Okeydoke. Generally we don't interfere. We find

that it works real well on its own and if
something goes wrong after that, our procedure
is then to somehow know which to select. Usually
inside you can't really tell, during any sort of
maneuver, which one is perfect l_nless the other
one Just goes off ... stop.

SPT Hello, Houston, SPT.

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CC Go ahead.

SPT Our little friend Arabella remained in her vial

all last night. Tapped on it and couldn't get
her to come out. She is alive. I saw her moving
around a little bit in there but she remained
there overnight. What I though I'd do this morn-
ing was to actually shake her out of the vial
to get her to come on out into the cage. Would
you agree with that procedure down there?

CC We concur on that, 0wen. Might as well get the

little gal out.

SPT Fair enough.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll be coming back up at Bermuda at 48.

CC And CDR, Houston. In about the 20 seconds we got

left, I might say that what you described doing is
exactly what we want you to do. However, we're
looking now to see if there is a mal that covers
that. We don't think there is.

CC I guess I'm wrong there. We do have APCS malf,

2 Bravo and h Alfa that apply.

CDR Okay.

217 ii 43 36 CDR Also, for previous messages and ground rules, we

understand that in the event of a discompare, we
continue with the EREP maneuver.

217 ii 44 53 CC That's affirmative.

SPT Hello, Hank. Arabella looks a little cross right

now. Tossed the ... out of the vial and with all
eight legs flailing sort of wildly, she bounced
back and forth between the back of the box and
the front glass over a half a dozen times until
finally she bounced over to the screen and latched
onto the screen, where she's firmly implanted at
the moment. So she's alive and kicking at this
point.
217 ll 45 40 CC Roger.
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217 ii h8 Oh CC Skylab, Houston, through Bermuda for 6 minutes.

CDR Roger.

CDR You don't know either, huh?

CC Say again.

CDR Wondered where we were over the ground.

CC Oh, I didn't copy that. You're up over the

northeastern section of Canada, coming up on
Newfoundland.

217 ll 53 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. We'll

be coming up on Canaries at 57.

217 ll 57 16 CC Skylab, Houston through Canary for 8 minutes.

CDR There is sure a lot of unpolluted water on this

planet, I'll tell you.

CC Did you say - -

CDR Been looking at it for, what, 8 days now. Every

once in a while we see a little polluted plot,
but most of it is completely umpolluted, at least
from this altitude.

CC CDR, Houston. We got a couple of configuration

changes for the CSM sometime today. There is no
rush on these. So sQmetime during the day when
you head up that way, if you will give us a call,
we'll pass them up to you.

CDR Okay. By the way, we went into that new

configuration of the quiescent mode with the RCS.
And one thing that we noticed a little bit
different than what we had imagined was, when we
put it all - when we put the two quads in PSM
and then turned off all the other quads, we then
turned off both the PSM propellant valve and
the - of course the helium valve was already
off.

CC Roger.
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217 ii 59 52 CDR Okay. I just wanted to make sure you concurred

So essentially, in the whole RCS we have two
valves open now, which are the quads A and C
PSM.

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217 12 00 03 CC Roger. That's correct, Alan. The changes we

wanted made _p there were in regard to this
quiescent configuration. We wanted to get the
service module RCS QUADS SECONDARY FUEL PRESSURE,
all four of them, _pmomentarily to m-ke sure
they are open. And on panel 5, we want to get
the service module RCS HEAT_ QUADDELTA to PRIMARY.
And that ought to get us right up to the nominal
quiescent configuration.

CDR Okay, I'll go do that right now. You want

QUAD DELTA HFAT_ to PRIMARY, and then you
want us to take the SECONDARIES of the QUADS
and put them up. We'll do it.

CDR Okay, weVve got QUAD D HEAT_ to PRIMARY. You

want ENGINE PACKAGE D to PRIMARY. Is that
correct?

- CC Negative, that was SM RCS QUAD HEATER DELTA, but

if it is already there, then that's good.

CDR Yes, it is. The only one that is not inPRIMARY

this - ENGINE PACKAGE D.

CC Okay, that - we do want that one in PRIMARY,

• also, AI.

CDR Okay. And QUAD SEC FUEL PRESSURE valves, all

four of them, are now pushed up. Of course, they
remain barber pole. They're open, though.

CC Okay, very good. That does it for that. Thank

you very much.

CDR Hey, Hank, you mlght want to send up a change to

the checklist, Systems Checklist, pointing out
that we ought to keep those secon_-_ies in open,
because it doesn't say - I was looking through
here and it doesn't say which way they should
be. And we could - certainly need to put that
in there.

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217 12 02 04 CC Roger. We copy. And we're about 45 seconds

from LOS. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle
at 42 with a data recorder dump.
t

217 12 42 23 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle, 8-1/2 minutes.

SPT Okay.

CC And, CDR, Houston. I've got one item for your

EREP prep this morning.

CDR Go ahead, Hank.

CC Okay, when you - when you get in your prep there

sometime, we would llke to get the rate gyro
slx-pack powered down. Turn all six of the
gyro switches off there on the little control
panel, and then get the UTILITY POWER OFF.
That'll help us on our power situation during
the EREP.

CDR Okay.

SPT Hank, the EREP was a good Opportunity to get some

moredata on the voltage that's coming out of
that six-pack during Y-axis m-neuvers. Apparently
you'd rather get the power ofl.

CC That's affirmative. And G&S is real happy with

the data we got the other day; it looked real
good.

SPT Do they think that's adequate about all axes?

CC 0wen, they're real happy with their data. They

say they don't want any more testing. And,
incidentally, we won't be turning these gyros
back on for a while. This is a one-time turn-off.

SPT Okay.

217 12 44 35 CC And, SPT, Houston. We'd like for you to hold

off on your scheduled ATM work here that's coming
up shortly. We're - got a discussion going on
here now. We are _nsidering some troubleshooting
on the ATMwith regard to the electrical problem
we had the other day.
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SI_2 Roger.

SPT I understood yesterday, Hank, that the ATM work

today was all scrubbed until further comment
from the ground, so I hadn't planned to do any.

CC Roger. That's good.

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS. Hawaii at

02.

SPT Okay, Hank.

CDR Hey, Hank, if you could check with the flight

planners, not tomorrow, but the day after tomorrow,
and see if we can set aside about 1 hour where
all three of us are together where we take that
de - those three deactivation checklists and
bring them up to speed, We got a lot of changes
to them today. We won't be able to do them
today or tomorrow, but we might get to them
the following day if you'll set aside an hour
f_
to do it where all three of us are together.

CC Roger. We copy.

CDR And we're not going to be able to get to that

food storage tonight, I don't think. And so they
should set it aside where maybe two men, for
about an hour, do that. Maybe they can get it
done in that hour. We got a lot of food we want
to put in cans, mark it neatly, and record it, so
that we - everybody on the ground will be aware
of where it is and what it is.

CC ()kay, we've got that scheduled day ii.

217 12 51 2B CDR Good, thank you.

217 13 02 2T CC Skylab, we have you through Hawaii for 9 minutes.

217 13 ii 21 CC SkYlab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See you over

Goldstone in 2 minutes.

PLT ()kay. Thank the EREP fellows for putting T-zero

on the C&D pad. That was quick reaction.
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CC Okay, I'ii do it.

PLT The VTS pad, I mean.

217 13 ii hi CC Roger.

217 13 14 09 CC Skylab, we're back with you over Goldstone for

7 minutes.

217 13 18 53 CC PLT, Houston.

CDR He's listening, go ahead,

CC We'd Just like a verification that you do have

both maneuver pads.

CDR He doesn't know, but he'll check; Just a second.

He's doing the bat test.

CC Okay. And weVre not sure you do; that's why

we're asking the question.

CDR Wait 1.

CC Okay.

217 13 20 46 CC And, Skylab, we're going LOS here. We'll see

you over Bermuda in 4 minutes.

217 13 25 05 CC Skylab, we're AOS Bermuda for 9 minutes.

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217 13 32 32 CC Skylab, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC We show your star tracker unlocked. We need

that locked up in the next i0 minutes.

CDR You were cutting out, Story.

CC We show your show your star tracker unlocked.

We need that locked up prior to Ascension so we
can update Nu Z for your EREP pass.

CDR Okay, I'ii go right up and get it.

CC And we do not think you have the first maneuver

pad. We'll be passing that to you at Canaries
or at Ascension, and we'll be seeing you at
Canaries in 3 minutes.

CDR Okay.

PLT You're right, Story. We only have a second

maneuver pad.

CC I think you only have the second, Jack, and that

was - that maneuver begins at 16:02:00.

PLT That's affirm. We need the first.

217 13 33 52 CC Okay. We're about 30 seconds to LOS here. I'ii

pick you over Canaries in 2 minutes and give you
the pad then.

217 13 36 06 CC Skylab, we're AOS, Canaries and Ascension for

15 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story, there's your star.

CC Okay, thanks. We're showing it's a good star

down here.

CC And in the next 13 minutes, I'd like to pass up

a maneuver pad to somebody.
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PLT Go ahead, Story.

CC Ready to copy, Jack?

PLT Go ahead.

PLT We're all ready, Story.

CC Okay. Z-LV MODE, 14:2B:00, maneuver time 52030,

500B6, that's 30 minutes. Fine maneuver 52021,
5100B, 51002, 50001. No star available. Maneuver
time, 520B0, 50012, lO minutes, SI MODE at 15:09:00.
Remarks: EREP number B, maneuver to Z-LV, starts
165 degrees after orbit noon. Over.

PLT Okay, Story. I got the time for Z-LV to m_neuver

is 14:2S. Time to put in is 520B0, 500%. Fine
maneuver is 52001, 51003, 51002, and 5 triple
balls 1. No stars available, next time put in
for the SI maneuver is 520B0, 50012, SI maneuver
15:09. And 165 degrees after orbit noon.

CC Okay, that's all correct, and we're sorry we

didn't get that up to you.

217 1B B9 53 PLT Okay. Thank you.

217 1B 51 01 CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

over Carnarvon at 14:14. And, Jack, no need to
acknowledge, out the maneuver pad that I called
up to you is now in the teleprinter. And your
Nuz has been updated.

217 14 15 20 CC Skylab, we have you through Carnarvon for

9 minutes.

CDR Okay. We want to verify something on this

EREP down-link box, if we can.

CC Go ahead, A1.

CDR We've got this EREP box hooked up to the blue

dots per the other day. And we didn't - and
started powering up 192. We have not - it is
still on the blue dots, although Jack indicates
that we ought to maybe move it over to the green
dots. I don't know. That's the question.
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kud in what position would you like the selector

in, to begin with? According to our book, it's
7 •

CC Stand by l.

MCC I'm Just fixing to get that and check it.

CC A1, that's green dot, position 7.

CDR Okay. And I gather it 's okay, even though we 're

warming up 92, to remove the plug from the blue
dot and put it over to the green dot.

CC That 's affirm, A1.

CDR Okay, we 'll sure do it.

217 14 20 Ol CDR Yes_ that's on 3 ... 7

CDR Okay, we're TACS T-_, 120 , 192 MODE to CHECK.

I think we can hack that. Voice record, D-6.
D-6 is running at 56 percent. You can time her
for i0 minutes. Okay, that's what we got to do.
Now. Nine of i0 activities, okay?

CDR Great.

CDR ...

PLT That 's good.

CDR [Chat's right. The minute - what you do - the

minute you went to - have you already started
the maneuver? Okay. Now go - go AUTO again
and see if you can catch the star. Did you
fire some mibs? You catching the star? Okay,
Just leave it there, and it will unlock. It
will do everything it wants it to do. I'll be
darned. The thing came ...

CC _ylab, we're LOS in 30 seconds. We'll see you

over Guam in 7 minutes, and we're reading you
on VOX.

CDR Okay, everything is working good today, Story.

We fired a couple of mibs, it looks like.
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CC Okay, we'll give you a count when we get it.

CC Going over the hill here. We haven't seen the

mibs down here yet.

CDR Okay. When it unlocks it'll - Okay, the little

light came on. It was minus Y, I believe.

CC Okay.

PLT Yes. What they'd like to do is keep it as long

as they can. It won't hurt to Just let it go.
When it unlocks, we'll do it.

PLT Is my what?

SC ...

CDR 0nly - You only go close if you want to - show

me on that pad. That's only if you want to get -
yes. That's when - You don't have any of that,
so Just leave it in auto as lon_ as it will hold.

•_ SC ... auto.

217 lh 2h 30 CDR Yes, that's after you get - if they give you a
some ... LV angles. You go those things - that's
kind of a separate subset. There aren't any,
so Just let it fly with ... awhile. When it
unlocks, then you - it'll go - -

217 lh 25 01 CDR T minus 19 minutes. I got to take this down-link

t

217 i_ BO O0 CDR Okay. That was time for me to go do the alignment

check, Jack. Take my hat off and go do it.

CC Skylab, we've got you through Guam for 6 minutes.

The maneuver 's looking good.

CDR ... let it wait, Jack.

CC Skylab, no need to acknowledge, but weVd llke

the star tracker shutter closed.

CC Skylab, we're going LOS. We'll see you over at

Hawaii in 6 minutes.
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CDR Okay, Story.

PLT Yes, everything's done.

CDR Only one thing is not done: RECORD switch to

RECORD. No, we're too early - no wait. I'll
do it this way, though. Okay, I Just did the
friendly little 192 alignment check, and I got,
for the visible, 82 left, 65 right. For the
thermal, I got 47 right, and in the X-micrometer
I read it 546, in the Z-micrometer it's 491.
I did not adjust either alignment. They both
seem to be the same as before. And that's about
it. CDR out.

CDR Okay, that's done, Jack. T minus 10, go to

RECORD .... door opened at 5. Alignment starts
at 14:52.

PLT Big 0 is always watching this panel. You got

that door open, Big O? Ah - ah, we got that
all hooked up.

CDR Good.

PLT The other TV is downstairs.

SPT l've ... the TV down there.

CDR Should be one down there.

SPT ....

CDR Yes.

SC ....working ...

CDR It 's not.

SC ...

CDR Maybe not. Only the first rev. Let me look up

the second rev, okay?

217 14 36 35 CDR You're right. The second rev, you got it.
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217 lh 41 32 CDR 286, 385, 4 is 72, 5 is 13, 6 is 56, 7 is _0

and that 's it.

CDR We'll do it next time, okay. Okay. I'll now

voice record again, B-7 - B-7 is B0, B-8 is 01,
B-7 is 55, B-6 is 57. If B-7 greater than 80,
COOLER, OFF. B-7 was not greater than 80. So
everything is okay.

CC Skylab, we've got you through Hawaii for 6 minutes.

We're hearing your VOX, and your maneuver looks
good.

CDR Okay. Everything's going good here, Story.

CDR T minus 5, VTS door coming open, Jack.

CDR Okay, that's it. 192, let's see where it is.

And it's 62.

217 i_ 4B 22 CDR MODE to READY. 92 to READY. We'll wait for

5 minutes, if you don't mind.

PLT Hello there, Story. How do you read the kid on

VOX?

CC I'm reading the kid loud and clear, and we're

30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you over Goldstone
in 9 minutes.

PLT Okay. How about asking the VTS troops there this
question. The Washington, D.C. target requests
a uniform area near the city. The city will
appear to be uniform itself. Would they like
me to put the PIPA right on the city? Or would
they like me to pick a forested area somewhere
outside the city limits?

CC We're working that.

CDR Okay, thank you.

PLT (Laughter) That 's pretty good.

CDR Is the door open, Jack?

PLT I can't see nothing yet.

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217 14 45 41 PLT Don't see any stars out there.

CDR ... see in the dark.

PLT It's there, though.

CDR Huh?

CDR Sun's Just coming up. I can see the light on

the door.

PLT Okay. I'll wait.

CDR That's probably why. Look, we haven't got that

box turned on down there.

PLT What box down where?

CDR Is that turned on there?

PLT The TV? Yes.

CDR ()kay, everything 's good.

PLT ()kay,I'll catch her now. Stand by.

CDR Coming up on 47. Ready on 47.

CDR You make a maneuver back to ..., don't you?

PLT Yes sir.

217 14 46 48 CDR ()kay.

217 14 52 27 SC 2s your door open, 0wen, babe?

SPT That' s affirm ....

CDR Yes, and I can't see out it, though.

SPT Just a minute.

CDR ()kay.

PLT I'm over heavily clouded ocean. About 0.9

coverage out there in the Pacific today.
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CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear on VOX.

We got you through Goldstone 5 minutes.

CDR Okay, great.

CC Jack, for Washington_ D.C., we'd like uniform

city area.

PLT Okay, understand the site is right on the city.

217 14 53 31 CDR Okay, EREP te START, Jack. Tape motion is

working.

PLT Let her fly, A1.

CDR Stand by for AUTO CAL in 3 seconds.

PLT Wilco.

CDR l, VTS AUTO CAL.

217 14 53 41 PLT MARK. AUTO CAL.

CDR Okay.

PLT Light's out.

CDR All right.

CDR Tape is in motion.

CDR We could even run it without the 92 on today,

for a while.

CDR And 55 is the next big event.

PLT Going to be m-_ing a pass over my home state, _"

the Wolverine State, Michigan, today.

CC And you have good weather up ther, Jack.

PLT Yes, we took a look at it last pass around; looks

pretty good. Get to say hello to all my Michigander
friends.

CDR We can see all the Great Lakes, see Detroit, see
Windsdor, Toledo, see the St. Lawrence River,
Boston_ Long Island; New York, it was clear.
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PLT Looks like this pass will be coming - hitting

the Michigan coastline at about Lovin_ton and
coming down over between Mount Pleasant and
Claire, Michigan, and down over Flint.

217 14 54 57 CDR Okay, coming up 55. 55, 193 S, ON and 19_ R. ON.
194 MODE to MANUAL. Think we can do that. READY
on, Jack. Supposed to be on at 56:20 for you.
Forget RAD/SCAT GIMBAL angle flickering; nothing's
new there.

PLT Okay, in 2 minutes I'll pick up a nadir swath

ther e.

CDR Okay.

PLT Lots of clouds over the northern border.

CDR Looking for - I'll watch for 56:20 for you_ Jack.

PLT Okay.

f
CDR Things are looking good at the moment.

217 14 56 16 CDR Okay, 4 seconds the READY light on, Jack.

PLT Okay.

217 14 56 21 CDR READY light should be coming on.

PLT It is on.

CDR Okeydoke; things are going good. I'm going to

go MODE to AUTO on 190 in a few moments. How's
it look ou_ there?

PLT Well, we're coming over clearer area now. Must

be up over Minnesota.

CDR Hey, Story, y'all getting information back from

the down-link V0X?

CC Affirmative, A1.

CDR Okay, we're going to be changing it around here

before too long.
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PLT Well, I guess we're crossing the northern border

of the U.S. right about now, over Montana.
Border over Montana coming down through Norhh
Dakota and then Minnesota.

CDR This is going to be the big sweep, Jack.

CDR 58:46.

PLT ... going on down there?

CDR Okay.

CDR Looks pretty.

PLT Okay, we're coming up on some clouds now. We

got the nadir swath agoing.

CDR 58:46 gain.

PLT About 50 seconds.

PLT Okay, now we're starting to approach some clouds.

217 14 58 07 PLT MARK. This must be the trailing end of the

experiment we're going to look at. Now she's
about 0.9 coverage to complete overcast.

CDR Okay.

217 14 58 42 PLT Camera coming over the clouded area, still over
the clouds.

CDR Okay, 58:h6; MODE AUTO on 190.

217 14 58 54 PLT READY light on.

CC We'll be losing you for a minute here until we

hand over to Texas, Skylab.

PLT Yes, I'm going to keep the VTS z,mning a little

more because we're over lots of clouds yet.
It looks like the front moved a little more
east than everybody thought.

CDR Oh, boy.

217 14 59 36 CDR Got to start getting to bed earlier. Man alive'

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217 15 00 07 CDR Taking some good pics with the cam here. 192,
MODE to READY at approximately 3 seconds. Okay,
that's it.

217 15 00 16 CDR _g)DE to READY. Record a MALFUNCTION light

momentarily and tape in motion. 50, 190, SHD'IU'ER
SPEED to FAST.

PLT ()kay, we'll take some data right in the middle

of Lake Michigan here. Off of Ludington - between
Ludington and whatever's on the Winsconsin Coast.

217 15 00 51 CDR ()kay. We Just got the 190 SHTJ'I"I'ER

SPEED, FAST,
Jack.

CC We're back with you for Ii minutes, Skylab.

CDR ()kay. We got everything working along okay.

We Just put the SHUTTER SPEED to FAST on 190.

PLT I'm taking a shot off the coast of Chicago there.

()kay, there's a little bit of tracking in Lake
Michigan, Just east of Chicago.

PLT We're back about 25 miles east of Milwaukee,

take some tracking out in Lake Michigan.

217 15 01 51 CDR Okay. 193 SCAT, OFF, and 193 RAD, OFF. And then
SCAT, ON, and then RAD, ON. Everything's okay.
Stand by for 02:13 - -

PLT Okay, we're running out of tracking.

CDR - - S to STANDBY. 13.

217 15 02 13 CDR SCAT, OFF; RAD, OFF. ALTIMETER, ON, and RAD, OFF.
S, OFF. Standing by for 02 :58 which ... STANDBY ;
range, 75; 02:58. Okay, all those are complete,
Houston. We're standing by for 02:58.

CC Okay.

PLT Finally got a little data on Lansing for you,

Houston. I'm not sure; let me check my map.
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CDR 02 :58 coming up.

217 15 02 58 CDR Okay, 02:58. Okay, STANDBY. Go to RANGE, 75.

It's there, And 93, ON at 03:15. Down-link
box is to position 5. We're going to change that
for you in a minute, Houston. Okay, down-link
box going to position 5. You got it.

CC Roger.

217 15 03 29 CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light comes on frequently. No

strain. Blinking now; still blinking. Yes, it 's
very intermittent now. It 's on, off, on, blink;
it's off now. I won't report it any more. It's
staying out now; it blinked on again, but it's
out again. Putting down-link to 4.

PLT Okay, around a metropolitan area.

CDR Where ?

PLT Washington.

CDR You got Washington, huh? Take some good data

there, Jack.

217 15 04 29 PLT I'm going to call that Baltimore.

CDR Okay, call it Baltimore.

217 15 04 39 CDR 04:40, position 4. Okay, down-link box, position

4.

CDR That IMC working today? It was dirfting down

and right yesterday? It was a pain.

217 15 05 lO CDR 05:10, SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM on 190. We're

going to position 8 in a minute.

217 15 05 31 CDR Okay, we're in position 8 on the down-link box.

PLT Okay, and we're tracking the frontal clouds out

to sea.

CDR ... across the states, wasn't it?

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PLT Okay, Story. I got the front -

217 15 06 01 CDR Just a minute. Okay, 192 MODE to STANDBY. READY

out on 190.

PLT I've got the frontal clouds from 5723 to 5052.

That was nadir swath number 1. I got Lake Michigan
I got several points in it. One right on track;
one out in the lake a little bit east of Chicago;
one east of the lake, a little bit of Milwaukee ;
and then back to on track. Then I had a - I
believe I got a short shot of the Lansing site.
And then I got Baltimore, and now I'm picking up
a nadir swath on the frontal clouds out to the
sea in the Atlantic.

217 15 06 38 CDR 190, out. 06:40, A to STANDBY.

CC Copy, Jack.

217 15 06 4h CDR Range, 73; 06:57, A, ON. 7 A, ON.

F 217 15 06 58 CDR Okay. That's done. 93 A is back ON again. I

can cool it in here until 07:10.

PLT Okay. That's the end of the frontal cloud.

CDR VTS to AUTO CAL, Jack. I'ii give you a mark;

2 seconds, 1 -

217 15 07 l0 CDR MARK. AUTO CAL - -

PLT AUTO CAL it is.

CDR All right. Very good. At 08:30, l'm going to go

194 MODE, MANUAL.

217 15 07 32 CDR Think that was drifting? Think that could have
moved you over there?

217 15 07 39 PLT H_Lh?

CDR That ... - -

PLT I don't know. I was working it so fast

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217 15 07 43 SPT The other day, Story, after we finished the pass,
I was looking at the IMC as we went through South
America, and it looked like with IMC on at all
angles, it was drifting fairly rapidly down and
to the right. I wanted Jack to check it this
morning before we did anything about it.

CC Okay; thanks, A1. We're showing you about 1 min-

ute to the SI maneuver and suggest you get on
putting the maneuver time in.

CDR Okay. That 's a good idea.

PLT We're doing it. I'm doing it right now.

CDR Jack was there as a matter of fact. He Just

left the area. He's down there right now.

CC Okay. Just thinking of you.

CDR Thanks a lot. Help us everywhere you can.

PLT We need all the help we can get.

CDR Appreciate it, Story.

CC Yes, sir.

PLT Don't be afraid to speak up, my friend. I locked

the maneuver time.

CDR Okay. Did you put it in?

PLT It's in.

CDR Okeydoke.

PLT 15:09. Where's my little cue card? There it is.

CDR 09 :28.

PLT At 15:09, go to SI.

CC And the maneuver time looks good.

CDR Okay, - -

PLT -- ... maneuver--

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CDR - - thank you. 09:28.

PLT Okay.

CDR 28, A to STANDBY.

PLT Five seconds. There is the switch right in front

of me there. I'm watching the clock on the STS.

217 15 09 00 PLT MARK. SOLAR INERTIAL; here we go.

CDR 09:28, we got to go A to STANDBY.

PLT Monitor attitude's RATE. STAR TRACKER, MANUAL

ACQUIRE. Okay we'll try to get that star tracker
in here on _euver somewhere.
f-

CDR Got a star on the way hack?

PLT No. I said we'd try to get it on the way back.

CDR 28. 09:28, we go to STANDBY. 7, 8 -

PLT We 're maneuvering back, 0.

217 15 09 30 CDR STANDBY; READY light ... - -

CC We're looking at it, and it looks good.

217 15 09 3B CDR Okay. Thank you, Story.

217 15 09 36 CDR The fellows that figure that all out seem to Know
what they are doing. We haven't had a bit of
problem. Get's there when you say. It doesn't
fire too many mibs [?] In fact, did you ever
figure out if it fired any today?

CC Fired two going to Z-LV.

CDR Okay.

PLT Story, in trying to pick up that Lansing site, I

ran a little behind in getting set up for the
Washington-Baltimore deal, and l'm pretty confident
I got Baltimore instead of Washington. So that
was my alternate site, and I hope you'll take it.
You got it anyway.
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CDR (Laughter) They got it ... (laughter).

CC That 's fine, Jack ; fine.

PLT Okay.

CDR Okay. That 's done.

217 15 i0 20 CDR Down-link band -box switch position, OFF. EREP

is at STOP.

PLT We got a little bit of a data on Delaware Bay,

too, although I didn't get a good track on the
wetlands on the west edge of Delaware Bay because
there Just wasn't enough time. Although I did
see Delaware Bay go thro1_sh the - -

CDR ... 7.

PLT - - the view finder. And I don't - The camera was

on, but I don't think I had the data button -
button depressed, although I think we got a little f
data on it anyway, if they're able to sort it out.

CDR Voice record B-7. B-7 is B0 percent. 192 DOOR,

CLOSED. Light on in 60 seconds. Let's get our
little watch _mning. Close and latch 190 window
cover. Okay. Here comes the 190 window, Big Jack.

PLT All right.

CDR Maybe you can catch the latch over there. Just
about ... - -

PLT I'll get it for you.

217 15 ll 24 CDR Okay, that's closed.

PLT Closed. (_ay it 's - Hope it 's latched.

CDR Okay, next turn off the RECORD switch.

217 15 ll B0 CDR Okay, it's off.

CDR _EP cal follows. We don't have one following as

far as I can tell.
I
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PLT Is this the first back-to-back pass in the history,

Story, or did Pete's crew do one?

CDR Probably did a lot.

CC It will be when we get it done, Jack. And we're

i minute to LOS. We'll see you over Ascension in
13 minutes.

CDR Okay.

217 15 ll 56 PLT 00 on the gimbal angles. Doors coming closed.

We'll watch that come closed.

217 15 12 04 CDR Cal monitor. 191 AUTO CAL. No.

217 15 12 ll CDR 190 mag depletion. No.

217 15 12 29 PLT It's in the maneuver, 0.

CDR Hey, did we ever turn off those rate gyros?

SPT Notyet.

CDR Better turn them off.

CDR Story?

CC (30 ahead.

217 15 12 _i CDR We Just turned off those rate gyros. The rate
gyros inside.

217 15 12 55 PLT Slow moving door. Here she comes.

217 15 21 _6 CC Skylab, we've got you through Ascension for

6 minutes. Show you back in SI in good shape and
only 2 mibs [?] for the total maneuvers.

CDR ()kay. Hello, Story.

CC _ylab, Houston. On AM BAT 6, we're got a meter

problem. It's erroneously indicating a lower state
of charge than the actual state of charge. You
may get a BAT CHARGE LOW CAUTION and WARNING. If
you'd prefer, you can INHIBIT, on panel 207, BAT
6 LOW CHARGE [sic ].
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CDR Roger, Story; we're reading about 66/55.

CC We copy that. And we'd like a star tracker lock on

in about the next 25 minutes prior to getting to
Carnarvon.

CDR Give it to you now.

217 15 26 43 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over Carnarvon at 15:51. And we show you locked
on to a good star.

217 15 51 56 CC Skylab, we're AOS Carnarvon for l0 minutes.

CDR Okay. We were looking over the EVA changes, and

one thing we noticed on the up-link was we got
EVA change 2 - checklist change 2 and 3, and we
don't know where 1 is; so we don't know if we got
that. And I'm trying to figure out whether these
changes are all to the book, or if you're going to
send up additional ones to the cue cards we use, or
maybe the cue cards have not changed.

CC Copy, A1. We'll get with you.

CC And, A1, on our change list number 1 at 03:25 and

in the EVA checklist, it's on page 6.l-l, and it's
moving a ... restraint from the top of the film
vault into the AM.

CDR You're right. It says, "Secure empty plenum bag

in AM; move to OWS." Okay? We have got it.
Thanks.

CC And the purpose of that was, in case, for s_ne

reason, we're out there with all the twin pole
equipment and we can't get it deployed, then you've
got a big bag to stow it all into.

CDR Not a bad idea. Who gave you that quick answer?
Bob Kain?

CC Windler gave you that one.

CDR Fine. Tell Milt thanks.

CC Roger.
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PLT Tell Milt on best reguards to the Friendswood

City Council.

CC He says, "Thanks."

CC He also says your house is still dry.

PLT I think next time I'll build me a boat and Just

anchor it to a tree. Then when the water rises,
it won't be a problem.

CDR You can tell Jamk's a Marine. Everybody else would

tie it to the tree.

CC They say Noah did that and it worked out fine.

PLT He didn't make it for 59 days though.

CC And, AI, no need to acknowledge, but we have not

sent you up any changes to your EVA cue cards.
All the changes are for the checklist.

CDR Okay, then I'm to understand that we Just continue

to use the cue cards, and they're correct.

217 15 57 4h CC And, Skylab, we're going to update your Nu Z so

stay off the DAS for a while here.

217 15 57 55 PLT Okay, how about letting me know when I can have
it. I got to put these priorities in my maneuvers.

CC I'll do it, Jack.

CC Okay, Jack. The DAS is yours.

PLT Okay. Thank you.

PLT Okay, she's loaded and ready, Story.

CC Looks good from down here.

217 16 00 31 PLT Okay.

217 16 01 34 SPT Testing I, 2, 3, 4, _, 3, 2, i.

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CC We're reading that test loud and clear. We're

i minute to LOS here. We'll see you over at Guam
in B minutes.

CDR Hey, Story, could you set up a private co_n for

me and my wife tonight about next time, maybe, at
the med's report or somewhere around there at that
pass.

CC Okay. There's an awful lot of noise in the back-

ground. It 's probably the cooler running. Say
again the time.

CDR I could be the time that the Med pass is taking

place or somewhere around there. This is CDR.

CC Okay. We'll do it, A1.

SPT At Guam, and how many minutes did you say, Story?

PLT Three.

CC About
B minutes.

217 16 02 21 SPT Thank you.

217 16 05 35 CDR 93 A, mode 2. 72.

217 16 05 47 CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear. We've

got you over Guam for 9 minutes.

CDR Okay, Story. Just went through the pre-op

configuration - correction - ready verify, and
they're all Just right.

CC Roger.

SPT Story, let me give you a little information on the

ETC frames used.

CC Go.

SPT We started with the camera setting on a hundred

and - ll6 ... frames used. Used up three single
frames at the leader and at the end of the first
segment on the last pass; namely, at 1500 hours,
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•we had lh2 frames used. At the end of the last

pass, we had 179. That's where I'm picking up for
this EREP pass. And, earlier, you had asked a
question about which can the film came from. I'll
confirm again, it was Charlie Tango 03. And on the
last pad, I noticed that you went from AUTO to
STANDBY for 1 minute in order for me to change the
shutter speed and the frame rate. Fifteen seconds
is enough, if that's - if you would like to get
the cameras readied again. Just a very brief
_interval to change the shutter spead is all that's
:required, and you can make later passes with only
a 15-second interval, if you prefer it.

CC ()kay. Thank you, Owen.

217 16 08 18 PLT You got the SAL door open down there, 0.?

217 16 13 12 SPT I'm ready.

SC (Whistling)

217 16 14 16 SPT Got it.

CDR We got it!

217 16 14 25 CDR ()kay. We're minus i0, Jack. I'm going to go

to RECORD momentarily on this box - a little bit
before minus 10, but I'll read all the readings.
]_at 'll make everybody happy.

CDR ()kay. The CDR is now getting ready to read all the
reading on these gages. And here we go. Starting
with A: i, 55; 2, 59; 3, 86; 4, 9 - correction,
71; 5, 64; 6, 0. That completes that one. Now
we go to gage B.

CC Before you go on the next one, we're going LOS in

10 seconds. See you over Goldstone in 15 minutes
st 16:30.

CDR Okeydoke. We'll be there.

217 16 15 14 CDR Okay, B-I, 42; B-2, 56; 3, 76; 4, 72; 5, 72; 6, 55;
7, 30; 8, I0; 9, 58. Now dial C: i, -
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217 16 29 56 PLT Those two pretty soon.

217 16 30 30 CDR Jack, I put a piece of tape on here to keep this

from getting kicked around.

PLT Okay.

CDR 54, I go to EREP, START, Jack. I'll give you a

VTS AUTO CAL in about l0 seconds.

PLT Okay.

CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for 17 minutes.

You're in Z-LV. The maneuver looks good. And
we're recor - getting TV and reading you load and
clear on VOX.

CDR Okay! Sounds like everything is going well.

PLT Okay, Story. This pass is going to bring us up the

coastline coming over Seattle_ over Casper, Wyoming;
over Lander, Wyoming, the home of the one-shot
antelope hunt - world famous hunt ; down over
Wichita, Kansas; down over Little Rock, and hitting
the Gulf at Pensacola, Florida.

SPT How's your TV, Houston?

CC Go ahead.

SPT How's your TV?

CC Beautiful, Owen.

CDR Be 31 :45, 190 MODE, AUTO, Jack.

217 16 31 51 PLT Let her rip.

CDR 32:54, it's going to go out.

PLT Say, Story, on that last EREP pass where I thought

I got the Lansing site, I think I got it, but I'm
not confident enough of it nor did I get enough
time on it to scratch it off the list. So I think
you better leave it on there for another day.
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CC What pass was that?

SPT The last pass.

CC At what site?

PLT I was trying to pick up the site at Lansing,

Michigan.

CC 0kay.

PLT Site number 535. I didn't get enough time on it

to get enough data for the experimenter, and I
didn't get enough time on it to be confident that
I was exactly centered on it.

217 16 32 35 CC Copy.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

217 16 32 53 CDR READY, out on 190.

217 16 32 55 CDR MODE to STANDBY.

217 16 32 56 CDR SHUTTER SPEED to FAST.

217 16 32 58 CDR FRAMES to 40.

PLT Okay, we're coming down over the mountains

through Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Cross
into Wyoming soon. I've got some clouds. The
weather is not forecast to be too good in the
Wyoming area over the site we're interested in
today.

CC Green Mountain is supposed to be 0.4 to 0.7, Jack.

PLT Okay, thank you.

CDR 33:40, should be READY, on for 191.

217 16 33 41 CDR It is. And about 34 when it's 193 POL 1.

217 16 34 01 PLT Okay, 193 POLARIZATION 1.

217 16 3_ 15 PLT MARK. 34:15.

CDR 34:16, 190 MODE Alfa - MODE AUTO. 37, it's

coming up.

PLT Pretty cloudy down there .... north of the site.

I'm glad I got it. I got it.

CDR Hey, way to go, Jack.

CDR ... strikes again.

PLT It's kind of cloudy.

CDR Tell Lee Belew and Ken Kleinknecht this isn't a

bad space station they've got here. This EREP
seems to work real nice.
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PLT Okay, we're not getting many cumulus clouds down

here at the moment.

217 16 37 01 CDR STANDBY; 93 _ to STANDBY.

217 16 37 05 CDR And MODE, X-TRACK CONTIGUOUS. Right there ....

190 intervalometer l0 .... 24, 192 MODE, READY.

217 16 37 28 CDR Okay, it's MODE, READY. At 7:30, S ON and R, ON.

217 16 37 34 CDR ON and R, ON. 38:20 .... real nice.

CDR Hey, Story, it's got me doing tape depletion,

but we're going to have tons of tape left, the way
it looks. I Just took a look in the tape recorder
box, and it wasn't even half used up yet.

CC We're planning to use it all up, A1.

CDR Okay, we'll give it a go.

217 16 38 22 CDR 93S to STANDBY and R to STANDBY. 193 angle 0.

S ON at 38:38. Okay, 38:57, 190 intervalom-
eter - 20.

217 16 38 52 CDR 38:57.

217 16 38 58 CDR 20.

CDR 928.

CDR You about to shoot those things out in the Gulf,

Jack? You're still in the middle of the States.

PLT Can't find my airfield.

217 16 39 28 CDR Uh-oh. 39:28. S to STANDBY. Okay it is.

PLT Can't find the airfield due to haze and a few

clouds down there, Story.

CDR Look up into the left. That thing may have

drifted on you, Jack.

CC The visibility is very poor in that area 2 to

4 miles due to haze and smoke.
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PLT Yes, that's for sure. I feel like I'm right over
it - right on it, but I can't find it.

217 16 _0 16 CDR 190 intervalometer, lO; R, ON.

PLT I had the Mississippi River and all the bends in

the river, but no airfield.

CDR I'm on 40:40 which is A, ON .... R, OFF. Scat-

terometer ... 40 is A, ON. Believe 40:40 is
complete.

PLT Okay. We're crossing the coastline over the Gulf.

CDR Okay. See if you can help those fishermen down

there would you, Jack?

PLT Check.

CDR And, Story, we - in this continuator box, we've,

of course, still got it in the line on off. Do
you want us to take it off at the end of this
run or Just leave it where it is?

CC Leave it where it is, A1.

CDR Okay. Kind of thought that's what you wanted.

PLT ....we're cutting across the Keys. Florida

Keys - We Just passed them.

PLT Water area clear of clouds. It's particularly

clear of clouds down there, I notice. Guess I
better get this off.

217 16 43 29 PLT It's off.

CDR Thank you.

CDR We had a long run here, Jack.

CC A1, did you go to CHECK on 1R2?

CDR That 's affirmative.

CC Okay.
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217 16 43 46 CDR Thanks for checking me. I did it at 41:30.

217 16 43 54 CDR That's the one to watch.

CDR 5, I'm going to go 193A to STANDBY.

217 16 44 05 CDR That's right there. 44:11, R to STANDBY.

217 16 44 12 CDR It's there. 44:17, S, ON and R, ON.

217 16 44 18 CDR S, ON, R, ON. 44:30, VTS AUTO CAL, Jack. So

stand by. I'll give it to you in 6 seconds.

PLT Okay.

217 16 44 30 CDR MARK.

PLT It's done.

CDR Okay, 193A RANGE, 68. Okay. Now we're standing

by for 45:05. We're getting it done. There's
STANDBY and - -

PLT There's a place I know well.

CDR Is it? What is it? Just some place, huh?

PLT Take a look.

CDR We can't - can't - 45:05, start.

PLT ... as much.

217 16 45 04 CDR 45:05, S to STANDBY, R to STANDBY.

217 16 45 l0 CDR R to OFF. 45:19, 93A, ON.

217 16 45 19 CDR 45:19. 93A, ON.

217 16 45 22 CDR 93, POL, 4. 6:53, MODE AUTO to 190.

CDR 53, Jack. Go MODE AUTO on 190. Got a maueuver

coming up? We're getting a - -

PLT No, not for a while.

CDR Okay.
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217 16 46 53 PLT I remember it well ....

PLT MODE, AUTO.

CDR Ready? ... 7:10.

CC Skylab, we're at 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see

you over the Vanguard in ii minutes and all looks
good from here.

CDR Okay, thank you for the help, Story. 47:27 okay,
stand by.

PLT ...

CDR You got her?

PLT Yes.

CDR Great.

217 16 47 35 CDR ... S, ON; R, ON ....

217 16 47 58 CDR READY, 47:59; 92 is running, Jack, ...

217 16 58 17 PLT ...

PLT All I got is clouds out there right now.

217 16 58 30 CDR 193 S to STANDBY and R to STANDBY.

PLT Well, it's about time for the kid to get with it.
Turn this maneuver on.

CC Okay. The kid's with you for 4 minutes over

Vanguard. We're reading you loud and clear.

PLT Hello.

CDR Okay. Everything went Just perfect. One other

request from [sic] the EREP flight planners. If
they could put on the C&D pad, also, right along
in the time line, the time when we should start
making the maneuver back. The VTS operator does
it ; but this way that would make two of us watch
it. And you'd make three, Story. So we can pn11
it off.
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CC Okay. We got it.

CDR Your're right. We've used up _]most all of the

tape. It's way down and wobbling around about
25 percent indicated, which I understand is pretty
near empty.

CC Roger.

PLT Okay, I've put in the maneuver time now, Story.

52030 check, ENTER, flash, CLEAR. 50016 check,
ENTER flash, CLEAR.

217 17 00 01 CDR S to STANDBY.

217 17 00 03 CDR R to STANDBY.

217 17 00 Oh CDR And EREP to STOP. That's the end of it. It's
time to go into the post act. Okay. That's a
C&D post. Then do tape recorder depletion. Will
do it. Voice record B-7. Okay, B-7 is indicating
a mere 30, 30. 192 DOOR to CLOSED.

CC Copy that. You got a good maneuver time.

PLT Thank you.

CDR Close and latch 190 window. That's the next

event. 0kay.

CDR We out over the water, Jack?

PLT Yes, sir.

PLT Okay, SI -

217 17 01 01 PLT MARK. Going back to SI. Here we go. Four-

teen minutes.

PLT Rates are coming up.

CDR Okay.

CDR Door is locked, Jack.

PLT Very well.

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SPT Hey, Story, I notice we don't have an ETC stow on

the pad. I wonder how long you plan to leave it
out.

217 17 01 33 CC Stand by l, Owen.

217 17 01 42 CDR MODE to AUT0.

PLT Okay. Let's secure this EREP business.

217 17 01 48 CDR FRAMES, 0h.

217 17 01 51 CDR MARK it l

CDR Intervalometer, 2.

PLT I believe I got the mine all right, in W_joming,

Story - -

217 17 01 58 CDR EREP to STOP.

PLT - - but Just could find the Mississippi River

s_nd all the bends in all right places, hut I
Just couldn't see the ground there - objects on
the grolmd well enough to find the airfield and
the cotton field.

CC Okay. I copy that, Jack. We're at 30 seconds

here to LOS. We'll see you over Goldstone a little
over an hour at 18:07. And, Owen, we didn't get
that on the Flight Plan, but we will need that
:3towed tonight so you can do it anytime.

SPT Okay. About what I figured. Thank you.

CC Thanks for reminding us.

SPT You help us, we'll help you.

CC Yes, sir.

SPT Okeydoke.

CDR Mark TR depletion as required by pad. Yes, that's

what we got, if required by pad. We'll do that.
[_R FAST FORWARD, ON momentarily. Okay. FAST
FORWARD light on, END OF TAPE light on when tape
depleted. Okeydoke. Fast forwarding it, Jack.
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PLT Very well.

CDR Got a RECORDER MALF and an END OF TAPE. That

kind of makes sense.

217 17 03 19 CDR Okay. EREP to START. EREP is START. When did

we ever turn it off?

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB _[R-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

217 18 07 33 CC Skylab, we've got you through Goldstone for

9 minutes.

PLT Hello, Goldstone.

CC Y'all eating up there?

PLT ices, we're Just finishing chow, Story.

CC ()kay,l've got some stuff for you here. We're

looking forward, here, towards your EVA tomorrow.
And because of the short that we've had in the
ATM, we're going to have to work over some things
here with you this afternoon while you're doing
your prep. We think most likely the failure
occurred in the power transfer distribution box,
probably between ATM bus 2 and TV bus 2. But
there is a lot of other things that go through
that box which might have been damaged also.
SC ....

CC And what we want to do this afternoon is power up

the ATM and run through the same sequences that
we're going to have to tomorrow, such as canister
roll, door open, door close, and cycling the
cameras to see if the film is in correctly.

SPT (Kay.

217 18 08 53 CC And l've got a couple of things that we need

done at the ATMpanel right now, if someone is
ready to copy.

PLT The Big 0 will be up there in a Jiffy.

CC C_ay.

PLT I Just saw him leave the area.

SPT C_ay, we're all set to do anything you like here,

Story.

CC C_ay, Owen. EVA AUTO DOOR switch to STORAGE.

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217 18 09 44 SPT Affirmative.

CC And do not touch the SYNC GENERATOR switch. That

should be v_rified at OFF. And we suggest maybe
you'd want to put some tape over that switch. The
SYNC GENERATOR switch selects both TV bus 1 and
TV bus 2 simultaneously. So we don't want that
switch touched. Leave it in OFF.

217 18 l0 04 SPT Okay, it is in OFF. And I'll put some tape on

it either now, if I got a moment, or when you get
through these instructions.

CC Okay. And the only other thing we have for you

this time is do not select BUS 2 at any time for
any purpose.

SPT Okay. Well I've got ACS COUNTERS on BUS 2,

POWER SYSTEMS on BUS 2, and ORBIT PHASE on BUS 2
right now.

CC Yes; sorry, 0wen, that's TV BUS 2.

217 18 i0 31 SPT Oh, okay; TV BUS 2.

SPT Story, I'm not sure we have any way to select

TV BUS 2, anyway. Which switch are you tA_Iking
ab out ?

CC You'd have to use a - you'd have to use a DAS

to get that, 0wen.

SPT Okay; understand.

CC And that's it for now at the ATM panel.

SPT Okay. And it does sound like you will _ plan a

- assigning these checks go all right - to cycle
the doors and all that - cycle the experiments
for which we replace the f_lm tomorrow.

CC This afternoon we're going to run the ATM through

everything that we'll do with it tomorrow

SPT Good.
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CC And there is no need to reply, Skylab. But

you'll be helping us out with some of these
procedures, but we're going to get as many of them
done from the ground as we can, and we'll be starting
right about now.

217 18 12 12 SPT Okay. And does it look like you can select
either - either of the Ssync gator - generators
from the ground by DAS without turning them both
on at once? Or maybe you haven't tried yet.

CC At present we're thinking we can never use TV

bus 2 again. And we can command TV bus 1 on from
the ground or you can do it through the DAS.

SPT ()kay, fine. Thank you.

PLT Story, you still there?

217 18 15 03 CC Yes, we'll be here another 6 minutes. And for

your information, we've got TV BUS 1 up and we're
in EXPERIMENT POINTING, and all looks good.

PLT ()kay, that's good news. We wonder if there is

another Hasselblad sight somewhere on board
besides the one that attaches to the camera in
the comm-nd module?

CC Stand by 1.

CDR Also, Story, we're going to - as soon as we

z_nish dinner - we're going to start doing the
prep for the normal EVA. Then we're going to
start working on a11 these other items on the EVA.
And m_ suspicion is that we're going to run into
some problems trying to find different items,
particularly tethers. So I'm hoping someone down
there who knows where all the tethers are all over
the spacecraft will be available so we can say,
"Hey we're looking for the tether to do such and
such," and he'll know right where to go.

217 18 16 34 CC Okay, we copy that, A1. We'll try to stay ahead

of you. And while I have you here, you're set
up for a conference with your family over Guam
at 02:00.
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CDR Okay, how long is that pass, by the way?

CC It's about i0 minutes.

CDR Good. Thank" you, Story.

PLT Story, you can set me up for tomorrow night on

that if you would, please.

CC Jack, you want a family conversation set up for

tomorrow night?

PLT Affirmative.

CC Will do.

CC Jack, the ring sight is located in F-527.

217 18 17 42 PLT Okay. I'll go look for it, thank you.

CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

over the Vanguard at 18:32. We'll be dumping the
tape recorders at that time.

SC Okay.

CC There are eight wrist tethers in D-422, and you

can reeuable the BAT CHARGE LOW of BAT 6 on
panel 207.

SPT Say again the bat charge information, Story.

217 18 21 41 CC If you inhibited the BAT CHARGE LOW, that's AM

bat 6 on panel 207, you can reenable that.

PLT Roger.

CC And so far the ATM checkout has gone nominal.

PLT Sounds great.

217 18 32 17 CC Skylab, we've got you through Vanguard for

9minutes.

CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead, Story.

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217 18 B7 B_ CC Owen, we're working along here on the reconfiguration

and checkout of the ATM. Now, when we get done
with that, we'll have three things for you to do,
and we'd like you to do all three of them over a
station. The station we - the next one that
we could do this after Vanguard would be Goldstone
at 19:47.

SPT Now what do you want?

CC Number i is ATM experiment checklist change

number 002. And that's a modification of the
ATM experiment powerup and checkout, and that
modifies the ATM Experiment Checklist.

217 18 38 12 SPT Do you want to read me a change or do you want me

to go get a change that's up-linked on the
teleprinter? l'm not sure what you meant, Story.

CC No. We put this one up several days ago.

SPT Okay, and what do you want me to do with it?

CC We'd Just like you to perform this over the next

station when we can watch you doing it.

217 18 B8 BI SPY Okay, fine. I'ii go check to ma_e sure I've

either got it or probably already incorporated.

CC Okay, and you may have done part of it. And

after completing that also over a station, we
would like you to roll the canister to plus and
minus 7200.

SPT What rate do you like?

CC That would be low - low rate times 2, Owen. And

the last thing we'll have you do also over a station
will be to cycle the EVA lights on panel B16.

SPT Okay, that'll be fine. I'ii go check that change

number 2 and make sure that we're ready.
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217 18 39 18 CC Okay, and after we've done all that and seen it
over a station and it looks good, we'll have
you powering down the ATM via ATM Experiments
Checklist, 5-3 through 5-5.

SPT Okay.

CC And I've got one other - other thing for anybody

up there - and that's on panel 217, to reconnect
the SUS gas separator.

SPT I'll do it right now.

CC Thanks.

217 18 h0 33 SPT SUS GAS SEPARATOR is connected.

CC Okay.

CDR What'd you decide about the primary coolant loop

this morning - really was cold?

CC We're still looking at that, A1. We haven't made

a firm decision yet. We'll be going LOS here in
20 seconds. See you over Goldstone, about an
hour and 15 minutes. That'll be 19:h7.

217 18 _l 16 CDR Okay, see you then.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

217 19 47 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through Goldstone

for 4 minutes. And CDR or PLT?

CDR Go ahead, Story.

CC Okay, A1, you're directly over a tropical storm

at this time. You've got her for another h minutes
out the EREP window, or another 4 minutes out the
wardroom window, and I've got a photo pad for you.

CDR Okay. We'll sure get it. We got our cameras out,
ready to go.

CC Okay, that's your option. It's HDC 01. That's

got - CXll [?], external color. It should have
38 frames remaining and it's either at the ward-
room window or F-523.

217 19 48 ll CDR Okay. Got any good settings for us? We think
we got them set, but what do you recommend?

CC That's your option, A1. Or, f/ll, exposure

1/250.

CDR Okay, that's what we had. We already got two

pictures. How's that for reaction time?

CC Can you see it?

CDR It's a very patchy one, says Owen, who's taking

the picutre. He says it doesn't look very much
like a tropical storm, maybe a weak one.

SPT Either that, or the scale is so large you're

really stretching from horizon to horizon.

217 19 h9 00 CC And when available, we need the SPT.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Okay, - at your convenience, and we'd like it as

soon as possible, you can get started on the ATM
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CDR Okay. Got a couple of thoughts on some things

here, Story.

CC Go ahead.

217 19 h9 37 CDR Okayo_ _e got out the 2 PCUs, and the SPT will be
using 013 and the PLT, 010. And those were the
ones that :were in the containers. Also, when we
got out our UCTAs we've got out the three that we
brought over from the au_and module. We want to
varify that all that's okay.

CC That' s good, A1.

SPT All right now, Story. You first wanted me to do

a change 2 in the experiment changeout - ATM
Exper_w_ut Checklist and Data Book. Now all I've
got is change 1. I've not been able to find
cha_ge 2, and I wonder if this is something you
can tell _e in real t_m_ or will you have to send
it up on the teleprinter or what?

217 19 50 27 CC It's - it's quite lengthy. It'll be about - it'll be

about - l0 or 12 inches on the teleprinter.

SPT Canyou call it off, and I'ii do it as you call

it?

CC Okay. I'll be _ahle to follow you along on 1-1.

And we're about - oh, 30 seconds from LOS here.
We'll pick you up over the Vanguard at 20:09.

CDR Okay. And we got that storm, Story. It's got

a nice spiral effect, and it Just doesn't look
very strong yet. Just like they say in the book,
so one direction ham a lot more clouds than the
other. Let me see which way we're headed. It's -
I'm not sure which way we're headed right now,
Story, but the most clouds are in the direction
that we're not headed. So we've passed over the
m_iw,_m cloud area of the spiraling storm.

217 19 51 24 CC Roger. And Owen, let's - let's meet at the ATM

panel over Va - Vanguard at 20:09.

SPT Roger.
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217 20 09 20 CC Skylab, we've got you through Van_,ard for

9 minutes.

SPT Go ahead, Story.

CC Okay. 0wen, we're Just going to run thro,:gh the

things that we need to do tomorrow, like roll a
canister and cycle about five experiment doors.

SPT Go right ahead with your instructions.

CC H-ALPHA 1 AUTO switch to OFF; verify. And then

OPEN, H-ALPHA 1 DOOR.

SPT AUTO is OFF, and H-ALPHA 1 DOOR has been cycled

OPEN, and talkback is white.

CC Roger.

217 20 09 58 SPT Now grey.

CC Roger.

CC And you can CLOSE that DOOR, Owen.

217 20 i0 09 SPT CLOSED.

217 20 i0 20 SPT Barber pole.

CC Roger.

CC We're working it, Owen; be right with you.

CC And how about cycling the S056 DOORS, Owen?

217 20 ii 26 SPT 56 is coming open.

217 20 ii 36 SPT It's grey.

CC Okay. You can go ahead and CLOSE them.

217 20 ll 5h SPT Barber pole.

CC Roger. Cy - Cycle the DOORS on 82A.

217 20 12 12 SPT Grey.

CC Okay. CLOSE the DOORS and then go to 82B.

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217 20 12 36 SPT Grey.

CC Understand 82B is OPEN.

217 20 12 42 SPT 82B is grey. 82A is barber pole.

CC Okay. You can CLOSE 82]3.

217 20 12 58 SPT Barber pole.

CC Okay; OPEN S055 DOOR. Or verify that that's

OPEN and then CLOSE it.

217 20 13 13 SPY Okay. It is verified OPEN and it's coming

CLOSED now.

217 20 13 31 SPT Barber pole.

CC Roger.

CC And OPEN 55, Owen.

217 20 14 01 SPT Grey.

CC Okay. Let's try rolling the canister, Owen, us-

ing LOW TIMES 2. The most expeditious way -
get to plus or minus 7200. That's a max roll
LEFT - -

SPT Is that experiment ROLL or CANISTER ROLL?

CC That's a CANISTER ROLL.

217 20 14 21 SPT Okay. CANISTER ROLL of a plus 7200.

CC And then back all the way to minus 7200.

217 20 14 34 SPT Okay. Now l'm on minus 5582 right now and I
assume I have to roll through the South Pole not
the North Pole. Is that correct?

CC Yes, it would be quicker to go to minus 7200 first.

SPT Roger.

217 20 15 37 SPT That - Story, l'm rolling to 7 - minus 7200

now, but I'ii not be able to roll to plus 7200
via North. I'ii have to roll that way via South
which I presume is what you want.
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CC Are you looking at CANISTER ROLL, Owen?

SPT I 'm looking at EXPERIMENT ROLL minus about 6800.

CC Okay. It's CANISTER ROLL we wanted. We Just

want to exercise the canister through the full
range of its roll.

217 20 17 46 SPT Probably going to take the most of this pass to

complete this, Story. Is there anything else
after this?

CC We're looking at that right now, Owen.

PLT Hey, Story, on the EVA prep we got the TV set up

and installed in the lock. Does this mean that
we won't be using the DAC or are we supposed to
use - set up the DAC also?

CC Jack, I - -

217 20 18 36 PLT I'm going on the assumption that it's either TV

or DAC and we got the TV set up.

CC The TV'll be fine, Jack.

PLT Good.

CC And Owen, you can stop the roll now.

SPT Okay. Do you want to go back the other direction?

CC No. We'd like to finish exercising the canister

at the next pass, which will be Goldstone at 19:47.

SPT Okay. Go ahead. What's next?

217 20 19 08 CC The only other thing we'll have after ex - fin-

ishing exercising the canister will be exer-
cising the EVA lights on panel 316. And after
that we'll have you do the experiment and con-
sole powerdown, pages 5-3 through pages 5-5 and
that does not have to be done over a site.

SPT 0kay. That's fine.

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CC So, we'll pick you up at the ATM panel at Gold-

stone at 19:47.

CDR Could you check that time again?

217 20 19 44 CC That's Hawaii at 21:17.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

217 21 17 07 SPT Ready to roll.

CC Okay, we're with you Owen, over Hawaii for

9 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorders
at Hawaii. And to expedite things, you can use
ROLL RATE HIGH, TIMES i.

SPT Okay. I'ii go on over to minus 7200 and then

back to plus 7200.

CC That's affirmative. Just exercise the canister

complete - limit the roll and then park it at
plus 2057 EXPERIMENT ROLL.

SPT Okay. Plus 2057, and tell me again the roll rate
you had Just agreed to.

CC That 's HIGH, TIMES 1.

SPT HIGH, 1. Roger.

CC And Owen, that plus 2057 is CANISTER ROLL.

SPT Okay. I'll change it.

217 21 19 54 PLT Hello, Story; this is Jack. Got two questions.

CC Go ahead, Jack.

PLT Okay. I don't see anything up here that tells

me what S149 Cassettes to get out and install.
And number two: I got a - on my Flight Plan
tomorrow, during the EVA, in parentheses it
says "photo." And I don't know what that means.

CC Stand by 1.

217 21 20 27 CC That's cassette number i on S149.

PLT Number 1.

PLT Okay. Those are the ones that I installed the

other day, apparently.

217 21 21 22 SPT Okay. Only 2 arc minutes left there Story. And
do you want me to start powerdown now or what?
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CC Okay. We got a couple more things, Owen. Could

you cycle the XUV MONITOR DOORS, OPEN, and then
CLOSED?

217 21 21 47 SPT They're grey.

CC Okay, and now CLOSE them.

217 21 22 03 SPT Barberpole.

CC Okay. The only other thing we need here is the

EVA lights to cycle on, and then off on panel 316.
After doing this, and you do not need station
coverage for your ATM experiment powerdown, complete
5-3 through 5-5 in the experiment powerdown.

SPT Roger. I Just glanced at that a minute ago. And

are you interested in all of the frames remain-
ing - readings? I noticed on the checklist
they want them recorded; and if you do, I'll
Just give them to you now.

CC Okay. We'll take them now.

217 21 22 42 SPT Okay. H-alpha's 2909, 1882, 2 all zips, 6394,

S055 doesn't count, and 5554.

CC Okay.

CC Jack, no need to acknowledge, but delete the

word "photo" from your Flight Plan. It's TV only.

217 21 23 46 CDR We were Just attaching the foot restraint to the

adapter. And we put the pin in that goes to the
foot restraint through the adapter, the one with
a sort of a hek [sic] bolt on top - hex - the
astro pin. And - the way we found that it
worked - we want to verify that we did it correctly -
is we put it in, expanded the little Jaws that
it has, and then backed it out counterclockwise
so it was real tight against the plate. As we
did, it pulled the two plates together, and
looked like it made it nice and secure. Then
we, of course, put in the other new flange and
two bolts. We want to make sure that we did
that astro pin right.

CC That sounds real good, A1.

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CDR Okay, good. Doesn't look like it works good,

but it - the instructions weren't that specific.
Okay.

217 21 2h 4h SPT And, Story, there are three EVA lighting switches
and they all cycled ON and then back OFF.

CC Owen, could you cycle those again and give us a

mark when you turn them on?

SPT There is no headset or speaker box near panel 316.

I can do it on time or something if you want.

CC Okay. Go there and do it now, and we'll be

looking, 0wen.

SPT Okay, it'll - I'll start at - 30 seconds from-

217 21 25 29 SPT NOW and I'll do it every 5 seconds.

CC And, Skylab; we're at 30 seconds to LOS. We'll

see you at the Vanguard at 21:47.

CC And we need the MPC ROLL INHIBITED, and reenable

the STAR TRACKER, and press on with your ATM
experiment powerdown, 5-3 to 5-5.

SPT Roger, and I gave you the light.

CC Okay. And one other thing as we're going over

the hill. Do not touch the CBRM SELECT switch.

217 21 26 35 SPT Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard for 9

minutes.

CDR Okay, Crip.

217 21 h8 16 CC Roger, and if the CDR is available or anybody, we

would appreciate any update on your EVA prep.

CDR Okay. Coming at your right now. We Just got

all the gear out. We put the base plate adapter
onto the foot restraints and found that we needed
to unscrew the two locking pins that hold the
feet in the foot restraints inside. But nobody
is in the suit so we got a Phillips screwdriver
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and took those pins off. And now the plate looks
real good; looks like the one we practiced with.
Next, we got all the tethers hooked on the thing.
We' re now up there with the two poles, the two
sets of poles. In this set of poles, one of the
poles has a - a sphelic C?J or spiral of gray
tape on it. And then all the rest do not. We
were trying to figure out if that's the spare
pole or the first pole.

CC See if we can get you an answer for that.

217 21 49 18 CDR Yes, I think that might be an important answer

too, because I suspect there's no way they could
have checked all poles to each other. But it
looks like, using that as the key, either as the
first or the last, you could make sure that
you connected the poles together in the way that
they were connected preflight, to insure that
they were okay. We were going to doublecheck -
check them but I'm not sure that we want to take
them out and take a chance of damaging the
bungee. But we'll - we're going to look at it.
But I think if we could get an answer there we
could know which way to go.

CC Okay, we're checking that. Now, could I ask you

another question? Last night, when you were
reconfiguring the command module on its - in
its de - quiescent state, subsequent to that,
we noticed that you had a drop in your PSM
oxidizer manifold pressure of about 12 psi. If
you can recall, we'd like for you to run through
the sequence of switching that you did when you
separated from the quads to PSM.

217 21 50 19 CDR Okay. Well we went, - we go through it the same

way every time. We turn off - turn off the
one - we turn off the one - the quad and then
turn on the PSM. So that's exactly what we did.

CC Okay.

CDR And we ended up with two PSMs on, namely

A and C, but the helium valve and the propellant
valve closed.

PLT ... isolation ...

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CDR That's the manifold isolation - is the name of it

I believe, but it's essentially propellant.

CC Okay. We copy that.

CDR Okay. And how's the pressure been holding since

then?

CC Okay. It's been solid since that drop. No

problem with it.

217 21 51 15 CDR Yes. Well, we switched them exactly like the

procedure and there didn't appear to be any
problems at the time. Okay, we'll wait for your
information on these poles. We need them be-
cause we can't go ahead without them.

CC A1, from what you said, do you think there's any

possibility at all you could of connected the PSM
to either quads Bravo or Delta?

CDR Definitely not.

CC Okay.

CDR We were Just trying to think through how you

could do that if you wanted to.

217 21 52 29 CDR I guess you would Just have - to do it, if you

wanted to, you'd reach over and Just turn PSM,
either B or D, on. That's the only way you could
do it, as far as I could tell.

CC That's affirm.

CDR Well we sure as the devil didn't do that.

CC Okay.

CDR We were trying to figure out if there was any

back-door way to do it. That we could have done
it accidentally. We know we followed the procedures
precisely, but then we were Just thinking if there
was any other possible way to do it. The only
way is kind of a direct connection, which doesn't
aound too clever. So we know we didn't do it.
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CC Roger.

217 21 53 14 CDR And we were also careful never to have a quad

and a PSM open at the same time. So we didn't
shift any fuel around, we don't think.

CC Okay. Very good. In answer to your question

about the poles and the tape. All the poles
have been interch - interchanged, so there's
nothing special about that. They all fit with
one another. The only thing about that one
that was taped up - that was used on Pete's
flight for the FAS deployment, so you can
disregard the tape.

CDR Okay. And I understand we have two spare poles,

one in each rack. Is that correct?

CC That's affirmative. And AI, could you clarify

for us whether you have got into the prep-prep
called out for in your cue cards and checklist?

217 21 54 00 CDR We - we finished the prep-prep, the normal

prep-prep EVA; that's complete. We're now
working on this special thing. Jack's here
working on 149. He Just taped up the wrench
handle, and he's got 149 assembled but he does
not have the collector on it yet. He's going to
go up and stash that in the AM. And Owen and I
are working on the poles, getting everything set
with it. So those are the only things we lack
but it looks - looks like it's going to be - take
us a little time to get it squared away, and then
we want to sit down and talk about the procedures
and the sequence we're going through. Now one
thing I noticed that didn't come up on the pad,
or maybe it's somewhere else, is the exact
sequence you want us to do it. Unless this
morning, when you said twin - pole, and then
149 and 230, and then regulate ... TM, or maybe
it's different. Tell me now and I'll write it
down and make sure we do it that away.

CC Okay, I'll get it for you in Just a second.

217 21 56 01 CC Skylab, Houston. In answer to your question, A1,

number 1 is twin pole. Then go into your normal
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EVA. And at the end of the normal EVA, you'll

get to the S055 ramp removal. Then get S149 and
then $230. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.
We'll have you again at 22:55.

CDR Okay. Understand that. And I guess somewhere in

here, although I haven't seen it, is the procedure
that says - tells me which angle to go to so Jack
can get the 55 ramp fairly easily.

217 21 56 4h CC Okay. That - that should be in your pad and you

can pick up looking at quads Bravo and Delta at
the - wherever you think appropriate.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

217 22 54 21 CC Skylab Houston. AOS, Hawaii for 8 minutes.

CDR Hear you, Crip. Things are going well. Got a

question on one procedure here. Hold on.

CC 0keydoke.

CC And, CDR, while we are waiting on that question,

if the SPT is available, I would like to ask him
about ATM ops.

CDR Okay, he's up there listening to you. Go ahead.

CC Okay, you are - have a GO to operate that ATM

pass hich is scheduled at around 00:2h, I think,
if you so desire. If you don't want to, we'll go
ahead and do a unattended ops from here.

217 22 55 45 CDR We don't know whether we are going to get finished.

We are working on this, and if we get finished, I
think he wants to do it but we got to get this
thing done tonight. So we'll - We don't know
right now. We're Just getting everything squared
away.

CC Roger; understand. And if he does operate it, the

only restriction we've got is that we don't want
to turn on anything that we didn't check out
earlier. And about the only thing that we know
of that falls into that category is the TV. So
we would want him to hold up on turning on the TV
until he got over a station. And we're going to
have a Guam pass at about 00:25, which - Just
about is the time he gets involved in it.

CDR Okay, my guess is he won't be able to do it.

But we're - we're pressing - we're pressing on here.

CC Okay, we copy.

217 22 56 31 SPT Now, by - by TV, do you mean the monitors, Bob, or

what?
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CC That's affirm. Turning on the monitors and the

cameras associated with them.

CDR Okay, I'm looking here on page 6.2-14, at the end

of the twin poles deploy. It says pick up with
normal EVA procedures, starting with unstow VS
tree. But I think you mean unstow of S149. Is
that correct?

CC Stand by 1 on that, A1.

217 22 57 26 CDR And while they are thinking about that, let me get
them to look on page 6.2-2, the last paragraph for
EV-1, on the left. It says, attach base plate to
clothesline clip on F-6 handrail by use of base
plate tether. Okay, we know how to do that. Next
line says, attach tether to clothesline clip on
F-6. Now we suspicion that's Just redundant and
we ought to strike out the second part, but we want
to make sure we understand the situation.

CC Okay, A1, stand by on that one too, please.

CDR You bet ; I'll be upstairs working.

217 22 58 30 CDR Another thing while you are waiting. Jack indicates
from looking out the window that the $230 doesn't
have a red or a blue or a white handle - that they
sort of all look the same out the window. And we're
going to have to get you to send that change up
again that talks about attaching it to the red
handle, or the white handle or whatever - to attach
it to the one clearest the - nearest the FAS or the
one farthest from the FAS, whichever he wants.
Instead of going on color code, we would like to
go on ones that are either closest or farthest
from the FAS area.

CC Okay.

CC CDR, on your first question, you are correct and

after - instead of getting the VS tree you're
supposed to go back and get 149.
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217 22 59 51 CDR We found the procedures for 55 ramp and we got

those in and they' re ready to go. I Just wrote
in a little note right after that for Jack to look
at quad B and D from his vantage point there on the
Sun end, once he is around at the transfer work
station not the front end work station. And I
Just wrote in, "Observe B and D quads," and then
pressing on from there with the rest of the EVA
which is lh9 and 230.

CC Okay, did you copy my answer to your first question -

that you were correct about when you were supposed
to go get 1497

CDR Sure did.

CC Okay, and you're correct on your question on

page 6.2-2, that you - that is redundant - that
you can scratch the lines that say attach tether
to clothesline clip on F-6.

CDR Okay.

217 23 01 09 CC And, AI, on the $230, we are going to send you up

a pad that tells you which handle to get - in
relation to the FAS. But for your information,
those color codes are Just small strips on the
white handle. It's about 2 inches long color
coding. But we will send you up the other infor-
mation also. We're about 45 seconds from LOS
and we'll have you again at Vanguard at 23:27, and
we will be doing a data recorder dump there. Also,
we Just sent you up some more EVA changes that are
in the teleprinter.

CDR Okay, and what you might do is, over Vanguard, if

you know which is nearer or farther, I'ii get out
my book and Just read that sentence to you, and
you can say, "Okay, that's the near one," and
I'll Just write in the nearest ... pad. It'll
certainly be a lot quicker.

217 23 02 01 CC That sounds like an excellent idea.

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Vanguard, for 9 minutes.

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217 23 26 ii SPT Hello, Bob. Owen, here. We haven't eaten yet,

and we're still working on the prep, so it looks
like y' all had better plan for an unattended run
on the next orbit. Over.

CC Okay, we'll plan on doing that, Owen.

CC And if A1 or s_nebody is standing by, I can go

through these 2B0 handle colors for you.

SPT Okay. Just a minute. We're both stowing rods in

the airlock right now. In Just a minute he can
get to a box.

CC Okay, there's no rush, and if you don't want to get

it I can get it at Ascension - we got coming right
up right after this Vanguard pass.

SPT Okay; he's on his way right now.

PLT Go ahead, Bob, I'm listening.

217 23 26 48 CC Okay, Jack. I can either go through it in a

checklist with you, or I can Just more or less sort
of describe what's out there.

PLT Yes, we want to go through the checklist.

CC Okay, if you get on page 2.1-18.

PLT And while we're looking it up, I got the S149 put
together the way it says in the checklist.
And in the last step it asked me to verify that the
plates will open up without interference, and it
seems like to me that's s_mething you guys should
have verified on the ground already.

CC Roger. We did verify that on the ground, but we

Just want to make sure that it was connected up
right when you guys did it there.

217 23 27 38 PLT Okay, I got it connected up according to the

procedure, with the handle pointed in the same
direction when they're unfolded and all that.
And the only way I can really verify it is to open
them all the way up and I presume he doesn't want
me to do that.
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CC In your estimation, if you look at it, does it look

like it will open up?

PLT Well, I'll have to play around with the geometry a

little bit.

PLT Go ahead on the $230.

CC Okay. Have you got page 2.1-18 opened up?

PLT Yes, sir.

217 23 28 15 CC On the right-hand side, the right col1_n there,

it says, "Attach wrist tether to $230 collector
with the red handle." Okay, that - one is going
to be the nearest to the FA8.

PLT Okay.

CC Okay, right below that you should have, "Attach it

to the white handle," which is going to be the
farthest from the FAS.

PLT Okay; that's the white handle?

CC That 's affirmative.

PLT Go ahead.

217 23 28 59 CC Okay. And you got a change in down there that

talks about - translate to $230 and remove the
clip and put the clip on the blue handle. And we
should have also had the change - should have written
in farthest from the FAS.

PLT Okay, farthest from the FAS. Now is there a red

handle, a white handle, and a blue handle? Or Just
red and blue or red and white?

CC Okay, Jack, there are actually four units out there.

And there's one wrapped on top of another on - in
two places. We've got a red handle on the top one
of the one nearest FAS, and a white handle on the
top one of the one farthest away from the FAS.
And you are going to pull both of those off. And
then the blue one is the one that was underneath
the white one and it's farthestaway from the FAS.
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217 23 29 53 PLT Okay, that's very good. That makes it very clear.
I understand now.

CC I'm glad you understood that, Jack.

PLT Say again, Crip.

CC Never mind. (Chuckle).

PLT Well, anyhow it's red, white, and blue, right?

CC There's nothing like being patriotic.

SPT Hey, Crip, I was Just glancing through our

schedule for tomorrow and I was noticing you m_naged
to get PT worked in after our EVA.

CC Roger. Think you'll need it?

217 23 30 36 SPT We expect to get a little PT done one way or the

other.

CC I should assume so. Pete did a lot of pedaling

after the EVA.

PLT Back or forwards?

CC (Chuckle) I'm not sure which.

217 23 32 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We have sent what we hope is

the last of your EVA teleprinter messages up, and
it deals with inspecting an area that we - suspect
that that short occurred in on the ATM.

SPT Okay; I Just heard it chugging away up there.

We'll go take a look at it.

CC I'd like to comment on one thing - it was men -

A1 mentioned earlier about having Jack inspect
quads A and B from the transfer work station -
correction, B and D. And we don't think that you
can see Bravo from the transfer work station, and we
mentioned in this message a place that we thought
you might be able to take a look at it.
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217 23 32 52 SPT Okay, thank you; good boy.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Ascension at 23:41; 23:41.

CC Skylab, Houston. A0S through Ascension for

8 minutes.

217 23 41 39 PLT Okay, Crip, I took a good look at S149 and a -

it'll open up, no obstructions.

CC Okay, Jack. I guess the concern was that that

bracket that you installed for the thing could be
put on there backwards and would stop that - one -
part beak (?) from coming down.

PLT Right ; I put it on backwards one night Just to

verify that I had it the wrong way and then I put
it right.

CC Fantastic. You Marines are really thorough.

217 23 46 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at G11am at 00:26, 00:2END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

218 00 25 59 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Guam, 3 minutes.

PLT Okeydoke, Crip. We decided to sit down and have

something to eat.

CC Sounds good. You still got some more EVA

preping to do?

PLT Yes, a little bit. A few details to clean up.

We got to sterilize Don Lind's two deals there,
but that's not going to take too long.

CC Okay. Sit back and enjoy dinner.

CDR And, Crip, I'll be dumping the condensate tank in

just a few minutes. I haven't heard anything
about it today, but I assumed you wanted it
dumped.

CC Roger. AI, you've got a GO - to go ahead and

dump that at your -whenever you're ready for it.

218 00 27 36 CDR Okay. The one thing I've been wondering about
on this EVA tomorrow. We got it all stowed up
there in the AM and with the exception of Just
a couple of items, plus putting these changes in
the checklist and looking at some of those -
looking at where we - want to see for those
burned areas, which we haven't had a chance to
do yet, trying to get in our exercise, then hit
the bed, because we're 2-1/2 hours away from that
right now, it looks like. When we get ready
tomorrow, are we sort of GO to get g - to go on
out, or do we have to wait for a certain time to
go? I've forgotten the rules.

CC Stand by 1 on that.

CDR Yes. We'll be keeping you informed as we go

along, you know, how we are doing. You'll be
able to tell because we will be coming up on
VOX and all that, but I don't know if ... a certain
time.
j_

218 O0 28 28 CC A1, whenever you're ready to go out, you've got

a GO to go.
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CC Okay. And I noticed we were getting up an hour

later this morning. I think that's a good idea,
too. We've a - we've been hustling and we've
never been able to get to bed on time since we
got here. And it looks like it's going to be
close today. So we'll Just see how it goes.

CC Okay. That was put in there per some discussions

that - been had earlier regarding not being able
to get PT in and so forth for you. So I think
they allowed for you going to bed an hour late
tonight and getting up an hour late tomorrow
morning.

CDR That's great and it's GO for the idea of the PT

afterwards, too. We've finally got this place
shipshape, and we're ready to start cranking out.
And I think we're going to be ready for that one
tomorrow.

218 00 29 13 CC Sounds great. We're about 30 seconds from LOS

now and we'll have you again over the Vanguard
at 01:03, 01:03.

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through the Vanguard for

l0 minutes.

CDR Okay. How're you doing tonight?

CC Pretty good. And you guys?

CDR Oh, we're making it.

CC You sound like you've been working pretty hard

today to get all ready for that EVA.

218 01 03 53 CDR We got it all stowed. Jack was Just cleaning up

the 230 things, and Owen and I were putting in
the changes in the Entry Checklist and the EVA
Checklist and the Cue Cards and all those other
things. The only ones we still lack - we're not
finished with the 88 (?), but we'll have them
done in 30 minutes or so, and the only other ones
we lack is these long ones for the Deac Checklist,
which I guess they're going to schedule for a
couple of days from now. That's Just too long to
oo.
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CC Yes, I've been sitting down here doing the same

thing myself.

CDR Incredible, huh?

CC I can't believe all those changes. And Just to

keep you happy, we've also got an Entry Checklist
change that we're going to zap up to you tonight,
too.

218 01 04 35 CDR I was telling Owen tonight, they Just feed them
a little by little. Which is okay, though. Some-
body's got to work them all out, and that's not
done instantly.

CC We don't want to flood you all at once.

CDR Yes, they - they look good. They make sense.

Nice to have Vance and the gang working on them
down there. Phil Shaffer, I'm sure has been
doing a lot of work on it. I don't know.

CC Yes, those guys have really been hitting the - the

paperwork pretty hard; going through it and
reviewing these things.

CDR Well, we know it and appreciate it for sure.

We know that those things don't just happen.

218 01 05 18 CDR One thing we haven't got is this - for tomorrow

night - condensate dump for a permanent general
message, number 1. I - I don't - haven't seen
that one. Wait a minute; maybe I have.

CC Yes, we've - -

CDR Yes, that's - that's the one I've got.

CC Roger.

CDR I've got it. No trouble. That's the one I've

been using.

CC I'm sitting here with a s_]l amount of news

that I'd be glad to read up to you. It's nothing
very significant tonight, but I'd be glad to
shootthatup now if you'dlike.
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CDR Sure would, Crip.

218 01 05 48 CC Okay. They informed me that the news media today

reported the details and plans for deploying the
twin-pole sail above Skylab on Monday - tomorrow,
rather. And there's several other chores that
you've got planned for extravehicular activity.
And man, are there lots of chores. And also
extensive coverage of the twin EREP passes, which
you guys apparently did a very superb Job on.
Some 131 fishing boats and 500 deep-sea
fishermen participated in the EREP pass over the
Gulf of Mexico. Also, apparently Arabella was also
in the limelight and her deployment carefully
followed. And then - -

CDR She hasn't done any spinning yet, though.

CC No spinning, huh? Well, give her time.

CDR Maybe tonight.

218 01 06 27 CC Maybe if she gets hungry enough. In the news

world, Palestinian terrorists tossed hand grenades
and fired shots into a crowded airport lounge
today in Athens, killing two Americans and
wounding dozens of other persons in an unsuccesful
bid to hijack an airplane. Not much really going
on except, perhaps, in the news. They got a
surprise winner for the Westchester. Came out
of the - from way behind - Bobby Nickless, who
hasn't won a tournament in three years, won the
Westchester Golf Classic. He had started the
final nine holes six strokes behind and pulled it
out. The Astros fell to Cincinnati yesterday, 7 to
6, and then lost again today, 7 to 1. And I don't
know if we got any horse racing fans up there or
not, but Triple-Crown winner Secretariat lost the
Whitney Stakes at Saratoga today to Onion.
Secretariat's bid fell short in the stretch and
Onion won by a length. I'm trying to figure out
who Onion is.

CDR That's another long shot I guess.

218 01 08 13 CC And, A1, we'd kind of like to know how the

overage food transfers went today if anybody can
give us some word on it.
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CDR We have not - I'll tell you what we did. We

moved the food in, as you know, the other day.
We took the overage food upstairs and back.
We've had no time today. We've been hustling on
this EVA, and we still are. MY guess is the
overage food is going to have to be set aside like
you requested the other night. Something like
an hour or an hour and a half for two men, as
soon as we can on the schedule. And it's - we
got a pretty - pretty good bit of it up here, as
you can guess. And we want to be sure to label
it and put it in cans and seal it and everything,
and put it in the right place so that Jerry and
Ed and Bill can find it when they get here.

CC Okay. We copied that and we'll get it in the

Flight Plan.

218 01 09 00 CDR Yes, we'd like to get it scheduled fairly soon so

we can get it off. It's - Quite a bit of it's
hanging around upstairs. And if we do get any
spare time, which we're not tonight for sure,
we'll - we'll get it put away. But it doesn't
look like that's going to happen for a couple of
days, anyway.

CC Okay. Real fine.

CDR Might mention one other item since we've got a

little time here. Just a sec.

CDR The strawberries up here - I've had them a couple

of times over the last 3 or 4 days and I - They
don't taste too good. And I'd like to have the
food people, if they would, run some tests on
those strawberries down there under the heat
conditions and whatever else. They really not
only taste bad, they Just don't taste healthy.
So, maybe we ought to - we'll kind of hold up
eating strawberries for a couple of days until
they've had a chance to think about it. Maybe
they ran some tests previously and just found
they taste that way, but don't hurt you.

218 01 l0 16 CC Okay. We'll - we'll have them look into that.

Can't imagine those wouldn't taste good with
r vanilla icecream.
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CDR That's what I had tonight and had it a couple of

nights ago and that's my favorite - favorite
Skylab food on Earth. But up here it's got
sort of a -and I don't think it's the environment
either. It's got a very acidic taste to it, and
it even leaves a little feel in your mouth after
you finish eating them. I felt uneasy on eating
both these packages.

CC Okeydoke.

218 01 i0 52 CDR Another thing you might ask the food people
[sic] when you're talking with them, Malcolm
Smith or whoever, ask them - Jack would kind of
like to get a couple more drinks. Right now,
the restriction is - is two extra per day, and
he'd like to have maybe one or two more than that,
sometime. He wants an okay to do that.

CC Okay. I would imagine Jack would like a few

extra steaks on board, too, wouldn't he?

CDR Yes, you know him. - (chuckle) The - another thing

you might mention to them, we're - we're all
eating on the menu now and we're eating lO0 percent
of it or more. So we're standing by, I guess,
to get back on the protocol and start taking the
supplements and all that other. We'll just - we
haven't received any supplement messages even
though we've been sending back what we ate. So
we're standing by and we're ready to go when they
are.

CC I'm informed that the med status that we sent you

last night did have some supplements to take on
it.

218 01 12 05 CC Also, if we could get somebody to go up to the ATM

C&D panel, we copy that the MAIN HIGH VOLTAGE switch
on S055 is in OVERRIDE and we supposedly changed
that to put it in ENABLE now.

CDR Okay. We hadn't got - -

SPT On the - As I recall - I'll go up and check it

again right now, but that checklist page on power-
down had a insert in it that requires it to be put
into override. I'll doublecheck it right now.
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CC Okay, Owen, and I'll try to get it clarified down

here for you. Uh -

CC Okay. We're 1 minute from LOS, and we'll see you

again at Ascension at 01:16. And I guess that's
where we'll be standing by for your evening status
report.

218 01 13 18 CDR Believe it or not we got it ready right now.

CC Okay. Don't believe we got quite enough time to

get it now, though.

PLT Say, Crip, you can tell my good friend, Don Lind,
that we gave his SZ30 - gadget a good scrubdown
with orifice and general rinses and we got them
secured in the airlock where they won't dangle
around. Looks like it's about as clean a job as
we can do.

CC Okay. I'm sure he'll be glad to hear that.

SPT Yes, Bob, on page 3-3, there's a pen-and-ink insert

that says, "MAIN HIGH VOLTAGE, OVERRIDE." I'll
put it back to ENABLE now.

CC Okay. We'll get that clarified for you, Owen.

218 Ol 16 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Ascension now

for i0 minutes.

CC And, Owen, I think maybe I can - clarify that check-

list change for you now, if you want to go over it.

SPT Okay. That was a change l, checklist change. I put

it back to ENABLE. What would you like?

CC Okay. We'd like it in ENABLE. And did you say

that you did it on page 3-3?

SPT That's correct.

CC At 3-3 is the close-out for - flare - flare prep.

SPT I'm sorry. Let me check again, I should have said

5-3, I believe, but let me look it up again.

CC Okay, on 5-h is where you should be. While you look

at that, I - I - stand - - I'm standing by to copy
the evening status report.
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218 01 17 38 CDR Okay. Here it comes, Crip. Urine volume: 78; 135;
153. Drinking water gun reading: 4700; 7753;
5635. BMMD: 6.238, 6.223 - no, let me say it again,
6.238, 6.238, 6.239; 5.988, 5.986, 5.987; 6.965,
6.967, 6.97_. Exercise: none for anybody yet and,
if we get some, we'll tell you the last pass of the
night. Medication: none. Sleep: 6/good; 6/good ;
6/good. Okay, here comes the food log: CDR,
14 salt packs, and no deviations, rehydratable
water, extra 8 ounces and an extra - one extra
strawberry drink. So, one extra strawberry drink
and one extra 8 ounces. We've got SPT, nine salt
packs, and add one apple drink; PLT, eight salt
packs; add one grape drink to yesterday's menu,
and today, add one apple and one strawberry drink.
Photo log follows : 16-millimeter: ETC prep/M151,
CT18, 62; VTS track 61-D and 62-D, CLO1, 60. Okay,
here comes the 35-millimeters: CX28, 19; 70-milli-
meters, CXll0 - let me go again, CXll, 063; ETC,
CT03, 287. Here comes EREP: 8 - Set, F; 8099;
0292; 7815; 7198; 8968; 7870. Drawer A configura-
tion: no change. Okay, Flight Plan deviations:
pass time, nothing new there; shopping list accom-
plishments, nothing new there. I got the - No, go
ahead. That's okay. Inoperable equipment : we
already talked about the strawberries and we talked
about Jack's extra drink. Unscheduled stowage items
location: one i_]] can of apple drink from overage
moved down to the wardroom and we'll gradually
consume that. And that's the end of the evening
status report.

218 01 21 03 CC Okay. We copied all of that. And did Owen have

a chance to look on page 5-h of his ATM experiment
book?

SPT That was where I was talking about, Crip. The

change 1 had it going to OVERRIDE and I put it back
to ENABLE now.

CC Okay. That should be a - that change should have

said MAIN HIGH VOLTAGE switch to ENABLE.

SPT Did I miscopy it or was the teleprinter update

incorrect ?

218 O1 21 30 CC Okay. I'll have to go back and - and doublecheck

that Owen. My - my current stuff shows that it - that
it did say ENABLE.
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SPT Okay. I'd appreciate it and I'ii go correct

my book.

PLT Incidentally, Bob, there were a whole sluv of

changes just like that and I think they all were
to put that HIGH VOLTAGE to OVERRIDE. That same
correction did show up on page 3-3 and then in
a number of places throughout the book.

CC Yes, I was supposed to put them to OVERRIDE in some

places and to ENABLE for the others. Basically,
when they leave for unattended, I think they wanted
to have it back ENABLED and when you are operating
it, they want it in OVERRIDE.

SPT Okay, I'd appreciate it, if you would send up that

change 1 again, on the teleprinter and I'll double-
check to make sure I've got it in my book correctly.

218 O1 22 28 CC Okay. That was our message 0335 and we'll send it
up to you.

SPT Thank you.

CDR Another request, Crip.

CC Go ahead.

CDR Each night that I'm going to be dumping - I'm going

to be dumping this condensate each night, do you
suppose you could get me an estimate of the time
that it takes, or will take each day, as a general
rule that I should leave it in the dump position?
Right now there is no real rule, except going up
there every so often and checking to see if the
bellows have moved to the end. Now there must be
some number that we could do - use every day that
would be a lot quicker and I could Just set it on
the timer and when that time's up, go up there and
hook it up to the vent and vent it. I know the
vent's 18 minutes, so that's pretty canned. Maybe
we can get a canned other number and then we'd be
able to move out a little bit better on it.

CC Okay. We copy that.

218 O1 25 21 CC CDR, Houston. On that time, we recommend 1 hour,

1 hour.
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CC And, CDR, we're about 1 minute from LOS here.

We're going to have you again at Guam at 02:00.
At Guam, we'll be set up for the medical conference
and also, A1, for you, we - we got your phone
call set up. And if anybody can give me a rundown,
did you find the med status report about the pills
and when you're suppose to take them? Appreciate
it before we lose you here.

CDR Okay. Owen's working on that problem. Here's

another question, which VHF antenna do you want me
to use at Guam?

218 01 26 29 CC VHF, RIGHT.

CDR Okay, that seems to be a problem with the comma

couple of times. I think we can solve it, if we
Just know which one to use. Okay, we'll have it
on RIGHT.

CC 0keydoke.

CDR Owen's looking it up right now.

218 01 26 43 CC Okeydoke.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

218 02 09 13 CC Skylab, Houston. I've got you for about a minute

and a half here over Guam. And for the SPT we have
put up that ATM experiment checklist change through
the teleprinter.

SPT Okay, thank you, Bob. I'll take a look at it

again. And Arabella has still not shown any sign
of activity. She's still hanging on the side of
the cage where she was this morning, so we'll give
her a chance to work tonight.

CC Not - not being very cooperative.

SPT Not at all.

CC We've got about i minute until LOS and we'll see

you again over Vanguard at 02:40, 02:_0.

SPT Okay, Crip. Thank you.

SPT Say, Bob, you might ring up the home folks for me
tomorrow night after Jack is through.

218 02 I0 31 CC Okay, we'll set it up.

218 02 h0 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through the Vanguard

for the next i0 minutes.

CDR Couple of quick questions, Crip. I was going over

the EVA Checklist tonight and noticed that I had
not written down that I'd done change 3. I suspect
I have. So, if you have got a change 3 there
anywhere, how about reading me some specific part
of it and I'll check my book?

CC Standby 1.

PLT I got another on too, Crip.

CC Okay, go ahead.

PLT I noticed that the LSU of the BS - CCU up in the

airlock has got the lights on in it. Now that we
.r turned the PCU lights off, you can see the lights
of the PC ... that powers the umbilical and I think
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we ought to get that off there before tonight

because I don't want to go throw up circuit
breakers. So, maybe you guys can tell me how to
power it down.

CC Jack, I'm sorry. I - I can't make out what you're

saying. Got an awful lot of feedback there.

218 02 41 51 CC Skylab, Houston. While I'm researching that ques-

tion and - and Jack's trying to get his VOX squared
away, A1, I'd like to talk to you about that primary
coolant loop res low light you got this morning.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. After you got the light, the people got

together and did a little bit of research in
St. Louis and looking back at some data that
occurred prior, and we have concluded that we've
got a leak in both the primary and the secondary
coolant loops. And we're still looking into the
problem right now, but what our initial tests
tell - tells us, that we've got about 16 days left
on the primary loop and about 60 - six zero - days
left on the secondary loop. We're pretty sure
that the - the leak has got to be outside because
it would have been obvious if it was inside. And
if- -

CDR Yes, we've seen nothing about it.

CC Yes, and it's a - tests show that it's been going

on since - oh, since launch on the primary and
since - oh, somewhere around the middle of SL-2
for the secondary. Okay. All I'm doing right now
is Just giving you our initial information. We
are -we're still looking into the problem and
we're probably going to ask you to do some kind
of visual inspection tomorrow when - when the guys
are outside to see if - see if we can see anything.
And we'll get together some details on that for
yOU.

CDR Sounds good.

218 02 43 30 CC And it won't be - won't be a big deal because we

Just don't have time to ge - to get too much pro-
cedures and that kind of thing for you.

CDR That's Just what I was thinking.

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CC Okay. I've got - I've got that change 3 I can give

you - -

CDR Start right at the top.

CC Okay. Have you got the checklist handy?

CDR Just a second and let Jack tell you his problems - -

CC Okay.

CDR - - and then you can give me this thing. I've got
the checklist in my hand.

CC Okay.

CDR I'll let Jack talk first.

CC Roger, Jack. Go ahead.

PLT Okay, Crip. We turned out the lights up there in

MDA to get ready for bed and I noticed that the
lights in the PCU up there are on. And I Just
didn't want to go throw circuit breakers and - to
cut off the electricity - to it. But I think we
ought to secure the power on that PCU and that LCU
up there and - LSU, rather in the MDA, so if you
could tell me a breaker, I'd go throw it.

CC Okay. We'll check it.

CDR Okay. Go on the checklist, Crip.

CC Okay. Let's see on page 1.1-7.

CDR Okay, I'm there.

218 02 44 43 CC Okay. This is where we asked you to paste in a - a

bit that should tell you about unstowing a wrench -
7/16 wrench. And - and - -

CDR Okay. I've got it pasted in.

CC Okay. That's - that's the change. So you've got

it, if you've got that.

CDR Okay. I hadn't written it down on the cover.

Thanks.
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CC Okay. You can also check on page 2.1-15. And we

had you also paste in a bit there about - this is -
the ramp removal procedure for S055.

CDR Roger. We t_Iked about that where you roove -

remove the one opposite the stop and then the one
on the ramp. Let me ask you another question.

CC Go ahead.

CDR Okay. I 'm looking at change number 4 to the EVA

Checklist. Section change number 5. Okay. Down
near the bottom, it says, it's about the second
change from the bottom, it says, -page 3.1-6.
Let me know when you have that one.

CC Okay, I've got it. Go ahead.

218 02 45 57 CDR Okay. It says, "Delete lighting integral switch

variable." Okay. We did that. Then it says,
"Add FINE SUN SENSOR DOOR switch, OPEN; Talkback,
OPEN, then SUN. MODE EXPERIMENT POINTING switch,
EXPERIMENT POINTING talkback, EXPERIMENT, after
STAR TRACK SHUTTER TB, OPEN or STAR." In other
words, you want me to add those two sentences
after the sentence that says, "STAR TRACKER SHUTTER
talkback, OPEN or STAR?"

CC That's affirmative.

CDR Okay. Let me make a request. We - we screwed that

one up at first and then went back and looked. The
format on all these checklist changes is - they say,
for example : "SUS cooling activation." No, bad
example. Left colt_nn: "Prior to -" It tells you
what to do and then tells you, you know, then tells
you the words. That one threw us a little bit
because it gave us a bunch of words and then told
us what to do with them. And we were - Normally
on Earth, it wouldn't confuse us. But we're trying
to get it right. And so if they, - if you could
stick to that format 100 percent of the time, it'd
sure make it simpler for us.

CC Okay. Concur. I had the same problem myself.

CDR Okay. No sweat. It's Just - we can't afford a

mistake and that's - that's conducive to it.
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CC Okay.

218 02 48 44 CDR Did you have any luck on that PCU power?

CC We're still researching. Think we got an answer.

Just one moment.

CDR Okay. I'm was wondering if maybe Pete's crew

actually had that, that way in their pre-prep too,
and Just noticed it. Jack happened to be up there
and noticed it. He suspected he _st have hooked
it up with power on it too since he didn't remember
throwing any switches particularly after that.

218 02 49 29 CC Okay. Jack, if you're still around there, or, A1,

on panel 200, audio systems CCU, A, you can secure
that and that should turn it off.

CDR Okay. Audio systems PCU, A. We'll try. We'll

turn it off.

CC Roger. It's CCU; Charlie, Charlie, Uniform.

CDR Okay. CCU, A. Will do.

CC Okay, gentlemen. We're about 30 seconds from LOS

and the next pass is going to be there at your
bedtime. So I probably won't give you a call,
unless you want it. And that's at 03:00 over
Canary.

CDR Give us a call. We're all up exercising. We

hadn't gotten to bed yet.

CC Will do.

PLT That was the one, Crip; it's off.

CC Very good. Thank you, Jack.

218 02 50 28 PLT Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

218 03 00 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Canary and we

got about 14 minutes.

SPT Okay. We're still up.

SPT Say, Crip, can you guys put it in your checklist

somewhere now to get that CCU breaker on tomorrow,
please?

CC We'll inform you about it tomorrow I guess, verb-

ally, if you'd like, or we can figure out some-
place to put it in. Whichever - whichever way
you'd like to work it.

SPT Yes, probably figure out a way to pu - plug it in.

CC Okay. We'll - we'll tell you a place to put it on

the checklist.

SPT Hey, Bob, did you happen to see that TV show, about
a week ago, when I showed the little minnows swim-
ming and - inside loops quite a bit?

CC I heard your conversation on it, never did get to

see it.

SPT I put a comment in there, particularly for Dick

and - Dr. Dick S_mmonds over in building 37. These
little finks seem still to be doing the same thing.
They've still never become fully adapted to the
zero g apparently. They'll still swim the inside
loops, practicing outside loops, everytime you stir
up the little container that they're in. However,
when periods, they will more or less stay oriented
with their belly toward the wall and as if gravity
was down in that direction.

CC Okay, that's very interesting. By the way - -

PLT So what's new? I was doing that when I first got

here tool

CC You're not going to tell me there's any relationship

between Marines and minnows, are there?
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PLT Just last longer for them.

218 03 02 56 CC You're right. By the way, Owen, we have got your

phone conversation set up tomorrow and it's going
to be around '01:17.

SPT Thank you.

PLT You got one set up for me tomorrow, Crip?

CC That's affirmative. Yours is set up for about

00:30.

PLT Okay. Is that through the Vanguard again?

CC Let me check that. Apparently Vanguard hadn't

been too hot.

CC That's Ascension for you. So hopefully it'll be

a little better.

PLT 0kay, thank you.

218 03 12 58 CC Skylab, Houston. Since you gentlemen are exer-

cising late tonight, the medical people would ap-
preciate it if you would give - through the exercises
on - on voice record, so we can get it for you later.

CDR You want it right now?

CC A1, if you've finished exercising and you think I

can get it in a minute and a half, press.

PLT Okay, the PLT did number - wait a minute. SPT did
2000 watt-minutes, 60 A-1 's and 30 B 's.

CC Copy.

PLT And the PLT did - that was nnmber 2, that's legs
on your ergometer for 30 minutes, 6250 watts and
worked on the mark 1 for l0 minutes, 50 A's and
l0 B's.

CC Okay. Copied that. And, Jack, with your concur-

rence, we're going to pass up to you when to turn
that circuit breaker back on tomorrow morning. We're
about 1 minute from LOS. I'll go ahead and say
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good night now. If you guys want to talk, we'll

be over Guam at 03:41, that's 03:41, and have a
happy EVA.

CDR Okay. Thank you, Crip. See you tomorrow.

218 03 lh 36 CC And if anybody else does any exercise before you

go to bed, we'd appreciate it if you'd put it -
voice record it for us.

218 03 51 48 SPT Hello, Houston; Skylab. Are you there?

CC Yes, we're here. Go ahead.

CC Hello, Skylab. We're here; go ahead.

SPT Okay, Bob. Just one thing. I'm calling you from
the bedroom back here, in my sleep cap. And you
know, as a part of our pre-EVA checks, I discon-
nected this 133 experiment from channel B, PTT. I
obviously had to reconnect it in order to get you
any data down tonight but I suspect it'll mess up
our comm or our data if I leave it plugged in to-
morrow morning. So, since we've already passed
that spot in our checklist, could you put a note
for a reminder from the ground tomorrow morning,
before we close up the workshop that I disconnect
this M133 experiment again and leave it like it
was so that we will be all set for the EVA?

218 03 52 51 CC We copy that. And, (>wen, we're showing that the

ESS is on. Is anybody available to secure that
for us?

SPT Yes. We probably left it on, on the bicycle when

we were running it over there. Is that - -

CC That' s affirm.

SPT We'll - we'll check that.

CC Okay, appreciate it.

CC Okay, and - okay, appreciate you turning off the

ESS. Thank you very much.

SPT And can you confirm that your biomed is getting

_ telemetry on the sleep experiment?
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CC That's affirmative. We got it.

SPT Okay. I'ii try to give you a little sleep data.

SPT I _as Just telling A1 and Jack this'll make 22 hours

of work today.

CC Only 22, huh?

SPT Including the first experiment underway.

CC We're going over the hill. That was a good day's

work, guys. Good night.

218 03 54 h4 CDR Same to y'all down there, Crip.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS

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SKYL_ AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

218 ll 59 18 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're A0S for 9 minutes

at Honeysuckle.

CDR How you doing, Hank? You don't sound the same
this morning.

CC It ain't Hank here.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC A1, we want you to dump the condensate tank per

the permanent general message number 1. We
want you to do that right away because we've
lost pressure on that, and we need to establish
a negative pressure before you hook up the suit
loop at 1_:20 and it takes almost 2 hours.

CDR Okay, I did that last night. Did we lose it in

the middle of the night?

218 12 00 05 CC That is affirmative.

CC CDR. Houston.

CDR Go abead.

CC We would also like for you to _111 the quick

disconnect at panel 217 during the period of the
dump. It'll have to be reconnected later.

CDR Okay. Do you think that's where the - where the

tank vacuum went?

218 12 01 35 CC Well, the leak rate markedly increased. It

went up about four times after the connection
was made, and so there's sc_e suspicion.

CDR Some suspicion what.

CC That it is leaking.
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CDR Okay. You want me to disconnect it at 217 and do

the dump. I'ii do it again. Okay?

CC That's affirmative.

218 12 04 50 SPT Hello, Bill. Are you there?

CC We're here. Go ahead, Skylab.

SPT Okay. I've disconnected the M133 input connector

from the speaker box in my sleep compartment and
turned the channel B, OFF. And that's a prepar-
ation for the EVA. You probably have a note on
your desk to remind us, and I Just wanted to
let you know that I had made that reconfiguration
prep for the EVA.

CC Thank you. I was going to call it up on LOS.

Also for information, the star tracker pad that's
on board is good - good for today, in case you
should need it. And the ATM DC control of the star
tracker is inhibited.

SPT Roger.

CDR Okay. I've turned on the heater and I've dis-

connected the condensate holding tank from the
line to the vacuum - correction, line to the
condensate system, and also disconnected it at
217. So I'll be ready to dump in probably
another 12 minutes and I'll dump it out. And
then, you might get me a new estimat@ of dump
time. Last night, they said an hour. But you
may be able to cut it down today, if you want.
Next question is, did it start up at the correct
vacuum and then Just run out faster?

218 12 06 27 CC Stand by a half.

CDR Yes. I was wondering if the DELTA-P, when I put

the tank on the line, was correct last night.

CC Our readings are that it was brought down to a

norman pressure, was leaking down at the
normal rate, and when that QD was added, it
increased its leak rate by four times.
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CDR Well, we didn't add that _D lut night after the

dump. We added that QD, I think, yesterday
early, or the day before.

218 12 07 13 CC Our interpretation of it's wrong, then. We

war ched - -

CDR Okay, I don't think we fooled with that QD

yesterday. If we did, it was earlier in the
znorning or the previous day later. And - so the -
you can check that leak rate against what you
had towards the end of the day before we dumped
the tank. I was wondering, we've got ell these
EVA umbilicels and everything connected in now.
Maybe in some fashion it's leaking through there
in some way.

CC ()kay. We'll have another look.

CDR Yes, that doesn't make sense, because that's a

(lifferent loop, but that's the only thing that I
,.-anthink was different. I Just inspected the
holding tank and the line. They all looked
precisely like they should.

218 12 08 O0 CC ()kay. We're going LOS here in a few seconds.

We'll have you Hawaii in about I0 minutes.

218 12 19 24 CC _kylab, Houston. AOS for 8 minutes.

CDR Roger. Still trying to figure out when the leak

started. When did they notice it? After we
connected the condensate tank at night, did it
have a high leak then or did it hold for a while
and then start a high leak?

CC AI, Just looking at the graph here, it started

at 18:00 yesterday. And they feel fairly
certain - they feel fairly certain that you
connected something at that time.

CDR ]Let's see, 18:00 yesterday would be our time

up here about 13:00. I went the wrong way.
That would be about 23:00, so that would be about
3 or h hours fr_n sleep. I don't think we
connected that one though, but we been - we were
_-onnecting up all the EVA things. Maybe you mean
"[8:00 your local time.
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CC Negative. That's 18:00 Zulu.

218 12 29 54 CDR It might have something to do with one of these

PCU's. I don't know.

CC And by the way, A1, it's - it's going to take

an hour and 45 this morning to dump that thing
and then suck the diaphragm back. I believe
you asked earlier.

CDR In other words, you want 1 hour and 45 minutes

in the dump mode. And then we put the 18 minutes
on it in the vacuum. Is that right?

CC No, that was an hour 45 total.

CDR Okay. I guess then I'll put 1 hour and - see

I need 18 minutes worth of vacuum, so that'd be
about an hour _nd 30 minutes of dump. Last night
they said 1:30, I mean, I would always do it,
at least.

CC No, what they are saying is an hour to dump, and

then 45 minutes for - to suck the diaphragm back.

CDR Okay. The checklist has 18 minutes, but I'll do

it for _5.

CC Okay.

CDR Also, I noticed when I was up at the STS panel

that the condensate - correction, the PRIMARY
COOLANT LOOP LOW light's on again.

CC We copy that, A1.

218 12 25 18 CDR Hey, Bill.

CC Go ahead.

CDR We've been talking it over here, and we think

that was probably the time you told us to connect
the - the filter to the EVA loops. I thought it
was earlier, but 0wen and Jack think it was about
that time.

CC Okay. We copy that, A1. Thank you.

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218 12 27 43 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. We'll have you at

Goldstone at approximately 2 minutes.

218 12 30 19 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for 8 minutes.

218 12 41 26 SPT Hello, Houston.

CC Go ahead, Skylab.

SPT Bill, I Just want to confirm with the biomed

people, I've already checked it in my food log,
but that the coding on our supplements are in
the following order: calcit_n, phosphorous,
sodium, and magnesit_n, and potassium, in that
order.

CC We'll confirm that for you in a moment, Owen.

Stand by.

218 12 42 47 CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead, Bill.

CC 'l"natwas the correct order that you read them

down.

SPT Thank you.

218 12 49 22 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in i minute. And there

have been same slight revisions in the time of
dump on the tank. The best estimate now is an
hour and 45 minutes to dump it, following your
usual procedure of finding the position of the
,liaphrs_,n, and the estimate for bringing the
diaphragm back is now 18 minutes.

CDR Okay, now, I've found the diaphragm. I've been

dumping for about - well, I'm not looking at my
clock -but dumping, for say, i0 minutes. It
doesn't take but about 30 minutes for this
(liaphragm to get all the way over against the
other end of the tank, so I gather you want me to -
to get it over to the other end of the tank and
then leave it there for another hour and 15 minutes.

CC Stand by i, AI. We'll -

CDR ()kay, it was about a third of the way back a

].ittle while ago. I haven't checked it lately.
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218 12 50 42 CC AI, whenever it has bottomed out, you are free

to go ahead and suck it back up to the other end.

218 12 55 19 CC Skylab, we'ye got you through Canaries and

Ascension for 16 minutes.

PLT Okay. Good morning, Story.

CC Good morning to you, Jack.

CDR We enjoyed hearing from Bill but missed your

voice this morning. Say, I don't plan to eat
any more of those strawberries until they have
run those tests on the ground. I got them this
morning and I was thinking of substituting peaches
for them, if that's okay with the binned world.

CC We're checking, A1.

CDR We don't know what we're going to do when we get

back. Jack's hooked on this apple drink, we think.

CC Well, I understand he's going to be on it for

another 18 days, after he gets back.

CDR I don't think that'll be enough. It's Just going

to bother the habit. It's Just going to give
him a bigger monkey on his back, I'm afraid. He
can't leave it alone.

CC Okay.

PLT There won't be enough apple drink left after that.

218 12 59 43 CC Skylab, we Just handed over to Ascension. And

the peaches are fine to substitute for the
strawberries, A1.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

218 13 00 51 CC Skylab, we just handed over to Ascension. And the

substitution of peaches for strawberries is fine.

CDR Hey, that was so easy, Jack wants to know if he can

subsittute some ice cream for bread?

218 13 05 51 CDR Houston, are you still there?

CC Yes, sir, for another 2 minutes.

CDR Okay. Got a little information for the biomed people.

Jack found out, you know, they - they - you sent a
change up for us to hold down on the urine bag, while
we take the sample to cut out the number of bubbles
and fill the bag better. Well, Jack found out that
if he - if he sloshed the urine back and forth in
the bag, slowly, so it didn't make bubbles, he had
a lot better luck. Now, I haven't been able
to develop his techniques, yet. But he seems to get
very good samples that way. Now he does - in addition
to that, he does the - does the squeezing down hard.
So that might be something to pass back to Jerry
Carr, and Bill, and Ed in their training.

CC Okay. We copied that, A1.

CC And, Jack, for today, I guess you'll have to keep

eating the bread.

PLT Okay, Story. I've been eating it for the last l0

minutes. It's almost down.

218 13 07 08 CC Copy that. Is everybody reading me up there, right

now?

CDR Yes.

CC Okay. When you're outside the vehicle, we'd like

you looking for Coolanol the same way you looked
for hydraylic fluid on the T-38. You ought to see
some yellow and brown paper deposits, particularly
around the surface areas of the STS and the MDA.
Might look for - SL-2 reported some discolorations
on MDA radiators - on ATM surfaces facing the MDA.
Now, of particularinterestto us today, is above
the EVA hatch, looking toward the STS area.
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CDR Are you going to send that up on the teleprinter

pad, so that I can stick it in the book? And then
when it comes the time, I'll read it to Jack, and
he can look at that. Put them sort of in a nice
little list.

CC Okay. We can certainly do that.

CDR You list the directions and then I'll just read.
I'll say, "Okay, look towards STS. Look above door
or whatever else, if you see anything", and then he
can report it.

CC Okay. And we'll see you over Carnarvon at 13:33.

218 13 08 14 CDR I'm still shaking this urine. We each found our
profession up here. Owen troubleshoots the ATM, I
dump the condensate tank, and Jack shakes the urine.

218 13 34 01 CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon and Honey-

suckle for 9 minutes.

218 13 37 36 CDR Okay, Houston; CDR. Time's up on that dump. I

went over and checked the bellows. It's completely
against the bottom. Do you want me to now start
putting the vacuum on it or you want me to continue
in the dump mode for a while?

CC Put the vacuum back to it, A1.

CDR On the way.

218 13 39 25 CC And, PLT, we'd like to talk to you and your EVA
Checklist.

PLT I'm indisposed at the moment, Story. Just a minute.

CC Okay.

218 13 20 24 CDR The condensate tank is being vented at the moment.

CC Okay, thanks, A1, and I'm going to be passing a

message to Jack later on. Anyway, for you, do not
connect the water gas separator on panel 217. We're
going to delay that as long as possible to keep
that DELTA-P up.
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CDR Had a feeling that's what you were going to say.

Okay. Anything else?

CC Could you verify that you have not set the DAC
_? for today?

CDR We have not set up the DAC. We've set up the good
TV camera. I know they're both good, but the one
we never had any problems with. Could you tell me
again the serial nl_mBer on the one that we did have
the problem with, so that I can verify that we did
it right?

CC Okay. I'll get that for you. And we are calling

that number 2. We're going LOS here in about
20 seconds. See you over Hawaii in 15 minutes at
13:57.

CDR You're calling the one number 2 that you did not
ever have trouble with or did have trouble with?

CC That's the one you named number 2 and we never had

trouble with it.

218 13 42 09 CDR Okay. That's what I thought. We were talking

about it yesterday and I Just wanted to make sure.

218 13 58 29 CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii for 5 minutes.

CC If that was A1, you're one up on the CAP COMM

today. The good TV is number l, and it's serial
number B002.

CDR We checked it out, and we got it there.

CC Great.

218 14 00 23 CC No need to acknowlege, A1. A general message con-

cerning external inspection for Coolanol is in the
teleprinter.

CDR Thank you.

CC Skylab, we're 20 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over Goldstone in 7 minutes.

f PLT Are you there, Story?

CC Barely, but yes.

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PLT Okay, I've got the EVA Checklist ... Just tell me
where it's at then I'll be ready.

218 14 03 31 CC It's on page 1.2-9. We'd better catch the rest

over Goldstone in 6 minutes.

218 14 09 20 CC Skylab, we're AOS stateside for 20 minutes.

SPT I'll Just take a brief mention here, Story. I've

got to get up in the command module for some picture
taking, but our friend, Arabella did some good work
last night. She's got very unusua3 webs spun
around all the four corners of the box with some
stringers, even, from corner to corner. So she
had to do a lot of improvising, but she did get her
net out, at any rate, and apparently standing by
and waiting for some prey to float by.

CC Okay. That's great news, 0wen. And, give her

our congratulations.

SPT I'll do that.

CDR It's interesting, Story. She doesn't have very

much of the main web in the center. She's sort of
got fillets in each corner of the box, within a
few radials, and that 's it.

218 14 l0 21 CC Considering that she gets stranded when she gets

in the middle of the box, I guess that's
understandable.

CDR It sure is. I guess she's Just betting some prey

isn't going to go through the middle, and hope they
take the short cut around the edges. If they do,
she'll catch them.

CC She's about as smart as we are.

PLT Okay, Story. We're ready for the EVA Checklist.

CC Okay. That's page 1.2-9. I - above the 317 panel

SUS 1 PUMP right above that note, and the call is
panel 217, "Connect SUS water gas separator QD."

PLT Connect SUS water heaters, did you say?

CC That's connect SUS water gas separator, gas QD.

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PLT Okay. I know what you mean.

218 14 ii 26 CC And that's panel 2-17.

PLT ArLything else?

CC No, sir. Not now.

SPT At, the moment, we've got a beautiful sight out

the window. We're across the coast between Port-
land and Seattle, and there's a lot of snow in them
thar hills. And looks, according to our map, we're
going to go up across the border Just north of
Winnepeg.

CC Copy.

SPT You cover a lot of ground in a hurry at 4 miles

a second.

CC Couple of revs from now, you'll be passing fairly

c]ose to Houston. We've got good weather down
here. And you should have good visibility from
outside the vehicle.

218 14 13 08 SPT Good. And if you don't mid, we'll take a little
time to look around.

CC Be fine.

CC S_lab, we're 30 seconds to a 1-minute dropout

here while we hand over to Texas. We're not seeing
_y DELTA-P in the condensate holding tank. And
we'd like to press on with that procedure.

218 14 14 44 CDR We'll check it again.

218 14 16 17 CDR I don't understand ... It should have been pulling

a vacuum for about lO minutes.

CC AIL, we just dropped out between Goldstone and Texas.

Could you say again the last minute?

CDR Okay. I Just went up and checked. I thought I'd

been pulling a vacuum for lO minutes or so and it
looks to me like we have. It's connected to the
SJ_, the SAL's in VENT, partially open, it's
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connected to the SUS valve on the thing, and

it's open, and the other valves are closed. So
it should have been pulling the vacuum for about
l0 minutes.

CDR The only thing I can think of is it didn't get a

complete dump, although we dumped long enough. I
could go back and redump some more if you don't see
any, but it should be working properly. Let me
go see where the bellows is now. The bellows has
been against the end. I'll check and see where
it is now.

218 14 18 22 CC And, A1, we may be ahead of you on that. We won't

be able to see the DELTA-P until you complete
step 6,

CC Guess I put that last one up in the middle of a

handover, A1. Maybe we're ahead of you here. We
will not be able to see any DELTA-P until you get
through step 6.

CDR That's Just exactly what I thought. You don't

have any instrumentation on the tank. Only when
I connect it up.

CC That's correct, sir.

CDR Okay. That should - relieves my mind a bit. Okay,

it looks to me like it's not completely evacuated
yet. Probably about 8 more minutes.

CC Okay. We're going right, A1.

CDR Okeydokey.

PLT Story, we Just passed over my old stomping ground

of Michigan and you can look down there, and it
truly does look like a great big mitten. You
can see clear from one side of the state to the
other side of the state, all in one view plus a lot
of Illinois and Wisconsin and Canada and it looks
Just like it does on the map. It looks like a
great day down there today, too.

CC Okay. You're making me wish I was there.

PLT We're coming up over Baltimore and Washington now

and I can still look back and see clear over to
the other side of Lake Michigan.
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CC Roger.

PLT Not bad when you can see all the way from Washington
over to Chicago in one view, huh?

218 14 20 51 CC Not bad at all.

PLT Lot contrails down there and it looks like they're

all heading for New York and Washington.

218 lh 22 _2 PLT We just got another nice view of the coast, East
coast, Atlantic coast, Story. You can see all the
way from Boston way down past Cape Hatteras.

CC Roger.

PLT Don't worry. We're going to work now.

CC I wasn't.

218 i_ 2h 57 CDR We're pulling in the parasol now, as close to the

surface as we can.

CC Roger.

CDR We're pulling it in 8 inches, not as close as we

c_n get it. So we'll move it in 8 inches.

CC Yes, sir; 8 inches.

218 i_ 26 23 CDR We Just go a PRIMARY COOLANT FLOW caution and

warning. It didn't stay on though, Story.

CC Yes, sir. I probably should have warned you on

that one. We turned on the second pump in the
primary loop.

CDR Okay.

CDR Looks like we could bring it in more than 8, but

we're going to bring it in the 8 as requested.

CC Okay.

CDR I_z's in 8 inches and locked.

CC Copy.
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218 14 28 _6 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See you over

Ascension in 8 minutes.

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218 14 37 58 CC Skylab, AOS, Ascension for 7 minutes.

CDR We're letting it pull a little more vacuum. I'll

connect it in about 5 minutes. Then you can see
your DELTA-P.

CC Okay. Thanks. We'll be looking.

218 14 42 38 PLT Okay, Story, I'm at the point in the checklist

where I'm going to connect the SUS gas water sepa-
rator QD on panel 217. Is everything all right to
go ahead and do that?

CC We got to get the big tank squared away first, Jack.

Al's working on that right now.

218 14 42 59 PLT Okay. I'll omit that step. I'd like you to remind
us of it. And I'm going to go to panel 317 and
get SUS 1 pump on, and so forth then. Is that all
right?

CC No, sir. All that stuff is dependent upon getting

the water gas separator hooked up. Just standby
1 on that. Al's working on the big tank.

PLT Okay.

CC We'll be going LOS here in about a minute and

20 seconds. Jack, when A1 is done with his
procedure, and you're sure - showing a good DELTA-P,
then go ahead with your procedure there.

PLT Okay.

218 14 44 l0 CC We're seeing the DELTA-P coming up now.

CDR DELTA-P's coming on now, Story.

CC We're seeing it.

CC And, Jack, as we go over the hill here, you've

probably got it straight, we'd Just like another
reminder on panel 217. Connect the SUS water gas
- separator,gas QD prior to moving on _-iththe
steps, panel 317 SUS 1 pump, et cetera.
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PLT Okay.

218 14 45 06 CC And we'll see you over Carnarvon at 15:08.

218 15 08 29 CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon for l0 min-

utes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Carnarvon for

9 minutes. And we're looking at SUS 1 being up
and the DELTA-P at 4.

PLT Okay, I turned the pumps on and I did the procedure

for turning them on - turning them off, kind of
creeping up on them. And they've made some inter-
mittent noise that - then off again, on again,
some of that, sometimes quiet and sometimes loud.
And now it seems like it's steady down to a low hum.

CC We copy that, Jack.

PLT Okay. Now we're on page 1.2-7, that's the con-

densate t-nk dump. You want us to go ahead and
go through that dump procedure?

218 15 l0 04 CC That's affirmative, Jack. Continue with the check-

list right there.

PLT Okay.

PLT One other comment, Story. On the checklist I'm

turning on the water pump, LSU .... the alarm on
that. No EVA 1 light.

218 15 ll 50 CC Okay. We copy that, Jack. It's similar to what

happened on the first mission. And we're showing
the OWS HEAT EXCHANGER FANS are still ON. That's
in your checklist right above your condensate dump.
That's panel 390.

PLT Right. We'll get that.

CC Roger.

218 15 12 38 CDR Okay. We've disconnected the holding tank now

from 393 and capped it.
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CC ()kay. And you may get a caution and warning on

5hat. That'll be the condensate tank DELTA-P.

CDR I'm trying to understand one thing, Story. Is the

plan during the EVA to dump the holding tank a
couple of times? Otherwise it's going to fill up.
Is that the plan? Not the holding tank, but the
condensate tank.

CC We' re not concerned with that at all during the

EVA, A1. We're Just going to leave it as is.

CDR ()kay. You don't think it's going to finish, it's

going to pull that little vacuum in the tank down,
huh ?

CC We think it will pull it down. And we're not con-

cerned.

CDR Hey, that' s great.

218 15 13 32 CC Ihnd, no need to acknowledge. It's down now.

PLT ]Looks like the condensate tank DELTA-P is going

to stabilize, 3.6, Story.

CC ()kay. We showed it going back up from near zero

_md we don 't understand that.

PLT Yes, it seems down about 3.3 now.

218 15 17 _9 CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you over

G_1_m in 3 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape re-
corders over Guam. And, Jack, coming up over Guam,
we'd like a verification that all of the steps
imder OWS ventilation deactivation on page 1.2-7
have been completed. We'd like to talk to you
about that over Guam.

PLT Say that real - real quick again, Story. I wasn't

within earshot.

CC ()kay. We'd Just like a verification that every-

thing under OWS ventilation deactivation has been
completed or that you're working it.
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218 15 18 36 PLT That's been completed.

CC Okay. Th_nk you.

218 15 22 h8 CC Skylab, we've got you through Guam for 9 minutes.

And looking at the condensate system down here,
we are happy with it.

218 15 31 14 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 30 seconds. We'll see

you stateside at 15:47. And we're not expecting
to get any TV. There won't be too much to look at,
at this point. But we will be configured to re-
ceive TV stateside.

PLT Roger.

CDR Won't be much to look at then, Story. We Just

got it sitting in the lock compartment.

CC Yes, that's what we thought. That's your option

on doing anything.

CDR Roger. We'll probably Just press on and let you

have good TV next pass when we're outside.

218 15 31 58 CC Okay. That'll be fine.

218 15 47 12 CC Skylab, we have you stateside, for 17 minutes.

CDR Roger.

SPT And we're Just about into our LCG's with electrodes
off.

218 15 47 25 CC Copy that.

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218 16 03 23 CC Skylab, we're I minute to LOS. We're coming up

on a 43-minute LOS. We'll see you over Carnarvon
at 16:47. All your systems are looking good down
here and you're GO for continuing on the EVA.

218 16 46 19 PLT Okay, O. You'll check my lock-lock there?

SPT Okay, your visor?

PLT Yes.

218 16 46 44 PLT Okay, it's locked. All the way over.

PLT i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, i0, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4,
3, *** i. How do you read?

CDR Okay. There's a little bit of squeal on there

now, somewhere.

PLT Ix)wer your protective visor. That's this one. You

got yours lowered.

PLT _id okay, now I put those DAC back off.

CDR Probably turned off the ...

PLT Ready for the PCU checkout down here, AI.

218 16 47 27 CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon for 5 min-

utes. We're looking at the biomed data. It's good
and all your other systems are good.

CDR Okay. How do you hear me, Story?

CC Ix)udand clear.

CDR Okay. We're Just getting ready to go through the

integrity check, and we're pressing from there.

CC Roger.

SPT Hello, Story. How do you read us on VOX?

f CC IK)ud and clear, Owen.

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SPT Very good.

218 16 48 05 SPT It says here, we've got to have a PCU checkout

first, A1. •

PLT Cuff gage inaccuracy, plus or minus 0.15 psi max,

Owen. Nominal is plus or minus 0.04 *** REG l,
LOW FLOW, and LOW - or LOW VENT FLOW lights have
a 5-second delay.

SPT Okay.

PLT I need a little more sensitivity on the VOX, I

think, A1.

PLT Okay, here's what we do, O.

SPT Okay. Go.

PLT PRESSURE SELECTOR to BEG 2 and you're - Stand by,

you're going to get a SUIT PRESS, a REG 1 LOW FLOW
and a possible LOW VENT FLOW.

SPT Okay.

PLT I've already got a SUIT PRESS. Let's go to BEG 2.

218 16 48 48 SPT Roger. I'm in BEG 2.

PLT Same here.

SPT Got SUIT PRESS, now BEG 1 LOW - -

218 16 48 56 PLT HEG l, LOW FLOW for me.

PLT And is possible LOW F1 - LOW VENT FLOW did not

come on.

SPT That's right.

218 16 49 03 PLT Okay. Now we want to go to MODE SELECT, DELTA-P.

SPT Okay.

PLT Monitor the cuff gage and verify your SUIT PRESSURE
light is off at 2.8 to 3.1 psi and the LOW VENT
FLOW is off.
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218 16 49 18 SPT Okay. I go up slowly.

PLT That' s right.

218 16 49 42 PLT _d_K. Mine is off at 2.9.

PLT Thank you. Okay - -

218 16 49 55 SPT _RK. Mine's off at 2.85.

PLT Okay, Owen; 2.85. And mine's regulating at 3.4

on the money right now.

SPT Okay, mine is not stable yet.

SPT Okay. My suit's regulating REG 2 at 3.4. Okay.

The next thing to do is verify the cuff gage is
stable at -

PLT L2 to 3.5, which we've done. Okay. Now, note, in

the next step, the cuff gage will decrease and
cycle before stabilizing. 5 psi, so we're going
to go PRESSURE SELECTOR to REG i and the PEG i
IDW FLOW light will go out. And it's going to
oscillate. Okay. So let's go to, now, PEG i.

SPT Okay.

218 16 50 50 PLT She goes down to 2.9. Back up; 3.8, 3.35, REG 1
LOW FLOW is out, 3.75. Stable at 3.7.

SPT Okay. On my suit, it did Just like it did over

there on the ground for us before; it went off-scale
low, below 2.5. Now it's still oscillating.

?_18 16 51 27 PLT And it's about stable at 3.8. And our friends in
the EMU world assure us this won't happen in a
vacuum. It doesn't oscillate that much.

SPT Okay.

PLT Go ahead, A1; read - read co-,, check.

SPT Okay, we're working on that now.

218 16 52 Oh PLT Okay, 0., now. We verified our cuff gage stable
3.6 and 3.9.
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SPY The kit Just got knocked off there. I don't think
it's going to hurt anything. It's pretty hard to
snap that little thing b&ck. Yes, Just the mainte-
nance kit.

PLT Better learn how it likes it in the helmet bag.

SPT Very well, huh. S12.

218 16 52 46 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds from LOS. We'll see you

over Guam in 8 minutes. All systems look good and
you're cleared for depress when you get there.

SPT Very good, Story. Yes, I think we're up to the

MODE SELECT, ABSOLUTE, here, Jack.

PLT Okay, PRESSURE SELECTOR to BOTH. Verify no change

in the cuff gage or the displays. Okay?

SPY Okay. Where are you? Okay, excuse me, yes.

PLT Okay, let's go to BOTH and make sure nothing

changes. Okay.

SPY Still 38.

PLT Okay, nothing changed here. Now the EMU integrity

check. Next sequence, integrity 02 flow to the
suit. REG I LOW FLOW and LOW VENT FLOW lights will
light. Monitor the cuff gage for a maximum decay
of 0.8 psi and i minute. So I got to watch here.
Okay, now we're going to go to OFF, Owen, on my
mark. Okay. Stand by now for your FLOW SELECT,
OFF, and then the PRESSURE SELECT, OFF.

SPT Both of them ar - -

PLT Okay, stand by.

218 16 54 02 PLT MARK.

218 17 01 12 PLT ... on.

SPT That's it.

PLT Five feet. That ought to be enough.

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SPT But you're supposed to leave it in the aft compart-

ment. 15 feet.

PLT Okay, I got the hatch loose. Now, that's scmethlng

they didn't put in the checklist.

PLT Well, therels a lock behind the - behind the hatch

is what I'm getting at.

SPT All right. Here I is.

218 17 02 05 CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and cleam through

Guam for 5 minutes.

SPT Ix>oks like we got everything moved out here of the

way, AI. Well, I'm going to have to open the door
here and ... a little bit.

PLT It seemed to me -

218 17 02 48 CC Jack, we're reading you loud and clear, through

Guam for 3 more minutes.

PLT Okay, the hatch handle is verified to be open.

PLT Hatch is comin 6 closed.

PLT ....the way. Okay.

218 17 03 24 PLT I haven't got to - up to equalize pressure yet.

PLT There, I can't get that handle to go up to -

PLT Okay, that's where we are. We're in equalized

pressure and now to unlock. There we are. Okay.

218 17 04 19 PLT Okay, it's closing.

PLT No, no, that's not in the way, the dogs are - Are
you sure we're supposed to have the handle in
equal - lock before we close it?

PLT It won't work that way, because the dogs are hitting
on the edge when you do it that way.

218 17 04 5_ PLT Okay, it's in OPEN.

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218 17 04 58 PLT Now the dogs are down flush.

PLT Yes.

218 17 05 22 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over Goldstone in 17 minutes. That's at 17:23.
All systems are looking good and you're GO for
depress.

CDR Okay, Story. Understand. Thanks.

CC And while I got you, AI, you might be coming to

page 6.2-12 over Goldstone.

CDR It's a long way off at the moment.

PLT I'm not having much luck with this hatch here, AI.

PLT That's where it is. It's OPEN.

PLT No, there 's - there 's one hsmdle that has OPEN,
EQUALIZE PRESSURE, and close. Okay?

PLT Well, when you get the hatch closed, you try to
dog it over, the -

218 17 06 57 SPT Need me to hold your feet down, Jack.

PLT Yes. Well, no, let's leave free for a minute.

SPT All right.

PLT Yes, the hatch is closed.

PLT No, that's the part I haven't been able to do.

218 17 07 26 CC Skylab, as we go LOS here - we're probably over

the hill, but we're hearing you working the 0WS
hatch. Just a reminder, there is a lock at each
detent on the handle.

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218 17 2_ 01 SPT Okay. The e-hour gage reads also.

PLT That ice builds up in the middle of the screen and -

Edge around it remains free.

SPT Looks like it's because the heat conductivity -

there's a heat ... the outer screen - edge.

PLT That must be it ....

218 17 2h 57 CC Skylab, we've got you AOS, stateside, for 13 minutes.

We're seeing the airlock depress u rizing. All
systems are looking good.

FLT ...

SPT Now, we've got a little cap with a screen over it -

over our depressurization valve, now, Story, in
order to catch this ice. And it's working very
nicely. About half covered with ice, little ice
cxTstals. And Jack and I were Just talking about
it. Looks like the ice forms principally - in fact,
it does form principally in the center-half area.
And the outer-half area remains without ice crystals,
we presllme due to the greater conductivity to the
valve on the out -

CC Okay. Good observation. Sounds like we got a good

fix.

219 18 26 02 SPT I'm not sure I'm triggering VOX all the time.
I guess I'm-

PLT Hear us cutting out, Story, you might let us know

so we can adjust it.

CC You are cutting out. Both of you.

CDR Okay. We show in the lock compartment, Story, about

0.T in the workshop we show about 5.2. And in
MDA we're showing about 5.3 I'm going to go adjust
the V0X right now, a little bit better. That's
panel 9, correct?
r

SPT Turned on.

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218 17 27 05 SPT Okay, testing, i, 2, 3, h, 5, 5, 4, 3, -Bring

it up, there it is l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, l,
l, 2, 3, 4, 5. That sounds about right to me, A1.

CC Okay.

PLT A1, you got all these speaker boxes turned down in
there ?

SPT Couldn't be anything in the workshop when there's

no mike open down there.

CDR About a half.

PLT Okay.

218 17 28 2_ SPT Yes, I think so. It's pretty stable right in here.
Wouldn't you say, Jack?

PLT Yes, it's been hanging on there for a long time.

SPT Okay, we'll give that a try.

PLT There it is. You got it off.

CC Skylab, it sounds like we're getting all your calls

at this time.

SPT You see that little piece ...

PLT (Laughter)

CDR I readjusted the VOX there, Story. So I think it

ought to work.

SPT I tried to catch it and it wouldn't go.

PLT Here comes another little one.

SPT Okay, we're reading about 0.2. I don't know how

much lower we'll be able to get it.

218 17 29 25 CC And, A1, the next 9 minutes, prior to LOS, like to

meet you on page 6.2-12.

SPT Go anywhere.

CDR Okay, go ahead. I'm there, Story.

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PLT-EVA Let me give you a little rope there, 0.

218 17 34 57 CDR Okay. Just opened up both.

PLT-EVA There you are.

CDR What's the reason for that?

CC Thank you.

CDR Why?

PLT-EVA 01h, what a view.

CDR Wbat'd we do that for, Story?

CC Tihat's because our recorder is full and we can't

dump it.

CDR Tihank you.

218 17 35 25 PLT-EVA Well, we've got the Big O. out there on the foot
restraints, A1.

CDR Think you can ...

PLT-EVA I don't know, I'll see if he will. Will you do

that, O?

SPT-EVA As soon as I get them ba_k here.

PLT-EVA Nine feet's back here somewhere. I don't think

you ... to 9.

SPT-EVA Whoops.

PLT-EVA There's 9 feet right there. Cut off there.

PLT-EVA No cut-off.

SPY-EVA ... in the water.

218 17 35 52 PLT-EVA Yes. Can't see the bubbles. Okay. He's got her
clamped, A1.

CDR Okay.

SPT-EVA Okay. The Sun end extended 6 inches. The hook is

folded.
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SPT-EVA Next.

PLT-EVA We don't check the other boom, huh? Okay. Okay.

Okay, l'm working on that, AI.

SPT-EVA Tethers ?

PLT-EVA Okay. The ... limb tether there is the way we like
it, and l'm going to turn to that beauty before
I do anything with it.

CDR Okay.

SC ...

SPT-EVA I believe that guy's in there eating lunch, and

we're out here working.

CDR Yes.

SPT Taught him to not talk when he was eating.

218 17 37 50 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over the Vanguard in ii minutes. And, for your
information, although we're only getting real-time
TV over the States, we will be recording TV on the
ground at the other stations.

CDR Okay. We'll be putting the TV out before too long,

Story.

CC Thank you, sir.

CDR Things are going smooth - ly.

PLT-EVA Okay. I got that hooked up. I'll hook it at the

other end .... get it over.

218 17 48 04 SPT-EVA No we hook it on with a tether that's on the base

plate.

PLT-EVA Okay, O. I got it hooked to me. And where does he

hook it now?

SPT-EVA Right up here to this handrail, where the clothes-

line clip is.
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PLT I just want to make sure this little loop he's got
i_ satisfactory for the place he's going to put it.
I think it is.

218 17 48 hl CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear over the
Vanguard for 9 minutes.

SPT-EVA Got you floating out of these foot restraints.

CDR Well, they've taken out the two poles so far. They
took out the sail bag. They're in the midst of
taking out the ...

CC Copy, A1.

CDR Everything's going smooth.

CC And your systems are looking good.

SPY-EVA ...

CDR Thank you.

PLT-EVA (].aughter) It's just tethers all over. There ain't

no way for anything to get away.

218 17 h9 28 PLT-EVA Think this little red thing is next, I believe.

PLT-EVA Okay, he gets the red one and we'll leave the
tethers inside on this one.

SPT-EVA Got it. Got it tethered to me.

PLT-EVA All right.

SPT-EVA Going ask about those EVA lights, AI. I guess

they can -

218 17 50 18 CDR Houston, we were wondering if the EVA lights were

ollnow?

CC Stand by i.

CDR We were kind of looking at them. I asked them to

look at them out there, and they said they didn't
look on at the moment. But, it's so bright out there,
it might be hard to see.
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PLT-EVA Stabilize it for you, O. There you go. You got a

hitch from it?

sPr-EVA ...

PLT-EVA Try to reach it. Attaboy.

PLT-EVA Okay. I'm unhitched from it. You put that there
and I'll go get the green one.

SPT-EVA That's way back in the corner here.

PLT-EVA Not that I don't want to, my friend. Got the green
one hooked to me.

CC A1, we got no way of telling down here whether your

EVA lights are on or not. They should be turned on
according to the checklist. We did check them out
yesterday because they do run through that power
transfer distribution box. We've got no way of
telling down here whether they're on or not.

218 17 52 02 CDR Y'all commanded them on, though, earlier or what?

PLT-EVA Owen, that thing is going to be upside down when you -

Does that matter to you?

CDR We got it switched, but we didn't know whether you

com_aanded them or not.

SPT-EVA I think I'd better change it.

PLT-EVA Okay.

CC Yes, it's going to be pretty obvious to y'all in

about 14 minutes whether they're on or not. And
that's a switch that you throw in the airlock. So
0wen could get in there and do it if you don't
have them on.

CDR Okay. We'll Just check it. We just wanted to be

ready. Okeydoke.

PLT-EVA You mean they're all off?

218 17 53 10 PLT-EVA No, they're all on, AI. AI, we're rearranging
something here a little bit.
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SPT-EVA Too much confidence in it. We're working on it.

PLT-EVA Attaboy.

PLT-EVA . .. at her - locked.

PLT-EVA It's not going to work out right, A1.

PLT-EVA ... one on the bottom, A1.

SPT-EVA Go backwords?

218 17 5h 48 PLT-EVA No, it's not going to work ... You know the problem?
This hook is oriented differently than the one in
the water - the two trainers. 180 out. So it's
going to wind up with a red one on top. So what
we got to do is put the green one on first, I think,
O.

SPT-EVA Well, now let's see if I flip -

PLT-EVA Yes, we're going to wind up with the red one on

the top at the moment.

PLT-EVA No, the green one's going to be on the bottom. I

remember that old hook on the trainer, 0., I think
it's oriented 180 different. That's - You tether
to that one and then I'll give you this one.

SPT-EVA Okay, if you've got that one right there, I wonder

if you can't Just put it on. While I'm ... red
one tethered to me.

PLT-EVA Yes, I think we can.

PLT-EVA It'll save about three intermediate transfers.

PLT-EVA Makes it hard to get the things on too, because you

got to get them squashed beneath the - rods are in
the way of getting it on the hook.

218 17 56 21 SPT-EVA Press that button down for me there?

PLT-EVA Okay. The button's down.

SPT-EVA That 's good.

PLT-EVA Yes, very well, Now we want this to go on there

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Just like this.

PLT-EVA Okay. That one's on there, Owen. I'm going to hang

onto it while you put the other one on.

CC CDR, Houston.

PLT-EVA Other way, other way.

CDR Go ahead.

218 17 57 l0 CC Okay, we'd like you to close - -

PLT-EVA No, that's the way ... - -

CC - - those two circuit breakers that you opened up

before - -

SPT-EVA Like that ?

PLT-EVA Yes.

CC - - at panel 200. INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM3, TRANSMITTERS

Bravo and Charlie, CLOSED.

218 17 57 24 CDR Okay. CLOSED.

CC Thank you.

CDR If you've been listening. Apparently the hook on the

outside of this hatch is reversed - -

PLT-EVA There we go.

CC - - from the one in the EVA water tank. So we'll

probably want to pass that word on to Huntsville
so they can change it in the tank, so that Jerry
Carr and his crew will have it correct.

PLT-EVA The open part is facing down toward the fabric

around the FAS, instead up toward the hatch.

PLT-EVA Okay, here we are, A1. We're sitting here with the
green one on top and the red one on the bottom. The
hook is locked and the ropes are pointing outboard
so they're going to be easily visible when he
picks them out.
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CDR ()kay.

PLT-EVA All right.

218 17 58 15 CC Skylab. We're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll be seeing

you in 1 hour and 5 minutes over Goldstone at 19:03.

SFT it's on. Hold on.

SC ....

CC Jhnd, as we go over the hill here, we'll be getting

live TV over Goldstone. I'd like a verification
the EVA lights are on.

218 17 58 41 SPT They're on.

CDR They are on.

218 17 58 h3 CC Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

218 19 03 23 SPT-EVA Get my tether loose.

PLT-EVA No, I think we ought to press ahead, AI.

CDR Okay.

CC Sk?lab, we're reading you loud and clear over

Goldstone for 5 minutes. We're getting the TV
down here, and all systems are looking good.

CDR Thank you. Let me give you a little recap of what's

going on, Story.

CC Go, A1.

218 19 0h 19 CDR Okay. They've got six poles assembled. Every-

thing's transferred down. Here's been the
problem. We've got the little grommets, as you
know, on the end of the poles. And so, as Owen
has been pulling the poles off the rack, the little
grommets tend to roll down like they're going off
the end. Now, we haven't been able to break the
elastic. It's really tough, so there's no way to
break it. So he's been having to maneuver very
carefully both - -

218 19 04 46 PLT-EVA Just a minute. Just a minute. The other end of

that is between your legs here, O. You've got it.
Okay?

SPT-EVA Yes.

PLT-EVA There you go.

CDR - - He had to maneuver the poles very carefully out

of the rack to keep from losing the gro_,-.et. Now
it's Just taking time, and it looks like he's going
to get it. I suggested one alternative, which
doesn't sound too good, but it's a possibility in
case he gets tired. Namely, come back in the lock,
bring the poles in, repress the lock, cut the - -

PLT-EVA Elastic.

CDR - - elastic with the scissors, depress the lock,

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go out and finish the Job. But 0wen seems to think

he's going to have it made. It's Just going to
take a little bit longer than he thought.

218 19 05 35 PLT-EVA I think you bumped the TV there, O.

SPT-EVA Yes, you're right.

PLT-EVA Just pull it this - I think you - Just got one

axis, that's all.

CC We copied, AI.

CDR Okay.

PLT-EVA How does that picture look down there, now, Houston?

CC That's a good picture, Jack.

PLT-EVA Is that a satisfactory position for the camera?

PLT-EVA Story, is that satisfactory?

218 19 06 16 CC Like it a little bit lower down, below the ATM.

CDR You mean away from the Sun?

CC Towards the Sun.

PLT-EVA Well, it looks like we're whistling down the

West Coast there, Story.

SPT-EVA Is that better, Story? How is that, Story?

CC We're looking. That's getting better.

PLT-EVA Yes, I look off to my right and I can see -

SPT-EVA Do you want more?

CC More in the same direction.

218 19 06 52 PLT-EVA I can see Los Angeles, and the Imperial Valley,
and the Salton Sea. And we're coming up on BaJa.
Yes, and that must be San Clemente down there too.

CC A little further in the same direction, Owen.

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Right there.

PLT-EVA They're looking pretty close to the Sun now, O.

SPT-EVA Is that satisfactory, Story?

CC I guess we'd better lift it up in the opposite

direction. The AGC is cutting us out because of
the Sun.

PLT-EVA Tilt it up a little bit, Owen.

CC Try that right there.

SPT-EVA 0h, okay.

CC That looks as good as you're going to do.

SPT-EVA ()kay.

218 19 07 4h PLT-EVA The way I'm standing up here, Story, I'm heading
backwards, but I'm standing upright looking down
at the - at the Earth. And over on the right now,
of course, we're over lots and lots of blue Pacific
_md clouds. Off to my right side, over there, I
can - yes, we're halfway down the BaJa peninsula
now, and I can see up to L.A. and - uh - a]most
up to Frisco.

SPT-EVA San Francisco.

PLT-EVA Right. And I can see - Salton Sea, and it's Just
an all-around beautiful sight. Yes, the curvature
of the Earth is very, very apparent up here, and
the Earth truly is round, and -

CC ()kay,we're copying all of that. That's great,

Jack. We're going LOS here in l0 seconds. We'll
see you over the Vanguard at 19:25. And we'll be
dumping the tape recorders then. And there are
some scissors in a pouch in the airlock.

PLT-EVA ()kay. Thank you, Story.

218 19 08 56 PLT-EVA Hey, 0., I'll fire this up to you and you can put
_mother one on there.
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SPT-EVA I'ii put it wherever you like it.

PLT-EVA A little higher. Or about 6 inches toward me.

218 19 22 39 SPT-EVA There you go.

PLT-EVA Oh, my gosh! It's in!

CDR Hey-hey I

PLT-EVA (Laughter) It's swinging back s.nd forth out there.

SPT-EVA About a L-second period, isn't it? No, you best

don't - Yes. You don't ...

PLT-EVA l'd Just leave it.

SPT-EVA Yes, Just put a hand damper on it and that'll take

the energy out better than anything.

218 19 25 07 CC Skylab, we've got you over the Vanguard for ii minutes.
Reading you loud and clear.

SPT-EVA Okay, we Just got the first ll-section pole out

there, Story, and passed it on out to Jack. Maybe
you can - no you're not - you don't have any video,
of course. But the ll-section pole is now being
clamped to the base plate and it's not oscillating
too badly at all. It does oscillate with about a
4 - or 5-second period, really a slow one. And -
oh, l'd say the amplitude at the moment - when
I passed it out to Jack wasn't more than plus or
minus 3 feet. So it's not too big an oscillation.

PLT-EVA It 's stable right now.

SPT-EVA And it's already stabilized, Jack says.

CC Okay. Great. And you've made a lot faster progress

since the last station than you made before. Are
you doing something different?

218 19 25 57 SPT-EVA Yes, as a matter of fact, I am. In order to get

these rods out, I kick out of one foot restraint,
my right one, prop it up against the F-4 handrail,
then lean back and tug on it (chuckle) as hard as
I can, keeping the rods away from the - rack so
that the grommet doesn't drag. Then I have to
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twist it off through a - an elastic band, while

bracing my foot against F-4. So it's sort of a
complicated procedure, but apparently you do learn
a li - little bit by trial and error.

CC Okay. Understand. Looking at the grn-,_et on the

'I_, we thought we saw some grnmmets on the locking
nuts? Are they on the cooar of the rod or on the
locking nuts?

218 19 26 35 SPT-EVA Well, now, on the rods themselves, the grommets

are right behind the locking nut.

CC Okay, that's - that's where they ought to be. And

I guess you found the twisting motion helps retract
the rod.

SPT-EVA Oh, yes, I've been through all that. The elastic
bands are really something.

CC Okay. We've solved another problem. You beat

us to it. If we can be of any further help, let
us know.

SPT-EVA Okay, we'll let you, Story. I think the next rod
will go a little bit faster, probably. Although
what we're going to do is to - Jack's going to
come back. And then we will turn this section
of rods over, so that the next array is also facing
upward to me so that I can see them as I pull them
out. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'll drag more across
the rack and could pull another - a]most pull
another grommet.

CC Copy.

PLT-EVA Holy cow! What are we over here, Al? Is this

South America or what?

CC Affirmative.

218 19 27 41 PLT-EVA Boy, look at those mountains down there with the
snow on them.

SPT-EVA Called the Andes?

PLT-EVA My green pole is pointed right down there at the

Andes. Buenos disa, senores and senoritas. Well,
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Story, we've got this one green pole in place, and

it's sitting there Just as pretty as you please -
no oscillation whatsoever.

SPT-EVA Do you want to come up and flip this thing over,

Jack? You could release it up on that F-10 handrail.
Then I can pull it out, keeping it tethered the
whole time.

PLT-EVA Wait a minute. Let me look at this pole a minute

and make sure my hooks *** right place. I think
they are. Better run this hook through one time.

SPT-EVA Okay.

218 19 29 i0 PLT-EVA Hey, there's the hook with the white ring. The
double ring is on the other side of the pole and
it's going to come to me next before it goes through
the end - opposite end. Okay, I think we've got
that straightened out. Now l'm going to come down
there, 0., and - help you get those plates turned
over.Okay?

PLT-EVA Got to come under it - like so.

CDR How do the spacecraft systems look, Story?

CC They're all great, A1, all great.

CDR Okay, what's new in the condensate area?

218 19 30 31 CC A1, the DELTA-P, of course, is zero, but we've

got no problem there.

CDR Okay.

PLT-EVA Could you let go a little bit, 0.?

SPT-EVA Oh yes, excuse me.

SPT-EVA Enough? I can give you some - -

PLT-EVA No, let me have some more.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA Tether - Once you pull these tethers up they don't

want to - (Chuckle) release. Well, I'll tell you
what we can do here, O. See, you're going to have
to pull that out of there, aren't you?
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SPT-EVA Yes. I could release my end if you want to leave

yours ... here. Is yours still tethered?

PLT-EVA Yes, it's still hooked up.

SPT-EVA Okay, you want to pull that out your way. Got
enough stability? Well, I can help.

218 19 31 26 PLT-EVA Well, it's not going to come out this way, yet.

SPT-EVA Oh. Well, if I pull this thing off we'll - we

could pull it out, don't you think?

PLT-EVA Yes, I think we can slide the corner down around -

to my right.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA Slide it down - push it to your left. That's the

only way we're going to get it out.

SPT-EVA Oh.

PLT-EVA Attaboy

SPT-EVA Now out a little further?

PLT-EVA No, Just push it down to your left there. We'll

get it out under that way and then rotate it over.
SPT-EVA All right.

PLT-EVA Okay, Just let me have it 0. I got it.

SPT-EVA All right. Turn it that way?

218 19 32 22 PLT-EVA Yes, let's turn it over - like this. I - pull my

part over the top.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA Attaboy. There you go. There we got it turned

over. Now, let's Just slide it under there the
way we took it out. Coming up at you there.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA There. All turned around.

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SPT-EVA Okay. Let me clip my end back.

PLT-EVA All you got to do is tle it down, down there and

we're back in business.

218 19 33 lh PLT-EVA Yes. Oh, it's Just going smoothly. We Just got
to take out time .... out here, you don't come
around this way very often, like someone said.
Now, 0., there's l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 *** 9, l0 -

SPT-EVA Add them again.

PLT-EVA There's a couple of these and I was kind of

wondering - -

SPT-EVA Oh.

PLT-EVA - - if the elastic is on the wrong side of the

grommet.

SPT-EVA Oh, that 's had.

PLT-EVA Only one of those.

SPT-EVA Let me try to - I see which one that is. Let's

try to lift it over it.

PLT-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA Well, that's - -

PLT-EVA Well, we might; we might not. But I think it's

easier to do that.

SPT-EVA Yes, if -

PLT-EVA *** it did awhile ago.

SPT-EVA Can you pull on it down here?

PLT-EVA No, no, no, no; don't do nothing to it.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA l'm Just rotating it. There we are.

SPT-EVA Now, the elastic ought to be up on the collar, if

you - if we can get it there.
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PLT-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA That's the hard part.

PLT-EVA Yes.

PLT-EVA 0., the best I can do is to tighten these all up

so it doesn't slip down in that little crack.

SPT-EVA Okay. Well, I'm not sure I can get them off, but
I'll try.

218 19 3h 39 CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half to LOS. We'll

see you in about an hour over Hawaii at 20:34.
Even though we're not getting it real time, we
are getting TV on the down-link.

CDR Okay. Thanks, Story.

PLT-EVA Okay. Now, 0., the only thing I can suggest is

to - -

CDR See you in an hour or so.

CC Okay. And - PLT, Houston.

PLT-EVA Okay. What'd you say there, Story?

CC We show you getting most of your cooling through

airflow, Jack. In order to conserve your sweat,
maybe you'd want to run a little cooler on the
diverter valve.

PLT-EVA A little cooler water flow, you mean?

CC Yes, sir.

PLT-EVA All right.

218 19 35 18 SPT-EVA I can get them all right.

PLT-EVA Okay now, 0., there's a couple more here like that.

CDR Thank you, Story.

SPT-EVA I think I can get them all right. Those came off
well enough,I can Just pull them right off.
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PLT-_VA Okay. I think you're all set up.

SPT-_VA Okay. I do too. Let me set back out here in m_,

favorite position.

PLT-EVA That's one thing the marines don't do is sit in

the Suu.

PLT-EVA Oops. Straddle the pole.

218 19 36 i0 PLT-EVA That'll put a little oscillation into it (laughter).

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

218 20 33 15 PLT-EVA - - left hand around the pole. Now how is it?
Okay, now it's clear at your end. How's it down
at the other end?

PLT-EVA Twist out the far end now slightly.

SPT-EVA Okay, which one - Is - is the one in my right

hand clear?

PLT-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA *** clear now.

SPT-EVA Are they clear now, both of them?

PLT-EVA Negative.

SPT-EVA Okay, which one is clear?

PLT-EVA Neither of them. I don't believe they're clear

now.

SPT-EVA Where would I have to rotate the pole to clear

them?

PLT-EVA To the - clockwise. Try that.

SPT-EVA As I see it.

PLT-EVA I think so. The other way then, your other

clockwise.

SPT-EVA No, no. You're pulling too hard I can't turn it.

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

Hawaii for 8 minutes. All systems are looking
good down here.

PLT-EVA *** Story.

CDR We've got both poles out, Story and - -

CC Good.

-- CDR - - And when we got the second one out, it was

in: the dark. We had to wait until the Sun came
up to look and see if the line was straight.
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The line had a 180-degree twist in it, or at least

it appeared to, which is a little confusing.
Should be in increments to 360, we thought. And
so, we've t_l_en that pole down. Owen presently
has the end, Jack has it over his shoulder and
they're straightening out the line. Essentially
the pole assembly is done but we've got to get
the line straightened out.

218 20 35 33 SPT-EVA ... some more Jack.

CDR Copy, AI.

SPT-EVA ... I can't rotate it.

PLT-EVA Okay.

CDR They've been working real easy so they're not

tired. Everything's going okay.

PLT-EVA Slip - slip any of them off the end and - or

can you tell where they are, O?

SPT-EVA I can clear this left one, but the right one
is still going to have about a 70 twist or so.
I wish I could lift this gro_et; Just rotate it.
Can't get that grommet back out.

SPT-EVA *** this other pole up there.

PLT-EVA Huh? What do you want to do, 07

SPT-EVA I want to bring it in toward me, and I'm going

to disconnect -

SPT-EVA So you keep those lines right where they are.

PLT-EVA Okay, I got them.

SPT-EVA Take it straight all beyond that now.

PLT-EVA *** do you know what way to rotate them now?

SPT-EVA I rotate it so that it's clear up above me.

SPT-EVA Check when I get there.

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CC Jack, Houston.

PLT-EVA Yes, go ahead.

CC How much of a twist do you have out there?

PLT-EVA Well, the right pole hasn't gotten any - - the

red - the green pole hasn't gotten any twist in
it at all.

SPT-EVA Rotate a little more here, now.

PLT-EVA The red pole, I put it out and the rightmost

line was clear, but the leftmost line had a 180
in it.

CC Did you try exercising the line to see how much

friction you had in it?

PLT-EVA No, there wasn't any friction.

CC Our feeling is that you can probably put the sail

on it even with up to a 360 twist, and you won't
have so much friction that you couldn't run it
on out.

PLT-EVA Yes, we're Just trying to make sure. We have

plenty of time.

218 20 37 49 CC ()kay.

PLT-EVA ()kay, A1, how are you doing?

SPT-EVA Well that didn't - looks to me like it was

straight.

CDR We're going to do it right for Rocko.

CC Okay, he's here listening to you.

SPT-EVA I don't know, I've got to check now. Do I

have any twist above me, Jack?

PLT-EVA No.

SPT-EVA Okay, now let me see about ***

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PLT-EVA Hold - I'ii hold this line out, and you hold that
one out.

SPT-EVA Hard to tell when it's close to the pole.

PLT-EVA Got it hooked behind the - in the tree there, O.

SPT-EVA All right.

218 20 38 31 PLT-EVA Okay, now. There - there you go. Okay, let me hold
this side out 0wen, and you hold the other one out,
and see how she looks.

SPT-EVA Still have a twist out at the far end.

PLT-EVA Which one?

PLT-EVA Are they both twisted?

SPT-EVA Take the pole one way. Rotate the pole clockwise.

PLT-EVA Not my clockwise.

SPT-EVA Okay, then the other way.

PLT-EVA Okay. How's that?

SPT-EVA Okay, that's pretty good. Just hold a minute.

Completely free. There's no twist up there.

PLT-EVA Okay, now look at your end.

SPT-EVA Okay, I've got some twists up here, sorry.

PLT-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA I think I'm going to have to go down and loosen

that connection again. The problem is you want to
mRke sure - get the - Hey, O.

SPT-EVA Yes.

PLT-EVA Just a minute.

SPT-EVA Let's get them as free as we can on the other end.

PLT-EVA They are. They are completely free beyond you.

SPT-EVA No, on your end.

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SPT-EVA Looks like you can take that one that you had
in your other hand and flip it around to the
bottom.

PLT-EVA Tried that.

SPT-EVA No, the other one now.

PLT-EVA You mean this one.

SPT-EVA Yes. Okay. Now hold it out. Now, hold the other
line out; I'll hold this one. Okay, there you go.
Now, has your line got a twist or not?

218 20 h0 40 PLT-EVA No, but this line has a twist in it.

SPT-EVA Okay, it's got a twist behind you there, too.

PLT-EVA Well that's the one I'm talking about. There's

no twist beyond you; everything is free beyond you.

SPT-EVA Okay, on both - -

PLT-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA - - on both lines, huh?

PLT-EVA No. Yes. There's this one twist right in front of

my nose.

PLT-EVA Right, now see, Houston, that's the queer thing.

We got one line that goes all the way out with no
twist, and the other line has got a lO0 - well,
a 180 in it.

PLT-EVA Yes. Okay, hold it out there, Owen; let me take a

look at it.

PLT-EVA Yes. Yes, I agree with that. Now, let me take a

look at your end there, O, and I'll tell you
exactly where to put it. I can't see it.

218 20 41 42 SPT-EVA Just a minute, A1. Just a minute, A1.

PLT-EVA Okay, now, if you Just - twist your thing around

here until it's clear. I'll hold this. There
attaboy! Now let's - quick zap it to her. Now
"-- bringher back- -
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CC Skylab, we're 20 seconds to LOS here. As we go

over the hill, all systems are looking good.
We'll be dumping the tape recorders over Vanguard.
See you there in 20 minutes.

SPT-EVA 0kay, Story.

CDR Looks like they've got it now.

PLT-EVA Okay, you all grommetted and everything there, 07

SPT-EVA Not yet I Just want to check to make sure that

there's ...

218 20 42 47 PLT-EVA Okay, he's got her - -

218 21 04 25 PLT-EVA I think so.

CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear over the

Vanguard for 8 minutes.

SPT-EVA Okay, Story. Do you want to talk to him, Jack,

or should I - -

PLT It's going kind of slow up here, Story. The

reason is, is because the folds are stuck
together. And had to reef it back in some - or
pull it back in to unstick the glue.

CC Okay.

CDR Both poles are fully - both poles are fully

deployed. He's Just getting the sail out on them
now. In fact, it's been all out once, and he's got
it back in again now, working on the pleats_

CC Understand the sail is stuck together in places?

SPT-EVA Yes.

CC And you did get the twist out of the lines?

SPT-EVA All complete.

CC That's another thing we solved, and you beat us

to it.

SPT-EVA How did you solve it?

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CC We broke the pole in half between the two - the

two pullies and moved the line that had a 180
on it, through the break, and then reconnected
the poles.

SPT-EVA _at's Just how we solved it. Congratulations.

CC Thank you, sir.

218 21 06 20 CDR W]]at's happening is, apparently, at the front edge,

Story, and at the back edge of the sail, where that
white material is, it's sort of stuck together.
_b_d we broke that apart manually. And then kind of
fluffed up the main sail material and sent it out.
But the rigidity of the poles is such that the -
folded-up material tends to pull the poles
together about as much as the poles tend to pull
i_ apart. In fact, exactly as much, I guess.
But the whole point is, it doesn't completely come
out when it's out at the end of the pole. We've
now got the sail back and sort of slipping it a
little bit to make sure it's not sticking in any
one fold. In other words, no two faces of the fold
are completely stuck together, but they're all
going to accordion equally. Then get it out to
the end again; tie down the two end places; and I
guess the Sun will heat it up and cause the poles -
forces to expand it until it's finally level. Do
you think that's true?

SPT-EVA It looks great now.

CC Okay. It sounds like you got that work under

control, A1. And I'll try to get you an answer
on the folds. And is there anything we can do
for you down here?

PLT-EVA I Just yanked it all back in, Story, and - and

took the folds apart as much as I could. And it
looks like it's doing better now.

218 21 07 46 SPT-EVA Yes. We can only see one pleat. In fact, it's
Just opened up partly now. All pleats are partly
expanded. Some of the pleats ... - -

CC 0kay, great and when you deploy the reefing lines

_ out to the dog bones out there, that'llhelp to
pull those poles apart too.
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SPT-EVA Roger, Story.

CDR Everything's going on good up here. They're

working at a slow, steady pace. And nobody's
tired, so I have a feeling that the last half
is going to go a little bit faster. We were
the most concerned about this one because we
didn't want to lose any parts.

CC Okay.

PLT-EVA Okay, I got it clipped off, A1.

CDR ..o

PLT-EVA Yes.

CDR ...

PLT-EVA Got it all the way to the end.

CDH Okay, now ...

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead. Go ahead, Story.

218 21 i0 09 CC Okay. AI, the temperatures in the TV camera are

climbing up here and we'd like for it not to
run during the next hour and when we're LOS.
And it's easier for you to do that than for them
to turn the switch off in the airlock module
by opening a circuit breaker and that's on
panel 202, TELEVISION POW_, AM. You might open
that until the next Station passage.

CDR Good idea. Will do, Story.

CC Okay.

PLT-EVA Story, do you know whether or not - -

CDR I Just opened it.

PLT-EVA Is there any down-link video being recorded at

this time?
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CC That's affirmative. We don't have real-time

TV here but it is being down-linked.

SPT-EVA Okay, if the picture's any good, why - or not

any good, well I can adjust it for them up here.
I Just didn't know what the quality was.

CC Okay. I will get a call for you as soon as we can.

CDR Okay, now I thought you wanted that circuit breaker

open now. Do you want me to leave it in now
until we go out of contact?

218 21 ll 13 CC You can leave it open now, A1.

CDR Okay, it 's open.

SPT-EVA Okay, A1, I'm ready to go down to the dog bone.

CDR Ready - dog bone - -

SPT-EVA How're the EVA lights out there, Jack?

PLT-EVA Huh?

SPT-EVA Are there adequate EVA lighting out there?

PLT-EVA Well, if there's not, I'll Just stop.

CDR 0kay.

PLT-EVA All right. I didn't rotate this down now.

Maybe I ought to rotate it Just a little bit.

CC And we don't mean to hurry you, PLT, but down

here it looks like you've got about a minute
and a half of day remaining to take a look at
tlhat power transfer distribution box.

PLT-EVA Well, I'm not going to make it this time around,

buddy.

CC Okay.

PLT-EVA Yes, but I think we ought to put - Okay, we will,

but I think what's going to happen is we're taking
a chance on getting it all the way down and then -
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then when I go to reef it - catching it on some-

thing. Well, maybe not.

CDR ...

PLT-EVA Well, I'll tell you, you're already there right

now, because one of the fishing rod poles did not
extend, as you know, on the parasol, and that means
that the forward edge of this leading edge has been
raised up and it's resting on the pole right now.

CDR Yes, but that doesn't count.

CC And Skylab. We're at 30 seconds to LOS. We'll

see you at Hawaii in about an hour and 7 minutes
at 22:10. All your systems are looking good.

PLT-EVA Okay, Story. Thank you.

218 21 13 20 PLT-EVA Okay. Understand. Fade out of my vision.

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218 22 09 56 SPT-EVA - - kind of stop by my - over by my rendezvous

window. How are you reading there, Story?

CC Reading you loud and clear through Hawaii for

l0 minutes. How'd you know we were here?

CDR-EVA I heard some noises.

218 22 lO 21 CC Okay. And, A1, to get us some TV here, we'd like

on panel 20, TELEVISION POWER AM, CLOSED.

PLT-EVA Okay, Story. I'm hanging out here - I've - I've

done the work at the VC on the ATM. And I'm hanging
on the side here by this box you wanted me to look
over; and I see no evidence of discoloration. And
I see no evidence of any residue around those vent
ports, whatsoever. This box that you wanted me
to look at looks very much intact. I'm looking
at the command module now. It sure is neat to
hang out here in the breeze with one arm and just
kind of drift along with this thing as it streaks
across the ground.

CC Yes, sir.

218 22 ii 45 PLT-EVA I've noticed on the command module itself there's -

and on the whole spacecraft for that matter,
Skylab - everything that is exposed to the Sun
is turning tan; very much a tan color. That which
is not exposed to the Sun is still white. Now the
command module is starting to turn tan a little
bit. Also some discoloration on the part that
looks at the Sun. And then there is a darker brown
line, not dark brown but darker tan, that runs
underneath the hatch circnmferentially over to a
point near Al's rendezvous docking window and his
side window, and then it runs up between those two
windows and back around along circumferentially
along the top of the hatch over to my rendezvous
window. Now it's pretty hard to see quad B as
well as quad A. I notice that both A and B, the
quad package itself, appears, from this point, to
be tinted. And it appears to have been heated
rather well on the sort of cubicle structure upon
which the thrusters are mounted. The skin around
quad A is blistered and some of it has flaked off.
That's just the outer layer. I'm unable to see
the skin at quad B because it's Just around the
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edge a little bit. Let's see - Anything else you

want to know about the quads? There's a little
bit of paint missing around the quad, quad A that
is. And it's probably pretty much the way that
you expect it to be. I notice the SPS engine bell
appears as though it's been heated rather well,
which it has. It's outside is discolored and brown
and kind of black and the paint's come off. But
that's also to be expected. Let's see - Anything
else you want to know about the command module
from this vantage point, before I whistle around
the other end?

218 22 14 04 CC Okay, I'll stand by on that, Jack, and we're showing

that you have rolled the canister, 82A and B doors
are opened. Have you finished at the Sun end?

PLT-EVA Oh, no. We have to go to the Sun end yet.

CC Okay.

PLT-EVA If you haven't got any more for me to do in this

area, I'll get around to the Sun end.

218 22 14 27 PLT-EVA The center work station checks are complete, Story,
including the checkout of the H-alpha and S056 mag-
azine.

CC Okay. You can press on, Jack.

PLT-EVA Okay, and in working around here it's probably

worthwhile to compare working in the 0 g here, with
working in the water tank. And probably the big-
gest thing I've noticed in comparing the two is
that, it's one heck of a lot further to the bottom
of the pool.

218 22 14 59 CC Copy that. We'll tell them to make it bigger.

PLT-EVA (Laughter) Digging our music?

CC No, we're not getting that.

PLT-EVA Earlier.

CC Don't hear it, but I guessed it was a Space Odyssey.

Was it?

PLT-EVA It was better than that.

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CC Okay, we haven't heard it today.

218 22 15 33 PLT-EVA Here I am.

CREW ...

PLT Okay. Well, like I said, the whole side facing the
Sun is a little bit tan and right - I notice that
there is some extra brown spots right behind the
joint where the ATM has butted up against the -
the tubular structure. They're sort of triangular
in shape, probably about 4 inches by 2 inches, and
there are Just a few spots - about four or five of
them - where the discoloration is greater there than
the rest of the vehicle.

218 22 16 38 CC Copy that, Jack. And while I've got you there,
just a reminder when you're cranking open the S149,
tc do that extremely slowly because there's a
tremendous gearing down coming from the motor to the
mechanism and the motor speeds up very rapidly when
you're cranking that experiment open.

PLT-EVA Okay. I really can't see any evidence of any glycol

streaming, Story, on the side of the MDA.

CC Okay.

PLT-EVA Okay.

CC SPT, Houston - -

PLT-EVA Let me see if I can get over there.

SPT-EVA Go ahead.

CC Owen, we're getting a good TV picture right now.

We wonder if you could pan the TV picture out in
line with the hatch moving out toward the commnud
module where the thermal shield meets the STS.

218 22 17 37 SPT-EVA I don't think I can move it very far because we

don't have much cable on it; we've got it all taped.
I can give it a try but it won't move very far.

CC Leave it where it is, 0wen.

SPT-EVA Okay, we don't have more than another 6 inches of

cable on it.
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PLT-EVA I don't see anything that looks like a leak on the

side of the MDA anywhere.

CC Okay, we'll get this stuff the next EVA.

CREW ...

PLT-EVA No, I don't.

o,G

PLT-EVA Okay, let me go around over the top.

218 22 18 32 SPT-EVA 3.6, no lights.

SPT-EVA Oh, I got the same.

PLT-EVA Okay, you got my umbilical there, O. - -

SPT-EVA Yes, you're coming fine.

PLT-EVA Mine went over top, where ever that is. (Laughter).

SPT-EVA It's over the top in the water tank.

PLT-EVA Boy, the Big 0 is really doing a sterling Job here,

today. He's going to bring new lift into tens of .
thousands of senior citizens all over the country.
(Chuckle ).

CDR That 's great, that 's great. (Chuckle )

SPT-EVA I'm trying to figure out a return compliment.

PLT-EVA You'll think of one.

CC Yes, I couldn't answer that at all.

PLT-EVA Maybe you'd like to walk back for it, A1.

SPT-EVA Want to get his umbilical snapped here or tucked.

Excuse me.

PLT-EVA Okay.

218 22 19 50 CC And, Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see

you over Vanguard in 23 minutes. We'll be dumping
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the tape recorders over Vanguard. And, AI, if

you can open up that circuit breaker TELEVISION
POWER AM on panel 202 for us, it would be fine.

218 22 20 17 CDR Okay. Give you a little appropriate music to the

effort that they did out there today, I believe.

PLT-EVA %_nat a boy, O.

(Music)

CC Okay, we're getting the music now troops.

PLT-EVA I know, Story, will stand at attention for that,

being a ...

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218 22 41 55 PLT-EVA Weill, I think I probably can. It depends - yes,

I probably can work on it there. That's all right.
There's a couple of good places for it.

PLT-EVA Okay? All right. It looks like you're Just a -

b_rely a little hitch there when you close it right
and there's a - Just before - it - it's on the
ramp - Just before it hits the stop, it goes a
little hitch. And coming loose, the same way.
It'seems to stick up Just a little bit, but I -
I wouldn't be able to say it's enough to hang up
the door.

CDR ...

PLT-EVA Yes, there's a little hitch.

CDR Okay, now place wrist tether ...

PLT-EVA Yes, we got that.

CDR Remove bolt opposite stop ...

PLT-EVA Opposite stop. All right, that's this one.

218 22 42 43 CC We're reading you loud and clear through Vanguard

for 6 more minutes.

CC And, AI, for the TV, on panel 202, TV POWER AM,

CLOSED.

CDR Okay. That's done, Story. We ran through - -

CC Thank you.

218 22 4B 07 CDR Had a couple of funnies here. We ran through the

82 A and B checks and although - everything seemed
to work right except we got no READY light for
either one. Now we realized we weren't in
EXPERIMENT POINTING, so I went into EXPERIMENT
POINTING momentarily to see if I could get it ;
I could not. I came back out again. However, it
appeared to take a frame, in that the FRAME REMAIN-
ING on UV SPECT is 200 where it was 201 and the UV
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SLIT is 1607 and it had been 1608. Now maybe those

Just click off frames whether you take a picture
or not as long as you operate the START/STOP
switch, but we got no READY lights on either of
those cameras.

CC Thanks a lot, AI. We'll work on that.

218 22 43 54 CDR Okay. And all the rest of the things have gone
strictly nominal.

PLT-EVA This screw's going to come all the way out. You
might say I've got a screw loose up here, Story.

CDR ...

CC As long as it's only one, you're okay.

CDR ...

PLT-EVA ... Okay, I'll try that.

218 22 44 31 CDR ... Jack's working hard now, but he reported that -_
when we operated the 55 door several times, that
it looked like it had a slight hangup right at the
very last motion before it went into the stop,
both coming in and going out. He didn't know
whether he could count that as enough to hang it
up or not, but that may be the problem. Now, he'll
have to say whether he thinks it was the ramp it-
self or Just something behind it that made it appear
that the ramp was doing it.

PLT-EVA We think.

CC Copy that.

218 22 45 0B PLT-EVA Well, there are no scar marks on the top part
of the ramp. All I can think is maybe it's a
little - hanging up on the - on the bottom side
of the ramp. I noticed that the ramps on some of
the other doors - the - got a little more of a -
of a wear mark on them than this one. This one's
very clean on the top. It may be on the bottom
that it's sticking.

CC Okay, we copy that, Jack, and could you verify

that you pushed the sail against the OWS?
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218 22 h5 36 PLT-EVA Yes, I can verify that. The leading edge of the
sail is - the pole is about 1 foot above the skin
of the workshop and the - the end of the pole is
down on the workshop at the aft end - the pole on
the right, whatever one that is, is - the end of
it looks like it's resting on the - on that big
bump down there on the end of the workshop.

CC Okay. Is there any curving of the sail against

the workshop? Or bowing of the rods?

PLT-EVA Well, I can't see it right now. 0ops, there goes

the Sun, too.

CDR TeZLI you what we did, Story. We finished doing

the - -

218 22 h6 18 PLT-EVA Shine your light up here, AI.

CDR Ye_.

PLT-EVA Could you turn it - Sun end lights ain't working.

CDR Well, maybe Owen needs ... see if ...

CDR Are you still there, Story?

CC Yes, sir, for a couple of minutes.

CDR Okay. Here's what we did. We ... We finished that

Job at night and we still had about 20 minutes
night to go, so we left the foot restraints down
there and we put the poles and sail down there
snug as we thought it should be, best we could
see at night, and then we went off and did these
other Jobs. Now, as Jack comes back from the Sun
end, he passes right by that spot, he's going to
stop, trim it up. Hopefully, the sail has expanded
further because of the last Sun on it, you know,
and we talked about the accordion problem, push
it down and adjust it Just like you want it, and
then that'll be the end of the ball game. We'll -
we'll put it inside. Now here's a question.
Do - did it sound like we had it in the right
position - the position you want?
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218 22 47 27 CC Yes. That sounded good, AI. We Just wanted to

v_rify that we did have it down tight against the
workshop to avoid any TACS (?) impingement on it.

CDR Okay, the message we had received was we wanted

to move it down until the poles Just touched the
leading edge of the parasol. Now the parasol was
not presenting a horizontal line to the poles
because, as you know, one of the parasol poles didn't
extend fully. It was up in the air. We pushed
it down until the poles were level with the -
what - we'd - looked like the apex of the parasol
and the one pole that did look like it deployed
fully.

218 22 48 12 SPT-EVA Jack, all the lights are on.

PLT-EVA Well, they' re not on on the Sun end. We only have

switches for the AM - -

PLT-EVA Well, we must have a burned out light or s_nething.

SPT-EVA - - EVA - the deployment assembly of the ATM and - -

CC Okay, A1. That sounds good with the sails. As

long as the rods are pushed hard enough against
the OWS to bend the poles and make a curve in the
sail, you do not have to retract the sail.

218 22 48 42 CDR Okay, now what - when the next sunrise comes, Jack's
going to stop there and he'll push them down so
that they're bending and touching the workshop,
as you said.

CC And if they're like that, you don't have to re-

tract them where you're seeing the parasol. That'll
be fine.

CDR Okay. We can do it either way.

218 22 49 00 SPT-EVA Boy, it gets dark out here. You know that? There's
nothing but me and the lights on my PCU. There's
the Moon. We got a half Moon up here, Story.

PLT-EVA Apparently the EVA lights are burned out at the

Sun end.
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SPT-EVA I only see these one row of switches.

CDR Story, do you suppose there's a circuit breaker

that's in here that could somehow be cutting
the Sun-end EVA lights out and have the rest of
them working okay?

CC Okay, we'll work that too. We're about 15 sec-

onds to LOS here. We'll pick you up over Ascen-
sion in 9 minutes at 22:58 and we'll work both
the 82A and B and the light problem•

CDR Okay. I checked both EVA lights and circuit

breakers and they're both in.

218 22 49 52 CC Okay. And going over the hill here, we'll prob-
ably have you repeat the loops [sic] on page 22.
1-14 sequence when we can see it over Ascension.

CDR We 'Ii be ready.

CC Okay.

SPT-EVA Hey, A1 - -

CC And open up the TELEVISION POWER AM circuit

breaker, please, A1.

CDR 0keydoke ....

SPT-EVA Just pointing out to you. You did describe the -

fact - you're taking two - a single frame on
each camera.

218 22 50 34 PLT-EVA Hey, A1. This is really something. You know

I'm out here and there's nothing except a little
bit of light reflecting off the solar panels, a
few stars and a half Moon•

CDR ...

SPY-EVA It doesn't seem like it.

CDR ...

SPT-EVA Oh, I feel good. How do you feel?

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PLT-EVA I feel fine, but we're going to brea_ 7 hours

at this rate.

SPT-EVA I can't see my hand in front of my face and

that's about it. That's no kidding. That's
lit eral. (Chuckle )

SPT-EVA I don't think we'd ought to have been going to

EXPERIMENT POINTING with a man on the canister
end.

SPT-EVA Well, what else do we have to do? We don't have

that much to do? We've got 49 and 230.

218 22 52 00 PLT-EVA Well, neither one of those -

218 22 58 31 PLT-EVA Well, the only other thing I can think to do is

to yank the thing back down, and spread it out
some more, manually.

218 22 58 41 CC Skylab, we've got you through Ascension for

4 minutes.

CDR Okay, you go ahead and shoot. \

\

PLT-EVA Okay, Story, little word on the sail while l'm

standing here in the dark.

CDR-EVA ...

PLT-EVA Yes. Oh, okay, go ahead. Oops, say, got some

lights.

SPT-EVA Yes, the lights came on out here.

CC Okay, we sent the command to ENABLE the logic

for those lights.

PLT-EVA I'ii be darned. Why ain't there a wrench in

here?

CDR Jack's wrenching, how about telling me - just

check if you want me to pull it.

CC Okay, AI, could you tell us if you've got an

OPERATE light on 82A or B?
r

CDR Did not get an OPERATE or a READY light. Every-

thing else seemedto work correctly.
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218 22 59 27 CC Roger. And will not be getting any TV this

time, A1. You can leave that TELEVISION POWER
AM circuit breaker OPEN.

CDR Okay, now I_ll tell you one reason we're prob-
ably not. I Just flipped the LAMP TEST switch
in all positions and got no LAMP TEST. Now,
I didn't throw any circuit breakers up here
or anything else because of our problems so
I'm Just standing by for a suggestion.

CC Okay, that sounds good, A1, and we're going to

do no further troubleshooting on that. We
think since you did get a frames decrement on
both experiments that everything is good.

SPT-EVA They sure loaded smoothly and the flags were

clearly visible.

218 23 O0 15 CDR O_ay, then one more thing, Story, because we're
going to be losing you again. We're going to
come out in the light and we're going to go
down and look at the poles again afterwe do
149. We had no procedure aboard that's mention-
ed anything about retracting the sail in the
event it didn't set down flat.

CC No, not to retract it, but just to pull it back

so it's - flusher, nearer to you than the par-
asol. But it's not necessary. Just push the
rods down toward the OWIS so there's slight bend
in the rods and a slight curve in the sail.

218 23 00 43 CDR Okay, one other thing. Jack and Owen both point-
ed out that in no place does the twin-poles
parasol cover - the twin-pole sail cover the
parasol, and that it' s not fully extended. It
still has a little - I mean, it's fully extended
out to the end of the poles, but the accordion
pleating is keeping it from going the maximum
width that the parasol is.

SPT-EVA So it never extends beyond the parasol.

CC We copy that.

218 23 01 15 CDR 21d we're then going to then push it down to

m_ke sure it fits you want it, tightenit up,
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put on the locks, send in the thing and then do

230. How long before our next contact?

CC We're going to lose you here in about a minute here.

And we'll be picking you up at Vanguard after i hour
and 17 minutes.

SPT-EVA (Laughter)

CDR kay, we hope to back inside by that time.

PLT We'll be finished by then ....

218 23 01 52 CDR Hey, Story, one thing more, would you mind if I
ran through that procedure on 2.1-14 and make sure
it decrements even one more frame?

CC You don't need to do that, AI. It'll be all right.

CDR Okeydoke.

PLT-EVA Okay, I've got one bolt out here.

SFT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA Try to stick it on this thing.

218 23 02 15 CC Okay, troops, I got to hustle here, I got 15 seconds.

One other suggestion is lift the booms up and then
spread them out and then lay them down. Just a
reminder, be sure you bring the foot restraints in.
All systems are looking good. You're cleared when
you get done to enter the airlock and repress.
And with your permission, I'ii slip your f-_ly
cc_m. They're about an hour and 20 minutes away
now.

CDR ...

PLT-EVA What time is it anyway, AI?

CC We're still with you. It's about 23"02:53. Or

6 p.m. here.

218 23 03 01 PLT-EVA He's early.

PLT-EVA This day has really gone fast. _._

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PLT-EVA We'll, all of you will remember this day for a

long time.

218 23 03 27 SPT-EVA Has it seemed tedious in there, Al?

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