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Time: 14:25 CDT, 68:19:25 GMT

1/22/74
CC - - Bermuda pass 9 minutes in duration.

CDR SCATTEROMETER to STAND BY. ALTIMETER to ON.
CDR Next mark 26:03 with a ETC AUTO, Ed.
CDR Coming up 26:03. Stand by.
CDR MARK. ETC AUTO. 26:20's next. Still
got some tape left.
PLT Okay, there's a good 30 seconds on the
uniform site, DAC OFF. Okay, 30 degrees.
CDR On my mark, 26:20.
PLT 30 degrees to 621.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. 192 MODE READY. Tape recorder's
in shifted gear without motion.
CDR A green TAPE MOTION light.
CDR Seems to start flickering when you get
low on tape. It runs solid when you've got a lot of tape.
PLT I've got the site. Got Atlanta.
CDR Hey. Good show.
PLT Yap. That's it.
CDR Okay_ that means MOTION light is more
off than on now.
PLT Okay, (Garble) on
CDR Still flickering.
CDR Charlle 8 is reading 30 percent.
CDR Still no END OF TAPE light, so we're
still good. Still got our tape recorder READY light. Got
an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light going to STANDBY.
PLT CAMERA OFF.
PLT Okay, (garble)
CDR Next mark will be 27:55. Okay, ALTIMETER's
back to ON now.
CDR MARK. 27:55 going to INTERVAL 120 on
S190. 4.8 frames per minute on the ETC.
CDR Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light again.
Still got a READY light.
CDR 28:40's my next mark.
CDR Okay. On my mark, 28:40.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY, MODE to 5.
CDR RANGE is 69. 28:58 is next. Stand by.
CDR MARK. 28:58, the ALTIMETER's ON. 29:04's
next.
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to STANDBY. 29:10 ETC
to STANDBY.
CDR MARK. 29:30's next.
CDR Coming up 29:30. Stand by.
CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED to SLOW. 29:40
coming up.
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CDR Stand by.

CDR MARK. 29:40 is $191 REFERENCE to 2.
CDR Okay. 30:40, Bill we want our VTS AUTO
CAL.
PLT Okay.
CDR Charlie 8's reading about 25 percent.
It's oscillating between 20 and 30.
CDR 20 seconds to AUTO CAL, Bill.
PLT Roger. Okay. I can use my I0 seconds
of film to - - Lagoon and the Bahamas.
CDR i0 seconds.
CDR On my mark it'll be 30:40. Stand by.
PLT MARK.
CDR MARK. VTS AUTO CAL.
CDR Next mark at 31:40.
PLT Okay, I've got Z-LV. Got to get a film
light on the DAC.
CDR Uh, oh. That's your clock. Okay.
CDR Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light. Going to
STANDBY. 10:05.
CDR TAPE MOTION still hanging in there.
Okay, going back to ON on the ALTIMETER at 20. READY light
is on, the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is off. 31:40's my next
mark. Stand by.
CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM. 31:50's
the next mark. Stand by.
CDR MARK. INTERVAL going to i0. ETC to AUTO,
Ed. Next mark's at 32:20. ALTIMETER's got an UNLOCK light,
still got a READY light. For 32:20. Stand by for 32:20.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY, a range set
at 65, 32:35 is next. On my mark, 32:35, stand by.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER is ON. 32:45's next mark.
Stand by.
CDR MARK. 190 SHUTTER SPEED, to SLOW. Got an
ALTIMETER UNLOCK light. 32:55 is the next mark. Stand by.
CDR MARK. 32:55, 190 INTERVAL to 20. E TC to
STANDBY, Ed. Okay, you're going to SI. ALTIMETER's still
hanging in there, looking for S191 READY at 33:20. Tape's still
hanging in there.
CC Leave S192 in STANDBY - 193 in STANDBY,
193 in STANDBY, please.
CDR 193 what?
CC ALTIMETER.
CDR Okay, going now STANDBY now. All right,
we've missed - 191 was a little bit late, but made it. 31:35,
190 INTERVAL to i0. ETC to AUTO, Ed. Up - INTERVAL going back
to 20. Cut that INTERVAL one minute too early. Got it back to
I0 and back to 20 before it clipped off, so I think we may be
all right.
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CC i0 seconds to LOS. Next station contact

in 43minutes through Carnarvon at 20:17. Out.
PLT I don't understand, it's END OF FILM
light then DAC.
CDR Coming up on 34:30.
PLT Yeah, I still have film.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. 34:30 S190 INTERVAL is i0. Hey Ed,
I gave you a bumb call on ETC, I hope I didn't mess you up.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 35 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now out of range
of the tracking antenna at Merritt Island. Our next acquisi-
tion is 42 minutes away. That Earth resources pass appears to
be a pretty good one. Pilot Bill Pogue indicating that he
had success getting the site at Atlanta, where a study of land
use and forest management is planned. That was one of the
final mandatory areas that had not been photographed on
Skylab, and was the last of two to be photographed on the - this
Skylab mission, in the United States. There are three major
sites that are - have not been obtained by Skylab_s cameras
or electronic scanners. Those are all foreign sites now, one
Iran, another in Mexico and a third in Chad in Africa. There
are only three mandatory sites so far unobtained by the Skylab
crew as they complete their 29th Earth resources pass. The
original mission plan called for 30 Earth resources passes during
this flight, but the hope was earlier that we might get as many
as 50. However_ most of the scientific attempts - most of the
scientific data that was sought on this flight, now apparently,
seems to be in the bag. There are several things left to be done,
and we hope we'll have a chance to do those. A number of
Earth resources pass - -
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2401/I
Time: 14:35 CDT 68:19:35 GMT
01/22/74
PAO - attempts most of the scientific data

that was sought on this flight now apparently seems to be in
the bag, there are several things left to be done. And, we
hope we'll have a chance to do those. A number of Earth resources
passes are being scheduled for the coming days, tomorrow's
schedule asks that the crew get up more than two hours
early, about 2-1/4 hours early, so they can perform an early
morning Earth resources pass, and they'll also be performing
an afternoon Earth resources pass tomorrow. And a similar
schedule follows in the days after that with Earth resources
passes occupying a good deal of their time. 40 minutes to
our next acquisition of signal. That CMG problem, no
substantial change in it. The last data we had indicated
the temperature crossover was still about the same, the
wheel speed at 8850, and apparently that's - looks like a pretty
stable figure now. It does not seem to be moving back up above
8850, and the currents, although they are down slightly at
the very end of that pass, do not appear to have improved
substantially, so that CMG anomaly, which has now been under
way for about an hour and a half, appears to be continuing.
40 minutes to our next acquisition of signal, 37 minutes
after the hour, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2402/I
TIME: 14:58 CDT, 68:19:58 GMT
1/22/74
PAO Skylah Control at 19:58 Greenwich mean

time. The Skylab space station still about 20 minutes from
next acquisition of signal. Like to make a couple of
announcements, one is that a decision has been made here at
Mission Control to order the U.S.S. New Orleans into port
early. It'll be making a sailing on the 26th which is
three days earlier than was originally planned. The change
in the ship's sailing times is to allow the New Orleans to
be in position in the event that a early recovery becomes
necessary. No decisions has been made to make that early
recoveTy however. The plan to move the New Orleans back into
port and to have it back on station sailing on the 26th gives
up a recovery opportunity on the 25th and 26th, those are the
most immediate recovery opportunities off San Diego. Decision
to give those up is made based on the fact that it's unlikely
the crew will be able to deactivate unless the decision were
made immediatley for them to come back. Since that has not
been done at this time, this would allow them to make a recovery
any day after the 26th which is a lost day now. The 25th and 26th
will no longer be recovery opportunities as the U.S.S. New Orleans
will be in port. It will he sailing three days early on the
26th rather than the 29th. That will allow it to perform a
recovery at any day after the 26th, that is to say the 27th
through the February 8th which is the nominal splash down day.
Prime days for recovery are February 8th, February 3rd and
January 29th. Those are the days on which the ship will be
nearest to San Diego and allow the most efflcent recovery
and also the best conditions for medical - medical experiments
immediately after recovery. At the present time the plan is
still to bring the crew back on February the 8th, however
in order to arrange for the eventuality that we may have
early recovery, we are changing the ship sa_llng schedule
from the 29th to the 26th from New Orlean - from San Diego.
And a briefing on general mission activities and particularly
on the problems of the control moment gyroscope and the end
of mission activities will be held at 3:30 p.m. central daylight
time, that's a half an hour from now in the Building 1 briefing
room with William C. Schnieder, the Skylab program manager available
for that briefing. Again that press briefing, William C. Schnieder
in the Building 1 briefing room at 3:30 p.m. central daylight
time, that's 30 minutes from now. This is Skylab Control at
17 minutes before our next acquisition and 16 seconds after
the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2403/I
TIME: 15:16 CDT, 68:20:16 GMT
1/22/74
PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours, 16 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is 50 seconds
from acquisition of signal through the tracking antenna at
Carnarvon, Australia where we'll have a 6 minute pass. A
reminder there will be a press briefing by William C. Schneider.
That's upcoming at 3:30. We'll bring the line up live at
Carnarvon.
CC Skylab_ this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 5-1/2 minutes, out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 9 minutes through Guam at 20:31, out.
PAO Skylab Control at 20:24 Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station is out of range of the tracking
antenna at Carnarvon. Our next acquisition in Guam is about
7 minutes away. We plan on recording that so the press
conference can begin on time at 3:30. Control moment gyroscope
number 2 is still in its anomaly with very little change
observed so far, Nell Hutchinson_ however_ did make the
comment that we can apparently complete an Earth resources
pass without adding any further stress or any further changes
to the gyroscope_ which is something to give the crew a little
bit of confidence, as we have a good many Earth recourses passes
left scheduled for the upcoming days, A change-of-shift
briefing again is about 5 minutes from now in the Building i
briefing room, thatVs room 135 with William C. Schneider,
the Skylab program manager. Astronauts Jerry Carr, Ed Gibson
and Bill Pogue completed their 29th Earth survey this afternoon.
Despite another irregularity in the behavior of the Skylab's
number 2 gyroscope, the Earth survey which covered a 3700
mile long path from Idaho, across the Central United States,
with a flood control and water resource site in Kansas and
a large forest where insect damage may be visible near
ATlanta, Georgia, as prime targets. Pilot Bill Pogue pointed
Skylab infrared sensor at the forest site, gathering the
first data on the study of insect infestation in Georgia for
Investigator R. C. Heller of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Today's successful survey means that all of the more than
100 U.S. scientists working on Skylab earth studies will have
data for analysis during the coming months. R. C. Heller's
project in Atlanta was the last project in the United States
for which no data had been obtained. All of them have now
at least some data. There are still, however, mandatory
requirements; that is to say_ requirements that were asked for
by the investigators that have not fully been completed.
Skylab's large number 2 gyroscope has again slowed slightly for
the 31st time since the astronauts began their lengthy flight.
Mission controllers are still hopeful that the crew can stay a
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full 84 days, but the recovery ship New Orleans will be leaving
port January 26th, three days early in case the flight must end
earlier than the planned February 8th splash down. A check
with the guidance officer here in Mission Control indicates that
at the present time we have approximately 5 days of attitude
control system gas remaining for attitude control if the CMG
should fail, in addition to the 3 days red line that has been
requested. And in addition to that a total of 17 days of reac-
tion control system, fuel in the service module. That would give
a total of up to 25 days to total depletion of fuel supplies down
to RCS red line; that is to say, down to the minimum requirement
for return of the Command Module. That's far more than we
require; however, I might add that for safety reasons, it's
unlikely that we'd want to use that much fuel. Okay, we're
going to take the line down now. There is a change-of-shift
briefing going to be taking place shortly in Building i and the
Guam pass will be recorded for later playback - playback.
It's 27 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2404/I
TIME: 15:56 CDT, 68:20:56
1/22/74
PAO This is Skylab Control at 20:55 Greenwich

mean time. We'll play back the air-to-ground from the Guam
tracking station at this time that was recorded during the
press conference. And this is the Guam playback.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam
for 5 minutes. Out.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Stand by a minute, Bruce. Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger, Jerry. It may be a moot point by
now but we weren't certain whether H-alpha door was going to
open properly or not. And it did open properly.
CDR Okay.
CC At last sunset, that last ATM sunset, the
indication we got down here on the ground was it had closed
only partially. So we selected motor power off and reenabled
it and got it closed, and we just wanted to alert you to the
fact that we had had some difficulty with it.
CDR Okay, now that's the second or third
hangup we've had on that door, isn't it, in the last few days?
And I wonder if we might not be wise to open that rascal up
and then inhibit the motors.
CC It's the second one Jerry. And probably
before we do that, we'll go to two-motor operations.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 18-i/2 minutes through Goldstone at
20:54.
CC Okay_ Jerry. Active region 33 looks like
it's about to erupt, although 31 is showing more activity.
We'd like you to stick with the building block as scheduled
for your pass. However, shift over to active region 33 for
pointing. Make that shift to active region 31 for pointing.
CDR Okay, point at active region 31 and just do
the same building block.
CC Right. I
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for

14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hi, Hank.
CC Hello, there. How goes it today?
CDR Oh, pretty busy. We've had a few minor
flares, and an EREP pass, and staying with it.
CC Let's hope.
CDR I see H-alpha looking a little brighter,
and XUV is picking up, and the oxygen VI count jumped from
about 400 up to about 4,000.
CC Jerry_ we had some sort of a power glitch
down here or something. Everything went black for a while and
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we still don't have the computer's up and don't have any data.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 20:59, that concludes
the recording there at Guam. As Spacecraft Communicator
Bruce McCandless observed, we did have a power interrupt,
a very brief one lasting just a couple of seconds, but it
apparently has knocked our capacity of calling up data from
the computers, at least for a short while. That interrupt
is still in progress, at least in the sense that we have no
access to the computers right now. But power is back
on here in Mission Control. It was only off for about a second
or two. And all of the Eidophors which went black for a period
of time are now back up live.
CC Recorders (garble) telementry. Is anybody
using it?
CDR No, I think they are available now.
CC Okay, we'l go ahead and dump.
CC CDR, Houston. Do you have your C&G number
2 heater cue card handy? CDR, Houston. We're reading you
very, very weak.
CDR Yeah, I have the cue card.
CC CDR, Houston. If you read, we're going to
be probably asking at Vanguard, the next site, to turn the
heaters off for us. We just wanted to know if you had that
cue card handy. Maybe we'll have better voice there.
CDR, Houston. How do you read now?
CDR I've been reading you loud and clear all
the time. I have the cue card.
CC Okay, we apparently had a problem there
with Texas. We're with MILA now and it's coming through
loud and clear. I just want to make sure you had it handy,
Jerry, because when we get to Vanguard, because of their
computer problems, we won't have anything but telementry. We
won't have command capability and we'll probably be wanting to
turn the heaters off there. And we're about 30 seconds from
LOS and Vanguard will be coming up at 19.
CDR Roger.
time. Skylab space station over Central America. It's passed
out of range of the U.S. tracking antennas. That CMG glitch
does appear to be improving as the currents have come back down
into the normal range and temperatures are now moving back
towards the stable point. They are still a little bit - rpm's
are still a little bit low, about 40 rpms below the normal level.
We have Flight Director Neil Hutchinson here and we'll begin our
change-of-shift briefing very shortly. This is Skylab Control
at i0 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2405/I
TIME: 16:30 CDT, 68:21:30 GMT
1/22/74

time. We had a pass over Vanguard during the change-of-shift
briefing with Nell Hutchinson. We've made a recording of
that about 3 minutes of alr-to-ground and we'll bring that
up for you now. This is a recording at _anguard.
CC Hey, good show. And it's good for info
because of the site problems at Vanguard, we'll be having -
may have some bad comm during the last half of the pass.
CDR Say again_ Hank.
CC Roger, because of the site problems at
_anguard the comm might be a little ratty during the last
pa_t of the pass.
CDR Okay. I'm getting PMECs up to 790.
CC CDR, Houston; you're tarring into the
South Atlantic anomaly, so your PMEC going to become
less reliable so just rely on the other indicators you have
tbere_ XUV mon and the aperture on the XREA and so forth.
CDR Roger. I'm looking at aperture 3, and
I've got still got a fairly strong hot point in the XUV.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Roger, Bill. We saw the blood pressure
go off at what it appears to be a little early to us. Are
you having a little problems with equipment?
PLT Stand by. During blood flow, I didn't
think we needed it.
CC Well where we saw it was back on the 92
run. It seemed like it stopped earlier during the
recovery phase.
PLT No we had it on for quite a long period
of time, after the time zero in fact.
CC We copy.
CC CDR, Houston; whenever it's convenient in
the next 4 or 5 minutes we'd like you to get to turn CMG number
2 heaters off.
CDR Okay. That's complete Hank.
CC Thank you Jerry.
CDR Okay, Hank I'm terminating from the FLARE
MODE now. The XUV is down, beryllium apertures still at
three but the XUV's way down.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston; there's a good chance
we're going to loose comm in the next 30 seconds
or so. The next site is Tananarive at 47.
CDR Roger.
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TIME: 16:30 CDT, 68:21:30 GMT
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PAO Skyla5 Control at 21:34 Greenwich mean time.

That concludes the recording of the air-to-ground made at
Vanguard about i0 minutes ago. A little note on the power
interruption here at Mission control. A very brief one lasted
only a matter of seconds and the equipment was all back on
line within a matter of minutes. Information we have that
it was caused by the loss of a heater at a power substatlon
that feeds the Johnson Space Center. And that heater loss of
power substation was a very brief one caused a brief interruption
in the power here, that did knock out some of our computer
capacities. But we got them back very quickly. Durin B the
Vanguard pass, another look at control moment gyroscope
number 2 shows that it's performance is now back pretty well
within the normal range. The bearing temperatures are
back about where they should be at the higher end of the
heater scale. Bearing number 1 about a degree above bearing
number 2 as it should be, bearing number i a little
hit warmer than number 2. For awhile bearing number 2 has
crossed over and had given temperature readings about a
degree higher than bearing number i. Wheel speed was
still about 20 rpms slow but that's to be expected. Normally
it does take awhile for wheel speed indicator to come back
to its normal level. Indicator itself is not extremely
precise although it does give a good indication, It's about
20 rpms slow still but the currents have come back to normal
which would indicate that the wheel speed is back about where
it should be. That was a lengthy period in which we did not
have proper activity on the CMG number 2, although it was
working it was working a little bit out of its normal mode,
it does appear now to be back to normal. Our next acquisition
is a little more than about a minute away at Tananarive.
This is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC2406/I
Time: 10:45 CDT 68:21:45 GMT
1/22/74

time. The Skylab space station is now 56 seconds from
acquisition at Tananarive. It will be a very brief pass
through the Tananarive voice relay station. We expect about
3 minutes of acquisition. Charles Lewis is on duty as flight
director here in Mission Control. And the spacecraft com-
municator is Hank Hartsfield.
time. The Skylab space station is moving out of range of
Tananarive. They had some trouble with their tracking antenna
there and were unable to acquire the space station with the
antenna there. So our next acquisition of signal is
43 minutes away. Tananarive does not provide any data on
telemetry so we don't have any idea what the CMG is doing
right now. But the last time we saw it at Vanguard it did
appear - appear to be moving back into it's normal range.
Forty-two minutes to our next acquisition of signal at
Goldstone. This is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-2407/I
Time: 17:32 CDT 68:22:32 GMT
1/22/74
PAO Skylab Control at 22:32. We're coming

into acquisition at Goldstone, we'll bring the line up for
Spacecraft Communicator Hank Hartsfield. The pass should
last about 5-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Goldstone for
5 minutes and we need to - to do an unscheduled voice/recorder
dump here because of the unreliability of Vanguard.
PLT Roger Hank. Go ahead, they're not in use.
CC Okay, we'll dump it.
SPT Hello Hank, is there any VTR time available
for TV-107?
CC We're checking.
SPT Thank you.
CC Okay Ed_ there are 27 minutes available
if you've already put on your ATM TV. If you haven't you can
use about 23, leaving a little bit for the ATM work.
SPT Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS, Vanguard is the next site. And we see you put in, I
think_ ATM on the TV, is that correct?
CDR That's affirmative Hank.
time. Skylab space station is out of range of the tracking
antenna at Goldstone. Our next acquisition is 16 minutes
away at Vanguard. During this pass at Goldstone data coming
in on CMG number 2 indicates that the gyroscope is operating
normally again with the temperature difference about 2 degrees,
that's it's normal operation_ and current's down at the level
it normally would be expected for that CMG. And the wheel
speed, although it did fluctuate a bit about the 8912 level
that's considered normal for it, does appear to have stabilized
at that normal level. So CMG 2's anomaly is _d_finitely over
at this point after lasting approximately 4 hours. Next
acquisition 15 minutes and 40 seconds from now. This is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2408/I
Time: 17:66 CDT 68:22:55 GMT
1/22/74

time. The Skylab space station is now 56 seconds from
acquisition of signal at the tracking ship Vanguard. This
pass through Vanguard will last about 10-1/2 minutes. Space-
craft Communicator is Hank Hartsfield. We'll bring the
line up live now for air-to-ground through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Vanguard 9_i/2
minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. When it's convenient to
answer, got a question for you on H-alpha i. Last night's
frame count showed only 2 frames taken, but we estimate there
were approximately 500 taken. And we may have a failure of
the FRAMES REMAINING counter if the operate light is still
working. Does the operate light come on?
CDR Sure does, Hank.
CC Okay, we copy. You've probably been asked
this before but we're just trying to get another data point,
Jerry, about this degradation on the ATM TV H-ALPHA 1 TV
image. How long after you turn it on in the morning do you
notice the degradation?
CDR I guess I don't really notice it till we're
about half way through the pass, like around 30 minutes or
so.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR Right now it's beginning to look pretty
ratty. In fact I'm beginning to see horizontal lines in it.
When you get near the end of the pass, you just don't see as
much of that good dark/light contrast. It's not as sharp and
clear as it is early in the pass.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And for info, there are 20 minutes remaining
on the VTR.
CC CDR, Houston. On your closeout for the
day here, we'd like to get you to point at active region 31,
if you would, sir.
CDR Okay, active region 31. You want 54 and
55 set up as per the pad?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Okay. Hank, would they prefer H-ALPHA 2
pointing at 31?
CC Okay Jerry, I guess use your judgement
on whether it'd be H-ALPHA i, H-ALPHA 2.
CDR Looks to me like 56, 82A, and 82B don't have
a whole lot of film to spend so probably about all they could
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do is 55, so we ougkt to leave it on line 25 and point with

H-ALPHA 2.
CC Okay_ we'll buy that.
CC And CDR, Houston. One more thing we'd
llke to
get you to do. We've got a real low elevation pass
coming up here at Tananarive at 23:19. I don't know whether
we'll get you or not. If we don't, the next station is Hawaii
at 00:04 with your med conference. But at 23:25 we would
like for you to turn CMG number 2 heaters off per the cue
card you have.
CDR Did you say turn them off, 0-F-F?
CC That's affirmative, O-F-F. We- we may
get you at Tananarive and remind you, hut in case we don't,
we'd like to get you to turn them off.
CDR Okay, I assume then that you turned them
on a little while ago.
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS now_ Tananarive in another 14 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control at 23:06:30 Greenwich
mean time. Skylab's space station is out of range of the
Vanguard tracking ship. Our next acquisition, a little less
than 13 minutes from now, will be at Tananarive. During this
pass over Vanguard, some instructions given up to the crew to
keep the solar instruments pointed at active region 31 when
they're closed oat for the evening. Active region 31 has
been responsible for a number of flares during the last
couple of days and they expect they may get some activity there.
They'd like to have the instruments pointed at that region
when they're - when the crew is no longer operating them.
Of course three of the Skylab instruments can he used during
unmanned operations. They can be controlled by the ground, with
of course the limitation that they can only be turned on and
off over ground stations, which cover about a third of the
Skylab orbit. 12 minutes to our acquisition at Tananarlve.
At this time we checked out with the guidance officer here
in Mission Control the figures on today's - on todayts glitch
on the control moment gyroscope, the second glitch to occur
since the crew awakened this morning. The first one was
in progress shortly after wakeup time. The first glitch, which
was the 30th of the Skylab mission, began at ii:i0 Greenwich
mean time this morning and it lasted about 4-1/2 hours.
Conditions were about as has been seen in previous times.
The second glitch, number 31 of the Skylab mission, began at
18:08 Greenwich mean time and lasted about 3-2/4 hours according
to the guidance officer. He admits there is some room for
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discretion there but he considers it to have concluded at

Vanguard an hour and a half ago. So he gives a total of
about 3 3 hours and 15 minutes for the total time of that
CMG anomaly this afternoon. Again, the conditions were very
similar to those on preceding days, the power not being
particularly high. Quick rundown of anomalies during recent
days, these are Greenwich mean time days; that is to say, the
midnight occurs about an hour from now Greenwich mean time.
On day 19 there were three anomalies, on day 20 there were
three anomalies, on day 21 there were two anomalies, and
on day 22, which of course began before the crew went to bed
last night, there have been four anomalies. So that'll give
you an idea of where we stand. No particular change in the
behavior of the gyroscope, although we have had frequent
variations in its speed and current during the last several
days. 10-1/2 minutes to acquisition at Tananarive and 9
minutes after the hour,this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC2409/I
Time: 18:18 CDT 68:23:18 GMT
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time. The Skylab space station now off the tip of the Cape
of Good Hope, there is about 52 seconds from acquisition at
Tananarive voice relay station. The pass here at Tananarive
should last about 10-1/2 minutes as the crew goes directly
over head at the Island of Madagascar in the Malagsy Republic.
During this pass - the crew was instructed earlier to turn
off the heaters at Tananarive. The heaters for the CMGs
are managed - CMG number 2 heaters are being managed
by Mission Control. But since there is no command capability
through the voice relay station at Tananarive, they have
asked the crew to perform that action for them. They do
have instructions on board for turning the heaters off. That
instruction was given to them at Vanguard, because we have
had some communications problems previously with Tananarive
which was activated just for the final Skylab mission. We're
coming up live now at Tananarive and we'll leave the line up
in event we do have some conversation here.
CC Skylah, Houston, through Tananarive for
9 minutes.
CDR Roger Hank. Do you want a frame count?
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR 9085, 78, 20, 54, 1546, and 3023.
CC We copy.
CC SPT, Houston, are you free to answer
a question?
CDR He's working TV-107 right now.
CC Okay Jer, we'll catch him later.
CDR And I'm going in where it commands
now to turn off the heaters.
CC Okay, Jer. Thank you.
CDR Okay, number 2 bearing heaters are off.
CC Thank you Jerry.
CC CDR, Houston. Your flight plan for the
early EREP calls for you to get up around 08:45, and the
closest site we've go to that is Bermuda at 8:54.
CDR Hank, you cut out. We'll look for you
at the next site.
CC Okay, I think we're back with you. I
was just saying that the flight plan calls for you to get
up at - the flight plan calls for you to get up at 8:45
and the closest site to that is at 8:54. Do you want to set
you clocks or - I guess we can go ahead and call you at 8:54.
CDR Yeah, why don't you give us a call at
8:54.
CC Skylab, Houston, it sounds like we may
be starting to break lock here. Hawaii is your next pass
at 05_ and thatts you med conference.
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time. Skylab space station is now over the Indian Ocean
out of range of the tracking antenna on the Island of
Madagascar. Our next acquisition is 34 minutes away. That
will be at Hawaii. The up coming pass at Hawaii is scheduled
to be the private medical conference_ so we do not expect
to have conversation there. A 7-1/2 minute pass and we don't
expect the crew will have a chance to get back to us at the
end of the Hawaii pass. And again that next pass is
expected to be a private medical conference, we'll record it
in case anything does happen at the very end of it. And
immediately after that at Vanguard about an hour from now
we'll have the daily status report from the Sklab crew.
This is Skylab Control at 23 hours and 31 minutes Greenwich
mean time.
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TIME: 19:32 CDT, 69:00:32 GMT
1/22/74
PAO Skylab Control at zero hours 33 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now coming
within range of the tracking ship Vanguard, where we'll have
the evening status report from the crew. After a long period
of loss of signal where we had no conversation at all_ the
private medical conference held at Hawaii about 25 minutes
ago. And we_ll be waiting for a report on the crew health
to come in a short while. WeVll bring the line up live now
for Hank Hartsfield, the Spacecraft Communicator and the
evening status report through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for
8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Be right with you, Hank.
CC Okay, I got a quick question for you.
Do you have the cover closed on the teleprinter? When we
talked to you up at the ATM console, that thing sounds pretty
loud when it's pecking away.
CDR Well, sometime we do and sometimes we
don't, it just kind of depends. I think it was covered
today though when you and I was talking.
CC Does it does it - you know, during the
testing at the Cape it seems to me it made a lot of difference
whether that thing was opened or closed in the level of the
sound. I dn't know how it is in 5 PSI.
SPT Yeah, it really does make a difference.
SPT Hank, IVm sleeping at home tonight, so
you can run the teleprinter all you like.
CC Well, I'm sure glad to hear that. We had
problem on this short night and needing to get the EREP pads
up and they never built, you know_ until late in the evening.
SPY Yeah, I things have cooled down hear
and so I moved back home. And you can let her run all night.
CC We need one little item on the ATM panel
whenever itts convenient for someone. We need to get the
detector 3 op of $055. You prohaly won't see it change in the
display because we got it commanded on in parallel.
PLT Roger, Hank coming at you with the
photo log: 16-millimeter, EREP, Charlle Lima ii, 30 percent;
35-millimeter, Nikon 01, Charlie X-ray 42, frame count is
21; Nikon 02, Bravo Victor 49_ frame count's 48; Nikon 03,
Charlie India 115, frame count 41; Nikon 04p Bravo Echo 10p
frame count is 41; Nikon 05, Bravo Hotel 06, frame count is
31. 70-millimeter, Charlie X-ray 18, frame count 31.
ETC, India Romeo 03, frame count's 84; EREP set Yankee, 9507,
8846, 9721, 9712, 3258, 0582. Drawer A configuration:
no change.
CC Okay, we copy.
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CDR Okay, Hank here comes the status report.

Sleep: CDR, 6.0, 4 heavy, 2 light; SPT, 6.0, 5 heavy,
i light; PLT, 7.0, 7 heavy. Volumes: 265; 400; and 265.
Water gun: 8756; 4795; 1224. Mass: 6.317, 6.318, 6.321;
6.380, 6.381, 6.384; 6.245, 6.247, 6.240. Exercise: standard
for everyone. Medications: CDR and SPT none; PLT, Afrin times
2. Clothing: CDR, socks; SPT, socks and shirt; PLT, none.
Food log: CDR, salt 5.5, deviation zero, rehydration water
plus 2.0; SPT, 1.5 salt, plus a grape drink_ zero water;
PLT, 8.5 salt, plus a green beans, plus one coffee with sugar,
zero water. Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping list,
all housekeeping done; TV-107, 1.5 hours. Inoperatable
equipment; none. Unscheduled stowage: none.
CC Okay, we copy, Jerry and I've got a
question for Ed, if he's available.
CDR Go ahead, he_s listening.
CC Okay, this morning - on this afternoon the
EREP, they gave him the option of eliminating any ETC pictures
that were 75 percent or greater cloud covered. I wondered if
he exercised that option.
SPT Yes_ I did. There was just one occasion,
Hank and 1'11 give you the numbers, I put it on tape. 14
we're suppose to go to stand by, I went to stand by at 24:40.
That's about 30 seconds early. The reason, we had a I00 percent
cloud cover as we came over the front.
CC Okay, we copy Ed. And I guess if we could
do this maybe like an evening status or even realtime
during the pass in the future_ it would really help us out,
because the EREP people start working immediately on the
next day's passes and start thinking about the amount of
film they have left.
SPT Okay, Hank. That be the case, I'ii try
to give it to you after the EREP pass and the guys at the
VTS has calmed down and the loop is open.
CC Okay, that_ll work out real well, Ed.
PLT Also, Hank, I got a END OF FILM light
on Charlie Lima 11, I had 30 percent remaining. I did a
functional check on it, and itts still moving film.
CC Okay, we copy.
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SPT Okay, Hank, at the time of 25:14 we were

supposed to go to STANDBY. I went to STANDBY at 20
SPT - Hank, on TV-107, which I got almost
20 minutes of now and a little bit less which I'll be
finishing up later tonight. But there is something on
there I think Joe Allan and I talked about before flight,
And he'd like to take a look at it, I'm sure. And I'd llke
him to get back with me on any comment that he might have
if it's convenient.
CC Okay, I'll pass that. And I've got one
more important thing to get up to you here. We're about a
minute from LOS. And that is at 01:00 we would like for
you to turn the CMG number 2 bearing heaters off, O-F-F, off.
We've got a pass there at 00:58 at Tananarive, but it's
real low elevation and we're probably not going to get you.
CDR 01:00, CMG number 2 bearing off.
CC And for info we're cycling those heaters
now - one complete cycle ever rev is about what it's working
out°
CC And if we don't get you at Tananar!ve,

Hawaii is the next site at 01:40 with a recorder dump and
also the PLT's phone call, RIGHT ANTENNA. And we won't be
talking to you any more this evening since you're scheduled
for sleep at 02:00. We will have the comm up in case you
need us. We'll say good night to you now and see you at
08:54 Zulu.
CDR Okay, Hank. Thanks. Enjoy the night

down there.
PAO Skylab Control at 44 minutes after
Greenwleh midnight. Skylab space station is now out of
range of the tracking shlp Vanguard on what we expect to
be the final pass of the evening. This time CONTROL MOMENT
GYROSCOPE is perking along very nicely with no apparent
problem. Wheel speed seems to have come down a bit since
the anomalies earlier today. And it does seem to have
stabilized around the 88, 90 mark. That's about 20 rpm
below what had been seen before. However the currents do not
appear to be out of the ordinary. They do appear to be at the
usual level, and the temperatures are about in the normal
balance. So that would indicate that we don't have any
sort of anomaly on CMG number 2, but it may be that we have
a slight reduction in wheel speed. Several days ago we did
have a sharp drop in wheel speed that we thought might indicate
a failure in the transducer when the wheel speed dropped
about 60 rpm's for a very extended period of time, lasting
more than a day. At that time there was concern that the transdocer
itself might be failing. Later the wheel speed came back
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up to a normal level, and apparently had been working at

8912 for quite some period of time. It does seem to have
stabilized now at about 8890. And there does not appear
to be any anomaly in the behavior of CMG number 2. Skylab
astronauts with 27-1/2 million miles traveled in Earth
orbit had another excellent day studing the Earth and Sun.
More than two dozen areas were surveyed this afternoon as
the Skylab space station crossed the central United States
from Idaho to Florida. The Earth investigation, using fo_Jr
electronic instruments and seven cameras, was the 29th for
the astronauts. Thirty had been planned for the mission.
It now appears that we will have no trouble completing
the 30 originally scheduled. However, highest hopes in
the mission were that we might reach as many as 50. The
present plan for upcoming days indicates we may get as many
as 15 more Earth Resources passes before the end of the
mission, provided everything continues to work smoothly.
However our experience so far has been that weather has knocked
out a number of passes. We're up to about i0 passes lost
through weather and problems with the control moment
gyroscopes, so that has put us a bit behind the power
curve. However, they have completed 29 or the 30
originally planned, and it's hoped that they may get as
many as 15 more. After two substantial solar flares yesterday,
one of which Ed Gibson the science pilot caught on the
rise, the storm center on the western half of the Sun's
face has continued its explosive ways today. Five solar
flairs producing burst of X-radiation in the C-class
have been seen since the crew awakened at 06:00 am this
morning. All - all of these solar flares occurred in the
small but powerful active region number 31 on the Sun's right
half. The crew is going to sleep an hour early tonight
so they can get up before 04:00 am central daylight time
Wednesday. The early wakeup will allow Astronaut Jerry
Carr, Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue to perform another Earth
survey, focusing tomorrow again on signs of energy produced
by the Earth's inner heat. After 7 hours of irregular
behavior today, Skylab's number 2 gyroscope has once again
settled down. Today's unsteady performances by the large
gyroscope was the 30th and 31st of the Skylab flight, which
is now in its 68th day. We believe we have had the final
discussion of the evening. We do have a Tananarive pass
about 12 minutes away, but antenna conditions there seem to
be very poor. We do not intend to bring the line up at
that pass. If we should have further discussion, we'll
record it and play it back for you at the earliest possible
moment. It's now 47 minutes after the hour, and until 4:00 a.m.
central daylight time, this is Sky!ab Control.
END OF TAPE
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time. Skylab space station is about a minute and a half
from acquisition at Hawaii. We expect that the crew is
going to get a call here at Hawaii. The flight controllers
have been discussing tomorrow's Earth resources pass, which
has - presently is scheduled across central America all the
way to the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France. Under
current conditions only one mandatory site and six desirable
sites are listed for the pass. Weather is uncertain right
now for the geothermal area in central America. And for that
reason they're going to let the crew know that a review of
the weather will be made about 02:30 a.m. central daylight
time and they - they will give them a call after that time
if they need to wake them up. And we_ll bring you up here
at Hawaii and let you here the air-to-ground for yourself
as a discusssion of the EREP thing is coming to a cl a
close for now here in Mission Control.
CC Skylab, Houston.
SPT Hello, Hank.
CC Hey_ Ed, sorry to bother. We promised you
we wouldn't but we thought this was important enough to
tell you. We just got some weather in on your early EREP
tomorrow, and right now it's marginal. So what we'd like to
do is have you don't do anything till you hear from us. If
it's GO, we_ll go ahead and call you at 08:54 as we said we
would. If the weather is NO GO_ just sleep and we'll give
you a call somewhere around 10:30 or ii:00 and - because the
EREP will be scrubbed.
SPT Okay_ Hank. Sounds like a good way to
do it. Hope we get some good weather and get some good
EREP done.
CC So for the second time this evening,
we'll say goodnight to you. And we_ll talk to you at either
08:54 or 10:30.
SPT Goodnight to the bronze team.
PAO Skylab Control at 01:43. We're still in
acquisition in Hawaii but we don't expect any more conversation
here. That was the message that - after the weather has been
reviewed at 02:30 central daylight time_ the determination
will be made here in Mission Control as to whether the crew
should be awakened at the early wakeup time or whether they
should be allowed to sleep in to the normal time or possibly
somewhere in between. So that will take place about 02:30 in
the morning, and the crew will wait for a ground callup for
tomorrow's Earth resources pass. Central America currently
is a bit cloudy for the geothermal pass tomorrow. There are
six desirable Earth resources sites. And one of their
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mandatory sites, the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France,

that area has been surveyed before. However there is not a
completion on it. They expect that if they're able to get
it tomorrow it would complete the activity. However, for a
single mandatory site they would be unlikly to awaken the
crew two hours early. We have the mission surgeons report on
crew health and we'll read that for you at this time. Crew
health is satisfactory alt_ougR the pilot has a recurring
paranasal congestion. This is currently controlled by a topical
decongestant. A temperature will be taken as a precaution
to rule out infection. Signed by Dr. Jerry Hordinsky for Dr.
Hawkins, the medical operations director. We believe we've
had the final pass of the evening for the Skylab crew, so we'll
take the line down here. The crew should be up shortly before
04:00a.m. central daylight time. That's about 2 hours in advance
if weather appears to be good for tomorrow's early Earth
resources pass. Otherwise the time may be anywhere from 4 to
6 a.m. in the morning. This is Skylab Control at I hour 45
minutes Greenwich mean time.
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SL-IV MC-2413/I
Time: 05:30 CDT 69:10:30 GMT
1/23/74
PAO Skylab Control, January 23rd mission day

69. Wakeup coming through stateside pass - -
CC We're stateside for 12 minutes.
SPT Morning, Dick.
CC Good morning. You'll notice that by the
slightly later hour that they had to cancel the first EREP
on the Flight Plan this morning. That change has made us
redo the Flight Plan a little bit. So we have reuplinked a new
Flight Plan in detail. They are not significantly changed,
but we figured it would save you some paper work and pencil
pushing. It's mainly at the end of the day that the changes
are, 5nt one of the first things you might do this morning
is go up and smoke them over.
SPT Very good. Thank you, appreciate it.
CC Okay. One other thing, we have the VTR,
we're in the middle of a dump cycle. And I'll just be standing
5y here for the rest of this pass. We've still got ii minutes
to go.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute and
a half from LOS. We're going to drop out for about 5 minutes
and then pick up Madrid at 10:46. Incidently during the
evening, we've had the CMG 2 has had two or three long glitches
on it. And also we saw the ATM C&D coolant loop pressure go
to _ flow go to zero a couple of times, and assuming you guys
dldn't get up in the middle of the night and turn it off and
back on, we're assuming that something else caused it.
SPT (Garble), Dick.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time i0
hours 42 minutes, mission day 69_ January 23 for the crew of
Skylab IV. Bad weather along groundtrack 14 today has forced
the cancellation of the first of two Earth resources surveys
in today"s Flight Plan. The early Earth resources experiment
pass was to have started at 5:27 a.m. central daylight time,
and take data on volcanic activity in Central America, geologic
structures in Germany, and volcanic activity in Italy. The
second EREP pass along groundtrack 19 crossing the United
States is scheduled to begin at 1:34 p.m. central daylight time,
and will gather electronic and photographic data on weather
systems, land use, geology, remote sensing, technology, and
oceanograph _ oceanography. The space station presently in
a 232 by 240 nautical_mile orbit traveling at a speed of 25,133
feet per second. Now in revolution 3665. Temperatures aboard
the space station 73.8 degrees Fahrenheit down 1 degree from
yesterday. One glitch during the night on CMG 2, which began
at Greenwich mean time 5 hours and 35 minutes, and ended at
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Greenwich mean time i0 hours and 26 minutes as Skylab was

acquired at the Texas tracking station. This glitch following
the normal patterns of reduced wheel speed increased tempera-
tures and amps in the CMG number 2. A drop in pressure in
the C&D coolant loop panel just occurred at Greenwich mean
time 8 hours and 18 minutes, and at the next station acquisition
was back to the normal 260 pounds at Greenwich mean time 8
hours and 37 minutes. We'll leave the line up for CAP COMM
Dick Truly on this Madrid pass, 8 hours - 8 minutes in duration.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Madrid for
8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. I went up and had a listen
on the ATM C&D coolant pump. It sounds pretty calm right now.
CC Okay Jerry, thank you for the words. And
PLT, Houston_ when you get a chance, no hurry, I'd like to speak
to you for a second.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Roger, Bill. All your friends down here
on the purple gang would like to wish you a happy birthday
this morning, We sure hope you have a nice day and IVve got
a special message on tape that I think you'll enjoy hearing.
PLT Thanks, purple gang. I'd forgotten.
CC (Music: "Happy Birthday")
MCC Happy birthday, Bill.
MCC You're not getting older, you're getting
better.
MCC Hang in there.
PLT Hey Dick, that's great. I wish I could
hug them all.
CC I know you do_ Bill. Happy birthday to
you.
PLT Thanks again.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're a minute from LOS.
Carnarvon comes up at ii:21. There is one item that came
up last night on the evening status report that I'd like to
pass up to you, and that is_ it was reported that Nikon 02
Bravo Victor 49 had 48 frames. We expected that to be 46
5ecause we thought you should set it to 48 and then click off
two frames, If you did not do this, Jerry, prior to doing
S073 this morning, we_d like you to do that. If you did click
off, whoever loaded it, if you did click off the two frames,
just reset the counter to 46.
CDR We'll do that, Dick.
CC Okay.
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SL-IV MC2414/I
Time: 05:54 CDT, 69:10:54 GMT
1/23/74
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

i0 hours 54 minutes. Loss of signal through the Madrid
tracking station, begins their 69th day, waking up an hour
and a an hour and a half later than scheduled. An early-
morning EREP pass, a geothermal pass to gather data on vol-
canic activity, had been canceled due to bad weather along
the groundtrack. Wakeup call coming through the stateside
pass. Discussions with the crew concerning another C&D
CMG glitch in number 2 which began at Greenwich mean time 5 hours
and 35 minutes, lasting nearly 5 hours. As the spacecraft
come through Texas at Greenwich mean time i0 hours 26 minutes,
the G&N officer reported the CMG 2 was back to normal. The
pattern of off-line performance in line with other anomalies:
low wheel speed, increase in voltage and increase in tempera-
tures in the CMG number 2, A drop in pressure in the ATM
C&D coolant loop was reported at Greenwich mean time 8 hours
18 minutes. This was cleared up about 19 minutes later at
next station acquisition at Greenwich mean time 8 hours and
37 minutes. Commander Carr reported he went up and looked
at the C&D loop and he said it sounded it sounded okay.
Through the Madrid pass, a - the happy birthday greeting to
Pilot Bill Pogue who today, celebrates his birthday. He was
born on January 23, 1930. His message from his family,
his wife Helenp his son Bill, Jr._ daughter Lana, and Tom
all singing happy birthday to their father in orbit. This
afternoon's EREP pass at 1:34 central daylight time crosses
a trac_ there at Vancouver Island on the west coast and bi-
sects the country diagonally to Savannah, Georgia. Commander
Gerald Carr will operate the control and display panel while
Pilot Bill Pogue - the viewfinder tracking system with Science
Pilot Ed Gibson operating the SI90B Earth terrain camera out the
anti,solar scientific airlock. In the solar physics field,
Gibson will man the ATM control and display panel three times
today and Carr and Pogue once each. The crew will be concen-
trating on active regions 31 and 33 today. Solar scientists
here at the Johnson Space Center do not anticipate any major
activities. They're giving the crew the option of watching
these regions to have them select what they feel is the most
active region. The two active regions, 31 and 33, should pass
around the limb today and scientists here do not anticipate
any action coming from the other limb as the Sun revolves.
In the other experiments in today's Flight Plan include
Gerald Cart as subject and Pilot Pogue as observer in the
medical experiment pair of M092/M093 lower body negative
pressure/vectorcardiogram experiments. Also included today,
is operation of the S073 Gegenschein/zodiacal light through
the anti,solar scientific airlock. Handheld Earth feature
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photographic options today include metropolitan development

patterns around Khartoum, Sudan, East African Rift Zones,
current eddies off New England and Nova Scotia, fault zones
in the Swiss Alps and in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco,
dunes in the northern Namib Desert of Southwest Africa,
coastal sediment and lake ice in Lake Ontario and offshore
sea ice in New England and the Gulf of Mexico currents. A
total of slightly under 24 manhours of scientific activity
is scheduled today. Wakeup beginning mission day 69, occurring
at Greenwich mean time l0 hours and 30 minutes. That's 5:30
central daylight time. The spacecraft in a 232 by 240-nautical-
mile altitude. Temperatures aboard Skylab this morning, 73.8
degrees and a happy birthday through Madrid. Next station
in 21 minutes and 40 seconds. At Greenwich mean time i0
hours and 59 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2415/I
Time: 06:20 CDT, 69:11:20 GMT
1/23/74
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

ii hours and 19 minutes. Mission day 69 started through
the stateside pass. The crew has been awake for 50 minutes.
We'll have acquisition through Carnarvon in 40 seconds. We'll
hold the line up for CAP COMM Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Carnarvon for 5 minutes. And I have some news here if you'd
like to hear it this morning.
CDR Rog. Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. Washington D.C.: Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger indicated that the unrestricted
flow of Arab - Arab oil to the United States may resume in
less than two months as a result of the Egyptian Israeli
troop agreement. Kissinger said at his first news conference
since returning from the Middle East that he has every reason
to believe that our success in the negotiations mark a major
step toward ending the oil embargo. According to the agreement,
Egypt and Israel must complete their disengagement along the
Suez Canal within 40 to 60 days. The process is expected
to start on Friday. In London, the miners' union threatened
a national strike after the British government refused to
lift its wage controls to permit a larger wage increase than
it is - that is allowed to other workers. A strike by the
miners, whose refusal to work overtime has already created
an energy shortage, could halt most of the British industry
by this spring. In New York, a $240,000 collection
of Civil War art, hidden for 60 years in a New Orleans attic,
went on exhibition here. The American Heritage Society, which
owns the collection, called it the most important discovery
of its kind in this country, It consists of 754 pen-and-ink
drawings, pencil sketches, water colors and wash drawings by
56 artists. None has ever been publicly displayed before.
In Fresno California, the woman who got a traffic ticket
for following President Nixon_s plea to slow down and save
fuel has beaten the rap. Irene Hodges, secretary of the
Hanford Chamber of Commerce, demanded a jury trial after the
California Highway Patrol cited her November 18 for driving
57 miles per hour instead of the posted 70 along Highway 99
near here. Mrs. Hodges said she pleaded innocent because only
days before Nixon had called on motorists to slow to 50 to
save fuel. But she didn't have to go to trial on Monday
because the Municipal Court Judge Moradian dismissed the
citation witkout comment. One final item. From Niles, Ohio,
cfty police checked a report Tuesday that someone was inside
a Goodwill Industries used clothing deposit box near a local
store, and found it was true. The unidentified man said he
fell in while putting clothing and other items into the box
and then couldn't and then could not reopen the flap.
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We still have about 2 minutes here at Carnarvon. I'm standing

by.
SPT Roger, Dick. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute
from LOS. Honeysuckle comes up in 7 minutes and I'Ii give
you a call there. Incidentally, the biomed officer has
searched through the transcripts and he's unable to find
M092 voice/data on yesterday's SPT run. If you one of you
guys has a chance to rerecord that, we'd sure appreciate
it.
PLT Okay, Dick. I have it written down.
I'ii rerecord it.
CC Thank you very much.
CDR Dick, would you send us up another copy
of message 69, 61_ Alfa-2?
CC Wetll certainly get that up to you, Jerry.
CDR Okay. This one got a little garbled.
Looks like maybe it slewed in the midd%e of it or something.
CC Okay. We'll re-uplink that message.
ii hours 28 minutes with loss of signal through Carnarvon.
Next acqnisition in 4 minutes through Honey control moment
gyro number 2 - glitch which began at 5:35 Greenwich mean time
today, still in progress at this time. Nearly 6 hours
continuous off,line performance by this CMG. In addition
to the happy birthday music played to the pilot, Bill Pogue,
celebrating his 44th birthday today. A 4-foot-long teleprinter
message went up during the night_ a birthday card made of
computer symbols and letters from his family, his wife, Helen,
and sons Bill and Tom, and daughter, Layna, resembling much like
the Christmas card which the crew received from the various
flight teams during the Christmas hollidays. 4-foot-long
b_rthday card sent to Bill Pogue for his 44th birthday.
Next acquisition through Honeysuckle. We'll bring the line
up for this Honeysuckle pass_ i minute in duration.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle.
very short pass of about i minute. Texas comes up at
12:02. Be advised that since this pass is so short, we're
not going to try to uplink that message you asked for, but
we will get it up to you at Texas. So see you then.
CDR Okay, Dick.
II hours and 34 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle
trackin_ station. Next acquisition in 27 minutes through
Texas. On mission day 69 for the crew of Skylab IV. They
began their day later than scheduled due to bad weather over
tRe planned EREP track, that track was canceled, that pass
was canceled. Now the crew will spend more time at the ATM,
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observing a increasingly quiet Sun. The two active regions

under study, the last several days, active region 31 and 33
are presently moving around the east limb of the Sun and
no activity is predicted from the west limb. The crew will
have the option observing aetivating the cameras at areas
they suspect will have activity. Next acquisition in 26 minutes
through Texas. At Greenwich mean time ii hours 35 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-2416/I
Time: 07:01 CDT 69:12:01 GMT
01123174

12 hours i minute. Acquisition coming through Texas tracking
station in 50 seconds. We'll bring the line up for CAP COMM
Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello, stateside for
17 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, sort of in the blind. We're
having a problem receiving downlink from the site. I - I
understand I am getting up okay, we still have about 14 minutes
left in this stateside pass. I have not received anything
from you here, although I understand you did answer me. When
we get it squared away, I'll give you another call.
CDR Houston, CDR. How do you read?
CC CDR, Houston, loud and clear now. How me?
CDR Okay, good, Dick. The question was,
Dr. Biomed, down there is probably interested in getting his
throat samples before we eat or brush our teeth, or anything
llke that. It's a little too late for that today, we're
going to go ahead and take in fact we've taken about three-
quarters of the rest of the samples. I would suggest that
we take the throat sample tomorrow morning before we eat.
CC Okayp Jerry. We concur with that one.
And, incidentally, Jerry, we checked back and on that tele-
printer message that you said had some kind of a problem,
we checked at the site and INCO saw no problems at all on
his TM on the command history. We're wonderin_ if you could
give us a little more detailed description of what happened to
the message.
CDR Don't really know. It's just either the
middle of it or the top and the bottom have been separated by
a slew and the message itself has got a bunch of hash marks
above it. Let me get it and I'll try to describe it to you
in detail.
CC Okay_ good, we'd appreciate it.
CDR Okayp it picks up in one of the starred
blocks (garble) The first line is about i0 minutes (no DAC
for T_57 Deltap ops, follow the action during these maneuvers.)
Above that is just a bunch of funny hash marks repeated i,
2_ 9' 5 times. And, they're about the height of about three lines.
And_ you know klnda looks llke an Indian blanket or something
like that.
CC Roger_ Jerry. We appreciate the description
and we certainly don't have an immediate answer but we'll take
a look at it. Thank you.
CDR Okay.
CDR Houston_ CDR.
CC Go ahead_ Jer.
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CHR Okay, I've got the full message now, and

it looks like there were about i, 2, 3, 5 lines that were
missed right out of the middle of this message and that's
where we have all of that funny slewing.
CC Now this is the this is the first one
that we had the problem with, not the one we just uplinked,
is that right?
CDR Yeah, the one you just uplinked in good
shape. And I've got the first part and the last part of this
same message up here, it's just the part in the middle that's
missing.
CC Uh-huh. Okay, thank you very much for
letting us know.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, Ed.
SPT Dick, we've got a computer reject light
up here. Is that an anomaly that came up while sending up some
commands or do you know what the problem is?
CC Stand by i.
CC SPT, Houston. The problem is the command
error on the ground. We'll - it'll it'll be rectified in
Just a minute, no problem with you.
SPT Okay, thank you, Dick.
SPT The SPT, activity light is out, Dick.
CC Roger.
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SPT Dick, I'd llke to go ahead and put a

little H-alpha i on the VTR. Yesterday when we did that,
we had the doors open for about half an orbit before we
actually able to get to it.
CC Stand by Just a second. Let me check
the status. We have been doing some VTR dubbing. Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. We're in a rewind mode
at the moment. It's going to take at least 5 minutes to
complete that and at that point_ it should be available to
you. So I'ii let you know the status when we get AOS Madrid.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Dick. We won't need
more than 15 30 seconds, whatever it takes for it to come
up to speed and start recording.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
Madrid comes up in 5 minutes. See you there.
SPT Roger, Dick. So long.
12 hours 19 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda. Next
acquisition in 3 minutes and 35 seconds will be through Madrid.
ii days of ATM viewing remain for the crew of Skylab IV, if
the mission goes the duration. Last ATM viewing will be
the day before the EVA which is now scheduled on the mini-
su_mary for mission day 80_ on February 3rd. The film re-
maining aboard the six ATM cameras, the $052 has 1546 frames
re_aining, S054 has 991 frames, 1278 frames remain for the
$056 camera, 20 in the S082A, S082B has 54 frames remaining,
K_alpha i camera has 3659 frames of film left. Science Pilot
Ed Gibson at the ATM console at this time monitoring the
activities in a slowly diminishing quiet Sun. Next acquisi-
tion through Madrid. We_ll bring the llne up for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for
9 minutes and the VTR is yours.
SpT Thank you, Dick.
CC Also, we're dumping the data/voice recorder
here at Madrid.
CC SPT, Houston. We think you need H-alpha
NIGHT INTERLOCK to OVERRIDE to get H-alpha going.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
SPT Can't tell without a READY or a OPERATE
light,
CC Roger that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS.
Tananarive at 12:45.
SPT So long, Houston.
12 hours 33 minutes with loss of signal through Madrid. Next
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acquisition in ii minutes and 55 seconds will be the Tananarive

tracking station as the crew is into their 69th day in orbit. A
day which will have one EREP pass, a stateside pass with about
5 hours or more devoted to observations of the Sun. Science
Pilot Gibson presently at the ATM console. Next acquisition
ii minutes and 25 seconds through Tananarive. At Greenwich
mean time 12 hours 34 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 07:44 CDT, 69:12:44 GMT
1/23/74

12 hours 44 minutes. Acquisition coming through Tananarive
in 50 seconds. Changeover presently in progress here at
the Mission Control Center with the off-going purple team
headed by Flight Director Phil Shaffer, turning over the
operation to Neil Hutchinson, chief - head flight director
for the silver team.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive
for about 5 minutes. And SPT, Houston. Back there where
you put the NIGHT INTERLOCK switch to OVERRIDE for us, we
were looking at our data and we didn't see the shutter operate,
wonder if you"d verify H-alpha i mode switch to AUTO?
SPT Yeah. I've got it now, Dick.
CC Roger. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're expecting an
early LOS from Tananarive. Honeysuckle at 13:10.
12 hours 51 minutes with loss of signal through Tananarive.
Next acquisition will be through the Honeysuckle Creek
tracking station in 18 minutes. The crew in their 69th day,
later on this morning, Commander Gerald Carr will be per-
forming the MO92/M093 experiment. This will be the 18th time
Commander Cart will perform the M092 and the 16th time he
has performed the M093 experiment. Pilot Bill Pogue will be
the observer during this pair of medical experiments. Science
Pilot Ed Gibson currently at the ATM console. He will spend
3 hours there this morning, a total of almost 9 hours of
ATM observation time during the day due to the cancellation
of the EREP earlier this morning. EREP pass, a geothermal
pass, across South America, Central America and Italy was
canceled due to heavy cloud cover. However, the EREP pass
for this afternoon, EREP pass number 30, is still on schedule.
This is a continental pass beginning at Greenwich mean time
18:34. Next acquisition in 16 minutes and 25 seconds through
Koneysuckle. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time
12 hours and 53 minutes.
13 hours and 8 minutes. Acquisition coming through Honeysuckle
in 50 seconds, Changeover here at the Mission Control Center.
FligN_ Director of the silver team is Nell Hutchinson. CAP
COMM is Bruce McCandless. Wetll bring the line up for this
pass through Honeysuckle, 2 minutes and 20 seconds in duration.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
for irl/2 minutes. We need the CMG bearing heaters off on
5earing 2, please. Over.
CC Roger. That's on CMG-2 immediately,
please.
SFT In work.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston. 40 seconds

to LOS. Next station contact in 26-1/2 minutes through
Goldstone at 13:38. Out.
SPT And, CMG number 2 bearing heaters are off.
CC Roger. We verify that. Thank you.
CC And, Ed, while you're up there, we see
the H-alpha i NIGHT INTERLOCK is still in OVERRIDE. We're using
film at night. We'd like to get it back to NORMAL, please.
13 hours and 13 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition will be through Goldstone in 24 minutes.
The crew was asked to turn off the bearing heaters on bearing
number 2. The ground attempted to turn them off on this
Honeysuckle pass, however, apparently, a wrong procedure at the
Honeysuckle tracking station negated the command from the ground to
turn the heaters off automatically. The crew did turn the
heaters off and the temps are returning to normal there in
the bearing number 2 heater. This anomaly still in progress
in CMG number 2 has been in progress since Greenwich mean
time 5 hours and 35 minutes. This is by far the longest
ont_of_line performance by this CMG number 2. Next acquisition
through Goldstone in 23 minutes and 40 seconds. This is
Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time 13 hours and 14 minutes.
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PAO Skylah Control. Greenwich mean time

13 hours 36 minutes. A long stateside pass coming on this
revolution. Skylab in its 3666 revolution since launch from
Cape Kennedy on May 14. CAP COMM is Bruce McCandless, we'll
bring the line up for this pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
and Corpus Christi for 11-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And, we're taking the VTR here.
CC And, Ed, we need the DAS here for a few
minutes to load momentum bias for the EREP coming up.
SPT You got it.
CC And, we're through with the DAS, Ed.
SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to LOS,
2 minutes to Bermuda.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 5_i/2 minutes.
next station in 5 minutes at Canary Islands at 14:01.
SPT Roger, Bruce.
13 hours and 57 minutes, with loss of signal through Bermuda.
Next acquisition will be Madrid, Canary Island tracking
station in 3 minutes. The G&N officer here at the Mission
Control Center, still watching very carefully the CMG number 2,
which still has not returned to normal performance. The outer
perimeter performance is began at Greenwich mean time 5 hours
and 35 minutes. Now 8 hours into this abnormal performance.
The crew presently performing the M092/M093 with Commander
Gerald Cart as the subject with Pilot Bill Pogue serving as
the observer. Science Pilot Gibson at the ATM control and
display panel.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
for 9 minutes, Out.
CDR Houston, CDR. The S183 malfunction
procedure iS complete. Terminated because of failure of the
system and the details are on tape, time tag 13:50 Zulu.
CC Okay_ we copy that, and you remember
which block it was you spun out in, block 9 maybe?
CDR I got as far as - I got the power on, got
the plate light illuminated and then as soon as I started the
sequence start 35 seconds after sequence start we lost the
plate l_ght.
CC Okay, thank you.
next station contact in 12 minutes through Tananarive. Out.
14 hours ii minutes. Loss of signal through the Madrid,
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Canary tracking stations. Next acquisition through Tananarive

in 9 minutes and 35 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours
ii minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC2420/I
Time: 09:19 CDT, 69:14:19 GMT
1/23/74

14 hours and 19 minutes with acquisition coming through Ta-
nanarive for a 7 minute 43 second pass. We'll bring the line
up for CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive
for 6 minutes. Out.
SPT (Garble)
CC Go ahead, Ed. You're coming in awful weak
though. Could you get up a little closer to the mike?
SPT How do you read me now, Bruce?
CC Very, very weak.
SPT Okay. Apparently the comm is bad at this
station. I'ii wait until the next.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1-1/2 minutes
to LOS. Next station contact in 18 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 14:45. Out.
14 hours and 29 minutes with loss of signal through Tananarive
tracking station. Next acquisition will be Honeysuckle in
15 minutes and 30 seconds. The Honeysuckle pass will be
devoted to the daily solar observation program with backup
Science Pilot Bill Lenoir talking with Science Gibson. Next
acquisition in 15 minutes and 15 seconds. At Greenwich mean
time 14 hours and 30 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
14 hours 44 minutes. Acquisition coming through Honeysuckle
tracking station in 50 seconds. We'll bring the line - bring
the line up for this 9-minute pass.
Creek for about 9 minutes. There'll be a data/voice tape
recorder dump at Hawaii AOS next site and for SPT, I guess we
have better comm here. Did you have some comments on the Sun?
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Roger. Would you ask the food people today
I'd like to add mash potatoes to my menu tonight. I would like to
find out what adjustments I have to make.
CC Okay. We'll do that and if Ed has no comments
on the Sun, why we'll press on with the ATM conference. I'ii
turn it over to Bill.
SPT Morning, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed. A couple of words here on the
Sun. The first is, I Just got word from the backroom that we
presently have an active prominence on the southwest limb. It
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is out to 0.03 solar radii now and it is growing. You may

want to be taking a look at that as the Sun comes over the
hill. In active region 33, we show a few bright points
coming out today in a plage. That may indicate that we're
going to get some resurges of activity there. There is some
new plages west - that is, toward the limb of active region
33, shows some sign of development and almost certainly would
be interacting with active region 33 through loops. It
will be on the west limb in i day. Based on what we had
seen here over the last few days and some speculation, there's
obvious connections between active region 31 and 32 which
are up in the Northern Hemisphere and 33, which is in the
Southern Hemisphere. And - -
SPT Were you saying that, Bill, this connects
between 33 and 32 or 31? In other words, across the Equator?
MCC Yes, that's - I specifically asked NOAA
that this morning and they were pretty strong in their answer
about that that they there did appear to be a lot of sym-
pathetic brightening among all three of these - with any of
the events going on yesterday.
SPT Okay. We've not seen anything other than
the time correlation in brightening.
MCC That's that's affirmative. One - -
SPT Okay.
MCC - - One last point here then on the Sun,
on the southeast limb where active region 12 would be returning,
we see nothing. At some point during the day, if you see
anything over there, just pass us down a word and we'll take
a look at it. The other things here on my agenda today - the
basic plan is fairly obvious. We have got some extra orbits
at the end of the day due to the cancellation of the early
EREP. On the orbit starting at 23:06 Zulu, that CDR has,
presently, there's a BB-I followed by a BB-2 scheduled with
a powerdown to unattended. The only change we're making is
he now has that full orbit and he will have observing time
for the last portion of it. The orbit after that beginning
at 00:39 Zulu, is SPT orbit, yours, what we want to schedule
there is a BB-32 at the beginning and observing time for the
entire rest of that orbit. We can send you a pad on that if
you'd like. But if you don't say anything, we probably won't.
SPT No, I'ii take the observing time. If some-
one has something specific they'd like carried out, though, let
me know. But I'm sure I'ii be able to make good use of that time.
MCC That was our feeling also. Okay, we've
got 5-1/2 minutes left. The next thing I'd like to get to
here is a discussion on the planning for the the next crew
day off, which is Saturday. We have had several meetings here
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and we just finished a meeting with Gene Krans on a proposal

for taking a look at some different types of planning and
operations for ATM that might be applicable to Shuttle-type
facilities. Basically, what we would like to propose, is
the following that really involves you doing 95 percent of
the planning rather than we doing it down here. The one
point I would like to make is that we do not in any way
intend for this day off to be a hectic day off for you or
any way worse than any other crew day off and maybe not
even as bad. So don't let us - don't let this pressure you into
doing more than you really want to. We certainly don't
intend that. But the plan would be that on Thursday night
that's 2 days from now and 2 days prior to the execute day,
we would send you up summary planning, the goal, as we see them,
2 days in advance so that you could begin to think about it.
The following night, we would send a detailed lengthy message
mostly words, as to what the scientific goals of the indivi-
dual experiments would be the following day. And then you
could on your own, piece those together and accomplish those
goals in the way that you saw that was best fit. During the
day,itself, we would scheduled some time in the morning
for a science conference that would be handled basically by
the planning chairman acting as the - the czar so to speak
as far as the air-to-ground goes. The planning chairman that
discuss all the details and the request from the experiments
the day before. We could have as much time at that that we
wanted. We would propose it after you have seen the Sun and
that he could also handle a detailed NOAA briefing to you with
NOAA in the background to answer questions for him that
you might have on the Sun. Then you could plan out and take
as many or as few orbits as you wanted that day that were
available to ATM to accomplish the goals and we're also pro-
posing on about 3 hours centered that we would schedule a
conference between you and the planning chairman again as the
"How goes it?" "What's changed?" "What's new?" With the
understanding that in addition to that, anytime you wanted, you
could call down and talk to the planning chairman. Or for that
matter, the PI from any individual experiment would be called
to run out -
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MCC And - Then you could, on your own,

piece those together and accomplish those goals in the way
you saw - that was a best fit. During the day, itself, we
would schedule some time in the morning for a science con-
ference that would be handled basically by the planning
chairman, acting as the (garble) so to speak, as far as
air-to-ground goes. The planning chairman has discussed
all the details and the request from the experiments the day before.
We could have as much time at that as we wanted. We would propose
it after you have seen the Sun. And that he could also
handle the detailed NOAA briefing to you with NOAA in
the background to answer questions for him, that you may have
on the Sun. Then you could plan out and take as many or as
few orbits as you want at that day that were available to
the ATM to accomplish the goals and we're also proposing on
about 3-hour centers that we would schedule a conference
between you and the planning chairman again as to how goes
it and what's changed, what's new, with the understanding that in
addition that_ anytime you wanted you could call down and
talk to the planning chairman, or for that matter, the PI
from any of the individual experiments would be on call to run out
and plug in and talk to you if necessary. And, basically,
that's what welre looking at and we're wondering if you have
any thoughts on it.
SPT You've outlined it well, Bill. And I
think you've got a good plan in mind. I look forward to that.
I th_nk one thing I would like to make sure though is the
day before, which I do get the lengthy message - message
o_tl_n£ng the objectives of each experiment, the following
day that I ha_e, at least an hour or so of time, in order
to go over that and become familiar to work out a tentative
plan for the following day.
MCC Okay. We'll take that into the system
here and see about getting that for you. That'd be Friday
nZght.
SPT That's right.
MCC Okay. And then following that, as a
matter of fact, the suggestion was that we really ought to
do it more than one day in a row here, although our original
intent was i day. So right now we don't have hard plans to
follow it up. Although, we would like to be ready to do more
of that type of thing, if it looks like that's a way to
operate or if it looks like we would like to investigate that
method more. So, throughout that day, keep us up-to-date on
your thoughts on how the system is working, how we might
improve it and so on. With the detailed message, the night
before, will also be coming up a film budget. Obviously,
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we're down to the point now where quite a few experiments

just don't have any film left. That will limit our test here
somewhat, in that there won't be everybody able to participate.
But I think we can do as much as we can this way.
SPT Yeah. I understand that. My only
reticence about the whole operation is that sufficient time
be allotted for planning. I think we can handle it well from up
here, given the information that you said will be coming up. All
we need is the time to put it together.
MCC Okay. And that's really our job.
Because, the way I look at it, that message cannot be
permanently looked at unless we do indeed give you the time
to plan. And we realize your time isn't free any more than
ours is down here.
SPT That's right.
MCC Okay, Ed. We're 52 seconds to LOS.
Honey _ No, Hawaii is next in ii minutes. And that would
be at 15:05.
SPT Okay. And I do have some comments on
the Sun, which I'll save til then. I couldn't get to a
speaker box when we first came over the hill there. So I'ii
hold off until Hawaii. Thank you very much, Bill. I
appreciate your hard work on that. Matter of fact, your
hard work on the whole effort. I think you've played a
major role in keeping this whole thing alive and making it
work well. I appreciate it.
MCC Okay. Well thanks a lot for your comments,
but as, I'm sure, you're well aware, I'm just the visible tip
of a huge iceberg, here. We'll be talking to you tomorrow
and any other thoughts on this, keep passing them on to us.
We want to be able to react quickly.
SPT Okay. Sure will. Thank you, Bill.
14 hours 56 minutes. Next acquisition in 8 minutes and
30 seconds through the Hawaii tracking station, this pass
devoted to the daily solar observation review with back-
up Science Pilot Bill Lenolr talking with Science Pilot Ed
Gibson, concerning procedures and possible operations which
might follow in the Shuttle Program, using ATM-type instru-
ments aboard the Shuttle. Certain programs and procedures
will be passed up to Science Pilot Gibson, he will review these
and pass his comments back down to the ATM scientist here
at the Johnson Space Center. Next acquisition in 7 minutes
and 50 seconds. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean
time 14 hours and 57 minutes.
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Time: 10:04 CDT 69:15:04 GMT
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15 hours and 4 minutes. Acquisition coming through the
Hawaii tracking station with the crew in their 69th day.
Commander Gerald Carr performing the M092/M093 experiments,
the 18th time he's done the M092 and the 16th time he's
performed the M093. We'll bring the line up for this
9 minute 45 second pass. CAP COMM is Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 9_i/2 minutes with a data/volce tape recorder dump. Out.
SPT Okay, Houston, I have the solar update.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay, looking at the white light corona-
graph, we see some subtle changes. One fairly large one
is over on the east limb at 270, extending to 26 to 28 at
around 3 radii. We still see the same streamer structure we
saw yesterday, perhaps two overlapping, that's a little hard
to tell, but the intensity is greatly decreased, very signi-
ficantly decreased. Relatively the same form but does not
extend out as far and it's not anywhere near as intense as
the base. On the west limb therets two faint streamers, one
at 060 and one at 080, both radial. Over at about 120 or
115 actually there are two streamers crossing, they cross
at around 3 solar radii. They're fairly narrow, one is radial
tbe other one is directed about 090. That crosses at - I
said 3 solar radii out and diverge merge from there on out.
Before they diverge or before they cross the - they appear
as a s_ngle streamer. XUV monitor shows the active regions
of wkich wetre aware of. 32 is very dim, 31 is even
t_ough it"s on the limb, is not as bright as the 20 - 21
complex. N_33 can be seen there almost distinctly but
_t _ the plage doesn't blend in with the other two. Active
region 17 stands out above the limb in a distinct way from
the plage on the limb. By that I mean it looks the most
spherical above the limb - above the normal limb brightening.
A longer integration on the XUV monitor shows over on the
east llmb, there are - there is the active region 34, which
is out at about 260, as I see it. And at 270 and at 280 there
are also two _ two limb brightenings but - much smaller
magnitude. There are some bright points at 000 - about
3 solar radii out in that general neighborhood, 3 or 4 of them,
4 if you count a very faint one, spread out over about 2 or
3/lOth of a solar radi. There is a coronal hole at about
130 0.3 radii out and it's about 0.2 solar radii in diameter. It's
not _ completely circular but fairly ragged edges to it but
it's close to circular. There is also a filament channel
up north of that - up around - believe itts filament 86, and
e_en though filament 86 is relatively short, the channel
in which it is embedded is quite long and extends from just
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about 010 on the - about 0.5 radii directly to the west, and
then as it gets around 0.8 radii out it starts to curve up to
the north. The active regions in - Looking at it with
S055 and H-alpha, all appear to be diminished in intensity,
very significantly, especially 31 - I shouldn't say that
about 21, because it's pretty much remains the same as I saw
it yesterday in intensity. 31 is certainly way down, the
oxygen VI count is down to around 4000, 5000 max and
I don't see the rapid time variation we saw yesterday.
Hopefullyp it's just rebuilding and is going to give us a
good spectacular event when it gets right at the limb. And
we_ll be watching for what the NOAA guys have called out
here, an M_I or greater. I hope we can get it. That concludes
it.
CC Okay_ thank you, Ed.
CC Andp Skylab, this is Houston, we're
taking the VTR at this time in order to prepare it for a
dump over Goldstone coming up.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS,
next station contact in 3 minutes through Goldstone at 15:17.
Out.
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SL-IV MC2423/I
Time: 10:15 CDT, 69:15:15 GMT
1123174

15 hours and 16 minutes. Loss of signal through Hawaii.
Next acquisition through Goldstone in 40 seconds. We'll
hold the llne up for this stateside pass.
for 7-1/2 minutes. We need the DAS for a NAV update please.
SPT You got it.
CC The NAV updates, done Ed, and you've got the
DAS back.
SPT Thank you. I'm looking at the white light

coronagraph display, I do not see any change from the previous
orbit. The streamer structure in which I discussed crossing
at three-eighths solar radii is still in the same configura-
tion and nothing else in it's phased.
CC Roger.
Next station contact in 4-I/2 minutes through Bermuda at 15:28.
Out.
15 hours and 25 minutes. Loss of signal across Goldstone
tracking station as (garble) is over outside the limits of
the Texas and MILA stations. Next acquisition will he through
Bermuda in 2 minutes. Discussion still underway here at
Mission Control Center concerning the upcoming EREP which is
scheduled to start at a maneuver, the first maneuver to
place the vehicle into the attitude is scheduled to he made
at 17:04 Greenwich mean time and then an hour later at 18
hours 27 minutesp a fine Z-LV maneuver will be made. Decision
to go ahead with this maneuver is still under consideration
here depending again upon the status of the CMG number 2
control moment gyro which is still not hack to normal. It's
now been almost i0 hours since CMG number 2 is been in its
c_rrent distress mode. Wheel speed's still down slightly,
temperatures and amperes, up in the control moment gyro. Next
acquisition in i minute through Bermuda. We'll bring the line
up for this Bermuda pass_ 8 minutes in duration.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 6-1/2 minutes
remaining in Bermuda.
CC And Skylab, this is Houston. We have
rewound the VTR. It's clean and it's all yours.
SPT Thank you, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 2 minutes. Canary at 15:38. Out.
SPT Houston, SPT. I'd like you to clarify
something for me. On the pad for the orbit we just previously
finished, we had 56 (garble) frame 2 exposures, 16 minutes and from
the message which we received on the order of a month ago for
f_iter duration or exposure duration versus filter position,
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we show that two have the max allowable of 8 minutes. Could

you tell us whether that max allowable is now up to 16 or
some other number?
CC Okay. That was on the pad that started at
15:19 and you're looking at single frame l, is it for 16
minutes?
SPT Negative, negative. Last orbit - 2 expo-
sures - -
CC Skylah, this is Houston through Canary
and Ascension for 16 minutes. For the SPT, we're having
trouble reading you again. Could you either speak up closer
to the mike or change eomm carriers if you're wearing a hat.
I guess the only time when you really came through loud and
clear this morning was during the ATM conference. Over.
SPT That's right, Bruce. I was using the
handheld mike at that moment.
CC Okay. That's a lot better. Loud and
clear now.
SPT Okay. What part on that last transmission
or the question do you not understand?
CC We've got it all here. Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. The 16-minute exposure on filter
2, S056 was correct as carried in the schedule pad and your
recollection was also correct. This represents a change
in philosophy in relaxing constraints in that we had been
overheating filter 2 but with so little time left in the
mission, we're no longer that concerned about it. So what
we"d like you to do is keep on questioning these things in
advance as you seem. But otherwise, go ahead and run them
according to the schedule pad. Over.
SPT Okay. How about shoppin_ list work then
for filter 2 and also filter 3 which is 15 minutes max allowable?
Can we go ahead and assume that those things will be up to
16 or 20 minutes?
CC The answer to that, Ed, is yes, but
in the interim. But we'll go ahead and update the message and send
you a new version of it.
SPT Okay. That'll be helpful. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out. And if you can spare the
DAS for a minute, we'll send you a NuZ update.
SPT You got it.
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CC And the NuZ update's in so you got the

DAS again.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS,
next station contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon at 16:20.
Out.
15 hours 54 minutes. Loss of signal through Ascension, next
acquisition will be through Carnarvon in 25 minutes and
35 seconds. Assessment still under way here at Mission Control
Center on the CMG problem. Discussion on the EREP pass for later
has not been made at this time, if we - on this maneuver,
two separate maneuvers to place the Skylab in the proper
attitude. No use of TACS is anticipated, howerfor - however,
if we go to TACS, thruster attitude control system, G&N pre-
dicts anywhere from 700 to i000 pound-seconds of TACS could
be used in maneuvering the vehicle into and out of the
Z-local vertical attitude. Weather report on the ground-
track for today: Cloudy over the west coast, and as the
spacecraft crosses Nebraska, it will be clear, partly cloudy
over Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, all clear all the way to
Saint Louis and then becomes cloud covered again from Saint
Louis to the coast however, over the Atlantic where several
test sites are on schedule, there are carn calm seas in
the Atlantic and the task site there is GO. Studies in Iowa,
for the University of Kansas, those groundtraek sites are
look GO. The work for the - in the Puerto Rican trench
is also a mandatory site and this looks clear. There are
20 desirable sites along this groundtrack. The maneuver
for the Z-local vertical attitude for the Skylab will be
made at Greenwich mean time 17:04 while the spacecraft is in
contact with the ground station. Next acquisition in
23 minutes and 45 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 15 hours
end 56 minntes_ this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-2425/I
Time: 11:16 CDT, 69:16:16 GMT
1/23/74

16 hours and 16 minutes. Review still underway here at
the Mission Control Center concerning GO/NO GO on today's
planned EREP number 30 in the mission of Skylab IV. CMG-2
still not within the nominal parameters. The current distress
period began more than almost ii hours ago at Greenwich mean
time 5 hours and 35 minutes. The Flight Director, Nell
Hutchinson, discussing with management at the present time
whether to go - go for the EREP pass and use the CMGs or
go for TACS. Earlier this morning, Science Pilot Ed Gibson
discussed with Pilot backup Science Pilot Bill Lenoir
here on the ground procedures that might be used in - in
the event - in the plan for Shuttle Program, presently ATM
solar observations are planned in 24 to 36 hours in advance
by ground planners based on observations of the Sun from the
ground. So, in effect, by the time ATM operator aboard the
spacecraft implements the program the data - experiment data
is a day or day and a half old. The plan is to pass up to the
Science Pilot aboard the Shuttle spacecraft, in this case,
Skylab, is to send the experiment objectives to the science
pilot, let him, based on what he sees on a day-to-day basis,
let him make in real time Judgements on how to implement
the science objectives of each experiment. This is an intent
to make better use of man's ability in making real-time judge-
ments, assessments and making real-time changes in the experi-
ment program. It is planned that the day before the crew's
next day off, a detailed plan will be submitted to Science
Pilot Gibson. He will review it and then on his day off will
make these real-time adjustments to the AT_ viewing plan.
Next acquisition in i minute through the Carnarvon tracking
station, a 4-minute pass through Carnarvon, will be back-to-
back passes through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. We'll bring
the line up for this pass. CAP COM_ is Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle Creek for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're i minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 14-1/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 16:51. Out.
CC And for the CDR. We'd like to cancel
the EREP pass for today. Go ahead and activate your no-EREP
alternate Flight Plan. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce. What's the reason, weather,
or what?
CC Roger. Concern over CMG-2. You're
currently running about 2.1 degrees, bearing 2 temp over
bearing i temperature. We've been having a discussion here
with the HOSC. We'll get you some more information as it
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becomes available. Right now we're looking - continuing our

watch for a period of about 24 hours, winding up tonight and
then making a decision as to whether to resume EREPs or what
mode of operation to go in. Over.
CDR Okay. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Happy alternating.
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SL-IV MC-2426/I
Time: 11:31 CDT, 69:16:31 GMT
1/23/74

16 hours 31 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition in ii minutes and 50 seconds will be through
the Hawaii tracking station. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson
ordering cancellation of today's EREP pass, following a
conference with the HOSC, that's the Huntsville Operations
Support Center at Marshall, with Lee Below, the manager of
the Skylab Program Office for Huntsville -NASA Huntsville
Center, along with Bill Schneider here at the Johnson Space
Center and Gene Kranz, Chief of the Flight Operations
Division. Cancellation due to wanting more time to assess
the CMG-2 current distress problem, which began at 5:35
Greenwich mean time today and is still in progress, a period
of almost ii hours at this present time. The CMG experts
wanting more time to study the present situation and to make
a determination on further maneuvers of Skylab with the CMG,
control moment gyros. So as of 16:32 Greenwich mean time,
EREP pass has been canceled. That's 2 days in a row, now
we've canceled EREP pass due to CMG anomalies. We will
continue to look over the CMG for the next 24 hours and
determine as to what future maneuvers for EREP will be made
with the CMG. Next acquisition will be Hawaii in i0 minutes
and i0 seconds. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean
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SL-IV MC-2427/I
Time: 11:42 CDT 69:16:42 GMT
01/23/74

16 hours and 42 minutes. Acquisition through Hawaii in
50 minutes as the crew of Skylab IV again_ turns to an
alternate Flight Plan, following cancellation of today's
Earth resources pass number 30 in the program, due to the
continued problem of CMG number 2. We'll bring the line up
for this Hawai_ pass, 8 minutes and 25 seconds in duration.
for 8-1/2 minutes with a message for the commander.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, you can substitute mashed potatoes
for bread if you've not already eaten the bread today. Over.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC No bread sand - no mashed potato sandwiches
I guess is the message on that though. And, since the beta angle
is decreasing and the CSM temps are returning to normal, we'd
like you to reenable quad Alfa and Delta package temps, and
push the caution and warning, that's panel 201 in the command
module Bravo 5 and Delta 6 to enable at your convenience.
CDR Okay, Bruce, and how about the OWS heat
exchanger fans? Can we go back to the logic in the 0WS
position?
CC That's affirmative_ Jerry.
CDR Okay.
CC And, for Bill, if you're listening. On
your details at 22:26, that is the T002-1 operation, this
evening, when you do that we'd like you to verify that the
transparent plastic protective shield is removed from the
wardroom window prior to making the sightings. Over.
PLT Roger; copy.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS
next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Goldstone at
16:56 and for your information, you may re2ax, the constraint
on minimizing the number of lights that are on, beta angle's
gone down enough so that the workshop's cooled off and you
can use whatever lighting you desire.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
16 hours and 52 minutes. Loss of signal through Hawaii,
next acquisition will be the Goldstone tracking station in
2 minutes and 55 seconds. Commander Gerald Cart being given
a go ahead to change part of his menu today. The crew is on
the high-density food bars along with selected portions of
Skylab menu. He'd requested exchanging bread - exchanging
mashed potatoes for bread. The space doctors here at the
Johnson Space Center gave him a GO for that. Also the crew
was adivsed that they can relax the constraint in the lighting
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aboard the spacecraft due to the lowering of the beta angle.

Approximately 17 days ago on January 6th, the crew was
directed to cut lighting by 50 percent throughout the space-
craft to cut down the heat leve_ within the spacecraft.
During the highest portion of the beta angle, the interior
temperatures of the spacecraft got as high as 82 degrees,
this morning at crew-awake time the temperature was 73.8
degrees Fahrenheit. Next acquisition will be through Gold-
stone. We'll bring the line up for this stateside pass.
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SL-IV MC2428/I
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1/23/74

for 5-1/2 minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, SPT.
SPT Looking at the S063 pad and the mode of
operations, I see that they suggest holding the tilt constant
and changing rotation while you're also working with the ring as
well as the arc travel. At the end, if everything has worked
out perfect, you will then know where you are in rotation.
If it does not work out perfectj you do not know where you
are in rotation and you have trouble bringing in the mirror.
I have found in previous working with it that I was able to
get, I thought, satisfactory data by holding rotation con-
stant, changing the tilt and the ring as well as moving the
arc where necessary. I think it's putting the AMS in Jeopardy
and other experiments that use it, to use this other proce-
dure. If they feel strongly enough about it, I'ii go ahead
and do it. But I do not advise it.
CC Okay. Let us check on that. We've al-
ways got the center disk on and the mirror trick to get us
Back But we_ll check on it for you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. A little over
a minute to LOS. Next station contact in 4 minutes through
Merritt Island at 17:04. And for Ed, we concur with your
recommendation. We put the pad together differently than
what we normally do. So go ahead and clock your rotation
and use tilt for acquisition and tracking. Do you need any
changes to the pad or can you handle it like it is?
SPT No_ I've got it handled the way it is.
Thank you.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt
Island and Bermuda for 11-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC SPT, Houston. Over.
CC SPT, this is Houston through Bermuda. Over.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger_ Ed, in closing the loop on this
$063 tracking situation, the information we're getting from
tke backroom now is you cannot track the target fully
across tbe field of view using rota - using tilt only. So
that we will modify your pad. The way it's looking right
now is we_ll probably give you a couple of three discrete
rotation settings and within those settlngs_ you can track
in tilt. Over,
SPT Okay, Bruce. That sounds better than the
otk6r procedure.
CC And we should have that up to you at
Ascension this pass about 15, 20 minutes.
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SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 40 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 7 minutes through Ascension at
17:22. Out.
17 hours and 16 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda
tracking station. Next acquisition in 6 minutes will be
the Ascension tracking station. This is Skylab Control at
Greenwich mean time 17 hours 16 minutes.
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SL-IV MC-2429/I
Time: 12:21 CDT, 69:17:21 GMT
1/23/74
PAO Skylab control at 17 hours 21 minutes

within range of the tracking antenna at Ascension. We'll
have a 10-minute pass. Bring the line up live for air-
to-ground at Ascension. At this time we still see the anomaly
under way on CMG number 2, with the temperature differences
about 2 degrees crossed over. And the wheel speed down to
8850, that's down to about 60 rpms and currents still about a
2 percent above their normal level. So that CMG problem that's
been in progress for about 12 hours is still underway.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascen-
sion for 5 minutes. Out.
CC SPT, Houston. I've got an update to
your S063 tracking procedure here.
SPT Let me get my pad, Bruce. I'll be with
you in a minute.
CC Okay.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. Your starting position will be
a rotation of 35 degrees. That's 35 degrees, which is 1.2
turns clockwise, tilt at 30. Lock your rotation and track
toward zero tilt for starters. Over.
SPT 35 degrees in rotation, 2.1 turn, and
30 degrees in tilt.
CC That's 1.2 turns.
SPT 1.2 turns. Okay.
CC Clockwise. When tilt equals zero, change
the rotation to 75 degrees. That's additional 1.4 turns
clockwise and track back toward tilt equal 30. Over.
SPT Stand by a minute, Bruce.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 28-1/2 minutes. Carnarvon at
17:55, opening up with a data/voice tape recorder dump. Out.
SPT Okay, Bruce, Why don't you take it from
the top and let me copy it through again. I think there's
point l'm missing here. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Start at rotation of 35 degrees
1.2 turns clockwise. Tilt equal 30 and track back toward
zero tilt for the first step.
SPT Go ahead.
CC When the tilt equals zero change your
rotation to 75 degrees. Thatts 1.4 more turns clockwise and
track toward tilt 30. That's returning to your original
film setting. Over.
SPT Okay. We start on our rotation of
35 degrees, 1,2 turn_ tilt 30_ track toward zero. When we get
to zero then we put the tilt back to 30 or put the rotation to
75 which is an additional 1.4 turn and track back to 30 on the
tilt.
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CC Roger. And retraction is 2.6 turns

counterclockwise and we'll see you at Carnarvon.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is no longer in
acquisition at Ascension. Our next acquisition of signal
will be at Carnarvon 25 minutes away. At this time the
control moment gyroscope number 2 is still misbehaving.
Conditions do not appear to be improving on it at all. It's
current level is still 1.04. That's what has been commonly
experienced since CMG distress periods. We have seen higher
currents at previous times. Wheel speed has dropped to
8850, that's about at the low level that we have seen on
other performances of the anomaly. And bearing temperatures
have crossed over a little bit more seriously than we've
seen before. A number of times during the past few hours
we've seen the temperature differ as much as 2 degrees. At the
present time it's about 2.3 degrees with bearing number 2
heated up and bearing number 1 a little bit cooler. So the
CMG distress is still underway_ and has been for about
12 hours. Next acquisition is 24 minutes away. At 31 min-
utes after the hour, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-2430/I
Time: 12:54 CDT 69:17:54 GMT
01/23/74

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is 55 seconds
from acquisition at Carnarvon. This pass through Carnarvon
will last about 10-1/2 minutes. Still haven't gotten any
data yet on the CMG at Carnarvon, but we should be getting
it very shortly. Spacecraft Communicator Bruce McCandless
is standing by for conversation with the crew at this
station.
for i0 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump and a
question - and we'll hold off on the dump until you're through
using it. And a question for the CDR. In running the S183
HALF procedure_ step 14 read voice record time and start
end of each two series clicks in normal expasure sequence. And,
we're wondering if you got any of those clicks at all, since
we didn't hear any reference to it on the tape. Over.
CDR Negative. The clicks don't start until
i minute until after you initate. And, this thing quit at
35 seconds.
CC Roger; we copy.
LOS_ next station contact in 4 minutes through Guam at 18:08.
And the data/voice tape recorder is just about filled up, so
it's imperative that we get it at Guam for a dump. Over.
CDR Bruce, can you redesignate another one?
He'_s - Ed's in the middle of S063.
CC We'll do that.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 6 minutes and
30 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station has
passed out of range of Carnarvon. It's just about to go over
New Guinea and acquisition of signal through the Guam tracking
antenna. We're about a minute and 40 seconds from acquisition
at Guam. This time CMG number 2is anomaly still in progress.
Flight Director Neil Hutchinson expressing some concern about
the wheel speed which is occasionally been bouncing down on
another 20 rpms, but only on a couple of occasions have we
seen it show up on a charts that's being made automatically
by the computer here in Mission Control. The chart graphs
tee wheel speed every 5 seconds and it was somethin_ was designed
a couple of days ago by the guidance officers. That chart
only shows two brief periods below the level. And when Flight
Director Hutchinson indicated that he was concerned about
the possibility of the wheel speed maybe dropping below the
8850, the Guidance Officer tried to reassure him that he had
seen the same thing happen earlier in the day and had been
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fooled by it but, by looking at the graph he could see that

the wheel speed seems to be pretty stable at 8850. Occasional
anomalies have taken the speed above that or below that
slightly. So wheel speed does seem to be reasonably stable
although the flight director has indicated that he's very
concerned; he considers CMG-2 slowly but surely caving
in as he mentioned a few minutes ago. Still - Still in
anomaly that's been going on now for 12-1/2 hours. We're
about 20 seconds from acquisition through the Guam tracking
antenna. We_ll bring the line up here for a i0 minute pass.
for i0 minutes. Out.
CC And, for the SPT. You need to interrupt
your S073 ops here for a minute so we can redesignate recorders.
That's S063 ops.
CDR Rog.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce, he's waiting.
CC We're doing it.
CC Andp you go Ed_ you can resume dictation.
And_ for Jerry. When you come up to the ATM panel your
next scheduled pass here, you're going to have to do a
power up from the EREP power down configuration. And we'd
like you to observe the H - the MON i and MON 2 on H-alpha
i and 2. And see if the image quality is any higher when the
monitors come up from being cold than after they've been
warmed up for a while. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce, I was wondering why my
details had me up there at 17:48, there wasn't a whole lot to
be done.
CC Let us check on that. I think we've been
allowing a fair amount of time before the pass to get orien-
ted, make yourself comfortable at the panel, and we only
show about 9 minutes of - of night remaining.
CDR Yeah_ but at 17:48, there was better than
30 minutes.
CC Roger. Roger, we didn't have anything
else to stick in there in the alternate Jerry, so I guess we
got a little over _ over eager in getting you time to get
up the_e and get set up at the - the panel.
CDR Okay, no problem. I'm getting a little
housekeeping done. By the wayp would you ask the food people
to send us the day 84 and day 85 menus. In our spare time,
we ought be able to get those packed put away in the command
module.
CC Okay, we'll check that one out for you,
Jet,
CDR They sent us up a food list, but it - I
don"t know if it's the whole menu or what.
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Time: 13:11 CDT 69:18:11 GMT
1/23/74
CC CDR, this is Houston. We have the day

84 menu down here still being discussed. We should get
this up to you in a day or so. But I guess the salient
point about the whole situation is that day 84 and day 85
may also be even in the workshop, and need never to be
packed into the CSM. Over.
CDR Okay, the thing is I want to get that
kind of stuff done early. So that when we get to that real
tough stuff in deactivation we won't have to fool with the
trivia.
CC Right, we're with you. I remember the
flap we had on SL-III.
CC And just for information, we're taking
control of the VTR for a short dump at Goldstone coming up
here.
CDR Roger.
CC And CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead_ Bruce.
CC Yeah, just to put your mind a little bit
at ease here about up and coming deactivation. We've been
working this over fairly heavily the last week or so. And
we have a message that's being prepared to come up to you
hopefully in a few days to a week. Basically we're cutting
way back on the deactivation activities eliminating all
the biociding and things like the WMC filters replacement
and the urine collector separator flush, things of this sort.
So that we think we've already taken quite a number of man-
hours out of deact act for you. And the final day remains
Just about the same since you're just closing out, and getting
yourself configured, powered up, and moved out. But the pre-
ceding days are getting a lot lighter. Over.
CDR Well_ thatVs good to hear. It sounds
like mayhe they're not quite so interested in the revisit
idea.
CC Well, we intend to leave the vehicle in
a safe configuration for revisit if that should materialize.
CDR Okay.
CC And we've got 1 minute to LOS. Next
station contact is 16_i/2 minutes through Goldstone at 18:34.
CC And for Ed, we just scrubbed the laser
pass over Goddard this REV, so you can scratch that one off.
SPT Roger_ weather?
CC Yes indeed.
time. The Sky la5 space station is out of range of Guam.
Our next acquisition is 14 minutes away at Goldstone. The
Guam pass w6 again watch CMG number 2 performing as it has
been for the last 12, more than 12 hours now. Wheel speed
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still at about 8850 with no indication that it's dropping

below that for any period of time, couple of brief periods
below and a couple, and about half dozen brief periods above
it at this pass. But virtually all of the points on the
graph we have in Mission Control show it at 8850 and pretty
stable at that level. At this time the currents are still
at about 1.04. No particular indication of any change in
direction on the current. It does seem to be stable at that
point, about 2 percent above it's normal level. And the
temperature of bearing number 2, still crossed over, is still
above bearing number i by about 2.3 degrees at this point.
That too appears to be stable although the temperatures are
higher than we have seen on previous periods. Wheel speeds
for todays anomaly seem to be not out of the ordinary. We
have had wheel speed slower than this on previous anomalies.
We have of course not had a wheel - an anomaly lasting as
long as this one has. And during this pass Science pilot,
Ed Gibson was informed that T053, the laser experiment
being performed on a number of occasions during the mission,
has been scrubbed this afternoon. The laser, which is to
be beamed up from Goddard Space Flight Center, was cancelled
because of low elevation pass with poor weather conditions
seen at that area. And also some discussion here of
deactivation activities for the Skylab crew. Deactivation
activities don't begun - begin in earnest until about 3 days
before the end of the mission. EVA currently scheduled for
February 3rd with deactivation to occur during the following
days after that. Plans for that include a great many final
decisions still to be made about what should be done with
the space station after the crew leaves it. And as Spacecraft
Communicator Bruce McCandless mentioned, the idea is to
leave the vehicle in a safe configuration for a revisit if
that becomes possible. At the present time, of course, there
are no immediate plans for revisiting the Skylab, but it
should be in orbit until 1981. And it may be possible later
on to make a visit to the space station, pick up some samples,
and do some testing with it for engineering purposes. Eleven
minutes and 40 seconds to our next acquisition of signal.
Twenty_two minutes and 25 seconds after the hour. This is
Skylab Control.
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time. The Skylab space station off the Island of Vancouver
is about 54 seconds from acquisition at the tracking antenna
at Goldstone. The pass through Goldstone, Texas and Merritt
Island will last approximately 17 minutes, and we'll bring the
line up live now for air-to-ground across the U.S. station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,
Corpus Christi, Merritt Island and Bermuda for 16-1/2 minutes.
Continuing saga of return menus, Jerry, we owe you a menu
for mission day 84. In the Deact Checklist we promised it to
you in real time, but we'll try and have it shortly. For day 85,
things are in a little better shape. We still have one or two of
the details to iron out. The items that are referenced by
you in the permanent general message, steps i and 2, with the
possible exception of corn flakes and coffee, which may be
treated as snacks, comprise all of meal A. That menu is in
the Deact Checklist. We may modify it. It will be eaten in
the workshop. Meal B, as called on the Deact Checklist and
stowed in L-3, is complete, and you'll go ahead and eat that
in the command module. Over.
CDR Okay. I guess what bugs me is the stuff
that's labeled day 57 in on paragraph 3. Is that in the canisters
in the food lockers in the forward compartment or is that the
day 57 stuff that's in L-3?
CC It's the day 57 items in the OWS lockers.
I think you can consider L-3 as sacrosanct for your return.
CDR Okay. Very good. Thank you, Bruce.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC S055 DETECTORS 6 and 7, OFF, please.
CDR Okay.
CC Go ahead.
CDR The H-alpha 1 was significantly clearer
and sharper when I powered it up this time than it was com-
pared to last night when I had the last pass of the day, and
it has been running most of the day.
CC What MONITOR was that on?
CDR MONITOR i.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 43 minutes through Carnarvon at
19_33, and the VTR has been wiped clean and it's all yours.
CDR Roger. Thanks.
time. The Skylab space station is out of range of the
tracking antennas at the U.S. and Bermuda. Our next acquisition
is 40 minutes away at Carnarvon. During this pass over the
United States, mission controllers were keeping fairly close
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track of CMG number 2, which has had some reduction in its

current now, which is a good indication. Wheel speed still
about 8850 with some changes above and below that level. And
the difference in temperature still crossed over with bearing
2 about 2.3 degrees warmer than bearing number i. It did,
however, during at least part of that period, reduce the
temperature difference down to about 1-1/2 degrees. For
the nabobs of negativism, it may be of interest for you to
note that 6 days from now is our next good splashdown
opportunity. That's a close point, about 250 nautical miles
to the southwest of San Diego. And it's the first of three
such opportunities, the final one on February 8. And for
the rest of you, the expectation here in Mission Control is,
with or without CMG number 2, the mission will be completed,
and a splashdown on February 8 is still anticipated. And
an additional bit of information. One of the prime topics
of discussion during the last half hour here in Mission
Control has been meals for day 84 and day 85. That is to
say, for February 7th and 8th, the final days of the Skylab
Mission, and there's been a good deal of discussion about
what the menu should consist of during those final days.
Some changes being made to the food plans for the February
7th and February 8th days. So concern is not particularly
high here about an immediate shortening of the mission. However,
as we have indicated before, the ship will be sailing on
January 26th to give us optimum capacity for recovery in
the event of other failures that are not yet anticipated.
This anomaly in CMG number 2 is still underway at 18:54
Greenwich mean time as we went over the hill at Bermuda.
The anomaly is the longest seen so far on CMG number 2. It
began at 5:35 this morning GMT. That means that it's been
going on now for about 13-1/2 hours. However, there has
not been any sign of worsening, and if anything, over the
U.S., I think we saw some indications that perhaps there
is a recovery underway. Although the wheel speed has not
yet come upp the currents have come down slightly. That's
an indication that they may be returning to normal, although
this is certainly one of the longest and in many ways the
most serious of the CMG anomalies. 38 minutes to our next
acquisition at Carnarvon, and 55 minutes after the hour.
This is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-2433/I
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1/23/74
PAO 8kylab Control at 19 hours 32 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylah space station is 56 seconds
from acquisition at Carnarvon where we'll have a 7 minute
pass. We'll bring the line up live now as the space station
is in it's 985th revolution of the command module and 3670th
revolution of the space station itself.
for 6-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute till
LOS, next station contact in 8 minutes through Guam at 19:47.
Out.
time. Skylab space station is passing out of range of the
tracking antenna at Carnarvon, Australia. Our next
acquisition is 5-1/2 minutes away at Guam. At the present
time wheel speed indication on CMG number 2 seems to be
giving some hints that it might want to move a little lower.
It still is generally running at 8850 but we've seen a number
of brief periods in which the transducer indicates the speed
of about 8840 and a fewer hints at 8830. There have been a
few times in which the transducer has been reading a little above
8850 but it does seem to be giving some indications that
it may want to move lower, although it still is averaging out
a little bit - in the neighborhood of 8850. And the currents
on CMG number 2 - still approximately as they have been during
the entire period of this anomaly, about 1.04. They did
seem to be coming down at the U.S. but they are now back at the
level that they had been during most of the very lengthy
period of anomaly_ now running over 14 hours. And the
temperatures still crossed over hearing 2 about 2 degrees
warmer than bearing i. 4-1/2 minutes to our acquisition
at Guam. We'll leave the line up for the pass at Guam. The
pass there is about a 6 minute pass. And here in Mission
Control very little discussion about CMG number 2, which has
now become so much part of the action that it hardly requires
any comment. We'll keep the llne up here at Guam. We're
still about 4 minutes from acquisition there.
CC 8kylab_ this is Houston through Guam
for 6 minutes. And for the GDR, if he's listening, I've got
the details on kis private comm for this evening.
CC 8kylab, this is Houston. We see some
time accumulated on the video tape recorder. Would you like
us to clean it off here at Goldstone and give it back to
you? Over.
PLT Yeah, go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, we'll do that, Bill.
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PLT I tried to get some stuff on the map of

the Amazon River. There's not over - what I put on there -
probably not over 3 minutes.
CC Okay, just - our INCO watching things
here.
PLT I think there were too many clouds. It
sort of zapped the - the integrator.
CC Okay. And for the CDR, got a few words on
the state of the Sun for you here.
LOS; next station contact in 18-1/2 minutes through Goldstone
at 20:11. Out.
time. Skylab space station is now over the Pacific Ocean
Just to the east of Japan. 15 minutes before our next
acquisition at Goldstone tracking antenna at California.
CMG number 2 status remains about the same as it has now
since 5:35 this morning Greenwich mean time. Currently the
wheel speed is down to 8850 with some brief indications of
lower speeds but 8850 seems to be the stable level. And
current's up 2 percent and the temperatures crossed over
about 2 to 2-i/2 degrees difference now between number i and
number 2 with bearing number 2 the warmer of the two rather
than being a little cooler as it normally is. So that
anomaly is still in progress and we expect Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson will talk about that during the change-of-
shift briefing later this afternoon. 14 minutes and 30
seconds to acquisition at Goldstone. It's now 56 minutes after
the hour, and this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours i0 minutes

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now 53
seconds from acquisition through the Goldstone tracking
antenna, as the space station moves off the west coast of
the United States. The pass through Goldstone, Texas, and
Merritt Island will last a total of about 16 minutes, and we'll
bring the line up live now for air-to-ground. During one
of the recent passes, the crew indicated that they had taken
some photographs of - with their TV camera out the window
of the mouth of the Amazon River, about 2 minutes on the
video tape recorder so far. And the indication then, though,
was that it was fairly cloudy, so we're not counting on very
good pictures. And we're live now at Goldstone.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,
Corpus Christi, and Merritt Island for 14 minutes with a
data/voice tape recorder dump impending at Corpus Christi.
PLT Roger, Bruce.
CDR That sound ominous.
CC Impend - impend.
CC And for the PLT, we're sitting here
looking at the TV being dumped down at the present time. I
guess that's the Amazon River we're looking at you mentioned.
PLT Yeah, right at the mouth of the Amazon.
CC Yeah_ really, it's coming through in
pretty good shape.
PLT That's good, it was sort of violating
our rules, but it was wide open there, or at least as wide
open as we've seen it for awhile, so I thought l'd go ahead
and work 3 or 4 minutes of VTR.
CC Yeah, man, that's beautiful.
PLT Great_ I'ii try it again.
CDR Bruce, the SO56 frame remaining counter
is reading zero now. Do you want a reset? How do they want
to work it?
CC Affirmative, reset to 6000. 20 seconds
to handover, we'll be dumping the data/voice tape recorder on
AOS here at Corpus Christi. And for Jerry, we still have this
little update on the solar activities if you're listening.
CDR Be right with you. Go ahead, Bruce.
CC 0kay_ new active region, designated AR-35,
i00 degrees, at 1.0, has had several minor enhancements. One
of them at 16:30Z, about 4 hours ago was followed by disk surges
and limb surges to a max of 4/100 solar radius above the limb.
Andanother note_ active region 35 is just west - that's just
west limbward of active region 33. That's about it.
CDR Roger_ I saw that last pass and I thought
it was 17. I got a PATROL, SHORT on that last pass.
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CC Okay, very good.

CC CDR, this is Houston. When you got a
second, I've got some more ATM schedule changes for you.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, we're catching up with Dr. Lenoir
here. On your schedule on the cycle beginning at 23:06 Zulu,
at 15 minutes time remaining, change from power down unattended
to observing time. Over.
CC A_d, 00:39 Zulu, we want to generate a
new cycle of observations assigned to the SPT. 52 minutes -
00:39 Zulu, Building Block 32 at Sun center with roll minus
5400 you still with me?
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC At 52 minutes time remaining observing
time on down to 3 minutes time remaining_ at which point
power down unattended, 54 GTATING OUT. Over.
CDR Okay, 00:39, Building Block 32, Sun center
minus 5400, and then from 52 remaining down to 3 is observing
time, at 03 will go unattended, 54 GRATING OUT.
CC Roger, you got it.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston. A minute and a

half till LOS. Next station contact in ii minutes - 11-1/2
minutes through the Vanguard at sea, at 23:06. And for the
CDR, if you're listening, we've got your phone call set up
this evening through Hawaii at 00:57, HIGHT ANTENNA. That*s
Hawaii, 00:57, a RIGHT ANTENNA.
CDR Roger.
P CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, at 20 hours 27 minutes.
The space station now over Central America out of range of
the U.S. tracking antennas. Our next acquisition is a little
less than 9 minutes from now at Vanguard. Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson informs us that he'll be available for a
change-of_shift briefing in Building 1 at 4:30 p.m. central
daylight time today, that's about 2 hours away. Again that
change-of_shift briefing with Flight Director Neil Hutchinson
will he in Building i today. It will begin at approximately
4:30 central daylight time. CMG number 2 still performing
about as it has now for a period lasting almost 15 hours.
Chances of it's recovery don't appear very good to some of
the flight controllers here. Although, the guidance officer
still says that he thinks that it will continue to degrade
for quite a long period of time yet. And he's not willing
to make any bets on when it's going to finally collapse.
However, some plans are being taken into consideration now,
in the event that the gyroscope does fail, to go to thruster
attitude control system gas as a backup, and to continue
the mission with TACS gas as a primary means of controlling
attitude in the event of that CMG failure. However, at
the present it still does seem to be moving pretty much as
it has for quite some timep 2 degrees temperature cross over.
Mission criteria guideline for the guidance officer here is
that if the temperature crossover reaches 5 degrees or about
from 2 to 2_i/2 times what itts been reading for the last
couple of hours that instructions in the criteria say to
go to TACS only control. And if the temperature divergence
does not return within the 5 degree limit to shut the CMG down
afte_ one revolution. Guidance officer adds, however_ that
criteria are notoriously subject to change at any minute.
And if that were to happen no doubt that criteria would be
quickly reconsidered and perhaps revised. And at this time,
of course, we're still quite a ways from the 5 degree cross-
over point. We are still at about 2 degrees crossover, which
is still 3 or 4 degrees away from the normal level for those
bearings. This anomaly has been going on since 5:35 this
morning. That's a period of 15 hours. And the characteristics
have not changed markedly during the day. Some fluctuation
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in the currents, but most of the currents are up about

2 percent. Wheel speed down about 3/4 of a percent or
about 60 rpm. Some indication over the last hour or hour
and a half that the speed may be trying to drop a little
bit lower than that. And the bearing temperatures crossed
over quite a while back, and they have been - Bearing 2 has
been warmer than bearing 1 now for quite some time. The
temperature is at its warm end of its cycle right now. That
is to say, normally it fluctuates from 70 to 80 degrees.
It's right now reading 76 on bearing 1 and 78 - and about
0.4 at the very end of signal there on bearing number 2.
Six minutes to acquisition at Vangaurd. Thirty minutes after
the hour, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-2436/I
Time: 15:35 CDT 69:20:35 GMT
1123174

Greenwich mean time. We're now 56 seconds from acquisition
through the tracking ship Vanguard as the space station
crosses central South America. We'll bring the line up live
for a pass across Vanguard lasting about 9-1/2 minutes.
Spacecraft Communicator on duty here in Mission Control is
Bruce McCandless with Hank Hartsfield about to take a hand-
over from him in the next 35 minutes or so. Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson again will be available at 4:30 p.m. central
daylight time for a briefing in Building i. That briefing
is about an hour from now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the
Vanguard in port for 8 minutes. That was a quick trip.
SPT Roger.
CC And this is probably going to be the hand-
over shift. So after we say LOS here, will be Hank coming on.
And I guess just a quick comment, the CMG situation is ahout
the same as it has been all day. And we're working on perhaps
some - some alternate plans for doing the maneuvers tomorrow.
We'll still looking at getting in the EREP for tomorrow and
we sure would like to do that.
CDR Yeah, we would too, Bruce.
CC Okay, we'll keep you posted on the way
things are. Right now it looks like you got about a 2 degree or
2.2 degree bearing temp in the wrong direction. That is, with
bearing 2 hotter than bearing l, holding that way.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 30 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in i hour and 4 minutes thorugh
Goldstone at 21:48. Good night now.
CDR Good night, Bruce.
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is out of
range of Vanguard. Our next acquisition not for an hour, and
that will be at Goldstone. At this time the CMG's still
performing about as it has for quite some period of time now,
a temperature difference still about 2 degrees crossover
with bearing 2 two degrees warmer than bearing i. Wheel speed
still at 8850 and the current's still up about 2 percent.
Flight Director Nell Hutchinson should be available about
4N minutes from now for a briefing in Building i on the CMG
status. And there's still not much concern about the failure,
although of course everyone would prefer that the CMG
continue to go as long as possible. Whether its failure is
imminent or not has still not been determined, and everybody
here sort of throws their hands up and says, well, your guess
is as good as mine as to when it might go out. So, in spite
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of that, plans are going on for tomorrow's maneuvers, which

will include a seperate plan for optimizing the system - the
TACS system for the maneuver; that is to say, to make the
best possible use of thruster attitude control system gas for
that maneuver in the event that the CMG does fail in the next
24 hours. Splashdown for this mission still expected to be Feb-
ruary 8. There has been no change at all in that plan. The new
time for the ship sailing, which was announced yesterday, is of
course to provide the ship with the maximum range and capability
for earlier splashdowns. That decision was made after it
was decided that there was no chance at all of a splashdown
on Friday or Saturday of this week. And as a general
indication the - certainly no splashdown would occur without
at least 5 or 6 days notice. And that's the way things
stand right now, and we do expect to go all the way through
the end of the mission with or without CMG number 2. Neil
Hutchinson can talk more on that point at 4:30. This is
Skylab Control, it's now 20 minutes at - 20 hours 47 minutes
Greenwich mean time. i hour to our next acquisition and
45 minutes to that change-of-shift briefing. This is
Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC2437/I
Time: 16:11 CDT 69:21:11 GMT
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time. We have an announcement on the change-of-shift briefing.
Flight Director Nell Hutchinson has been informed that he
will not be replaced this afternoon, and is going to be
staying on for at least a - what appears now will be another
8 hours. For that reason, we're going to hold the change-
of-shift briefing immediately rather than at 4:30. We do
have a long period of time in which the space station is out
of range of signal, another 36 minutes before we get acquisi-
tion. Gene Kranz has agreed to step in as flight director
for a period of time that Nell is away from the console, and
we're going to hold the change-of-shift briefing in Building
1 at 4:15, that's about 3 or 4 minutes from now. Flight
Director Hutchinson has already left the Mission Control
Center. He's now en route to Building i_ should be there
within the next 4 to 5 minutes, so we'd like that change-
of_shift briefing to begin in Building 1 within the next
5 minutes or so, as soon as Neil arrives. We'd like to add
that he is going to be in a hurry to get back here before
our next acquisition of signal, so he can be on the headset
as we come into acquisition at Goldstone. So that's acquisi-
tion 36 minutes away, and we'll expect that change-of-shlft
briefing to begin in approximately 5 minutes in Building i.
This is Skylab Control at 12 minutes after the hour.
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SL-IV MC2438/I
Time: 16:47 CDT 69:21:47 GMT
1/23/74

time. The Skylab space station is now coming into acquisi-
tion at Goldstone, where we'll have a pass lasting about
8 minutes. We'll bring the line up live at Goldstone as
CMG anomaly is still underway here at Goldstone. And we're
live now there.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Goldstone for
ii minutes.
CDR Hello, Hank.
CC Hello, there, how's it going there today?
CDR Fair to midding.
SPT Pretty good, Hank, how are you and the bronze
team?
CC Oh, bronze team's doing fine. We have
a new leader here today.
SPT Who's the new one and what happened to
the old one?
CC The old one's a little under the weather
today, we got Gene sitting in here.
CDR You mean Robin Redbreast?
SPT The new guy?
CC Roger, new guy.
CDR You guys on the bronze team keep him
out of trouble then.
PLT Hank, if Goldstone's ready to take
video down for recording, we can give you some shots
of the west coast.
CC Okay, give us 90 seonds, Bill, to get the
transmitter warmed up.
PLT It's there.
CDR San Francisco's clear as a bell.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're ready for the TV
downlink.
CDR Okay, you ought to be getting it.
CDR Clouds just south of San Diego started
fading out the camera, so we're going to point now more to
the south along Baja.
CC We copy.
CDR Got the whole Gulf of California there.
And the inlet across the way is Guadalajara.
PLT Okay, Hank, we're going to terminate down-
link.
CC Okay.
CDR Houston, you still with us?
CC Roger, Jer, another 2 minutes.
CDR Okay, essentially what we got on TV was
San Francisco down to - oh - Santa Barbara, a little bit
south, and we could see some of the Channel Islands down there.
And then we got a little bit of cloud cover, and L.A. area was
a l_ttle b_t hard to see. Then south of San Diego, we got
another batch of clouds and we just had to shift away from
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that on down to Baja, California.

CC Okay, we copy.
CDR Coming up on the Galapagos Islands next,
and if the weather holds, we might be able to see two active
volcanoes.
CC Okay, and we're about 45 seconds from
LOS now. Vanguard's the next site at 14, 13 minutes from
now and we're scheduled to dump the voice recorder there.
CDR Okay, Hank, we'll see you then.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station over the Pacific Ocean is off the
coast of Central America. Our next acquisition is about
13-1/2 minutes away at Vanguard. During this last pass,
crew indicated they were putting some television - taking some
television pictures and downlinking them to the Goldstone
tracking antenna. The pictures include the area of the
California coast from San Francisco to San Diego, and a
part of Baja, California and Guadalajara are mentioned as
things that were downlinked at the tracking station there.
And CMG number 2 still about the same as before, no substantial
change in it. The current's still about 1.04, and temperature
about 1.9 crossed over, and wheel speed still down about 60 to
70 rpm, reading about 8850 during most of that pass. So
no change on the CMG as it continues the distress that it began
16-1/2 hours ago. This is Skylab Control, 12-1/2 minutes to
our next acquisition of signal. It's now 1 minute and 33 sec-
onds after the hour.
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SL-IV MC2439/I
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Greenwich mean time. We*re now coming within range of the
tracking ship Vanguard. The pass through Vanguard should
last a little less than 10 minutes. And we'll bring the
line up live. The spacecraft communicator on duty here is
Hank Hartsfield and Flight Director Nell Hutchinson is still
sitting in although he is going to be replaced in the next
couple of hours. We'll bring the line up live now at Vanguard.
CC Skylah, Houston through Vanguard for 9-1/2
minutes. And, Skylab, we'll he dumping the recorder here.
CDR Roger, Hank.
SPT Say, Hank, we're getting a little action
out of action region 33. We're looking at it with the 55
instrument and right on top of a surge. The surge started around
2200 even, and reached a peak at about 2208, and is now on the
way down again.
CC Roger, we copy.
SPT Went up around 30 arc seconds from its
bace, which put it around i0 arc seconds above the limb.
Where the only thing we can look at right now in the way of
a readout is the hydrogen continual count at 873 and that
didn't change too much, but it sure - sure looked good in H-alpha.
The count went from 600 up to 800 and back down to 600.
CC Ed, are you using the - VTR?
SPT Hank, Bill and Jerry are using it down
there .
CC Okay, that's - that's fine. We were just
wanting to verify the VIDEO switch. It's in the right
position then.
$PT Yeah, we're getting more and more careful
about that one, Hank. After you've been bit by the same dog
around a dozen time, you start to get careful.
CC Roger.
CDR Hank, the VTR is off. Can you tell us
how much time is left on it?
CC Okay, we'll check it.
CC Okay, there're 25 minutes remaining.
PLT Okay, Hank, there's probably about
5 minutes of video on the - the recorder right now. We
came in across the Andes just a bit north of Santiago, Chile.
I panned down - oh, probably as far south as about -
CC Skylab, Houston. We lost lock there, and
we're back with you now. And, Bill, we didn't copy anything
after you said you panned through Santiago.
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PLT Rog, Hank, just about 5 minutes on

the VTR pass coming in just over Santiago, Chile, I panned up
and down the Andes a couple of times and then got over and
shot in the area of Santiago. And then some obliques that -
looking out to the east which probably are not very good.
I was trying to find the Falkland Current. So about the last
minute and half probably is not very good quality.
CC Okay, we'll get back and take a look at
it. And, Bill, the bronze team would like to add their greetings
to you on your birthday.
SPT Well, thank you, bronze team.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about i minute from
LOS. Tananarive will be coming up at 38. And we have a
paper_low indication on the teleprinter. And, SPT, if it
would be convenient in this housekeeping you got coming up,
we would appreciate it if you could give us some new paper.
SPT Okay, I sure will, Hank. And I'll
change her out in about another 5 minutes here.
SPT Say, Hank, I'm wondering also whether
if any of the TV-107 folks have had a chance to look at
what's been done so far. And I'd like some feedback to
know whether it's worthwhile to pursue that line which I'm
going much further or to move on to something else. I've
got a couple other ideas in mind but it's kind of an ampli-
fication of what's been done already. And if they feel they're
they've got their data, then I can move on.
CC Okay, I'll check it.
SPT Thank you.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station once again out
of range of signal at Vanguard. Our next acquisition is a
little more than 14 minutes away at Tananarive. No substantial
change observed so far in CMG number 2. The currents at
Vanguard were down a little bit. A three-phase current -
reading 1.03, 1.04, and 1.03 at Vanguard. That is not
considered to be a substantial improvement though and probably
is just a flucuation of the readings on the current. And the
wheel speed still about 8850. That's been stable since the
anomaly began. And the temperatures now - not substantially
different, but at various times during that pass were about
2.0 degree 2 degrees crossed over, sometimes going as high
as 2.2 and sometimes as low as about 1.6. So no substantial
change in CMG number 2_ which apparently has moved into a per-
manent state of what we've been calling erratic behavior. It
now looks like it's going to be a continuing behavior of this
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sort. Thirteen minutes to our next acquisition of signal.

Twenty-four and a half minutes after the hour, this is
Skyla5 Control.
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1/23/74
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 37 minutes.

We're now 56 seconds from acquisition of signal through the
Tananarive voice relay station. The pass there should last
about 9 minutes. And we'll bring the line up live now for
air-to-ground through there. During this last pass, crew
indicated they'd put about 5 minutes on the video tape
recorder of out-the-window TV of South America including
the Andes Mountain area around Santiago, Chile. And also
when the ground checked on that point, Science pilot Ed
Gibson said we're getting more careful about keeping the
switch on the right position portable for looking out the
window at ATM when they want to show something on the Sun.
They did make that mistake a number of times early in the
mission but haven't made it for quite some time, even though
the ground been keeping a careful check on it. And the
science pilot did indicate that there was some surge activity
on the surface of the Sun, a relatively small surge appearing
above the limb, begining about 22:00 Greenwich mean time.
We're live now at Tananarive and we'll bring the line up
there.
CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive,
8 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank.
CC And SPT, Houston. We just got the TV-107,
the last you did in this afternoon. And Marshall the
people there are going to take a look at it, and it will
probably be tomorrow before we can get you an answer on how
the thing is going.
SPT Okay, thank you. And if Joe Allen could
get a look at it too, that would probably be good. I know
he's got some thoughts on it.
CC Roger, I just called over to his house. Hers
due back in this evening. He's been out of town.
SPT Okay, thank you, Hank.
SPT Woodpecker's got a new tree to work on.
CC Did you get our paper changed out for
us?
SPT That's affirm.
CC Okay, good show.
range of Tananarive. Our next acquisition, a little more
than 35 minutes from now, will he at Hawaii. No change still
on CMG number 2, although the temperature difference during
this last pass at Vanguard - we - we had no data of course
at Tananarive - indicated that the temperatures were about at
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the same level they had been before. The speed about the
same and current's down very slightly, but nothing is likely
to be significant. Our next acquisition, 35 minutes away.
It's now 47 minutes after the hour, and this is Skylab
Control.
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1/23/74
PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours 25-1/2 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now in range
of the tracking antenna at Hawaii. At this time, we have a
private medical conference underway with Flight Surgeon
Jerry Hordinsky, and we do not expect to have an acquisition
through the tracking antenna here. We have about 3 minutes
left in the pass at Hawaii. Data coming in on the second
CMG still essentially no change. It apparently is running
pretty stably at this time. Speed's still 8850, as it has
been for an extended period of time and the temperature dif-
ferences do not appear to have substantially changed. They're
still in the neighborhood of about 2 degrees occassionally
moving up to about 2-1/2 degrees. And currents still about
the same as they have been for the last 18 hours. Still
running right around 1.03 to 1.04, occasionally going as
high as 1.05, but that has been seen on occasion during the
entire period. So, no significant changes in its performance
or behavior. And Flight Dir - Flight Director Neil Hutchinson
is still on duty here in Mission Control, although an off-duty
Flight Director Milton Windler will be coming in shortly to re-
lieve him. He has been on duty now for a little over i0 hours.
And there is a discussion going on here in Mission Control
about the performance of the CMG with scientists and engineers
at Marshall Space Flight Center to determine what the exact
conditions of the failure might look like, and what actions
should be taken at various stages of - depending on what
happens to the CMG number 2. And also getting some updates
on what the attitude is toward the data scene so far today.
And at the present time, we're still planning on an Earth resources
pass tomorrow. The schedule still includes that pass to take
place abont 18:00 Greenwich mean time tomorrow. The pass is
fairly lengthy one, about 26 minutes in length along track 33,
and primary targets are U.S. targets for tomorrow's pass.
That Earth resources pass has fairly good weather on it right
now with a number of sites of some importance, so at the
present time, we don't expect it to be taken out unless some
change takes place in CMG number 2. Today, of course, an
Earth resources pass did have to be cancelled because of the
performance of the CMG, which was in an extended anomaly as
it still is. And, of course, an early morning Earth resources
pass, very early this morning with a 2-hour early wakeup, was
cancelled because of weather conditions in Central America,
which didn't permit geothermal data to be gathered. And
eliminated one of the primary requirements for that Earth
resources pass. We're just about to go over the hill at
Hawaii at this time. We'll keep the line live in case any
conversation does come up here at the remainder of this pass.
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PAO Skylab Control at 23:29. We're now out

of range of the tracking antenna at Hawaii. Private medical
conference in progress there, so we had no conversation with
the crew from Spacecraft Communicator Hank Hartsfield. Wheel
speed, currents, and temperature still pretty much as they
have been for the last 18 hours on CMG number 2, with some
indication that the bearing temperature on - bearing temperature
of number 2 bearing still running about 2 and sometimes as
much as 2-1/2 degrees above bearing temperature number i.
That again is not irregular; it's been pretty much what we've
seen over the past 8 to 10 hours at least. 20 minutes before
our next acquisition of signal, this is Skylab Control.
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within range of the tracking antenna at Vanguard. This
pass through Vanguard will last about 9-1/2 minutes and
we'll bring the line up live here for air-to-ground. Space-
craft communicator on duty here in Mission Control is Hank
Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Vanguard for
8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC And, Jer, if you get a chance to reach
over there and take a look at the PLT's Flight Plan, we can
see how the teleprinter is working after the paper change.
CDR Looks just fine.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go, Hank.
CC Bill, if it's not too much trouble, we'd
like to get you to copy down the pointing data on SO19 so
that we can use it to build pads and try to take out some
of this bias we know is in there. And maybe you can voice
it down later this evening.
PLT Fire away.
CC Hold on. What we want you to do is tell
us how the pointing comes out compared to the pad, what
your actual values are. If you can write those down then
we'll get them from you later this evening for use in
tomorrow's preparation.
PLT Okay, will do.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Hank, on the TV demos, the science
demos, today Ed was assigned number 118 and Bill was assigned
that a couple of days ago and has already started work on
it. So we're going to keep Bill on it. I'd suggest in the
future on assigning time to practice science demos, why don't
we just call them science demos instead of trying to put
a number on it, because so far on 118 all three of us have been
assigned that thing at one time or another and it gets kind
of confusing. It'd be a whole lot easier if we could just either
pick the one we want to do and do it or else give us give
us an assignment, and from then on just say science demo in
the Flight Plan.
CC Okay, we copy that, Jerry, and we'll crank
it in.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS, Tananarive is next at 15, that's 15-1/2 minutes from
now. /
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CDR Roger, Hank.

PAO Skylab Control at Greenwich midnight.
We're now 14-1/2 minutes from our next acquisition as we
pass out of range of the tracking ship Vanguard. Scientific
research is continuing aboard the Skylab space station despite
a persistent problem with one of two main gyroscopes. Skylab's
number 2 gyroscope, which is used to hold the 100 ton laboratory
steady during investigations of the Earth, Sun and stars, has
been spinning a little slower than usual since just after
midnight last night. Flight controllers can't guess when or
if the gyroscope might fail, but plans to use Skylab's nitrogen
gas thrusters are ready to go, and another set of small command
module engines can also keep the space station steady. If the
gyroscope should go out, the Skylab crew will probably begin
immediate planning for a final space walk. But the backup
fuel supply can keep the crew comfortable through the remaining
15 days of the planned 84 day mission. Late this afternoon
Flight Director Nell Hutchinson said astronauts Jerry Carr,
Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue, who is celebrating his 44th birthday
today, could complete the planned flight on Skylab's backup
systems but that NASA planners might choose to spend more
of the limited gas to perform Earth resources studies and
shorten the record breaking flight by a few days. The crew
is presently scheduled to splash into the Pacific Ocean
southwest of San Diego on February 8. And during this last
couple of hours we_ve had a discussion going on with the
Marshall Space Flight Center concerning the performance of
CMG number 2_ which is now acting about as it has before. We
have seen some indications the wheel speed - indication still
at 8850 for the most part has had more signals above 8850
than below. So perhaps the distress is very slowly beginning to
show signs of a recovery_ although I think it's fair to say
that it's likely to go on for a great many more hours before
we see any clear signs that it might be clearing up. That
discussion with Marshall this afternoon led the Flight Director
to press on with plans for a control moment gyroscope controlled
Earth resources pass tomorrow. That is to say the CMG control
will still be used during Earth resources
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PAO - - press on with plans for a control

moment gyroscope controlled Earth resources pass for tomorrow.
That is to say, the CMG control will still be used during
this Earth resources pass tomorrow. Some consideration was
given to the possibility of using thruster attitude control
system gas. The TACS fuel, however, would require about
1500 pound-seconds for tomorrow's EREP, and that's considered
rather expensive, and too expensive, in fact, for the pass
as it's now planned. So, for that reason, they will continue
to plan on using the CMG during tomorrow's EREP. However,
that will be reevaluated in the morning to determine whether
the CMG has degraded further. If it has, it may be necessary
to cancel that Earth resources pass again. The pass_ if it's
completed tomorrow, will complete the nominal Earth resources
passes for the mission. 30 were originally planned, although
some flight controllers had hoped that that we might get
as many as 50, and the Earth resources people were enthusiastic
about getting that many. However, that would complete the
planned 30; 29 so far have been completed. Total now of -
I0 passes have been cancelled because of either weather con-
ditions degrading, or because of problems with the control
moment gyroscopes during the past 2 months. Next acquisition's
about Ii_i/2 minutes away at Tananarive. At 3 minutes after
Greenwich midnight, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC2444/I
Time: 19:13 CDT 70:00:13 GMT
1/23/74
PAO Skyla5 Control at 13 minutes after

Greenwich midnight. We're now over Union of South Africa
about 54 seconds from acquisition of signal through the
voice relay station at Tananarive on the Island of Madagascar.
The pass through Tananarive will last a little less than
6 minutes andwe'll bring the line up. Milton Windler has
come into the Mission Control Center and he's sitting down
with Flight Director Nell Hutchinson about to take a hand-
over for him. Milton is taking the place of Charles Lewis
who is not feeling well tonight. And as a result Nell
Hutchinson has had to stay on a couple of hours over his
_ormal work time. We'll bring the line up live now for a
Tananarive pass lasting approximately 6 minutes.
CC Skylah, Houston through Tananarive
3_i/2 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay Hank, those stars Denebola, 274.6
and 2.6 (static) 23.2 and the that first one on that shaft on
Denebola was out a little bit I went ahead and got a Spica.
And that's 273.2 and 37.7.
CC Jerry, you cut out on the second one_
could you say again please.
CDR Okay, Regulus 146.3 and (static) 9.2 and
did you get the Spica?
CC Roger, we're going LOS Jerry. The next
site is Hawaii that's your private phone call and it's also
the evening status report. It comes up at 57 past the hour.
CDR Roger. Did you copy the stars?
PAO Skylah Control at zero hours 20 minutes
and 37 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylmh space station
is moving out of range of Tananarive. Our next acquisition
at Hawaii is 36 minutes and 30 seconds from now. That pass
will be the evening status report. We have the Mission
Surgeon's daily report on crew health for you and we'll read
that for you at this time. The crew is in good health. The
p_lot['s congestion persists, an oral decongestant will he added
tonight. A temperature check was normal. A current review
of the pilot's symptoms still does not indicate an infectious
problem. Signed by Dr. Jerry Hordinsky for Dr. Hawkins the
Medical Operations Director. The Flight Surgeon, Dr. Hordinsky
also _B explaining a little bit more says that the pilot has
bad a sensation of stuffiness. That is only a only subjective
feeling. Apparently it has no physical problems associated with
St. He has been taking decongestants for some time. And
they dec_ded last night to have him take a temperature. And
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the temperature indicated he was normal, he had no change

in his temperature. He does not appear to have a cold or
anything of that sort. There is no indication that he has
any sort of infection. But Dr. Hordinsky says it's probably
is the same thing that has been experienced by a number of
people in space. That there is just a slight feeling of
stuffiness in the breathing and inhaling just a little bit
of stuffiness in the nose and in the area around the nose.
Last night he described it as paranasal, in the area around
the nose. But it apparently doesn't cause any sort of real
problem for him. He does - he is able to breath properly
but does - he does feel a little funny. So they have been
giving him decongestants to try and reduce that. It hasn't
had much effect so far, but they're going to add an oral
decongestant tonight. Thirty-five minutes to acquisition
at Hawaii, 22 minutes after the hour. This is Skylab Control.
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Time: 19:56 CDT 70:00:56 GMT
1/23/74
PAO Skylab Control at 56 minutes and 20

seconds after the Greenwich midnight. 55 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Hawaii where we'll have a lO minute
pass. The evening status report is scheduled for this pass
and the Spacecraft Communicator is Hank Hartsfield. We'll
bring the line up live now at Hawaii for the evenin_ status
report with Hank Hartsfield as the communicator.
PLT Houston, Skylab, how do you read?
CC Go ahead Bill.
PLT Okay, let me give you some star data
here. Denebola, shaft 274.6, trunnion 2.6. Regulus 146.3 shaft
and the trunnion is 23.2. Spica 273.2 and 37.7.
CC Okay, we copied those Bill, and do you
have any S019 data for us?
PLT Roger, I do. It took a bit of fumbling
around but I finally got what I think was the right angles.
And I got a 8.7 on Canopus which I interpreted as a 288.7
and took a tilt of 15.4 to center the star. For Spica I
got a 6.7 which I took and as a 196.7 and I went back and
forth between to verify for reasonablness check. And the tilt
on the Spica, once I got 20.1 and once I got 19.9 which is
fairly close. But there's interplay and (garble) and spring
back now in the meehinism so it - you wouldn't expect perfect
repetability. I got wrapped around the axle on procedures
and wasn't able to find our Arcturus and neither was I able
to get any of the exposures in. Because of the difficulty
involved in finding the stars, I got a late start and got
all out of sequence there, but at least I did get two angles
there for the Canopus and for Spiea.
CC Okay, we copy.
PLT Ready with the photo log.
CC Okay, let her rip.
PLT (garble) 16_millimeter, okay documentory
photo 8, Charlie India 129, 85 percent, Charlie India 78.
Nikon 01_ Charlle X-ray 43, 66; Nikon 02, Bravo Victor 49,
24_ Nikon 03, 04, 05, no change. 70-millimeter, Charlie
X-ray 18, 070; ETC, no change_ EREP, no change. Drawer A
configuration: transporters A-l, 2, 3, and 4, no change;
and the back_ transporter 07, Charlie India 129, 85, Charlie
India 78. Now with the evening status.
CC Okay, go ahead with the status Bill.
PLT Sleep: CDR, 7.5, 6.5 heavy, 1.0 light;
SPT, 7.5, 6.0 heavy, 1.5 light; PLT, 6.0, 4.0 heavy, 2.0
light. Urine volume: not applicable. Drinking water gun
reading: CDR, 8780_ SPT, 4800; PLT, 1271. BMMD: CDR,
6.318, 6.315_ 6.313_ SPT, 6.367, 6.359, 6.364; PLT, 6.240,
6.236, 6.237. Exercise: all three standard. Okay medication:
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and other expendables: CDR, no medications, shorts and socks;

SPT, no medications, socks, shirt, plus shorts; PLT, Afrin
twice, and no clothing. Shopping list accomplishments:
TV-107, 1 hour and 30 minutes replacing 1 hour schedule for
TV-II8. TO02-1, stars 22 and 21 thrown in on the tall end
on the standard TO02 is on tape with the scheduled TO02, and
that was 20 minutes. Food: Okay CDR, 6.5 salt, plus one
coffee with sugar, plus - yeah that was right I thought I
was on the wrong day there for a minute plus one coffee with
sugar for the CDR, plus one lemonade, plus one peach ambrosia,
plus one grape drink, Apollo type, rehydration water plus 1.0;
SPT, salt 10.0, plus one lemon pudding_ plus lemonade, no
rehydration water_ PLT, plus one coffee with sugar, plus green
beans, and a no (garble) which I intended to put in before.
High density 4 was eaten today instead of high density 2
because I ate the high density 2 on day 66. And we should tell
the food people that. Rehydration water_ minus 1.0. Okay,
that's the end of evening status.
CC Okayp thank tou, Bill.
CC SPT, Houston. We need the DAS for an
outer gimbal backup, bring up the nuZ up to date.
SPT Roger Hank, you got it.
CC PLT, Houston, if you have your SWS systems
checkup checklist handy, I've got one small correction to a
stowage location on housekeeping 71 that we upllnked to
you.
PLT Stand by 1.
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CC one small correction to a stow - stowage

location on housekeeping 71 that we uplinked to you.
PLT Stand 5y i.
CC Bill, if you haven't brought that check-
list up to date, it was on message 6955. SPT, your DAS.
SPT Thanks, Hank.
PLT What change number was that, Hank?
CC Okay, that should have been change number
8, Bill, and it was uplinked last night. I don't know whether
you brought the checklist up to date, or not, I the change
in the stowage is an housekeeping 71 Charlle. That's the
Charcol return.
PLT Okay, what page number is that?
CC It was on page 5 - oh, you mean the new
checklist? 16-10 on the checklist is where it should have
been taped in.
PLT It's been done. I just forgot what you
said. Okay, Hank, I'm looking at it. Give me the change.
CC Okay, you go down there where the initial
llst of equipment is. You get down to vacuum cleanersj three.
The stowage location should have been in Foxtrot 520 instead
of W750.
PLT Roger, I have that incorporated.
CC Okay, thank you, Bill. And I have a
couple comments in regard to the water loss that's scheduled
on your Flight Plan this evening just prior to beddie-bye.
That's the procedure that's on your unscheduled exercise cue
card. And one other little reminder, we_d like to get those
BMMD readi_Bs when the vehicle is not in a dump. In other
words, we don't want any vehicle motion to influence the
readings.
PLT Okay, Hank, thank you.
CC And, Skylab, we're about i minute from
LOS now. Vanguard is next at 01:29 - that's 22 minutes from
now. And there, we_d llke to give you a few words on how
we see this CMG problem.
PLT Okay, we'll be standing by.
PAO Skylsb Control at i hour 8 minutes Green-
wich mean time. The evening status report here at Hawaii indi-
cated a little change in the diet for the pilot. He didn't eat the
high density food that was scheduled for today, because he'd
already eaten it a few days ago. And instead, substituted
another high density diet for today's meal. And also, he
gave a report on his attempt to operate one of the instruments
they use as a scientific airlock. And he reported that
his SO19 operation, which was scheduled to take place about
an hour ago, had not been entirely successful. Held succeeded
in locating the stars and getting some data on where the were_
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but had not succeeded in taking the photographs, so they'll

have to be rescheduled tomorrow. That was a calibration run
to get some calibration data for the instruments. S019 in-
strument, llke all the Skylab instruments, does have to have
some calibration data to compare for photographing developing
to detemine exact light production and - and to give more ac-
curate measurements of that. And as Hank Hartsfield says as
we went over the hill at Hawaii, we're going to have a little
discussion with the crew about CMG problem at Vanguard. The
crew has, of course, been kept up to date on the problem that
is now going on for 20 hours. And that problem does not
appear to have changed substantially. We did see some indica-
tions this time _ while the last pass had shown us a number of
times when the indicator seemed to be reading above 8850,
which has been the standard level for quite some time, this
time, there were a number of indications below 8850, and the
balance about 3 to i running below 8850. Although still a
majority of signals coming down on our chart which plots it
every 5 seconds indicate that 8850 is still the standard speed,
and that's what reads as the tabulation at the end. And currents
not changing substantially, although we did get one reading
that was'the higher _ one of the highest ones we've seen today
and that was 1.058. That's up above the normal level, but it
did seem to be back at 1.04, so that could be just an anomalous
reading on one of the transducers. The other current speeds -
other current rates right now are at now 1.031 amps on current
A. B is 1.043 at the end of the pass and 1.040 on current
phase 3 _ phase C. So, no substantial changes; temperature
difference ranging from about 2.2 to 2.4 degrees crossover.
That's not apparently improving at all. On the other hand,
it doesn't seem to be degrading very fast. Nell Hutchinson
again, who's Just about to leave the console now and turn it
over _inally to Milt Windler, has been saying frequently during
the afternoon and evening that's it's getting a little bit
worse, it's getting a little bit worse, and the guidance officer
keeps saying, well, maybe you see that, but I'm not sure I do.
Sop it's not entire agreement, although nobody's very happy
with an anomaly that's lasted nearly 20 hours already. And
t_ere_s also not much sign that it's clearing up right away.
Tomorrow's Earth resources maneuver is still scheduled, although
it may be reviewed in the morning if the degradation continutes
on the second gyroscope. That Earth resources pass will cost
only about 5 pound-seconds of thruster attitude control system
gas_ if the CMG's continue to work properly. If the CMG is not
used _d they _ad to go to thruster attitude control system gas
alone, the cost would be up to 1500 pound-seconds. For that
reason, if they have decided that the CMG is not performing at
a standard they considered satisfactory in the morning, then
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they will cancel the Earth resources pass. However, that's

going to be another real-time decision tomorrow morning as to
whether the CMG degradation is so severe that it might be
risked by an EREP pass. Naturally_ the don't want to lose
solar data which would be lost if the CMG does go out.
They have, of course_ had some excellent solar activity in
recent days, and they've been getting regular reports and
very extensive photography. One of the problems mentioned
in the backroom here in Mission Control among the solar
scientists is how do we manage to budget the remaining film.
There's not very much film left for those instruments. They're
trying to get the maximum use out of it. So that Earth
resources pass is still on schedule for tomorrow. The
discussion tonight with Huntsville seemed to indicate that there
is not apparently any association between the Earth resources
passes and - the anomalies on the CMG - it does not appear to
give additional stress to them. But still part of the conserva-
tive approach to the problem is to take a careful look and do not
do anything that might threaten the remaining life of CMG
number 2. And the EGIL, the Environmental General Instrumentation
and Life Support engineer -
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PAO - to take a careful look and not do any-

thing that might threaten the remaining life of CMG number 2.
And the EGIL, the Environmental General Instrumentation and
Life Support Systems Engineer, who now feels a little bit for-
gotten since he hasn't had any major problems for quite some
time, suggests that - last night - that the guidance officer
spin up CMG number 1 for a while. He didn't have much response
at that time. And that's still not being seriously considered
although it may be if we do have a failure. Fifteen minutes
to our next acquisition of signal, 13 minutes after the
hour. This is Skylab Control.
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Time: 20:28 CDT 70:01:28 GMT
1/23/74
PAO Skylab Control at 1 hour 28 minutes

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is off the coast
of Chili about to be acquired through the tracking ship
Vanguard. The pass through Vanguard will last about 9 minutes
and we'll bring the llne up live now for alr-to-ground there.
This pass we should have a discussion between Hank Hartsfield
the Spacecraft Communicator and the crew regarding the CMG
number 2 which has been in an anomaly now lasting 20 hours.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Vanguard for
7-i/2 minutes.
PLT Roger Hank.
SPT Hello Hank, what's the 250 K time?
CC SPT, subtract 4 minutes from the ESS.
SPT Okay Hank, for this orbit I'm pretty
sure I wasn't given an ESS. Oh, that's the same as the
previous one. It's all worked out, thank you.
CC Okay.
PLT Hank, I have a question for the doctor.
CC Go ahead.
PLT I was told to take a Actifed before
evening - before going to bed this evening. And I could not
find any other than some decongestant tablets entitled
as decongestants in the command module, there were about 5
of them. They're sort of a buff colored and with a weakened
zone down the center for cracking in half.
CC Okay, I'ii check it outp Bill.
CC CDR, Houston.
PLT Rog, he's listening, go.
CC Okay_ like to give you a few words of how
we see the CMG number 2 thing as of now. It appears to us
that - well it is a fact that the CMG has been under distress
for approximately the 18 hours, and it appears that it's very
very slowly getting worse. We've seen over that period
approximately 10 to 12 mini-amp increase in the currents -
base currents and approximately a 1 degree bearing temperature
rise. And of course as you can imagine all the experts have
got their heads together and had several conferences today.
And the consensus of opinion seems to he that we definitely
have some damage in the bearings, but that a maneuvering does
not significantly increase the amount of damage and we don't
see too much difference of doing maneuvers. So based on that
we're going to go ahead and plan an EREP for tomorrow. We
looked at TACS only hut just too expensive. So we're going
to plan the EREP and if the rate of degradation doesn't
increase, we'_ll go head and do it. However, if we see some
rapid deterioration in the CMG of course we'll go ahead and serub
the EREP. But thatts about the way it is now, we see it and
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we'll certainly keep you posted.

CDR Okay Hank, thanks a lot. I guess we'll
have to break out the oars and galley slaves.
SPT You know who they'll be.
CC (Laughter)
CDR I'ii put Bill on the port side and Ed
on the starboard side.
CC And for Bill, we have verified that
that is Actifed that you have from the command module and
you have a GO to take them as you described.
PLT Thank you Hank.
CC And we didn't copy the PLT's salt from
the evening status.
PLT Stand by i.
PLT 7.5.
CC We copy.
CDR Hey Hank, it's been some time since we
got a listing from you folks on the status of changes and
permanent general messages. And I think we've probably got
a lot of PGMs up here that can be thrown away. Would you
fire us up a status next day or so.
CC Okay, we'll sure work on it Jerry. And
in reference to getting up tomorrow, the scheduled getup
time is ii:00, and we have a site at 10:40 roughly and another
one at 11:18. So which one would you prefer or do you want
to set your clock?
CDR I'ii let you call us at 11:18 and we'll
go ahead and set our clocks and be up by ii:00.
CC Okay, will do.
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1/23/74
CDR - - and set our clocks to be up by ii:00.

CC Okay, will do.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 30 seconds from LOS.
One last item on the ATM, we need to get the S055 HIGH VOLTAGES
OFF. And we won't have another site until Vanguard again.
This is a Vanguard to Vanguard and that comes up about an
hour and a half from now. We'll- so we'll say good night to you
now and talk to you in the morning.
PLT Good night Hank.
SPT Good night Hank, enjoy the team. Good
night down there bronze team.
CDR Good night Hank, good night Gene.
CC We forgot to update you since that.
Since Gene we_ve had Milt, and before that was Chuck and
now we have Milt.
CDR Playing musical chairs, huh?
SPT You go through them so fast Hank. You
must be pretty hard on them.
CDR What color vest is Milt wearing?
PAO Skylab Control at i hour 38 minutes
range of Vanguard on the final pass of the evening. Hank
Hartsfield giving the crew an update on CMG status including
the fact that they do plan an Earth resources pass for tomorrow.
That Earth resources pass is a 26-minute pass, and it's scheduled
over a number of U.S. sites. It does not include geothermal
activity which is one thing the crew has been looking at on
previous occasions. The pass is a 7400-mile-long one
tomorrow. And it will be reviewed in the morning both on
weather considerations which are the regular status reviews
and also depending on the performance of CMG number 2. And
at the very end of the pass some discussion about good night
Gene from the crew. Referring of course to Gene Kranz who
did sit in as Flight Director for a while tonight. And then
Hank Hartsfield listed the flight directors who have been
in. Charles Lewis who came in for a brief period of time,
but decided he_d go home he was not feeling very well. Neil
Hutchinson who sat in for Charles and Gene Kranz then sat in for
a while. And then Nell came back and finally Milt Wlndler
was brought in from his day off and put on the console until
midnight tonight. And the crew asked what kind of vest was
Milt Windier wearing, Gene Kranz is well know for his bright
redd vest. He was earlier called robin redbreast by one
of the crew members. No, Windier didn't say it loud enough
so the crew could here or get it passed along, but he said
he's sitting here in his T-shirt. Of course he's not, but
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he's not wearing a vest either. And Pilot, Bill Pogue had
a little trouble finding the Actifed, A-C-T-I-F-E-D, the
drug that he is using for a decongestant. He wasn't certain
that he located it, although he had found a decongestant in
the command module. The medics checked the records and went
back to make sure they were identifing the right drug. And
indeed the decongestant in the command module is the Actifed
that was prescribed by Jerry Hordinsky, during the private
medical conference tonight. So at this time CMG performance
number on number 2 is still about as it has been for quite
some time. Temperature difference over Vanguard about 1.9
degrees crossover, varying from about 1.9 to 1.8. And other
- other than that essentially not to much change in that
performance. Still the wheel speed listed at about 8850 and
the currents up - elevated about 2 percent over their normal
level, about 1.04, on two of the three phases of the current
and about 1.03 on the third phase. So that would indicate
that the anomaly is still in progress and virtually unchanged
from performance during the past 8 or l0 hours. It has been
in an anomalous condition for 20 hours. That was the final
pass of the evening for the Skylab crew. They had a very
busy day today despite the fact that two Earth resources
passes were cancelled. The first pass was cancelled this
morning because poor weather conditions over Central America
over some geothermal areas were to be studied. And the
second pass was scheduled for this afternoon, and that had
to be cancelled because of the continuing stress signs on
CMG number 2. Tomorrow an EREP pass is being scheduled. If
the CMG does not deteriorate further, it's very likely they'll
perform that Earth resources pass. And if we do see some
further signs of deterioration in the morning it could be
that that pass will have to be cancelled. The pass tomorrow
will be the 30th of the Skylab mission. Forty originally
scheduled at various times so far in the flight and i0 of
those has had to be cancelled. But tomorrow we expect number
30 among the Earth resources survey. That will complete the
requirments of the Skylab mission as planned for this third
Skylab flight. Thirty passes were planned and up to 50
were one time hoped for. Also scheduled for tomorrow is a
run of T020, the foot control maneuvering unit. That's
planned for Commander Jerry Carr as the test pilot and that
will be observed by Bill Pogue. It requires approximately
3 hours in the morning with both crew members participating
in that. ATM activity tomorrow calls for almost 5 hours of
solar study. The active Sun is now once again declining,
some of it's active regions moving off the face of the disk.
And this will allow some final study of surge activity and
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other activity along the limb of the active part of the Sun.
Those active regions are expected to be passing off the disk
in the next few days and will conclude a very successful
study of solar activity. Also scheduled for tomorrow is
some time for science demonstration practice so the crew
can prepare for doing a little bit of TV. There is TV-106
scheduled for tomorrow. And an operation on S019 is scheduled
for late tomorrow night before the crew goes to sleep. They're
scheduled for a normal wakeup tomorrow morning at ll:00
Greenwich mean time or 6 o'clock Houston time. And they
will be going to bed tomorrow night at the usual time
l0 o_cloek. Also scheduled for tomorrow is a ma - pair of
major medical experiments: M092 the lower body negative pressure
run, and MI71 thetis the bicycle ergometer test to test the
crew members ability
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1/23/74
PAO scheduled for tomorrow's ma - pair of

major medical experiments, M092, the lower body negative
pressure run, and MI71, that's the bicycle ergometer test to
test the crewmember's ability to perform work in weightless-
ness. Those are - two tests will be performed on Pilot Bill
Pogue. The observer for the runs is the chief scientist on
Skylab, Ed Gibson. Gibson's activities for tomorrow include,
of course, the Earth terrain camera operations during their
Earth resources pass. And he has set aside for him four
turns at the ATM console. And of course, he'll be participating
in an ATM conference tomorrow morning. And also, the other
two crew members have a chance at the solar observations
too, tomorrow, each of them taking a single pass to combine
for a total of 5 hours of data-take time. And should be -
Earth resources pass be sched be postponed tomorrow because
of further problems with the CMG if it should degrade during
the overnight period, then we'll have some additional ATM
time scheduled. An extra hour and 42 minutes will be put
in with Commander Carr and Science Pilot Gibson taking over
the solar observations. And Pilot Bill Pogue will do an
extra S019 operation tomorrow if we have that opportunity.
And we'll also have a plan on the alternate Flight Plan
tomorrow to use the viewfinder tracking system. That's the
telescope guide device that's used for pointing the infrared
spectrometer. Pilot Bill Pogue will use that to track the
Goddard laser if everything works out well, and if the Earth
resource pass has to be cancelled. It's scheduled to take place
in the same block time. An Earth resource pass requires
about two hours. A brief discussion about - with Flight
Director Neil Hutchinson before he left about the possibility
of again trying CMG number i. He says that he thinks that
there is virtually no chance of that until after the mission
is over when they do plan on making an attempt to spin that
wheel up to see what happens. He said he is primarily con-
cerned about the possibility that the instrument is completely
dead and that the bearings are frozen and that by attempting
to spin it up, it could cause more damage. So, there is no
attempt - will no be no attempt in his opinion, to reactivate
control moment gyroscope number I, which failed on November 23rd.
That was the final pass of the evening for the Skylah crew.
They're an hour and 20 minutes from their next acquisition
of signal at Vanguard. Virtually no change in CMG number 2.
It has continues in its anomaly that began about midnight
Houston time last night. Until 6:00 tomorrow morning, Houston
time, 11:00 Greenwich mean time_ this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-2451/I
Time: 06:16 CDT 70:11:16 GMT
1/24/74
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time ii hours

and 16 minutes, mission day 70 for the crew of Skylab IV
concluding their 10th week in space. Of major current concern
throughout the night here at Mission Control Center is the
CMG number 2, still operating in distress mode which started
more than 30 hours ago at Greenwich mean time 05:00 on mission
day 69. Wheel speed at last report through Honeysuckle is
down to 8829 rpms. Current reading 1.052, and the Delta
temperatures between bearing number i and bearing number 3
bearing number i and bearing number 2 - is presently 3 degrees
Fahrenheit. Temperatures aboard spacecraft this morning 71.6
degrees Fahrenheit. Spacecraft in an orbit of 240.4 by 232.5
nautical miles, traveling at a speed of 25,091 feet per second.
We'll bring the line up for CAP COMM Dick Truly on this stateside
pass for the wakeup call.
CC (Music: "Misty").
CC Skylab, Houston, good morning from the
purple gang. We've still got you stateside here for 15 minutes.
SPT Morning, Dick.
CDR We're standing around with our legs crossed
waiting for the momentum dump to find (laughter) so that we can
do our weighing.
CREW (Laughter)
CC Roger, that. I know that was hard to
top. We have the VTR this pass, so don't try to pu_ anything
on it while INCO's dumping it.
CDR Okay, we'll try hard to resist.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, be advised this morning,
we're showing a temperature in the SWS of about 71.6 degrees,
and we're turning off the second ATM coolant loop pump. We're
now - excuse me, the second AM coolant loop pump. We're now
running on pump Bravo and that's the way we'll be staying.
Also one other thing that I think you might be interested
in knowing. The purple gang is very proud this morning, our
biomed officer, Bob White is the proud father of a baby boy,
he's Wesley Andrew White, 7 pounds 6 ounces and he was born
on Bill Pogue's birthday.
CREW Hey, very good. Give him our congratulations
especially from Bill who is right now in the BMMD.
CC Sure do it.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute
from LOS. Madrid comes up about 5 minutes from now. And we're
going to dump the data/voice recorder at Madrid, and also I'ii
have some news there if you guys would like to hear it.
CDR Roger, Dick. We sure would, thanks.
CC Okay.
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Time: 06:16 CDT 70:11:16 GMT
1/24/74
CC Roger. And available for the ATM VTR that's

scheduled is 4 minutes on the VTR tape.
SPT Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time ii
hours and 36 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda, next
acquisition in 3 minutes will be Madrid tracking station as
Skylab IV crew begins their 70th day in orbit. An Earth re-
sources survey across the midwestern United States, six periods
of solar observations, a pair of medical experiments, and a flight
in the foot controlled maneuvering unit make up today's Flight
Plan for the crew of space station Sk_lab. Weather permitting,
Skylab IV crew members, Gerald Cart, Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue
will make a photographic and electronic scanner Earth resources sweep
along groundtrack 33 starting at 12:24 p.m. central daylight
time. Among the task sites for today's EREP pass are cloud
measurements along the track, water resources surveys of the
upper Mississippi and Missouri River basins, and the northern
United States in general, photo mappin_ in the Dakotas, crop
identification in Indiana, land use in Iowa, and productivity
potentials of the ocean off the U.S. East Coast. EREP pass
will last 26 minutes with Commander Gerald Carr at the control
and display panel, Pilot Pogue at the viewfinder tracking
system, and Science Pilot Gibson operating the Earth terrain
camera. Gibson. will scrutinize flares, prominences, and other
activities on the gun for four ATM passes while his crewmates
each have one turn at the ATM console. Pogue will be the
subject and Gibson the observer in a run of the M092 and MI71
lower body negative pressure and metabolic activity medical
experiments. Later in the day, Cart will operate the $019 ultraviolet
stellar astronomy instrument mounted in the solar scientific airlock.
The TO20 foot controlled maneuvering unit, a forerunner of personal
maneuvering devices for future space station operations will
be flown by Carr as test pilot wh&le Pogue observes. Handheld
Earth feature photography sites Thursday for crew option are
interdunal vegetation in a dune field north of Lake Chad, soll
erosion in Mall, fault zones in the Swiss Alps, and Atlas
Mountains of Morocco, equatorial currents_ and eddies and coastal
sediment plumes. In all the Skylab IV crew Thursday will
devote a total of 26 hours and 53 minutes to collectinB scientific
data. We'll bring the line up for thls Madrid pass, 9 minutes
in duration.
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SL-IV MC-2452/I
Time: 06:40 CDT 70:ii:40 GMT
1/24/74
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for

9 minutes, and I've got the news if you'd like to hear that.
If you're ready to listen.
CDR Sure, Dick. Please go ahead.
CC Okay, Ed, before I do let me remind you,
we're dumping the data/voice recorder here. Tel Aviv:
Israeli tanks and troops began withdrawing from the west
bank of the Suez Canal 2 days ahead of schedule. At the
same time, the Israeli state radio reported, Israel per-
mitted Egyptian medical teams through Israeli lines to
evacuate wounded soldiers trapped in the city of Suez since
the October war. North Chelmsford, Massachusetts: The
New England Telephone Co. says it wants to see if it can
save up to 60 percent of its heating costs by using solar
energy. The company said it is installing a solar heating
system on an addition to one of its buildings to test
whether solar energy can be used to heat, either fully or
partially many of its other buildings. Washington, D.C.:
The Federal Trade Commission urged Congress today to order
a stronger health warning printed on cigaret packages, re-
quire the same warning on packs of "little cigars" and
launch a government advertising campaign to discourage
smoking. The agency also said Congress should appropriate
money for a government research project to develop a "safe"
clgaret. Pine Ridge, South Dakota: American Indian Move-
ment leader Russell Means and incumbent President Richard
Wilson finished i-2 in the primary election for president
of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Means and Wilson, adversaries
during the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, will
meet in the February 7 run-off election for president of the
tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The tribal election
board said final, unofficial results give - gave Means 667
votes and Wilson 511. In Houston; Colleen Gray, 17, a senior
at Sam Houston High School, was the 100,000th person in the
United States to see an exhibit depicting Soviet life and
arts that is touring the nation and currently on view at
the Albe=t Thomas Convention Center. As a momento of the
occasion, Miss Gray was presented with a statuette of a horse
carved by hand by Soviet artist Vladlmir Gradov. The exhibit con-
s±sts of photographs, books, paintings, sculptures and
scientific models and make - mockups, Finally, in Tulsa,
Oklahoma_ With gasoline prices rising, Dick Cokeley thinks
it may be cheaper to ride a horse. Cokeley, a 24-year-old
mec_@nZe, dee_ded last weekend to ride his horse Dixie to
work, about three miles away. He made the test run and
found _t takes about 16 minutes longer to ride than drive
through heavy traffic. That's it for this morning.
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CDR Thank you, Dick.

CC Rog, and I got two, three more official
kind of notes. One of them is to everybody. Our present
feelin_ on the - that the problem in the H-Alpha i image
clarity exists in the TV system. So we would encourage you
to continue to turn off the TV camera for H-Alpha 1 when -
when that's not in use. And also, any time in this morning
I've got a change to the details for both the CDR and the
SPT.
CDR CDR's ready to copy.
CC Okay. For the CDR, at 21:30 there's a
TV_I06 that's listed in there, that TV-106 th - correction;
the TV coverage of TV-106 is strictly your option, Jerry.
It's not required.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to
LOS. Tananarive at 12:03.
PAO Skylab, Control, Greenwich mean time
ii hours 49 minutes. Loss of signal through Madrid. Next
acquisition in 13 minutes and 20 seconds will be Tananarive.
Through Madrid tracking station the wheel speed of CMG 2 is
back up to 8850 rpms. It had been hovering around 8829 dur-
ing Honeysuckle_ Carnarvon and stateside pass. The current
amps is presently 1.055 and 1.031, Temperatures on bearing
number i, 75.7 i temperatures on bearing number 2, 78.4.
Through the stateside pass the crew was advised that one of
the b%omed officer here at the - on the maroon team, Robert
_h±te, Robert C. White. He and his wife proud parents of
a baby boy y-esterday on - born on Bill Pogue's birthday,
January 23. This is their first child, Wesley Andrew White,
weighed in at 7 pounds 6 ounces. Next acquisition will be
through Tnanarive in 12 minutes. At Greenwich mean time ii
hours 51 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC2453/I
TIME: 07:02 CDT, 70:12:02 GMT
1/24/74

12 hours and 2 minutes. Science Pilot Gibson currently at
the ATM control and display panel, one of four periods he'll
spend at the ATM today. First activity after postsleep
activities for the crew is breakfast. On the menu for Commnader
Carr this morning is beef hash and eggs, orange drink, coffee
with sugar. Science Pilot Gibson has instant instant breakfast
drink, tea, bacon, biscuits with jam. Pilot Pogue has eggs
and tomatoes, orange drink, coffee, bacon, and bread. We'll
have acquisition through Tananarive in 15 seconds. We'll
bring the line up for CAP COMM Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Tananarive for
6 minutes.
CREW Roger, Dick.
CC Andp Skylab, Houston; you might be interested
to know that CMG_2 now has been in a continous glitch for more
than 30 hours. Not much to tell you more than that except
that we're watching it very closely. Also a reminder for the
SPT. I've got one change for your one addition to your
detail Flight Plan.
SPT Okay, Dick, I'm ready to copy. Go ahead.
CC Okay, we'd like you to add in at a time
of 14:05 a T003_8. And one comment about that, Ed, the purpose
of it is to get a T003_8 after TO20 has started mixing up the
atmosphere, so we'd like for it to be done any time during
the _ after TO20 has started or immediately thereafter.
SPT Okay, Dick, I understand.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute from
LOS at Tananarlve. Honeysuckle comes up at 12:26; see you there.
12 hours 8 minutes. Loss of signal through Tananarive. Next
acq_islt±on will be Honeysuckle in 18 minutes. Consumables
aSoard Skylab are quite adequate for the remainder of the mission.
Presently there's 19,000 pounds of service module RCS propellant
relma£nd£ng, 236 pounds of command module RCS propellant, and
5028 pounds of service propulsion engine propellants remaining.
In the water area we have 594 pounds of water in the wardroom
and 836 pounds remaining in the waste management compartment area.
N_trogen Is 622 pounds remaining_ oxygen 2875 pounds. In the TACs
area we have 16,000 pound-seconds remaining; 16,032 pound-
seconds, Next acquisition will be through Honeysuckle as
Mission Control Center currently under - undergoing a shift
handover_ maroon team turning over to the silver team headed
by Fl_ght Director Neil Hutchinson. Next acquisition will be
in 16 m±nutes and 35 seconds. This is Skylab Control at
Greenw_c_ mean time 12 hours and 9 minutes.
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for a 10-minute pass - l-minute pass through Honeysuckle. We'll
bring the line up for CAP COMM Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Honeysuckle.
It is a short pass, couple of minutes long. Goldstone comes
up at 12:55.
SPT Say, Dick, we ran into a little problem
with the scheduling for the ATM work here. I think the pass
was a little tight to begin with, but the BMMMD (sic) problem this
morning thrown in means that we really didn't have time
to get properly set up nor understand what was going to be done
in this last building block, the JOP 7, so it was just not
done. And I'll wait until we get in orbit where it can be
done properly.
CC Okay, Ed, copy. Thank you.
CC And, Skylab, Houston; we're taking the
VTR so that we can dump - dump it when we get up there
at stateside.
CDR Okay, Dick.
SPT Dick, apparently this JOP 7 involves
inhibiting a momentum dump and it's probably going to call
for a little juggling. And I hope we can squeeze it in some-
t±me later today and let me know what you can come up with.
CC Okay, Ed, we'll be looking and let you know.
12 hours 29 minutes with loss of signal through Honeysuckle
tracking station. Next acquisition in 25 minutes and 20
seconds will be the Goldstone tracking station as Skylab now
in its 3680th revolution. 255 days in the life of the
SkylaN space station. Later today Commander Gerald Carr
kas a 4_hour block of time to flying the TO20 foot-controlled
maneuvering unit. He is presently - he and Pilot Bill Pogue
are presently preparing this equipment for use this morning.
The foot_eontrolled maneuvering unit is the second in a series
of flying machines to be operated within the orbiting Skylab
workshop. The flight hardware consists of a frame which
=es_mbles a large armless stool on the which the astronauts
straddle. He guides his movement while his hands are free
to perform other tasks. The experiment, TO20, consists of
the foet_co_trolled maneuvering unit, a restraint harness, two
shoe plates_ a mounting fixture, a propulsion gas supply unit,
or backpack, and a remote control clip. The experiment hard-
ware weighs approximately 73 pounds in one g. Carr will straddle
the maneuvering unit as if he were riding a horse and strap
on the backpack which contains the propellant supply subsystem
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The propellant system utilizes one of the nitrogen tanks of

the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit. Cart's feet will be
locked into the foot plates, much like wearing a pair of
roller skates. By moving his right foot he mechanically operates
the thrusters which are attached below the plates and correspondingly
the left foot pedal operates the valves to the left thrusters.
Two thrust control valves are operated by each foot pedal,
and each thruster manifold consists of four nozzles positioned
90 degrees apart. By movement of each foot individually, or
by moving the foot in the same or opposite direction, Commander
Cart will be able to control his pitch up or down, translate
head first or feet first, yaw left or right, or roll to the
left or to the right. For example, if he moves his right foot
up and left foot down, he will roll left and by reversing the
foot movements he can roll right. Movement of the toes also
results in move - maneuvers. Right and left toes up results in
a piteh up or head back movement. Four of the thrusters
prov±de 1/2 pound of thrust. Today's test flight is in
the shirt sleeve mode. Donald E. Hewes, NASA Langley Research
Center at Hampton, Virginia is the principal investigator
for this experiment_ the purpose of which is to evaluate this
mode of maneuver for potential use during EVA, space vehicle
inspection or maintance personnel, cargo transport or
spade structure assembly. Next acquisition through Goldstone
_n 22 minutes. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time
12 hours 32 minutes.
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SL-IV MV-2454/I
Time: 07:53 CDT 70:12:53 GMT
1/24/74

12 hours 53 minutes. Acquisition coming through Goldstone,
as we have a changeover here at Mission Control Center.
Flight director Nell Hutchinson, CAP COMM will be Bruce
McCandless, as Commander Carr prepares the T020 experiment
with Science Pilot Ed Gibson at the ATM performing JOP 6,
Joint observation 6, synoptic observations at the Sun.
We'll bring the line up for this stateside pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Gold-
stone, Corpus Christi, and Merritt Island for Ii minutes.
Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the SPT,
apparently when JOP 7 was aborted last pass the EVA AUTO
DOOR switch was left in the STOWAGE positon. So we'd like
you to reconfigured EVA AUTO DOOR switch to ENABLE and
H_Alpha 1 NIGHT INTERLOCK switch to NORMAL, please.
SPT Got it.
CC Thank you.
CC Coming up on a l-minute LOS in 1 min-
ute then back to you through Bermuda. Out.
SPT Houston, SPT. I'd like to ask the
S052 folks if they have sufficient film for a standard mode
at the beginning of this orbit and one at the end of the
orbit.
CC Stand by. That's affirmative, Ed. Go
ahead.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. The VTR is
yours.
SPT Roger.
LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through Madrid at
13_17. Out.
PLT Bruce, how much time is left in the
VTR, or is it clean?
CC It's all clear and rewound, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
13 hours and 14 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda.
Next acquisition will be through _ overlapping acquisition
through Madrid and Canary_ total pass of 8 minutes. The
commander Gerald Carr in preparation for flying the two
T020 foot.control maneuvering unit with Pilot Bill Pogue
serving as the ohservor and helping in the preparations of
tSTs flying vehicle. Science Pilot Ed Gibson at the ATM
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Time: 07:53 CDT 70:12:53 GMT
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console_ the first of the second session of four scheduled

for him today. An EREP pass is sche scheduled later
along groundtrack 33. This begins - preparations begin
about 11:47 central daylight time this morning. Review of
the CMG status, CMG number 2, still underway here prior
to make - giving a GO for the EREP pass. The criteria for
NO GO is when wheel speed gets below 8829 rpms per minute
and amp current gets above 1.052 amps and there is a dif-
ference between the bearing i and bearing 2 temperature of
at least 3 or more degrees Fahrenheit. Presently the
wheel speed through the Bermuda pass was 8850 rpms and
approximately 2 degrees difference in the two bearing tem-
peratures and the amps reading 1.043. Next acquisition in
1 minute through Canary/Madrid tracking stations. Bring
tke l_ne up for CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
and Madr±d for 8_1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And Ed, we need the DAS for a NAV
update for a m_nute.
SPT You have it.
CC DAS is yours.
SPT Roger.
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SL-IV MC-2455/I
Time: 08:20 CDT, 70:13:20 GMT
1/24/74
CC SPT, this is Houston. We're not taking

frames with H-alpha i, we'd like to go back to OVERRIDE until
the end of this pass and then back to NORMAL until we get
the computer start signal for the start of the next rev.
CDR Roger, Houston. I thought maybe you
were trying to save film.
CC No, sir.
CC We thought we were smarter than we turned
out to be.
LOS. Next station contact in 37 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 14:02 with the data/voice tape recorder dump planned
for AOS. Out.
13 hours and 27 minutes. Loss of signal through the Canary
Madrid tracking stations. Next acquisition will be in 34 min-
utes through the Honeysuckle tracking station. As Science
Pilot Gibson, at the ATM control and display panel, with
Commander Gerald Cart working the TO20, the foot-maneuverlng
unit, with Pilot Bill Pogue assisting him on this operation.
27 hours and 13 minutes scheduled of science gathering today.
An Earth resources pass scheduled to begin at 12:47 central
daylight time. Review of weather and CMG-2 - CMG-2 distress
problems which have been going on for more 30 hours since
yesterday at Greenwich mean time 5:35. Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson reviewing weather and the CMG before giving
a GO for this morning's EREP. Next acquisition will be in
33 minutes and 50 seconds through the Honeysuckle tracking
station. Tananarive is not supporting this pass. The
Tananarive tracking station supporting the AEC, Atomic Energy
Commission on one of their satellites. At Greenwich mean
14 hours and 1 minute. Acquisition coming through the
Honeysuckle tracking station in 50 seconds. We'll bring the
line up for CAP COMM Bruce McCandless, as Commander Gerald
Carr working with the TO20 foot-maneuverlng unit.
CC Skylah, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek for 9 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump, if
we're not interrupting you. And if we could, also, we'd like
to get a TO20 progress report out of the PLT.
PLT Rog, Bruce. We've finished the single
axis and translation maneuvers, now we're starting into the
two axis and dogleg.
CC Okay, we copy, Bill. Thank you,
CC SPT, Houston. Would you believe H-alpha i
NIGHT INTERLOCK is still to OVERRIDE?
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Time: 08:20 CDT, 70:13:20 GMT
1124174
SPT No it's not.

CC I didn't think it was.
SPT Houston, I've got a solar update, if
you're ready.
CC We're ready.
SPT Okay. Couple of interesting features
have developed, which we've seen coming on yesterday and now
they're very evident today, especially the white light corona-
graph. We show that at about 120 to 100 degrees, where we had
some faint streamers which were crossing in the past 2 days
now appears to be a single well-defined helmet streamer, which
is not - not radial but inclined, maybe 095. The remainder
of that llmb has got two faint streamers over around 080 to
070 diffuse at the base but only a single streamer when
it gets out to about 080 and 3 radii. There's also a very faint,
but discernible streamer in 035 degrees, quite far north. And
I found that kind of interesting, I'd like to look at it later
today and see if we can see anything at its base. Over on
the east limb, it's pretty much unchanged, if anything,
slightly enhanced from what it was yesterday. And at the
region from 260 to 280 at 3 solar radii is a fairly well-
defined streamer. But it's a little bit enhanced at around
270 from 2 to 3 radii. So the progression we've seen over
the past 2 days, is the filling of the corona. First with
faint streamers and then a filling at the base, now finally
a fairly broad streamer extending on outward over at the region
of lO0 to 120. And I imagine this is all related to the
surging activity we've seen on that southwest limb. XUV
monitor shows the limb activity to be the dominant bright
features, of course, 31 and 33. The active region 34 is
also quite evident over on the opposite lime. Then we have
the coronal holes which are at the north and south and then
also one, which I perhaps did not mention yesterday, but was
evident and it's now exceptionally evident today. And that is,
just to the east of the active regions 21 and 20, around say,
120.5 radii out, it's about 0.2 solar radii in diameter. I
believe I did mention that one yesterday. It's quite strong_
quite pronounced with exceptionally long integrations
and still nothing appears in it. So it appears to be an
exceptionally well-defined coronal hole. The coronal - or
excuse me. The filament channel up north, which we mentioned
yesterday, I believe it was filament 41, I don't recall the
number we had in there yesterday. Filament 86, it is, at 050.6.
That is still evident running from - -
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SL-IV MC2456/I
TIME: 09:10 CDT, 70:14:10 GMT
1/24/74
SPT - - around say 120.5 radii out. It's about

0.2 solar radii in diameter, believe I did mention that one
yesterday. It's quite strong, quite pronounced with exceptionally
long integrationp and still nothing appears in it. So it appears
to be an exceptionally well defined coronal hole. The coronal
excuse me_ the filament channel up north, which we mentioned
yesterday, I believe it was filament 41. I don't recall
the number we had in there yesterday. Fimament 86 it
is at 050.6, that is still evident running from, oh, about
030.5 radl directly to the west, and we can still see it
curving slightly up towards the north as it gets right to the
limb. Sounds like we got some good interesting features to
work with in terms of coronal holes, which we will be working
on today, and also active regions of the limb, and changes in
the corona. That completes it.
CC Okay_ Ed, we'll fracture that into the
system. And in the Flight Plan we're making up for tomorrow,
we have you down for about an hour and a half of ATM planning
time in the evening planning out your activities on the ATM
panel for your day off. You might be keeping this in mind
as you observe some of these features emerging and changing,
and of course, also, anything that you have in real time that
would ±nfluenee the balance of today's operations. We got about
30 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in II minutes through
Hawa±± at 14_22. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce, glad to sure we got that
time in there and I'll certainly do it. Thank you.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean
time 14 hours and ii minutes. We've had loss of signal through
Honeysuckle. Next acquisition will be through Hawaii in
9 minutes and 50 seconds as Commander Gerald Carr prepares
to fly the T020 foot maneuvering unit with Science Pilot Gibson
during this previous pass describing the latest activity on
the Sun, describing what he said the helmet streamer were
two separate streamers that run together to form a helmet
streamer. Th±s is helmet referring to it resembles a
World War I type soldier's helmet. Next acquisition will be
in 9 minutes and 20 seconds through Hawaii. At Greenwich mean
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 14 hours
and 20 minutes. Acquisition coming through Hawaii a 9-minute
pass. We%ll bring the line up for CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for
9_i/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 3 minutes through Goldstone at 14:34.
Out,
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TIME: 09:10 CDT, 70:14:10 GMT
1/24/74

14 hours 32 minutes. Loss of signal through Hawaii. A
stateside pass coming through Goldstone. Flight Director
NeLl Hutchinson still has not given a go for the EREP pass,
st±ll reviewing the weather. As far as the CMG number 2
problem is concerned, he says that EREP is go as far as the
CMG is concerned. Now the EREP people and weather people
are puttlng together the latest weather report for groundtrack
33, and we expect to have a GO or NO GO within the next
30 minutes. We'll bring the line up for this stateside pass.
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SL-IV MC-2457/I
Time: 09:33 CDT 70:14:33 GMT
1/24/74
CC Skylah, this is Houston through Goldstone

CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Bermuda
at 14:45.
PAO Skylab Control_ Greenwich mean time
14 hours 42 minutes. Loss of signal through Goldstone tracking
station. Next acquisition in 2 minutes and 50 seconds
through Bermuda. Still awaiting a final weather briefing
along groundtrack 33 for EREP pass, the 30th in the mission
for Skylab IV. An EREP pass today which runs from the North-
west United States and crosses the southeast area of the U.S.,
hopefully gathering data on four mandatory target sites
and 23 desirable target sites during this pass. Flight
Director Nell Hutchinson indicating the CMGs should not in-
terfere with tody's maneuver. Their - the condition of the
CMG should not interfere with this maneuver. The maneuver
will be done with - with the CMGs, with TACS backup. We'll
bring the llne up for this Bermuda pass. This pass scheduled
to last 7 minutes and 43 seconds.
for a little o over 7 minutes, and how's the old FCMU coming
along?
CC Skylabp this is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 2-1/2 minutes through the
Canary Islands at 14:54. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 14
hon_s and 53 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda. Next
acquisition in 30 seconds will be Canary, as Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson currently receiving a weather briefing for
groundtrack 33, EREP pass number 30 for mission of Skylab IV.
Decision yet to be reached now on a GO for this EREP,
a GO which depends upon the weather. Next acquisition in l0
seconds. We'll bring the line up for Canary.
and Ascension Islands for 14-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And for the CDR, PLT, at your convenience,
any time from now on IVve got the weather concerned with your
upcoming EREP track available and if you have a second we'd
like to get a status report on the T020 run.
PLT Okay, Bruce. We're Just finishing up the
nonrigid restraint. We did the tumble recovery (garble) dis-
cretionary maneuvers. We have about 4 minutes to go now and
we're starting to button it up, and go ahead. I on listen
on the weather.
cC Why don't I wait until you're though with
this and I'll catch you later.
SL-IV MC-2457/2
Time: 09:33 CDT 70:14:33 GMT
1/24/74
PLT Very well.

LOS. Next station contact in 28 minutes through Carnarvon
at 15:37. Out.
SPT Houston, SPT. We were just - as the
came across Africa there toward the west 500 miles, there
was a series of brush fires. I'd estimate we saw probably
50, 70, or so of them. They extended right along our path
and to the - southwest. Winds were - from the northeast
(garble( from the northwest, certainly a large number of
them. I'm sure they're well aware of them, but I'm surprised
it was exceptionally large area which was covered by them.
CC Okay; we copy that, Ed. Thank you.
SPT Hey, Bruce, the winds were from the north-
east to the northwest_ as I quoted.
CC The winds were from the northeast, you
say?
SPT That's afflrmative.
CC Okay.
hours and 12 minutes. Loss of signal through Ascension and
Canary tracking stations. Science Pilot Gibson again re-
porting seeing more fires in Africa as the spacecraft passed
over tke northwest tip of Air Africa just a few minutes
ago. Discussion still under way here at the Control Center
concerning the upcoming EREP pass, which now due to weather
has just two remaining mandatory sites and nine desirable
sites are left with the current weather condition, which has
partly cloudy to really overcast conditions along the ground-
track 33_ crossing from the state of Washington and crossing
the soutkeast coast of the United States. One of the manda-
tory sites is in Harden County, Iowa, a key agricultural
site for the Department of Agriculture on crop inventory
survey work. Th±s particular site has not been acquired yet
dur±ng Skyla5 IV. However, data was acquired in Skylab 2
and 3 on this site. A tremendous amount of groundtruth
data as well as Earth resources data from aircraft as well
as E_TS information has been gathered on the Harden County
area_ and to compliment this information the Department of
Agriculture's hopeful that Skylab IV can complete the picture
by capturing information on this upcoming pass. It'll be
the last time Skylab IV will have the opportunity to catch
Harden County _n the eyes of the cameras and electronic
gear, N_x _ next acquisition in 23 minutes and 25 seconds
through Canarvon. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean
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SL-IV MC2458/I
TIME: 10:35 CDT, 70:15:35 GMT
1/24/74

and 35 minutes. Acquisition coming through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle tracking station in 2 minutes. Flight Director
Neil Hutchinson has given the go ahead for today's EREP pass,
which begans at 12:47 p.m. central daylight time. G&N officer
predicts that only one minimum impulse burn will be used today
for the EREP maneuver which will begin as the spacecraft crosses
the southern southeastern coast of the United States on the
next revolution of 3683. We'll bring the line up for this
pass which lasts 9 minutes.
and Honeysuckle Creek for 9-1/2 minutes. Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger. Just wanted to pass on a word or
two to Jerry here with respect to the EREP pass and the CMG
situation. I guess we could sum up the CMG situation by saying
we got some bad news and some good news. And the bad news is
that it's still in a state of continual distress; and the good
news is that the rate of distress - rate of increase of distress
has slowed down. And it's been our Judgement or it is our Judge-
ment that the maneuvers associated with EREP will not affect
the rate of degradation of the CMG. And consequently taking
that together with the weather and the sites tha_ we've got,
we're GO for the EREP. Over.
PLT Roger; understand, GO for EREP. Thank you
very much.
CC And whenever it's convenient I can give you
the weather or I can wait until we get a little closer to the
pass.
CDR Yeah, why don't you wait; stand by for an
hour or so.
CC Roger that.
PLT And, Bruce, fo_ your information we did get
quite a bit of TV on the VTR on the TO20 run.
CC Okay, we're showing a little over ii minutes.
Thank you, Bill.
CC Okay, now through Honeysuckle. We see about
ii minutes on the recorder, Bill. Looks great.
PLT Good. The monitor's so bad now it's hard
to tell.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 13-1/2 minutes through Hawaii at 15:59.
Out.
and 48 minutes with loss of signal through Honeysuckle. Ne_t
acquisition in Ii minutes and 30 seconds will be the Hawaii
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TIME: 10:35 CDT, 70:15:35 GMT
1/24/74
tracking station. CAP COMM Bruce McCandless advising the

crew they have a GO for the EREP data take today which begins
at 12:47 as the spacecraft crosses the northwest coast of
the United States. Nell Hutchinson says advising his flight
directors on the GO, he said our best engineering Judgement,
this EREP will not change the rate of performance or degradation
of the CMG number 2. Therefore, we'll press on with the
EREP pass for today. Next acquisition will be in I0 minutes
and 50 seconds through Hawaii. This is Skylab Control at
Greenwich mean time 15 hours and 49 minutes.
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SL-IV MC-2459/3
Time: 10:58 CDT 70:15:58 GMT
1/24/74
want anyone to have to generate. But try to put something

together if you could in the way of indicating what mixture
in the way of film and what phenomenon, like chromospheric
network and all kinds of other things which they feel they
have got sufficient data on.
CC Okay Ed, we'll sure do that. We were
planning on tomorrow night when we send up the detail objectives
to also send up the film budget. Although we haven't addressed
the exact form it would take we will include what you say
there. One thing that made us a little curious this morning
on the question was the standards for 72. Hello?
SPT Bill, you just dropped out after the
word curious.
MCC Oh yeah, okay. On this morning's request
for the standards for 52, apparently you went over the hill
shortly thereafter, we never got a feel for why you wanted
to do it. We were curious more than anything else.
SPT Okay. We've been seeing over the past
2 days quite a build up in the corona on the - -
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SL-IV MC-2459/I
Time: 10:58 CDT 70:15:58 GMT
1/24/74
PAO 8kylab Control, Greenwich mean time

15 hours and 58 minutes. Acquisition coming through Hawaii
in 50 seconds. Science Pilot Gibson performing his block
of physical training period for the day, while Commander
Jerry Carr and Pilot Pogue preparing their afternoon meal.
We'll bring the line up for this 9-minute pass through
Hawaii. CAP COMM, Bruce McCandless.
for 9 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston_ and a little
over a minute and a half to LOS. For the CDR, your scheduled
HH-170 T053 observation at 16:12 is scrubbed due to weather,
and for Bill, we copy your comments on the Ty mini-monitor.
We're unaware of, or maybe we're unaware of the detail_ the
degradation. If you could we'd like to get some fill-in on
it, perhaps on tape. We remind you, there is another mini-
mon on board that you can use if the present one is not suit-
able, and we got about 4 minutes to Goldstone at 16:12.
Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce. I'ii put the comments on
tape.
CC Roger.
16 hours and 9 minutes. Brief discussions through Hawaii
pass. Crew was informed that HH-170, handheld target number
170, that's the laser beam from Goddard Space Flight Center,
and this has been scrubbed again today. This has been
scrubbed the last several days due to bad weather in that
Baltimore, Washington area. Goddard Space Flight Center is
outside of Baltimore, Greenbelt, Maryland. Next acquisition
through the States in i minute and 50 seconds, as Skylab IV
crew prepares for their Earth resources pass for the day,
EREP pass number 30 in the mission. Maneuver for this EREP
pass will take place as the spacecraft passes through the
Ascension tracking station. The ground will have acquisition
from the prior to and immediately after the EREP maneuver.
The pass is scheduled to start at 12:47 Greenwich mean time.
We'll bring the line up for the stateside pass.
for 6 minutes with the ATM conference.
SPT Morning, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed. Let's see. I don't have any-
thing to add that you don't already know abont the Sun, and
as regards today's plans it seems straightforward enough
that there aren't really any funnies that we really need to
talk about. So unless you have anything that you want to
talk about there I'll move on into a few comments about the
planning for the day-off operations.
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Time: 10:58 CDT 70:15:58 GMT
1/24/74
SPT No, let's go ahead with that, Bill.

MCC Okay, and there again, I don't have much
to add that I didn't say yesterday. Tonight you can expect
on the teleprinter are summary inputs for the day off that
will be Saturday, 2 days away, so that you can begin
thinking about it. There won't be any great details. It'll
Just be a quick list of - Right now the type of science
we want to accomplish without an excess of words. A couple
of thoughts here that we did not discuss is we're working
trying to line up real-time TV downlink for the CONUS passes
on the day off so that on the conferences that you do have
with the - with the planning chairman and a PI that day,
we should be able to look at whatever you want us to look
at on the TV downlink when we cross the CONUS, when we have
some very good passes early in the day. Also, weather in
Houston permitting, which right now looks like that might
doubtful, we will have real-time H-alpha called up from the
H-alpha observatory here at Houston. And one last thought
that I'm sure you are already planning on is as we go
through this exercise starting tonight and through tomorrow
night and through Saturday, to assess how it goes, what you
would do to change it, whether we got enough air,to-ground
interaction, too much, whether you could do so much more
without so much help, or Just what. The main thrust here is
as an experiment to look at a different operations and
planning mode and any thought that you have if you would
pass them on to us, we would have the capability potentially
at least of maybe trying something, trying another iteration
on it before the mission is over. And that's about all I've
got to say on the day-off planning. Over.
SPT Okay, Bill. One thing I've been thinking
about is that when I'm look at something that is I think
worthwhile making an observation on or possibly worthwhile,
two things always come to mind. One is the film budget for
particular experiment and then how much data of that type
they have already gotten. I think that type of decisio_ will
always be coming up. So I would llke to find out from those
experiments that'll be participating with film Just what they
have available in the way of anything over and above, if at
all, their nominal synoptic program in addition to what
they've already called up for transients. For example, I
wanted to know in 52 this morning whether I could run off
a couple of standards. That question may come up again on
the day off and may come up in a way in relation to bright
transients or something of that nature if i_'s possible to
find a way to detect them. And that's what I (garble) the field;
I don't have a good handle on, and I'm not too sure how to
do it without getting a lot of words which I really don't
SL-IV MC-2460/I
Time: 11:16 CDT, 70:16:16 GMT
1/24/74
SPT - - film in. What phenomenon like

chromospheric network and all kinds of other things which
they feel they've got sufficient data on.
MCC Okay, Ed. We'll sure do that. We were
planning on tomorrow night when we send up the detailed objectives
to also send up a film budget. Although, we haven't addressed
the exact form it would take, we will include what you say
there. One thing that made us a little curious this morning,
on the question was the standards for 52 - Hello.
SPT Bill, you just dropped out after the
word curious.
MCC Oh, Yeah. Okay. On this morning's
request for the standards for 52, apparently you went over
the hill shortly thereafter, and we never got a feel for why
you wanted to do it. We were curious more than anything else.
SPT Okay. We've been seeing, over the past
2 days, quite a buildup in the corona on the southwest limb.
And what I was wondering is whether three standards taken, one
on the previous orbit and two in that - that particular orbit
where you can get the electron densities out of the - from
the three different polarizations. Were they actually
able to detect any significant change in that time - that
time period. And I, also, was doing mirror auto rasters on
the l£mb, which would show the degree of surging that took
place at that time, which might give yon just a crude handle on
the t_me rates of change of material on the llmb. And again,
this can - can be a quantitative assessment but perhaps a
qual_tat_ve one of whether you can actually see any change and
correlate that with what's happening on the disk.
MCC Okay, Ed. Fine. And we'll try to include
that k£nd of information on the film budget message coming up
tomorrow n_g_t. We're 50 seconds from LOS. Bermuda is next
_n 4_I/2 mlnntas. And that's at about, oh, 22.
SP_ Whether that's a good idea or not, Bill,
I th±nk_ dap_nds on whather they can do something like mayhe
p_otog_aph_c _uhtraction from frame to frame, and then look
at tFLe Wasult_ and if anything shows up then they've got
somet_ng_ W]iether their data reduction makes that feasible
or not_ I really can't be sure.
MCC Right. I'ii talk with Ernie about it,
because, he_ tha one that was talking with me about it and
was a little confused as to what you had in mind. And I'Ii
see what he'_s got to say.
SPT Yeah. See, without a great deal more
dlscuss£on with them_ those particular types of things, as
law as their instrument capabilities and data reduction, I
really have no feel for. So I just had to wing it and hope that
maybe something could come out of it.
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Time: 11:16 CDT, 70:16:16 GMT
1/24/74
MCC Okay. Good. And hopefully, on the

day off, we'll have the capability for you to talk to that type
person on very short notice. And we're going over the hill
here, so I'll be talking with you tomorrow.
SPT Thank you, Bill. So long.
16 hours and 18 minutes with loss of signal through Goldstone.
Today's EREP pass sites include collecting oceanography
data over the north Pacific Ocean, including cloud and sea-
surface characteristics from which general weather conditions
can be determined. The chlorophyll bloom off the East Coast
will also be scanned for productivity potentials. Photo
mapp±ng will take place in the Dakotas, and data on land use
will be collected in the Wabash Valley River Basin. Emphasis
will be placed on crop identifications, acreage and urban
studies. In Illinois the crew will monitor environmental
changes which occur as a result of the construction and long-
term operation of the Oakley Reservoir. In Indiana, the crew
will compile information on geologic faults. Water resource
surveys will be taken in the upper Mississippi and Missouri
River basins. Data will also be collected on GEOS-C satellite
calibratlons. This site, where data will he gathered, begins
near Wilmington, North Carolina and ends in the West Indies
area. Described as the most unique, by Flight Director Nell
Hutchinson_ the task site includes gathering data, altitude
measurementsp deviations as a function of range and statep
and temperature. The EREP pass will last 26 minutes with
Carr as the _ at the control and display panel, Pogue at the
v±ewflnder tracking system and Gibson spending - operating
tke Earth terrain camera. Today's Earth resources pass covers
a groundtrack of 6240 nautical miles, beginning off the
west coast of Washington and ending in the West Indies.
Acquisition in 50 seconds through Bermuda. We'll hold the
l_ne up for this Bermuda pass, i0 minutes in duration.
for IQ m_nutea. Out.
CC Okay. Peaking over your shoulder, we
see tbe maneuver loaded and ready to go in good shape, Bill.
PLT Thank you, Bruce.
PLT Please, look over my shoulder very care-
fully in the next 2 minutes.
CC (Laughter) Do you mind if I look over your
bearing _nstead?
PLT That's exactly what I had in mind.
PLT [Garble) Just don't be too overbearing.
CC Aw_ now, That's worse than I am - I come
up witkp usually, Bill.
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PLT We're moving.

CC But we didn't see the enter on the DAS
for the offset maneuver.
PLT (Garble).
CC Got it.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Looks pretty good from here.
CC Yes, indeed. We concur. The rates and
rate errors look good.
LOS. Next station contact in a little over 7 minutes through
Ascension at 16:38 with a data/voice tape recorder dump planned
for AOS. And looking at the CMG bearing temperature and wheel
speed data, it looks pretty good. That is as good as could
be expected under the circumstances. No degradation noticed
here over what we've already seen.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2461/I
TIME: 11:33 CDT, 70:16:33 GMT
1/24/74

16 hours and 32 minutes. Maneuver initiated into the Z-local
vertical attitude for the EREP pass began at approximately
8 minutes ago. The vehicles will take ii minutes to get into
proper orientation following this maneuver. And here at
Mission Control the G&N officer reports the rates look good.
No additional degradation of the rates in the coman - control
moment gyro number 2 as a result of the initiation of this
maneuver. When we have acquisition at Ascension in 5 minutes,
the vehicle should he in the proper attitude. A second fine
ZL Z-LV maneuver will be made later, Just prior to the start
of the EREP pass. Indications here on the ground that every-
thing looked good through the Bermuda pass. Acquisition in
4 minutes and 40 seconds. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich
mean time 16 hours and 33 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
for i0_i/2 minutes with a data voice tape recorder dump.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; a little over
a minute to LOS. Next station contact in 23 minutes through
Carnarvon at 17:11. The CMGs are looking about like they
always kave for the past day or so. And for the CDR, in his
detail pad with respect to the item which now says 2130 TV-106
video select TV optionalp we'd like to change the optional
to not desired. That is looking at the coverage we would get
from television of TV_I06, we don't feel that it would be
£t would show up sufficiently well. So we'd like to just
scrub the TV coverage of TV-106. Over.
CDR Okay, and how much do we have on the VTR?
During that science demo practice I think I can start getting
103 on.
CC (garble) get i0 minutes free for canceling
TV_IQ6. And at that time why, you'll still have only ii minutes.
So, it looks like you'll have, oh, up to about 19 minutes,
_ut let us check that against the VT ATM VTR.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR_ if you're still reading you'll have
25 mlnutes t 25 minutes of tape available at your discretion
fo_ TV.
CDR Okay_ thanks, Bruce.
CC That saves 5 minutes for later use by ATM.
16 hours and 50 minutes. Data from Skylab acquired through
the Ascens±on tracking station indicates no additional stress
put on the CMG number 2 as a result of the EREP maneuver. Flight
D±zector Ne±l Hutchinson telling his flight controllers here
tkat _t certainly did not bring any noticeable change whatever
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TIME: 11:33 CDT, 70:16:33 GMT
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to CMG-2. There's a fine maneuver which will be done later

at Greenwich mean time 17:40. However the spacecraft will
be out of sight of a tracking station at that time. Acquisition
will come i0 minutes after the maneuver is made through the
Goldstone tracking station. Maneuver will be made between
Goldstone - Guam tracking station and Goldstone. All looks
good aboard the CMG with the CMGs during this maneuver. That
EREP is scheduled to take place beginning at Greenwich mean
time 18:47, lasting 26 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 16 hours
and 51 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
and 17 minutes. Acquisition through Carnarvon in 3 minutes
and 50 seconds. Today's Earth resources pass will leave ii passes
remaining _ ii passes scheduled for the remainder of the mission.
EREP _ last EREP and closeout will be mission day 79, 9 days
from now. Prior to today's pass the S190 multispectral camera
has used 54 percent of the film carried aboard, a total of
11,088 frames of film already shot with the S190 as sufficient
film remaining for 27 EREP passes on the SI90B, the Earth
terrain camera. To date 74 percent of the film or 1764 frames
of film have been used_ sufficient film remaining for 12 ad-
ditional EREP passes. On the S191 film there is 75 percent
of the film or 420 feet of 16-millimeter film used for that,
sufficient film for i0 passes counting today's. The S192 magnetic
tape, 71 percent of the magnetic tape aboard the spacecraft,
or 72 percent - 72,000 feet of magnetic tape has been used
in the EREP passes to date_ sufficient magnetic tape aboard
for 12 EREP passes. Today's pass a 26-minute data take covering
oceanography; water resources, and data takes to callbrate
with a Goddard space flight satellite. A fine maneuver for
this EREP pass will be conducted between the Guam and Goldstone
tracking stations. The earlier maneuver imparted no additional
distress to control moment gryo number 2. At the last tracking
stations through Ascension parameters did not change as a result
of that maneuver. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson stating
that the maneuver certainly did not bring any noticable change
whatever to the CMG number 2 as a result of the Earth resources
maneuver to place the vehicle in Z-local vertical attitude.
Acquisition in 1 minute and 20 seconds through Carnarvon. We'll
hrlng tke line up for CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2462/I
Time: 12:10 CDT 70:17:10 GMT
1/24/74

for i0 minutes. Out.
PLT Bruce, we're standing by for an update
on the weather if you have it.
CC Okay, be right with you.
CC Okay Bill, as you come across the coast,
that is Washington state, Vancouver Island at about 52 past the hour,
we expect it to be relatively clear picking up a solid under-
cast about the time you pass over western Washington at 53
after the hour. It will be pretty well covered as you pass
over western Montana, you'll be crossing over underlying
warm front still emerged in this solid undercast. And it isn't
until about 57 after the hour about associated with the special
2 site that we expect the cloud cover to start breaking up,
and then you_ll be coming out initially into a 4/10ths to
7/10ths cloud cover. And then as you approach the Mississippi
River, you'll be coming up on a cold front. The cold front
has clear weather associated with it from zero to 3/10ths
coverage. And it looks like you'll be over that from somewhere
around 58 after the hour on through about 59, 59-1/2. And
it should include site 520, so that looks pretty good. And
then as you approach the Appalachian Mountains, you pick up
cloud cover again during the overcast fairly abruptly. And
expect it to stay overcast with an embedded warm front as you
pass over North Carolina, and back out to sea. Once you get
out to sea the weather should be good. Probably zero to
3/10ths until you reach the area of the inner tropical conver-
gence zone off the coast of South America. As you come in or
pass over the area near the mouth of the Amazon. And then
we expect typical weather for that area probably about 7 to
8/lOtks coverage. Over.
PLT Roger, copy. And it doesn't look too bad
at all. Thank you.
CC I think your site 520 should be in pretty
good shape. Site 2 with the snow cover you should also be able
to p_cE up about the time you come out from on top of this
undercast. And I think you can get special 01 before you
b±t the coastline if I'm reading correctly.
PLT Okay. About the only thing to worry about
is how far off the east coast of the U.S. does the cloud dissipate?
I don't know if I'ii be able to pick up that chlorophyl (garble)
if it's too closed in.
CC Fairly rapidly. In fact from the lastes
weather we've got it looks like the coast itself is starting
to breaE out now.
PLY Okay, thank you.
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Time: 12:10 CDT 70:17:10 GMT
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CC Roger.
CC And for Ed, if he's listening, we'd like
to go with the ETC optional operation the way we did yesterday,
or day before, giving you the option to terminate or interrupt
ETC coverage for periods of greater than 75 percent cloud
cover, but being sure to change the shutter speed and frame rate
and things like that, and of course with the pad. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce. I understand, and I'll try
and give you a report on what if anything is altered right
after the pass.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab_ this is Housotn, 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 4 minutes through Guam at 17:25. Out.
and 22 minutes. Loss of signal through Carnarvon. Data acquired
through the Carnarvon tracking station indicates no further
distress placed on the CMG number 2, in fact the Guidance and
Navigation Officer advises Flight Director Neil Hutchinson
if anything it shows a slight improvement. In the Earth
observation, visual observation portion of the Skylab mission
a program where the crew is visually observed and photographed
more than 100 sites around the world, in oceanographic and
atmospheric and geological features_ the crew has used up
about 34 percent of the film in one type of film shooting
separately 63 frames of the 2485 type film aboard, 26 percent
of the 2443 film, or 40 frames. In the S0368 film area the crew
has used up 33 percent of that on board or 4422 frames. In
the S0368 area, 70-millimeter film, the crew has used 77 percent
of tbe 1360 frames on board. So all in all the Earth observation,
Earth resources portion of the mission following a normal
planning patterns. Eleven resources passes scheduled
after today with EREP eloseout scheduled for mission day
79. _e"ll bring the line up for this Guam pass and the fine
maneuver for this Earth resources pass will be made between
Guam and Goldstone.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2463/I
Time: 12:25 CDT 70:17:25 GMT
1/24/74

for 9-1/2 minutes. Out. And Skylab, we're taking control
of the VTR at this time for a rewind and dump over the
U.S.
PLT Roger, Bruce.
LOS. Next station contact in 17 minutes through Goldstone
at 17:51, and we see the maneuver time and the maneuver
loaded in the computer and they both look good.
PLT Thank you, Bruce.
CC Happy EREPing, and you might be inter-
ested to know that since you've been in the Z-LV maneuver
it looks llke the CMG wheel speed is actually increased
about 20 to 25 rpm at least. And we now understand that the
actual Z_LV portion of the pass is the least stressful of
any of the attitude modes that we have. Of course, getting
there and getting back out put a little load on the
CMGs.
PLT Rog. We'll just stay in Z-LV.
CC That's what we've been talking about,
but it takes one guy EVA to keep the solar panels pointed
at t_e Sun all the time.
PLT Get us a big crank.
17 hours 36 minutes. Continued success with the maneuver
for Z_LV attitude for Skylab for the Earth resources pass.
Flight controllers quite pleased with the way the vehicle has re-
acted to this maneuver. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson saying
that there's no question this maneuver has improved the
CMG, especially the wheel speed, which increased by about
20 to 25 rpms. G&C officer reporting that Z-LV - Z-LV
attitude apparently is the best mode for the Z CMG con-
trols. A second maneuver for this EREP will be performed
in about 4 minutes as the spacecraft crosses the North
Pac±flc prior to start of the EREP at 12:47. Going over the
visual observation program the usage of film so far of the
1618 frames of 35_millimeter color film on board for this
purpose tke crew has used 525 frames of the 1360 frames of
70_milllmeter aboard the spacecraft. The crew has used
1050. Next acquisition through Goldstone in 13 minutes.
At Greenwich mean time 17 hours and 37 minutes, this is
_kylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2464/I
TIME: 12:49 CDT, 70:17:49 GMT
1/24/74

17 hours 49 minutes. We'll bring the line up for this
EREP pass. EREP pass is next revolution. Skylab is
should be in the maneuver for the EREP pass at this time.
We'll bring the line up for this stateside pass.
CDR On my mark it'll be 17:50:00 ETC power
ON. Stand by.
CDR MARK.
CC Okay, we agree with that.
CDR Next mark's at 50:43.
CC Skylab, Houston; with you for about 13
minutes,
CDR Roger, Bruce. My monitor readings Alfa 4,
and Bravo 4 are both reading 92 percent. My little card here
indicates they should be reading no more than 86.
CDR Okay, on my mark it'll be 50:43. Stand by.
CDR MARK. S190 MODE to AUTO.
PLT Okay_ there's Vancouver.
CDR Next mark at 51:10, then I want an ETC
MODE to AUTO, Ed.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Tape has shifted
gears and running fast. 51:20 is the next mark
PLT MARK. Termination of nadir swath.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY at 22.
PLT Going to have to try to find a (garble)
CDR (Garble) 3, X-TC -
PLT (Garble) snow cover.
CDR ROLL minus 30, and POLARIZATION i. 51:44
is the next mark.
CDR Stand by.
PLT There's one.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER ON; RADIOMETER ON.
CDR 52:00 is the next mark.
PLT Okay, 55:16 is when I want to start this.
CDR Coming up on 52, stand by.
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK. Reduce tape
speed.
CDR Hey, Ed, at 52:26 it'll be ETC MODE STANDBY,
and then POWER OFF.
CDR Coming up on 26, stand by.
CDR MARK. 52:26.
CDR Bruce_ verify the angle on S193 should
be ROLL of minus 30.
CC That's affirmative. And we do not yet
see the 14-minute maneuver time for the maneuver back to SI
loaded.
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TIME: 12:49 CDT, 70:17:49 GMT
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CDR Okay, we'll get it first chance we get.

PLT Yeah.
CDR i minute to my next mark. Don't sweat
it, Bill, you got enough time.
CC Okay, the maneuver time looks good to us.
CDR Roger.
CDR Okay, we're coming up on 54:00. Stand by.
CDR MARK. POLARIZATION to 4. Stand by for
06.
CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED went to MEDIUM on
S190 at 07. Okay, 17:56:00 is the next mark.
PLT 55:16. Looking for a uniform snow cover.
CC Jerry, and Bill, the new A~2 - A-4, B-4 meter
readings are acceptable with the new cooler Dewar installation.
CDR Okay.
CDR What's the new limit, Bruce?
PLT Okay, l'm taking the best uniform area
I can find. DAC ON DATA push button.
CC Hey, Jerry.
CDR Yeah.
CC New limit's Alfa 4 is 70 to i00; that's
70 to i00. Bravo 4 is N/A, the detector is bad.
CDR All right.
PLT Okay_ my uniform snow cover is an agricultural
area. There's a gridt pattern but it is out in the hoonies.
CDR Coming up on 17:56:00.
PLT Going to minus i0 degrees.
CDR Stand by.
pLT MARK. Camera OFF.
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY to 02.
PLT 826 right 3.8.
CDR Coming up on 56:12. Stand by.
CDK MARK. RADIOMETER's back ON. 56:30, Ed,
we want ETC POWER ON. Coming up in 10 seconds.
CDR Coming up on 56:30, stand by.
CDH MARK.
CDR Next mark at 56:42.
PLT Okay here's that - get another uniform snow
cover.
CDR Stand by,
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Tape shifted
gears. Got a MOTION light, 93 to POLARIZATION i. 56:50.
CDR MARK. ETC MODE to AUTO.
CDR 57:09 is next.
CDR Coming up on 57:09. Stand by.
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. Got next
mark at 15. Stand by,
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TIME: 12:49 CDT, 70:17:49 GMT
1/24/74
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER is ON; RADIOMETER

is ON.
PLT 728 is my (garble) point.
PLT DAC OFF. Okay, right 6.8
PLT Okay, it's 58:26.
PLT Oh, boy I got haze and smoke (garb le).
PLT Oh, boy. Okay, 26, I'll go on time.
PLT I'm safe. Boy, nothing but milk.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2465/I
Time: 12:58 CDT 70:17:58 GMT
1/24/74
PLT (Garble) Boy, nothing but (garble) I

picked up cirrus Just we crossed that river. White River.
Too bad.
CDR Is it the reservoir you're going for?
PLT Yes. Contrails is all I see, and
a low deck. If we Just had a little bit of focusing ability
I may be able to pick it out through the cirrus, but it's all
out of focus with the zoom in. Okay. I got something here.
Boy it is really hazy. I got something. A reservoir or
something. I don't know. It's filtered by cirrus, what-
ever it is.
CDR Next mark's at 59:50. Stand by -
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK.
PLT DAC, off.
CDR Back down to slow tape motion.
PLT Okay. (garble)
CDR Okay. At 18:00 even ETC to STANDBY,
Ed. Stand by -
CDR MARK it. Next mark's at 01:18.
PLT Doggone, cirrus out on the coast, too.
Stratus. Straticu. (garble) blooming.
Not seeing it. Can't get close enough to the coast
CDR Okay. My next mark is at 01:18, 01:18.
Stand by
CDR MARK. S192 MODE to READY. Going to
HIGH SPEED. Got TAPE MOTION. 124.
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY at 26. Next
mark's at 36. Stand by -
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER's OFF. Next mark's
at 45. Stand by
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON. ALTIMETER's
looking good. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
PLT Still blooming.
CDR Okay. The READY light's OUT. ALTIME-
TER to STANDBY at 25.
CDR MARK. At 28 the 192 is MODE STANDBY.
CDR MARK,at 34 SHUTTER SPEED to SLOW. The
ALTIMETER's back ON again. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is OFF,
UNLOCK light is out; waiting for 300.
PLT DAC is at 1/25 but I don't think I'm even
going to use it.
CDR Stand by 03:00.
CDR MARK. 192 MODE - correction, REFERENCE
to 2. 04:00 is next. Aha. Here's VTS AUTO CAL. ALTIMETER's
going to STANDBY at 20.
PLT How long before the AUTO CAL?
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Time: 12:58 CDT 70:17:58 GMT
1/24/74
CDR At 35 the ALTIMETER light is back on,

the ALTIMETER's back ON with a READY light, AUTO CAL's at
4 even. 04:00. 15 seconds.
PLT No Joy on the blooming.
CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light. Stand by for
a VTS AUTO CAL.
CDR MARK.
PLT MARK.
CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light's back on again.
PLT SI maneuver.
CDR ALTIMETER READY light's out.
PLT 13.
CDR ALTIMETER STANDBY at 15.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER light is - ALTIMETER's
back ON again at 30. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light's back on, and
the READY light's on. Looks like we're probably going to lose
it again. My next mark's at 05:10, unless the ALTIMETER READY
light goes out, and then it'll be earlier. Coming up on
05:10. Okay. At 06 the READY light went out. Turning OFF
the ALTIMETER at 08. Setting the RANGE at 69. Next mark's
at 25. Stand by -
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER ON at 25 with a new
RANGE of 69. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light. ALTIMETER, READY is
out. Going to STANDBY at 06 even. Looking for the S191
READY light at 06:40.
CDR MARK. No; hold the mark.
CDR MARK. 191 READY light's on at 40.
07:10's the next one. Okay. I got the ALTIMETER back ON
again. Got an ALTIMETER READY or UNLOCK light again. 07:10
S190 READY light went out, putting the MODE to STANDBY,
SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM. Next mark's at 07:53. Got a
NUMBER 3, CAMERA 3 MALFUNCTION light as expected. And the
ALTIMETER READY light's out again. Going to STANDBY at
35. Okay. Next MARK's at 07:53. ALTIMETER ON at 50.
CDR MARK. 53, 190 SINGLE.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1-1/2 minutes
to LOS. Next station contact in 41 minutes through Car-
narvon at 18:49, with the data/voice tape recorder dump at AOS.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC The VTR is clean. You've got 25 minutes
available for the science demo practice, 5 minutes later for
ATM VTR. And the CMGs look good going over the hill.
CDR Okay. So long. 08:50 is the next mark.
08:50. ALTIMETER's finally settled down and acting normal.
Just before time to quit. 08:50. Stand by -
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. MODE to
5, range to 65. 09:02's the next mark. Stand by -
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Time: 12:58 CDT 70:17:58 GMT
1/24/74
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2466/I
Time: 13:08 CDT, 70:18:08 GMT
1/24/74
CDR - - 5:09:02 is the next mark. Stand by.

CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON.
CDR 4:09:16. Stand by.
CDR MARK. At 16 MODE stable on 190.
CDR - - Like camera number 3 is out of film
already.
CDR Well, we're going to do a 190 completion.
I guess they're all about finished.
18 hours and i0 minutes. Skylab will begin its maneuver
to return to SOLAR INERTIAL MODE in approximately 3 minutes.
PAO Acquisition will be Carnarvon, at which
time on the ground can tell whether the return maneuver has
any affect on the CMG number 2. EREP pass number 30 for
the mission, apparently going according to plan, with the
crew making comments as they cross diagonally across the
state of Washington over the North Carolina area, covering
the West Indies and down into South America.
PAO Approximately 350 frames of 190 film
were _ were to have been used in this pass, leaving approxi-
mately 26 passes of sufficient film to run 26 additional
passes. 52 frames of 190B, the Earth terrain camera were
scheduled to be used for this pass, leaving ii EREP passes left,
with sufficient film to cover that, with the ETC, and
approximately 75 feet of 16-millimeter film used in the S191
camera. Sufficient film aboard for 10 additional Earth
resources pass_ approximately 2323 feet of magnetic tape
scheduled for use during this Earth resources take, leaving
ample supply for 12 additional ii additional Earth resources
passes with the 8192 equipment. As the spacecraft went
over the hill, CAP COMM Bruce McCandless advised the crew
everything looked good. The CMGs looked good, following the
Earth resources pass. Next acquisition in 36 minutes and
50 seconds througk Carnarvon. This is Skylab Control at
Greenwich mean time 18 hours and 12 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2467/I
Time: 13:48 CDT, 70:18:48 GMT
1/24/74

18 hours and 48 minutes. We'll have acquisition through
the Carnarvon tracking station. Spacecraft Skylab, with
its crew, Gerald Carr, Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue, presently
in its 3684 revolution, however the crew is concluding
their 999th revolution of the Earth since launch on
November 16. They will soon begin their 1000th revolution
of the Earth, traveling a distance of more than 25,000,000
miles. We'll bring the line up for this Carnarvon pass.
for 9 minutes, with the data/voice tape recorder dump.
CDR Tape remaining is 5.7 centimeters.
CC Thank you, Jerry. 5.7 centimeters tape
remaining.
CC And your old CMG seems to still be
han_ing in there.
CDR Very good. Getting older everyday.
CC Not older, better.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 30 seconds
to LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through Guam
at 19:03. And we noticed just now when we finished dumping
the data/voice tape recorder, that it started up again as soon
as we let go. We hope that you weren't dictating into the system
when we were dumping. Over.
CDR Negative_ Bruce. It's okay. Thanks.
CC Okay. Thank you for waiting.
18 hours 59 minutes. Loss of signal through Carnarvon.
Next acquisition will be through Guam tracking station.
Skylab crew in their 999th revolution of the Earth, soon
to begin their 1000th, as they cross Cape Kennedy at
Greenwich mean time 19 hours 43 minutes, a little less than
an hour from now. The crew is scheduled to set another
space first next week, a week from today, when a EREP pass
scheduled for 8_20 a.m. in the morning will keep the ERE -
Skylab vehicle in a Z-local vertical attitude, with its
instruments aimed at the ground for an entire pass around
the world, This pass lasting 93 minutes_ is scheduled to
p=ovide data for measurements of the Earth at 360-degree
pass around the Earth. Purpose to First objective is to
o6_ain any gravity perturbations on the spacecraft, as well
as_ determine the shape of the Earth_ using the S193 altitude
measurement equipment. Existing gravity models of the Earth are
made up of many local measurements, using satellites as reflectors
for surface-based range finders. This 3630-egree pass will
lace many isolated local measurements together and strengthen
the model on a global basis. The pass is scheduled to begin
at Greenwich mean time 13 hours and 20 minutes on mission day 77.
SL-IV MC-2467/2
Time: 13:48 CDT, 70:18:48 GMT
1/24/74
Next acquisition through the Guam tracking station, a pass

8 minutes in duration. We'll bring the line up for this
Guam pass with CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
for 8 minutes. Out.
SPT Houston, SPT. The only deviation on
the ETC operation was rather than going to STANDBY at 15:26,
was STANDBY at 15:40, because of the solid overcast. 38, that's
38.
PAO Charles. Oh, okay. That's all right.
That's all right. I'Ii call him back.
CC Okay. What time did you actually go to
STANDBY?
SPT 51:40. 51:40.
CC Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2468/I
TIME: 14:05 CDT, 70:19:05 GMT
1/24/74
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to

LOS. Next station contact in 16-1/2 minutes through Goldstone
at 19:27. Out.
and 14 minutes. Next acquisition will be Goldstone in 13
minutes as the crew about to start another session at the
ATM with Commander Gerald Cart at the console of the Apollo
telescope mount, with Pilot Bill Pogue performing the MO92/
MI71 lower body negative pressure metabolic analyzer experiment.
Acquisition through Goldstone, California in 12 minutes and
50 seconds. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time
19 hours 14 minutes.
19 hours 26 minutes. Acquisition coming through the stateside
through Goldstone in 50 seconds. Skylab crew will begin their
1000th revolution of the Earth at Greenwich mean time 19 hours
and 43 minutes, 17 minutes from now. The crew will also set
a record tomorrow morning at 12:46 a.m. on January 25th when
they match AI Bean's record of 69 days, 15 hours 49 minutes.
A1 Bean's record a combined total of his Apollo 12 flight
and the mission of Skylab III. We'll bring the line up for
this stateside pass. CAP COMM is Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab_ this is Houston through Goldstone
and Merritt Island for 14-1/2 minutes. For the CDR. Over.
CDR Stand by a second, Bruce.
CDR Okay, go ahead, Bruce.
CC Yeah_ NOAA's reporting active region 35
is getting a bright surge on the southwest limb of the Sun.
And after you complete your present building block 28, we'd
llke you to turn on S052 and take a look at it visually but
don't use any film. Let us know what you see. Over.
CDR I'm looking at the white light coronagraph
right now. Is that what you wanted?
CC Yes, sir.
CDR 0kay_ I don't see any brightening in the
corona as yet, l'm watching XUV as well and don't see anything
yet.
CC Okay,
CDR I'm through with 52 and the next two
building blocks, so I'ii just leave it on white light corona-
graph for a little while.
CC Rog.
CDR Bruce, do the guys in the backroom have
any £nstructions in the event that we do see a transient here?
CC We're checking now, Jerry.
CDR Okay, and while they're checking, I'm
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comparing the white light coronagraph with the Polariod that

was taken the first part of the day and in that particular
area it's about around - between 090 and i00. It looks like
we've kind of developed an alley in the wide streamer that is
in the picture at i00. And it looks like there has formed sort
of a weight streamer at 090.
CC Okay, we copy that.
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Time: 14:32 CDT 70:19:32 GMT
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CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Roger, go.
CC Okay, if the area of interest remains
about the way it is, what we'd like you to do is work in
BB-32 at the end of this daylight cycle, and begining and
end of each subsequent daylight cycle, if you continue to see
it. If it really gets active and erupts, why go ahead
and give it the full JOP 8 Alfa treatment, Over.
CDR We'll do it, Bruce. Thank you.
CC Roger, thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We show you
approaching a longitude of 95 west, which means that you're
about to break another record. Over.
CC Over. Over?
CDR Roger, Bruce. Which one is that?
CC Okay_ when you cross 80, last we wanted to
give you 15 degrees to anticipate, it'll be the 1000th Earth
centered rev for the command module.
CDR 1000th for the command module, huh?
CC Right.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in ii minutes through the Vanguard at
sea at 19:52. Out.
CDR Roger. So long.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is passing out of
range of the tracking antenna at Merritt Island, Florida.
During this
i
pass the space station just now crossing the 80th
parallel_ the 80th longitude line. And as it crosses 80 degrees
west it begins its 1000th revolution about the Earth for
the command module and the Skylah crew. We're about 9-1/2
minutes from our next acquisition of signal at Vanguard.
During this pass CMG number 2 apparently giving some indication
that it'd like to slow down a little more. Wheel speed has
been 8850 fairly consistantly for the past several hours. And
now we see a good many indications of 8829. I'd guess right
now the average speed looks llke itts down to about 8840.
That's down just a small fraction of 1 percent_ but nevertheless
it does seem to be a down indication. And we are seeing a
fair percentage of signals at the 8830 level. The actual
number given out is 8829_ but of course_ the transducer does
reed exactly to four places. Nine minutes to acquisition at
Vanguard_J 44 minutes after the hour, this is 8kylab Control
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PAO - is now over the central part of South

America about to be acquired through the tracking ship
Vanguard. The pass through Vanguard will last about 8
minutes and we'll bring the line up live for Bruce McCandless
the spacecraft communicator. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson
is still on duty here in Mission Control. And CMG number 2
still in its anomaly with some indications of lower speeds
as we cross the U.S.. And the Skylab space station is now
i000 - command module is now in its 1000th revolution as is
the Skylab crew.
CC Skylab, this is Houston _hrough
Vanguard for 7-i/2 minutes. And when someone has the time
we'_d like to get a REG ADJUST, both POTS 1 and 2 i0 degrees
counterclockwise. Over.
CDR Roger, in work.
CC Thank you Jer.
CC And CDR, Houston. We see you're trying
to downlink TV. You need to select one of the monitors on
the ATM select switch - TV select switch.
CDR You're wrong, I wasn't trying to down-
link TV, but I will if you want it.
CC Yes sirp if you would please, per the
schedule pad.
CDR Okay.
CC And Vanguard reports a good signal.
CDR Okay, I'll give you about 3 minutes of
white light coronagraph and then some XUV and then finish
with white light coronagraph again.
CC Roger_ they're back out at sea now and
I guess you've given them something to go to sea for, a good
signal like that.
CC REG ADJUST looks good to us, thank you
very much.
CDR Okay Bruce, and down in the white light
coronagraph I'm beginning to see some enhancement in the
lighting down there, it's getting brighter but nothing
defin±te yet.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're 1 minute
to LOS, next station contact in 1 hour and 4 minutes
tkrougk Goldstone at 21:05 with a data/voice tape recorder
dump at AOS and probably a shift handover, see you there.
CDR Roger Bruce.
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station has now passed
out of range of the tracking ship Vanguard. More than an
hour remains before we again have acquisition of signal at
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the Goldstone tracking antenna in California. Virtually

no change has taken place in the past few minutes on CMG
number 2, it does appear to have slowed down some, however,
there's no substantial change otherwise in its behavior.
We have indications the wheel speed now is about 8840, that's
down about i0 rpm from its previous normal level. And the
currents on CMG number i look a little different than they
did yesterday but no significant changes, the A phase - the
phase A current is reading 1.015 which is about its normal
level, phase B and phase C currents are still up around 1.04
and that's what we might call their normal level for anomalous
behavior, that's about 2 percent higher than the normal
level on the CMGs. And the Skylab crew now has a total of
60 and - 69_i/2 days in space and they are in their 1000th
revolution about the Earth. And at this point they've covered
about 28-1/2 million miles in space. I hour to our next
acquisition of signal, it's now 3 minutes after the hour and
th±s is Skylab Control.
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Time: 15:34 CDT 70:20:34 GMT
1/24/74
PAO Skylab Control, at 20 hours 34 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson informs
us that he expects to get off a little early tonight. So
that he will be available for a change-of-shift briefing at
4:00 promptly in the Building i briefing room. Again,
that's 4:00 central daylight time for the change-of-shift
briefing, that's about 25 minutes from now. Astronauts Jerry
Carr, Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue began their 1000th Journey
around the Earth just before 3:00 p.m. central daylight time
today. With 28-1/2 million miles in orbit, the Skylab veterans
have already passed most of the goals for their planned 84 day
flight. Early this afternoon the space station's electronic
instruments and cameras focused on the resources of the United
States. A study of water resources especially in the upper Mi
Mississippi/Missouri Basin, a mapping project in the Dakotas,
crop identification in Indiana, land use in parts of Iowa, all
will receive valuable data from the Skylab crew's 7400 mile
Earth survey. Today's study completes the 30 Earth passes
originally scheduled for the third team of astronauts. But flight
planners hope to add nearly a dozen more during the final 2 weeks
of the flight. The Earth survey this afternoon seems to have
little or no effect of Skylab's number 2 gyroscope. The gyro
which slowed a little Wednesday has remained stable so far today.
Just hours from now the three men, who were space rookies until
their launch November 16, will become the worlds most experienced
spacemen. At 12:47 a.m. just after midnight central daylight
t±me tonight Carr, Gibson_ and Pogue will pass the 69 day
15 hour, 45 minute, 29 second mark of AI Bean. Twenty-eight
and a half minutes to our next acquisition of signal and about
24 m±nutes to the change-of_shift briefing in Building i.
Th_s is Skylab Control.
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Time: 16:01 CDT 70:21:01 GMT
1/24/74

time. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson has left Mission
Control and he should be over in Building i shortly for the
cange-of-shift briefing. We're about 3 minutes from an
acquisition at Goldstone, we're going to record this pass
through Goldstone and Texas, we'll play that back for you
following Neil's final change-of-shift. This is Skylab Control,
it's now 1 minute and 40 seconds after the hour.
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Time: 16:41 CDT 70:21:41 GMT
1/24/74

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now out
of range of Vanguard. And we have a recording to play back
the transcribed - recorded material from Goldstone, Texas,
and Vanguard during the press conference. We'll play them
back about 7 minutes of air-to-ground from those three
stations for you at this time.
CC Good evening Skylab, got you through
Goldstone and Texas for 13 minutes.
CDR Hi, Story.
CC Hi.
CC And we'll be dumping the data/voice here.
SPT Good afternoon Story. How you doing?
CC I'm swell Ed. How about you?
SPT Real good - good day. Say, let me ask
you a question and tell you something. First do they want
a building block 32 at the end of this orbit? Because I
see one written in here which maybe Jer wrote in, but they
st$11 say continued at zero time remaining. And secondly looking
at the white light coronagraph, I guess Jerry reported we
saw some change in the last orbit. And to me it's very
striking in the difference - what I see from this morning to now,
in that we're now looking at three different streamers,
independent streamers out on the west limb. One in the
occulting disk beginning at 120, one at 090, one at 070. When
they get out to around three radii, they're roughly all the
same intensity. The one at 120 is probably the brightest at
the basep the next 090 and then the one at 070. And they're all
pretty much parallel they all run in the direction of 090.
Still have the very faint one up there at 035. It might be
even a slight bit more intense_ but that's hard to tell. The
east limb remains pretty much unchanged.
CC Okay_ thanks Ed we'll get you an answer.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Story, how soon can we have the tape
recorders back? I'm about ready to start TV-103.
CC Stand by i, Jer.
CDR Okay.
CC Three to four minutes Jer.
CDR All right.
CC Tape recorders are yours Jer.
CDR Thank you Story,
CC Ed_ Houston.
SPT Go ahead Story.
CC Ed_ you - at the end of this orbit get
a BB-32, Just get 56 and 52 delete 54 at the end.
$PT Okayp will do.
CC And likewise get one at the end of the
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next orbit that you're going to run. Get a BB-32 at the end
of it and also just run 56 and 54 on it.
SPT Okay, looks like a good idea; things are
channing.
CC And Bill's orbit starting around 24:00
that one's all taken care of. There is one BB-32 in the middle
so he's all taken care of.
PLT All right.
CC And while I've got you, you've got a
phone call through the Vangaurd at 02:23. And it's antenna
right, and I'ii remind you the pass before.
SPT Thanks very much.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS about
12 minutes to the Vanguard, at 21:28.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through the
Vanguard for ii minutes.
CC Ed, we'd like a DAS here to do a momentum
bias.
SPT You've got it.
CC Okay.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC The DAS is yours and we're seeing
H-ALPHA i in OVERRIDE. When you power down for the next
pass, get that back to NORMAL please.
SPT Okay, Story I think I can probably put
it to NORMAL now.
CC And verify that the EVA AUTO DOOR switch
is - is in ENABLE.
SPT That's affirmed.
CC Okay.
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CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 17

minutes to Tananarive at 21:55.
PAO That concludes the recorded alr-to-ground
from Goldstone, Texas and Vanguard during the recent passes
over that area. We're now about - a little less than 7 minutes
from acquisition at Tananarive where we'll have an 8-minute
pass, we'll come back up at that time. This is Skylab Control
at 48 minutes and 16 seconds after the hour.
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SL-IV MC-2475/I
Time: 16:53 CDT 70:21:53 GMT
1/24/74

time. The Skylab space station is a little less than 2
minutes from acquisition at Tananarive where we'll have an
8_minute pass. Flight director on duty here in Mission
Control is Milton Windier and the spacecraft communicator
is Story Musgrave. Have an announcement from the Skylab
Program Officep Skylab Program Director William C. Schneider
today reported that the third Skylab mission now in its
70th day has been given a 7-day extension. Approval for the
record-breaking mission to continue at least until - until at
least January 31 followed a review of the inflight medical
data and the recommendation of Dr. Charles A. Berry NASA
Director for Life Sciences and an evaluation of Skylab's
consumables and hardware status. That concludes the
announcement clearing Skylab for the coming 7 days. We're
about a minute now from acquisition at Tananarive and we'll
bring the line up live as we have a pass through the voice
relay station there. During our last pass over Vanguard we
saw virtually no change in CMG number 2's performance, its
wheel speed and currents about as they have been most of the
day. We're coming up live now at Tananarive.
CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for 6
m_nutes.
CC Skylab_ we're 2 minutes to LOS, the next
station Hawaii in about 40 minutes at 22:39.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 3 minutes.
We've had loss of signal at Tananarive. Our next acquisition
i9 a little less than 36 minutes from now_ that will be at
Hawaii. No data of course available through the Tananarive
tmacking station, that is only a voice relay installation
that does not have the capability of giving us telemetry
data, So we've seen nothing recently on control moment
gyroscope number 2. At Vanguard and at Goldstone stations
during the last pass over the U.S. and South America the
data seemed to Be about as it has been most of the day with
a very slight variation in its 8850 wheel speed, and currents
that have been pretty stable, with the phase A current about
as it normally is_ or normally used to Be a few days ago, and
the other two currents up about 1.04, that's a continuation of
that anomaly that began at 5:35 Greenwich mean time yesterday.
35 minutes to our next acquisition of signal at Hawaii, this
is Skylah Control at 4 minutes and i0 seconds after the hour.
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SL-IV MC-2476/I
Time: 17:38 CDT 70:22:38 GMT
1/24/74

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now coming up
on - within range of the Hawaiian Island tracking antenna
where we'll have a pass lasting about 5-1/2 to 6 minutes.
Spacecraft communicator is Story Musgrave and the flight
director on duty is Milton Windier. We'll bring the line up
live now at Hawaii.
CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for 5 minutes.
SPT Hello Story.
CC Hello Ed.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, next
station is the Vanguard at 23:06, be planning to dump the
data/voice there.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC You got 30 seconds right now?
SPT Sure do.
CC Okay, could you change Bill's pass on
the ATM starting at 23:59?
SPT Got it.
CC Just cross out the VTR there and put
real-time downlink between 00:15 and 00:23.
SPT TV downlink at 00:15 to 00:23.
CC Yes sir, and the reason for that is we're
showing only i minute left on the VTR, that last TV took
29 minutes so you only got i minute left and we can't dump
between now and then.
SPT Okay Story, thank you.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 45 mintes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now about midway
between Baja, California and Hawaii. It's 21 minutes from
acquisition through the tracking ship Vanguard off the
coast of South America. During this last pass Science Pilot
Ed Gibson was asked to correct instructions for Pilot Bill
Pogue to work at the solar instruments_ he was scheduled to
put about 5 minutes of TV on the recorder of solar activity
but instead that TV will be downlinked now at about 15 minutes
after Greenwich midnight for an 8-minute period. The reason
for the change was that 29 minutes had been put on the video
tape recorder of what is listed as TV-103, thatts a science
demonstration of using liquid films in which the crew will
attempt to show a fabrication of thin liquid films and
determine the lifetime of those films in zero gravity, these
are essentially like the kinds of bubbles that children blow
with small hoops, and there are number of tests that they're
going to run and apparently took them about 30 minutes of
television time. So since the TV recorder is now full of
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TV-103 they will not be able to put any solar activity on

there and they will downlink it to a ground station instead.
Next acquisition is 20 minutes away, at 46 minutes and 50
seconds after the hour this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 18:05 CDT 70:23:05 GMT
1/24/74

time. Skylab space station is off the coast of Chile about
54 seconds from acquisition of signal through the tracking
ship Vanguard. The pass through Vanguard will last about
i0 minutes, and we'll bring the line up live now for the
spacecraft communicator, Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we've got you through the Vanguard
for 9
minutes. We'll be dumping the data/volce here.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead Story.
CC Bill, we read your comments on channel A
yesterday concerning your TO02-1 ops the variations you
reported. The PI says the data is excellent, the bias is
small, and he's very happy with the precision. You've got
no problem there at all.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC Ed, we need the DAS for an outer gimbal
backup.
SPT You've got it.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 15 minutes
to Tananarive at 23:30.
PAO Skylab Control, at 23 hours 17 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now 13 minutes
from it's next acquisition at Tananarive. We have completed
the pass over Vanguard. At this time CMG number 2's behavior
has not apparently mod - moderated much. Still the difference in
temperature about 2 to 2-1/2 degrees. At some points earlier
in the day it looked like it was going to be about a 3-degree
crossover on bearing number 2. But temperatures do appear
to not be much different than they were at this time last
n_ght. And in general, the wheel speed indicator has not
shown any substantial changes over the past several hours.
St_ll the indications seems to be strongest at the 8850 llne,
but there are some occasional drops to 8830. And in general
I guess that the average works out to something around 8840
rpm which is about i0 rpm slower than it was last night, but
otherwfse no substantial change. It looks like it has reached
a plateau as a number of people have suspected for much of
the day. 12 minutes to our next acquisition of signal. 18-1/2
minutes after the hour, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 18:29 CDT 70:23:29 GMT
1/24/74

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now over
the Union of South Africa. 53 seconds from acquisition of
signal through the tracking antenna on the Island of
Madagascar at Tananarive. The pass through Tananarive will
last about 7-1/2 minutes and we've had a good deal of trouble
with communications there so we'll see if we can get some
conversation here at Tananarlve. Our spacecraft communicator
is Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, weVre with you through Tananarlve
for 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 38
minutes to Hawaii at 00:14, your medical conference will be
coming up then and we'll be looking to dump the data/voice
then.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now off the
coast of Africa about 33 minutes before its next acquisition
and out of range of Tananarive. The upcoming pass at
Hawaii is the scheduled private medical conference for the
evening, the last private medical conference for Jerry
Hordinsky the flight surgeon who will be planning on going
out to San Diego to board the ship to go - go out for the
recovery. Hordinsky_s last medical conference is coming up
at Hawaii and we'll get a report from him later this evening
on that. Ship sailing of course is scheduled for the 26th
of January, that will make them available for the splashdown
still planned for February 8. So until approximately an hour
from now we expect no conversation with the crew when we
pick them up again at Vanguard, that's an hour and 3 minutes
away. This is Skylab Control at 41 minutes and 45 seconds
after the hour.
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Time: 19:44 CDT 71:00:44 GMT
1/24/74

and 32 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
is now about 53 seconds from acquisition of signal at the
tracking ship Vanguard. The pass at Vanguard will last
9 minutes. And we'll bring the line up live now for air-to-
ground through there. Private medical conference was held
at Hawaii during the last pass and about a minute was put
on downlink through the Hawaiian station of solar activity.
We're coming up live now at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for 9 minutes
and when you're ready with the evening status we're ready.
SPT Okay Story, coming at you first with the
photo log. 16-millimeter; for T020 was Charlie India 18
for set remaining is 20. We got the end of film light so
we then put on transporter Charlie Indigo 89, 75 percent
remaining. The other camera was - for T020 was Charlie Indigo
86, 05 remaining, Charlie 80, take up. EREP was Charlie Lima,
12, 90 percent remaining. 35-millimeters; 01, Charlie X-ray
43, frames 62; 02, no change; 03, Charlie Indigo 115, 50;
4 and 5, no change. 70-millimeter, Charlie Indigo 18, frames
74. ETC, India Romeo 03, 038. EREP, 19666, that was set Y;
02 is 9005; 03, 0880; 04, 9871; 05, 3418; 06, 0741. Drawer A
configuration: Alfa 01, transporter 02 Charlie Indigo 86,
05 for set remaining take up, Charlie Indigo 80; Alfa 02,
including the backs remain unchanged.
CC Okay.
SPT Evening status. CDR, sleep sleep:
7.0, 6.5 heavy, .5 light; SPT, 6.5, 5.5 heavy, 1.0 light;
PLT, 6.5, 6.5 heavy. Volume: 185; 190; 190. Water gun:
1804_ 48423 1355. And for body mass we've got five readings
from last night and this morning to 5 decimal places for
each crewman. What I'ii read is just the first total number
and then the last four digits are the only ones that will
change for each crewman. CDR last night, 6.34832, 4974,
4961, 4747, 4967, this morning 6.33837, 3857, 3792, 3891,
3823. SPT last night, 6.36819, 6.36578, 6.36795 - again just
the last four digits 6847, 6783; this morning 6.35818, 5661,
6101_ 6248, 5846. PLT last night, 6.275, and again he only
got the last three digits, rather than the last five for
last night, so I'ii Just give you those. Again, 6.275, 6.280,
6.280, 6.280p 6.272_ this morning to five dig&ts, 6.27072,
8036, 7414, 7303, 7156. Exercise: CDR, standard minus
Bravo and Charlie; SPT and PLT both standard. Medications:
CDR, SPT none; PLT Afrin i, Aetifed i. Clothing: CDR, socks
and shorts: SPT, shirt, socks; PLT, short_ socks.
Housekeeping or Shopping list accom - accomplishments were
all housekeeping and TV-107, 1 hour. Okay, over on the menus:
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CDR, salt packs used zero, minus coffee with sugar for
deviations and minus lemonade, rehydrate rehydrated
water deviations, plus 1.5 SPT, sak salt used is 4.0,
deviations zero, and water deviations are
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SPT drated water deviations, plus 1.5;

SPT, salt used is 4.0, deviations zero and water deviations
are 4.0_ PLT, salt packs used zero, devs, zero, and water
deviations minus 1.0.
CC Okay.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead Story.
CC Yesterday Jer requested to substitute
mashed potatoes for bread and yet he didn't report that
deviation on evening status report. Could you tell us if
he did that?
CDR I did it Story, I forgot to report it.
CC Thanks Jer.
CDR I assumed since I'd already gotten the
clearance to do it they'd assume it was done.
CC We probably should have.
CDR One other thing Story, I did not get
TV_I06 done this afternoon, I'm wondering if I get it set
up and then take the pictures first thing in the morning,
would that be okay tonight or would they rather wait and
start it tomorrow.
CC Stand by i on that Jer.
CC You can start that any time you want
Jer.
CDR Okay, it's just that the photographs
are k_nd of spaced rather strangely and I noticed the first
one they wanted 6 hours and I can do it in 8 hours if I start
it tonight and then photograph it in the morning.
CC Okay, that'll be fine Jer. And Bill
could you give us a frames remaining count on the ATM, we
got a minute here until LOS.
PLT Stand by.
CC And the next station is Hawaii in about
an hour at Zulu 1:55.
PLT Okay Story_ 8475, 5830, 1644, 1255, 2827.
CC Thanks Bill.
and 38 seconds Greenwich mean time, Skylab space station
is over t_e South Atlantic, our next acquisition is nearly
an hour away at Hawaii. During this pass over Vanguard we
had the evening status report_ no substantial deviations
_rom the Flight Plan today, and the crewmembers last night
sleeping from 6_1/2 to 7 hours with Commander Jerry Carr
getting the most sleep, 7 hours of sleep. We have the
m±sslon surgeon's daily report on crew health, we'll read
that for you at this time. "Crew health remains satisfactory,
the p_lot was advised to continue with the oral decongestant
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prescribed yesterday," signed by Dr. Jerry Hordinsky for Dr.

Hawkins the Medical Operations Director. And that's the
final report to be signed by Dr. Hordinsky who leaves tonight
for the carrier for the USS New Orleans, which is the re -
prime recovery ship for the Skylab mission. Skylab Astronauts
Jerry Carr, Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue will become the worlds
most experienced spacemen tonight as they pass the total time
accummulated by AI Bean who commanded the second Skylab flight.
Bean who walked on the Moon during the i0 day flight of
Apollo 12 spent the - a total of 69 days, 15 hours, 45 minutes
and 29 seconds in space. The third Skylab crew with just
2 weeks remaining until their planned February 8 splashdown
will surpass Bean at 12:47 a.m. central daylight time tonight.
The astronauts have circled Earth more than a thousand times
covering 28-1/2 million miles so far in their i0 weeks in
orbit. This afternoon the space station's electronic
instruments and cameras focused on the resources of the United
States. A study of water supplies in the upper Mississippi
and Missouri River basin, a mapping project in the Dakotas,
crop identification in Indiana and land use in Iowa were
surveyed in the 7400 mile long pass. Today's study completes
the 30 Earth resources surveys originally scheduled for the
third team of astronauts, but flight planners hope to add
nearly a dozen more during the final 2 weeks of the flight.
The Earth investigation this afternoon seems to have little
or no effect on Skylab's number 2 gyroscope. The gyro which
slowed a little early Wednesday has remained virtually
unchanged today, and at the last pass over Vanguard we saw
again virtually no change in the gyroscope, bearing 2
temperatures still are elevated above bearing i temperatures
by about 2_i/2 to 3 degrees, that's been the way it's been
all day today. Last night we saw them at about 2-1/2 degrees
elevation above bearing i, the normal situation of course is
for bearing 1 to be about 2 to 3 degrees warmer than bearing
2. Temperatures do,,however remain within the normal range
which is from 70 to 80 degrees, during the pass over Vanguard
they were at the upper end of that range but they normally
reach the peak of around 79 and then once again decline until
the heaters are turned on once more. So no indication that
the gyroscope is having any worse performance if anything
during the last several hours the gyroscope speed seems once
again to be stabilizing around 8850, occasionally the trans-
ducer indicates a speed a little below that but not so
frequently now as it was a couple of hours back. Skylah crew
do hope to complete another ii Earth resources passes during
the next couple of weeks, tkey have about 9 days of activity
left on Earth resources as they're now completing 10 weeks in
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space, there will be a few days left at the end of the

mission of course in which no Earth resources data will be
taken as the instruments are closed out. At the present
time there are three sets of film cassettes left for the SI90A
Earth - multispectral photographic facility, that's the 6-band
camera system, there are a total of something over 1200
frames for each of the six cameras remaining, they calculate
that that should be enough to accomplish the remaining i0 to
12 passes and to acquire an abundant amount of photography.
SI90B, the larger Earth terrain camera has i and a fraction
rolls left, about 540 frames before today Earth - today's
Earth resources pass, and that's again enough for a large number
of passes. At the present time Ed Gibson has been given the
charge of the instrument and is allowed to turn it on and off
at w -
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PAO - - left about 540 frames before today

Ea today's Earth resources pass. And that's again enough
for a large number of passes. At the present time Ed Gibson
has been given the charge of the instrument and is allowed
to turn it off and on at will. He does save more film this
way, by not photographing areas where there's cloud cover.
Unless of course, the cloud sites have been requested. And
on magnetic tape there are four reels remaining. Each reel
about 7200 feet in length. Ten of them have already been
used. The magnetic tape is used to record the data taken on
Skylab's four electronic sensors. They consider that to be more
than enough for at least i0 good passes, and probably that
tape could be stretched to do even more passes if necessary.
They do expect to accomplish i0 to ii more passes, even if
the CMG fails, and they have to resort to thruster attitude
control system gas for control. Most of the passes remaining
in the mission are over the United States. However, areas
in Africa and Thailand are being considered. There's also
an outside chance of scanning areas in Iran and Paraguay.
Tentative track numbers and dates include, for Friday, January
25, track 47, for Saturday, the 26th, track 59, and beginning
of track 60_ and also track 63. For Sunday, tracks 2 and 6,
Monday, track 20 _ track 20. On Tuesday, track 34, on Wednesday
track 46, on Thursday, track 61, and perhaps track 36. And
on Friday, that's a correctionp on Thursday it's track 61,
on Friday, it's track 13 and perhaps Thailand. These particular
tracks were chosen because they still have test sites on which
required data has not yet been gathered. We have data at the
present time for 80 percent of the test sites over all to date
according to the principal investigators management office.
No particular areas have been given priority over others for
the remaining days of the mission and no data has been deemed
more important to accquire_ although, some task sites are
considered highlights. For Saturday and Sunday, this week end's
passes_ tkese are expected to be important passes for the re-
mainder of the mission. There will be two predawn geothermal
passes using the S192 multispectral scanner. This scanner
has a detector which senses heat. On Saturday, the 26th
the pass will ascend across the United States before dawn on
track 59. And then it's planned to descend across the same
area about noon to get both predawn data and daytime data to
compare the temperatures of the surface of the Earth at Just
before dawn and after in midday. On Saturday, the procedure -
On Sunday, the procedure will be repeated on tracks 2 and 6.
Another highlight will be collecting data on snow and ice.
Principal investigator on snow is James C. Barnes of the
Environmental Research and Technology_ Incorporated, and on
ice it's Dr, William J. Campbell of the U.S. Geological Survey,
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who's interested in determining the feasibility of using

microwave sensors to measure and monitor the characteristics
of sea and lake ice and to compare the characteristics of
those things. The control moment gyroscopes are still oper-
ating next Thursday, that's February 7th, we may attempt a
360 degree task, that is to say, an around the world Earth
resources survey using the S193 microwave radiometer/
scatterometer/altimeter. The primary purpose would be to
gather altimeter data circling the entire Earth for purposes
of determining the exact characteristics of the Earth's
shape. 51 minutes and 51 seconds to our next acquisition
of signal at Hawaii. At I hour 3 minutes and 20 seconds
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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PAO Skylab Control at 1 hour 53 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're coming into acquisition of
signal through the tracking ship - tracking antenna at
Hawaii. This pass through Hawaii should last about 3-1/2
minutes, we'll bring the line up live now for air-to-ground
there, Story Musgrave is the spacecraft communicator.
CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for 4 minutes.
CDR Hello Story.
CC Hi Jer, how are you tonight?
CDR Very good.
CC And this - we're planning on this being
the last pass for night and I got about four things for you
here.
CDR Okay, press on.
CC Earlier in the mission Jer when you
replaced the DAC optics on S183, the cue card just told you
to take it as well as the tool, the Allen wrench, that you
took it off with and put it in the plenum bag. Could you
locate that for us, we're planning on bringing that home.
Do you remember where you put it?
CDH I think I did what I was told and there's
probably a 50-50 chance of finding it, but we'll look. We'll
have to go down into the bilges and get that plenum bag
back up.
CC Okay, you might just think about that a
little tonight and estimate a time how long you think it'll
take to locate that and we'll also need to get that Allen
wrench to take off the - the present DAC optics which are
being used at present, we're going to bring those home also.
CDR Okay.
CC And we sent a message up to you or will
be the next couple of passes concerning out the window TV.
In general we'_ve got enough out the window TV except for
Europe, the United States stuff is excellent and we do release
of course the total of TV you take to the networks and we
think you've got some outstanding stuff right now and enough
except for just Europe.
CDR Okay, let's see, we're gettin_ some good
early morning passes on Europe, we had a great one this
morning over Spain and North Africa. We'll have to get setup
setup in the evening before we go to bed so we can jump right
on it in the morning.
CC Okayp thattll be super Jer, and that's the
only place we need on the globe right now.
CDR Okay.
CC And if anyone's up there near the AT - ATM
we'd like S055 put in the MLS mode, MIRROR_ LINE SCAN MODE per
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the schedule pad, close out for unattended.

CDR Okay, we'll take care of that.
CC And
PLT The pad's complete Story. And also I
was up here, I see that they're operating unattended. I
did not get through the white light coronagraph alignment
procedure here. If they want me to take a hack at it, I
can go ahead and do it now but looks like they're operating
unattended.
CC That's okay Bill, we're running the
unattended right now.
PLT Okay, I'll leave it alone.
CC And Jer, you're TV on the - on the
gyroscope was really excellent. Everyone enjoyed that, now
they want to use it, they've been un - unable to cut it down
to about a minute in length which they feel they need to to
include it in a - in a Skylab TV serial which has the entire
program in it. So we sent you up a message there on our
suggestions for cutting that down to a total of about a
minute. We may have asked you to do some things like some
i0 of 15 second explanations which you can't do. But read
it over and then then give us your comments and see if
you think you can do it as per the message. If not we'll
revise it.
CDR Okay Story, good enough. I got one for
you and that's on S019. After I did the exercise tonight
I put the canister to zero - well actually it's at 8.9 and
the other marks and sighted on the discone antenna and
it's in a different place now. And I don't I just don't
how good our S019 data is until we find some sort of a
datum, It seems to me the most accurate datum we could find
is that discone antenna_ but so far nobody has been able
apparently to tell us just exactly where on the raticle
that diseone antenna should be so that we've got zero zero
on the d_als _ or zero zero on the mirror.
CC Okay Jer_ I better break in here. This
will be our last pass for the night, if you want us it'll
be Vanguard at 02:23. Ed's got a phone call coming up there,
and it's ANTENNA RIGHT. And we_ll wake you up over Madrid
at ii_00 tomorrow.
CDR Okay Story, good enough.
CC Now you can press on, if you got any
more on S019.
CDR Okay, that's it on S019, I've got grave
doubts about how good our data is, our pointing. And we
need to work another datum, I think, get squared away on it.
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The other thing is TV 103 that I did. I wasn't too pleased

with what came out there, I think I'm going to have to
repeat part of it with a eloseup TV lens in order to show
some of those thin films.
CC Okay, got it.
CDR Okay, and then that's all the time I'm
going to waste on that, it didn't turn out, I don't think, to
be a very good experiment to show on TV. I'll send down a
tape description of all the data I've gotten on thin films
for the experimenter.
CC Okay, thanks and good night, if you want
us it'll be Vanguard 02:23.
CDR Okay Story, good night.
CC Good night.
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PAO Skylab Control at i hour - 2 hours now

Greenwich mean time right on the head. Skylab space station
is out - out of range Hawaii. Our next acquisition is
23 minutes away. However we have had the final pass of the
evening. The crew will not be talked to again tonight by
Spacecraft Communicator, Story Musgrave. Skylab crew of
course will be passing a record during the night tonight as
they surpass the total time in space of Alan Bean. And as
a little footnote by Saturday morning at 9:57:23 a.m. central
daylight time the Skylab crew will have been in space four
times as long as the longest successful space flight before
the Skylab space station was launched last May. At that time
though the longest record for the longest duration space
flight was held by Soyuz IX which was launched on June i, 1970.
The Soyuz IX craft stayed in orbit and the crew stayed in
orbit for 17 days 17 hours and 59 minutes. And by Saturday
morning the Skylab crew will have been in orbit four times
as long as the longest space flight before Skylab was launched.
This is Skylab Control. It's now i minute and 5 seconds after
the hour. We believe we've had the final pass of the evening.
Our next acquisition tomorrow morning will be at Madrid at
ii:00 Greenwich mean time or 6:00 central daylight time.
Unt_l then this is Skylab Control.
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CC (Music)
CC Skylab, Houston, good morning to you
from the purple gang. We're at Madrid and you still we
still have 3 minutes here.
CDR Morning, Dick, top of the world to you.
CC Same to you guys.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute
from LOS Madrid. Tananarive comes up at 11:20. A couple
of reminders for you this morning, CDR be sure and take the
photos on TV_I06 this morning. And also we have the VTR.
We'_re in a dump cycle, so wet11 let you know when we're
through dumping on that. And I'll have some news for you
when we get to Tananarive.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC See you there.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time ll
hours 5 minutes. The beginning of the llth week for the crew of
Skylah IV_ January 25 with wakeup through Madrid. Next acqui-
sition in 14 minutes and 35 seconds through Tananarive. This
is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time ii hours 5 minutes.
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PAO - - fice periods of solar observations,

medical experiments and another attempt
ii hours 17 minutes. Acquisition coming through Tananarive.
CAP COMM is Dick Truly. Today, mission day 71, an Earth
resources survey, five periods of solar observations,
medical experiments and another attempt to photograph the
dimming comet, Kohoutek, make up the major portion of today's
Flight Plan for the crew of Skylab IV. Weather permitting,
the Skylab IV crew members, Gerald Carr, Bill Pogue will
make a photograph and a - photographic and electronic scanner
Earth resource sweep along track 47, starting at 12:30 p.m.
centraldaylight time. Among the task sites for today's
EREP pass are investigations of wind patterns over the North
Pacific Ocean, the jet stream over the continental United
States, surveys over Chicago and the state of Ohio, across
the east coast and out into the Atlantic Ocean. EREP pass
w_ll last 30 minutesp with Commander Carr at the viewfinder
system and Pilot Pogue at the control and display panel.
We_ll bring this line up for the Tananarive pass, 4 minutes
and 49 seconds in duration.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive
for 4 minutes.
PLT Dick, got a question on stowage. That
involves camera equipment K-2 and K-3 extension.
CC Okay, Bill. Go ahead.
PLT Roger. In TV-106, there's an item referred
to as the K_I adapter, extension 2p and we can't find the
locat_on of that, We wonder if it's the same as K-2 and
K_3?
CC Okayp Bill, Just a second. Let us talk
about that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're expecting that
we might have an early LOS here at Tananarive. The next
stat£on _s Honeysuckle, short pass at 11:43. And while
we_r_ look±ng up this stowage info, I've got an item, I'm
sure you_ll be interested in.
PLT Fire away_ Dick.
CC Roger. You three guys, last evening,
at a tl_me of 05_46 Zulu, became the undisputed world's space
champ£ons. You'_e passed A1 Beants total flight time record.
And that record was 69 days, 15 hours 45 minutes and 29 seconds.
So congratul _ We're _ The purple gang is very happy to be
the guys to get to congratulate you as the undisputed space
champs of the world.
SPT Thanks very much Dick and purple team.
Thanks very much for keeping us up here. Good work.
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CDR Dick, thanks a lot. You know, records

are made to be broken, and l'm sure sooner or later someone
will break this one.
CC I'm sure you're right, Jerry. But, I
think it's going to be awhile. So congratulations to all
three of you guys.
SPT Thanks a lot, purple people.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. I believe we're about
to go LOS. And Bill, I don't think I'm going to get an
answer to you here on the stowage.
PA0 Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
Ii hours and 25 minutes. CAP COMM Dick Truly calling attention
to the crew of Skylab IV that they are the undisputed space
champs, having surpassed Skylab III Commander A1 Bean's
record of 69 days in orbit. Today's activities of the
Sun will be limited to the west limb, west side of the Sun
as active region 31 and 33 across the limb and go behind the
disk. The crew will spend their time today also looking
at coronal holes, areas in the corona where there seems to
be lack of material from the corona to the disk. Very little
activity on the Sun since yesterday. ATM officer reports
there were some surges last night. Late evening, however,
since that time no activity has been reported by the NOAA
people. Predictions are no evidence of anything returning
from the east llmb. Active region 31 and 33 have been the
target of crew activity for the last i0 days, since these
2 regions came around the limb of the Sun. Later today,
Science Pilot Gibson will be the subject and Pilot Pogue the
observer in a run of the MO92/MI71, lower body negative
pressure, metabolic activity medical experiments. Later in
the day Carr will be the subject for TV-77 exercise. This
is a general purpose intravehicular telecast. This is crew
option, The crew will provide the the subject matter for
the TV and do the commentary as they desire. Comet Kohoutek
though fast disappearing, still commands the attention of Skylab.
At 7_02 this evening, Jer Jerry Carr will again take
photos of the comet with the $201 instrument. Last night,
the crew did become the space champs. The three crew members have
accumulated more time in space than Alan Bean, the man who
commanded the second Manned Skylab Mission. Bean spent a
total of 69 days, 15 hours, 49 minutes and 29 seconds in
space. Today's systems aboard Skylab operating nominally. The
CMG_2 still into its current abnormal performance, which
began at 05c35 2 days ago. Still the wheel speed in the
neighborhood of 8850 rpms. Bearing temps on bearing number 1
_s 74.5 degrees at this time and 77.3 degrees on bearing
number 2 at last acquisition through Madrid. Current in
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running 1.043 and 1.040. This current period as we say,

began 2 days ago, this apparently is becoming a plateau, a
nominal operation for the last 2 days. Yesterday's EREP
pass having no effect on the CMGs, adding no further distress
to the system. Temperatures aboard the spacecraft this
morning average 72.9 degrees Farenheit. The vehicle in
orbit this morning, of 239.7 by 232.3, traveling at a speed
of 25,120 feet per second. Next acquisition in 13 minutes
through the Honeysuckle tracking station. At Greenwich
mean time ii hours 29 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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ii hours 42 minutes. Acquisition coming through Honeysuckle
in 45 seconds. CAP COMM is Dick Truly. We'll bring the line
up for the Honeysuckle pass, a brief 1 minute and 33 second
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle
for a minute and a half. Goldstone comes up at 12:12, and
we're going to dump the data/voice recorder at Goldstone. And
Bill, I have an answer to your question on K-I.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, Bill. We didn't help you very much
on that checklist change. We shonld've pointed out that that's
the T025 K-I adapter. It's a real thin shim and it's in
F-502 Alfa.
PLT F-502 Alfa. Roger.
CC Roger, Bill. And I also have one very
minor correction to point out on a S019 pad that's addressed to
you that's ops at 13:10, so next time we have a chance, if you
have that with you, I'd llke to pass it up to you.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylah Control. Greenwich mean time
ii hours 45 minutes as the crew begins their 71st day in orbit.
256 days for the Skylah space station. Science Pilot Ed Gibson
will spend the first ATM pass today from 7:14 to 8:25 central
daylight time this morning. The EREP pass today is number 31
in the Skylah IV program. The last EREP is scheduled for day
78. EREP instruments will be closed down on mission day 79,
the last day for the ATM operations is mission day 79 also.
Medical experiments are scheduled to end on mission day 83
and possibly the last pictures of the fading comet Kohoutek
will be taken on mission day 80. Next acquisition in 24 minutes
and 55 seconds through Goldstone. At ii hours 46 minutes,
12 hours i0 minutes. Acquisition coming through Goldstone in
50 seconds. A stateside pass through Goldstone, Texas, MILA,
and Bermuda. We'll bring the line up for this stateside run.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello, stateside for
17-1/2 minutes and we're dumping the data/volce recorder at
Goldstone.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC And Jerry, I have some news here if you
guys would like to listen, I know you're beginning to start
to work up there and if you'd llke to listen, I'iI be glad to
read it up to you. Before the get to that, though_ one note
for you - on your photo pad this morning, there was a request to get a
couple of photos - 35-millimeter photos of the BI_MD ops and the
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SMMD ops, and we figured it was quite likely you might not
get to that or get to look at that part to doing the BMMD;
and if you didn't get it, don't sweat it. You can Just pick
up the BMMD stuff in the morning. We figured the SMI_D photos
might be picked up by Bill when he's doing a 74 CAL.
CDR Okay. You know that's really the only
time we ever get to the SMMD here in the wardroom. We got
documentary photos coming up now and when they want pictures
of us using that I You know, I frankly don't think anybody's
ever used the one in the wardroom. Most guys would rather eat
it than weigh it.
CC Roger that. I - I concur. Would you
like to hear some news this morning, or would it bug you?
CDR Not at all. Let's have it.
CC Okay. In a special message to Congress,
President Nixon proposed more money for educational programs
ranging from preschool Head Start to college student aid.
He urged further consolidation of some education categorical
aid programs into broad grant authorities and offered to
increase federal aid to elementary and secondary education
by $180 million next year. Senate Democrats expressed support
for a proposal to roll back the price of domestic crude oil at
a closed party caucus. However, action on the matter by the
caucus was delayed pending hearings by the Senate Finance
Committee. In the Mid East, isreaeli and Egyptian generals
signed a technical military document today, and Egypt will
begin rolling back its army along the Suez Canal. Egypt began
pulling its forces off the west back of the Suez Canal on
Wednesday, two days ahead of schedule. Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger had a quick answer for newsmen when asked,
after meeting with the House Foreign Affairs Committee, how
he keeps up the pace of his personal diplomacy for a Middle
East peace. He said it was due to his "clean living." Egil
Krogh, Jr., the boss of the White House plumbers, was sentenced
to serve six months in prison for the burglary of Daniel
Ellsburg's psychiatrist. He was the first top level White
House staffer to be sent to prison. Former Vice President
Agnew offered the outline of a novel he is writing to Random
House, but the proposed book was rejected, the president of
the publishing firm said. The outline of the proposed novel
concerned a future vice president of the United States who
turns out to have been programmed for disaster by Chinese
Communists. The final item here that I have is one that I'm
sure that you guys will be interested to hear. Two former
Vietnamese POWs were assigned commands by the Navy. Rear
Admiral Jeremiah Denton, thr first freed American to set
foot on friendly soil las year, will command the Armed Forces
Staff College at Norfolk. And rear Admiral James Stockdale
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will command an antisubmarine warfare wing. Admiral Stockdale

mused over the change his llfe had undergone in the past year.
"One year ago," he said, "my earthly possessions consisted
of two pair of frayed pajamas, a pair of Ho Chi Minh sandals
and a tin drinking cup." Both Denton and Stockdale were
captured in 1965. That's is for this morning.
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CC - - warfare wing. Admiral Stockdale

mused over the change his life had undergone in the past year.
"One year ago," he said, "my earthly possessions consisted
of two pair of frayed pajamas, a pair of HoChi Minh sandals
and a tin drinking cup." Both Denton and Stockdale were
captured in 1965. That's it for this morning.
PLT Thank you, Dick, and congratulations to
both of those men.
CC Roger, Bill. Bill if you - Do you
have your SO19 pad handy? Let me point out one thing on that
to you if you do.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, in the - it's down in the third
seal that starts at 13:36. It's a very minor error but I
didn't want you to be confused in the middle there. In the number
of turns that - where we give you the hint to go to - from
rotation of 255.8, that rotation should be 253.8. It was just
a little pad error that slipped by, and we should have caught
but didn't.
PLT Got it.
CC Okay, that's all the notes I have here
in front of me. We're still standing by here stateside for
12-1/2 minutes.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
CC Skylab_ Houston; for your information, we
have dumped the VTR. It's in a process now of being rewound.
When the rewound is complete it's clean and ready to go for
the day. We still got about 4 minutes here stateside.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
32 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda. Acquisition coming
through Madrid and Canary tracking stations for a 9-minute
pass. Changeover in progress here. The maroon team - purple
team headed by Phil Shaffer turning over the operation of the
Mission Control Center to silver team headed by Neil Hutchinson.
We'll bring the line up for this Madrid/Canary pass.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Madrid for
9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
SPT Hello_ Dick. I have a question for the
82B folks.
CC Okay, Ed, go ahead.
SPT Okay_ concerning trying to get the 1-second
exposures and we won't have time to set up the event timer,
and I'm not sure that would be the most accurate way. Trying
to do it manually I have a question whether the exposure starts
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when you hit the switch to the top position or when you release
it. With the WLC it's when you release it and I assume it
was the same kind of switch and is that way, but I'd like
to confirm it.
CC Good question, Ed. We'll talk about it.
Hang on.
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CC SPT, Houston. The exposure will start

when you first push the switch up and not when you release
it. Over.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds
to LOS. Tananarive at 12:54. See you then.
SPT So long, Dick.
12 hours 43 minutes. Loss of signal through Canary, Madrid
tracking stations. Next acquisition in 9 minutes and
35 seconds will be through Tananarive. This is Skylab
Control at Greenwich mean time 12 hours 44 minutes.
12 hours 52 minutes, with acquisition coming through Tananarive
in 50 seconds, as the Skylab crew in their 71st day, the start
of their llth week in orbit. The crew being awakened
through Madrid at 6:00 a.m. central daylight time. We'll
bring the line up for this Tananarive pass, l0 minutes in
duration.
CC Skylab, Houston, Tananarive for 9 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hello, there.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're about I minute
from LOS. Honeysuckle comes up at 13:19.
CDR See you later.
CC Roger.
13 hours 7 minutes. Loss of signal through Tananarive.
Next acquisition in ii minutes and 50 seconds will be through
Honeysuckle, as the crew begins their 71st day, a day which
will have another EREP passp pass number 31 in the Skylab IV
m_sion. A total of 23 hours and 36 minutes of crew time
w_ll be spent gathering scientific data. Science Pilot
Ed Gibson ±s the subject of a pair of medical experiments,
the M092 lower body negative pressure experiment_ and the
MI71. 3 hours and 48 minutes of crew time will be spent
at manned operation of the ATM console. Todayts EREP pass,
a stateside pass begins off the coast of Oregon. And the
instruments w±ll be turned off as the spacecraft crosses the
southeast tip of South America. Next acquisition in i0 min-
utem 45 seconds. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean
t_me 13 hours 8 minutes.
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Time: 08:18 CDT, 71:13:18 GMT
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13 hours and 18 minutes. Acquisition coming through Honeysuckle,
a 6 minute pass. We'll bring the line up here for CAP COMM
Bruce McCandless of the silver team. Flight Director is
Neil Hutchinson.
Creek for 5-1/2 minutes. Out.
SC (Garble)
SPT Bruce, I have a quick solar update if
you're ready to listen.
CC Go ahead, Ed. We got about 20 seconds
to LOS here at Hawaii in 15-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay. I'ii hold off and wait till we get you
again, Bruce.
CC Okay. 15-1/2 minutes at 13:41.
13 hours 28 minutes with loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition will be Hawaii in ii minutes and 30 seconds.
Today's EREP pass which is 33 minutes in duration, covers
multidiscipline studies including oceanic investigations,
atmospheric instrument evaluation at various sites across the
pass, and a look at regional planning and development sites in
various areas. North Pacific will be the target of the oceano-
graphic investigations as the spacecraft approaches the Pacific
coast. The instruments will be turned on to gather information
on sea state measurements. The microwave temperatures collected,
will provide data from which surface winds of the ocean can
be determined. Atmospheric investigations along the ground
track, groundtrack 41, will be made at separate locations.
Also as the spacecraft crosses the northwest United States,
the instruments will again be on to gather continental water
resources_ specifically gathering data on extent of snow cover.
Chicago, also Lake Michigan and the Gulf Stream off the east
coast, the central and U.S. and east coast adjacent water areas,
as well as Wallops Island, Virginia, will be the targets of
instruments evaluation studies at ten different locations during
the pass_ the 33_minute pass. Regional planning and development,
_abash Valley, studies will be made for crop identification,
acreage and urban studies in Wabash Valley in Indiana. En-
v±ronmental quality and agriculture and forestry studies will
be made throughout the state of Ohio as the Skylab space station
passes over. Also in the northeast, instruments will be turned
on to possibly detect strip mining in the northeast and ascertain
ecological effects including possible collection of data of
acid m_ne drainage. Today's EREP pass, number 31 in the mission
takes place this afternoon at Greenwich mean time 17 hours and
3 minutes. Next acquisition will be Hawaii in 8 minutes and
55 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 13 hours and 31 minutes,
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SL-IV MC2490/I
TIME: 08:39 CDT, 71:13:39 GMT
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13 hours 39 minutes. Acquisition coming through Hawaii for
a 7 minute pass. Acquisition coming in 45 seconds. We'll
bring the line up for CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylah, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 7-1/2 minutes.
SPT Just about ready with a solar update if
you are.
CC Okay, send your update.
SPT White light coronagraph, not a significant
amount of change, again just in detail. One thing that is
interesting, though, is that the streamer which is at the
zero - 30 at the occulting disk and points out in a position
or a direction of about 040, is a little stronger. I'm not
quite too sure what that is associated with. I looked on the
disk and there are some prominences up around that region
but I'ii - which I'ii mention in a moment. We still have the
streamer structure on the west limb which we talked about; one at
060 the diffused one at 075, 090, and ii0. The overall impression,
though, is that the intensity is decreasing especially towards
the occulting disk or towards disk center. Over on the east
limb at 270 we still have a fairly strong in general a helmet
streamer, although it appears rather ragged on the edge. But
the general shape is that of a very elongated helmet streamer.
And then one at 255 which overlaps it. It was possible to
see that yesterday if you knew what you were really looking
for. Today is much clearer and there are two different streamers.
The region in between the two streamers at just about 265 or
so is _ is open close to the occulting disk, a region which
parallels the smaller streamer at 255, which is kind of interesting.
I wouldntt expect that and I'm not quite too sure what to
attribute it to. It is apparent also in the one from yesterday
as to the TV downlink. I'm sure the VTR has that on there, and
I'd be interested in finding from 52 just why that occurs.
XUV monitor showed the active regions_ what few remained, 31
and then a 21/33/35 complex, all pretty much on the limb. Limb
brightened perhaps - perhaps the one at the 21 is extended a
l_ttle bit further in from the limb than 31 which is now relatively
small. Active region 34 stands out on the west limb (garble)
the east limb, but that's not very strong. The other active region
which _s mentioned, 32_ I cannot even see with a long
integration, I can see what might be some bright points, but
nothing even resembling an active region there. The coronal
hole is st_ll very prominent, but appears to be a little bit
smaller tkan yesterday. And that is the one at about 120
and a_ont 2 solar radii or so in length, and maybe one or so
across. And it extends northeast/southwest. (Garble) the diameter
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or length to which ratio of maybe 2 or so. We have coronal

holes in the north and south, the south being a little bit
more prominent. (Garble) in looking at H-slpha when there are
some prominences on the disk, relatively small, however,
which are not mentioned. One at 135 degrees, a series of
small ones at 120 to - well, one at 120 which is about 15 arc
seconds off the limb, and then that series of at 310 to 320, one
of which looks like an arch, a half a circle essentially (garble)
to a maybe 45 degrees out of plane, and that is extending
around 30 arc seconds off the limb. That's just around 315
or so, 310. Other than that, things are be look as though they're
pretty much calming down, and I'ii talk with Bill a little
bit more about some of the ideas for observing programs
for tomorrow.
CC Roger. i minute to LOS. Next station
contact in 4 minutes through Goldstone at 13:51.
for 6_i/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Yeah, we got somebody here I figure you'd
like to talk to you. You haven't done anything bad recently.
PLT Well, we haven't admitted to it anyway.
BEAN Hey, Bill, this is Alan Bean. I wanted to
congratulate all you guys on breaking a world record.
PLT Hey, thank you, AI, it's a good one to
break.
BEAN Yeah, you did it the hard way, all in one
s_ot too.
PLT I'll buy that.
BEAN Yeah, it took Pete four times to do it,
me twice, and real congratulations. We're kind of anxious
to see you back here in another week and a half or so.
SPT Thank you very much, AI. We look forward
to coming hack.
BEAN Okay, you're doing great.
CDR (Garble) We're kind of getting that short timers
attitude now.
BEAN Okay, I know what you mean. So, see you
in a week or so.
CREW Okay_ so long.
BEAN Congratulations again.
PLT Nice talking to you.
BEAN You bet. Congratulations again.
CC Andp Ed, if you can work it in, we're over
Goldstone at this time, we can take some ATM TV downlink.
SPT Okay, Bruce_ stand by I'ii try and get
you some.
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SL-IV MC-2491/I
Time: 08:55 CDT, 71:13:55 GMT
1/25/74

LOS. Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Bermuda
at 14:02. Out.
for a total of 6-1/2 minutes. We'll have about a 1-minute
keyhole here shortly.
CC Skylah, this is Houston, 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 3 minutes through Canary
Island at 14:11, with a data/voice tape recorder dump at
AOS. Over.
for 9-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump. Over.
SPT Roger, Houston.
CC Roger.
LOS. Next station contact in 14-1/2 minutes through Tananarive
at 14:34. Out.
SPT Houston, SPT. I just saw on TACS
number 4 fire. And I see no reason for it. Based on our
momentum situation, I was wondering if you could explain
the reason.
CC The momentum is high. We fired i minute,
but it was due to the dump inhibit.
SPT Okay. I'm only looking at 35 percent
momentum right now.
CC We show a 90 percent.
SPT Stand by. I got it.
14 hours 22 minutes. Loss of signal through Canary. Next
acquisition in 12 minutes and 15 seconds will be through the
Tananarive tracking station. Yesterday's successful Earth
resources pass obtained data over the Pacific Ocean off
the coast of the United States. This data will be used to
aid in development of weather satellite instrumentations
and to provide worldwide sea surface (garble) in wave
information. Photography and scanner data acquired during
yesterday's EREP pass over South Dakota will permit cartographers
to compile photo maps of South Dakota. Sensor information
which was taken over Indiana will provide urban study analysis
and will he used by the Indiana Geological Survey in prepara-
tion of mine safety analysis maps and regional geologic
maps of the southern part of the state. Scientists at the
University of Kansas will evaluate data taken yesterday over
snow and f_eeze/thaw lines throughout the United States.
T_i_ Znformation will be analyzed with similar data taken by
an alrc_aft concurrent to the Earth resources pass of yesterday.
Oceanographers will study imagery data taken off the coast
of North Carolina to determine circulation patterns and
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establish predictive models for estuan (sic) flushing. The

problem which developed earlier this week on the S183, the
ultraviolet panorama camera, the experiment of the French
scientist, it occurred on day - 4 days ago. This malfunction
was duplicated in the laboratories in France. Dr. George
Courtes' results indicate that the film jamming in the data
acquisition camera caused a fuse to blow in the spectrograph
assembly. The French experiment developer has recommend a
work around procedure which will bypass the blown fuse by
connecting an existing wire from the data acquisition camera
connector on the spectrograph to an ajacent test connector.
This procedure is presently being evaluated here at the
Johnson Space Center and will be passed up to the crew at
a later date. Next acquisition will be through Tananarive
in 9 minutes and 5 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours
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SL-IV MC2492/I
Time: 09:33 CDT, 71:14:33 GMT
1/25/74

14 hours 33 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Tananarive
tracking station, a 2-minute and 36-second pass. This pass
begins in 40 seconds. We'll bring the line up for CAP COMM
Bruce MeCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive
1-1/2 minutes to LOS. Next station contact in 20-1/2 minutes
through Honeysuckle Creek at 14:56. Out.
14 hours and 39 minutes. Report from the Kohoutek operation
desk here at Johnson Space Center reports the observations
from the ground indicate that the Kohoutek comet is still
visible in select areas. The tail now reported to Be of 5
to 6 degrees in length and the anti-tail is one-fourth a degree,
dust tail is 7 degrees and plasma tail, i0 degrees. The report
indicates that the plasma tail is quite weak relative to the
dust tail whereas 2 days ago, the plasma tail dominated the
dust tail. Next operation of Skylab instruments for comet
Kohoutek observations are scheduled for Greenwich mean time
00:09 minutes. That's Greenwich mean time January 26th, 9
minutes after midnight Greenwich mean time. That'll be later
this after - later this evening. Another operation with the
S063_ ultraviolet airglow camera, is scheduled for Greenwich
mean time 16:50 on 27th of January. Next acquisition will be
_n 14 minutes and 45 seconds through Honeysuckle. This is
Skyla5 Control at Greenwich mean time 14 minutes - 14 hours
41 minutes.
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SL-IV MC2493/I
TIME: 09:55 CDT, 71:14:55 GMT
1/25/74

in 50 seconds. We'll bring the line up for this pass 8 minutes
32 seconds in duration.
CC Skylab_ this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek for a little over 8 minutes with the ATM conference
coming up. And at Hawaii we'll have a data/voice tape recorder
dump at AOS.
CC Hello, Ed.
SPT Hello.
MCC Good morning, Ed. Not too much here to
add on the Sun. One thing that you have not been informed
of yet that I can find out at least is at 06:39 this morning
Zulu there was a C-1.4 flare. Our guess is that it's the
west limb, although there was no optical event reported.
It was X-ray only. In addition a comment on your comment
earlier about the gap on the coronal streamers east limb. We
feel we saw some of this yesterday and that really what you're
looking at is a rotational effect and no real structural change
in the corona.
SPT Okay, I saw it yesterday, also, which
I've pointed out_ but I was a little hard pressed to understand
why I would not be able to see the corona which is in back.
In other words, the larger streamer which is at 270. For
some reason it appears as though there's something obscuring
that. I would suspect I would think I ought be able to
see that one straight through, Just a straight line of sight
all the way and see that full streamer except for the one
which is in front which intensified even. So, there's
something there I'm missing, but let's not get hung up on it.
MCC Okay, and carrying on then on today's
plans there's nothing spectacular really left today. We owe
you an apology for the 82B test this morning on the JOP 7
sunrise. Unfortunately we didn't see your recorded message
until just about the time you were scheduled to be doing the
sunrise test this morning. So, we apologize for that and
I'm certainly as guilty as anyone here. I certainly do hope
that you'll keep keeping us honest by chewing on us a bit here
when we do something that's wrong and unreasonable.
SPT Well, that - you mean the problem
yesterday or the one this morning? Yesterday - Was a
problem this morning as far as the TV downlink, I got distracted
and that was the problem there.
MCC Yes, what I was referring to is really
on the sunrise portion. You have to certainly consider that
a special operation we never discussed or anything. And to
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schedule that for you so early prior to giving it - you a chance

to talk about it with me, probably is net the way to handle it.
SPT Yeah, I think if we would've been a little
more (garble) ahead to make sure we do get those special opera-
tions squared away. But still this morning was really not that
much of a problem, Bill, don't feel bad about that. No sweat.
MCC Okay, fine. Now, a couple of thoughts
for tomorrow. If you've got any suggestions of specific
programs or anything that you'd like us to work on this after-
noon for you just let me know and I'll put the inputs in.
SPT Okay, I can give you a quick summary,
just some general ideas here. One is I looked over the
suggestions which you had and they pretty much coincide with
what's left on the disk in the order of priorities which I
would see it. First of all I'll start off with the JOP 6
building block i, start the day off sort for the synoptic
purposes. Building block 32 would be done at each orbit and
I try to get as many of those in each day even though I might
not do a full orbits worth of observations after that. I'm
looking at operating maybe 4 or 5 orbits tomorrow. Active
region synoptic study on the limb, I believe JOP 26 unless
something more dynamic shows up to observe. Try to get a
field for the relation between the active regions on the disk
and - or right immediately on the limb and the corona which
we see above it. Coronal holes, because this one is so
pronounced, I think it's worthwhile studlng. And here I'd
- I'd like to - if there are any changes in the active region
going on, I would like to try and get some mini-MARS which
run - which cross the active region and the coronal hole Just
to see where there are any variations in the say, the location
with the coronal hole boundary and any changes at all related
to the activity. Because understanding why a coronal hole
can exist so close to an active region and the magnetic field
configuration associated with it, I think is kind of a
interesting thing to look at. Our degrating auto scans
across the bounty, the sharpest one we could find, and if
82B would like to operate we could take some exposures there.
And 56, of course, would be getting long exposures. At the poles,
take a look at what I thought was perhaps a surge this morning,
I didn't - I neglected to mention it when I had the discussion
earlier. And that was about 040 and it was, oh, about 20 arc
seconds off the limb.. And I did not actually see it move,
it could very well be a prominent, and we'll just keep an eye
on it. We did see it once before, you know, and it was kind
of an interesting thing to follow. If we do, we'd do mini-MARS
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on it. And also polar plumes in the way of, I guess 26 -

JOP 26, although that, I think, I could use some suggestions
from the ground on that one. I also saw a streamer, that
one at 030. And if there really is a surge out there it's
a 040. Maybe there is some relationship between the two in
high lattitude. It would certainly be interesting to see
what's going on. Again that would be a JOP 26 type study.
Bright points, I'm - I'm not too enthused over bright points,
not that I don't think they're very interesting, but I think you
probably have a boat load of data on bright points already.
And my question to the Pls is what questions are open, and
what observations could help answer those questions? Prominencest
I really don't see any good ones on the limb right now. Maybe
we're going to have something rotating off or on, but I don't
see that coming up. Last question is on llne profiles. I'm
assuming - unless I hear otherwise that 55 is best operating
in a mini-MAR mode or - or their regular mirror auto raster
in a JOP 26 type program, or grating auto scans as opposed
to a llne profile. So, that's the way I'm looking at it very
tentatively right now.
MCC Okay, fine, Ed. Most of that sounds real
good to me. We'll - we'll take a look at this this afternoon
and send up some words accordingly. And also we'll be sending
you detailed film considerations as far as what kind of film
frame usage we can use for whatever programs we're talking
about.
SPT Okay, very good.
MCC Okay, Edo And we're I minute from LOS
here; Hawaii's next in 13 minutes; that's at 15:16-1/2. And
like I say, this afternoon we will be sending you film guide-
lines and our final science objectives. We apologize for not
having very much film for you to use. We will ask during the
day
SPT I'm the one that ought to apoloEize for
that, Bill.
MCC No, no, not at all, we've got some very
good data on that film and we're anxiously waiting for it. During
the data (garble) you might try to debrief us as much as you
can because we won't be very much up on what you're doing
if you don't. Also think in terms of how successful a program
such as this might have been early in the mission, and whether
you're getting sufficient science support from the ground or
maybe we're over supporting you. Things such as this will
be of interest to us later.
SPT I don't thin_ you're over supporti_ at
all. I think we have a lot of traffic gone back on the voice
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loops, but I don't think it's - for the purposes of running

the ATM I don't think it's too much at all. (static) how
q it fits in with all the other (static)
MCC Break, break, Ed. You're dlssappearing
here into the static. We'll talk to you tomorrow frequently,
and Hawaii is next.
SPT So long, Bill. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Skylab Control, Greenwich mean
time 15 hours 6 minutes. We've had loss of signal through
Honeysuckle. Next acquisition in i0 minutes and 15 seconds
will be the Hawaii tracking station. The crew getting near
the time for the 31st EREP pass in the mission along ground-
track 47; a pass which will have data taken for 33 minutes
from the northwest coast of the United States down into Brazil.
Next acquisition in 9 minutes and 45 seconds. At 15 hours
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SL-IV MC-2494/I
Time: 10:15 CDT, 71:15:15 GMT
1/25/74

15 hours 15 minutes. A 9-minute pass coming through the
Hawaii tracking station. Pilot Bill Pogue in his block of
time for physical exercise, a hour and a half block of time
set aside for each day for each of the crew members. EREP
preparations will start in about 45 minutes for the 33rd -
31st EREP pass of Skylab IV. We'll bring the line up for
this pass. Bruce McCandless is CAP COMM.
for 9 minutes with the data/voice tape recorder dump here. And
for the SPT, we see MPC roll enabled, I think both MPCs are
enabled at this time and we'd like to get them inhibited
per the checklist when the daylight pass is over. Over.
CDR He's on his way.
CC Roger, thank you.
LOS. Next station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Goldstone
at 15_28. Out.
PAO Loss of signal through Hawaii. Next
acquisition will be through Goldstone in 1 minute. We'll
brin_ the line up for the stateside pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldsone
for 6_i/2 minutes. Out.
LOS. Next station contact at 15:39 in about 5 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control_ Greenwich mean time
15 hours 34 minutes, with loss of signal through Goldstone.
Acqulsit±on coming through the Bermuda tracking station in
3_i/2 minutes. One of the targets - EREP targets, today is
the continental U.S. jet stream cirrus clouds, which partial
data was lo_t earlier in the mission due to an inadvertent
omission of filters on the S190 cameras. This is one of the
targets in today's more than 7000-mile pass, crossing the
northwest coast diagonally down the United States and ending
in Brazil. Next acquisition in 3 minutes through Bermuda.
We_ll hold the line up for this Bermuda pass.
for i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC And we see you loaded the maneuver time
properly, but before you load the Z-LV maneuver, we need
to use the DAS for a minute.
CDR Okay. Take it.
CDR Bruce, concerning the message that was
received about TV_I04, in trying to do a rerun for inevitable
gyro demonstration, I think probably, the one of the
questions asked was should they schedule time or do we want
to shopping list it? For right now, let's say shopping list
and we_ll see if we can't get it done tomorrow on our day off.
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If we don't get to it tomorrow, we probably shouldn't

scheduled it in order to get two guys with about an hour
or so at the same time.
CC Okay. We copy that, Jerry. And we'll
play it that way. And since we're talking about TV in
the sense of science demo as opposed to TV in the sense of
television, here - Okay. The DAS is your's. Since TV-106
was started late yesterday, we'd like for you, Jerry to
delay the 24-hour photo session that's scheduled at 19:37
until in your presleep activities tonight, until we get
closer to 24 hours. Over.
CDR Okay. We'll do it. And Crip, those
are really growing. Those are really beautiful.
CC Hey, very good. Glad to hear it.
CDR They seem to be forming in a pretty
classical-looking lattice structure.
CC Okay.
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CC And the maneuver load looks good to us

and the CMG is holding its own.
CDR Roger.
CC And for your information, CMG number 3
outer gimbal is on the stop. At the present time, you've
got about a degree and a half attitude error out of SI. When
you initiate the maneuver, that should reenable the outer
gimbal drive logic. We don't believe any further actlon'll
be required on your part.
CDR Roger.
CC Start moving now please. Start the maneuver
now.
CDR Okay. It's in.
CC And maneuver in the CMG both are looking
good here.
CDR Bruce, on another question that was
asked last night as to whether or not we thought we could
locate the old S183 camera, DAC camera adapter and lens,
my estimate is that it'll take a couple of us about an hour
probably to get down in the plenum and check plenum bags and
try to locate it. So that means 2 man hours if they're willing
to pay the price.
CC Okay. We copy and we'll work that through
the system.
CC 1'1/2 minutes to LOS. Next station contact
in 8 minutes through Ascension at 15:56. Out.
15 hours and 50 minutes with Skylab IV again maneuvering into
the Z-local vertical attitude. A maneuver which began i0 seconds
earlier than planned. However, G&N officer reports here that
the maneuver looks good as well as the CMG. No additional
stress on the control moment gyro number 2. The wheel speed
has been fluctuating all day between 8829 and 8850 rpms. The
current fluctuating between 1.040 amps to 1.052 and the delta
temperature is between bearing temperature number l, bearing
temperature number 2, ranging from 2.5 to 2.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
Apparently the maneuver is not affecting the CMGs as was the
case yesterday. The maneuvering takes approximately ii minutes
as the spacecraft regains acquisition through Canary. The
telemetry should indicate completion of the maneuver. A second
fine maneuver will be made at Greenwich mean time 16 hours
50 minutes prior to start of the EREP take. Acquisition in
3 minutes and 50 seconds through Canary. We'll hold the llne
up for this Canary/Ascension pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
for 10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
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CDR Bruce, would you ask Ascension what the

weather is?
CC Stand by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. The 15:58 Zulu weather at Ascension
is i00 percent overcast. That's an out-the-window report from
the tracking station. We didn't _et a - a height-of-the-ceilin B
or anything for you because we didn't think you were interested in
that. Over.
CDR Yeah, I was goin E to try to get a picture
of them. They've been added to our Earth observations llst.
But I can see they've got about the only fog bank in this part
of the Atlantic.
CC I think it's a proprietary one.
CDR Roger.
Next station contact in 23-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon at
16:29. Out.
16 hours and 8 minutes. Further analNsis of the maneuver
indicates the - G&N officer indicates systems aboard Skylab
look good. Following this maneuver, CMG number 2 not showing
any additional strain and maneuver parameters here at Mission
Control Center indicate the vehicle is slowly approaching
its desired attitude for the Earth resources pass scheduled
to start 1500 miles west of Vancouver Island in the North
Pacfic. When Skylab IV was launched, there were 23 Earth
resources tasks that had not been covered during the first
and second Skylab mission. 20 of these have been accomplished
and of the 3 remaining, 1 more could be covered. But there
will not be an opportunity to catch the other two. The site
that may be covered if a pass is scheduled along that ground-
track is of the Orlzaba-Veracruz area in Mexico. Purpose of
this investigation is for highway engineering and regional
planning in southwest Mexico areas near Orizaba. The two sites
that have little or no chance of being covered include Tabesti
Mountains of Chad in central Africa, to determine if the moun-
tains are located at the junction of two major fracture systems
and the other is in Iran. This latter task has to acquire
data for agriculture, forestry, and rangeland inventory in
that country. Todate, mission day 71, 41 Earth resources passes
have been scheduled. Of these, i0 have been canceled for
reasons which include weather and control moment gyro problems.
Today's EREP pass across the United States will, when accomplished,
be the 31st EREP completed on this mission. We s_ill have
opportunities for the possibility of doing approximately 7 more
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providing the mission goes the duration of February 8th. The

last opportunity will come on February i because the current
plan is to go EVA on February 3rd to retrieve ATM film and
other data. When the mission began on November 16th, there
were 170 task sites to be accomplished in the EREP program.
Of those, 59 have been totally covered and 108 partially
covered. Mandatory coverage has been provided on 122 task
site data takes through the EREP pass on Thursday, January 24th,
yesterday. Some of the required task sites on special pheno-
mena that have been accomplished include 18 out of 22 wind
state - wind, sea state data takes. 5 out of 7 data takes
on ice and snow task sites, and i of 4 geothermal passes.
These numbers, however, may increase as more Earth resources
passes are accomplished in the remainder of the missien. Next
acquisition in 17 minutes and 15 seconds through Carnarvon.
At Greenwich mean time 16 hours and ii minutes, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2496/I
Time: 11:27 CDT, 71:16:27 GMT
1/25/74

16 hours 27 minutes. A 9-minute pass coming through Carnarvon
in 45 seconds. We'll bring that line up for Carnarvon.
for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC And, Skylab, in order to better balance
out the electrical power usage during this EREP pass, we're
going to command CBRM-5 on and we'll take care of it all
from the ground, which you'll see your lights change if you're
watching.
CDR Okay.
CC And I've got the weather for you, Jerry,
if you're interested.
CDR Roger. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Basically coming in over Vancouver
and the west coast, the area will be pretty well socked in
until you work your way on down into Idaho and western Montana.
That is at about 9-1/2 minutes after the hour and continu-
ing up through about ii minutes after the hour, you'll be
flying over an area over 4-to7/i0 coverage. After which
time it socks back in 8/10 to i0/i0 until you get
on down into central Wisconsin, about Madison, which is
ahout half way between LaCrosse and Chicago, at which point
the weather starts working up fairly rapidly. We expect
Lake Michigan which is VTS site 528 I to be essentially in
the clear, with clear weather being 0-to3/10 prevailing
until you get down to the area approaching the Appalachians.
And as you approach the Appalachians, you're going back to
nearly solid undercast, which will persist until crossing
the coast llne at which time it will clear up and run 0 to 3/10
unt_l you get on down into the intertropical convergence zone,
at which time you can expect the typical weather down there.
Over.
CDR Okay_ thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT Bruce_ I have a question on the pad.
CC Fire away.
PLT Need ready verification S193, the roll
angle is supposed to be minus - minus 30 I'm pretty sure. I
Just -I Just want to verify that. We use dashes as sort of spaces
and also as minus signs. So_ I Just want to verify that's
a minus 30 on S193.
CC That's affirmative, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
SPT Bruce_ I think we agreed some time ago
to skip a space on that before you write the minus and it was never
done.
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CC I believe that that has been done in this

case.
SPT Okay. It wasn't done yesterday and
I assumed it wasn't done again today. And that's why Bill was
asking the question.
CC Thank you.
PLT I - I thought that's what the space
meant. But I just wanted to make sure.
CC And, Bill at your convenience, if it
can be worked in prior to this pass, we'd like you
to give us the initial frame counter readings from SI90A. You can
just go ahead and put them on tape or you could give them
to us real time over Guam. Whatever is better.
PLT I have them right in front of me, if you
want them.
CC Okay. Read them off.
PLT 0398, 2576, 0123, 9481, 1252, 0189, you
can add 3 zeros to all of those to get the present frame
count. I've got MALF lights 3_ 4, and 5 due to cen - during
the sensitometry advance. I got rid of MALF light 4 during
i single. I tried another single and I still have the MALF 4
3 and 5. I checked 3 and 5. They are moving film. So
we're _ (garble) used 36 frames total on the sensitometry
advance.
CC Okay. We copy. Thanks for the details.
18 seconds til LOS. Next station in 5-1/2 minutes. Guam
at 16 at 43:50.
16 hours 39 minutes. Loss of signal through Carnarvon.
Next acquisition will be the Guam tracking station in 3 min-
utes and 50 seconds_ as Skylab is now in its 3697th revolu-
t±on. The crew preparing for the Earth resources pass for the day,
which will begin off the coast of Washington State and cross
United States, ending in the south Atlantic. A fine maneuver
for this EREP pass will be accomplished in about i0 minutes.
to place the cameras and electronic instruments in the right
attitude to capture the data along groundtrack 41. The
weather report here at the Johnson Space Center indicates
the groundtrack looks very good today_ and Flight Director
Ne±l Hutchinson describes the pass as a very good EREP pass.
There are five mandatory site tasks for this EREP, one of which
has been missed up to this time is the jet stream cirrus
clouds. This will be covered as the spacecraft passes over
West Virginia to the coast - coastline. Lake Michigan is
also a mandatory site. This is atmospheric and aerosol
studies over the Lake. A third mandatory site is the Gulf
stream in the Atlantic. Another one is the work in support
of the GOC satellite program providing baseline data for
calibration of the GEOS-C altimeter. The data gathered with
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Time: 11:27 CDT, 71:16:27 GMT
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Skylab will be used in comparison with the data to be gathered

by the GEOS-C satellite. The central U.S. coast is also another
mandatory site. Desireable sites in this EREP pass number 31
for the mission, is the upper river basin the of Missouri and
Mississippi Rivers, the Wabash River basin area, and Wallops
Island. Coud cover over Wallops Island, Virginia or Wallops
Island NASA station.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2497/I
Time: 11:42 CDT 71:16:42 GMT
1/25/74
PAO - - sites in this EREP pass, number 31

for the mission, is the upper river basin of the Missouri
and Mississippi Rivers, the Wabash River basin area, and
Wallops Island. Cloud cover over Wallops Island, Virginia,
the Wallops Island NASA station. Acquisition in i minute
through Guam. We'll bring the llne up for this Guam pass
which is 7 minutes in duration.
for 7 minutes. Out.
CC And your maneuver (garble) looks good to
us.
CDR Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 17-1/2 minutes through Goldstone at
17:07.
CDR Roger. See you then.
CC Roger. Roger.
PLT Charlie, Bravo 9 is 58. Charlie 2-V, 57,
Charlle 3-V, 8; Charlie 4, 54; Charlie 5, 82; Charlie 6, 57;
Charlie 7 is 60, make that 50. Charlie 6 is 50. Delta 2, 68;
Delta 3, 82; Delta 4, 46; Delta 5 - -
52 minutes with loss of signal through the Guam tracking station.
The crew presently on voice actuated comm. The next acquisition
will be through Goldstone as Skylab is in the midst of - the
start of EREP pass, the 31st. Word from the recovery ship
New Orleans that scheduled departure time from Sandiego is
now 10:30 a.m. Pacific daylight time, Sunday. This is one
day than earlier planned, however, recovery personnel indicate
this, the ship will be able to reach any potential landing
point with this late departure of i day. New Orleans departing
San Diego at 10:30 a.m. Pacific daylight time on Sunday. Next
acquisition in 14 minutes through Goldstone. At Greenwich
mean time 16 hours 53 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2498/I
Time: 12:05 CDT 71:17:05 GMT
1/25/74

hours and 5 minutes. We'll bring the line up for this stateside
pass, start of EREP pass number 31.
PLT 8-minute flash at 6:50.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, AOS Goldstone.
CDR Hello Bruce.
PLT Reading you at 5 square, Bruce.
CC Roger.
PLT Okay, coming up on 8 minutes. RAD SCAT
gimbal at 07:51. White flashed again.
PLT B. Stand by.
PLT MARK. SCAT standby, and RAD standby at
02. 193 CROSSTRACK CONTIGUOUS, and POLARIZATION i.
PLT CROSSTRACK CONTROL SCAN ANGLE still minus
30 degrees. Waiting for 08:35.
PLT Standby.
PLT MARK. SCATTEROMETER ON, RADIOMETER ON,
and ALTIMERER is going to STANDBY. Now waiting for 10:30.
CDR Lots of snow on Vancouver.
PLT Did you get a good picture?
CDR Yeah, it clobbered in the other
day when I had
SPT - - SPT for S063 information. We're
starting visible CX43, frames 59 and BD (garble) at frame 23.
PLT And for the monitors on the ground, I'm
getting an intermittent single flash of the RAD SCAT GIMBAL
light about every minute or minute and a half.
CDR Okay, as Bruce said, the weather is clearing
up.
PLT Okay_ stand by for 10:30.
PLT MARK. POLARIZATION 4 on the 193.
SPT Okay, SPT at - coming up on a (garble) frame on
both cameras, and I'ii start tracking now and give you a mark.
It's your frame number i on (garble) exposures when we actually
start.
SPT Hack.
CDR There goes that rare jungle bird again.
CDR The nicotine parrott. Hack, hack.
SPT Hack, hack. (Laughter)
PLT Caution, S063 may be dangerous to your
health.
SPT Okay, both cameras are working well. That
was 16 seconds and filter 2700.
PLT Coming up on 12 and that's even. Everything
looking good. Got a nice steady green line on tape motion.
CDR Solid clouds.
PLT Standby on my mark, it'll be 12:30.
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PLT MARK SCAT to STANDBY. MARK. RAD to

STANDBY.
PLT Standby for 42.
PLT MARK. RADIOMETER ON at 42, 12:42 that is.
CDR Okay. We've got a cloud breakup in Minneapolis
is in view. Minneapolis/St. Paul.
SPT Boy, this haze filter certainly does a great
Job in picking up the land separation from the cloud view where
it's broken.
PLT Stand by for 13:20.
CDR Okay, I just burned up my i0 seconds of
DAC time on Minneapolis/St. Paul.
PLT Photo POLARIZATION to i on the 193.
PLT And standing by for 13:53.
PLT A (?) coming up on 13:15.
CDR Well, as I live and breathe, there is a great
big lake up here.
PLT Stand by. MARK. 13:53. S193 MODE AUTO.
READY light is on.
CDR Don't suppose it's Lake Michigan?
PLT 14:10 192 MODE will be going to READY.
SPT Houston, I've got it taken.
PLT 14:10 stand by.
PLT MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Let's see here.
Yes, I've got to have a good ready light or tape motion light.
MALF lights on 3 and 5, which is what I expected on 190.
CDR Okay, Houston, I'm going to give you some
data on effluence along the Chicago side of the Lake and then
I'll sw_ng up and do my regular site work. Okay
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Okay, stand by for some desat firings.
You"re at about 90 percent. Go_ Ed.
SPT S063 refers to frayed pairs. Does that mean
on the same point? Usually that's specified differently,
but tile thought occurred to me that's maybe what they're after.
PLT - - 14:50.
SPT But explain pairs of (garble).
PLT MARK (?) RAD STANDBY. B for 15 - -
CC That's affirmative, Ed, on the same point.
SPT Okay.
PLT MARK. 15 minutes even. ALTIMETER ON.
Waiting for 15:06. Stand by.
PLT MARK. 90 SHUTTER SPEED to begin. Waiting
for 16:24.
PLT And I'm getting a slight - the flickering,
on the tape motion light again. Tape recorder. We're
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goin_ to have anALTIMETER UNLOCK at 15:19.

PLT Okay, 192 is running. Okay, I'm getting
a slight disappearance of tape motion light intermittently.
CDR Okay, looking for the Wabash Valley
now,
PLT ALTIMETER UNLOCK okay. I have loss of
my READY light. I'm going OFF in 15 seconds on ALTIMETER.
CDR Okay, I have a large river here. I think
that's probably the Wabash. It looks wide open.
PLT - - 24 okay. Coming back ON with 193
ALTIMETER.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2499/I
TIME: 12:16 CDT, 71:17:16 GMT
1/25/74
CDR Okay, looking for the Wabash Valley now.

PLT ALTIMETER UNLOCK okay. I lost my
READY light. I'm going off for 15 seconds on ALTIMETER.
CDR Okay, I have a large river here. I think
that's probably the Wabash, but it's wide open.
PLT (Garble) 24. B coming back on with 193 ALTIMETER.
PLT Okay, TAPE MOTION light's looking sieker
than it's been in a long time. Waiting for 16:24. 16:24.
CDR Ready to track.
PLT MARK. 78 on the RANGE. Standing by for
16:30.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER going to STANDBY and
MODE _ -
SPT HACK.
PLT - - 3. 16:45, stand by.
CDR Okay, I got the alternates of Wabash
Valley and tracked it to
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER ON. Waiting for 18:24.
SPT HACK.
PLT Okay, I've lost my TAPE MOTION light.
There it is it's still (garble).
SPT HACK.
PLT It was just sort of teasing me there.
PLT It's off about as much as it's on, that's
the TAPE MOTION light.
CDR Okay, starting the nadir swath.
PLT Okay, 190 READY light's still on, everything's
looking good. Waiting for 18:24.
CDR Starting (garble) track on number 3.
PLT ALITMETER (garble)
SPT HACK.
PLT Okay, 17:40, I got the UNLOCK. Still have
a READY light.
CDR Okay, can see a little peak of the Appalachians
and now we're soaring over the track light.
PLT Still have a (garble) light. ALTIMETER UNLOCK.
CDR (Garble) Solid overcast.
PLT 18:24.
PLT Still have an ALTIMETER UNLOCK; still have
a READY light.
PLT Stand by on my mark 18:24.
PLT MARK. RANGE to 75 and then 30. Stand by.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY at 36. 192
MODE to STANDBY. 192.
PLT MARK. 192 MODE to STANDBY. Got a shift
of speed and I got a steady green light. (garble) ALTIMETER MODE to
5.
CDR Okay, ready to track (garble).
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TIME: 12:16 CDT, 71:17:16 GMT
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PLT (Garble) ALTIMETER ON. Okay (garble) off.

PLT Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light; READY light
still on. Next event is at 20:30.
CDR And back under the clouds again.
CDR HACK. That's about 3 seconds late.
PLT The flickering of the TAPE MOTION light
has stopped.
CDR Back to blue water.
CDR Sequence. Coming up on 7, 7 and 8.
PLT The ALTIMETER's really doing its thing
now. No UNLOCK light.
CDR (Garble).
PLT (Garble) way to get it to come on.
SPT I'm moving our exposure set down to 20
because it's not sufficient time on the track. Making it
60 hack.
PLT Okay, I need a 21:30. I'm going to need
an AUTO CAL, Jer. I'll give you a call.
CDR Okay.
PLT That's a little over a minute away.
CDR Right. Stand by.
CDR MARK. DACK's off
CDR That's the end of the nadir swath. No
visual indications of the Gulf Stream at all (garble).
PLT (Garble) IR REFERENCE to 2.
CDR Colored water.
PLT Waiting for 21:30.
CDR Okay, that was frames 7 and 8. We're
going to give you a couple of more here.
PLT Everything looks pretty good right now.
Okay, just gotten the ALTIMETER UNLOCK right there at 21:08.
CDR Down a little bit further yet.
PLT READY light's still on and need a AUTO CAL
at 21:30, Jer.
CDR Okay, I'll give it to you.
CDR Put it down to 20 on the set.
PLT ALTIMETER light - READY light still on.
CDR Sufficient time for second exposure.
PLT Okayp Jer_ 5 seconds.
CDR Okay.
PLT On my mark.
PLT MARK.
CDR You got it.
PLT Okay, thank you. Waiting for 22:05. And
the READY light's out on 191.
PLT Still have an UNLOCK light on 193 ALTIMETER.
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CDR Tracking.
PLT Still have the READY light also.
SPT HACK.
PLT Just lost the READY light at 45. Turning
it off in 15 seconds, stand by.
PLT Waiting for 22:05 at - foes to STANDBY
anyway.
PLT FRAMES ames to 71, 22:05. And I'ii turn it
back on at 20.
CDR Okay, we're not giving it a second exposure
on this one. Sequence.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER ON.
CDR Okay, we'll pickup with another double set here.
PLT Okay, 22:30, I should have a READY out on
190. There it goes. MODE to STANDBY. 23:30 190 MODE to
SINGLE. 23:30. I got an extra one.
PLT HACK.
SPT HACK.
CDR That's a terrible cough you got, Ed.
PLT Getting kind of a wheeze there too.
PLT Waiting for 23:30,
SPT Okay_ we're just able to do it when I move
that down to 20. Surprised that wasn't picked up before.
CDR (garble) sequence.
PLT MARK. 23:30 SINGLE. And waiting for
24:10 for a READY light on 191.
SPT HACK.
SPT HACK.
PLT Okay, Ed, we got it. 24:08, we've got it.
SPT Just finished it. (garble)
CDR Try and get you some more in here.
PLT UNLOCK light (garble)
CDR (garhle) 2 seconds.
PLT An ALTIMETER UNLOCK light at 24:19, and
standing by for 24:45.
SPT HACK.
PLT MARK. 190 MODE SINGLE.
SPT HACK.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1-1/2 minutes
to LOS. Next/station contact in i0 minutes. And we leave
you to hack your way on toward Ascension expecting to arrive
there at 17:35.
PLT Okay, ALTIMETER UNLOCK and READY light
lost at 25:15, off for 15 seconds.
SPT Fourth set of extra for S053. Coming up.
PLT MARK. Back on. RANGE (garble) Okay,
we got an UNLOCK light almost immediately.
SPT HACK.
PLT 25:50, stand by.
END OF TAPE

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SL-IV MC-2400/I

Time: 14:25 CDT, 68:19:25 GMT

CC - - Bermuda pass 9 minutes in duration.

CDR Stand by.

CC i0 seconds to LOS. Next station contact

PAO - attempts most of the scientific data

PAO Skylah Control at 19:58 Greenwich mean

PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours, 16 minutes

PAO This is Skylab Control at 20:55 Greenwich

CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for

PAO Skylab Control at 21:31 Greenwich mean

PAO Skyla5 Control at 21:34 Greenwich mean time.

PAO Skylab Control at 21:46 Greenwich mean

PAO Skylab Control at 22:32. We're coming

PAO Skylab Control at 22:55 Greenwich mean

do is 55, so we ougkt to leave it on line 25 and point with

discretion there but he considers it to have concluded at

PAO Skylab Control at 23:18 Greenwich mean

PAO Skylab Control at 23:30 Greenwich mean

PAO Skylab Control at zero hours 33 minutes

CDR Okay, Hank here comes the status report.

SPT Okay, Hank, at the time of 25:14 we were

CC And if we don't get you at Tananar!ve,

CDR Okay, Hank. Thanks. Enjoy the night

up to a normal level, and apparently had been working at

PAO Skylab Control at 1:39 Greenwich mean

mandatory sites, the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France,

PAO Skylab Control, January 23rd mission day

Greenwich mean time i0 hours and 26 minutes as Skylab was

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

photographic options today include metropolitan development

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

We still have about 2 minutes here at Carnarvon. I'm standing

observing a increasingly quiet Sun. The two active regions

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

CHR Okay, I've got the full message now, and

SPT Dick, I'd llke to go ahead and put a

acquisition in ii minutes and 55 seconds will be the Tananarive

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

CC Skylab, this is Houston. 40 seconds

PAO Skylah Control. Greenwich mean time

Canary tracking stations. Next acquisition through Tananarive

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

is out to 0.03 solar radii now and it is growing. You may

and we just finished a meeting with Gene Krans on a proposal

MCC And - Then you could, on your own,

we're down to the point now where quite a few experiments

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

SPT Thank you. I'm looking at the white light

we show that two have the max allowable of 8 minutes. Could

CC And the NuZ update's in so you got the

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

becomes available. Right now we're looking - continuing our

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

aboard the spacecraft due to the lowering of the beta angle.

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone

PAO Skylab control at 17 hours 21 minutes

CC Roger. And retraction is 2.6 turns

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 54 minutes

fooled by it but, by looking at the graph he could see that

CC CDR, this is Houston. We have the day