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Time: 17:11 CDT, 57:22:11 GMT

1/11/74

PAO Skylab Control 22:10 GMT. Space station

now about 30 seconds away for about a i minute and 30 second
pass over the Hawaii tracking station. We'll hold the line
up.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through Hawaii
for this real long pass of a minute and a half.
SPT - - Crip, would you clarify something for
me on ATM?
CC That's asking a lot of me Ed, but go
ahead.
SPT Crip, on 55 they have a GRATING POSITION
of 630, checking my list I don't see that that's included
us one which has a fair number of lines on the detector. I
was wondering if we could have had a misprint and they meant
620 on that one. Whatever it is however, they're getting good
data because I think they're seeing a prominence, a bright
area and a surge all in one. I'm carrying it down to line
25 rather than 13 so we can include that surge in there.
CC Ok - okay, we'll try and get you a quick
answer here. We only got about 45 seconds left. Some
information on that flare awhile ago that - it peaked at
about 21:03 which is about i minute after door closure so
you probably saw just about the whole thing and it -
it did fall off very rapidly after peak.
SPT Unfortunately, Crip, I had moved to
Sun center just at that point and been working 52. So we
- we did not pick that one up.
CC Rog, I understand that. I misunderstood
that earlier. We do want 630 that's got two valuable positions
in the helium continuum. I can't believe I got all of that
out.
SPT I knew you had it tucked in there some-
where. Thank you.
CC Surprising what having all of this
knowledge back in the backroom does to help you out.
PAO Skylab Control, 22 hours 16 minutes
Greenwich mean time, We've apparently lost signal through
Hawaii. We're about 6 minutes away from a 20 minute pass
over Goldstone, Texas, MILA, Bermuda, and about 15 minutes
away from S183 experiment, using the French-designed
ultraviolet panorama camera. This camera is used with the
scientific airlock in the articulated mirror system. And the
crew is having to count clockwise and counterclockwise terms -
turns rather as one of the indicators off of the articulated
mirror system is not functioning anymore. 22 hours 16
minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2001/I
Time: 17:21 CDT, 57:22:21 GMT
1/11/74
PAO Skylab Control, 22 hours, 21 minutes,
Greenwich mean time. Coming up on a four-way pass over the
United States, Goldstone, Texas, MILA, Bermuda for about 20
minutes. We_ll hold the line up. Right now Commander Carr
should be still cleaning himself up after his physical train-
ing. Ed Gibson is involved in housekeeping activities. And
Pilot Bill Pogue should be getting ready for his S183 ex-
periment. We're about 20 seconds away from acquisition
through Goldstone.
CC Skylab_ Houston_ we're AOS. Have you
through MILA with correction - we got you through Texas
and we have you for 12 minutes.
SPT Houstonj SPT.
CC Go_ SpT.
SPT Hey, Crlp_ somewhere we had a _ a couple
of numbers which I think just had a little bit of a - a bias
in the wrong direction in them, In the ATM solar padp the
schedule_ it had, on this last orbit_ to truncate at 16
minutes time remaining, even though it did have at least a
22:18 - said at the proper time denoted there. But_ when we
started the maneuver at 22:18p we had 17 minutes and 32
seconds left in the orbit, So_ I was a little bit ahead
and was able to squeeze all the observations in, but I think
the planning was done figuring that we could truncate at 16
minutes time remaining in time to do the maneuver. So there's
a couple of minutes lost in there somewhere and maybe they
could find out where it is and make sure we don_t have that
problem again because we could either miss the maneuver or
miss some o - observations.
CC You're absolutely right. That was the in -
that was the intent. Apparently we had an error; we appreciate
you bringing it to our attention.
SPT Thank you, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston_ we're about 45 seconds
from LOS. Wet ll have you again at Ascension in 9,1/2 minutes
at 22:50, 22:50.
PLT So long, Crip.
CC i
'Bye. We're sb_owing CMG 3 outer gimbal
on a stop_ and if theyt're a rate error, you might watch it.
PAO Skylab Space station now out of range of
the tracking antenna at Bermuda, Guidance officer here in
Mission Control indicated earlier that the S183 maneuver was
going along fine and Bill Pogue indicated to the ground team
down here that he had discovered about a 1-minute error in
the scheduling for the maneuver and the scheduling for the
operation part of the experiment_ indicating that he thought
if that happened again they might miss some data. Ground
acknowledged it was their mistake and theytll check that in the
future. Comet photography is still in progress up in Skylab
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usin_ the French-designed S183 ultraviolet panorama instru-

ment. Crew has asked to take a look at the storm, Wanda
as they go over it durin_ this next revolution. The storm
apparently didn't develop as scheduled and there's no require-
ment for them to take any pictures. However_ they've been
told that a good description would be nice to have. At 22
hours and 43 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2002/I
Time: 17:49 CDT 57:22:49 GMT
1/11/74

PAO Skylab Control, 22 hours 49 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station is now a little over
a minute from acquisition though the tracking site at
Ascension. Dr. Jerry Hordinsky indicates this eveningts
medical conference was "short, fast, and sweet." He had
this to say, "The two-thirds point of the mission has been
crossed with everyone in good health. Both the crew and
their ground-based monitors are optimistic about completing
the full 85 days." Also got a report from Dr. Karl Henize,
astronaut, scientist, and Spacecraft Communicator who says
he saw the comet at 39,000 feet near Lufkin, Texas, from
a NASA T-38 trainer. He says the magnitude of the comet
was very close to that of the Galaxy Aquarius which has a
nuclear magnitude of 4.9. Dr. Henize indicated that he
thought the left side from his vantage point of the tail
was sharper or brighter that the right side. He suspected
that the tail was broken into three distinct rays. He
was using binoculars to sight the comet. We'll hold the
line up for this pass over Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Ascension
for 5-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, anybody who is going
to have some time a - a little bit later on this pass at
about the time they were catching - contact over Guam in
oh, about 41 minutes. We're going to be coming up over
tropical storm Wands once more. And if anyone has an
opportunity to look out there window, it will be on the -
out of the 190 window is probably the best viewing again.
You guys did such a good job on visual observations of it last
night we'd be interested in any more verbal descriptions of it
you could give us.
SPT You sure know our weak points, Crip. What
time are we suppose tO go over it?
CC Yeah, I was just sitting here figuring
I could grab you with that one. It's at 23:38.
SPT Thank you.
CC And Ed, while you're there you talked
about that area around 290 today that you finally concluded
was probably a suspended prominence. And ground observers
concur.
SPT Yeah, that was around 250.
CC Yeah, Rog. That's the area.
SPT Crip, what has happen to tropical storm
Wanda, has it intensified?
CC Well, no, it hasn't grown like we were expecting.
I think last night I told you it might have up to 60-knot winds
and it still has only built up to about 40 knots at this time.
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SPT Thank you.

CC And actually it does appear to be
deminishing at this time. We are 1 minute from LOS. Next
station contact is over Carnarvon in 25 minutes, and we'll
be doing a data/voice recorder dump. That's at 23:21
23:21.
SPT So long Crip.
CC Bye.
PAO Skylab Control, 22 hours 57 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of
the antennas at Ascension. Next acquisition will be
23 minutes from now. That will be through Carnarvon,
Australia. This is Skylab Control.

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SL IV MC-2003/I
T£mez 18:19 CDT 57:23:1_ GMT
1/11/74

PAO Skylab Control, 23 hours and 19 minutes

Greenwich mean time, Space station is approaching acquisition
through the tracking site at Carnarvon, Australia. Pilot
Pogue should be nearing the end of his S183 experiment. And
Ed Gibson should be getting ready to go back to the ATM
control and display panel for some more observations of the
Sun. We_ll hold the llne up for this pass through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon for
9-1/2 minutes. Doing a data/voice recorder dump.
CDR Roger Bob.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Next station contact is in 3 minutes over Guam at
23:34. It_ll be shortly after that that you might be able
to pick up tropical storm Wanda.
CDR Thank you Crip.
PAO Skylah Control at 23 hours 31 minutes
Greenwich mean time, We're 2 minutes away from reacquiring
signal from the space station over the tracking antenna at
Guam, The crew will have an opportunity during this part of
this revolution to observe tropical storm Wanda, which isn't
developing as expected into a cyclone, although winds have
been reported up to 40 knots in the storm, We'll hold the
llne up for this pass over Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam. We
have you for i0_i/2 minutes.
PLT Crip, are you there?
CC Yes sir.
PLT Okay, we're looking at this storm and
it has one what l_d call pinwheel, and it leads down into a
fairly intense, but small center, which would be where the
eye were located if it were a tropical storm or hurricane type.
This If you could sort of draw an inverted comma, put the
head of the comma, then draw it up so that the tail ends up
about 12 o'clock, and the head of the comma is in the center of
the clock. There is another intermittent, but fairly well-
defined line of intense thunderstorms that extends up toward
about 2 o'clock. They're intermittent, the spacing, oh, I would
say 25 to 50 miles between individual thunderstorms, but they're
all real granddaddles. They're great big son-of-a-guns, and
I would say that that line extends probably up to the north-
east, to eastrnortheast about 250 miles.
CC Okay. Real good Bill, That's a good
description of it. I think I got a - -
PLT It's a huge circulation system and the
satellite photos ought to really amplify what we say there.
CC Rog.
CC Bill_ while ! was talking to you, we got
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plenty of time to do It, but sometime before you execute it_

I do need to make a mod to your sOIgK pad this evening, and
why don't you Just tell me when it's convenient with you.
PLT I think probably right now. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Right at the last there in the
remarks, we have terminate last exposure at 02:12:15. It
should be - just change to 02:12:00. That's actually when
we start the maneuver back to solar inertial.
PLT Roger. Terminate 02:12:00.
CC Rog Bill.
CC Bill, as long as I got you, also, before
you start gettin_ your evening dinner. Last night you re-
ported to us that the - you'd replaced tke squeezer bag, and
we were wonderinK if that was because of the original seal
problem that was up there when you launched or was there some
other problem?
PLT No, it the odors finally got to us, Crip,
and we Just changed it out for that reason.
CC Okay. A little odoriferous, huh?
PLT Affirm.
PLT Even if we can't pass the smell test
that they give us. We can pass that one.
CC Ah ha. Okay, very good.
CC And just as a matter of information for
you guys_ We are _ have copied a couple of TACS mlb firings
here this past acquisition, for the past couple of minutes
because we at a peak momentum period.
PLT Roger, Crlp.
SPT Hey Crlp, one other thing - I'm looking
at that storm, Bill outlined it pretty well. There was a
l_ne of thnnderstorms which went along the comma though,
which was fairly close lying in. Looked llke a fairly ex-
tensively long line, but very thin. Looked pretty much like
a squall llne.
CC Okay. Real good.
SPT About a couple of _undred miles long.
CC Rog. Rey_ Edp I was just taking the
opportunity here to see some of that TV_I01 you put down
earlier. That's really fantastic. You guys are having all
the fun up there.
SPT Yeah, that is a lot of funp Crip. There's
lots of good things you can do. I'm hoping we can have a
chance to get into that fluid mechanic series quite extensively
in the next couple of weeks.
CC Okay. That's certainly some weird looking
stuff when you see it presented like that.
SPT Hard to tell from the monitor up here
what the clarity was -

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1/ii/74

SPT - -certainly in the next couple of weeks.

CC I tell you that's certainly some weird
looking stuff when you see it presented llke that.
SPT Hard to tell from the monitor how much
clarity was. Was it focus fairly well.
CC It was beautiful, very sharp. Couldn't
have asked for any better.
SPT Could you see the clear fluid, the clear
water?
CC Yes sir. It stood out real well.
SPT Very good.
CC In fact you could even see little bubbles
sitting in it. We're about 30 seconds from LOS_ and next
station contact is over Goldstene in about 16 minutes, at
oh, just about on the hour 00:00. And about a remark_ l_ll
tell a little bit later. But Jerks phone call is set up
for the last portion of that CONUS pass over MILA, at
6 minutes after the hour.
SPT Roger.
PAO Sky lah Control, 23 hours 44 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station is out of range of the tracking
antenna at Guam now. Be reacquiring signal from S kylab
over Goldstone, in 14 minutes and 30 seconds. Spacecraft
Communicator Bob Crippen commenting on Ed Gibson's TV
which he performing this morning and later on through out
the day. - _ the quality was exceptional down here. He
also saw the storm Wanda Just east of the Philippine Islands.
Gave good verbal description of it. The storm however is
not developed into a cyclone as expected. At 23 hours
45 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SI-IV MC 2005/1
Time: 18:58 CDT, 57:23:58 GMT
1/11/74

PAO Skylab Control, 23 hours, 58 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station is nearing acquisition
through Goldstone, California. This pass will be over Gold_
stone, Texas, and Merritt Island. And then we_ll have a very
lon_ LOS as the space station goes between all of the tracking
sites. We_ll hold the line up_ about 30 seconds away from
acquisition of signal.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone
and we"re got you for 16_i/2 minutes across the States.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, if it becomes convenient,
finishing up with the ATM here, and you got time for it over the
CONUS pass, same thing that bit us on that nuZ update for the
previous maneuvers at - applicable for the SOI9K maneuver
upcoming and I need to give you another fine maneuver.
SPT Okay, Cripp can we hold off until after
sunset, please?
CC Yes_ sir. And we got plenty of time, I
was Just _ Just talking at you, And_ for the CDR in about,
oh, about a minute herep we_ll be all set up for his phone
call_ if he_s not up in the command module already.
PLT He_s already up t_ere_ Crip.
CC Okeydoke. Bill_ is this a convenient time
to ask you a questionp or would it be better to catch it a
little bit later?
PLT (.Static) Go ahead, Crip.
CC Stand by, We were handing over and I
can't read you. l*m sorry, Bill_ if - I don't know whether
you said it was convenient, but apparently it wasn't convenient
for our comm situation. Is this a good place to go ahead and
ask it?
PLT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Yes_ I guess this is another one of those
64_dollar questions where we're trying to ask you to go back
and test your memory a little bit. We did a CO monitor test
on mission day 46, and this is 58, so that's about 12 days
ago. And we apparently asked you about it once and we were
going to put it on tape and we still have not been able to find
it anywhere. Can you help us out there?
PLT Certainly can. That was the day before
EVA, if I recall. It was completely negative. I went through
the instructions, you know, and everything, and you look at
t_e little r Stand by i. Anyway_ the indicator didn't change,
and so the indication was negative. I thought I put it on
tape_ but apparently I didn':t.
CC Okay, well_ wet're had problems with getting
some of that lost sometimes_ so _ Very good, we got it, and
we appreciate it. Thank you,
PLT Rog,
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CC And, pLT, Houston_ Bill_ sorry to keep

bugging you, but got another question ! need if _ you haven't
caused you to gohble down your food there.
PLT Go ahead_ Crip.
CC Okay, we ware just dumping experiment i
recorder and we dldn_t see any modulation on it for this
past 183 operation, And that should have been on experiment
i. Can you tell us whether we had any problems there with
it - experiment i that you're aware of?
PLT Yes, there was a problem; it was entirely
procedural. I forgot to turn the switch on.
CC Okay, thank you very much.
SPT Crip, go ahead and speak to me of maneuver
pads.
CC Oh? yes_ my favorite subject. Okay_ on
the fine maneuver, on the SOIgK coming up -Ready to copy?
SPT Affirm.
CC Okay_ X is 51057p Y is 51074, Z is
50020. And the decimal equivalents are X, minus 0.47_ Y,
minus 0.60_ Z, plus 0.16.
SPT Okay, Crip, it's 51057, 51074, 50020,
for a minus 0.47, a minus 0.60, and plus 0.16.
CC That's a good readback, Ed, thank you
very much.
SPT Thank you.

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SL-IV MC2006/I
Time: 19:13 CDT 58:00:13 GMT
1/11/74

CC Skylab, Rouston_ weVre 1 minute from

LOS. And next station contact is all the way around, an
hour and 20 minutes away at Goldstone at 01:36. And we'll
be doing a data/voice recorder dump there and also that's
where we're set up for the evening status repport.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CC And Skylab, Houston, the VTR belongs to
you guys again. I believe we got a some recording on the
ATM coming up.
PLT Thank you_ Crip.
PAO Sky lab Control? at 16 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Loss of signal from space station Skylab. Next
acquisition will be 1 hour and 19 minutes from now through
Goldstone. Some conversation between Bill Pogue and Bob
Crippen about the telemeter information from the S183
experiment. It turns out that Bill Pogue forgot to
activate the experiment one recorder. However the Corollary
Experiments Officer here in Mission Control informs us that
the only thing which was lost was information indicating the
beglnnlnz and the ending picture taking sequence. Those
are timing signals and we have that information on voice
from Bill Pogue, Also some conversation and update to the
S01g maneuver which will be coming up in about an hour.
That's another comet taking session using the S019 ultra-
violet stellar astronomy instrument. This instrument will also
be situated in the scientific airlock and uses the articulated
mirror system. - - over an hour and 18 minutes until our
next acquistlon. This is Skylab Control at 18 minutes
Greenwich mean time.

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SL-IV MC2007/I
Time: 20:35 CDT, 58:01:35 GMT
1/11/74

PAO Skylab Control at i hour 35 minutes

Greenwich mean time. After an hour and 15 minutes of silence
space station Skylab is once again coming into range of the
tracking antenna at Goldstone, California. Commander Cart
will have finished his physical training and personal hygiene
and his evening meal. And Science Pilot Ed Gibson who is
at the ATM C&D console while Pilot Bill Pogue was eating
dinner will have traded places with him. And should be just
finishing up his dinner. As Pilot Pogue is involved in
watching the Sun. During this pass we'll have the evening
status report. We'll hold the line up for live air-to-ground
in about l0 seconds from now.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're A0S at Goldstone, we
have you for 14 minutes. And we're doing a data/voice recorder
dump. And we're standing by for the evening status report.
PLT Roger, Crip, while Jerry's getting that
ready, I have the ATM film count. 11852, 3742, 141, 315,
4026, 3739.
CC Very good, thank you, Bill.
CDR Okay, Crip, here comes the photo pad
photo log first. 16_millimeter, EREP ops or VTS, Charlie
Lima ii, 62, S183, Uniform Alfa 04, 79, Nikons: 01, Charlie
X_ray 40, 51_ 02, India Romeo i0, 05; 03, Charlie India 113,
55: 04, Bravo Echo 09, 26_ 05, Bravo Hotel 06, 15. Okay, one
word of explanation on the IR, we had one exposure where
the flash dldn_t go off, and that's why we're to 5 instead of 4.
Okay. 70_millimeter, Charlle X_ray 50, 005; ETC, Charlie
Tango 12, 079_ EREP: set X-ray 0183_ 2364, 9907, 9269, 1040,
9967. Drawer A: no change. That's it on the photo log.
CC Okay, if I could get a word in here.
We see somebody's using the recorder and we do need to
dump it hera if we can.
CDR Ed_s doing i01 TV-IOI. Stand by.
Okay_ he_s stopped for now, go ahead and dump it. Okay, the
evening status report. Sleep: CDR, 6.0, 5 heavy, i light;
SPT, 6.0, 4.5 heavy, 1.5 light_ PLT, 7.0, 6.5 heavy, 0.5 light.
Volumes: N/A. Water gun: 8404; 4318 I 0459. Body mass: CDR,
6.303, 6.303, 6.3021 SPT, 6.373, 6.370, 6.373; PLT, 6.247,
6.248, 6.242. Exercise: CDR, no Bravo or Charlie methods
tonight_ SPT, no change_ PLT, no change. Okay, now we got
some st _ changes to the standard exercise patterns. For
the CDR, method Echo, add neck isometrics, zero minutes, because
the isometrics are being done while I'm doing other exercises,
40 repetitions a total of i0 each in each direction, forward
back and right and left_ SPT, method Bravo, minus B in curl
reduce that by i0 minutes and by i00 repetitions. So what
it should be now is 15 minutes and I00 repetitions. Okay, PLT,
method Echo_ add nec_isometries_ again no time, and 200 repet-
itions for him, 50 in each direction. Okay, medications: none for
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anyone. Clothing: CDR, socks and shirt; SPT, socks, shorts,

T-shirt, and trousers; PLT, none. Okay, the food log: CDR,
salt 8.5, deviations, plus one strawberry drink, plus one
lemonade, plus one coffee with sugar, no extra water; SPT,
zero salt, plus biscuits, plus one coffee with sugar, plus
one grape drink, minus 20 cc's of the grape drink for use in
TV_I01, rehydration water zero; salt packs for the PLT is 7.0.
deviations, plus one tea, plus one coffee with sugar, rehydration
water zero. Okay, Flight Plan deviations: TV-101, the SPT has
invested 3 extra hours in that over what was in the Flight
Plan today. About i and 3/4 of that or so was last night
and the other _ the rest of it was done today, piecemeal.
Shopping list accomplishments: all housekeeping was con
accomplished I should say the housekeeping, and I have spent a
total of an hour and a half on overage food density - inventory
I beg your pardon, overage food inventory. And I'ii have a
full inventory down on tape this evening. Inoperable
equipment: none. Unscheduled stowage: none.

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1111174

CC Okay, very good Jer.

CC The investment of the grape drink was worth-
while.
CC CDR, Houston, one item I'd like to
discuss with you briefly, and I guess that will probably
be it cause we haven't got any real questions for this
evening.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Rog. In the ATM conference today there
was a discussion regarding scheduling of ATM. And one item
l_d llke to correct there - we're going to have a handover
here, and I tell you what let me pause and I'ii call you
out of it.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, the handover's complete now and
we're through with the data/voice recorder dump, so if Ed
needed anymore it's all his again. Regarding what I was
discussing on ATM. Apparently we had a little bit of mis-
information - that had gotten to Bill there. We used a
30-minute minimum for scheduling on things like lunch. And
knowing that you've got adequate amount of time for you guys
to eat lunch and get everything all squared away and get
back up to the ATM panel. So we have been scheduling back
to back ATMs with you know_ lunch over the evening period on
the nightside. So, that is being done and there is really
nothing to pick up there.
CDR Okay, We've talked over the idea of
startin_ an ATM pass about 30 minutes after wakeupp and
because this is our last chance at a flare I think we're
willing to bend over backwards during this high activity
period of time when the - we're at the hot longitude.
Let's go ahead and schedule that or somebody for 30 minutes
after get up, to do those ATM passes. And if it begins to
get to us, we'll let you know.
CC Okay, so noted.
CC Can I interpret that we're - your leaving
that to our option based on solar activity?
CDR Yeah_ that's essentially it. I think
that once this hot longitude has gone by and the Sun gets
super quite again then I don't think we need to really break
our necks trying to get all the extra ATM time. But let's
kind of play that by ear when the time comes.
CC Okay, real good. And we will do like
I believe it was on done the other day and schedule
him for his full PSA after the ATM.
CDR Yeah. Probably what he'll do is Just
grab a bit to eat and whistle up to the ATM and get
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started. And then after that period's over come down and
take care of the urine sampling, and finish up his breakfast.
CDR I think it would be a wise thing to
be sure and give him his PSA right after the ATM pass.
Because keep in mind that he'll probably only have a little
breakfast in him, and he's got other chores that he's got
to do.
CC Okay, so noted.
CC And one other point for clarification
on the - on your exercises. The changes that you gave us,
was that included today or is that starting tomorrow?
CDR We'll start that tomorrow.
CC Okay.
CDR Today was a freebe.
CC One freebe, thank you sir. I'ii get
our of your hair for a while. We still have you for about
4_i/2 more minutes, but that's all we had for discussion.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hey, Crip, a couple of things. Could
you tell me how much VTR time can be alotted to TV-101
tonight?
CC Stand byp i.
SPT Okay_ Crip while your getting that one
let me just tell you a couple of things that I saw on the
last ATM pass, or the one before that. It's primarily
what we saw in the H_alpha display, and it looks as though
we have pretty good prominence coming around the bend. The
one prominence which we saw at 250 degrees there is another
foot of a prominence at around 2 are minutes below that,
that is toward the south. Another foot 2 arc minutes beyond
that one, another foot at i_i/2 arc minutes and a fourth
foot at around 1-1/2 arc minutes. So there is quite a
bit there. There also are a couple of other small prom_
inences in on the limb which l_m sure y'all can see.
CC Okay Ed, we've just seen some TV earlier
of the prominence itself, the one that - that is disconnected
from _ from the disk_ but haven't seen the feet. But thank
you very much.
CC And Ed in answer to your question you
can have 17 minutes for the VTR tonight. There is a little
bit more than that, but we're having to save it for tomorrow
morning on the - to get some TV downlink on the , pardon me,
on VTR 2D on the ATM.
SPT 17 minutes. Okay_ thank you.
CC Ed, would you care to speculate about
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how much more time you think you need for that.
SPT Well Crip, put it this way. I'm about
half way through the number of specified runs. That's with-
out including any different materials with change - which change
surface tension, or air bubble inclusion or a couple of all the
other good things that are mentioned. I think probably be about
another 1-1/2 times what is already on there.
CC Okay_ we copy it, Thank you.
SPT And after that Crip as long as we've
got the water works all set up here, you might as well
press on with a couple of the other things in the fluid
mechanics series. And why don't you let me take and look
them over and make a few suggestions. And if you folks
have any why don't you come up with some also.
CC Okay, very good. We are about
30 seconds from LOS. And next station contact is over
Vanguard in about i0 minutes at 02:00.
PAO Skylab Control at i hour 51 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of
the tracking antenna at Corpus Christi. We'll reacquire
in 9 minutes. Some interchange there between Bob Crippen
and Commander Carr. Jerry Carr indicating his crew's
willingness to get up, grab a bit to eat and then dash to
the ATM C and D panel so that they could get whatever
opportunity was remaining of observing solar flares on
the Sun as the Sun turns around and it's active region
no longer faces the space station. Ed Gibson also indicated
that he had about i_i/2 times more than what he had already
dumped of TV_I01 to do. That's a liquid dynamics experi_
ment. Ground has indicated to him that the TV is excel-
lent so far. However having to space out his recording of
it to maintain some TV tape coverage for tomorrow morning's
ATM. Eight minutes left to acquisition through the
Vanguard tracking ship. This is Skylab Control at i hour
52 minutes Greenwich mean time.

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SL IV MC-2009/I
Time: 20:57 CDT 58:01:57 GMT
1/11/74

PAO Skylab Control 1 hour 57 minutes Greenwich

mean time. Space station is now over western South America.
We're about 2-i/2 minutes away from acquisition of signal
through the Vanguard tracking ship. Pilot Bill Pogue should
be involved in Comet Kohoutek photography at this point. He'll
be using instrument S019, the ultraviolet stellar astronomy
camera. This camera was originally designed to study ultra-
violet llne spectra and spectral energy distribution of the
early or young stars and to obtain ultraviolet spectra in a
large number of the Milky Way star fields. This camera is
being used to observe the ultraviolet spectra of the Comet
Kokoutek. It uses the articulated mirror system and looks
out of the scientific airlock. Principle investigator for this
experiment is Scientist Astronaut and Spacecraft Communicator
Dr. Karl Henlze. Dr. Henize has indicated to us in an earlier
conversation that he expects to gain some information from
the stellar astronomy part of this experiment on the origins
of the universe. Should be very interesting results from
this experiment. We'll hold the llne up for acquisition of
the space station about 1 minute from now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
Vanguard for i0_i/2 minutes.
SPT Roger Crip.
CC Rog, and we're going to go ahead and
plan on making this the last pass I'm going to talk to you for
this evening. There is an upcoming Tananarive pass in about
30 minutes and then Goldstone's about an hour and 15 minutes
away. But, we'll go ahead and say good night here, and to-
morrow morning we'll give you a call over Honeysuckle at
Ii=19, that's 11:19, and that's to get Ed up in time to go do
his thing on the ATM panel.
SPT Thank you Crip. Sure do appreciate it.
PLT Crip, I'm just experiencing an anomaly
on the SO19 I think they'd probably want to know about. I
was trying to put it into slide retract to pickup the next
frame and it was - would not - did not want to go from
carriage retract, so I pushed on it rather hard, because
this fixed it the other day , and this time I felt a sort
of a crunching feel and it made a sort of crunching noise,
and now the handle is freewheeling more or less. It just
flops back and forth, so I think we're in trouble.
CC (Laughter) It sounds llke it.
PLT This time a bigger hammer didn't work,
Karl.
CC Gather that_ yes. Okay. Very good.
Let me see if we could - I guess that pretty well describes
it. I don"t see any questions I could ask you.
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CC And PLT, Houston. In looking over the

Flight Plan here, I guess our recommendation would be if you
want to go ahead and do that S019 stow I that we'd scheduled
for you tomorrow, this evening and go ahead and get that out
of the road, well that will be fine.
PLT Okay.
CC Can - Billp did we get any frames at all?
PLT Yes, I got the 12_mlnute exposure on the
comet.
CC Okay. Very good. And, one other item,
I _uess may be obvious, but as far as the maneuver is concerned
we want to go ahead and maintain this attitude until the
regular scheduled time to come out of it.
PLT Rog. Understand. Also, Crip, in case
the procedures people get concerned about it, I will use -
I will reverse the number of turns counterclockwise in the
first step to get back to zero rotation.
CC Rog. That's fine.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
And as I said before, we'll say good night. Tananarive is
02:29. We're not planning on givinE you a call there and
i0,000 in the DAS does not work there, since we aren't - we don't
have any data from Tananarive. I'm assuming you guys concur
that you don't think you'll need any - any air-to-ground
there.
PLT Affirmative. We'll say good night, Crip.
CC Okay guys. We'll see you manana.
SPT Good night Crip.
CDR Good night Crip.
CC Good night.
PAO Skylab Control, 2 hours 12 minutes Greenwich
mean time. CAP COMM Bob Crippen has said goodnight to the
crew. Bill Pogue reported that in trying to operate the S019
UV stellar astronomy camera, that there was a crunch during
one of the procedures, indicating that the instrument had been
broken. The corollary experiments officer has indicated to us
though, that they're going to troubleshoot and see if they
can't get the instrument to be used for some of the experiments.
The crew was scheduled to go to bed about an hour and 15 minutes
from now, however it's a don't call us, we'll call you situation.
Ground is maintaining an hour of presleep silence so the crew
can sort of wind down from their day's activities, prepare
themselves for bed. We'll stay around until the crew does
go to sleep in case they should have a call. At 2 hours and
13 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2010/I
Time: 21:27 CDT, 58:02:27 GMT
1/11/74

PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 27 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station is now over the voice
relay site at Tananarive. We don't expect any conversation,
however, an update on Bill Pogue's S019 experiment, during
which time he reported he thought he broke the camera, and the
ground agreed that they thought he probably did. He did get
one 12-minute exposure of the comet. That was the object of
the experiment, so even on the instrument's last day it was
working to the very end. Tomorrow morning, 16:00 Greenwich
mean time there will be an Earth resources pass - Earth
resources pass number 27 on groundtrack number i. That will
start over Baja - Baja, Mexico, and will go up through the
Dallas, Forth Worth area, crossing the Mississippi River
at St. Louis, go up through Chicago, Lake Michigan, Detroit
area. And then over Montreal and northeast Canada to the
Atlantic Ocean. Weather in the Mexican and south and central
sections of the United States is zero to 3/10 cloud cover.
The Earth resources people say that that's very good. However,
from Detroit through Montreal the weather is cloudy with
8 to i0 tenths coverage, that's almost complete cloudiness.
However, weather changes so rapidly, the Earth resources
people expect that the entire track will be clear by tomorrow
morning. We'll leave the line up for this brief pass through
Tananarive in case the crew should have anything to say to the
ground. - - 3 minutes from LOS at Tananarive right now.
PAO Skylab Control 2 hours 33 minutes. Space
station now out of range of the voice relay station at
Tananarive. Next acquisition will be 42 minutes 23 seconds
from now through Goldstone. And we expect the crew to be
asleep by that time. Crew wakeup for tomorrow is at 11:19
Greenwich mean time, 6:19 central daylight time. That'll
be over Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Prior to bringing our
line down I'd like to read you some comments that Bill Pogue
put on the data/voice recorder, about the Comet Kohoutek which
he - about 3 hours ago. "The comet is very faint, but the
length of the tail has shortened very little if any from
our estimate." He noticed that it still fills oh, a good
2/3 of the field across the binoculars. - - is still very
faint now as far as visual magnitude is concerned." He
mentions that he had difficulty seeing it and he had to get
dark adapteds in order to see the comet. However, it's still
visible from Skylab's vantage point, 230 some miles above the
surface of the Earth. At Greenwich mean time 2 hours 35
minutes, this is Skylab Control. We're going to bring the
line down. Our next broadcast will be tomorrow morning at
06:00 central daylight time, ii:00 Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2011/I
Time: 06:18 CDT, 58:11:18 GMT
1/12/74

PAO Good morning. This is Skylab Control at

11:18 Greenwich mean time. Wakeup call due over the upcoming
pass over Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking station, on
duty in Mission Control is Flight Director Nell Rutchinson.
Spacecraft Communicator is Bruce _IcCandless and wetre standing
by for a wakeup call to the crew of space station Skylab.
(Music: "Come Saturday }{orning")
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Good morning
from your friendly silver team. And in case you hadn't recog-
nized the music, it's "Some Saturday Morning" on a - or "Come
Saturday Morning," on a Saturday morning down here in Houston.
I'd like to remind the SPT, he's got an ATM pass. The actual
activity starting at 11:42 or about 19 minutes from now and
we're 1 minute from LOS. Next station contact is 50 minutes
through Madrid at 12:14. Out.
CDR Hello, Bruce.
CC Roger. Good morning to you and we will
have a data/voice tape recorder dump at AOS Madrid. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Wakeup call through
Honeysuckle by Spacecraft Communicator Bruce McCandless to the
crew of Skylab space station and appropriatly enough for a
Saturday morning, the music was "Come Saturday Morning." Next
station in 48 minutes, Madrid. Canary Island station will not
be up for this pass. Even though the space station does cross
the Canaries horizon, wontt be supporting this particular rev-
olution. So we'll be back in 48 minutes. This is Skylab Control
at 11:25 Greenwich mean time.

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SL-IV MC-2012/I
Time: 07:12 CDT 58:12:12 GMT
01/12/74

PAO This is Skylab Control. 12:12 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition at Madrid in 50 seconds. Science
Pilot Ed Gibson should be operating the first ATM pass of
the day, while the other two crewmen are in the so-called
post sleep activity, which included breakfast. Standing
by here for Madrid acquisition in 20 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 7-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump and
a brief note for the SPT on solar activity.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger, On the solar activity update
that we sent you this morning we indicated that active
region 20 had produced a l-bright flare. Vela (?) reports that
this was really an M_3 class flare and the time was right,
10:28 Zulu. Over.
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
CC I guess you keep an eyeball on active
region 20 and if you all are ready l_ve got the morning
news here,
SPT Roger. Go ahead,
CC Okay_ Cairo: Americans traveling with
Secretary of State Henry A. Kiasinger, are hopeful that a
basis for negotiating a troop disengagement on the Suez front
will be found within a week. Kissinger, who arrived in Egypt
Friday meets with President Anwar Sadat for 2-1/2 hours, today
continuing discussions he began with the Egyptian Cchief of
State, Friday night. After a working lunch with Sadat,
Kissinger will depart for Jerusalem for a meeting with
Israeli leaders. Houston: A thin 17-year-old by the name
of Elmer Wayne Henley goes on trial here, Monday, in the
largest mass murder case in modern U.S. history. Henley,
a high school junior a junior high school dropout, who
wore a wispy goatee at his arraignment, will be tried under
extremely heavy security_ surrounded during all court sessions
by a wall of deputy sheriffs and bailiffs, In all, 32 guard
posts will be set up around the fifth-floor Harris County
courtroom. The first days will be devoted to pretrail motions
and jury selection. Lawyers have estimated it will be 2 to
6 weeks before the first testimony is heard. Chicago: Another
couple of inches of snow fell Friday, bringing the season's
snowfall so far up to nearly the average for the entire
wnter, More than 32 inches of snow have fallen in the city.
Its total average, annual fall is 39.7 inches. South Dakotans,
getting used to snhrzero weather after 13 straight days of it,
are searching the books for the coldest winter season on record.
Since December 29, temperatures across the state have averaged
15 to 25 degrees below normal with the lowest reading of 40
below reported at Flandreau on January i, On the west coast,
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southern Californians braced for another spell of rain and

snow after a brief respite when the sun shone for a few
hours. New storm warnings persuaded San Bernardino officials
to ban travel on mountain highways over the protest of resort
operators who contend they%re losing $10,000 daily. County
officials said work crews were still clearing snow from
highways in an operation that has cost 600K. New York: The
stock market ended this week on an upswing after 5 straight
losing sessions. After sharply dropping more than 57 points
during the week, the Dow Jones industrial average bounced
back Friday to close up 18.37 points at 841.48. On the New
York Stock Exchange, advancing issues outnumbered those
declining 986 to 469, and the Exchange_s index of some 1500
common stocks rose 0.62 to 50.12, Some analysts described
the turnabout as a natural rebound after the losses, and
others said investors were taking advantage of lowered prices.
On the American Stock Exchange, the margin of advances over
losers was almost 2 to i, and the AMEX market value index
added 0.18, closin_ 93.33. Palm Springs: President Nixon
has spent a third night, here_ amid speculation he planned to
return to Washington today, Nixon talked twice by telephone
on Friday with Secretary of State Kissinger before he left for
the Middle East, and the President spent some time working on
the budget and tke State of tke Union message he will present
to Congress later in tke month_ And for the SPT, could you
start H_alpha i, running. Nixon also played 9 holes of golf
with his Florida neighbor_ C. G. (Bebe) Rebozo and ate lunch
in the warm desert Sun on a patio at the estate of Ambassador
to Britain Walter H. Annenberg_ where he, Rebozo, Mrs. Nixon
and President':s daughter Tricla have been staying since
Wednesday. European energy situation: The Netherlands, the
only European country under an Arab oil embargo, began to
ration gasoline today in an attempt to conserve fuel. Sweden
initiated a mild form of rationing earlier in the week, and
Norway is scheduled to begin a complicated 4-tier rationing
system on January 25. Most Western European countries continue
to rely on reduced speed limits and Sunday driving bans to cut
gas consumption, but Britain and Switzerland are known to
have contingency rationing plans ready. Port Neches, TeJas:
3 huge oil _ oil storage tanks were still afire today, but
firemen said they had contained a roarin_ 6 tank fire that had
threatened to consume a large petrochemical complex. Firemen
kept a wary eye on the remnants of the furious fire in a Mobil
Oil Company storage farm at the complex in this southeast Texas
city. One of the tanks still born - burning reportedly held
70,000 barrels of crude oil. The earthen levees built around
the fire zone, the efforts of firemen from area cities, plants
and refineries and the rainy weather were credited with pre-
venting a major catastrophe. Washington: Iran has agreed to
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buy 30 Grumman FI4 fighter planes at about double the currently

negotiated per plane price between the manufacturer and the
Defense Department, the Pentagon announced Friday. The planes,
plus parts and training, will cost $900 million. Cape Town
South Africa: Doctors have predicted a good chance of sur_
vival for 3 boys and 3 girls born Friday to a 25-year-old
woman. The sextuplets are spending the critical first 40
hours of llfe in incubators, handled as little as possible
and fed intravenously. The babies were delivered by Caesarean
section to Susan Rosenkowitz, who took fertility drugs. Great
Britain: Few pub owners seem to be eomplainin_ about the
energy crisis. Business is booming, they indicated in a spot
check of owners. They seem to agree that the national emer-
gency is driving people to drink. Breweries are classified
as food producers and are working a full week together with
other essential industries. Others are restricted to a 3-day
work week. It's no surprise that people are drinking more
said one pub owner. It always happens in times of crisis.
Many are doing it to bolster themselves for a lon_ and crowded
journey home. One bartender said, "We're a haven to workers
from unlit and unheated offices. People who are not working
come to the pub to spend time with their mates." Washington:
Senator William Proxmire said Friday he has nominated a woman to
the United States Military Academy, even though the service
academies will not accept women. "To continue prohibiting
women who want to serve from receiving the education and other
advantages of the academies is to deny this country an immense
talent resources" said the Wisconsin Democrat. He said the
name of Kathy Bartilson, a senior at Chippewa Falls High
School, will be submitted along with those of 19 men to compete
for his two available appointments to West Point. We've got
i minute to LOS. Next station contact in 27 minutes through
Carnarvon at 12:48. Mrs. John Horn of Michigan says she's
been fighting fat all her life, but really nothing worked
until s_e told her dentist_ "Shut my mouth." She's already
lost 17 pounds since she had her jaw wired shut two weeks
ago and that's all the news for this morning.
SPT Thanks a lot_ Bruce,
CC Okay_ you want to read it back to me?
SPT Where do you want me to pick up?
CC All after Cairo.

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SL-IV MC2013/I
Time: 07:22 CDT, 58:12:22 GMT
1/12/74

PAO This is Skylabr Control. Loss of signal

from Madrid. Next station in 25 minutes, Carnarvon, Australia.
Skylab space station crewmen today begin their 58th day in
space, concentrating on solar studies as the more active side
of the Sun comes back into view. Other items in today's
Flight Plan include an Earth resources pass, comet Kohoutek
photography, and medical experiments. Apollo telescope mount's
solar study today will place emphasis on gathering data on a
solar prominence near the east limb of the Sun. Other ATM
activities will include synoptic studies, Sun centered cali-
bration of the instruments, and coronal studies. Jerry Carr
and Ed Gibson will man the solar telescope console for eight data
take sessions today. Some 5 hours and 31 minutes of data will be
gathered. Today's Earth resources pass will be on track i
which begins in the Pacific Ocean at the Equator, going north-
west, crossing the tip of Baja, California, across Western
Mexico, through the state of Chihuahua, crossing into Texas
Just north of the Big Bend National Park, then over west Texas
into Oklahoma, passing just south of Oklahoma City and Tulsa
into Missouri, and passing north of Springfield and St. Louis.
Over lllinois on a path taking them just north of Detroit, to
Toronto and Ottowa, and on over the St. Lawrence River and
Gulf, crossing Newfoundland and the North_Atiantic. The pass
will last a total of 25 minutes. Photo data will be taken
across Mexico to identify areas where cropland irrigation
is being used or should be used. Photo data will also be
gathered all along the pass over the United States. Photo
mapping will be performed across Canada. Storm fronts and
clouds will be studied with a sea state in the North Atlantic.
Also studies will be made of cloudless ocean sites in the
Atlantic. All three crewmen will be involved in the operation
of the Earth resources data gathering equipment for this
EREP pass today, will begin around 11:46 a.m. central daylight.
Bill Pogue has scheduled some photos of comet Kohoutek with
the S063 ultraviolet camera around 5 p.m. today and more
comet photos will be taken by Carr at 9 p.m. with the $201
X-ray ultraviolet eletronographic camera. Both photo sessions
require maneuvering this Skylab cluster to get proper pointing
to capture the comet on film. Photos are also scheduled earlier
today with a 35-millimeter7 Nikon camera to record the brightness
of the comet. Gibson will be the subject for M092/MI71 lower
body negative pressure/metabolic activity medical experiment.
Bill Pogue is the observer. Pogue will also take facial photos
of Gibson during the medical experiment. Limb volume measure-
ments will be made by Jerry Cart and Bill Pogue to determine
possible loss of limb size due to zero gravity. A number of
optional photo targets are on today's docket. At 8:36 a.m.,
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the star dunes of the southern quarter of Saudi, Arabia will

be the target to study the relationship of sand sources to dune
distribution and the transition of dune patterns. At 10:13 and
10:15 a.m., photo targets will be the Gulf of Mexico current
and the Florida or better known as Gulf Stream current to
investigate the changing characteristics, the boundaries, and
relation to land masses. Sea and lake ice in the Gulf of
St. Lawrence will be the target at 11:57 a.m. At 1:25 p.m.,
Skylab will be over California and the San Andreas Fault zone
will be the subject. Mount Ranier and Mount Adams in Washington,
will be the photo option at 3:02 p.m. for studying changes in
snow line to better predict the amount of water runoff. Fault
zones in the Northern Rocky Mountains will be the subject at 3:03 p.m.
for photography. Earlier in the day at 10:16 a.m., the crew
has an option to photograph a laser becon as they pass over the
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The
crew is scheduled to retire at i0 p.m. central as they pass
over the Vanguard tracking ship. Ed Gibson will ha_e the duty
for the evening in case a crew wakeup is needed. 20 minutes
to tracking station Carnarvon in Australia. At 12:28 Greenwich
mean time, Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2014/I
TIME: 07:47 CDT, 58:12:47 GMT
1/12/74

PAO This is Skylab Control_ 12:47 Greenwich

mean time and space station Skylab is about 50 seconds
away from being acquired from the antennas at Carnarvon,
Australia tracking station on the west coast of Australia
north of Shark Bay. Overlapping coverage here between
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle Creek, a total of about 14 minutes.
Standln_ by for AOS Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, th_s is Houston_ through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle Creek for. 13_i/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skyl_b_ thi_ _S Houston; we show $052
st_ll running in the continous mode with the door closed.
We'd llke to get it shut off, please.
CDR Got it, Bruce.
CC Roger; thank you.
CC And, when you have a chance we also
need to get the MPC roll to inhibit, Jet.
CDR Okay.
CDR l'm changing out tzleprinter paper right
now_ Bruce_ I_ii have it ready in about i0 minutes.
CC Okay_ thank you.
CC Just to satisfy our curiosity, Jerry,
did you get the red stripe on the teleprinter paper? Over.
CDR Negative. It's just that the paper
was coming out kind of tightly spooled, indicating that we're
near the end of the roll, and it was convenient to change
it now.
CC Okay. Did all your messages come through
okay?
CDR Yes, they were fine.
CDR Okay, Bruce, the paper's in. Run us
up a test message would you please?
CC Okay, we_ll do that. And I don't know
if we'll have time to get it out to the site this station
or not though.
CDR Okay.
CC No, I'm seeing two heads shaking left/right
in unison, so it'll be Merritt Island at 12:35 12:30
at, excuse me, at 13:36 before we can get you one.
CDR Okay, fine.
CC And along the same lines we've taken
the Video tape recorder here and we're rewinding and we'll
be dumpin_ over MILA. And when we get enough cleaned off
to make it worth your while to do something with it, we'll
let you know. Over.
CDR Very good. Thank you_ Bruce.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce,
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1/12/74

CC Roger, in shutting down S052 it looks

to us like you gave it a stop command. What we now need is you
to reset all the internal logic is the auto door switch to
normal, and then the main power switch to STANDBY, and
then back to ON, please. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute and
i0 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in 35 minutes
through Merritt Island at 13:36. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of signal
through Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. The space station
now crossin_ the southernmost tip of the south island of
New Zealand, The next station to pick up Skylab will be
Merritt Island Launch Area station and Bermuda in 32 minutes.
We'll be back then. At 13:03 Greenwich mean time, Skylab
Control.

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SL-IV MC-2015/I
Time: 08:34 CDT, 58:13:34 GMT
1/12/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13:34 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition at Merritt Island Launch Area tracking
station in 50 seconds, followed by Bermuda and a dropout
of 4 minutes or so over to Madrid. AOS Madrid in about
23 minutes. Playback of one of the science demonstrations,
the so-called liquid float zone recorded on the onboard video
tape recorder is under way in the - on the monitors in the
Houston newsRoom. Ed Gibson being the demonstrator. 10 sec-
onds to acquisition at MILA. Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston through MILA for 11-1/2
minutes. Good morning.
CDR Good morning, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. If the PLT can listen
to me while he's PTing there, I've got one item for him this
morning, that is, we uplinked last night an SO19 MAL procedure
that we would like for him to run during the S019 stow he's
going to do as soon as he finishes his PT and PH. What we're
trying to do is free up canister 002 and see if we can get
something to run SO19 with.
PLT Okay, Hank. You say you're sending that
up now.
CC It should be on board, Bill.
PLT Okay.
CC It's message number 5855.
PLT Okay. I've got it.
CDR Houstonp CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Hey, Hank. At 12;52 t tka_tye got the PLT
scheduled to load three more bags with boric acid, And_
according to the schedule that was uplinked to us, we're
not suppose to have to do any more of that. All the rest
of them are new bag days. Could you get us a clarification
on that?
CC Okay. This is one of the changes that
came out during the FMT, Jerry. It was decided that they
would resume the use of the boric acid tablets for this day
only. And it was - the whole thing concept is still under
discussion.
CDR Well, l_m glad they clued us in on it.
CC In fact_ tkat's the topic of the discussion
at the FMT this morn_ng_ is to - tkat we want to continue
to do this. Tkere_is some concern over retaining the -some
of the samples reserving them, in case we do have a freezer
failure or something like that.
CDR Okay, Well if they make a decision_
how about letting us know. Would you?
CC Okay. Sure will,
CDR This loading bags with boric acid is a time
consuming, bothersome thing to do. And if we're going to
do it l_d like to get it all done at once instead of piece
mealing it out over the next 28 days.
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CC Okay. And I guess we concur with that

too, Jerry. And we'll sure try to get you a concrete answer
on it.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC And, CDR, while we've got you here we
need to get S054 running again.
CDR Roger.
CDR Message on the teleprinter's no good.
It fades off on the right side. Let me readjust and
we'll try again.
CC Okay. We were Just going to tell you
that it was on board, Jer.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're about a
minute from LOS. We'll be coming up on Madrid at 50 and
we'll be prepared to ship you another test message at that
site if you get the adjustment made.
CDR Okay.

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CC Skylab, Houston tkrough Madrid for

8 minutes.
CDR Hello, Hank,
SPT We're ready to try that teleprinter
message again, Hank.
CC Okay, we'll ship her up.
CC Skylab, Houston; can you verify the
TPR switch is in command?
SPT It is now, Hank.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Okay, you should have one on board now.
SPT Thank you.
PLT (garble) PLT with a report on the S019
melf.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Roger. Step 3 took both hands to move
it into the slide retracked position. Sort of clinched my
fingers together and put the heel of my hands on - on the
lever and on the opposite side of the - or on the backside
of the film canister and pushed as hard as I could with the
heel of my hands and it moved into the slide retracked position
with a sudden quick movement. I started to move this lever
very slowly backwards and see - it was very easy to move
back about, oh, three-eights of an inch and then I encountered
resistance in the form of a quick stop. That is it moved
very freely about three-eigths of an inch and then hit re-
sistance so I stopped per instructions here, and the canister
is now stowed.
CC Roger; we copy, Bill.
SPT Hello, Hank. Let me give you a rundown
on what the Sun looks like this morning.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT Okay, white light coronagraph, we do see
a fairly substantial change, I would say, right above active
region 20. The region which used to be opened at about 250,
we had a streamer structure which started at about 210 and
went up to around 240. That is still present, pretty much
the - undiminished as the same it was yesterday, perhaps a
bit stronger around 210, diminished around 230 to 240. Then
comin_ out at 250 or so, there is a streamer structure which
moves out to about point I'm going to call it 3 solar radii.
It's still not as high as the surrounding streamer structure
but it is a new structure. There was just a very hint of
it yesterdayp but it has moved out considerably from that
and the whole area in there is a diffusion. Intensity, which
was not present yesterday for that area right above there is
changin_ and growing in intensity as well as growth of a streamer.
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The region above 270 where we had a single streamer going

out yesterday, there is now a double streamer one right
next to one another maybe around i0 degrees apart, but if
I would estimate where they would hit the disk, but they
are parallel. The one motioned to the south, there
was just a hint of it there yesterday_ but that is now
as intense as the streamer - single streamer which we had
at 270 yesterday. So, there's two of them right there.
Over on the other side things look pretty much the same.
The single streamer which we have at 230 - centered at
230 yesterday there was really a double maybe at 2 and
3 o'clock that is now just one diffuse area of about the
same magnitude but now the two streamers are eminent. The XUV
monitor looking over at - starting at active region 14
looks pretty much the same in intensity. Active region
15 appears to have decreased a little intensity the same
as active region 18, both showing the the two plage (garble)
the follower being a little bit larger_ but diminished
somewhat in intensity. 16 and 17 the region to the south
of 16 does not appear as enhanced as it was yesterday. But
active region 17 and 20 both look as strong as they did
yesterday_ no changing in 4. There is also some brightening
on the limb at around 270 on up to - -
CC Ed, we're going LOS. We'll see you
at Carnarvon at 24.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of signal
through Madrid tracking station. Space station Skylab
groundtrack carrying it over the Black Sea. Next station
in 23 minutes will be Carnarvon, Australia and again
overlapping coverage through Honeysuckle creek. Pilot
Bill Pogue reported some difficulty with the SOl9 canister
as he removed the experiment from the scientific airlock
for stowage in preparation for attaching the Earth terrain
camera, the SI90B experiment to the scientific airlock.
Apparently the articulated mirror system is still all right,
but the SO19 canister difficulty may mean that that is
final operation of that experiment. But as the analysis
goes on on board the spacecraft - on board Skylab and here
on the ground further details will be surfacing on the
status of S019. S019 is the Ultraviolet stellar astronomy
experiment; principle investigator is Dr. Karl Renize. We_ll
return in 22 minutes at Carnarvon. And at 14:01 Greenwich
mean time, Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2017/I
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PAO This is Skylab Control. 14:22 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition in 50 seconds through tracking station
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Midway through
revolution 3508 for space station Skylab. Standing by at
14:23.
MCC Skylab, Houston. With the ATM conference
for i0 minutes. Over.
SPT Morning_ Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. Just real quick off here. A couple
of words on the Sun. It's nice to know we do kave a Sun. We -
down here on the ground at Houstonp haven't seen it for about
i0 days. From your reports_ we assume itts still out there
and bright. The P-76, on our limb exposures here that we
looked at, showed some bright radial threads. About three of
them with a thin connections across the top and that's impor-
tant for some of today's observations later on. And that's
about all - -
SPT Bill, I looked at that earlier this morning
and there are some good radial threads starting around 300 and
going over to 315 or so where the total prominence lies. Most
of the major body of it just goes around up to maybe 307 or
so _ about halfway. Then there is another small portion and
we can see a fair amount of connecting material above the limb
that connects the feet. So I think there's quite a bit to
work with.
MCC Okay.
SPT A very good prominence.
MCC Okay. Very good. Now, on the active
region 17, active region 20 complex there, we sort of suspected
that there may well be some connections between these two and
this is inituitive type evidence here. We don't actually
see any but you might help us out looking for some.
On day of year ii that was yesterday, there were three in-
dications of flares out of there which we informed you of.
You saw only the latter one in active region 17. The first
two apparently were not visible in XUV or anything other than
the ground-based X-rays and also the XREA, leading us to
speculate that perhaps the first two were triggered over in
active region 20 which was around back behind the limb and the
only manifestation of that then was the higher X-rays, communi-
cating with active region 17 and triggering off the last one that
you did see. Then early this morning before you got up, at 10:18,
there was a C-I in active region 17 followed about 15 minutes
later by an M-3 in active region 20. Again, leading us to
suspect that perhaps these regions are connected. So that's
something to keep in the back of your mind today and the next
few days. Actually, the whole disk passage of these regions.
We'll try to
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SPT Okay, that's - One question there, Bill.

You said the one which we managed to see. The orbit which we
did go into the flare mode, we saw A quite Brightening which
we talked about yesterday, starting into a flare mode. It only
went up to 600 and then at the end of the orbit, you also in-
dicated that there was another one on the way up just as the
doors closed. You only talked about one this morning which we
actually - were available for. You've got me a little bit
wondering about that.
MCC Okay. The ones early this morning, we_ve
not talked about other than when Bruce gave you some words
earlier because they happened shortly before you got up. And
the ones that I_m talking about were the earlier ones from
yesterday. Not the one that was on its way up as the door
close.
SPT Okay. Very good.
MCC Okay. Knd one further thought on that -
we'll try to get the XREA numbers up to you just as soon as
we see anything moving here rather than waiting to confirm
anythln_.
SPT That would be very useful. I appreciated
that call yesterday because it's enabled me to get a little more
spring loaded and get things going perhaps a bit quicker than
I would have otherwise.
MCC Okay and today's observations are on
prominence 76. We scheduled those yesterday. Obviously,
prominence 76 is fairly unique and a extraordinary prominence
so that we are quite interested in observing this. The sche-
duling there was done when active region 20 was essentially
on the limb which makes it very difficult for us to predict
what's going to happen there. And we did not expect too much
to come of it. Certainly, we did not expect the M-3 that came
out of it this morning. So you might file those thoughts away
in the back of your mind as far as your thinking on today's
actual observations go.
SPT Okay. Let me tell you - I think the planners
did an excellent job today. They really predicted it well in
running the solar wind observations. I took a look at the
corona on the first pass here and got a look at it just at
the end of the second pass. And it has - Even though 1
mentioned it earlier that it had changed and that was based
on my first look at it, on the second look at it, it had
changed quite a bit substantially over that. Now, at 250,
the brightening, which I talked about in the white light
coronagraph, now goes out to about 4 solar radii and it is
a pretty much of a long slender streamer - almost a Jet, if
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you will, length and diameter ratio of _ I'm guessing from

memory around 8 to i0 or so. Very prominent, So something's
happening, now, in the corona, relatively fast and we've got
good coverage over the past two orbits. And I guess we will
over the next orbit also. So for the remainder of the day,
I would also be trying to put in some Sun centered observations
at the beginning and the end of the orbit wherever possible.
MCC Okay. Sounds real fine. Couple of quick
thoughts here on some of the times for ATM and times for you
that we discussed yesterday. And then I want to get back to
BB-24. On the ATM time, we are running just about at our
orignial request. The message we sent you up prior to Bob
MacQueen's talk, which was our request at plannin_ in which
we had inadvertently left off about an orbit per day for
ops time, which put us into concert with your suggestion that
we looked about as orbit light. We're getting approximately
our oriKinal request which means about minus i orbit per day
from what you suggested and we really wanted here and this is
based on trade offs with EREP and everybody else. The thing
I mentioned yesterday with respect to the possibility of the
first orbit of the day, a lot like today, of course is always
available at anytime that you decide you want to do it. Per-
haps you might take a look at things the night before rather
than decidinK on a blanket basis and picking occasionally
if you so desired to let us know, "Hey, l*d llke to do that
first orbit instead." This gives you a chance to look at the
plans for the day. Only advice is don't overdo it and get
yourself in a hold here and tired. Also
SPT This morning worked out - this morning
worked out all right and I would like to do that as long as
you've got this activity remaining on the disk. I'm not at
my sharpest when I first get up, but I still think it increases
the chances of catching a flare and we ought to go after it.
MCC Okay. Understand you'd like to take the
early orbit as much as possible. Sometimes they're not with
maneuvers and things like that. But when they are, you like
them. Is that affirmative?
SPT Yeah, yeah. That's affirmative, Bill.
And especially if it means having to give up an orbit if we
don't take it. Then I certainly certainly would want it.

MCC Okay. I believe tomorrow doesn't work

because its an MII0 day. And sometimes it doesn't work but
frequently it will. Also, I gave you some bad information
yesterday. You should not eat at the panel for microbiological
reasons. So obviously, Pete and those guys did not de it.
However, that won't change the things we were talking about
yesterday. But since I had told you something wrong, I wanted
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to correct that. And on the scheduling for both total ATM

and for you, keep us on our toes and we assume you will as
far as looking at the schedule and if you spot any obvious
places where you and either Jerry or Bill could swap and pick
up an orbit for you, we feel confident Fou'll let us know.
PLT Ed, don't argue (garble)

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MCC - - obviously Pete and those guys did

not do it. However, that won't change any of the things we
were talking about yesterday, but since I had told you some-
thing wrong, I wanted to correct that. And, on the scheduling
for both total ATM and for you, keep us on our toes, and we
assume you will, as far as looking at the schedule and if
you spot any obvious places where you and either Jerry or
Bill could swap and pick up an orbit for you, we feel con-
fident you'll let us know.
CDR Yes, doing our (garble)
SPT Okay, Bill.
MCC Okay, now, if you get BB-24 handy, on
JOP 3-B, page FI6, we'll talk about that again for a minute.
SPT Okay, I haye it.
MCC Okay. Obviously, the change that I said
was coming up last night, is not up yet. It's in the signoff
cycle and we're quite confident we'll get it up to you prior
to the next EVA, although it's beginning to look like it
may not be much before that. The hard changes aren't any
different than I mentioned to you last night and what I
really want to talk about is the concept and the philosophy
here. The 82A and B and also the 55 with the mini-MAR are
interested in getting preflare images, spectra, et cetera, from
both the point of view of getting a history of the area
prior to whatever subsequently occurs. And, also with the
general feeling that many experimenters would like to be in
a data take mode at the time the brightening occurs. Just
feeling that this is the best way to really get the
pre-brightening history, which you've got no way of knowing,
short of some sort of premonition.
SPT I concur with that and I think as long
as they've got the film and they can run in a mode which
doesn't burn it too fast, it's a very good way to go.
MCC And, that's what they're happy to do.
The only thing here is we should not let that interfere with
the original building block 24 intent, which is really is to
be sitting there with a hair trigger on a big spring ready to
pounce and at the time that you spot or get a premonition
of anything's going off and wish to initiate the real BB-24,
the sequence as is indicated on here is Just hit 54 start,
56 goes exposure to short, stop start, and then to initiate
the 82's, A's and B's and so on. And, the important thing
here is if you've got somebody going at the time, don't
fiddle re uh - configuring him, but to go ahead and start
the real building block 24. And I'm talked over the hill
here, Ed. Next is Honeysuckle in a few seconds. (Static)
MCC Skylab, Houston. I'm back with you.
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SPT Hello, Bill. I thought we'd lost you

for sure. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. I wasn't paying any attention to
the clock, and I talked right into the LOS there from Carnarvon.
We're now at Honeysuckle for 3 minutes, 40 seconds. And,
did I come through all the way there or did I cut out at the
end?
SPT Yeah. Building block 24, I think you
finished up with pretty well and could I ask you a question?
MCC Go ahead.
SPT On 55, the information you sent up on
grating position for centers of lines of interest. In many
J
cases there are listed 2 lines. Does that mean that there
2 lines of pretty much of the same wavelength? Or are they
suppose to be picked up on detectors 1 and 2? Also, if we
operate in a stop mode, should we turn on any of the other
detectors that could be turned on up to whatever that posi-
tion would allow, in order to get some additional data?
Thirdly, I did do a - one yesterday on the bright point over
active region 20, after it had - after the flare, which
we worked on a subsequent orbit and I did an Iron 15
and I was wondering when they get the results back from that
to see whether that's interpretable and what changes ought
to be made to the procedures, if any_ and how useful the
whole thing is?
MCC Okay, Ed. When we look at that we'll
certainly let you know. And, my understanding as far as the
multiple line here goes, is that they fall on different detectors.
Right now, I'm unable to tell you exactly which ones on which
detectors but it sounds safe to go ahead and run all of the
appropriate detectors up to those that need to be turned off
as per the cue card.
SPT Okay. Very good.
MCC Okay. And, that's all I've got here for
this morning. I've already talked into some of Henry's next
pass here so, I'll sign off now and talk to you tomorrow.
SPT Thank yon, Bill. So long.
CC And, Ed, while I've got you here, we did
get some comments back on your TV-101, if you'd like to hear
them.
SPT I sure would, Hank. Go ahead.
CC Okay. The general assessment was that
it was excellent. The lighting, the closeup, the detail,
the verbal description were all first class. The experimental
data are in excellent agreement with the theory and for the
first time some new convection and stability phenomena were
observed. The excessive wobble that you experienced there
may be reduced by placing the end of the particular socket
wrench extension closer to the bearing surface. And, in later
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sequences, the only comment they had is that you did the
initial rotation rate a little too fast but other than that
everything was outstanding.
SPT Yeah. I agree with that rotation rate
being a little bit fast. The other is that I don't know
whether moving it in would help at all, because I had a very
tight fit there. I actually had to go in and chip in - chip
away paint on those supports, the holes in the supports in
order to fit the rod through it and then file it down. And,
it's a very close fit and I had to put Krytox in there so it
would turn at all, turn smoothly. So I don't think that's
the problem. I think maybe the wobble is that the plates
which are put on the end are not quite perpendicular to the
axis. But, I agree - I'Ii probably be working a little more
of that in the next few days and - next 2 days or so is about
all and try to slow down the rotation rate.
CC Okay, good show, Ed. And, we're about
I0 seconds from LOS. Texas will be coming up at i0 and that's
31 minutes from now.
SPT Thank you, Hank. So long.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Honeysuckle
over the Carnarvon pass and part of Honeysuckle, - - astro-
naut, Dr. Bill Lenoir had the morning ATM conference with
Science Pilot Ed Gibson on activity on the surface of the Sun,
what to look for in his ATM observations. Next station in 29
minutes will be the Corpus Christi, Texas, tracking station.
We'll return at that time. Now 14:40 Greenwich mean time
and this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2019/I
TIME: 10:08 CDT, 58:15:08 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control; 15:08 Greenwich

mean time. Station Skylab coming up in 50 seconds through
the Corpus Christi, Texas tracking station with overlapping
coverage through Bermuda. And we'll stay up across the gap
from Bermuda to Madrid for the next 23 minutes. 30 seconds
to predicted acquisition through Texas, and standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Texas and MILA
for 14-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank.
CC Say, we didn't get a report on that
last teleprinter test message. How'd it look?
SPT Looks good, Hank.
CC Okay, thank you.
SPT Hank, because of the changes we've seen
in the corona, I wonder if the 52 people would like a STANDARD
MODE at the very end of the orbit.
CC We'll check. We'd sure like to get one, Ed.
SPT Okay, about 7-1/2 minutes remaining, I'ii
start one.
PLT (garble) a report on ED72.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Roger. Wish you'd pass on my regrets
to Roger Johnston, the student at (garble) the experiment.
Now the wicking part of the experiment has already been done
and I was going to do the capillaries - water in the capillary
Krytox oil this morning. When I unpacked the water capillary,
I noticed a lot of water mark and staining on the cardboard
and crustacean on the case and inside. I went ahead and tried
it anyway, took an enormous strong force to release it.
Oh, gosh, as much as I can - just about as much as I can
push. Pulling my arms apart I found it wouldn't even do
it, in fact, I had to get so I could push with one arm. Any-
way apparently all the liquid was lost in the water, so I
went to the oil and the oil had also leaked. So, both of
those - neither one of those experiments were possible to
be performed.
CC Roger; we copy, Bill.
PLT And the leakage has been documented on
DAC film. I took about 3 Percent JUS t to take pictures of it
to illustrate the degradation.
CC Okay, we copy. You used 3 percent of
the allocated film to photograph. Is that correct, Bill?
PLT That's affirmative. Some of it was
abortive attempts to start the photography, but most of
it was just taking photographs of the equipment so you could
see the condition of it as I unstowed it.
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CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston; if someone's available
near panel 206 we'd like to go ahead and get a REG ADJUST
for EREP so we can watch it the rest of this CONUS pass.
We'd like to get REG ADJUST BUS 2 5 degrees clockwise.
SPT I'ii give it to you in a minute, Hank.
CC Okay, whenever you can.
CC And, Bill, a note for you. On our - on
your details where we have you changing out to S190 mag
drive, we didn't tell you what station that was, you probably
already know though. It's station 6.
PLT Rog; that's the one that's been slipping
them.
CC And, we're in the process of sending up
up a - another still camera cue card change. I think it
should correct those things that were wrong with the one
we sent up yesterday that we talked about. I hope this one
puts that to bed. And one general question for anybody that
can answer. In the interior photograph you been making with
the IR film, have you been defocusing to the red dot?
PLT That's affirmative, Hank.
CC Okay, good show.
SPT REG BUS 2 is 5 degrees clockwise, Hank.
CC Okay, thank you, Ed.
CC SPT, Houston. We notice you have all
the detectors on. We'd like to get 6 and 7 off.
CC And for info, Goddard reports the laser
is tracking if anybody wants to go take a peek.
PLT Okay, there's two of us watching for
it.
PLT Which power are they using, Hank? I'm
looking right in the right spot, but I don't see a thing.
CC We'll check.
CC Okay, they're going into flash mode now,
Bill.
PLT Still don't have it.
PLT Cold down there, Hank. We never did
see it.
CC Okay, they're cranking up the power a
little bit, but you only got about i0 more seconds that
you can see it. I never did find out what power level they
were using.
CC Okay, I get the word now that they were
using a third of a watt.
PLT Okay, we never saw a thing.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS.
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We'll see you again at Madrid at 28, and we're scheduled

to dump the recorder there.
SPT So long, Hank.

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CC Skylabp Houston thxongh Madrid for 7-i/2
minutes. And, Skylab, we'll be dumping the recorder here.
Skylab, Houston, would you like to get a rundown on your EREP
weather?
PLT Say again, Hank.
CC Would you like to get a rundown on your
weather for the EREP?
PLT Rog; give it to us.
CC Okay, Bill, it's pretty much like it was
yesterday. Zero to 3/10 over Mexico and on into Texas. Along
about the Big Spring area there, you'll pick up a little cloudy
patch - low clouds, stratus. And break into the zero to 3/10
again. However, it looks like there's going to be a pretty
good cirrus patch in the panhandle area, so we'll get our
cirrus data there. Then it's zero to 3/10 on up to Chicago,
and just past there, along the south of Lake Michigan there,
you'll start picking up clouds again and the rest of the
track is pretty much cloud_covered and some places there
near 4 to 7/10 up in the Newfoundland area and also in the
Ottawa area there's a patch of zero to 3/10 that comes pretty
close to the gronndtrack, so you may be ahle to see something
over that way. The snow cover starts around the KansasrArkansas
border, and extends for the rest of your track over the CONUS,
and the northeast there.
PLT Roger; copy_
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you at Carnarvon at 04_ 29 minutes from now.
PAO Skylab Control, loss of signal through
tracking station Madrid. 26 minutes until next station at
Carnarvon. Durin_ the combined Texas, Merritt Island Launch
Area, Bermuda, Madrid pass, Pilot Bill Pogue was unable to see
the laser beam tracking space station Skylab from Goddard Space-
flight Center at Greenbelt, Maryland, Just north of Washington,
although the weather was clear at the time over Goddard and
earlier passes have been successful in spotting and in locating
the beam in various light colors. Goddard went to a flashing
mode, but as Bill Pogue reported, he never saw a thing. The
output in the first instance was 33 hundredths of watt before
they went to the flashing mode. Also, Pogue reported that in
unstowing student experiment, ED72, capillary studies, that
that experiment equipment has cratered. Apparently there are
leaks in some of the vials involved in the experiment, which
is a demonstation of how capillary tubes and capillary wicks
function in weightless environment. This experiment was sub-
mitted in the student experiment category by Roger G. Johnston
of Alexander Ramsey High School in St. Paul, Minnesota. Next
station, Carnarvon, in 24 minutes. This is Skylab Control at
15:39 Greenwich mean time.

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PAO This is Sky lab Control. 16:03 Greenwich

mean time. Australian tracking stations at Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle upcoming in 45 seconds. Standing by for AOS
Honeysuckle. Beg your pardon, Carnarvon and then Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
4 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. Next station is Honeysuckle at 15, for about a 1 minute
pass and in the event we don't get you there, we'll see you
over Texas at 45 EREPing.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through
Honeysuckle for about 40 seconds here. If you can read me
I'll try to get up the weather update. St. Louis, clear;
Chicago, clear; Ottawa 3000 scattered, 25000 scattered, you
may get those: Quebec's overcast.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy any of
that weather?
CDR Negative. You were very garbled. We're
reading you clear now.
CC Okay. We got - we should be going LOS
any second now. St. Louis is clear; Chicago is clear;
Ottawa 3000 scattered, 25000 scattered, so that's a possible
and Quebec is overcast.
CDR Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control. Loss of signal through
Honeysuckle. Spacecraft communicator Hank Hartsfield gave
the crew a weather update for the upcoming Earth resources
pass across the - across Mexico and the United States.
Gave an assessment of cloud cover at various sites across
the country. Pass begins at 11:46 central time and ends at
12:10. Next station in 25 minutes will be Corpus Christi
tracking station. At 16:19 GHT, Skylab Control.

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TIME: 11:43 CDT, 58:16:43 GMT
1/12/74

PAO This is Skylab Control; 16:43 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition at tracking station Corpus Christi,
Texas in 50 seconds and the crew ought to be on voice
actuated intercom as they go through the EREP procedures
for Earth resources experiment package pass across the
United States, Mexico, Canada, North Atlantic. The pass
will actually end in the central portion of Spain. We're
standing by in 20 seconds for acquisition through the - -
CDR Okay, we should be picking up Baha,
California at about 48:30; 46:30.
CC Skylab, Houstonl we're monitoring you
through Texas.
CDR Hello, Hank.
PLT Okay, Hank, at 45:20 here I go downlink
switch position 9 and I'd like for you to verify signal.
CC Okay, we_ll look at it,
CDR Okay_ we_r_ coming up on Baha,
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK, switch position 9 and waiting
for 45:32.
PLT MARK. RAD OFF_ waiting for 38.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER ON, and ALTIMETER
UNLOCK light immediately. Still have a READY light and
my EREP start one second late. 53 190 MODE TO AUTO. Stand by.
PLT MARK. MODE to AUTO. Waiting for 46:06.
PLT Got a good tape motion light. Stand by.
PLT MARK. 46:06 192 MODE READY, MALF light,
now a green light. Good show. 46:12. Okay, SCAT STANDBY.
94 MODE to MANUAL. Waiting for 46:35.
CC We got good downlink data.
PLT Good. Okay_ waiting for 46:35.
PLT And the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is out.
PLT MARK. CAL 3 switch to HIGH. Waiting
for 47:05. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light's on a_ain. Still have
a READY light. Tape motion is still green_ looking good.
PLT MARK. There's 47 minutes. Okay, 47:05.
PLT MARK. Downlink switch position 7 if
you might verify signal again. Okay, (garble) at
47:12. Okay, 47:48 coming up next.
PLT ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is still on
hut I still have a READY light.
PLT Waiting for 47;48_ stand by.
PLT MARK. Okay, 192 MODE to CRECK; 54
and 190 interval to 20. There we go, interval to 20.
At 40 even and _ _
PLT MARK, Add _garhle) to STANDBY.
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CC We have good downlink on position 7.

PLT Roger, and I'm turning ALTIMETER
OFF, 15 seconds.
PLT Lost my READY light.
CDR Gee we're into a solid overcast now.
PLT (garble) by 15 seconds. ALTIMETER
coming back on and READY light. Waiting for 48:52.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. Downllnk the switch position to
OFF. Waiting for 49:33 while I got a couple of seconds
here. I only got 2 frames accounted (garble) on camera
position number I when I did the camera checkout, Hank.
CC We copy.
PLT S190 camera checkouts. All the rest
of them had made three, even number 6.

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Time: 11:49 CDT 58:16:49 GMT
01/12/74

PLT And the ALTIMETER's hanging in there.

Standing by for 49:33.
PLT Now, I got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light,
but I still have a READY light.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY; RAD to
STANDBY. And 45 I want SCATTEROMETER, ON. And RADIOMETER,
ON. Stand by.
PLT MARK. SCAT, ON and RAD, ON. 2 READY
lights. Okay, everything is looking pretty clean here.
Okay, (garble)
CDR (Garble) there's Tinker and the Draper
Reservoir.
PLT Well, got them all in sight, great.
CDR Get a little data here and then press on.
PLT See if you can pick up the Keystone Dam
in about i0 seconds. Okay, 51:30 coming up in about i minute,
Ed. ETC to AUTO again.
CDR Downlink (garble) bird.
PLT Shawnee will be right off to your
left there, Jerry. In case you're interested.
CDR Okay.
CDR Better get up and look for some snow
cover now. Boy.
CDR Sure is getting white out.
CDR No, that's cirrus. Cirrus over the snow.
PLT Okay, 51:30 coming up.
CDR I'm going to try to get my snow cover
right next to St. Louis.
PLT Okay, ETC to AUTO, Ed.
PLT MARK. And 190 INTERVAL to i0. Waiting
for 52:40.
CDR Okay. I got St. Louis. We'll get our
snow cover data and St. Louis at the same time. I'm going
to be just north of St. Louis. Zooming in. I've a uniform
snow covered area between the two rivers north of St. Louis.
Right in the bend of the river. Okay, I'm good here til 15 -
PLT And, stand by for 52:40.
CDR Okay, now I'm going to move to the right
towards the city of - -
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. - -
CDR St. Louis.
PLT 52:40 MODE to (garble) on the 192.
CDR - - go right at - right at Lambert Airport,
right in the clear area right in the middle of - between
the runways.
PLT Okay, and we got a good TAPE MOTION
light.
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CDR McDonnel Douglas, we're taking a picture

of you.
PLT Standing by for 53:50.
CDR 53 okay, now I'm going to try to get
Chicago.
PLT That one ought to be easy, with Lake
Michigan there (garble) cloud cover.
CDR Chicago is left 8.6. There's Lake
Superior.
PLT i0 seconds to 53:50. Stand by.
PLT MARK. 53:50 192 MODE to (garble)
CDR Chicago coming up. (garble)
CDR My, so much snow. Okay, where is Chicago
now?
PLT Okay, waiting for 54:24.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM. And
the ETC to STANDBY in about 30 seconds, Ed.
CDR Boy, I'ii tell you the ice around Chicago
makes it difficult to see the shape of the lake.
CDR Get up on for Ottawa now.
PLT Okay, i0 seconds, Ed. Stand by.
PLT MARK. ETC is going to STANDBY; ALTIMETER
MODE 5, RANGE 76. Waiting for 58 even. (Garble) 56:24.
CDR Okay, I'm sitting at plus 5 in the PITCH,
and 4.3 - Hello, Buffalo.
CDR 56:24, we'll do our thing. Ahhh, that
must be it. DAC's, on; taking data.
CDR Okay, we're north of Ottawa, I believe.
We just flew over the airport when I - Okay. Stopping the data.
(Garble) came back. I attempted a plus 5.
CDR Saw an airport go by and I shifted at
that time.
CDR Okay, we hit Quebec at 57:25, and let's
see that one's to be at RIGHT 3.3.
CDR Yeah, it's getting cloudy. Naw, it's
clearing up again. There goes a - Nope.
CDR Okay, I'm going on time. I don't see
any metropolitan areas and I'm in the clouds. The CAMERA's
ON.
PLT (Garble) 58 minutes.
CDR There's minus 5. CAMERA'S OFF.
CDR Now I'm not so sure I saw Quebec.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. Waiting for 58:18.
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PLT MARK. RAD, ON. 58:40. And about 15 seconds,

Ed, ETC to AUTO again. Stand by.
PLT M_ARK it. 58:40, 192 MODE to READY; ETC
to AUTO and I've got a good TAPE MOTION light on the speed change.
Must be getting ice out on the 192.
CDR Yeah.
PLT Are we up over the Gulf of St. Lawrence?
CDR Yes.
CDR It's too cloudy to see any ice though,
darn it.
PLT (Garble)
CDR Right over that island up there. Actually,
we are past it now.
PLT Stand by. 59:30.
PLT MARK. 192 MODE to STANDBY. Waiting for
59:54.
CDR That's the end of the island. It's up
there in the Gulf. I'ii go ahead and take a little data right
here on the tip of the end of the island. Can't even hold
it (garble)
PLT MARK. 190 INTERVAL to 20. 17 minutes
even. ETC to STANDBY, Ed.
PLT MARK. Okay, waiting for 06.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. Waiting for 20.

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Time: 12:00 CDT, 58:17:00 GMT
1/12/74

PLT Must be getting ice down on this 192.

CDR Yeah.
PLT Are we up over the Gulf of St. Lawrence?
CDR Yes. Too cloudy to see the ice though.
Darn it.
PLT (GArble)
CDR Right over that island out there which
we were passing now.
PLT Okay. Stand by, 59:30 -
PLT MARK, 192 MODE to STANDBY. Waiting for
59:54.
CDR The end of the island. It's up there in
the Gulf. I'ii go ahead and get him little data right here
on the tip of the end of the island. Okay. I can't even
hold it - -
PLT MARK. 190 (garble) MODE to 20. 17 minutes
to ETC to STANDBY -
PLT MARK. B, waiting for 06.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. Waiting for 20.
CDR Good ice data. Let's just take a little
bit here.
PLT Stand by -
PLT MARK. 00120, 190 ALTIMETER, ON and
a READY light and a MALF. ALTIMETER UNLOCK.
CDR (Garble) data on an area that's starting
to ice up real well. I take it from I0 degrees down to zero
down in the nadir.
PLT And the UNLOCK light went out. Still have
a READY light.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS. We'll see you
again at Madrid at 05.
CDR Roger.
PLT UNLOCK light again, Still have a READY
light.
CDR Hank, you still with us?
CC Roger. I'm not so sure I got Chicago on
that special 07 - that alternate. It may have been Toledo.
I couldn't tell because there's so much ice on the lake. It's
hard to locate the shoreline but the city was not big enough
to be Chicago.
PLT Okay. ALTIMETER power going to STANDBY.
Lost my READY light. Hey, y'all (Static)
CDR Son of a gun.
PAO Skylab Control. In a gap between Bermuda
and reacquisition of space Station Skylab through Madrid in
3 minutes. Earth resources experiment package pass number 27 -
the _ actually, the 25th EREP pass of this mission underway. The
crew in voice actuated mode with the intercom as they go through
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the checklist of turning on and off the various instruments.

Commander Carr is on the visual - view finder tracking system.
Pilot Bill Pogue, operating the control and display panel and
the Science Pilot back in the workshop at the scientific alrlock,
operating the Earth terrain camera, SI90B experiment. Some
of the sites today over the United States were more or less
socked in by cloud cover and Carr commented that he was not
sure whether he was able to track the city of Chicago or whether
it was Toledo. Reacqulsition in about a minute and 50 seconds
through Madrid and we'll stand by for the conclusion of today's
Earth resources experiment Package survey.
CDR Might have been a little better data.
PLT Stand by
PLT MARK. REFERENCE 2 on the 191. Okay.
CDR So. 45 degree time would have been very
good for Ottowa and Quebec.
PLT A little less than a minute I'ii need
an AUTO CAL, Jer.
CDR Okay.
PLT I_ii give you a call.
CC SkylaS, Kouston, We're back with you
through Madrid for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PLT have lost my READY light, I'm going to STANDBY
on the ALTIMETER for 15 seconds. We_ve got another 20 seconds of
data anyway. 30 seconds, Jer.
CDR Okay. What time is it going to go?
PLT 6:45.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, Got a READY light again. Looking
good. Okay about i0 seconds, Jet.
CDR All right.
PLT Stand by. On my mark -
PLT MARK. VTS AUTO CAL.
CDR You got it.
PLT 55.
CDR Okay. l_m going to doff the hat.
PLT Stand by
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. MODE to 3
range 70. Okay and I want 190 READY out at 7 minutes even
and it is. MODE to STANDBY, it is. Wait for 7:13 for
the ALTIMETER, ON. Stand by
PLT MARK. Got it. Okay. Things looking good.
Wait for an extra (garble) in 9 minutes. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light
at 08:07. (garble) READY light.
CREW Okay. Coming up on 9 minutes.
PLT MARK. MODE to MANUAL on 194. Waiting for
READY ON on the 191 at 9:25. ALTIMETER oh, it Just went
out. Oh, good. At 09:iZ_ I want OFF with the ALTIMETER switch
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READY, ON. There we go at 28. I'ii come back on with the

ALTIMETER. Okay. Got a READY light. And 30 more seconds of
data. 5 seconds. Stand by
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. EREP, STOP.
Okay. (Garble) is ready (garble) were there. Rog, we're
finished, Jet. Getting my postcard out, if you'll pardon the
expression. Bravo 7 is reading 2 correction_ thatVs 33.
92 is going DOOR CLOSED.
CC CDR, Houston. Can you verify a couple
of switches for us on ATM panel?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. Under K_alpha_ we'd like to verify
the H-alpha I switch is in AUTO and H-alpha 2 - HEATER switch
to PRIMARY.

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TIME: 12:11 CDT, 58:17:11 GMT
1/12/74

CC CDR, Houston. Can you verify a couple

of switches for us on the ATM panel?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, under H-alpha we'd like to verify
the H-alpha 1 switch is in AUTO, and H-alpha 2 HEATER switch
to PRIMARY.
CDR Okay, H-alpha 1 was in AUTO and I just
put the HEATER switch in PRIMARY.
CC Thank you, sir.
CC And, Skylab for info, active aurora has
been observed in the Northern Hemisphere. And if sometime
during the day you desire, you can take photos according
to the permanent message we have, number 18 Bravo.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. We'll
see you at Tananarive at 27; 13 minutes from now.
SPT Roger, Hank.
SPT Say, Hank, how much VTR time is available?
CC Okay, there's 12 minutes available, Ed,
but you'll have to rewind all the way back to the beginning
and you can use the first 12.
SPT Okay, Hank, I'ii go ahead and put it in
rewind. Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of signal
from tracking station Madrid after what the EREP officer
called a very good pass. Pass ended at i0 minutes pass
the hour over Spain after having begun off the west coast
of Mexico. EREP 27, the 25th actual EREP flown. Next station
will be voice relay station at Tananarive on the island
of Madagascar. We'll return at that time. At 17:16 Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
PLT MARK. MODE to MANUAL on 194. Waiting
for READY on on 191 at 09:25.
PLT ALTIMETER - Oh, it Just went out. Okay,
at 09:12 I went OFF with the ALTIMETER switch

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TIME: 12:26 CDT, 58:17:26 GMT
1/12/74

PAO This is Skylab Control; 17:26 Greenwich

mean time. Space station passing over the voice relay station
at Tananarive where we may or may not get communications
through that station. We're standing by for acquisition
in 30 seconds,
CC Skylab, Houston_ through Tananarive for
7_i/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank. And 2.4 centimeters tape
remaining.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. We'll
see you again at Honeysuckle at 52 with a recorder dump
at 17-i/2 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control S LOS Tananarive.
15 minutes to next station, Honeysuckle Creek_ Australia.
We'll return at that time. This is Skylab Control at 17:36
Greenwich mean time.

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Time: 13:43 CDT 58:18:43 GMT
01/12/74

PAO This is Skylab Control. 18:12 Greenwich

mean time. Hawaii trackin_ station upcomin_ in 50 seconds.
We'll stay up for Hawaii, which is a very brief pass and the
stateside tracking stations, and both European stations,
Canary and Madrid. Madrid LOS is about 37 minutes from now.
Fairly continuous coverage, with a few dropouts and we're
standin_ by.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Hawaii for
4 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, if you can hold off on uslnE
the VTR until after our Goldstone pass, we can give you 8
more minutes of VTR.
SPT Okay, Hank. We'll do that.
CC And, for the CDR. I think we cut out
there goln_ over the hill last pass. We do have your food
inventory and we're studying it.
CDR Okay, fine, Hank.
CC And incidentally, that EREP pass y'all did
last rev, looked llke a real beauty.
CC Skylab, Houston. i minute to LOS. We'll
see you at Goldstone at 20, 4 minutes from now.
CC And, for info, the maneuver load looks
good to us.
SPT Thanks, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control in a gap between Hawaii
and Goldstone. Should reacquire here in a minute and 40
seconds at Goldstone tracking station. Space station presently
undergoing a maneuver returning from Earth looking or Z-local
vertical attitude to solar inertial or Sun looking, after the
Earth resources survey last revolution over the States. Wait-
ing reacquition though Goldstone in about a minute.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for
9_i/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. Bermuda at 33.
CC SP - -
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Bermuda for
5_i/2 minutes and for the SPT, for information only. Type
3 radio burst was reported at 18:20.
SPT Thank you, Hank. What's your XREA look
llke now, Hank?
CC It's a little above background Ed, but
not too high.
SPT Thank you.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. For info we have
dumped some more the VTR and rewound it, it's ready to go and
it"s 21 minutes available.
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SPT Thanks, Hank.

CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute from LOS.
We'll be coming up on Canaries at 43 and we're scheduled to
dump the recorder.
SPT Roger, Hank.

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TIME: 13:43 CDT, 58:18:43 GMT
1/12/74

CC Skylab, Houston; through Canaries for

9 minutes. And we're going to dump the recorder here. And
also we need the DAS for a NuZ update.
SPT You've got it.
CC Skylab, Houston; the DAS is yours.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Hank you still there_ or you going over
the hill?
CC No, we got about 3_i/2 minutes.
SPT Okay_ in looking at the corona _ wkite
light coronagraph the spike or jet if you will, that we
talked about this morning is now a streamer wklch goes all
the way off our field of view. We had a streamer there
originally this morning at around 230, and the new one
came out at 250. They're now both approximately equal in
intensity, in width, and elongation going out. They've
run out parallel, pretty much in a radial direction, but
parallel to one another. At 2-1/2 solar radii the one at
230 is 0.5 solar radii in width. There's a gap in between
them of 0.3 and then the new one which is at around 250
is 0.4 in width. The gap which is inbetween them is clear
all the way out. The 52 folks have talked about these things
in terms of void, and I'm not sure that's really what this
one is; I'm not sure we got the resolution. But it is an
open area which extends in the radial direction between the
two streamers about 0.3 radii in width. The disk has got a
prominence which I had not noticed this morning, at least
not anywhere near as intense, and that's at around 260,
and it extends 20 arc seconds or so off the llmb and then
very intense base and then cuts to the south in a very
fine arch which is just barely visible, almost parallel
to the surface. And that goes down from a full arc minute
before it disappears. The other prominence which we were
planning to do the work on this afternoon still looks
pretty good. There are some vertical sections in it. I
think we might be able to at least pick out an area where
vertical thread would be possible. I'm not sure we can
see the individual threads, however.
CC Roger, we copy, Ed. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston_ we're about 1 minute
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Tananarlve at 04. Right
at the completion of the EREP pass we noticed a pretty
good size heat pulse going to the secondary coolant loop,
and it seems to be modulating okay. The flow rates dropped
down out of one of the valves indicating that it's trying to
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slow up the pulse and it seems to be coming back up. However,

if you should get a caution and warning on the AM secondary
coolant loop, we recommend you shut it down until we can
take a look at it.
SPT Okay, Hank,
CC We don_t tklnk thatts going to occur
there_ everything seems to be okay. Tke loop is recovering
okay, but we Just wanted to tell you that just in case
it did occur at LOS.
PAO Skylab Control_ LOS Canary Islands.
The next station will be Tananarive in i0 minutes. On the
ground it was noted that the pounds per air - pounds per
hour of coolant moved in the airlock module secondary
coolant loop had dropped somewhat after the EREP pass and
a high heat load from going out of solar inertial. But the
system appears to be modulating properly with its valves,
bypass valves, that circulate the coolant out to the
space radiators. Temperatures or the rate of flow is
dropping or coming back up to normal, I should say. And
the crew is advised that if they do get a caution and
warning to just simply shut it down. But it's really not
expected to pop the caution and warning system since the
flow rate is approaching normal again. 9 minutes to final
pass this afternoon over tracking - or voice relay station
Tananarive. At 18:54 Greenwich mean timep this is Skylah
Control.

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Time: 14:03 CDT, 58:19:03 GMY
1/12/74

pA O This is Skylab Control 19;02 Greenwich

mean time. Voice relay station Tananarlye in 50 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston, thzongh Tanenarive for
4-1/2 minutes.
CC PLT_ Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Rank.
CC Bill, we're going to be shipping up a
message here on this SO19. We'_ve talked to Karl and we're
convienced that we've fixed that canister. However_ before
we - we reschedule SO19, what we want you to do and we'll
send up a message to cover this_ is to take it in a dark place
somewhere and try to cycle it through one - one frame. And
we've got a message coming up to cover that. And if you can
work it into today fine, if you can't we'll schedule it
another day. But we think we've got that thing fixed.
PLT That'll be great. Where should we set
the counter? You might ask him that_ Hank.
CC Okay, that's unimportant. But we'll -
we'll cover that, the important thing is the message is
coming up on that, Bill. And it's about 20 seconds from LOS
now. And we'll see you at Honeysuckle at 28.
PLT Okay, it shouldn't take but a few minutes,
I+ii get that done today.
CC Okay, good show, Bill.
PAO This is Skylab Control loss of signal at
Tananarive, Next station 15 minutes will be Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. We'll return at that time. At 19:12
Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.

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TIME: 14:27 CDT, 58:19:27 GMT
1/12/74

PAO This is Skylab Control S 19:26 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia in
50 seconds. However, the unified S-band equipiment at
Honeysuckle apparently is on the fritz. The VHF, very high
frequency equipment, is operable at Honeysuckle_ however,
the space station equipment is in the wrong configuration
for the ground to reach the space station through VHF unless
the crew first calls and configures the switches onboard
to receive the VHF uplink, l_m sure that's all clear as mud,
but anyhow that's the way it is. And we're standin_ by for
AOS Honeysuckle.
CC Skyleb, Houston through Honeysuckle for
9 minutes. And we have some S-band problems at Honeysuckle.
How do you read?
CDR Read you okay now, Hank.
CC Okay, we may drop out during this pass.
If something does come up you absolutely need us, you can
bring up the VHF.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead,
CC Jerry, w_en you get t_rough with the
S052 on this building block you're in now_ building block 2.
We would like for you to close t_e door manually and to
make sure that we have the protection of the 20 are. second
discriminator. We want you to cycle the main power, S052
main power to standby. Remain for at least i second, and
then back to on.
CDR Okay, we got problems building up on
this experiment or something?
CC No Jerry, what happened early in the day,
we cycled the switch. And what happened, we suspect that
that they didn't remain in the standby position for a
full second. We don't think we set the logic.
CDR Okay, copy.
CC And I guess in the future, we're going
to put that in the pad, that wait one second. So we make
sure that we always have that protection and let the logic
set up.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, 19 hours 37 minutes.
Loss of signal through Honeysuckle. Some problems with
one of the transmitters at Honeysuckle, apparently there
was no gain in the unified side band transm - Pilot Bill
Pogue will be the observer and Science Pilot Ed Gibson the
subject in medical experiments coming up in about I0 minutes.
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It's the M093 vectrocardigram experiment_ which measures

electrical activity of the heart. And the M092 lower
body negative pressure device which measures cardio
vascular changes due to weightlessness. Next acquisition
will be 9 minutes and i0 seconds from now through Hawaii.
At Greenwich mean time 19:38 this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 14:46 CDT 58:19:46 GMT
1/12/74

PAO Skylab Control 19 hours 46 minutes Green-

wich mean time. Space station is now about 45 seconds from
acquisition through Hawaii. No problem with any of the
systems at the Hawaii tracking station. We expect some
communication as the space station passes over range of the
antennas on the islands. We'll hold the line up for this
pass, about 30 seconds from now.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Hawaii for i0
minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston, let you know a little
bit more about that secondary coolant loop glitch we saw while
ago. The flow rate out of TCV A valve is just about back to
normal. It's slowly modulating its way back up here. We're
going back to take a look at all the data to see if we can
reconstruct and we're also looking at the EREP for the -
during the High Beta's as to what effect that may have. You know,
we_ve had trouble with these TCV valves sticking and there is
some speculation what that might effect. In other words, thatts
a possibility that the valve could have stuck and the demand for
more coolant kept - kept on the valve until finally it broke free
and then when it did, it drove it hard over. And got the kind of
cool they wanted and it might the valve was modulating normal
back to _ the normal flow.
CDR That sounds logical, Hank.
CC CDR, Houston, you might pass on to the
SPT that his phone call is set up for this evening at 23:23
at MILA with the right antenna. We_ll give him a reminder
later on, but I thought he might like to know that to plan
on.
CDR Will do it.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you at Goldstone at 59. That's 2 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control 49 minutes - 49 seconds
rather now from acquisition through Goldstone. Some conversa-
tion here on the ground about that coolant loop pump glitch
which occurred earlier this morning. Flow rate in the system
was down, however, it's now coming back up. Apparently some
hangup in the valve itself. We're less than 30 seconds now from
reacquisitlon through Goldstone. The stateside pass will take
us through Goldstone and then Bermuda. We'll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Goldstone, 7_I/2
minutes.
CDR Roger, it's set up for downlink on monitor i.
CC Okay, we're ready to take it.
CC CDR, Houston, could you give us a little
integration on XUV MON?
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CDR I had just started when you called.

CC Skylab, Houston, we're about i minute
from LOS. We'll see you at Bermuda at ii and that's 5 minutes
from now,
CDR Roger, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control 20 hours 7 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Have a brief pause now, about 3 minutes as the
space station goes over the central portion of Canada Just
north of Lake Superior. We're reacquire in about 3 minutes
through Bermuda. We'll hold the line up.
PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 9 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Wetre now about 40 seconds away from
reacquiring space station Skylab through Bermuda. Commander
Carr should be involved in experiments observing the Sun right
now at the ATM Control and Display panel. And Science Pilot
Ed Gibson and Pilot Bill Pogue are involved in medical ex-
periments. Gibson is the subject at this time. We'll go llve
air-to-ground now,

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SL-IV MC2033/I
Time: 15:10 CDT 58:20:i0 GMT
1/12/74

CC Skylab, Houston, through Bermuda for

8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on the Canaries at 20, and we're scheduled
to dump the voice recorder there.
CDR Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, 20 hours 19 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We're less than 40 seconds away from
reacquisition through the tracking station at Canary Island.
That will be a continuous pass through Canary and Ascension.
We"ll hold the line up for llve air,to-ground less than
30 seconds from now.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Canaries and
Ascension for 16 minutes and we have a recorder dump.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, info for the PLT. The
S019 MAL messen _ message is on board.
PLT Roger_ Hank.
PAO We just handed over to Ascension for
almost 9 more minutes through Ascension now.
CC Skylah, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again in Carnarvon at 03. And we_ll
Be handing over to the crimson boys. It's been a good day
today.
CDR Thank you Hank. Have a good day_ we_ll
see you tomorrow.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, 20 hours 37 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of
Ascension. Next acquisition will be 25 minutes from now
through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle Creekp Australia. Imminent
takeover here in Mission Control by Flight Director Don
Puddy! Spacecraft Communicator Bob Crippen. Offgoing
Flight Director Charles Lewis indicates that he_ll be
avaZlsble for a change_ofmshlft briefing at 4:15 in the
Building i briefing room. During this previous pass over
Canary Island and Ascension Hank Hartsfield indicated that
a malfunction procedure was now on board the space station for
the $019 film canister which apparently broke yesterday
during comet observation. The $019 instrument consists of
an optical canister, which contains the telescope, a film
cani§ter which holds film in the form of steel plate mounted
film_ and uses the articulated mirror system outside the
alrlock, The problem is in the film canister. Principal
Investigator, Dr. Karl Henize was in Mission Control earlier
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explaining what might be wrong with the film canister. Film

is stored in one side of the canister, much llke you would
store cassette units in a cassette player. And then as each
exposure is being readied a crank is operated which closes
the shutter, retracts the cartridge from an elevated platform
and operates two finger type devices which retract the film
cartridge and push it into the other side of the film canister
where it is stored. Much as you would put one playing card
on top of another. According to Dr. Henize one of the
problems might be that the film which is mounted on steel
plates and held in place with a nylon sleeve. The fingers
might be grabbing the nylon sleeve rather than the steel
plate. Due to the fact that the nylon expands if moistened.
The other possibility is that the tolerances which were
designed into the film canister have been reduced because of
wear and some particles might be lodged in the very thin
track into which these film can - film slides slip. However
the crew has been instructed to take the film canister
to a dark area of the spacecraft and try to operate one
cycle which goes from slide retraction, cartridge retraction,
shutter close to shutter open. And what happens during that
tim_ _s a new film side is taken from one side of the canls-
ter, placed on the elevated platform, the platform then is
raised the skutter opened, the skutter is then closed, the
platform lowered, the film is slipped into the receptacle,
and a new film slide inserted. And during Dr. Henize's demo-
stratlon of this it was obvious at least to me that this device
is very sensative and it's possible that Bill Pogue was
perfectly within his right to try to force the knob yesterday
as he had been told. Due to the way that the film canister
is constructed, if there is any obstruction in the platfrom
into which the film slides are slld then it would break a
lever inside the device. And that is what Dr. Henize
theori_e_s happened, that one of the levers inside was
broken during yesterday's operation. However the crew is
going to try to fix it so that Dr. Henize will continue
to get data for his experiment. We're 21 minutes away now
from acquisition through Carnarvon, Australia. Once again,
Flight Director Charles Lewis has indicated that he will
be available for a chan_e-of-shift briefin_ in approximately
32 minutes at 4:15 p.m, central daylight time, in the
briefing room in Building i. At Greenwich mean time 20:42
this is Skylab control.

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SL-IV MC2034/I
Time: 16:01 CDT 58:21:01 GMT
1/12/74

PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours i minute Green_

wich mean time. Space station Skylab now approaching the
horizon for the tracking antenna at Carnarvon, Australia.
Commander Cart still involved with solar observations at the
Apollo telescope mount control and display panel. And
Science Pilot Ed Gibson is still the subject in medical ex-
periments using Bill Pogue as the observer. Some discussion
on the ground here about the temperature inside the workshop.
It's going up, and it will go up as the beta angle gets higher.
The crew, however, is probably going to be the best thermos
meter as to whether or not temperature is acceptable or un-
acceptable. We can control the temperature somewhat, but
not completely for crew comfort. And they're going to have to
tell us just exactly when it gets uncomfortable. We'll go
l_ve alrTtomground now.
CC Good afternoon Skylab. We're AOS through
Carnarvon, we have you for 8_i/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, hello_ Crip.
CC How you doing today, Jer?
CDR Great.
CC We even have a little sunshine here in
Houston today, First time we_ve seen it for awhile. I was
5eginnln_ to think that thing you were pointing the ATM at was
Just all done with mirrors, that it wasn't real up there any
more,
CDR Sometimes the way I operate this thing
I w_sh it was done with mirrors,
CC Lots of fun with all those buttons and
switches. CDR, for your information, NOAA just reported an
X_ray type flare in active region 20 and that's Just about all
the information we got on it, no magnitude or anything else
rZght now.
CDR Okay, I'ii hustle over there. How about
an X-REA count if you got it.
CC We're looking at it.
CDR I've got an H-alpha i enhancement, but
it's not really all that great.
CC Okay_ right now it looks llke it's falling
off, so it looks llke something that just came up real quick
and going back down now. Okay, an idea, beryllium is in
aperture 4 right now.
CDR Roger, what do you say I stay here and
set up a buildin_ block 24?
CC Check that for you, Jet, the consensus
here is that we should probably go ahead and continue with the
normal operations you got set up for today this particular rev.
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CDR Okay_ tke- enhancement is in active region

17 rather than 20.
CC Okay, very good. Appreciate that info.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS and we'll see you again over Hawaii in about 16 minutes
at 21:27, 21:27.
CDR Roger, Crip.
PAO Skylab Control, 21 hours 12 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Flight Director Charles Lewis is on
his way to the Building 1 briefing room right now for the
4:15 change_of_shift briefing. A couple moments ago, the
crew was informed that there was a C-4 flare wkich started
at 20:53 Greenwich mean time was sighted by National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration optical telescope from Boulder,
through the clouds. And was thought to be in either active
region 20 or active region 17, which would put it very close
to the edge of the Suns east limb. Possibly on the far side
beyond sight. They didn't get maximum time for the flare. We'll
brin_ the line down now and bring you the change-of_shift
press briefing and we'll play back any recorded air-to-ground
after the press briefing is finished. At 21 hours 13 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2035/I
Time: 16:45 CDT, 58:21:45 GMT
1/12/74

PAn Skylab Control 21 hours 45 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're going to play back the recorded
air-to-ground over Hawaii and Goldstone right now, and
then we'll go live air-to-ground after the recording is
finished.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Hawaii 4-1/2
minutes.
CC And CDR, Houston, Jet, I need to give
you an updated fine maneuver for this upcoming pass for 63.
If you got the maneuver pad and can copy it please?
CDR Okay, stand by a second. Ready to copy.
CC Okay. Following are the DAS commands;
X, 50007_ Y, 51160; Z, 50045. And the de - decimal equivalent
for that is; X is plus 0.07; Y is minus 1.12; Z is plus
0.37. And appreciate it if you could read those back sir?
CDR Okay, say again the Z in the DAS entry?
CC Okay, Z is 50045.
CDR Okay, for the fine maneuver, 51007;
51160[ 50045. And the decimals are plus 0.07_ minus 1.129
and plus 0.37.
CC Rog, they were all correct except the
X, input is 50007.
CDR Okay, that's right, 50007.
CC Rog, okay, good readback. And if we
could we_d like to find out if anybody's planning on using
the TV for about the next half hour or so, if not we're going
to go ahead and take the VTR and rewind it so we can dump
some over this upcoming CONUS pass,
CDR That's negative, I think you can go
ahead.
CC Okay, thank you. Skylab, Houston, we're
1 minute from LOS. Next station contact is going to be
Goldstone in 8 minutes at 21:39, just about time you start
the maneuver.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Leave 82B wavelength long.
CDR Thanks, Crip.
Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Goldstone
for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again in 2_I/2 minutes over Texas.
Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through Texas, And have you for
about Ii minutes across here and we're getting ready to
start a data/voice recorder dump,
CDR Okay, we're through with the recorders.
CC Okay, real fine. And Jet, I kind of
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faded out in mud _ back over Hawaii awhile ago when I was
giving you a call on 82B. That wavelength thing does hang
up sometimes and you have to recycle that - that switch as
you probably remember.
CDR No, that was a bungle on my part, I
forgot to change to SHORT.
CC Okay, very good, thank you.
CDR Correction, I should say, I forgot
to change to LONG from SHORT.
CC Rog.
SPT Hello, Buffalo.
CC Hello, hello, That look like - look llke
hometown down there?
SPT Getting late, and there's a few clouds.
That's the hometown.
CC Bet it's cold too_ Ed. Not for you - Not
for you northern boys, us southern boys that's pretty - -

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SL-IV MC2036/I
Time: 16:50 CDT 58:21:50 GMT
1/12/74

PAO Skylah Control, we're live air,to,ground

now.

CC Skylab, Houston, we still show that the

re recorders at least one of the recorders is in operation
some place, and I wonder if we could have it for the dump.
CDR Okay, we thought you were done with it
and had started using it again.
CC Nope. Sorry about that.
CDR Go ahead Crip.
CC Okay.
CDR Hey, Crip, I found that circular structure
again I was talking about that's out by Minneapolis.
CC Very good. We've been wondering about
that. Can you tell us anymore about it?
CDR Okay. It's - if you draw a straight
line betwen Minneapolis and Chicago it's about half way in
between. And it's at the fork of the Mississippi and a
river that goes off to the east. And it's on the southeast
side of the fork. And the fork makes up the part of the
circle itself. It's Just about as big as the large volcanic
structure up in Canada. And the east side of this structure
looks like it's (garble) it's pretty black_ A lot of the
snow is melted off and it's not as quite as quickly discern-
able now as a circular structure. I would - it looked to
me llke it was down below - oh stand by_ I've got to get
the name of the diz city again.
CC Looks like you are talking right below
La Crosse.
CDR Yeah, that's right, right below La Crosse.
CDR Is there a fork in the river at La Crosse.
CC No, it's south of there.
CDR Okayp I think that's the one.
CC Okay, that'S a very good description,
and we'll look into it. See if we can flnd what It was.
CDR Good enough,
CC Skylah, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again in 9_i/2 minutes over Ascension
at 22_07, 22:07,
CDR Roger,
PAO Skylab Control_ 21 hours 58 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of
the tracklng antenna at Bermuda. A lot of conversation on
th_s pass. Ed Gibson, first reported that he was looking
at clouds over his hometown of Buffalo, and yelled down to
the folks hello. Although we doubt if they could hear him.
And then Ed Gibson reported that he sited the circular
structure that he_s commented on previously. This time he
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got a much better fix however. Looking at our maps down

here it seems that it's a 120 miles southeast of the city
of Minneapolis and 200 miles northwest of Chicago. Ed
Gibson indicated that it was on the southeast side of a
fork on the Mississippi River and the rivers in that area
which is just north of La Crosse Wisconsinp either the Black
River in Wisconsin or the west branch of the Wisconsin
River. That portion of the country is blessed with a lot
of water however. And about every 20 miles there is another
river which dumps into the Mississippi in that region.
Commander Jerry Carr, should have finished his maneuver for
the S063 experiment, that's another photography experiment.
This t_me it will be taking pictures of the Comet Kohoutek.
And Science Pilot Ed Gibson should be getting ready for
physical traininKp with the note for him not to use the
bicycle ergometer during the S063 experiment, as that might
upset the exposure . Vibrations induced by the bicycle
ergometer would cause shake in the spacecraft, And Bill
Pogue should be at the S063 getting ready to take pictures
of the comet, At Greenwich mean time 22:00_ this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-IV MC2037/I
Time: 17:05 CDT 58:22:05 GMT
1/12/74

PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 5 minutes Green-

wich mean time. Space station now less than 1 minute away
from acquisition through the tracking station at Ascension.
Pilot Bill Pogue should be taking pictures of the comet in
the ultraviolet spectra with the SO63 air-glow horizon camera.
The principal investigator for this experiment is Dr. Donald
M. Packer of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington.
We'll hold the llne up for conversation between the crew and
Spacecraft Communicator Bob Crippen, now less than 20 seconds
from acquisition of signal.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Ascension for
7 minutes.
CDR Hello, Crip.
CC Hidi.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're still a couple
minutes from LOS, but there is going to be a keyhole coming
up in about 20 seconds. I'Ii Just go ahead and give you
next station contact which is Carnarvon in 25 minutes at 22:37.
22:37.
CDR Roger, see you then.
CC Rog.
PAO Loss of signal now from space station
Skylab through the tracking antenna at Ascension. Next ac-
quisition will be 22 minutes from now through Carnarvon,
Australia. At Greenwich mean time 22 hours 14 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2038/I
Time: 17:36 CDT, 58:22:36 GMT
1/12/74

PAO Skylab Control 22 hours 36 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station is nearing acquisition
through Carnarvon, Australia. Earlier in the day, Pilot Bill
Pogue indicated on the data/voice recorder that he had gotten
some pictures of Ireland, Scotland, and - - frames with the
Nikon camera with the 300 millimeter lens on it. He
indicated that he saw parts of the Highlands of Scotland
to Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Luce Bay, the Isle of Man, and
all the way up to Ulster and Belfast. And in Scotland he
saw the Highlands, Inverness, and indicated that it was
cloudy, but that you could make out a lot of the features of
those northern islands. We're about i0 seconds away from
acquisition of signal now. We'll go live air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Carnarvon
for i0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip.
CC Hello, Edward.
PLT Crip, I have a report on S019 now.
CC Good, Bill, go ahead.
PLT Okay. I took about 3 compartments and went
through the operation. I was able to push the frame into
position, and moving back the carriage retractor, then into
stow, was able to close the film hatch. And the frame
indicator is indicating i01. (Music)
CC Very good, I'm sure Karl'll be glad to
hear that. Didn't want to hear any more of those crunches.
PLT No, this one sort of clicked a bit hard
when I pushed it into the frame - into the position.
But I think it was not an extensive force, and we may have
recovered that canister.
CC Very good, that's good news. Thank you
sir.
PLT Rog, it's good news to us, too.
CDR Hey, Crip one thing you might have them
do on the next S019 pad, and that is let us know what they
would like us to set the frame count at, when we start
operations again. We've ah, I think we put i0 or 15 different
frames off on that counter while not moving any film.
CC Okay, Jer, we'll - we'll check that.
CDR Just a matter of sticking your finger
in an area where the little lever is and just clicking it
to you get it where you want it.
CC Yeah, we can probably also just leave it
where it is and just go from wherever it is now too. We'll -
we'll think about that and get - get back to you.
CDH Okay, whichever way they want to go.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS.
And we'll have you again in 3 minutes over Guam.
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CDR Roger, Crip.

PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 48 minutes,
we're in a slight loss of signal period between Carnarvon
and Guam. We're less than 2 minutes away from reacquisition
through the Guam tracking site. We'll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're A0S Guam i0
minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And Skylab, we have finished with the
VTR. So, if anybody needs to do anymore work with it, it
all belongs to you.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. Jer, we're looking on
55 there. And we're showing that you're on line position
9, and it's - it calls for you to cycle them on up starting
at 6 and go to 8 and then 2.
CDR No, the first one's slit center, Crip.
CC And stand by i.
CC That's one for you, Jet, you're right.
We - we thought you were a little bit later on.
CDR Yeah, I just found out too, that slit
center is net 933, it's 1033. Somebody changed the card.
CC Well, that's news to me too, I thought
- still thought it was 9.
PLT Sorry, about that Jet, I guess when
we did that, I ought (?) make a general announcement.
CDR Okay.
CC You will now hear this kind of thing.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Next station contact is over Goldstone in about
16 minutes, that's at 23:17, 23:17.
PAO Loss of signal now from Skylab as it
passes out of range of the tracking antenna at Guam.
Principle Investigator Karl Henize will be pleased. Bill
Pogue reported earlier over Carnarvon that the SO19
malfunction procedure that he was working on went very
well.

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SL-IV MC2039/I
Time: 18:02 CDT 58:.23:02 GMT
1/12/74

PAO Bill Pogue reported earlier that the

S019 malfunction procedure that he was working on went very
well and the film magazine apparently now works. The Corollary
Officer here in Mission Control confirms that the camera will
be used for experiments in the future now. Camera's used to
study ultraviolet llne spectra and spectral energy distribution
of young stars and also to take ultraviolet pictures of the
Comet Kohoutek. Our next acquisition will be in 14 minutes,
that'll be through Goldstone. At Greenwich mean time 23 hours
and 2 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2040/I
Time: 18:15 CDT 58:23:15 GMT
1/12/74

PAO $kylab Control at 23 hours 15 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station is now nearing acquisition
through Goldstone. Commander Jerry Cart should be at the
Apollo telescope mount control and display panel makin_ more
observations of the Sun. And Science Pilot Ed Gibson should
be in the process of cleanin_ himself up after some physical
exercise. Pilot Bill Pogue is in the process of putting the
S063 camera away after having taken observations of the
Comet Kohoutek with it earlier. We_ll stay llve for the
pass through Goldstone, Texas, MILA_ and part of Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston_ we're AOS across the
States for 17 minutes. And for Ed, your phone call is set
up at the last portion of the last half of this pass, I
guess, at 23:23.
SPT Thank you, Crip.
CC That almost sounds as good as my legendary
Stardust Cowboy.
SPT (Music)
CC I recognize the music behind the squeal
that time.
SPT I think we're a little far north for it,
though Crip.
CC Yeahp but you_ll - you'll be down there
soon. You guys are going to come just about right over the
Cape this pass.
CDR Houston_ CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Hey_ Crip_ tell the guys in the back room
that active region 18 is all of a sudden popped up with a
n_ce little filament about 2 arc minutes long, and we got a
little p_ece of plage on each side of it.
CC Very good_ thank you.
CDR And also, the prominence above active region
20 was f_nally touched down.
CC Okayp very good.
CC Skylab, Houston, if we can, we'd llke
to dump the data/voice recorder here?
CDR Okay.
CC PLT, Houston. Billp do you have a moment?
PLT Rog, go.
CC Rog, if you haven't started getting
ahead of the game on this S190 mag drive changeout there.
There_ a couple of items like to tell you about in
association with that. First there's Just a reminder, it
doesn't really call it out in that procedure anywhere, but
your gloves should be worn when you're working on it. And
if you can - if you can do all of that stuff with the gloves
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1/12/74

on.

PLT Okay, Crip. The 190 mag drive change

is complete. I did a functional check on it, appears to
he working fine.
CC Okay_ very good_ tkank you. I suspected
that m_ht be the case.
PLT It's all 5uttoned up and still nice and
clean.
CC Okay.

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SL-IV MC2041/I
Time: 18:26 CDT, 58:23:26 GMT
1/12/74

CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute

from LOS. Next station contact is awhile away, it's
about 44 minutes at 00:16. So, we'll we out of your hair
for awhile.
SPT So long, Crip.
CC So long.
PAO Skylab Control 23 hours 33 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of
the tracking antenna at Bermuda. At the beginning of the
pass over Goldstone, Ed Gibson was playing "Do You Know
the way to San Jose" on the air-to-ground. The comment
there was, we think you're a little northp is approximately
over Seattle at the time. Space station also went almost
directly over Cape Kennedy during this pass, We're now
in for a long loss of signal period, 41 minutes end 44
seconds to our next acquisition which will be Carnarvon,
Australia. At 23 hours 34 minutes_ this is Greenwich - this
is Sky lab Control.

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SL-IV MC2042/I
Time: 19:12 CDT 58:00:12 GMT
1/12/74

PAO At 12 minutes Greenwich mean time this

is Skylab Control. Space station is nearing acquisition
through the tracking antenna at Carnarvon, Australia.
Commander Jerry Carr should be eating his evening meal now.
Science pilot Ed Gibson should have just finished his meal,
and will be at the ATM C&D panel observing the Sun.
Pilot Bill Pogue should be involved in the S190 multispectral
camera malfunction procedure. Seven times during this
m_ssion one of the cameras in the 6 lens camera has indicated
that it has taken more frames than it was commanded to. On
the control panel for this camera, the crew can select the
number of frames per sequence that they wish. That is that if
they want to take i0 frames or i0 pictures over a particular
track then they set that on one of the knobs on the control
panel. Then they select an automatic mode switch, then at
the time that the track calls for photography S190 is
sw£tched on and the 6 cameras inside the multlspectral
camera, four of which are infrared black and white, one
of which is regualar color_ and one of which is infrared
color begin the sequence. Seven times so far one of those
cameras has taken more frames than it was told to. And
Bill Pogue is going to be taking the faeeplate off of the
camera and looking at the magazine drive gear to see if
there is something wrong with the drive mechanism itself. The
mechanism is a ratchet motor drive device and has magnetic
switches which indicate how many frames have been taken.
If i0 frames were required taken, on the 10th frame the
magnetic switch would cut the motor drive off. This is
not working properly for one of the six motor drives. The
other possibility is that also on the camera is an electronic
control panel and each one of the motor drive mechanisms
is control by a printed circuit board. It is possible that
one or more of the contacts which engaged the printed
circuit board to the electronic panel is dirty or corroded,
and that's the problem. However, for thls evening's
malfunction procedure Bill Pogue is Just looking at the
magazine drive gear itself. In the event that he doesn't
find anything wrong with the motor drive then they'll
probably be looking at the printed circuit board later on.
This is not a particularly difficult task for Bill Pogue.
Only i0 screws are envolved in removing the front panel,
and he could visually inspect the magazine drive gear. We're
now about 35 seconds from acquisition. We'll hold the
line up for this pass over Australia.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Carnarvon
for 6 minutes.
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SPT Thank you, Crip.

PLT Crip, could you tell us how Wanda is
doing?
CC I'll try to get a report for you.
CC PLT, Houston. Bill in answer to
your question, it has diminished considerably. It is now
classified as a tropical depression with winds of 25 knots
and it's still located in the same general area, so it
will be Just to the east of your ground track on this pass.
PLT Roger.
CDR Hey, Cripp if you're ready to copy I'll
give you the photo log.
CC We're ready to copy.
CDR Okay, 16 millimeter_ Echo Delta 72,
Charlle India 79, 59, Charlie India 126. Mlbl, ETC Prep,
Charlie India 78, 18, Charlie India 74. EREP VTS, Charlie
Lima ii, 60. Okay, miscellaneous off the transporter 7, the
said Just to shoot up the film. That's Charlie India
Charllelndla 77 That mesh8 that transporter7 is
now empty. Okay, Nikon i, Charlie X_ray 40, 36; Nikon 2,
empty$ Char _ Nikon 3, Charlie India 113, 55_ Nikon 4,
Bravo Echo 09, 38; 5, Bravo Hotel 06, 19. 70rmillimeter:
Charlie X_ray 50, 017. ETC is Charlle Tango 12, 061.
EREP set X-ray, 0284, 2464, 0007_ 9369, 1140, 0076. Drawer
A: Alfa i, Alfa 2, and Alfa 4 no change. Alfa 3, 06,
Charlie India 79, 59, Charlie India 126. Back: no supply, 0
Charlie India 78. That's it.
CC Okay, very good,
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, we're showing on 54
that the grating is in and it should be out.
SPT Do we have enough time for evening status.
CC Oh, only got about a minute and half
left here. And I_m - next station contact is over Guam
at - in about 9_i/2 minutes. Why don_t you go ahead and
start it and I'll tell you Just before we _o over the hill.
CC If you've got it handy.
SPT Okay, Crip I was readin K one block
ahead, I don"t think they want me to change in the middle of the
exposure do they,

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Time: 19:21 CDT 59:00:21 GMT
1/12/74

SPT Okay, Crip, I was reading 1 block ahead,

I don't think they want me to change (garble) on the
exposure, do they?
CC I'm checkln_, Ed.
CDR Okay, I'll get evenln_ status on the
next pass.
CC Yeah, and also, if somebody could have -
for SPT I guess to have that maneuver for 201 that pad, I'll
have to give him another line maneuver change due to updatln_
nuZ.
CDR Okay, Crlp.
CC Okay_ we'll go ahead and leave the grating in,
Ed, on this exposure.
SPT Go ahead with the changes to the maneu-
ver pad, Crip.
CC Unfortunately, I don_t have time to give
them to you. We're - welre going over the hill here. I'll -
I can start it at for X it's 50004, Y51115, Z50036.
SPT 50004, 51115, 50036.
CC Rog. We're - we're going LOS now.
PAO Skylab Control 23 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Space station is now out of range of the antenna
at Carnarvon_ Australia, We're about 6 minutes and 40 seconds
away from reaequisition through Guam. Once a_ain, Commander
Cart should be eating his evening dinner, Science Pilot Ed
Gibson is at the Apollo telescope mount control and display
panel, and he_ll be recording 3 minutes of ATM television on
the onboard video tape recorder. And Pilot Bill Pogue in_
volved in trying to determine what's wrong with the film
advance mechanism in the SI90A multlspectral photographic
camera. At Greenwich mean time 24 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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SL IV MC-2044/I
Time: 19:29 CDT 59:00:29 GMT
1/12/74

PAO Skylab Control at 29 almost 30 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station now nearing acquisition
through the tracking antennas at Guam. Earlier a weather
report indicated that tropical storm, now tropical depression
Wanda, was winding down. Only has winds of up to 25 knots
now, so the crew, which has been observing this storm for the
last 3 days will be able to watch it as it dissipates. Also D the
EREP officer here in Mission Control informs us that the motor
drive mechanism for the SI90A, multispectral camera, was
changed by Bill Pogue and all indications are that the
mechanism is working properly. However, we won't know for
sure until several Earth resources pass data takes have been
performed. That will indicate how many frames the camera's
actually taking.
CC - _ We're AOS Guam. We have you for 5
minutes. If nobody's using the teleprinter - correction
teleprinter _ we need the VTR to go ahead and rewind it for
a dump over the upcoming CONUS pass.
SPT It's not in use Crip, go ahead.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Still standing - -
CDR Okay. Are you ready for the big report?
CC Yes sir.
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 7.0p 7 heavy SPTp 6.5p
4.5 heavy, 2.0 light_ PLTp 7 hours, 6 _eavy_ i light Volume:
CDR, 2750_ 1700_ 2500, Water gun: 8641; 4431; 0511 Mass:
CDR, 6.326_ 6.324p 6.318; SPT, 6.389p 6.389, 6.387_ PLT, 6.251,
6.249, 6.251. Exercise: no change for anybody. Medications:
none for anybody. Clothing: CDR, none; SPT, shorts, shirt,
socks_ PLT, none. Food log: CDR, 6.0 salt, minus one coffee
with sugar, plus 1.5 water; SPT, zero, zero, zero; PLT, 1.5
salt, plus one vanilla wafers, minus 1.0 rehydration water.
Flight Plan deviations: none, Shopping list accompliahanents:
T002_-4z it's on tape in three different segments from 15iO0
to 18_30. ED72 is complete. And all housekeeping is done.
Inoperable equipment: ED72 capillary water and oil are both
inoperative. SO19 cassette number 2 checkout completed.
Unscheduled stowage: none. Thetis it.
CC Okay. Very good, We got about 2_i/2 more
minutes left in this pass. Sop one thing that I that we
were wondering a little bit about. I know EdPs been doing a
lot of work on TV and we keep having to dump it over here to
kind of clear it off a little bit, and l_m wondering if us taking
it and dumping it is in any wet _ way of interfering with Ed's
plans for settln_ up, and how he,s doing with TV?
SPT No Crip. Not at all, Itts worked out
real fine, l_ve never had any conflicts at all and no problem.
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Time: 19z29 CDT 59:00:29 GMT
1/12/74

CC Okay, that's good to kear. Also the

situation we're in now puts us coming over the States during
the day and we're out of the - off of the range for dumping
TV during the night, so, that's why we have to do it like
we've been doing it and continually doing it through the
day. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't intefering with
you. Thank you.
SPT No problem at all Crip. Press on.
CDR Okay Crip. We got a couple of other
shopping llst accomplishments to add too, Two hours on
TV_101 and the SPT sweat sample.
SPT Taken concurrently.
CC (Laughter) Okay. Very good. We're
really enjoying all your TV down here, though.
CC Okay. We're i minute from LOS. Next
station contact is over Goldstone in about 18_i/2 minutes
at 00:53, and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump.
You guys are going to come within eyehalllng distance of
Houston this time, looks like.
CDR The volcano in southern Japan, Sakurazlma
is puffing out smoke again.
CC Very good. You guys can see quite a
distance there.
SPT Yeah, we're coming up on Tokyo now and
you can see FuJiyama Just as plain as day.
SPT Old Fuji-san. You don't even need
binoculars to see it.
CC Very good, Never had the pleasure. I'd
like to see it some day.
SPT I think it's one of the most beautiful
mountains in the world.
CC Sounds like it.
PAO Skylab Control at 36 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Space station now out of range of the tracking
antenna at Guam. Some comment from the crew that they could
see an active volcano in Japan and commenting tkat FuJiyama
was one of the most beautiful mountains in the world. Some
more on the sIg0A, mnltispectral camera. This morning'S
Earth resources pass resulted in nine extra frames being
taken with that instrument. Tomorrowts Earth resources pass
on track 15, which goes throug k Mexico and up the St. Lawrence
River Valley should be a good indicator of whether or not the
motor drive mechanism changeout was successful in stopping
the extra frames from being taken. The weather looks good
right now for tomorrow's EREP pass, It begins just west of
Nuevo Laredo in Mexico and goes over Dallas, over Cincinnati,
and Cleveland and Buffalo, and then Just misses Montreal,
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and then covers Newfoundland, and all the way across the
Atlantic Ocean, almost to the coast of France. Weather during -

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SL-IV _C2045/I
Time: 19:38 CDT, 59:00:38 GMT
1/12/74

PAO and Just misses Montreal, and then

covers New Foundland and all the way across the Atlantic
Ocean almost to the coast of France. Weather during the
entire section of the pass looks real clear right now.
Earth resources people indicate that everything is GO at the
current moment for tomorrow's pass. Next acquisition will
be 14 minutes from now through the tracking station at
Goldstone. Spacecraft Communicator Bob Crippen indicating
to the crew that during this pass if the weather holds,
that the crew ought to be able to see the lights of Houston
or what's left of the lights of Houston. We'll come back
in 14 minutes. Greenwich mean time 38 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2046/I
Time: 19:52 CDT, 59:00:52 GMT
1/12/74

PAO Skylab Control at 52 minutes Greenwich

mean time. Space station is now less than i minute from
acquisition through the tracking antennas at Goldstone, California.
Commander Jerry Carr should be getting ready for observations
of the Comet Kohoutek with the $201 instrument. And Pilot
Bill Pogue should be putting the SI90A multispectral camera
back together, after having changed the film drive mechanism,
the ratchet motor that looks quite a lot like a clock motor.
Less than 20 seconds away now from acquisition. We'll go
live air-to,ground.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Goldstone for
10-1/2 minutes. And we'll be doing our evening status re -
evening status report I can't read any more. We'll be
doing a data/volce recorder dump here.
SPT Hello, Crlp. Let me tell you what I
see in the white light coronagraph_
CC Whyn't you do that?
SPT Okay, at the radius of about 2.1 solar
radii, 270 out, there's a fairly bright knot of intensity.
I"m not sure whether it's material there all in one - one
clump so to speak, or whether it's a crossin_ of a couple
of small streamers. It's hard to tell. But it is relatively
bright compared to anything else that I see in the corona.
CC Okay, Ed, thank you.
SPT Hey,Crip, one other thing related to
that, coming up right through that and extending above it
is a very sharp narrow streamer that lights, it goes - goes
out to about 2_i/2 say, to 2.7 radii in the display.
CC Okay, Ed, thank you, And for the PLT
if Bill_s available. We're showing EREP BUS I on. It looks
like it might have been left ON during that mag drive change.
SPT Crip, what's the usability of the VTR
look l_ke tonight for a little additional i01?
CC We're checking it for you_ Ed.
CDR Okay, both off, Crip.
PLT It was left on earlier but they're both
off now.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Ed, after our about time - as we go
LOS, we'll give you back the VTR, and you should have s full
30 minutes on it.
SPT Thank you, trip, sounds good.
CC Okay, and for Bill, I guess our telemetry
indication down here apparently we got a bilevel that takes
a little while to bleed down and I guess we were in error on
that.
PLT I noticed when I was doing the camera eheck_
out, oh, about 45 minutes ago that - that it had been left on.
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Time: 19:52 CDT, 59:00:52 GMT
1/12/74

CC Rog°
CC And SPT_ Houston. Ed we'd like you
to leave 55 in optical reference tonight.
CC And Ed, we can take care of the GRATING.
So you don't have to mess with that.
SPT I got it, Crip.
CC Rog, thank you Ed. And is this a
convenient place to give the frame count or do you want to
try and do that later?
SPT No, let's do it now. 1571; 34117138:
294_ (static) 3345.
CC Ed, l_m sorry_ we missed 52 in the
handover there. Would you say that one again, please?
SPT Okayp I believe you said 52. That's
3558_ and 56 is 3345. Excuse me that's 54.
CC Rog, yeah, we got that. Very good.
One other item, Ed, I guess I'ii just mention it here
because the upcoming Vanguard is going to be your med
conference, And it's run hack right up against the
maneuver out of this 201 maneuver (garble). We put it on
your details as 01:23, and normally we allow you 5 minutes
prior during this (garble) maneuver and that's only - only
3 minutes, I guess. And it's backed up pretty tight. I Just
wanted to give you a little reminder of it.
SPT That's all right Crip. I saw it on the
maneuver pad, and 1111 get it.
CC Okay, thank you.

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Time: 20:01 CDT 59:01:01 GMT
1/12/74

CC CDR, Houston, are you getting ready to

get busy here, but we would like to reconfirm your water gun
reading that you read down. We copied 8641, which showed
about 5000 milliliters consumed at about double what you've
normally been doing. And we Just wanted to verify that was
correct. If you -
i CDR Stand by, Crip.
CC If you're too busy, we can get from you
later.
CDR 8641.
CC Okay.
CDR That's not right either. Stand by, Crip.
Okay, Crip, 8461 looks like the only logical number we can
come out with using those digits.
CC Okay, very good. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about i minute
from LOS. Next station contact is ii minutes over the
Vanguard at 01:18. And that's the medical conference for
this evening. It's the (garble) going to be able to get
all of you until Goldstone at 02:33 again. So we're not
planning on giving yon a call, if you need us, you can go
ahead and give us a i0000 (garble) on the DAS. And for Ed,
the VTR's all dumped, cleaned off, rewound, belongs to you
for 30 full minutes, if you need it.
SPT Thank you, Crip.
CC Night, guys.
PLT Night, Crip.
SPT Night, Crip, and Crimson Crew.
CDR Good night, you guys.
PAO Skylab Control Houston. i hour 8 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station Skylab is now over the
Canal Zone area on its way down through - a pass through the
Vanguard tracking ship's acquisition range. After Vanguard,
next acquisition will be Goldstone. The tracking site voice
relay site at Tananarive is being used for atmospheric ex-
ploration during this pass, so Skylab will not avail itself
of voice relay through Tananarive. Crimson team saying good-
night to the crew. Medical conference coming up in about 8
minutes and 45 seconds over Vanguard. At 1 hour and 8 minutes,
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2048/I
Time: 20:16 CDT 59:01:16 GMT
1/12/74

PAO Skylab Control at i hour 16 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're about 50 seconds away from ac-
quisition over Vanguard tracking ship during which time
Dr. Jerry Hordinsky and the Skylab crew of Commander Carr,
Science Pilot Gibson, and Pilot Bill Pogue will conduct
their daily medical conference. We'll leave the llne up
Just in case the medical conference concludes early and
Spacecraft Communicator Bob Crippen has something additional
to say to the crew. 30 seconds from acquisition now. We
don't expect any voice communication, however.
PAO Skylab Control i hour 28 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Next acquisition will be through Goldstone over
an hour and 4 minutes from now. Short medical conference
over Vanguard. We expect Dr. Jerry Hordinsky to bring the
report by the console shortly, we'll read it to you when we
get it. The tracking antenna, voice relay station at Tanana-
rive, capital of the Malagasy Republic, is supporting other
experiments this evening - atmospheric exploration experiments,
and will not be used during this next pass. Space station
is now returning to solar inertial attitude after a maneuver
for the $201 extreme ultraviolet electrongraphic camera
which was taking pictures of the Comet Kohoutek spectra in
the extreme ultraviolet range. We're about 30 minutes away
from presleep activity for all three crewmen. However, they
will have more than their usual hour of presleep quiet time
this evening due to the long loss of signal. We'll bring you
Dr. Hordinsky_s medical report when we get it. Greenwich
mean tlme_ 1 hour 29 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2049/I
Time: 20:45 CDT, 59:01:45 GMT
1/12/74

PA0 Skylab Control i hour 45 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We now have the surgeon's report on
the crew health. I'll quote from Dr. Jerry Hordinsky.
"Crew continues without any current illnesses or injuries.
Discussion with the crew further confirms that oral hygiene
is being adequately maintained." Space station Skylab is
now over tracking antenna at Tananarive; however, that site
is being used to support other scientific endeavors at
the moment. Our next acquisition will be 46 minutes from
now, at which time the crew should be very close to going
to sleep. We'll bring the line down now, start back up
again at 6 a.m. tomorrow morning, central daylight time.
At i hour 46 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2050/I
Time: 06:23 CDT 59:11:23 GMT
1/13/74

PAO This is Skyla5 Control. 11:23 Greenwich

mean time. Wakeup call coming in about 50 seconds through
the Canary Islands tracking station. Mission day 59 in Sky-
lab IV. Standing by for acquisition at Canaries.
CC (Music: "Light My Fire")
CC Good morning, Skylab. This is Houston
through Canary and Madrid. We'll have a data/voice tape
recorder dump coming up when we hit Madrid at 11:27, and
how are you all this morning?
CDR Morning, Bruce. Our fires are lit.
CC Very good.
CC Skyla5, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon
at 12:05, Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
at Madrid trackin_ station. Wakeup music this morning was
"Light My Fire _ by the Lettermen_ Next station in 26 minutes
will 5e Carnarvon, Australia. This is Skylab Control at
11:38 Greenwich mean time.

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SL-IV MC-2051/I
Time: 07:03 CDT 59:12:03 GMT
01/13/74

PAO This is Skylab Control. 12:03 Greenwich

mean time. Space station Skylab will be acquired by the
tracking equipment at Carnarvon, Australia in 40 seconds.
Followed by Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, for a double
station pass here, lasting a total of about 15 minutes.
Silver team of flight controllers on duty, headed by Neal
Hutchinson, spacecraft communicator is Bruce McCandless,
who likely will read up the news summary to the crew during
these two passes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle Creek for 14 minutes, and if you'd like I
can read the news up_ if it won't interrupt things. Over.
CDR (Garble), Bruce.
CC Okay.
CC Say, we're having some long line problems
here. Stand by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. How are you
reading me now?
PLT Reading you okay now, You were cutting
out and 5reak_nR up there about 30 seconds ago.
CC Oh. Roger.
CC Houston: A crowd of 72,000 is expected
at Rice stadium today for Superbowl VIII under slate grip
slate gray clouds and temperatures in the 50_s. Most odds
makers including Jimmy the Greek have the Miami Dolphins a
6 point favorite to defeat the Vikings. However, Dolphin
coach Don Shula insists that "odds don_t mean a damn thing."
All pro receiver, Paul Warfield, pulled a hamstring muscle
in practice, this last Wednesday. However, he is expected
to be in his usual starting role for the Dolphins. As a
prime side trip for the Superbowl '74 visitors, an estimated
15,000 people toured the Johnson Space Center yesterday.
This constitutes one of the largest crouds in the center's
history and most of them came through the viewing room here
at the MOCR. Washington: President Nixon, ending an
18-day working vacation in Callfornia_ flew back toward
Washington Saturday night aboard a government Jet Star. The
President had come to California on a regularly scheduled
commercial flight, but Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren said
a government plane was being used for the return trip for
security reasons. "It was felt," Warren continued, "that because
of the wide anticipation he was going back commercially, the
element of surprise was gone and his security people felt it
was best he go back by government plane." The President
took off from Palm Springs airport_ about a 15-minute drive
from the estate of Ambassador Walter Annenberg, where he
had relaxed since Wednesday. Accompanying Nixon on the return
trip were Hrs. Nixon, daughter Triela, friend C. G. (Bebe)
Rebozo, a military aide, his doctor and two Secret Service
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agents. "A special communications package had been installed

in the jet before hand," Warren said. The craft was normally
based in Washington but had recently been flown to Edwards
Air Force Base in the California desert. Warren said Nixon
decided to return Saturday night so he could get some rest
tomorrow, watch the Super Bowl game and be at work on Monday.
A motorist who insisted on buying more than the station's
limit of $3.00 worth of gasoline was shot and killed Saturday
by a service station attendant, police said. Booked on a
murder charge was Charles Russ, 31. Police said Russ told
them his boss had ordered him to conserve gas by limiting
sales to $3.00 per customer. A heated argument broke out when
he told Earl Richardson, 21, that the station would only
sell him the limit. Police said that Russ told them Richard-
son appeared to reach under his coat for a weapon, so he
pulled h_s own pistol and fired. Coroner Dr. Carl Rabin
said Richardson was shot in the back and died almost immedi-
ately. "Henry A. Kissinger ordered a tap on the telephone
of former Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird in 1971 in an
effort to determine the source of leaks from secret diplomatic
dealings," the Chicago Sun,Times said Saturday. The newspaper
said that a wave of mutual spying and suspicion between the
White House and the Pentagon led to the tap. He quoted a
former White House official as saying Kissinger had ordered the
tap of Laird'_s phone to determine whether his secret diplomatic
dealings were being leaked to the Pentagon. Kissinger was
national security adviser at the time and involved in the
negotiatZon of the Vietnam settlement. The newspaper quoted
another equally well_placed White House official as saying
that a wireless microphone was found sometime earlier in
the base of a lamp in the White House office of Wayne Smith, a
Kissin_er staff assistant for program analysis. "Smith's
office was supposedly the site for technical planning for
Kissinger _ negotiations on the Strategic Arms Limitation
Talks and on Vietnam," the Sun,Times said. Port Nechesp Texas:
"A raging fire in an oil tank farm was contained Saturdayp"
authorities said. The fire had engulfed six of the huge
containers Friday, but by Saturday afternoon a Mobil Oil
Company spokesman reported that four tanks have burned out, a
fifth is Just smoldering and a sixth is still afire. Lightening
set one of the crude oil tanks afire in the early morning
hours Friday. The blaze spread to five other tanks and firemen
moved _n huge bulldozrs to build dikes to keep flowing oil
from burning ruptured tank s from spreading out still further.
Then they let them burn themselves out, Grapevine: An
American Airlines flight, flight number 341 from New York
is scheduled to land at the world's biggest airport Sunday,
nearly 3 months late. The Dallas_Fort Worth regional airport
was to have opened last October, but the opening was delayed
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because of unfinished facilities and there is still much

work to be done. Flight 341 is due to touch down at 12:07 p.m.
The first scheduled airliner to land at the 17,500 acre complex.
Billingham, Washington: Fair Haven College is closing the
generation gap. A federally funded experimental program known
as "The Bridge" is bringing people of all ages together for a
multi-generatlonal living and learning on college environment.
Eight senior citizens ranging in age from 60 to 80 have moved
into the college dormitory. Another 21 is to arrive this month
and a day care center has been set up for preschoolers. Tel
Aviv: Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger began a crucial
phase of his Middle East mission and talks with Israli leaders
after meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Aswan.
A U.S. official said Kissinger left Aswan with fresh hope
for working out a troop disengagement, but was well aware
the critical part of the talks now comes from the reaction
of Israel and Egypt_ the proposal Kissinger will be carryin_
between th_ two countries. Tunis, Tunisia: President Noaminar
Khadafy of Libya and Tunisian President _abib Bourquiba have
announced their countries will be united into one new country,
called the Arab Islanmie Kepublic. Tke fiery Libyan

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SL-IV MC-2052/I
Time: 07:11 CDT 59:12:11 GMT
1/13/74

CC - Henry Kissinger began the crucial

phase of his Middle East mission in talks with Israeli leaders
after meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Aswan. The
U.S. offlcialsaid Kissinger left Aswan with fresh hope for working
out a troop disengagement agreement, but was well aware of the
critical part of the talks and outcome from the reactions of Israel
and Eygpt the proposal Kissinger will be carrying between
the two countries. Tunis, Tunisia: President Moammar Khadafy
of Lfbya and Tunisian President Habib Bourquiba have announced
their countries will be united into one new country called
the Arab Islam Republic. The fiery Libyan and moderate
Tun_slan said the Z were merging in response to the appeal
for the liberation of occupied Arab/Islamic territories.
The referendum to approve the merger was set for January 18.
The new country is to have one constitution s one presidentp and
one government. United Nations, New York: Secretary General
Kirk [garble) describes the Suez ceaseflre llne_ as unstable and
potent£ally explosive, and has announced the U.N. Middle East
force will be increased to some 7000 men. In a report to the
Security Council he said U.N. peacekeeping forces are ham_
pered 5y the closeness of the Israeli and Egyptian armies,
the frequent firing incidents, fortifications, and mine
field. He said success in the Geneva disarmament - disengagement
talks would go far to correct the problem. Beirut: Libya
_ntends to boost the posted price of its oil to $20 or
$21 a barrel. Oil Minlst_r (Garble) said in a Libyan
n_ws agency broadcast. Libya's present price of $18,50 a
barrel became effective only on January i. The posted price
is the one on which royalites and fees are charged.
Cape Town, South Africa: The Rosencovity (71 sextuplits
have survived their first i-i/2 days and are doing well, a
hospital report said. The three boys and three girls born
to Suzanne and Colin Rosencovlty (?) still require intensive ob-
servation and care, but have shown no complications. Amsterdam:
The Netherlands began gas rationing Saturday to conserve its fuel
supplies even though Premier (garble) said the oil supply
in January was slightiy improved over December, Washington:
the key administrator of naval oil reserves has resigned
rather then accept further encroachments from oil companies
upon government_owned oil fields, Congressional and Pentagon
sources said. Lieutenant Commander Kirby Grant, Deputy
Director of Naval petroleum and oil shale reserves, resigned
Friday. Neither Grant nor the Pentagon had any comment.
One story said Grant is known to believe the oil companies
manufactured the fuel crisis in part as a means of ob--
taining access to rich naval oil reserves. Washington again:
The FBI says a new report that Soviet vlsitorsp Black ex_
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tremists and the new left movement present a continuing

threat to the Nation's internal security. It says the
number of Soviet block personnel residing in the United
States totals 2686, a 44 percent increase in the last 5
years. The FBI also disclosed that it's purged its files
thousands of obsolete fin_erprlnt records, including those
of some 9000 individuals arrested durln_ the 1971 Mayday
demonstration here. Washington: United States and Cuba
appear to be making atentatlve effort to bridge the ideo-
logical gap between them. The consensus among diplomats here
is the worst days of the bilateral enmity are over. There's
been a perceptible lessening in the hostility of Cuban Prime
Minister Fidel Castro toward the United States. Special prose -
Watergate prosecuter Leon Jaworski told newsmen that it
conceivably could happen that he would need President Nixon's
testimony in some of the criminal cases being developed by
the prosecutors. He said it might become necessary to ask
Nis m Nixon to explain matters on presidential tapes. Among
other points Jaworskl made, he said his staff is studying
the legal and constitutional questions of whether an incum,
bent president can be indicted. Washington again: Repre-
sentative Thomas P. O_Neil Democrat/Massachusetts House
Democratic leader, says Congress will act early this year on
legislation to limit excess profits generated by soaring
prices on petroleum products. O'Neil said in a statement
there may also be legislation lowering the 22_percent deple-
tlon allowance, which oil companies may_ now take on the
value of their production. Indian Bluffs Isle, Florida:
Leads grownell(?) 25, was in serious condition Saturday after
being wounded by a pet leopard she was tryin_ to feed. Phy-
sicians at <garble) Sprin_s General Kospltal performed an
emergency tracheotomy to open an air passage through her throat.
Ralph McDaniel, a neighbor, told police he heard Mrs. Brownell
screamln_, saw what was happening, and ran to her with a
gun. "The cat was still chewing on her throat so I had to
shoot," he said. Boston: "I thought it was a gift,"
Gall Chaddle(?) told the judge. "I thought it might be some_
body I knew. _' She was talking about the extra $31,152.40
matured T mysteriously credited to her savings account one
day. She spent $13,976. The money was mistakenly entered
into her account from that of another depositer's. Suffix
Superior Court Judge James P. Lynch found Mrs. Craddle
guilty of larceny on Friday and said ke will probably
impose a probationary term when he sentenced her January 29.
If she coopezates with district attorney in explaining how
she spent it, And that's about the news for this morning.
Got a coupld of quick items for you concerned with the
mlssion if anybody's available.
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PLT We're read - ready and listening,

CC Okay, Bill. You're first up. On your
limb volume measurements on on mission day 12, yesT
terday, day of year 12, we got all the data except for the
inspired chest circumference. The dump tape - we could
read it through the neck and adam's apple when you got down
to chest inspired, it was something .2 but we couldn't copy.
If you've got that written down somewhere we'd like you to
send _t again. Over.
PLT Will do as soon as I can get over and
get it. Go ahead to the next item.
CC Okay. For your S183 operation we'd like
to add S183 film installation at 22:52 on your details
followinK S183 PR_3 today.
PLT Roger.
CC And the ATM on-statlon time should be
23:07 followinK that.
PLT Roger. Rave that,
CC And we _ -
PLT 98.2.
CC 98.2?
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay_ thank you; and we got about 40 sec-
onds to LOS here, Next station contact in 35 minutes. Make
that 36 minutes through Merritt Island at 12:54, and I've
got some chanMes to the CDR's EREP C&D pad which we can
pass up at that time, He_s suhject the n . We'll have to
catch him later.

PLT Okay_ Bruce, Hey that was a real good

news rundown. Thank you very much.
CC Thank you. I guess all that training
in doing tracheotomies and things llke that gets used occasionally.
PLT Well, this is an MII0 day so that was
sort of an appropriate subject. Count Dracula Gibson is
doing his thing this morning.
CC Right.
PAO Th_s is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
at Honeysuckle Creekp Australia. Next station Bermuda
tracking station in 33 minutes, This is Skylab Control at
12:20 Greenwich mean time.

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TIME: 07:53 CDT, 59:12:53 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control; 12:53 Greenwich

mean time. Bermuda tracking station will acquire spacecraft
Skylab - space station Skylab in about 40 seconds as predicted
by the AOS clock. We'll stay up for Bermuda on across through
Madrid. Slight correction here, we'll have the Merritt Island
launch area tracking station for 3 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt
Island for 3 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in i0 minutes through Madrid at 13:06.
Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. To continue the
earlier correction. Bermuda tracking station is not supporting
on this revolution. We had a brief period of acquisition
through Merritt Island launch area and it's now LOS at MILA.
About 8-1/2 minutes until reacquisition at Madrid, therefore
we'll simply leave the line up and stay alive for this gap
across the Atlantic. Standing by at 12:58, Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control; acquisition again at
Madrid in about 15 seconds, and we're standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8-1/2
minutes. Good morning from the Bronze boys.
CDR Good morning, Bronze boys.
SPT Good morning, Hank and boys.
CC Good morning.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you again at Carnarvon at 40, 25-1/2 minutes from
now. And we're scheduled to dump the voice recorder there.
PAO Skylab Control; LOS Madrid with very
little air-to-ground communication. This crew no doubt
involved in blood sample taking and other pre - postsleep
activities. Our next station in 23 minutes will be Carnarvon
overlapping coverage into Honeysuckle Creek for a total of
about 15 minutes. We'll return at that time. At 13:17
GMT, Skylab Control.

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PAO Skylab Control, 13:39 Greenwich mean

time. Carnarvon and Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, tracking
stations coming up in 50 seconds. Some measurements of
space station Skylab orbit temperature conditions taken
back at Madrid on telemetry. Current orbit is 230.2 nautical
miles and perigee by 242.8 nautical miles at apogee. Period
of orbit is 1 hour and 33 minutes 17 seconds. Inertial
velocity, 25,145 feet per second. Temperature of the atmosphere
in the wardroom is 72 degrees Fahrenheit. Atmospheric
pressure in the space station 5 pounds per square inch of
which 3.6 pounds is partial pressure of oxygen. State of
charge in the ATM batteries back at Madrid was 89.3 percent.
We should be in acquisition now at Carnarvon.
CCC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon/Honey-
suckle for 15 minutes and weVll be dumping a recorder here
at Carnarvon.
SPT Hello, Hank.
CC Ed, while I got you, have a little
comment on your pass coming up here at 14:06 if you want to
get your schedule out.
SPT Ready to copy.
CC Okay. F-80 is no longer visible, so at
the 14:06 pass you're getting ready to run here at 22 min-
utes time remaining we'd like to change the pointing to
active region 20, and we want to omit the 82B from the
building block 28 unless some bright points are visible.
If you do see some bright points we want you to run the
82B WAVE SHORT with exposure time 14, and if you want to
look over at the next pass at 20:20, we want to do the same
thing at 44 and 24 minutes remaining.
SPT Okay, Hank, I got that. Omit by 82B un-
less I see the bright points over in active region 20. We
might
CC Yes, that - -
SPT - find (garble).
CC Right. And the CDR I think will be
running that 20:20 pass and the - it's obvious, but the
roll is no longer critical then.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston we're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you again at Texas at 26, 31 minutes.
PAO Beginning at Texas through MILA, Bermuda,
over to Madrid. Skylab Control at 13:57 GMT.

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SL-IV MC-2055/I
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01/13/74

PAO This is Skylab Control. 14:24 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition in 50 seconds through tracking station
at Corpus Christi, Texas. Overlapping coverage at or
through Merritt Island launch area, Bermuda and we'll stay
up across the Atlantic for the Madrid pass, for about the
next 25 minutes - 26 minutes. Standing by for AOS, Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Texas to
Bermuda for 15 minutes and we plan to dump the voice recorder
here in a few minutes at MILA.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC And, CDR, for info. We have a few
corrections to your C&D pad for the upcoming EREP and we
could plan on getting those at Madrid, if you like.
CDR Okay, that111 be fine.
SPT Good morning, Hank. Let me tell you what
the Sun looks like from up here.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT Okay, starting over on the west limb,
we're looking at the active region 14, pretty much unchanged
in XUV monitor, from yesterday. Active region 15 also pretty
much unchanged, perhaps not quite as intense. Active region
18, only a following plage remains, the leader plage has
completely disappeared in the XUV. Active region 16 appears
to be about the same, same shape, same intensity. 17 and 20
both are relatively bright, just rotating on the disk a little
bit more, their general form is stear -- still appears to be
the same, although we don't have anywhere near the elongation
we did yesterday in looking at it. There is a couple of
bright spots, if you will, or small plage north of the equator
just north of active region 17 and 20, just a couple of very
small ones, not very intense, but still noticeable above the
background. White light coronagraph, we still see a very
thin narrow spike at around 270, of which I mentioned last
night. The bright knob which was - of intensity which was
in there has diminished and is barely discernible and
we've not see it unless you really look for it. The two
streamers which we had yesterday at 230 and 240 or 250, I
believe, we called out yesterday. They are both there, still
parallel, broadened a bit, but they still go out to about the
same extent. In general, the corona has not changed a great
deal since I looked at it - well at 02, it was at 02:15 last
night. The east limb is also, excuse me, the west limb is
also pretty much unchanged. There is a very faint Helmet
streamer with some bright intensity with parallel sides
extending outward or surrounding it and no other real signi-
ficant changes. On the H-alpha, however, at active region 20
there is a very bright plage which extends upward above the
limb and looks to me like either surging material or a - well
I'm really not quite too sure, I want to go out and take another
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look at it. I figure that's where we'll be doing the work

on the next building block. I can give you more details once
I get out there and look at it in H-alpha 1 again and start
working it.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you.
CC And, Ed, we're ready any time for XUV
downlink.
SPT Okay, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, the laser
will be tracking and it's - I don't know whether you111 get
a chance to look or not, but if you do, after you report
acquisition they're going to slew the beam ahead and behind the
spacecraft and evaluate that.
PLT Okay, Hank, we're standing by.
PLT No joy on the laser.
CC Roger, we copy.
PLT Hank, there looks to be under a cirrus
deck at least from my present angle. They may want to boost
the power.
CC Okay. They're going to flash it.
CC Okay, they're up at max power now, Bill.
i0 watts and flashing.
PLT Looks like the clouds have spoiled it.
CC Yeah, they reported it was a little bit
hazy up there this morning.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you at Madrid at 45, and we'll be ready with
a update to the C&D pad there. It's about 4-i/2 minutes
from now.
PLT Roger, Hank.

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SL-IV MC2056/I
TIME: 09:40 CDT, 59:14:40 GMT
1/13/74

PAO This is Skylab Control in a gap here

as space station Skylab crosses the North Atlantic between
Bermuda and Madrid which will acquire the space station
in 2 minutes. Again there was no Joy in the crew observing
the laser beacon from Goddard Space Flight Center which
tracked the space station from the time it came over the
horizon from Goddard. The mode today called for a green
light on the laser at i0 watts continuous output, and after
the crew reported no joy in spotting the laser from the
wardroom window they went to a flashing mode. But apparently
the cloud cover was too thick to allow the crew to spot
the laser. This laser at Goddard Space Flight Center is
part of Skylab experiment T053, Skylab Earth laser beacon.
And the basic objective behind the experiment is to pin down
the optimum needs or specifications for laser beacon system
to be used in future orbital and deep space navigation. The
crew comments on the ease of spotting the laser at different
power levels to be used in designing such a system. The
laser can be modulated in a flashing mode and the power
wattage or power output can be changed from ranging from
3/10ths of a watt up to i0 watts maximum. And colors can
be shifted in the spectrum of green, blue, bluegreen, and
red. Should have acquisition now at Madrid; we're standing
by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for
7-1/2 minutes.
CC And, Ed, just got a report in from
NOAA. The bright plage you reported near active region 20
has been designated the new active region 21. And the
material that we saw at 13:46 ejected out to about 0.i solar
radii and there were no reported X-rays associated with that.
SPT Okay, Hank, that's what we're working
on right now, and it does appear like there's still a
surge in progress. I see a vocal limb about 40 arc seconds
a very faint amount of material that went around 30 arc
seconds when we started a little bit stronger and it's moving
outward. We're catching it with 55 of the (garble) and
56 - 82B got a WAVELENGTH SHORT type one quarter right at the
most intense point which was around 16,000 in oxygen VI.
CC Roger; we copy.
CDR Hank, I'm ready to copy those C&D Checklist
changes.
CC Okay, CDR, we just did a final weather
check here and I guess it's not going to be necessary. Based
on the weather being lousy for the whole track, we're going
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to scrub EREP for today; it just isn't worth it. Right

now we're looking at some shopping list items you might
be able to pick up during that period. And we'll get right
back with you as soon as we can have something to suggest
to you.
CDR Okay, thanks. Hank, you might include
handheld photos in that shopping list if there's any spots
where we might get them.
CC Okay, you're sure welcome to shoot any
of the ones that's on the optional list you have there.
CC SPT, Houston. In regard to the ATM,
if you're willing, we'd like to continue observations on
active region 21, and as you're doing now using the shopping
list for the items that's listed in the SAP.
SPT Good idea, Hank. You beat me to it by
15 seconds. Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston. One thing you might consider
now just finishing up the MI71 is go ahead and get your
PT out of the way before eating.
CDR You read my mind, Hank. I was just getting
ready to call you and suggest the same thing.
SPT Hank, looks like there's a relatively small
amount of brightening over active region 16 right now, right
along the plage.
CC Roger; we copy.
SPT 16 and 20 were not of (garble) to the same
magnitude in the XUV monitor. Before, 20 was the only one that
could be seen, now both of them are up there about the same
intensity.
CC Roger; we copy. And we're about i minute
from LOS. We'll see you at Carnarvon at 20.
PAO Skylab Control; LOS Madrid. Because
of weather conditions across the south central and north
eastern portions of the United States along groundtrack
for today's Earth resources survey, the EREP pass has been
canceled and scheduled to start on this next revolution
over the States. So, the Flight Plan has to be reworked.
For example, the Commander Jerry Cart is going to move his
exercise period back about 2 hours to fill in the space
taken by the time he would have been on the control and dis-
play panel for the EREP pass. An additional ATM pass will
probably be scheduled in that period, and other items are
being considered to block into the EREP time frame in as much
as no alternate had been planned, alternate Flight Plan
had been compiled for today. By the time the space station
comes across Carnarvon and Honeysuckle at the midpoint of this
3523 Earth orbit for the space station the changes in the Flight
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Plan should be worked out and passed to the crew to take up

the slack left by canceling the EREP pass. We'll return in
24 minutes at Carnarvon. This is Skylab Control at 14:55
Greenwich mean time.

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SL-IV MC-2057/I
Time: 10:19 CDT 59:15:19 GMT
1/13/74

PAO This is Skylab Control 15:19 Greenwich

mean time. Carnarvon and Honeysuckle Creek tracking sta-
tions in 50 seconds. Should be further discussion of changes
to the Flight Plan resulting from cancellation of today's
Earth resources pas s because of weather_ Standing hy for
Csrnarvon acquisition.
CC Skylab_ Houston through Carnarvon for
3_i/2 minutes. And Skylah, if somehody_s availahle we need
to get the MPC ROLL to INHIBIT.
SPT Got it_ Hank.
CC Okay. Thank you, and if you'd listen up we
got a few suggestions for you. The SPT, of course, will run
that pass until 15:19 to 17:00 on the ATM, and the CDR we
suggest that when he finishes his PT there about 16:00 or
so might do TV_I03, getting the rest of his hardware built
there. No TV will be available or VTR, but he can do the prep
part of it that doesn't require the TV, and then at approxi_
mately 17:00 he can pick up the ATM pass while the SPT eats and
tRen handover to him and the CDR could eat at 18:00 and at
19_00 have to be open, For the PLT looks like we don't have
anything for him, just that period will have to all be open
for him and maybe he could pick up some of the optional
handhelds.
PLT l_ve got a bunch of TO02 stuff I can do,
Hank.
CC Okay_ Bill_ I _ =
PLT (garble) doing right now.
CC Okay. We're also looking at the possi_
b_lity of maybe a science demo_ but _We_re not sure yet.
PLT Okay. I have that 107 I could also
work on.
CC We don't have any VTR available right
now. That's one of our problems.
PLT Okay. I'ii practice in - in between
times, but give me anything you want me to do, Hank. Stand-
ing by here.
CC Okay. We - We're _ we may get some
VTR later. I think Bob explained to you last night the
problem we got with our VTR dump, Skylab, we're i minute
from LOS. We_ll see you again at Honeysuckle at 31; that's
about 7 minutes.
PLT Hank, have you been trying to tape the
recorder?
CC Let me explain here. I'm just gettinK
ready to come to you here just before we went LOS. We're
having to _ we redesignated recorders. We've got the dump
experiment recorder 2 and after we re designate here you
may get that blinking light problem again,
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PLT Okay. fine; thank you.

CC You will have voice recorder capability
but the light may not function as it should.
PAO Skylab Control. LOS Ca Carnarvon.
5 minutes to Honeysuckle for a very brief pass of a minute
and 22 seconds. Even though the elevation angle is 7-1/2
degrees to the south of Honeysuckle Creek_ a range of
mountains are between the tracking station and the ground_
track of Skylab shortening the duration of the pass, at
least these azimuths from the tracking station. Flight Plan
chan_es were voiced up by Hank Hartsfield, the spacecraft
communicator, moving an additional ATM pass in for the science
pilot and after Commander Jerry Cart completes his physical
training he_ll move on into preparations for TV-103 and take
over the ATM pass. While the science pilot has his noon meal Pilot
Bill Pogue will pick up the optional handheld photos sche_
duled today, or made available today for the crew_ and pos_
sibly may work on some science demonstrations. Video tape
recorder needs to be wiped clean over this stateside pass
or part - portions of it at any rate dumped before they can do
any more TV recording, 3 minutes to Honeysuckle Creek and
standin_ by.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're with you for Just
about a m_nute through Honeysuckle. Our next station is
Texas at 16=01_ 29_i/2 minutes from now.
PAO Skyla5 Control, LOS Honeysuckle Creek_
Australia. Groundtrack of Skylab passing just south of the
southernmost island of New Zealand. Next station will be
Texas in 26 minutes, and we_ll return then. This is Skylab
Control at 15_34 Greenwich mean time.

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SL-IV MC2058/I
Time: ii:00 CDT, 59:16:00 GMT
1/13/74

PAO This is Skylab Control; 16:00 Greenwich

mean time. Space station Skylab will cross the coast of
Mexico in the next couple minutes, and some 40 seconds away
from acquisition at Corpus Christi tra=king station. We'll
stay up live for the stateside pass and the following Madrid
pass. This is the stateside pass in which the Earth resources
survey would have been run had it not been clobbered by
weather along the groundtrack.
CC Skylab, Houston we're with you at Texas
through Bermuda for 16-i/2 minutes. PLT, Houston.
PLT Go Hank.
CC Bill, if there's a spare valve from M133
one suggestion we have for you might be TV-II6 for the next
hour.
PLT I'ii take a look at it.
SPT We don't have a spare one yet, Hank.
CC Okay; we copy. You might forget at all
that we have suggestions.
PLT Okay; I'ii press on, and I can get some
more T002-4.
CC Okay.
SPT Hank, on the last orbit I was away from
one of the speaker boxes and you were talking ATM. I'm not
sure, did they suggest anything for the - the (ga_ble) up-
coming orbit? Right now I'm in a flare wait mode with 56
in the AUTO LONG, 55 getting truncated MIRROR AUTO RASTERS,
56 is in air flare wait mode and 82B has gotten a WAVELENGTH
SHORT time one quarter and I was just waiting in that one
also. We're looking at a bright region right at limb - I
belive it's your active region 21; we called it this morning.
And oxygen VI count is going between i0,000 to 24,000.
(Garble) of change by 5000 or so within a matter of a minute,
so it looks as though it's sitting there brewing, ready to
go and so I'm just going to try and stay on top of it, unless
the other folks want something else done.
CC Okay. We're seeing an increase in the
XREA, Bill. Or Ed.
SPT Hank, that doesn't correlate with any-
thing. I'm sure there's not brightening in the XUV monitor
H-alpha, and the oxygen VI count's now down to 9000.
CC Okay; we copy.
SPT PMEC is up, but the IMAGE INTENSITY
COUNT is down around 1 or 2. PMEC is up to 400.
CC Okay, Ed. We're- we're still seeing
an increase in the XREA; it's slowly creeping up there and
we suspect something's starting to happen.
SPT Okay, Hank. We're just going to take
another SINGLE 64 with S054, giving them one (garble) frame
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mode before this orbit, just for reference data and we're
doing it again and if something else starts to happen, we're
going into the flare mode, and 82B is going to WAVELENGTH
SHORT times one quarter going.
CC Okay; we copy.
SPT Hank, are the people in the backroom
able to read the oxygen VI count - when we're real time
here? Or essentially, what all the detectors are putting out?
CC Our sample rate's real low on that; once
every 15 seconds, Ed, so we'd be awful lucky if we saw
anything.
SPT Okay; but as long as you can get some
reading then it's not necessary for me to get to you down
to the ground except for what's been happening while you
were LOS.
CC Yes, that's right, Ed.
CC SPT, Houston. NOAA reports that there's
probably - probable surging on the limb and it's - it appears
that AR-16 is brightening up a little.
SPT Okay, Hank. They're pretty far removed
from one another. I see 16 in the XUV monitor. It's
about the same intensity as 21. The H-alpha, the hottest
thing on the limb, still looks to me about where I am and
I cannot see any surging material.
CC Ed, you said something earlier about not
copying the comments on the ATM. What is it you didn't
copy?
SPT Hank, I didn't copy what I didn't copy
so I can't tell you I heard you mention the ATM ans some-
thing about the next pass. I knew we had talked about
taking it, but I did not recall - not hearing any of your
other comments. I was away from the speaker box and did
not hear your comments at the time.
CC Okay. Well, I - I think what you're
referring to is I was commenting that you go ahead and
take this pass that you're on right now and then at 16:00 -
17:00 that the CDR would relieve you and he take that pass,
which actually starts about 17:12. And what we'd like for
him to do there is shopping list item 12 on P-76 and we have
a preference there for building block 28 and the S055 in
option B. And the comment in relation to you was that you
could go ahead and eat after you get off this pass and he
could hand over to you at the console to finish that pass
off and he could eat. That was the comment I think you
were referring to.
SPT Oh, okay. Yes, I got that, Hank. The
specifies thoug, on what they wanted Jerry to pick up on the
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next orbit, where - where is that spelled out?

CC Okay, we don't have - didn't have that
orbit scheduled, and what we'd like to do is shopping list
item 12 on P-76, and we have a preference for building block
28 and S055 in option B.
SPT Okay. I've got tha_. Thank you.
CC And yesterday I think Bill said some-
thing to you about not eating on the console. We've got
that under discussion and as far as we're concerned if - if
you'd rather do that and grab a snack up there that's fine
with us. We're going to try and get a final resolution on
that thing sometime today. It's under discussion.

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CC - - as far we we're concerned, if you'd

rather do that and grab a snack up there, that's fine with
US.

CC We're going to try to get a final

resolution on that thing, sometime today, it's under dis-
cussion.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got some good
news and bad news. The bad news is that on the TV dump, we
_ot down TV-101, we didn't see any modulation, so apparently
that 15 minutes or so was totally lost. The good news is
that now makes 20 minutes of VTR available to you. We're
saving out i0 minutes for TV-69, later, You might check the
upstream input station.
CDR Thank you, Hank. That was at - 133 was
left on.
CC Okay, and it's your option on how you
want to utilize that 20 minutes of VTR.
CC Skylab_ Houston _ We're 1 minute from
LOS. Madrid will be coming up at 22,
SPT Hank, could you have the folks dig back
and tell me what the last sequence on TV_I01 is that you
received.
CC Okay, will do_ Ed,
PAO Skylah Control_ LOS Bermuda. Madrid in
4 minutes. We're up live and waiting for reacquisition at
Madrid. Skylab Control, 16:18 Greenwich mean time.
CC SPT, I think you're already on it, but
we got a type 3 radio burst and AR20 is brightening.
SPT Roger; Hank. 14:20 we got on it. I saw
the briKhtening in the XUV monitor. Right now it's not too
hot in oxygen VI and it looks as though it's just leveling off
right now in XUV monitor. 1!11 keep my eye on it. We've
got the experiments going in there so it'll be a flare mode.
Except for 82A - I gave 82A a 20-second exposurep 82B
a wavelength short times one quarter. If it picks up again
I'ii go into the flare mode with those instruments.
CC Okay.
CC SPT. Did you omit S056?
SPT Negative, Hank. They're going AUTO SHORT.
CC We need a stop and start on S056, Ed,
we don_t see it running.
SPT How's that look to you_ Hank?
CC Okay_ we see operation now_ Ed.
SPT Hank, was that still operating in AUTO
LONG? Or was it not operating at all?
CC Ed, when we - when we saw it there, it
appeared to us that we had the normal closeout condition and
that S056 was not operating.
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SPT Okay, Hank. I had an operating light

up here, I'm wondering if there's conditions where I could
_et an operate light and not have it runnin_ at all.
CC Okay, There's a possibility there Ed,
that we - you were in AUTO LONG and that we were in the WAlT
period between exposures when we had AOS then.
SPT Hank, that point has died away in the
XUV monitor however, the oxygen VI count is up around 36_000.
CC We copy, Ed.
CC And, Ed, in answer to your question on
TV_I01, if you can listen riKht now. The last scene we got
On that was the static extension of 2 inch - of the 2-inch
zone, and with no rotation.
SPT Okay_ Hank. That goes back a little ways.
Thank you.
SPT Hank. Looks llke active region 20 is
developln_ a filament. Fairly nice, relatively strong one
compared to what it was before.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, We're i minute from
LOS." We_ll see you again at Tananarive at 44 and that's
about 14 minutes from now.
PAO Skylab Control. LOS Madrid. As the
space station crosses the Libyan coast, Next station in
12 minutes will be voice relay station at Tananarlve. Over
Madrid the ground passed up to Science Pilot Ed Gibson some
increased activity on the face of the Sun. Type 3 radio
burst and brightening in active region 20, which Gibson had
already detected during his stlnt on ATM control and display
panel. We_ll be back in ii minutes for Tananarlve. At 16:32
GMT, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-YV MC2060/I
TIME: 11:43 CDT, 59:16:43 GMT
1/13/74

PAO This is Skylab Control; 16:43 Greenwich

mean time. Voice relay station Tananarive in 50 seconds,
and we're standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for
7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC CDR, Houston; one thing we neglected
to tell you was we want to scrub the EREP tape you have
scheduled about 18:00, and if it's required we'll do it in
the morning.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 1 minute
from LOS. We'll see you again at Koneysuckle at 09_ 18
minutes from now.
CDR Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control_ LOS at Tananarlve.
We'll return in 15 minutes for Honeysuckle Creek, Australia.
And at 16:52 GMT, Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control_ 17:07 Greenwich
mean time. Honeysuckle Creek_ Australia another extremely
brief pass at this station 2-1/2 minutes, this will start
in about 40 seconds. Space station now midway through revolution
3524.
CC Skylab, Houston_ we're through Honeysuckle
for 2 minutes.
CDR Hellop Hank.
CC CDR, Houston. Are you on the console?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay_ Jerry_ what we'd like to do is
cancel tke T76 ops that _ that we told you about earlier.
We - we see a dark surge in active region 20. We'd like for you
to go back to active region 20 and 21 and go into the flair
wait mode_ but do the listed S052 ops at the end.
CD_ Okay, l_m sitting Sun centered now
waiting for a ESR. Do you want a building block 32, shopping
list 1 before I go to the AR207
CC Okayp we'll take that. And we're Just
about LOS. We'll see you again at Goldstone at 37, and we
have a recorder dump scheduled there.
CDR Okay.
CC And that's also ATM conference.
PAO Skylab Control_ LOS at Honeysuckle.
The next station in 24 minutes Goldstone and all of the
stateside tracking stations. Scientist_astronaut Dr. William
Lenoir standing by for the scheduled ATM conference upcoming
at Goldstone, and we'll return at that time. At 17:12 GMT,
Skylab Control.

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Time: 12:36 CDT 59:17:36 GMT
01/13/74

PAO This is Skylab Control. 17:35 Greenwich

mean time. AOS Goldstone in 50 seconds. Stateside pass
followed by Canary and Madrid pass for about the next 30
minutes. Goldstone pass will be devoted to the ATM conference
between Science Pilot Ed Gibson and Scientist-Astronaut Dr.
Bill Lenoir, here in Mission Control. 20 seconds away from
predicted acquisition at Goldstone tracking station and
standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through
Goldstone for 11-1/2 minutes and we're got resolution I think
on the eating at the console falp. We'd like to apologize
for all the controversy over that thing. You're perfectly
clear to eat at the console whenever you so wish. And, it's
time for the ATM conference so here's Bill.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Hello, Bill.
MCC Oh, hello, Ed. What's your configuration
right now Ed? Are you at the panel or is Jerry?
SPT We both are.
MCC Okay. Well let me talk to one of you
and not interrupt the other one. It's very important here
I don't want to interrupt the operations of the panel so I
won't say much and we'll pick up most of it tomorrow.
SPT Okay. Well why don't you go ahead.
Jerry's got his eye glued to the XUV monitor and we're
periodically watching oxygen VI and H-alpha so we're
keeping an eye on it. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, fine. A couple of words here on
the Sun I just got from Jill Herman. We were carrying an
active region 21, which is right now just beyond the limb,
we have it with a flare probability of 400. When you reported
earlier plage over active region 20 that looked like it extended
beyond the limb, we feel that that's the hot dense core of
active region 21 which apparently is a new region not in an
old field area that is just beyond active region 20 and
wanted to tell you that.
SPT Right, that's what I realized when I -
once I got a quick look at the Sun and had a chance to get
over there and look at the region and you'll find that's the
way it is - discussion went on the tapes. We were calling it
21 this morning, and that's where we're pointed right now.
MCC Okay, good. A couple of quickies here
on today's Plan. On Bill's orbit on his JOP 27, building
block 19, we've added some 82B exposures, which I think is
fairly clear. There's no 82B in that JOP - in that building
block in general and they've just added two sequences in there
but I don't think there can be any question about tha_. And
then I've got one note on your last orbit today with the
white light coronagraph null pointing where we do a BB2 a roll
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and another BB2. The - For the first thing, the part about
the roll at 13 minutes time remaining, is wrong. It says
roll 0000 (roll about the line of sight), that should be
roll about Sun center. I think if you think about that that'll
be obvious that that's what we want to do there. We've been
sending you that message format and_we_will for a couple of
days here, you might think about whether that perticular
format is good or not and our sequence for today is to go
to the null pointing, do a BB2, roll 90 degrees, about the
fine Sun sensor - Sun centered, which is in essence the 52
line of sight, do another BB52 another BB2 and then back out
of our special pointing here. And, in the backing out when
you go to standby and then to on, pause for a few seconds
in between, it's not obvious that the logic is always seeing
that standby and that's getting us into some funny configura-
tion. And, one last thing on here that I'm sure you're aware of.
The potental problems on not backing out of there properly
when we do inhibit that, we inhibit the 20 arc second discrim-
inator the 5 arc minute discriminator and the other sneakie
is we apparently disable the computer signal from closing the
door so that if you should run into sunset there the computer
will not close the door.
SPT Okay, Bill, thank you I didn't realize
that last one.
CC Okay. And one other thing here on the
BB24, with S056 ops, I was talking with Jim Millican earlier
and apparently when you initiated the BB24 before, you took
his exposure switch to short, but you also have to hit a
stop and start in order to reinitialize the logic and get the
logic to see that short.
SPT Okay. I had thought that's what I'd done
but apparently I didn't go down on the switch and - just near
far enough or down at all and I got the start without the stop.
I'ii make sure that won't happen again.
MCC Okay, fine. One last thought here from
me and that is that tomorrow you'll find on the Plan that
you do have the first orbit of the day, as you had suggested
earlier, which enables us to get another ATM observing orbit
in. We've got a total of seven orbits for the day. You have
four of them. If EREP is NO GO we have eight and you have five
of them. And, when you look at it you'll see that's just the
best that ATM could do on that date because it's every available
time. So we are responding to your comments earlier and any
time you have any comments on our planning and so on just let us
know.
SPT I sure appreciate that Bill, I think it's
going to give us a greater opportunity to get the count flare
data which we've all been looking for.
MCC Okay, fine. And, I'ii just hold off these
other points I have here because they're not important right
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now I'd rather see you on the panel.

SPT Bill, you could really go ahead. We got
two of us up here and we're both we're both looking at the
same thing and we don't have any instruments to operate, we're
just watching two or three displays while you're talking so why
don't you just go ahead and get them over with.
MCC Okay. Really they amount to nothing.
The first is, that we have in preparation right now a film
use message to complement the message that we sent you that
will talk about all the experiments and we'll send that up
as soon as we get that churned out. On the S055 shopping
list 30A questions that you asked the other day, the 55 will
be unable to actfially look at the line profiles in great de-
tail until they get a extensive computer analysis, however,
where you point it and how you set it up looks good to us,
and also in relation to that I gave you some bum poop when
you asked the question about the multiple lines. Those
multiple lines are all on detector l, however, the starting
14 steps early and carrying on past the line, part of that
intent is to resolve those lines individually. So there
should be no necessity there to run the other detectors.
SPT Okay, very good. The other detectors
don't have the wavelength aperture to really resolve them
anyway. Thank you for clarifying it.
MCC _Okay. I'm sorry for giving you that
wrong information there and that's all I have for today
really. Unless you've got anything else, we'll - we can
sign off here.
SPT No, I don't, Bill. I think what we're
doing right now is probably the best thing we can be doing.
MCC Looks that way to us too.
SPT Thank you.

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Time: 12:46 CDT 59_17:46 GMT
1/13/74

MCC Okay. I started to give you that wrong

information there. That's all I have for today, really,
unless you have anything else, well, we can sign off here.
SPT No, I don't, Bill. I think what we're
doing right now is probably the best thing we could be doing.
MCC Looks that way to us, too.
SPT Thank you,
CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute to LOS.
We'll be back with you in 2 minutes at Bermuda.
CC Skylab, HOuston through Bermuda for
5-1/2 minutes.
SPT Good surging out of active region 21
and 55 if you can be picking it up_ but so far no brightening
in XUV.
CC We copy, Ed.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again at Canaries in 5-i/2 minutes.
That's coming up at - on the hour.
SPT See you later, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control. LOS Bermuda. 3 minutes
to reacquisition through Canary Islands and Madrid. Stand-
ing by at 17:56 Zulu. Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries for
9 minutes.
SPT Hank, it sure looks llke active re_ion 21's
going to be doing something in the near future. It's been
in oxygen IV, going between 12,000 and 27,000. Just kind of
going back and forth with maybe 5-minute intervals or so.
That's roughly the time frame I've been looking at.
CC Roger; we copy, Ed. We hope we get
something there.
SPT It'll probably come at DOOR CLOSE.
SPT Hank, there's very little change in the
white light coronagraph. A streamer at 250, if anything
it looks a little narrower than it was before relative to the
streamer at 230.
CC We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again at Tananarive at 20, 12 minutes from
now.
PAO This is Skylab Control, 18:09 Greenwich
mean time. LOS, Canary Islands. Space station now over
Central Africa, at the start of revolution 3525. Voice
relay station in Tananarive upcoming next in about 9 minutes.
Final pass for several hours through Tananarive. We'll re-
turn then. This is Skylab Control at 18:10 Greenwich mean
time,

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TIME: 13:18 CDT, 59:18:18 GMT
1/13/74

PAO This is Skylab Control; 18:18 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition at voice relay station Tananarive
in 50 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for
5-1/2 minutes.
SPT Say, Hank, what time is kickoff?
CC 2:30.
SPT Thank you. Keep us posted.
CC Oh, we'll keep you posted. We - the game
ought to be starting a little over an hour from now.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from
LOS. See you again at Honeysuckle at 44.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PAO This is Skylab Control; LOS Tananarive.
Next station in 14 minutes, Honeysuckle Creek, Australia.
We'll return at that time. At 18:30 GMT, Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control; 18:43 Greenwich
mean time. Acquisition at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia in
50 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
9 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you again at 19:04 at Hawaii ii minutes from now.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control; LOS Honeysuckle. Hawaii
in 9 minutes followed by continuous coverage across the States,
through Canary and Ascension. We'll return at that time.
This is Skylab Control at 18:54 Greenwich mean time.

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SL-IV MC-2064/I
Time: 14:03 CDT 59:19:03 GMT
1/13/74

PAO This is Skylab Control, 19:03 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition through Hawaii in 50 seconds.
We'll stay up all the way through States and Canary/Ascen-
sion pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for
9_i/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank. Hank, it looks llke each
one of the active regions is having its turn at it. From the
way it's coming over to 21 I took a look at active region 16 and
saw a bright point in therep and I got up to about 27,000 in
oxygen, VI, and 30 seconds later it's back down to 6000. That
was the bright north/south plage directly east of the sun-
spot in that active region. Another thing of interest
which I didn't know I could see up here was plage and
white light display close to the limb. The linear plage,
which runs northsouth again, which is, in this case, ii0 arc-
seconds east of the sunspot in active region 20. I was
able to see that plage in the white light display just
southwest of 21. It's right out of the llmb darkening.
CC That sounds pretty interesting. Didntt
know you could do that.
SPT I didn't either, not with the white
light display we have. It worked out real well.
CC Ed, we need the DAS.
SPT You have it.
CC Okay. We're going to give it a little
nuZ update.
CC SPT_ Houston. The DAS is yours.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston; we got about a minute
and 20 seconds to LOS and then we'll be back with you at
Goldstone at 16. We do have a question in regard to tomorrow's
flight plan. We have a back to back EREP tomorrow, tracks 29 and
30, and in the original flight plan that was done it was
planned that the same operator would operate the VTS on both
tracks. Right now it's scheduled for the PLT. However,
preflight, track 30 belongs to the CDR and the things
on track 30 are the Rio Grande Reservoir, the Grans Sand Dunes
and possibly Denver metropolitan area, and we wondered if the
PLT could do this or would you rather us plan to swap you be-
tween passes?
CDR Hank, I'm sorry. Say again. Bill and
I were working on recording of some handheld observations.
CC Okay. We're about LOS, Jer. We'll pick
that up at Goldstone in a couple of minutes from now.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're back with you
through Goldstone for 7 minutes.
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CDR Roger, Hank.

CC Are you free to discuss that flight plan
correction?
CDR Yes, go ahead.
CC Okay. Basically what it is, Jet, is in
the summary flight plan in - we've got track 29 and 30 to-
morrow on EREP back-to-back, and the track 29 is Bill's and -
preflight schedule and track 30 belongs to you and this
the way the passes are set up now to keep the same operator
just for ease of falling through the pass there, and they
have Bill set up for both tracks. Now track 30 is the Rio
Grande Reservoir, the Grand Sand Dunes, and possibly the
Denver metropolitan area, and we wondered how you felt about
that. Would you rather swap stations during the middle of
the pass or can Bill handle the track 30 and just keep the
same operator?
CDR Let us talk about St for a couple of
minutes and I'ii get back with you.
CC Okay_ do that. CDR, Houston. We dis-
cussed it a little further down here, and I guess and in our
mind we think it would probably be better if each of you did
yourown tracks and if you have no objection we'll Just go
ahead and swap them.
CDR Okay_ Hank. I think that's probably the
best way to go.
CC Okay. Wha - What happened it - it was
a little slipup earlier in the summary flight plan and - and
they didn't get the right personts pad and we just caught it a
little while ago and we're having a debate going on as to
which would be the easiest way to do it, hut I think the
easiest thing is just go ahead and schedule each man for his
own track.
CDR Yes, that'll probably minimize any dif-
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SL-IV MC-2065/I
Time: 14:20 CDT 59:19:20 GMT
1/13/74

SPT Hank, I've been looking at gradual increase

through the nitrogen 6 with active region 21 up to around
30,000 28- to 30,000. What Is the X-REA dolnK at this time?
CC Okayp it's a little bit above background,
but it's very low, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
CC And we're about 40 seconds from LOS, we_ll
see you again at Bermuda at 27.
PAO Skylab Control, LOS Goldstone. The
ground track of space station Skylab paralleling the Canandlan
border at the top of the ascending node and thereby missing
the range of Texas and Merritt Isand launch area tracking
stations. Bermuda in 2_i/2 minutes. We_ll stay up llve
through Canary and Ascension for the next 28 minutes.
Standing by at 19:24 Zulu.
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 8
minutes.
CDR Roger Hank.
CDR Hank, would you send us up another copy
of permanent general message 26?
CC Permanent message 26, Wilco.
CDR Thanks.
CDR Rouston_ CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Yeah, I Just checked with Bill and he
has trained on those _ both those targets as well, so it
doesn't matter who you give it to.
CC Roger_ webve gone ahead and changed it
Jet, we'll send it up according to preflight.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houstonp we,_re 1 minute from
LOS, we'll see you at Canaries at 37 and we plan to dump
the recorder there.
SPT Roger Hank.
PAO Skylab Control, 19 hours 36 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Less than 40 seconds away from
reacquisition through Canary Island, we_ll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and
Ascension with the recorder dump for 16 minutes,
CC Skylab, Houston, for Info active auro_
has been reported in the Northern Hemisphere, part of message
18 Bravo for photos if you desire.
SPT Thank you Hank.
CC SPT_ Houston, are you still at the panel?
SPT Yes I am Hank.
CC Okay, we have one small pad change. I got
an error in the pad on - on-the pass at 23:25. ItVs quite a
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while from now but I thought if you were still there you
could go ahead and make the change to the pad.
SPT Go ahead Hank.
CC Okay, at 23:25 pass has a time remaining
of 49 minutes on the SO55 grating, on the pad it says 08:50,
it should be 08:54.
SPT 08:54, I got it Hank, thank you.
CC Thank you Ed.
CC Skylab, Houston, give you a quick update
here, the Dolphins won the choice and chose to receive and
then with Zonka and Morris alternating they drove 62 yards it's
now 7 to 0, Dolphins.
CDR Roger, they soundstough.
CC Skylab, Houston, we!re i minute from
LOS, we'll see you again at Carnarvon at 20, 27 minutes
from now.
PAO Skylab Control, 19 hours 54 minutes.
Space station now out of range of trackin_ antennas at
Ascension. Comment from the ground earlier that there was
a northern aurora, if the crew wanted to take a picture of
it. Next acquisition will 25 minutes from now through the
tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Skylab
Control, 19 hours 54 minutes Greenwich mean time.

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SL-IV MC2066/I
Time: 15:19 CDT, 59:20:19 GMT
1/13/74

PAO Skylab Control 20 hours 18 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station now less than i minute
away from acquisition through Carnarvon, Australia. This
pass will take us through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle Creek.
Commander Jerry Cart should be at the ATM C&D panel observing
the Sun. Science Pilot Ed Gibson is involved in some
housekeeping activities, and Bill Pogue should be involved
in physical training. We'll hold the line up for this
pass over Australia.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through
Carnarvon. We have you for 7 minutes. And Hank said he
was sorry he didn't say goodbye but he had to go watch
the ballgame.
CDR Hello, Crip.
CC Hidi.
CDK I bet that broke his heart too.
CC Rog, A little update on that the
Dolphins have done it again. The score is now 14 to nothing
with Jim Kick doing the honors on getting the score.
SPT Thank you Crip. Grip, it sure good to
see you put duty before Super Bowl.
CC That - that's the Navy way.
CC I couldn't find anybody to take my place.
CDK Same way with the mid watch isn't it
Crip, you can't find anybody to trade.
CC Roger, that.
CDR Well, keep the coffee pot boiling.
CC We,re doln_ it. We got the situtatlon
well in hand.
CDR Active region 21'a been teasln_ us all
day.
CC Yeah, Hank, was telling me that it looks
llke it's been trying to - something's been trying to boil
up, but nothing - nothing_s overflowed yet.
CC For CDR_ on the panel there Jet, we did
a little while ago see some enhancement in active region 16.
And then we had an SID sudden ionospheric disturbance, which
is indlctatlve of a possible flare. So _ but we can't
necessarily tie it to 16 but it was - we did corollate that
with some _ some enhancement in that region.
aPT Hey, Crip what time did you see that
enhancement in 16?
CC 20:16. Sorry about that 20:1 - -
SPT Okay, thank you Crip. On a previous
orbit I saw an enhancement in there which I - believe I
mentioned but I never saw anything after that. It looked
pretty dull, like around 30 seconds (garble) pretty bright.
CC Rog, correction on that time it was about
20:10. So it was while y_all were (garble) dark (garble).
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CDR XUV shows them all pretty much the same

intensity, 21 is a little brighter.
CC Rog.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS. Next station contact is Hawaii in 15 minutes, at 20:43.
We'll be doinK a data/voice recorder dump there.
CDR Roger.
CC A little final update Yepremian just
kicked a 28 yard field goal. The score is now 17 nothing
Miami Dolphins.
CDR Theytre still in the first quarter?
CC Just 6 minutes into the first half now
so - so they're already in the second quarter. They
are in the second quarter_ sorry about that.
CC Yeah, they got 6 minutes remainin_ in
the half.
PAO Skylab Control. Space station Skylab
now out of range of the tracking antenna at Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. Next acquisition will be 12 minutes from
now through the tracking station in Hawaii. We'll bring you
a brief press conference from Flc - Flight Director Charles
Lewis over the release line momomentarily. Greenwich mean
time 20 hours 30 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2067/I
Time: 15:41 CDT 59:20:41 GMT
1/13/74

PAO Skylab Control 20 hours 41 minutes Green-

wich mean time. Space station now nearing acquisition through
the tracking station in Hawaii. Change-of-shift completed
here at Mission Control as Flight Director Don Puddy takes
over from Charles Lewis and Spacecraft Communicator Bob
Crippen takes over from Hank Hartsfleld. Less than 40 seconds
away from acquisition of signal now. We'll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Hawaii doing the
data/voice recorder dump here.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR The recorder_s in use, You better not
dump it.
CC Copy, Jet. We're takin_ a look at our
dump requirements right now.
CDR Okay, I think you have to do a TV.
CC Yeah, Rog, I copy,
CC Skylab, Houston, it looks like with the
time requirements on it that we'll be able to handle the
dump at Goldstone (garble).
CDR Okay, good.
SPT Crip, you can have the recorder, if you
like.
CC Okay, we got it, Ed.
CC Skylab_ Houston, i minute to LOS. Gold_
stone in 5 minutes at 20:55.
CDR Roger,
PAO Skylab Control 20 hours 52 minutes Green-
wich mean time. Space station now out of range of the track-
ing antennas at Hawaii. We're about 2 minutes and 30 seconds
from reacquisition through Goldstone for a Stateside pass over
Goldstone, Merrltt Island and Bermuda. We_ll keep the llne
up this brief LOS period.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Goldstone 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crlp.
CC SPT, Houston. When you gave us the
recorders awhile ago at Hawaii, we assumed that you have com_
pleted with TV69. If so, we_d like to go ahead and take the
VTR and dump a little bit of it over this Goldstone pass and
we can give it back to you over MILA in about 7 minutes.
SPT That's correct, Cripp and sounds fine to
me, go ahead.
CC Very good, we_ll do that. We was trying
to get it cleaned off pretty good. Didn't know whether you
wanted to do any other TV work tonight or not, but we were
tryin_ to get it as clean as we could for you.
SPT I think I might work a little more on
TVI01 again.
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CC Roger.
CDR Crip, on TVI03, I wonder if you might send
if the woodpecker can stand the gas, send me up a little bit
more information about background information about 10S
and what some of the correlations are. It just mentions rather
vaguely formation of thin crystals and I would llke a little
more information if I can.
CC We'll work on that for you.
CC Skylabp Houston, we're i minute from LOS,
see you again in 3-1/2 minutes over MILA.
CDR Roger.
PAO Space station Skylab now out of range of
the antennas at Goldstone, California. Commander Jerry Cart
should be in the middle of an operation to change the attitude
of the spacecraft for the S063 comet photography in about
30 minutes from now. We_ll hold the line up as we're now
less than a minute and a half from reacquisition through
Merritt Island tracking station in Florida.

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SL-IV MC-2068/I
Time: 16:01 CDT 59:21:01 GMT
1/13/74

CC Skylab, Houston, A0S through MILA, we

have you for 11-i/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, we have a field coming
up in about 30 seconds about a minute duration_ I'Ii call you
when we are out of it.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're clear of the key-
hole, we have you for about 9 more minutes and Super Bowl is
in the half time right now, score still remains 17 to 0 and
as obvious from the score Miami has sort of dominated the
first half, Csonka carried 16 times for 83 yards and Morris
carried for 50.
CDR Wonder what they're talking about in the
Viking dressing room.
CC I wouldn't care to speculate.
CDR By the way Crip, how's the weather down
there?
CC Oh, it's kind of cloudy and sort of on
the coolish side today. We haven't had much sunshine
sunshine around yet I can't even talk anymore - sunshine
around here, except for yesterday we had a little bit, it's
been kind of dreary dreary Winter day.
CDR Must be kind of muddy in Rice Stadium
then.
CC No, we actually haven't had too much rain
associated with it though so I think the field ought to be
in pretty good shape.
CC One of the items they may be talking about
in the dressing room is the fact that the losers only get a
check for 7500 dollars; winners get 15,000.
CDR Such incentive.
CC Roger that.
SPT 7500, that'll just about pay their gas
bill home.

CC Well at the going rate of gasoline, might

be pretty close.
PLT What's the recorder situation right now
Crip, voice recorder?
CC Check it for you Bill.
CC It's all yours.
CC You know in looking back over the previous
Super Bowls, only a - a couple of them I guess were really
tight, four of them were complete routs, they tell me, and
the other wasn't nearly as close as the final score indicated.
Some people say the most memorable was the game that established
it as the super sports event of the year- was when the New York
Jets stunning victory 16 to 7 over the Baltimore Colts back in
68.
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Time: 16:01 CDT 59:21:01 GMT
1/13/74

SPT That was a good one Crip.

CC Roger that. The other one was pretty
Bood was the Colts 16 to 13 victory over the Dallas Cowboys
in 71. That was when the Colts kicked a field goal in the
final 5 seconds to win the game.
CDR Hey Crip, changing sports, how's the
basketball scene going this year? Is UCLA on top again?
CC You've got me comletely at a loss, I'll
have to check that one for you Jet.
CDR Okay.
CDR I'd like to know where USC is in that
ladder to.
CC Okay.
CC I'm told UCLA has got unanimous first
place in all polls.

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SL-IV MC2069/I
Time: 16:11 CDT, 59:21:11 GMT
1/13/74

CC Skylab, Houston, the VTR does belong

to you guys.
CDR (Garble) you say VTR?
CC Yes sir.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, looking over some of
the press stuff that came out in the paper today about the
Super Bowl. I hear that Bob Cochran, the Super Bowl's Director
of Broadcast and Promotion has said. And NASA has also asked us
to provide a tape for the astronauts to watch when they are
in quarantine and therefore they will be able to see the game
in its entirety when they get back home. Since you're the
only guys that are flying around up there right now_ I
think they must be talking about you.
CDR Hey, that's beautiful. Yeah, Itll be
looking forward to seeing that.
CC We're 30 seconds from LOS. Ascension
in 7 minutes_ at 21;22, 21:22.
CDR See you then.
PAO Skylab Control 21 hours 15 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station is now over the Atlantic
Ocean out of range of the tracking antenna at Bermuda. 6
minutes from acquisition through Ascension. This is Skylab
Control at 21 hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time.

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SL-IV MC2070/I
Time: 16:20 CDT, 59:21:20 GMT
1/13/74

PAO Skylab Control 21 hours 20 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Now less than a minute away from
acquisition through Ascension. We'll hold the line up for
this pass over that island tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Ascension i0
minutes.
SPT Hey, Crip, I was working on TV 101 at
the time you told us we were going to be able to see the
Super Bowl game. Tell the folks who made that available we sure
appreciate it.
CC Okay, Ed. We always try and think of
you.
CC (Laughter), Incidentally on the same
subject, Csonka just did it again. The score now is 24 to
nothing.
CDR Oh, those poor Vikes.
CC I imagine they're feeling it about now.
Have a little note here - -
SPT - - Can imagine.
CC Yeah. A little note of interest, they
inform me that the Dolphins are the least penalized team
in the NFL. Probably with Csonka there the rest didn't want
to (garble) (laughter).
CDR Well, you know thatts a mark of a good team
to be able to play without penalities.
CC Roger, that.
CDR Ask the Oilers.
CC Can't answer your question about USC's
placement right now, there isn't a sports editor to be found
outside the (laughter) outside of the football staduim, I
guess.
CDR I guess that figures.
CC One minute from LOS, see you at Carnarvon
in 23-i/2 minutes, at 21:54.
CDR See you, Crip.
CC Crimson team is fixing to get their
picture taken. Hope we don't break the camera.
PAO Skylab Control 21 hours 32 minutes.
Loss of signal from Ascension tracking station now. Next
acquisition will be 21 minutes and 40 seconds from now,
that will be through Carnarvon, Australia. Mission Control
is filling up as the Crimson team prepares to have its
picture taken. You'd never know there were so many members
on a Plight Control team. Greenwich mean 21 hours 32 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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 SL-IV MC-2071/I
Time: 16:52 CDT 59:21:52 GMT
1/13/74

PAO Skylab Control, 21 minutes - 21 hours

52 minutes Greenwich mean time. Space station new
nearing acquisition through Carnarvon, Australia. Pilot
Bill Pogue should be finishing observations of the comet,
using the S063 ultraviolet airglow camera. And Science
Pilot Ed Gibson should be in the middle of his physical
training exercise for the day. Commander Jerry Carr is
scheduled to be at the ATM C&D console right now, observing
the Sun. About 20 seconds from acquisition through Carnarvon.
We'll hold the line up for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Carnarvon, we
have you for i0 minutes.
CDR Hello, Crip.
CC Howdy. And the Vikings got on the score
board, the score is now 24 to 7. Also the Vikings just got
the ball and are now in Dolphin territory.
CDR Very good, maybe they'll make a game of
it.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, we show some work going
on with TV, be advised you have 6 minutes on the VTR.
CC That's 6 minutes remaining.
CDR Roger, thanks Crip.
SPT Crip, we're all through with the VTR if
you want to go ahead an take it for dumping or whatever you
choose.
CC Okay, fine, we'll be taking it here to
rewind it and we'll be dumping as much as we can over the
upcoming CONUS pass.
SPT Okay.
CC Going to make you a TV producer when you
get back Ed.
SPT I got lots of practice as a camera man.
CC Rog.
SPT Also Crip, during this TV i01 series, l've
become very proficient as a cleanup man.
CC You've got all kind of talents going
there, Ed.
CC Pass the word on to Julie that you're
very proficient at cleaning up now.
CC Just been informed that Larry Csonka has
broken Matt Bell's rushing record for a Super Bowl of 121
yards.
PLT Not to change the subject Crip, but do
you have a time and station for my call?
CC Yes sir, at 02:10, and it'll be antenna
right over the Vanguard.
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PLT Thank you.

CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from
LOS, we'll see you again over Guam in 4 minutes at 22:07.
PLT See you later.
CC Rog.
PAO Loss of signal from Skylab through the
tracking antenna at Carnarvon. Now less than 2 minutes from
Guam tracking station. We'll hold the line up for this
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, we are AOS over Guam
for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Rog, and no need to acknowledge, but Jer
as a little matter of info. We are planning on - on this
up c - on this up coming 183 ops having you check out a
reference of Canopus for us, and we're going to be sending
you up some data on that a little bit later. But we've
been looking here between our predictions of nuZ and what
the nuZ-E the computor holds and we got about a degree and
a half difference in them right now. We suspect that may
have been causing us to use a little bit of excessive TACS,
if we don't really know what nuZ-E - or correction nuZ is on
the path to Z-LVs we've done so we're going to try to get check
on it and we'll be giving you some more poop on it later.
CDR Okay.

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Time: 17:09 CDT 59:22:09 GMT
1/13/74

CC Skylab, Houston, final score in the

Super Bowl Number 8: Miami 24_ Vickings 7.
; CDR Roger, thanks.
CC Skylab, Houston, as a matter of info,
we've Been seeing the activity the Sun creeping here a little
a bit over about the past 5 or 10 minutes. And beryllium
count is up about 10 times over background right now.
CDR Roger, we'll keep an eye on it. Active
region 21 is looking a little brighter.
CC Copy that.
CC Skylab, Houston_ 1 minute till LOS. Gold-
stone in 16-1/2 minutes at 22:33, 22:33.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 18 minutes
Greenwich mean time. ATM science officer here in Mission
Control indicates that the active region 21, that crew was
told was indicating increasing activity is now almost up
to a C flare. This is on the Sun's east limb. Next acquisition
will be 14 minutes and 30 seconds from now through Goldstone,
California. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time
22 hours 18 minutes.

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SL-IV MC2073/I
Time: 17:32 CDT 59:22:32 GMT
1/13/74

PAO Skylab Control 22 hours 32 minutes Green-

wich mean time. Space station is now nearing acquisition
through tracking antennas at Goldstone, California. A correc-
tion on a previous report we gave you on active region 21.
This active region is on the Sun's west limb and is coming
up for a full cycle. The astronauts will have a long oppor-
tunity to view this active region which is approaching a C
flare right now. We'll hold the llne up for this Stateside
pass through Goldstone, Texas, MILA, and Bermuda, now less
than 20 seconds away from acquisition of signal.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS across the
States 16 minutes, and we think we just saw a flare in active
region 21 about a Charlie i. Looks like it's already dying off
though.
CDR Roger, XUV up here hasn't shown a thing.
CC Okay.
CDK PME - EC slowly crept up to a count of
about 500 and just kind of there between 500 and 470,
and not much action.
CC Okay, Jet, thank you.
PLT Crip, I have the photo log_ if you're
ready to copy.
CC Ready to copy, Bill.
PLT Roger.- 16 millimeter, S183 anticipate
the followinR: Uniform Alfa 04 will be reading approximately
79 percent maybe a little less. Nikon I, Charlie X-ray 40, 25;
Nikon 2, India Romeo ii, 41; 3_ Charlie India 113, 55; Nikon 4,
Bravo Echo 10 reading 00; Nikon 5, Bravo Hotel 06, 25, an-
ticipate 3 frames S233 later on this evening. 70-millimeter,
Charlie X-ray 50, 039. ETC, no change. EREP, no change.
Drawer A configuration, no chan_e.
CC Okay, thank you,
CC PLT, Houston. We have one queston on
Nikon 04, you give us a reading of zero. We had anticipated
7 frames in conduction with the SO63 ops.
PLT Yeah, I figured you'd ask that. I went
one frame over on the allcation on that cassette. But I
finished _ it would have been right in the middle of the
S063, so I just went ahead and finished it. There are some
dedicated exposures, I think for sensitivity calibration.
And I went into one of those. Did you read that, Crip?
CC Yeah_ I copied that. We had a question
here. Did you load VEI0 in Nikon 4 for those ops today?
PLT Negative.
CC Okay, last'night, we had - we were showing
that you had 4 frames remaining in VE9 and for what you just
said there, I copied that you took eight.
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PLT No, let me look at my pad. What - what-

ever S063 calls for, there is no instructions for downloading
that - that cassette still had some exposrues left in it. That
seven exposures is what my SO63 pad calls for.
CC Rog, and and you copy you took seven.
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay.
PLT i thought that thing was reading 44. It
may have been reading 45 when I took it out, which means I
went two into the sensitome try.
CDR Houston_ CDR. Active region 21 is slowly
warming upj looks like it's probably going to be pretty hot
just about the time the doors close.
CC That's the wrong time. That timing's not
very well.
CDR Well, last pass, I asked the guys in the
backroom to turn up the intensity on just a little more. And
I think maybe next time they turn it up a little more, we_ll
have it.
CC Okay, we'll work on that for you.
CC Skylah, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
Next station contact is Carnarvon in 43 minutes at 23:32,
we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there.
PAO Skylab Control 22 hours 50 minutes Green-
wlch mean time. Loss of signal though Bermuda now. Earlier
during this Stateside pass, Commander Jerry Carr indicated
that he thought the next time they came around into Sunsidep
that they would be able to see active region 21 flare
up. They were going to speak to some people in the backroom
and get the active region to flare for them. However, our
indicators show the active region to be cooling down now.
Pilot Bill Pogue managed to get five extra frames out of a
cartridge in the Nikon camera for the SO63 comet photography
earlier. Corollary officer here in Mission Control indicates
that those 5 frames were calibration frames and had sensi-
tometric exposures already on them. So what Bill Pogue has
managed to do is double expose those five frames. They'll
now have double exposed images of the Comet Kokoutek in the
ultraviolet, and sensitometric exposures made previously.
Next acquisition will be through Carnarvon 40 minutes from
now. AT 22 hours 51 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2074/I
Time: 18:31 CDT, 59:23:31 GMT
1/13/74

PAO Skylab Control 23 hours 31 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station Skylab is now less than
1 minute away from acquisition of signal through Carnarvon,
Australia. Earlier today, we got this report on the Comet
Kohoutek, the Joint Observatory for Cometary Research at
South Baldy, New Mexico reported seeing the comet yesterday
in their observatory's telescope. They estimated that the
tail lenBth was 19 million miles, that include a 13 million
mile dust tail, a 10 million mile - excuse me, a 13 million
mile plasma tail, a 10 million mile dust tail. And half a
million mile antetail. Now less than i0 seconds away from
acquisition of signal. We'll go live air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Carnarvon.
We have you for 7 minutes. We'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump here.
CDR Roger, Crip. Did active region 21 do
anythin_ while we were gone?
CC No, haven't seen anything yet. Maybe
we_ve been saving it up for you. Although the X-REA activity
is pretty low right now.
CDR Roger.
PLT Crip, I got a question on ATM.
CC Yes sir, go ahead.
PLT I'm getting ready to do this JOP 27 step
2, buildin_ block 19. It calls for pointing with the H-alpha
2, and there are some - which puts 82B slit down on a llmb,
and on the disk rather. And they're gettin_ an awful lot of
disk light in their slit. What I'm wondering is, do they
really want to do that? Or have I pointed incorrectly?
CC Let me let me find out what the backroom
has got to say about that, Bill.
PLT And I'm pointing for pro - yeah, go
ahead and ask them and I_ll continue to explain what I did
here. I pointed at prominence 76 using H-alpha i, to find
it because it's a better view. And then I corrected for the
parallax with H_alpha 2. But, in doing that, that's going
to put part of the slit down on the disk.
CC Bill, the answer to that is that in this
particular building block the pointing is optimized for 55,
which you do with the H-alpha there. So, - and 82B takes what
they got.
PLT Okay, l_m going with my present pointing.
CC Rog,
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 30 seconds from
LOS. We_ll see you at Guam - over Guam in 7 minutes.
PAO _ - (garble) the tracking antennas at
Carnarvon, Australia. A little over 5 minutes away from our
next acquisition which will be through Guam. 23 hours 40 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2075/I
Time: 18:45 CDT 549:23:45 GNT
1/13/74

PAO Skylab Control 23 hours 45 minutes Green-

wich mean time. Space station is now nearing acquisition
through the Guam tracking station. Pilot Bill Pogue should
be involved with taking pictures of the Comet Kohoutek with
the S183 instrument. And Commander Jerry Cart and Science
Pilot Ed Gibson are taking limb volume measurements. Com-
mander Carr is the observer and Ed Gibson is the subject in
these medical experiments. We'll hold the line up for this
pass through Guam now less than 20 seconds away.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Guam 6 minutes.
CDR Thanksm Crip.
CC PLT_ Houston, you got a - you got a moment
to chat here in amongst your building blocks, Bill?
PLT Roger, Crip, I've - I'm in a time sequence
here. I can talk to you about 30 seconds at a time.
CC Tell you what, sounds too time critical.
I'll go ahead and I'll catch you a little bit later over
the States. No big deal.
PLT Go ahead and talk. I just have to stay
"here at the panel.
CC Okay, really I wanted to do was to tell
you that after you finish up this ATM run and have chow
this evening, it looked like we weren't - we're going to be
too - too rushed on you. And if you did want to get a little
bit ahead, tomorrow Jerry's scheduled fom EREP tape change-
out, and it's - you could go ahead and do that tonight. You
wanted to, it was tape Tango 24 into tape recorder i.
PLT Roger, T-24 into recorder i. I'ii do it.
CC Rog, you're going to have to run off quite
a bit of tape, about ii00 feet to do that, though. But - and
that's just if you want to kind of item.
PLT Well, (?) I think that's good planning.
With fast forward it don't take long.
CC Rog, it's - (garble) _hen you get through.
CC Skylab, Houston, wetre about 45 seconds
from LOS. Next station contact is in 18 minutes over Gold-
stone at 00:10. And we'll also be dumping the VTR there.
And if - if it's convient at Stateside, I'd like to give
the CDR some angles for this reference star that I talked
about earlier on his 183 ops.
PLT Okay, we'll see you then.
CC Okeydoke.
PAO Space station Skylab now out of range of
the tracking antenna Guam. Commander Cart and Science Pilot
Gibson should be involved - or getting ready to eat their
evening meal. Pilot Bill Pogue is taking more observations
of the Sun. Next acquisition is 15 minutes from now through
Goldstone, California. At Greenwich mean time 23 hours 54
minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2076/I
Time: 19:08 CDT 60:00:08 GMT
1/13/74

PAO Skylab Control at 8 minutes Greenwich

mean time. Space station is now nearin_ acquisition of
signal through the trackin K antenna at Goldstone. This pass
over the United States will take the space station down
through the western states and into the Gulf of Mexico.
Coverage will be from Goldstone, California and Corpus Christi,
Texas. We'll hold the llne up for this pass.
(Music)
CREW Hello Crip.
CC Hello.
CC That was brought to you by popular request
of all of our listeners.
CDR Thanks a lot Crip, thanks Jo Ann.
CC Hey Jer, if - if it is convenient I can
give you some numbers here for this reference star we_d like
you to get at the end of the 183 op,
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay_ we'd like you to go ahead and
complete the 183 ops as called out currently and then try to
get this star, You will be in daylight but you should have
about 15 minutes with the dark Earth below you that would
allow you to do it. Star is going to be Canopus, the rotation
is 192.0, tilt is 16.3, and for the rotation that should be
3.7 turns counterclockwise from the 298,4.
CDR Okay_ Canopus_ rotation 192.0, tilt 16.6,
that's 3.7 turns counterclockwise from 298.4,
CC Rog, that's 16.3 on the tilt.
CDR Okay, 16.3 on the t_it,
CC Kog, and of course then to get back to
zero it'll be 5,9 turns clockwise from the rotation position
you're at.
CDR Okay, 5.9 turns clockwise.
CC Rog, and what we'd like you to do is to
center Canopus up on the center reticle and then of course
read us the new tilt and rotation and then you can go ahead
and procede with the 183 post ops.
CDR Okay Crlp, will do.
SPT Crip, howls the VTR look?
CC 69 and 101 both look fantastic.
SPT How do the VTR look right now for putting
on a little more i01?

CC We're - we're dumping it and won't you

give us about 5 more minutes.
SPT Okay.
CC You are fantastic with the liquid drops
Ed.
SPT They do it all by themselves.
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Time: 19:08 CDT 60:00:08 GMT
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CC Darn it I almost thought maybe you'd

teach me how to do that when you get back.
CC Skylab, Houston, we need to dump the
data/voice recorder over Texas here, so if we could have it,
please.
CC Too bad it's cloudy out, you guys are
coming almost directly overhead us.
PLT I guess no one needs the recorder Crip,
go ahead and take it.
CC Okay, thank you.

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Time: 19:17 CDTp 60:00:17 GMT
ii13174

CC And if I got the CDR's ear, I can tell

him a
little bit about basketball.
CDR You got it.
CC Well, l'm - it's not ex - probably exactly
what you wanted to hear. I've got the AT ratings right now;
got UCLA number i, Notre Dame number 2. Understand they're
going to be playing like this upcoming weekend. Maryland 3,
Nor - North Carolina State number 4, and I had to go all the
way down to number 17 to find USC. They got a 12-2 record.
CDR Roger. They're building.
CC Of course, I can't find University of
Texas anywhere on the list. Sorry l've got no reason to
say that (laughter).
PLT They're building, too.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from
LOS. Next station contact in i0 minutes over the Vanguard
at 00:35. And we'll be standing by for the evening status
report there.
PLT Rog, Crip.
CC Rog, Bill. And on that EREP tape, I
don't believe I told you earlier, but the one you pull off
you ought to put it in A 9, that'll be fine.
PLT Affirm.
CC And for Ed, about i minute after LOS
here, the VTR will be all yours.
SPT Thank you. Say, Crip, we gone over
Houston, yet?
CC Yes sir, you're just about over Panama
now .

SPT A little late, but hello gang.

PAO Loss of. Signal now from space station
Skylab. Pilot Bill Pogue should be eating his evening
meal, Science Pilot Ed Gibson performing experiments with
the $233, Commander Jerry Carr observing the comet, with the
S183 instrument, the French ultraviolet panorama camera.
At the beginning of this stateside pass we heard the
Carpenters singing On Top of the World, appropriate song
to the crew. And Ed Gibson indicated that he had some more
TV i01 fluid dynamics experiment television to put on the
video tape recorder. 8 minutes now from acquisition over
the Vanguard tracking ship. Greenwich mean time 26 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2078/1
Time: 19:33 CDT 60:00:33 GMT
1113174

PAO Skylab Control 33 minutes Greenwich mean

time. Pilot Bill Pogue will be giving the evening status
report during this pass over Vanguard. And immediately
following the Vanguard pass, we_ll have a period of almost
an hour and 15 minutes of loss of signal. Now about 30 seconds
away from acquisition of signal over the trackin K ship
Vanguard, we'll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through the
Vanguard for 9 minutes.
CC Now we're AOS for 871/2 minutes and we're
standing by for the evening status report.
PLT Rog, stand by Just a second, Crip.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay. Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 5.5 heavy, 1.5
liKht_ SPT, 6.0, 4.0 heavy, 2.0 light; PLT, 6.0, 6.0 heavy.
Urine: CDR, 160; SPT, 175; PLT, 200. Water gun: CDR, 8491;
SPT, 446 excuse me 4446: PLT, 0520. Body mass: CDR, 6.317,
6.318, 6.315; SPT, 6.366 6.354, 6.384 - make it 64 6.364;
PLT, 6.248, 6.242, 6.244. Exercise: CDR, standard; SPT, minus
Alfa; PLT, standard. Medication: CDR, none. Clothing:
T-shirt and shorts_ SPT, (_arble) that'll be tonight, socks,
shorts, T-shirt; PLT, none, slash socks_ shorts, T-shirt,
trousers. Flight Plan deviations, no EREP today. Shopping
list accomplishments: T002_I stars 12 and 16 on tape at
15:20, stars 16 and 22 tape at 20:00 hours. T002-4, on
tape at approximately 19:30 for a period of time, and another
one also at 21;00. TVI01, 1 plus 30; TV103, zero plus 30. Check-
list update: zero plus 45. Inoperable equipment: none.
Unscheduled et cetera, none. Meals: CDR, salt packs, 5.5,
deviations zero, rehydration water plus 2.0; SPT, salt packs,
1.5, deviations plus tuna, plus one biscuit, plus grape drink,
rehydration water deviation, nl; PLT, 8.5 salt, plus one
tuna, plus one biscuit, rehydration water deviation, zero.
CC Okay, very good. l_ve got one item here
I'd like to ask you_ Bill.
PLT Roger, all housekeeping was accomplished,
and go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay, yeah, I'm sorry. That - that does
complete your report does it not?
PLT That's affirmative,
CC Okay. In go£ng back over some of the dump
tapes_ we saw your comment about leaving tke food tray heaters
on all the time. And I _uess we'd like to help understand
that a little tkat situation a little better from a power
and from a thermal standpoint. Would - that is affirmative,
you have been turning them on rather than working with the
timers - is that correct?
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PLT Now, I don't remember makin_ any state-

ment to that effect. I do use that - I usually come down
and do that when I can think of it, but it's not left on all the
time, no.
CC Okay, this was in a I believe in a
480 when you were talkinK about M4Z7 that you were sort of
talkin_ about - you know things about the vehicle.
And you mentioned something about that. Can you tell us
normally how you do - do use the timers then on the food trays
in general?
PLT Well, when we have the time and set it
up, we use them just llke they were designed. When you don't,
you just come down and put it in - you know like you do a
little short on - you don't do it far enough in advance,
you just turn the thing on and if it gets warm enough fine. If
it doesn't, go ahead and eat it the way it is.
CC Okay, fine. We have been worrying about
the vehicle's going - we're running into one of these high
Beta cases and we've been trying to think of ways to keep
it cool. And of course, any power like the heaters and so
forth, does add a little bit thermally to the vehicle. So
that was the reason that we're interested.
PLT I think I know the commment you referred
to was on the use of the timers. I said most of the time,
that I just turned the - the food to on manually and left it on,
but what I meant was I I was usually short timing it.
CC Yeah, right. Okay. I_ in looking at it, it
initially gave us the impression that perhaps you were just, you
know turning them on and keepin_ it - like at breakfast leaving
it on all throughout until lunch. But I understand the situation
now. This one_ perhaps, we can probably find out a little bit
better down here, but I interpret from that comment that you're
not that on your number of caveties that you're leavln_ on are
just the ones that are applicable for the meals. And I assume
that's probably on the average of about two per person.

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CC - a comment that you are not - that on

your - the number of cavities that you're leavin_ on are Just
the ones that are applicable for the meal and I assume that's
probably on the average of about two per person.
PLT Well - yeah it varies, I would say most
of the time I have all three of mine on say for a minimum of
about 15 minutes. That's Just when you're keeping the food
warm while I'm eating it, and I think the other people are
doing the same. Now when we're de - when wetre thawing out
food, of course that takes about a hour and a half to two
hours.
CC Rog_ okay, got you.
CC Okay, that really runs over that question.
There's one other item I guess that - if you end up doing
that EREP tape change for us tonight, we had Jer scheduled
for it tomorrow and one item we might suggest him putting in
where we had him scheduled for that is to do a documentary
photo 22 prep to help Ed out since hers going to be trying
to do the ETC prep and the DT 22 all done there together in
the morning.
PLT Okay, he heard that. Sounds like a
good way to go.
CC Okay, and also from the photo status
report we did not get the impression that the photos were
taken of ED61 today by Ed, if - if he has not done that
we would appreciate if we could get some this evening.
SPT Crip, those were taken this morning.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay Crip, l_m going to check the number
on that cause the number I gave you was the same one I gave
you a couple of days ago.
CC Rog, that was the reason we asked the
question.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS,
next station contact is back over the States at Goldstone in
an hour and 3 minutes at 01:47, that's set up for your med
conference, And as just a little reminder I see Ed_s got
some TV downlink from the ATM and right now of course he's
got TV selected for the portable he_s been doing.
CDR Roger Crip, thanks.
CDR Crip, the Charlie India 113 readin_ is
63.
CC Rog, thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, 44 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Space station now over the South Atlantic Ocean
out of range of the tracking ship Vanguard. ED61, comment
back there was whether or not Ed Gibson got some handheld
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still photographs of an experiment that he was doin_ on

television earlier this morning will assess whether or not
phototropism can serve has a substitute for geotropism for rice
seeds which were germinated in space earlier. Next acquisition
will be i hour and 2 minutes from now, that'll be the
evening medical conference and that will be over Goldstone,
California. This is Skylab Control at 45 minutes Greenwich
mean time.

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1/13/74

PAO Skylab Control at i hour 46 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space statio n Skylab is now less than
i0 seconds from acquisition through Goldstone tracking
antennas. This will be medical conference pass over
Goldstone. This stateside pass includes Goldstone and
briefly Texas. Following this stateside pass the crew will
be into their presleep period, and ground control will
undoubtedly be observing the silent period before they go
to bed. We'll hold the line up in case Spacecraft Communicator
Bob Crippen or the crew will have something to say to each
other following the medical conference. Space station is
now in acquisition range of Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS. We got you
3 minutes here through Texas. If the CDR's got it handy we
would appreciate his results of the 183 star reference
there.
CDR Okay, Crip, Canopus wasn't even in the
field of view at those angles. And I picked the brightest
star in the field of view and put it in the center. And
just couldn't convince myself that was Canopus. So I
started searching around, and I found Canopus at a rotation
of 188.2, and a tilt of 16.6.
CC Okay, Jer, and you're fairly certain
that was Canopus that you found then.
CDR Yeah, the other star Just wasn't anywhere
near bright enough. The other star I found was at 194.0
and 17.7 tilt. And it just didn't ring true, so we searched
around a little bit on the other side of the circle and
apparently Canopus was just barely out of the field of
view.
CC Okay, we got that. Maybe that'll help
us out finding out what's going on with nuZ. And the other
item if Ed's finished up at the ATM we'd like the - to get
the frame count.
SPT 10974; 2991; 133; 273; 3345; 3232.
CC Okeydoke, very good. I recommend that
we use Carnarvon about - 11:24 as our first call for
tomorrow. If you guys want to get up at ii:00 you might
set your counters.
CDR Okay, that's a good idea, we'll do it.
CC Okay, and also, remind Bill once more
that his phone call is set up over Vanguard, this upcoming
pass at 02:11. With an antenna of right.
CDR Okay, he_s already on his way.
PLT Rog, thank you.
CC Okay, that's about 13 minutes from now,
Bill. And I'm going to go ahead and wish you good night.
Crimson team's going to take a few days off console for awhile.
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And we'll probably wake you up come Thursday morning.

CDR Thanks a lot, Crip. Have a good - -
PLT (Garble).
CC Rog.
SPT So long, Crip, good working with the
crew.
CC Yeah, enjoyed it. You guys happen to
study some of the pads we're sending up - a 201 pad that
you're doing tomorrow evening. It's only got about a 23
second data take and that is correct in case you start
scratching your heads over it.
PLT Okay, and I did go to flow temporarily
here to this tape recorder work.
CC Okay, thank you Bill.
PAO Skylab Control 1 hour 59 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of the
tracking antennas at Corpus Christi. Spacecraft Communicato_
Bob Crippen wishing the crew good evening, and reminding
them that at - if they wanted to get up on _ime tomorrow
at ii:00 GMT, that they'd have to set their clocks. Space
station will not be within acquisition of any of tNe ground
tracking stations at that time. At 11:30 GMT tomorrow,
they'll be over Carnarvon. The crew isn't up by then,
they'll be awakened. In ii minutes from now there'll be a
private communication. There'll be no more air-to-ground
betwen Mission Control and space station this evening,
however, unth - unless they call us. However, we'll remain
here until we get the evening medical report. At 2 hours
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylah Control.

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1/13/74

PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 23 minutes

Greenwich mean time. No conversation over this preceeding
pass over the Vanguard tracking ship. Dr. Jerry Hordinsky
has brought by the evenln_ medical report which I'ii quote
from. "Crew continues in good health. The Science
Pilot has had slightly shorter sleep durations over the
last two days and will utilize his sleeping medication to
insure his sleepinK the full alloted period tonight."
Tomorrow morning about 3 hours after the crew gets up they
are scheduled for two back to back EREP passes, both over
the United States. The first one will go over Mexico and
over Houston and up the Appalachian area of the east coast
into Nova Scotia. The second one will cross Baja California
go over the Denver metropolitan area and over the Minneapolis,
St. Paul and Great Lakes re_ion. EREP officer here in Mission
Control informs us that those EREPs are both GO at this
point. The crew should be in their presleep period right
now, we don't expect any conversation. By the time they
would be over the next tracking site it would be over an
hour from now and the crew would be asleep. So we're goln_
to bring the llne down now, we'll bring it back up tomorrow
morning at 6:00 central daylight time. At 2 hours and 25
minutes Greenwich mean time this is Skylab Control.

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PAO This is Skylab Control, 11:27 Greenwich

mean time on mission day 60 in the flight of Skylab IV. The
first station pass this morning startin_ in about 40 seconds
will be Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Flight Director on duty
for wakeup is Neil Hutchinson, Spacecraft Communicator Bruce
McCandless. Standing by for wakeup at Honeysuckle.
CC (Music)
CC Skylab, this is Houston throuEh Honeysuckle
for another 3 minutes. Over.
CDR Thanks_ Bruce, good morning.
CC Roger. Good morning. We've got one item
here that we do need to get in. There is a message on board,
general message 6061 Bravo regarding a sextant check to be
performed at 11:47 Zulu by the Commander. Over.
SPT Roger. 11:47 coming up.
CC Rog. About 14 minutes from now. And nothing
else that's terribly pressing here. I do have some news that
I can read up to you if you're interested, or we can hold that
off until later,
CDR Yeah_ go ahead and read some now and some later.
CC Okay, Washington, after nearly 4 years
of controversial changesp Navy Secretary John N. Warner has
signaled a slowdown in the face of reform. The move comes
in a letter of guidance to a panel choosin_ a successor to
Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. as Chief of Naval Operations. Zumwalt
shook many of the Navy's traditional practices and Warner's
letter to the board stressed Navy tradition. Houston: The
Miami Dolphins, lead by running back Larry Csonka, defeated the
Minnesota Vikings 24 to 7 Sunday in Houston. They win their
second straight Super Bowl for the championship of professional
football. Csonka a 6 foot 2, 237 pounder, rushed for a Super
Bowl record 145 yards on a record 33 carries and scored two
of the three Miami touchdowns. With quarterback Bob Greter's (sic)
passing pickinK the Minnesota secondary apart, and Mercury
Morris providing an outside runninK threat, the Dolphins jumped
to a 14_point lead in their first two possessions, increased
it to 17 to nothing at the half and moved ahead 24 to 0 early
in the third period. It was not until early in the fourth
quarter the Vikings scored. With 1 minute 35 seconds gone
in the fourth period, frustrated quarterback Fran Tarkenton mustered
his forces for a 57_yard touchdown mark. He finally took the
ball into the end zone. The crowd of 68,142 was on hand at
Rice stadium watching the game in overcast chilly weather.
An estimated 60 to 70 million, including President Nixon, watched
on television. In winning Sunday, Miami matched a consecutive
Super Bowl winninK record for the late Vlnee Lomhardl, and
his touted Greenbay Packers in 1967-68. Some of the
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nations largest oil companies could have produced more domestic

crude oil in recent years but didn't because it wouldn't have
been profitable, company officials have acknowledged. The
officials blame federal policies and regulations for the situation,
and said they were only exercising sound business Judgement.
The result of a scientific study suggests there will never be
a major accident in a nuclear power plant, according to an
official of the Atomic Energy Commission. The study indicated
the odds of a catastrophe in a nuclear plant are once in i billion
years to once in I0 billion years. Okay, we've got 20 seconds
to LOS. Next station contact in 36 minutes through Bermuda
at 12:12 Zulu. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Honeysuckle,
next station Bermuda in 34 minutes. We shall return then.
This is Skylab Control at 11:37.

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01/14/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12:10 Greenwich

mean time. Bermuda tracking station will acquire the space
station in 50 seconds. Spacecraft communicator Bruce McCandless
will continue the crew newscast _over this and perhaps the
Madrid station. No pressing mission business to be passed
up at these stations. However, further on down the line
additional data for the Earth resources passes will be voiced
up to the crew. We'll stand by for Bermuda and Madrid.
CC The poor were the hardest hit by inflation
in 1973 according to Congressional economists and the report
by the Joint Economic Committee says 1974 holds (garble) pro-
spects for improvement. It says there is no indication that
the rate of inflation will be moderate this year and thus the
purchasing power of consumers is likely to decline. Are you
coping all that?
CDR We had a little drop out, but we got
most of it, Bruce.
CC Okay, very good. If you got the sextant
star angles for us, then I can pick up again and wind up the
news here.
CDR Okay, on Sirius it was 189.2 and 18.7
and on Canopus, I got 277.4 and 32.5.
CC Okay, thank you very much.
CC Seriously, are you in a position where
I can continue reading the news? Or would you rather I keep
quiet, while you do 13]?
CDR No, go ahead and finish up. We're not
quite ready to start 191 yet.
CC Okay. The president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation discounted on Sunday claims by American
bakers a loaf of bread would soon cost $1.00. William J.
Kuhfuss, president of the federation, said the bakers were
trying to pressure Congress into limiting wheat exports. He
said such action would create stockpiles of wheat, resulting
in a lower cost for the bakers. The public's response to
government pleas that it lower heating thermostats cut natural
gas consumption by 6 percent during the last 3 months of 1973,
the deputy director of the Federal Energy Office said Sunday.
"I was pleased to learn from gas utility executives that
natural gas use by homes, businesses and industries was about
6 percent lower than the quantity consumed during the corres-
ponding month of 1972," John A. Sawhill said in a statement.
"Some companies reported reductions of as much as 16 percent."
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger is still shuttling
between Egypt and israel, trying to get agreement on a plan
to separate their troops along the Suez Canal. After meeting
with Israeli officials in Jerusalem Sunday, Kissinger returned
to Aswan, in upper Egypt. He discussed with President Anwar
Sadat Israel's proposal to withdraw its forces from the canal,
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reportedly for more than 20 miles. Skylab IV astronauts take

the record for the longest space voyage tonight by passing
the standard set last year by Skylab III. The present crew
will exceed the previous mark of 59 days, ii hours, 9 minutes
at 8: tn - 8:10 p.m. central daylight time as their space
station passes over the Pacific Ocean. When Skylab IV
establishes the new space flight endurance record, the
astronauts will have orbited the earth 858 times and traveled
more than 24-1/2 million miles. John Self, of Warrensburg,
Missouri, put a little something extra in his 10-year-old
Ford, a turbine muffler device he says saves gas and cuts
down on air pollution. Self, the operator of an ambulance
service, calls his invention the "rotary muffler antipollution
device." It gives quick starts and has almost doubled his
gasoline mileage, he said. "If this one homemade job can do
what it has for this old junker, think what a really good one
could do," he said. Self and his partner Harry Markley, a
machinist, Henry Markley, a machinist, installed a gas
turbine engine on the rear axle of the old car. The two
took off the mufflers and piped the hot gasses from the piston
engine's exhaust manifolds directly into the turbine. Self
said using unmuffled exhaust gases to power the turbine adds
16 to 18 horsepower at the rear axle. Washington: The
evidence remains inconclusive as to whether the illusive
big foot or Sasquatch (?) of the Pacific Northwest is real. But
there is a man busy trying to find out. He is Peter Burn,
an animal tracker who is currently camped out in Oregon,
trying to get proof of the Sasquatch's existence, or a lack of
it once and for all, according to an article in the current
Smithsonian Magazine. Buneos Aires: Argentinian a_thorities
are planning to establish a iQttery to benefit the needy,
government sources reported. They said each of four weekly
games is expected to yield $1.5 million. London: Central
London's winter sunshine has increased by 70 percent since 1962,
as a result of clean air legislation, the official handbook
Britain, 1973, said. More than 5.2 million homes and business
are under smoke control. Doha, Qatar: Quatar donated $200
thousand to help West African countries hit by drought author-
ities announced. The donation was in line with the recommendation
by the United National Economic and Social Council. Niagara Falls,
Ontario: Miss Universe for 1973, Maras Margaretta Moran (?)
of the Philippines arrived for a look at Niagara Falls from the
Canadian side, but found she had left her passport and Canadian
visa in New York, but customs officials waived regulations and
allowed her to enter Canada for a 90-minute visit. Tokyo: China
had a 60-percent increase in freight traffic by train, truck
and boat between 65 and 73, the official Sin Hoa (?) News Agency
reported in a broadcast from Peking. Jamestown, New York: The
partly frozen bruised body of a 14-year-old kidnap victim has been
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found tied to a tree in a heavily wooded area near his home,

authorities said. Investigators said the snow-covered body
of Daniel Ebersole was found Sunday by an FBI agent, and a
deputy sheriff after an anonymous telephone call. The boy had
been missing since Tuesday night. Authorities said cause of
death had not been determined and that an autopsy had been
scheduled. Daniel's parents, Dr. and Mrs. Glen M. Ebersole of
surburban Lakewood had paid $15_000 ransom for the boy on Thursday.
Kenneth L. Williams, 18 and Martin C. Whitmore, 19 of West
Ellicott and Jeffrey L. Swan of Lakewood were arraigned on
kidnapping charges in Buffalo, New York on Saturday and jailed
in lieu of $i00,000 bond each. Most of the ransom money has
been recovered, authorities said. Vatican City: Pope Paul VI
said he saw comet Kohoutek and he felt the sense of the cosmic
mystery. "We searched for the comet in the skies after we
were told of the trajectory of this fugitive soldier from
space," the Pope told a crowd of 3,500 in Saint Peters Square
Sunday, "We intensely observed it." The Pope said he saw the
comet from his terr - terrace with the aid of a modest
telescope. London: Prince Charles was officer of the watch
when a distress call came from three vessels having landing
troubles because of storms in the South Java Sea. The Royal
Navy said the heir to the British throne was right in the
middle of the rescue operation Sunday. Two Navy ships were
sent to locate the stranded vessels and after 4 hours and
three attempts, the tug Mediator and two barges it was towing
were pulled to a safe anchorage. Sark, Channel Island: Europe's
last feudal ruler is 90. It is 90-year-old Dame Sibyl Mary
Hathaway of Sark. She celebrated the anniversary by saying
she's happy her rocky little island in the English Channel is
basically independent of the western economic system. "So far
we've had no trouble from the energy crisis," Dame Sibyl said
Sunday. "I personally have enough oil for heating for another
3 months, by which time spring should have set in and the
need for heating will be less.', Sark has a population of 577
and Dame Sibyl says no one has been inconvenienced by the
oil shortage. "But of course, we do have a ban on motor cars
over here and that

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CC - the South Java Sea. The Royal

Navy said the heir to the British throne was right in the
middle of a rescue operation Sunday. Two navy ships were
sent to locate the stranded vessels and after 4 hours and
three attempts the tug Mediator and two barges it was towing
were pulled to a safe anchorage. Sark, Channel Islands:
Europe's last feudal ruler is 90, is 90-year old Dame Mary
Sybyl Hathaway of Sark. She celebrated her anniversary by
sayin_ she's happy her rocky little island in the English
Channel is basically independent of the western economic
system. "So far we_ve had no trouble from the energy crisis,"
Dame Sybil said Sunday. "I personally have enough oil for
heating for another three months_ by which time spring should
set in and the need for heating will be less. Sark is a
popluation of 577, and Dame Sybil says no one has been in-
convenienced by the oil shortage. "But of course we do have a
ban on motor cars over here and the shortage is not so bad
for us." We got about 26 seconds to LOS. Next station con-
tact in 2 minutes through Canary Island at 12:21. New York:
The Consumers' Union had it's first female executive director.
She_s lawyer and civil rights advocate Rhoda H. Karpatken, 43.
Mrs. Karpatken counceled the 37_year old organization for
16 yearsp succeeds Walter Sanebuch, who resigned last
month after eight years. Mrs, Karpatken says she would like
to see the Consumers Union place new stress on affording
the price and quality of services such as insurance and
health. Consumers T Union publishes the Consumer Reports maga-
zine.
CDR Thank youp Bruce.
CC Roger. See you over Canary. We don't
see H_alpha 1 running yet. We'd like to get it ON if you
would please.
PAO Sk_lab Control, LOS Bermuda. A minute
until reacquisition at Madrid. We're standing by at 12:20 Zulu.
CC Skylabp this is Houston through the
Canary Islands and Madrid for i0 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon
at 12c57, Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Madrid.
23 minutes until next station at Carnarvon. Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle_ the two Australian stations. The crew of Sky-
lab IV today will set new records for space flight as they
pass the Skylab III time in flight at i0 minutes and 27 sec-
conds past 8 p.m. central time. The current record holder
for time accumulated in flight - accumulated flight in space
is AI Bean, who was commander of the last Skylab crew and was
the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12. His record of 69 days
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15 hours and 45 minutes will be surpassed by the Skylab IV

crew at 12:46 p.m. central time on January 25, ii days from
now. In addition to breaking records later today, the
Skylab IV crewmen have two Earth resources passes scheduled
on two successive pathes over the USA. The first pass will
begin at 10:21 a.m. central time as they swing across Texas
and the eastern portion of the United States. They will pass
directly over the Houston area, across Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, Tennessee, across the Appalachian Mountain states,
over Albany, New York, through Main, the tip of Canada, and
ut Qver the Atlantic. On the next revolution they will
begin taking data at 11:57 a.m. central time as they come
across Baja California, Arizona, across the Rocky Mountain
States, passing over Pike's Peak, and just south of Denver.
Then they pass over the Plain States and the twin cities of
Minneapolis/St. Paul, on over Lake Superior, across Canada,
and out into the Atlantic. Along the groundtrack a variety of
studies will be run. Such items as living marine resources
in the Atlantic Ocean, insect infestation in Texas, environ-
mental and ecological impacts on certain U.S. areas, and
strip mining and their ecological effects in the northeastern
USA will be covered. Other items on which data will be
taken include drainage basins in Arizona, ground water and
snow mapping, map revision, southern California mountain
and desert vegetation systems, geological features, land use,
and storm fronts and clouds. The first pass will take data
for 23 minutes, while 6 minutes of information will be
gathered on the second pass. Some 5500 miles will be covered
on the first pass and about 1700 miles on the second. Solar
studies will continue today with the Apollo telescope mount
instruments, with all three crewmen taking turns at the ATM
console. They will be looking specifically at prominence 76
on the northeast limb of the Sun, doing studies of rapidly
changin_ coronal features and studying the structures of
XUV and X-ray in bright solar spots on the surface of the
Sun. Faint chromospheric structures on the Sun will be
photographed by using long exposures. Coronal structures
also will be studied. At various times in the flight plan
today the crew will look at the Sun in real time and make
decisions on where they want to concentrate the data take.
More study of active region 21 in the southeast quadrant of
the Sun will be done. Total data take of 5 hours 43 minutes
on the ATM is scheduled today. Two comet Kohoutek maneuvers
are planned today for pointing the far ultraviolet camera
at the comet. Also photos to document the brightness of the comet
will be taken at intervals during the day. Bill Pogue is scheduled
to be the subject for the M092/M093 lower body negative pressure
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vectorcardiogram medical experiments, with Jerry Carr as the observor.

At bedtime Ed Gibson will don the sleep monitoring equipment to
gather data on sleeping in a zero-g environment. Several
handheld photo options are on tap for today. They include
Central American fault zones at 8:44 a.m. and the San Andreas
Fault in California at 11:56 a.m. Tkey will have an oppor-
tunity to photograph water circulation patterns and ice
features in the Great Lakes at 10;23 - at 12:03 p.m. Major
fault zones in the Rocky Mountains will be the target at
1:36 p.m.

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SL-IV MC2085/I
Time: 07:36 CDT, 60:12:36 GMT
1/14/74

PAO - - They include Central America fault

zones at 8:44 a.m. and the San Andreas Fault in California
at 11:56 a.m. They will have an opportunity to photograph
water circulation patterns and ice features in the Great
Lakes at 10:23 - at 12:03 p.m. Major fault zones in the
Rocky Mountains will be the target at 1:36 p.m. and the
Philippine Fault, on Mindanao, will be optional target at
6:02 p.m. Optional observation of the laser beacon navi-
gation station at Goddard Space Flight Center will be at
4:58 p.m. as they pass within range of Goddard at Greenbelt,
Maryland. The crew sleep period will begin at i0 p.m., and Jerry
Carr will be duty man in case the crew needs to be wakened
during the night. Skylab Control at 12:38. Back in 18
minutes for Carnarvon/Honeysuckle.
PAO This is Skylab Control. 12:55 Greenwich
mean time. Australian tracking stations at Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle Creek coming up for a fairly long combined pass
in 50 seconds, total of about 17 minutes. Standing by for
AOS Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle. Good morning from the bronze boys.
CDR Morning, bronze boys.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We've got some changes
to the EREP pad this morning due to weather, and it looks
llke this co upcoming comet pass, about 13:45, would be a good
time to get those up according to what your Fli_ht Plan looks
like.
CDR Okay, Hank. We'll be ready.
CC Skylab, Houston. For your info, we've rewound
the VTR and we're probably going to need it for the next 3
revs to clean it off.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you again in Texas at 13:43. That's 32 minutes
from now.
CDR Koger, Hank. And how did the G&N optics
angles I gave this mornin_ correlate with the correction we
got last night from 1837
CC Jerry, we're still working on that. I'll
try to get some more word for you by stateside.
CDR Okay, thanks.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Honeysuckle.
Next station, in 30 minutes, will he Texasp Texas/MILA/Bermuda
and hopping across the Atlantic to Madrid again. We'll
return at that time. Currently, the Flight Director is
Chuck Lewis. Hank Hartsfield_ the Spacecraft communicator,
the bronze team of flight controllers, having relieved Nell
Hutchinson's silver team, 13:13 Greenwich mean time, Skylah
Control.

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SL-IV MC-2086/I
Time: 08:42 CDT 60:13:42 GMT
1/14/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13:42 GMT.

Stateside pass across Texas, Merritt Island launch area,
and Bermuda tracking stations plus Madrid, across the
Atlantic, for about the next 25 minutes. Standing by for
acquisition in about 35 seconds through Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston through Texas to Ber-
muda for 14-i/2 minutes, and we're scheduled to dump the
voice recorder over Bermuda at about 47 or so.
CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient
for someone we can go ahead and get our regs adjust done for
the EREP. We can watch it the rest of the stateside.
PLT Okay, Hank, what is it?
CC Okay. If you'll mark their original po-
sitions we'd like to adjust both of them, reg 1 and 2
15 degrees clockwise.
PLT In work.
CC And Skylab, I have an update for the
C&D pad and also for the ETC pad.
PLT Which C&D pad is it, Hank?
CC The EREP C&D, EREP 29, C&D. I think the
CDR's got that.
PLT Well, I actually divided them up into
the CDR and PLT's portion. What time does the change occur?
CC Okay. It'll be right at the first of
the pass at 21:54 will be the first change.
CDR Okay, Hank. I'm ready to copy.
CC Okay. If you'll look at page 2 of your
EREP 29 C&D. We want to delete a few items. Basically the
weather is very similar to what we had yesterday. It's over-
cast all the way into Pennsylvania, then we perhaps have
about 0.5 to 0.6 there to Maine then it should open up a
little bit over the Gulf of St. Lawrence and then be overcast
the rest of the way. We put these few items into the pad
on the - betting on the hopes that we would get some clear
weather in the Texas area but it didn't come about. We're
overcast and fogged in this morning, so we wanted to delete
the time at 21:54, which is the S192 MODE to READY. At
22:30 delete ETC AUTO; 23:10, ETC FRAMES PER MINUTE to i0;
at 24:10, ETC FRAMES PER MINUTE, 4.8; at 25:40, ETC FRAMES
PER MINUTE to i0; 26:10, S192 MODE to CHECK; and 26:50, ETC
STANDBY.
CDR Okay, Hank. I got them.
CC And also, CDR, there's a note in your
details regarding the 192 alignment check. All we want to
do is to take the meter readings. We don't want to tweak.
CDR Okay, copy. I'ii note it.
CC And also, I do want to point out a -
something you may have already noticed in the pads there.
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We're doing something a little nenstandard on the maneuvers.

Normally the VTS operator makes the maneuvers, but on
track 30, which is the second EREP coming up, the PLT will
make the - the C&D operator for that pass, will make the
maneuver to SI. He'll start that. And I'd like to point out
that the reason for that, Jerry, is you've got a VTS site right
it - right at that time, and - he's got 30 seconds
to get off the C&D panel to get down to start the maneuver
and about 30 seconds to get back to the - the C&D panel. It's
a pretty tight thing, but that was the only way we could
work it out. So I just wanted to make you aware of it se you
could look ahead and see it.
CDR Okay; thank yeu, Hank. That should work
out okay.
CC And for that reason, toe, you might want
to consider wearing the long CCUs since beth of you are, or
swap them off there so you can make it down there and do
that.
CDR Right I was just thinking that. It'd
be terrible to surprise yourself and find yourself on a short
tether about the time you need to do that.
CC And I don't know whether Ed is free now
or not. I'd like to clean up his ETC pad if I could.
CDR Okay. He'll be right with you.
SPT Okay, Hank. Go ahead.
CC Okay, Ed. Part of the pad there right
at the very top where it says FRAMES PER MINUTE we'd like
to change the 4.8 to I0.0. The first item, POWER ON, change
the time to 15:26:40, and then we want to delete all the
steps through 26:50 to STANDBY, so that the first item you
will do after POWER ON at 26:40 is at 27:40 going to AUTO.
SPT Okay. I got that.
CC Okay, and that does it. Thank you very
much, gentlemen.
SPT Thank you.
CC And PLT, if you're still in the STS, we
need one more little tweak on REG BUS i. We need another
5 degrees clockwise.
PLT Okay.
CC And also, Bill; I guess it's obvious
from the discussion on the weather your site 385 yeu won't
be getting because of the weather.

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SL-IV MC2087/I
Time: 08:54 CDT, 60:13:54 GMT
1/14/74

CC Skylab, Houston. For info, because the

next pass is the ATM conference. I don't know whether I'll talk
to you or not but just so you'll be aware of it, we're going
to be commanding CBRM 9 REG OFF to insure that we have a full
bat charge prior to the EREP pass. We"ll also command it on
just prior to the EREP. This is to prevent the little funny
we had last time when the going deep into discharge there
because of the short night.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We'll see you at Madrid at 01 with the ATM conference
and did you copy my comments on the CBRM 9?
PLT Say again, Hank.
CC Ro_er. Did you copy what I said about
CBRM 9?

PLT Negative, Say again, please.

CC Okay. At Madrid is zour ATM conference
but we will be commanding the REG OFF on CBRM 9 at Madrid
and so you'll see a light there on your panel. And we Just
want to make you aware of that. The reason is, we want to
be sure that the battery is fully charged prior to EREP. We
will command the REG back on prior to the EREP run. This is
to prevent the little funny light we had on the last EREP
where the bat went into the deep discharge because the
short nights fooled the reg into thinking it didn't need to
charge.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. 2 minutes now away from
acquisition again at Madrid and scheduled at this pass is the
morning ATM conference between Science Pilot Ed Gibson aboard
space station Skylab and scientlst-astronaut Bill Dr. Bill
Lenoir. A minute and a half to acquisition at Madrid.
MCC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8
minutes. I got a couple of quick items to clean up here
before Bill takes over. First_ on the KEG BUS i, we need
another little bitty 5-degree tweak clockwise and also on
panel 617 down in the workshop, we need to get experiment 1
recorder off and while you're down there, you miKht turn the
ESS off.

CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy?

SPT Roger. We got the HEG ADJUST and Bill's
_oing to _et the panel right now.
CC Okay_ thank you. And here's Bill.
SPT Morning, Bill.
MCC Good morning_ Ed. Let me just give you
a couple words here on the solar update, As l_m sure you're
well aware now, active region 23 toward the center of the disk
in the north hemisphere, has undergone some rather quick growth.
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In a lO_hour period it went from something very small and more

or less insignificant to a fairly significant area. And in
the process, we upped our flare probabilities from one to three
for (garble).
SPT (Garble) when? This is 23, you said?
CC 23, that's right. It's just west of 18.
SPT Okay.
MCC And active region 16 is stable and has
been stable for quite a while. It would not have surprised
us if it had decayed more here. Now we're beginning to feel
that it may go through a regrowth period here. So you might
just want to keep your eye on that. It's beginning to look
like it will be with us for the whole disk passage. Active
region 20 and 21 are our most probable activity areas es-
pecially for M_type flares. One of the factors here is the
fact being so close to the limb, we do get significant limb
brightening in the X-rays and several of the M's that we have
seen the last few days probably would not have been M's on
the center of the disk. Behind active region 21, at the - old
active region 02, is due to return, it should be on - right
on the llmb now. We don't really expect much. However_ If
ther_ were something there, it _ould probably be masked by
the XUV emission from AR 21, right in front of it. If at
any time today you see anything that hints that something significant
is coming behind 21, do let us know. And the Sun that you're
looking at now, unless active region 02 comes back with some-
thing wild or we get surprised, what you're looking at now is
basically the activity that we expect for this passage. We don't
expect to see anything more. Just be able to watch this across
the disk. Over.
SPT Okay_ Bill. I underatand. I can give
you a little update on what we see up here when we finish up
with the other topics.
MCC Okay. I've just got a couple of other
quickies here. On your observations yesterday, the czar
wants me to pass up some "good work" and "atta boys" here
to you. As far as he could see, you had all the right pointings
and the right modes and everything. Keep it up and we feel
we'll really get some significant results out of this activity
pass here. And _hen I wanted to offer you the opportunity
if you had any, to ask me some questions on JOP Summary Sheets
change number 21, if you had any questions. And that's all
I have for the day.
SPT Let me get with you on that JOP Summary
Sheet change tomorrowp Bill. I have not had a chance to
really go into it.
MCC Fine. No hurry.
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MCC And,Ed, that's all I had for today. The

rest of the time is yours here.
SPT Okay. Hold on just a moment. Okay. Let's
start off with what the XUV monitor's showing us and that is
over active region 14 is relatively bright compared to some
of the others we have on there. It really shows up only around
1-1/2 thousand in oxygen VI. Active region 15 is very small
in XUV monitor, but this morning when I looked at it, I did
find one very small bright point in it. It got up to 3000
oxygen VI. Active region 23, as you point out is very strong
and that was up to 7000 in oxygen Vl and shows up that way
in XUV monitor _ a very bright plage leading and very faint
follower, both very small and well defined however. Active
region 17 is large in XUV but doesn't show much in oxygen VI.
It"s only around 600 there. 20, 22, and 21 is looking - still
looks where it's going to happen. 20 was around i000 in oxygen
VI and shows up fairly faintly and relatively faintly in the
XUV monitor. 22 is around i000 in oxygen VI and then 21, of
course_ is up there around i0_000 and oscillating. Yesterday,
we saw it go between say 8000 on up to 25 - 28,000.

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SL-IV MC-2088/I
Time: 09:08 CDT 60:14:08 GMT
1/14/74

SPT Okay. Looking at the corona still - still

see the same general shape. However, some of the relative
intensities of the various features have changed, particularly the
two parallel streamers which come out at 230 and 250. They
have both greatly decreased in intensity. Over at, oh, further
up north, where we have that series of streamrs fairly wide band
of nearly - nearly parallel (?) streamers pretty much merge into
one another, don't have too much identity except for one strong
spike at around, say 280, 270 I believe we called it the other
day, that's still there and prominent but not, in a relative
sense, any more so than - then four others in that same general
locale. That whole area appears to be enhanced relative to what
we see down there at 230 and 250.
CC Okay. Break, Ed. We've got 20 seconds
here to LOS. Carnarvon is next in 26 minutes, and that's
at about 35 past the hour. Now go head, and you've got about
15 seconds.
SPT Over on the west llmb, that also is en-
hanced. Just the present rotation of the activity over in
that direction has done it, and the general feature remains
the same. We've got a streamer structure that goes from
around 2:00 down to 3:00 running almost radial inclining
slightly toward the south. No streamers (garblestatic) -
CC Break; break, Ed. Y o_'re disappearing
into noise. We'll see you at Canarvon.
PAO Skylab Control. Loss of signal at Madrid,
25 minutes to Carnarvon, Honey - and Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia stations. We'll be back in 25 minutes. This is
Skylab Control at 14:10 Zulu.

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SL-IV MC-2089/I
Time: 09:34 CDT 60:14:34 GMT
1/14/74

PA This is Skylab Control, 14:34 GMT. The

two tracking stations in Australia, Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
Creek tracking space station Skylab starting in 40 seconds
with a brief dropout between the two stations. Space station
now in revolution 3,537 since launch last May, day number 60
for Skylab IV crew. Standing by for AOS Carnarvon.
CC Skylab_ Houston tkrough Carnarvon for
5-1/2 minutes. And we plan to dump the recorder here.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay Jerry, I just want to get an answer
to you regarding the NuZ. Last night the 183 check showed
about a 4-degree error, and the sextant check this morning
showed about a 2-degree error in the same direettion. It
would be very difficult for us to correlate the two. We'd
have to somehow or another propagate from one to the other, which
is not feasible. We're still looking at the whole situation,
and we will probably put in your Flight Plan for tomorrow
mornin_ another sextant check, and from there we'll just make
a judgment on what we're going to do.
CDR Okay Hank. I did notice last night when
I was breaking down S183 at the end of the mission or at the
end of that run, I looked out with it at 00 and the discone
antenna is not in the same place in the field of view as it
was 2 or 3 weeks ago when we checked it at 00. Right now the
discone shows right straight down at 6 o_elock whereas as I remember
the first time we looked at it it was over at about 7_30.
CC Roger. We copy that, Jerry. We'll put that in
the system and study that a while.
CDR Okay. I think we're getting either some
slippage in the crank handle or the (garble) or something. Anyway
my message is take the 183 data with a grain of salt.
CC Roger. We do have a lot more confidence
in the sextant, in fact we have utmost confidence in that.
CC Skylab Houston, we're 1 minute to LOS.
We_ll have a short pass at Honeysuckle at 48, about 7 minutes
from now.
PAO Skylab Control, loss of signal at Carnarvon
Australia tracking station_ 5 minutes to reacquisition through
Honeysuckle. Standing by at 14:42 Greenwich mean time.
CC Skylab_ Houston_ we're with you through
Honeysuckle for 1 minute or so. The next site is Texas at
18. And we'll see you there EREPing.
CDR Roger_ Hank.
PAO Skyla5 Control_ loss of signal at Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. 27 minutes to tracking station Corpus Christi
Texas followed by Merritt Island launch area, Bermuda and
SL-IV MC-2089/2
Time: 09:34 CDT 60:14:34 GMT
1/14/74

Madrid. Vital statistics this morning on space station Skylah

wardroom atmosphere temperature, 71.7 degrees Fahrenheit,
pressure in the workshop, 5 pounds _er square inch of which
3.6 pounds is the partial pressure of oxygen. Orbital measure-
ments 230.6 nautical miles at perigee, 242,6 at apogee. It takes
an hour 33 minutes and 13 seconds to make one revolution. Skylah's
inertial velocity is 25,120 feet per second. ATM batteries are
standing at 95.3 percent total capacity of charge. At 14:51
Greenw±ch mean time, returning in 26 minutes for a stateside
pass and the first EREP of the day_ first of two back-to-back
Earth resources surveys. This first one over track 29, the
second one over track 30 on the following stateside pass. This
is Skylab Control at 14:51.

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SL-IV MC-2090/I
Time: 10:16 CDT 60:15:16 GMT
01/14/74

PAO This is Skylab Control. 15:16 Greenwich

mean time. About a minute and a half away from predicted
acquisition at Texas. However, the crew of Skylab will be
on volce-actuated intercom during this first Earth resources
survey on track 29 and frequently we get earlier acquisition
of voice. We're standing by for the Stateside pass and the
first EREP of the day.
CDR 93 Romeo, then STANDBY the READY is out.
SCATTEROMETER is OFF; READY, off. Now ALTIMETER is OFF;
READY_ out. 94 is ON, the READY is on. Preoperate configu-
ration is complete.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're monitoring you
stateside now.
CDR Roger, Hank. Sensitometry advance during
the 28-frame advance I had malfunction lights 3, 4, 5, and 6
on. I cycled the power, got them all off, did a single,
got 4 and 5 back on again. I made a - checked the frame
count afterwards and all cameras had advanced 29 frames. So,
I guess we're okay.
CC Rog; I think so, Jerry. Those are new
magazines, so its not totally unexpected.
CDR Okay. How's the weather at Houston,
Hank?
CC It was lousy when I came to work this
morning, with pretty dense fog.
CDR Okay. My'next mark's going to be at
19:05. Stand by.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
PLT There's Guadalajara.
PLT (Garble) picking up clouds.
SPT i minute to EREP START.
PLT See there's the mountains of Monterrey -
can't see Monterrey (garble) clouds. Ah, shoot, it looks like
the whole valley's fogged in down there.
CDR Okay, on my mark it'll be 21:34. Stand
by.
CDR MARK. EREP START. Got a tape motion
light. On my mark it'll be 22:00.
PLT Looks hopeless, Hank. The VTS.
CDR 22:00 coming up. Stand by.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON; RADIOMETER's
ON.
CC Roger, Bill. We're still socked in down
here.
CDR Bad scene. Okay, on my next mark it'll
be 22:23. Stand by.
CDR MARK. S190 MODE to AUTO. 194 MODE to
MANUAL. That mode to MANUAL was at 22:29.
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PLT NADIR SWATH, 23:19. Good old nadir swath

when everything else fails.
CDR Right Nadir needs a good swathing
out once in a while anyway. Okay, I got malfunction lights
on 4 and 5. Cameras 4 and 5. But it sounds llke they're all
clicking away in there. Hank, could you ask the guys in the
back room how many frames we're going to use today? So that
I can checkout 4 and 5 when weVre through.
CC Will do.
PLT Okay, I went ahead and turned the DAC
on anyway so at least they'll know what they're getting.
PLT How's Pittsburgh looking, Hank? As far
as weather is concerned. I (garble) the Stealers had a good
season.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. DAC, OFF.
CC Jerry, the total number of frames is 91 plus
the sensitometry, which should come out close to 120 frames
at the end of this track.
CDR Okay, I recorded the frame count after
sensitometry too, so I'ii just check and see if I got that
plus 91.
CDR Still in the clouds?
PLT Yep.
CDR (Garble)
CDR Okay, 2 minutes to my next mark.
PLT Must be a lot of cirrus too, because
everything looks out of focus.
CDR 2 minutes to an EC - ETC AUTO, Edward.
PLT Well, looks like there's a little hope
up there in the - miles ahead.
CDR You're going right up the west side of
the Appalachians aren't you?
PLT Yep.
CDR Right over Huntsville, too, aren't you?
Doggone near right over Huntsville, Alabama.
PLT Yep.
CDR Smile, Marshall, you're on Candid Camera.
1 minute to ETC AUTO.
PLT And, Pittsburgh doesn't look good either
Hank.
CC Say again.
PLT I say Pittsburgh looks clouded over too.
CC Rog; I don't think you'll start breaking
out at all until you get up in the Maine area.
PLT Yeah.

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SL-IV MC-2091/I
Time: 10:27 CDT 60:15:27 GMT
1/14/74

CDR Okay. We're coming up on 27:40 with

a ETC AUTO. i0 seconds to go. Stand by -
CDR MARK. 27:40, ETC to AUTO. Next mark
is at 28:00. Stand by
CDR MARK. 193 POLARIZATION to 4. Okay.
That POLARIZATION to 4 was about 4 seconds late. Coming up
on 28:40. Stand by -
CDR MARK. 192 MODE, READY. TAPE MOTION.
Getting a little occasional TAPE MOTION flicker but it's -
it's running. MALFUNCTION lights 4 and 5 are still ON.
PLT I got that circular structure up in
Canada. I might as well hang in with the VTS.
CDR Yes.
PLT Two of them.
CDR Two of them?
PLT We got the ones that normally aren't (?)
looked at on tape. They (garble).
CDR 1 minute to my next mark. Can I have
a Nadir swath and (garble) again?
PLT No. Guess the figured they'd still have
a (garble). Several times over, unfortunately.
CDR Okay. We're going to be going clear up
to 43 so weVre going to be clear over into Europe, I guess.
20 seconds to my next mark. Okay. On my mark it'll be
30:50. Stand by -
CDR MARK. 191 REFERENCE to 2 at 31. Stand
by. 31:00.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY, SCATTEROMETER
to STANDBY. Nope, SCATTEROMETER's back ON. I want to turn
it OFF too soon. 31:28 the SCATTEROMETER comes OFF. Okay. I
cycled it, and I messed it up, because SCATTEROMETER TRANSMITTER
MALF light now. SCATTEROMETER's OFF at 28. RADIOMETER's OFF
in 30. I mean STANDBY, not OFF. 31:40. Stand by -
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER's back ON.
PLT (Garble)
CDR Okay. On my next mark it'll be 32:20.
Stand by -
CDR MARK. POLARIZATION on 193 going to 1.
192 to STANDBY.
CDR MARK at 26. VTS AUTO CAL in i0 seconds,
go.
PLT Okay.
CDR MARK.
PLT You got it.
CDR 250 - At 32:50 ETC to STANDBY, Ed.
Stand by -
CDR MARK. On my mark it'll be 33:14.
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Stand by -
CDR MARK. S190 INTERVAL to 20.
CC Houston; i minute to LOS. Madrid'll be
coming up in 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. On my mark it'll be 34:10,
34:10. Correction - 34:12, 34:12. Stand by -
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY, RADIOMETER,
OFF. On my mark it'll be 34:30. Stand by -
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. I'm looking for
an S190 RADIO ON at 35:20.
PAO Skylab Control. LOS Bermuda, Madrid in
2 minutes. We're at closeout of today's first Earth resources
survey over track 29. At the conclusion of this EREP pass
the crew will have a quick noon meal and go immediately back
to their stations on the second Earth resources survey, again
over the states, on track 30. The weather is predicted to
be somewhat better farther west along track 30. Madrid in
a minute and 20 seconds. Standing by.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Madrid for 10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CDR Camera MALF lights 4 and 5 are still on.
ALTIMETER UNLOCK light on at 22. ALTIMETER READY light out
at 59, going to STANDBY. ALTIMETER back ON at 14. Watching
for an S190 READY, out. 190 READY out at 39. My next mark'll
be 41:47.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDY. RADIOMETER to
STANDBY. Next mark's at 41:59. Stand by -
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, ON, S190 MODE to
STANDBY, and then (?) the POWER OFF.
CC Skylah, your maneuver mode looks good.
PLT Rog, Hank.
CDR Next mark's tat 43:00. Stand by -
CDR MARK. 194 MODE, I_ANUAL.

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SL-IV MC2092/I
Time: 10:43 CDT, 60:15:43 GMT
1/14/74

CDR Next mark's at 43:00. Stand by

CDR MARK. 194 MODE MANUAL. Coming up on
15:44:00. Stand by -
CDR MARK. Starting the fine maneuver. 4(?) 4:06
is coming up.
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. EREP to
STOP. SCATTEROMETER, OFF. ALTIMETER, OFF. TAPE RECORDER
POWER, OFF. Okay. About time to go eat now.
CC And the next maneuver load looks good.
CDR Roger, Hank. Guess we'll go pack our head.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
We'll have a short pass with you at Honeysuckle at 25. That's
38 minutes from now.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PAO - - LOS Madrid. First EREP pass complete.
Crew taking a meal break. Be back on their EREP stations for
the next stateside pass. Honeysuckle Creek will be the next
station in 36 minutes. Although the groundtrack does pass
within range of the voice relay station at Tananarive, the
antenna at Tananarive is on the fritz again. So Tananarive
will be out of the - out of this particular orbit and maybe
repaired by next rev. 15:49 Greenwich mean time, returning
in 35 minutes. Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2093/I
Time: 11:24 CDT 60:16:24 GMT
1/14/74

PAO This is Skylab Control_ 16:24 Greenwich

mean time. An extremely brief pass here at Honeysuckle, a
i minute and 53 seconds in spite of a 10_degree elevation
angle. Crew in their noon meal at this time in between
EREP passes. They probably won't have a whole lot to say,
but we'll stand by here. Predicted AOS in 30 seconds at
Honeysuckle Creek.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
a minute and a half.
PLT Rog, Hank
CDR Hank_ the tape remaining is 6.6 eenti_
meters.
CC Roger_ we copy. 6.6, and our next site
is Goldstone at 54. We'll see you there EREPing.
SPT Hank, how does the VTR schedule look
for today?
CC Okay, Ed. After we make this CONUS
pass this'll be the last of our dumps. We'll have a clean
VTR for you.
SPT Good. Thank you, Dick,
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Honeysuckle,
25 minutes to Goldstone tracking station, Texas, MILA,
Bermuda, Madrid, Canaries_ fairly long pass over all those
stations in the second Earth resources survey of the day.
We'll be back at that time. This is Skylab Control at 16:28
Greenwich mean time.

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SL-IV MC2094/1
Time: 11:52 CDT, 60:16:52 GMT
1/14/74

PAO Skylab Control. 16:52 Greenwich mean

time. A minute and 20 seconds away from acquisition at
Goldstone trackin_ station. Second segment of Earth resources
survey over track 30, coming up on this stateside pass.
Again, the crew will be on VOX or voice actuated mode in the
intercom and likely we'll get early acquisition. So we'll
stand by.
CC Skylab, through - Houston through Goldstone
for ii minutes.
PLT Roger.
CDR Hank, how's the weather look up Colorado
way?
CC Okay, Jer. Ought to be pretty good up
there. You ought to have zero to 0.3 throughout this
pass except for right around Colorado and you may have 0.4 to
0.7 there.
CDR (Laughter) neat
PLT Stand by -
PLT MARK. RAD, OFF and ALTIMETER's coming
on shortly at 54.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON and at 55 we'll get
a nice EREP, START.
PLT MARK, EREP 9 START, I got a green motion -
the tape I have an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light. READY light is
still on. 55:12.
PLT MARK. 194 MODE to MANUAL. Waiting for
56. Okay. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is out now. I have a
MALE light ON 194. I still have READY light. ALTIMETER
UNLOCK light came on at 26.
CDR Hank, would you recheck the pointing on
site number 275. My slider map indicates that I should be
looking to the right instead of the left.
CC Okay. I_ii check it.
CDR Okay. I see the - the nadir one
they give me is right 9 degrees.
PLT Okay, I got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK - -
CDR (Garble) crosstrack.
PLT At 55:39, cycled the switch back to
STANDBY back on. We have a READY light again.
CDR Okay. We're coming up on Baja. 45 de-
grees gimbal an_le. Encinitas.
PLT Stand by for 56:53.
PLT MARK. 190 MODE AUTO. And no MALF light.
Standing by 57:20.
CC Jet, we think those numbers are right.
CDR Okay. Just wanted to make sure.
PLT MARK. 57:20. 192 MODE to READY and I
got a green TAPE light. On speed change. 57:30. ETC
to AUTO, Ed,
PLT MARK.
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CDR Okay. Passed south of the Salton Sea.

PLT By the way, Hank, the transition on these -
the pads for transition, on back-to-back are Just a little bit
rough here. At 16:51:15, the stuff was all out of order and
also I'd like a - sort of a configuration check there too.
If we can do that in the future. If we ever have another one.
CC Okay. We copy, Bill. Good point.
PLT Okay. I lost the READY lights. I'm
going to go ahead and turn the ALTIMETER to STANDBY early.
PLT MARK. Stand by for 58:36.
PLT MARK. RADIOMETER, STANDBY. 58:50, RADI-
OMETER will be going ON. Okay. That was about 6 seconds
early that the ALTIMETER went to STANDBY,
PLT MARK. RADIOMETER, ON. Stand by for
59:10. The TAPE MOTION light is flickering on this high
speed.
PLT MARK. POLARIZATION to 4.
CDR Okay. We got some clouds where we belong.
PLT Stand by for 59:30.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. 36, SCATTEROMETER
ON.
PLT MARK. And RADIOMETER, ON.
PLT MARK.
CDR Okay. Reservoir, where are you?
PLT That's the one that's hidden down in all
the mountains?
CDR Yeah.
PLT That snow-covered reservoir and snow-
covered mountains. Lots of luck.
CDR Okay. I think I've got it.
PLT Good.
CDR Maybe. No, that's not it. Man, I got
the risht river and everything. Those fin_ers don't show,
Bill.
PLT Yeahp I know. I was just thinkin_ those
things aren't goin_ to bail you out this time.
CDR No. Dadgumit. Got to be down there
somewhere.
PLT White on white.
CC Skylab, for info, your maneuver time is
not loaded.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Hank,
CDR Sorry about that, Bill.
PLT It won't take but a second.
CDR All right. I've got you data. Got to
turn the camera on though. See if I can find the sand dunes now.
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PLT What's that maneuver time, Hank? So I

don't fiddle around searching for it.
CC i0 minutes.
PLT i0 minutes. Okay. That'll he 12 in
octal. Is that right?
CC Tkat's affirmative.
CDR Okay. I'm getting tke sand dunes.
PLT Everything here's lookln_ good.
CDR Okay. That reservoir ehould_ve just
Jumped out at me but I just couldn't get it for sure till
the very last. And I got about 3, 4, or 5 seconds of it.
PLT Starting to move my TAPE MOTION liKht
in 192 MODE and I'm still in 192. There

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SL-IV MC-2095/I
Time: 12:01 CDT 60:17:01 GMT
1/14/74

CDR for sure till the very last. I got

about 3, 4, 5 seconds in the (garble).
PLT Starting to lose my TAPE MOTION light
in 192 MODE, and I'm still in 192. There it comes back. Must
be just very sensitive. What it is doing, Hank, it's sort
of flickering and then go - it started going down into the
mud and coming back up.
CC We copy.
PLT 17:02:20, SCAT
SPT Itll go load that maneuver time for you.
I got time.
PLT Okay. Stand by -
PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. 02:26, RADIOMETER ON.
PLT MARK. RADIOMETER ON, 194 MODE MANUAL.
Okay, Hank.
PLT/CDR (garble).
PLT 17:03 even.
CREW (Garble).
PLT Yep. Did.
PLT Okay, Hank, if you Just verify those
rates so that nothing dramatic happens to us. Stand by for 03:30.
PLT MARK. 192 MODE STANDBY, and waiting
for 17:04, and I got a good shiftdown in speed.
CC Maneuver looks good.
PLT Thank you.
CDR Okay. We're going over Minneapolis now.
PLT Be waiting for 17:00 (garble) to go. The READY
light is out, MODE STANDBY. ETC to STANDBY, Ed. RADIOMETER
to STANDBY and EREP STOP. And it - that's correct. Okay.
CDR That's it, Hank.
PLT Bring it up here.
CC 1 minute to LOS. Bermuda in 2 minutes.
PLT Okay.
PLT Okay. For the record Bravo 7 is reading
32. 192 DOOR CLOSED.
CDR I wonder if there's any geothermal
heating in the dunes? Everything else was snow covered ex-
cept the dunes, and they were brown,
PLT You never know whether, there that is the
result of a cumulative effect of being able to absorb more heat
(garble) dew (garble) heat sink (?).
CDR It's amazing, though. I - Everything else
was white. Then all of a sudden (garble) brown area (garble).
It's amazing.
PLT Great.
CDR - - scab. Well, I'll tell you. I'm not
sure I got the reservoir. I saw so many - so many areas
that looked like that _
PLT Yes.
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CDR - that it was really tough.

CC Skylab, we're back with you for 5 min-
utes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PLT Okay, I'm going to close the window.
Get me a latch over there in just a second.
CDR All right.
PLT Okay, Jer. Looks to me like a pretty
clean run. It just sort of It's just grossly disappointing
we can't do anything better with our 191.
CDR Well if it doesn't just jump out at you as soon as
you get there, you're probably never going to find it.
PLT (Garble) Rank, are you still with us?
CC Roger.
PLT Okay. So that I can give the people a
little more information about the comment I made earlier.
It would be real nice to have a have the - a few more time
milestones leading up to the preoperate configuration check, and
also, the check on the switch configuration. For instance,
they give you reference I had a thermal source intensity(?)
reference, but it didn't have a CAL. I'm sure it was okay because
it was the same as was left over from the Earth's (garble),
but it would be nice Just to have - have a complete pre-operate
configuration just to make sure in case one of the switches
got thrown in the previous post.
CC Okay; we copy, Bill.
CDR And one other thing that wasn't too
clear, Hank, and that was how I was supposed to leave the
C&D panel after the last pass. I went ahead and did the
post-powerdown of everything for back-to-back. But I was given
the distinct impression from the way that pad was written
that _ that maybe I didn't have to do that, _ but there
was just enough there to put a little doubt in my mind.
CC That's correct, Jerry. I guess that we the
whole business was a little confusing. We should probably
have laid some more words on you. I think the intent was
to treat this thing as one long pass and the but it's not
clear to me that that got across to yon and - -
CDR No. No, we got a hint of that but I was
afraid to follow that hunch because there was nothing in
words that said that, and the only way we could (garble) back-
to,back is where you powerdown and then powerup again prior to
the next one.
PLT Yes, it just hit us over the head with
a ball bat. With a few words and numbers there, and we'll be
in good shape.
CC I think in the future we're going to
use the back_to_back so we don_t put this confusion factor
in.
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CDR Yes, I think that'd help a lot.

CDR Thought I saw Farmington - -
PLT B-7. Okay. We had
CDR I saw (garble)
PLT 191 AUTO CAL monitor. EREP START.
Alfa 7 is reading 15 - on - Just a second here. Did that wrong.
Stand by.
CDR Go ahead and get of_ the recorder.
PLT No, I need the recorder ON. I had to
turn it back on for this AUTO CAL MONITOR so - -
CDR (garble)
PLT It's been a while since I've done one of
these, and I Screwed it up at first, right off the bat. I'ii
just start it again here.
CDR Beautiful.
CC Skylab, Houston we're i minute from LOS.
CREW (Garble)
CC Madrid at 16 for the dump recorder.
PLT Okay.

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SL-IV MC-2096/I
Time: 12:12 CDT 60:17:12 GMT
01/14/74

PAO Skylab Control. LOS Bermuda. Canary

and Madrid tracking stations will reacquire in about 3 minutes.
Tananarive voice relay station antenna still out of commission
and will not support on this revolution. It's unknown as to
when the antenna will be repaired. This would be the final
pass in any case for several revolutions. 17:13 and standing
by for Madrid/Canary overlapping tracking station passes.
This is Skylab Control.
CDR It's in use right now, Hank. He should
be done in a minute.
CC Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. For info, the
VTR is cleaned off and rewound and you have the whole thing
available.
CDR Roger; thanks.
CDR Okay, Hank, the recorder is yours.
CC Okay, thank you. And, whenever it's
convenient we can go back to the prepass reg bus settings
PLT Okay, Hank _, if you have time to check
them, take a look at the buses.
CC Okay, we'll take a look at it, Bill.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we got a
pretty good heat pulse out of this - two passes here and
the TCV - B valve has modulated to the full cold position,
which is where it should be right now. However, if we run
into the situation where this valve sticks there, you know
we've had trouble with these valves sticking, and you should
get a primary or a secondary cool temp low light, we would
llke for you to shut down whichever loop that you have that
in and we'll talk about it at the next AOS.
CDR Okay, Hank, thanks.
CC We don't think it's going to happen. If
you should happen that both loops give you a cool, we want
you to go ahead and shut both of them down. It won't hurt
us. We're about a minute from LOS and the next contact will
be Honeysuckle at 01, 37 minutes from now.
CDR Roger; see you then.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
at Madrid and Canary tracking stations. Voice relay station
Tananarive, as mentioned earlier, is out of commission with
a faulty antenna. Therefore, next station to acquire space
station Skylab will be the Honeysuckle Creek station in - on
a - in Australia, in 34 minutes. This iS Skylab Control at
17:26 Greenwich mean time.

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SL-IV MC-2097/I
Time: 13:00 CDT 60:18:00 GMT
1/14/74

PAO This is Skylab Control, 18:00 Greenwich

mean time. Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, will acquire
space station in about 50 seconds. A 9 nin - 9-minute pass
across acrost - across Australia. Pilot Bill Pogue is the
subject for M092/M093 pair of blood - of cardiovascular
medical exa - experiments with Jerry Carr serving as observer.
Meanwhile the science pilot is back on his favorite haunts
at the ATM console.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle
for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC And Skylab, we_e taken a look at our
post_EREP KEG BUS settings and we need one more little tweak
on REG BUS 2. We need another 5 degrees clockwise.
SPT Okay. On the way.
SPT How's that look to you, Hank?
CC Okay. We'll take a look at it. CDR,
Houston. Did we give you the time for your private call
today?
CDR Not yet_ Hank.
CC Okay. It's at 20:20 at Bermuda,
and that's during your open housekeeping there, and should
be left antenna.
CDH Roger. 20;20, left antenna.
CC 8PT, Houston, _e _eed to get the fine
Sun sensor door open and select EPC.
SPT Rog, Hank. We're doing it now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've taken a look at
that setting on REG BUS 2 and we need to go counterclockwise,
half of what you went clockwise.
SPT That's like asking an elephant to step over
an inch.
CC Sky lah, Houston. That elephant's a pretty
short stepper. It was right on it,
SPT Thank you_ Hank.
CC CDR, Houston. No need to reply if you're
busy with the M092, Just to let you know what we got coming
for you is several little items in reference to the SO (garble)
19 pass you got coming up later today, and we'll try to get
those a little later, maybe 19:30 or so, when you're through
with M092. Looks like you're ahead of the game a little bit
now so you_ll be through in plenty of time. SPT, Houston.
We don't see the H-alpha i running,
SPT I'ii probably have a letter waiting for
me when I get back from Henry Chesters (?).
CC Okay. It's - we're i minute from LOS.
We'll be coming up on Hawaii at 21, ii minutes from now
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1/14/74

SPT Hank, I got a couple of minutes now if

you want to start throwing data at me.
CC Okay. We're about 20 seconds to LOS.
I can get in one of them. On a - probably you could do this
durin_ a prep. As part of the S019 data take we'd llke to
cycle through one frame of film. We're concerned during the
mal that Bill ran that the film on the carriage might have
been partially exposed.
CDR Okay. We'll - we'll extend one frame.
CC And I might get the second item.
Canister has _ 002 has about 90 frames remaining and the
frame count is okay. Just continue counting from i01.
CDR Okay.
CC And I'ii get the last one to you a little
later on. Itts a little longer.
PAO This is Skylah Comtrol. LOS Honeysuckle
Creek, Hawaii in 9 minutes. 18:11 GMT, Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2098/I
Time: 13:19 CDT, 60:18:19 GMT
1/14/74

PA0 This is Skylab Control. 18:19 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition at Hawaii in about 50 seconds followed
by a stateside pass, Canary and Ascension for about the next
48 minutes. Standing by for Hawaii AOS.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9_i/2
minutes.

CDR Roger, Hank. And I'm ready to copy your

last item on 19.
CC Okay, Jer. Doing the ops, prior to
offsetting the comet to the left crosshair, we'd llke for
you to report the position of the comet head in the view
finder. And what we want to do is try to determine if a
new NuZ update is going to be required for the 201 ops
later in the day and we can tell from that position.
CDR We_ll do it.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you again at Goldstone at 33, 3_i/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through the Goldstone for
7 minutes.
CC And SPT, we need the DAS for a moment
on bias update.
SPT You have it, Hank.
CC And Ed, we've looked at the dump tapes
for the llmb volume that was run on you yesterday, and if
you recorded it prior to yesterday, we can't find it.
SPT They were recorded rlgkt after that, Hank
and I guess you're saying you dldn_t get it so we'll give it to
you again.
CC Okay. At your convenience, Ed. We'd
appreciate it. We looked on the things we got down last
night and we couldn't find it anywhere.
CC SPT, the DAS is yours.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
Bermuda at 44, 4-1/2 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
at Goldstone. Groundtrack - this is Texas and HILA _ Merritt
Island Launch Area tracking stations. Bermuda again in about
3 minutes. Immediately after Ascension LOS on this revolution,
in about 27 minutes or 2:15, there_ll be a press briefing
in the Building 1 News Center with John P. (sic) Carruthers of
Bell Systems Laboratories on the TV_I01, liquid floating zone
science demonstration that's been downllnked on - from the
video tape recorder and recorded on the ground over the past
several days. That's at 2:15 central time. Standing by at
18:41, Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2099/I
Time: 13:42 CDT 60:18:42 GMT
01/14/74

CC Skylab, Houston. Through Bermuda,

7-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll see you again at Canaries at 53 with a recorder
dump.
CDR Rogerl Hank. Before you go over the hill,
let me ask a real quick question about H_alpha I.
CC Go ahead.
CDR We notice when we come up in the first
part of the work day, that's after it's been not used all
night long, we get a very crisp clear image in H-alpha i,
both off the llmb and on the llmb. After we_ve been using
it for several orbits, the features tend to die away. The
crispness, if you will, the contrast and in general, it's
just not anywhere near the quality picture that we receive
the first thing. Wonder if there isn't anything we could do
in the way of thermal control of this, by leaving doors open
on the nfghtside, for example, or something to that effect,
which would give us a good picture all the time.
CC Okay, we'll take a look at thaC, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control. LOS, Bermuda. Canaries
in less than a minute. Canary Island tracking station real -
we will reacquire space station Skylab, overlapping through
Ascension for about the next 16 minutes. The back_to_back
EREP passes today, requiring only one maneuver into attitude,
Z_local vertical and back to - hack to solar inertial, after
the EREP, took a total of Ii minimum impulse burns or mibs
in the thruster attitude control system nitrogen gas. i0
seconds to reacquisition at Canaries. Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Canaries for
9 minutes and we_ll be dumping the recorder.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from a
short LOS, a few seconds and we'll be right back with
Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you
through Ascension for 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. Honeysuckle at 38, that's 28_i/2 minutes from now.
PAO Skylab Control. LOS, Ascension. Next
station in 28 minutes, Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. At 2:15
a reminder on the press briefing on TV-101, liquid floating
zone, scfence demonstration, with John Carruthers from Bell
Systems Laboratories. All station passes during the press
conference will be taped for delayed playback after the press
conference is over, This is Skylah Control at 19:10 Greenwich
mean time.

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