skylab 1/3 onboard voice transcription part 2 of 4

8/7/2019 Skylab 1/3 Onboard Voice Transcription Part 2 of 4

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JscSKYLAB 1/3_ ONBOARDVOICE

TRANSCRIPTIONRECORDED ON THE COMMAND MODULE

AND AIRLOCK MODULE RECORDERS

PREPARED BY' TEST DIVISION

PROGRAM OPERATIONS OFFICE

_ _' National Aemnm:_L_cs and Space Adm__ B. JOHNSON SPACE CENT

"_"_:-" ' OCTOB_ 1973


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CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.We'll acquire you again at Guam at 21:...

227 21 25 46 PLT Okay, he's got his rates and attitude undercontrol. Translating slowl# downward and forward.He's about 3 feet from the donning station.

PLT OMay, he has reached the donning station - in theproper attitude. Pressure turns out to be2300 psi. Now going into the baseline maneuver,right, AI? Okay, we go to 11)-2.

227 21 26 53 PLT Okay. Fly with the same rates, fly to the banjo,turn and face donning station and all that stuff.He knows what to do. Going through the baselinemaneuver now.

PLT Okay, he's backing away from the donning station.He's rotating to his right, vertical attitude.He's translating toward the food lockers, a littlemore rapidly than he would like to rather thangoing up to the banjo. He's now in the processof checking that position - that situation.

227 21 28 19 PLT Now rotating around the base of the donn_ugstation, although he's still down in the foodlocker area. He stops his rotation neatly.

PLT NOW he 's about h feet off the workshop 's upperfloor, and facing straight up, and moving straightup, like he wants to do.

PLT Okay, he's on his way to the don - banjo, trans-lating straight up. Somehow another rivet gotloose; the kid picks it up, puts it in his trashpocket.

227 21 30 21 PLT Okay, he's stabilized at the banjo. Now trans-lating away from the banjo area, on his way toFMU number 2. Going to his left, pitching down,heading down the OWS screen.

227 21 32 04 PLT Okay, now he's nearly to the FMU-2, he's rotatedover on his left side, and he's about 5 feet_way from the objective.

227 21 33 37 PLT Another photo. FMU number 2, he's -


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PLT Now translating away from FMU number 2. Headingfor 432.

PLT Okay, directly above the PSS stowage location,and upright in the ASMU, rotating slowly to hisleft. But playing with the water tanks. Stop-ping his upward translation. Moving over toward430 - correction, 404 at this time.

PLT Okay, he's been playing around the dome locker.

227 21 36 53 PLT Maintaining a i- to 2-feet separation from thedome locker, between the dome locker and theedge of the left-hand controller.

PLT Maintaining his desired upright position quitewell.

PLT Cocked and rolled at this time to the right about15 degrees.

227 21 39 23 PLT There he is, stabilized in front of 432.PLT Now moving away from 432. Good aft thrust.

Rotation to the left.

227 21 40 47 PLT He's in the center of the workshop now, facingthe work - donning station; he's a little bitdown, but correcting it.

PLT On way.

PLT Stabilizing himself in front of the H - donningstation with the HHMU. There he is, in front ofthe donning station.

PLT Okay, that's undocking. Huh?

PLT How much you got left?CDR ...

227 21 42 12 PLT Yes. Plus a lot less darn effort.CDR Huh?

PLT Lot less effort, too. He says it takes a lot ofgas to do that, down to 1500psi, and -


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CDR ...

PLT He thinks this is a pretty antiquated way to go.He'll tell you about later, I'm confident ofthat. You going to do it again?

CDR ... undocking ...

PLT Yes. Takes you forever to get somewhere, too;that 's another thing.

CDR Try to fly it faster....

227 21 43 22 PLT Okay, now he's going to take the - the H - HHMHand try to fly it faster, he says. See how fasthe can make it around here with HHMU. Thinks hemay lose it, but he's going to give it a whirl.He's had a couple of apricots, and so now he'sprobably going to do better now. It's kind oflike spinach for Popeye. Apricots for Bean makeshim really go.

PLT Now backing away from don-_ng station, rotatingto the right.

227 21 44 50 PLT Okay, he's approaching thy banjo area very neatly.Little bit of yaw to his right, which he's takingout right now. Now he's putting on the brakes.

PLT And he's there, so he grabs on with his hand,stabilizes himself on that ...

227 21 46 32 PLT Leaving the banjo area, coming straight down onhis back, past the ring lockers, yawing to hisleft.

PLT He's approaching it pretty well now, about 6 feetaway from it. About 25-degree left roll, facethe minus-Z SAL.

227 21 47 32 PLT Now he's going to play with the FMMU [sic] -FMU 2, and pitching forward to reach it. About2 feet off the deck, ,Just over the PSS, but, I'Llbet he wants to get a little higher which he'sworking on right now. Stops the translationtoward the - toward the locker 523. And he reachesthe FMU-2, stabilizes himself with his hands, ashe would in an EVA. Pushes away, near the 404.


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227 21 48 46 PLT Now he's turned and facing 404.... on this one .. pretty much inside workshop. Got a littleroll right in, and a yaw left. He's translating;however, seems that he has things under control

227 21 49 33 PLT An attitude rate has built up now in the domelocker area. About where the film vault ...where the film vault ... Now he's going to ...and turn it around again. Facing 404 with alittle pitch down. Pitch down out of there. Hefeels that when he tries to go fast, he gets outof control. Trying to get to - trying to moveas fast as he can.

PLT He's directly in the line - middle of the work-shop now, upright position, film locker height.Still trying to ... clearly. Film locker area.

227 21 52 02 PLT And flying around the dome locker area now.Using sizable quantities of thrust. Now he'sstabilizing himself from the blue rail aroundunderneath these water tanks with his hand.Underneath the condensate tank, getting himselfup film locker height again. Now holding on tothe condensate tank. Stabilizing his positionin that area.

227 21 53 06 PLT Okay, he's leaving 432 now and heading towardthe donning station, Just barely clearing the foodlockers; going down at a fairly good rate. Trans-lating - Now he's rotating to the left, trying tostop that downward translation. Doing a prettygood Job of it. He's ... his rate toward theworkshop floor, now he's facing the donning sta-tion, directly over the crew quarters hatch.Looks to me like he seems to have it and thenlose it.

227 21 54 06 PLT Ready to dock. And he's at the donning stationnow, holding on with a hand. He made a goodapproach, stabilizing himself almost.

227 21 5_ 36 PLT Think the pressure's getting down, about 900 psi,900 here.

CDR ...


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PLT Five of what?

CDR ...

PLT What's that thing? Okay. Okay, now he's goingto try a pushoff maneuver and he Just pushedhimself free of the donning station and he'sgoing to do as he did before with the ASMU. He'sgoing to correct his attitude with RWMU and do asmuch of it with his hands as he can. Heading uptoward the banjo, left shoulder toward the banjo,about 4 feet from it now. Rotating around to theleft, and getting to the banjo in pretty goodshape And he's stabilized at the banjo now,hanging onto it with his hands, looking down atthe FMU number 2.

227 21 55 43 PLT Pushes off the banjo with his hands and feet alittle bit, and his left side facing the domelocker. Going to the left, now he's stoppingagain. Pretty much going straight down from the

_. banjo, trying to p1111 himself over to the FMUnow, with the HH_G. Does pretty at it, he'sstill pretty much on his left side. He's in theplane of the FMU-2 now, at least I think that heis. And he's got it in his hand and stabilizedhimself there. Torques himself around to be ina position he likes.

227 21 56 34 PLT Purpose of this exercise, of course, is to -using your hands as much as possible to get some-where ... maneuvering unit. To get there mostexpeditiously with the minimum use of fuel. Ifyou can do it perfectly with your hands you won't.. maneuvering ... hands to - might push youaround. He grabs up the water t=nk number 3 andpulls himself hand over hand - by his hand upto 406 where he stabilizes himself facing it and . ..Now he's deciding what he'd like to do - go backto where he was ... FMU-2 and try that one moretime. He's going down there by - by handrail.

227 21 57 32 PLT NOW they've lined FMU number 2, the preferred posi-tion, looks up over his shoulders to see wherehe needs to go, pushes off, in a backward pitch,.. translation ... He got there feet first andusing the HHMU, ... his head around a little bit,


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and grabs on with his hands, and as he was pitchingdown. Now hand over hand, and around the domelocker over to 432.

227 21 58 49 PLT Okay, there he is at 432.... down, fell back-wards, rotates himself with the HHMU in a niceline toward the docking station on the left sidenow - or the workshop hatch. Now, we're rolling andyawing further left with his face down now, approach-ing the aft - HH - ... donning station about theway he'd like to and he reaches out with his righthand to grab one rail and the left with the other,pIJ]]s himself into position at the mounting station.The thing's awful loose on your back.

CDR What?

227 21 59 36 PLT Thing is real loose on your back.CDR ...

PLT Yes. Okay, we're down to about 500 pounds.227 21 59 54 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Guam for l0 minutes.

CDR ...

227 22 00 09 PLT Now he's leaving the donning station using the HHMU.227 22 00 17 SPT ...227 22 00 29 PLT Going straight up at this time heading for the

banjo. Facing the banjo now. And moving gen-erally in that direction.

227 22 01 l0 PLT Okay, he's up by the banjo area now.

227 22 01 14 PLT DATA MARK. Leaves the banjo.CC ...

SPT ...

CC ... pass ... update by the star tracker and we'llgive you the update ......

SPT ... understand ...CC ...


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227 22 0B h0 PLT Okay, he's down to the FMU number 2, the centersection, and now translating away. Up, prettymuch straight up and down the workshop now overthe PSS number 3 in the rack down there.

227 22 04 05 PLT About eye-level with the dome lockers. Rotatingto his left.

PLT Now facing h04 about 8 feet away. Tending moreto his left; his right side is facing 404 now,correcting that.

SPT ...

CC Okay - ...

SPT ...227 22 05 19 PLT Your head's going to hit.

CC Okay, 0wen, ... How's he doing in there?SPT ...

227 22 05 59 PLT Okay, now he's stabilizing himself very nicelyin front of 404 and proceeding around to theright to make the swing around the dome lockers.

CC ...

SPT ...

CC ... We'll get on it ...227 22 07 03 PLT Okay, he's had enough of that. He's going to

go into the donning station now and we're goingto call it a day. Backing into the donning sta-tion.

227 22 07 32 PLT Back on in, AI. You're in. Okay, that a boy.Yes, you're there.

CC ... Nuz and number 3 is in the DAS @ @ gSPT ...

227 22 08 18 PLT Okay, folks, that completes run 509-2, and we'regoingtosignoffnow.


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227 22 25 ii SPT Okay, comments for the ATM Pls - planners. Onthe present rev, which is due to end at about22:45 Zulu today, the first task was to finishup JOP 17A, step 6. And when I then moved up,as required, to place the 54 - correction - theS055 line 25 on the bright spot, I found thatDETECTOR number 3 m_imized at the followingpositions : DOWN, minus 24 ; RIGHT, 417, 417.Now the DOWN, minus 24 is satisfactory, becauseI went from minus 89 up 80 arc seconds for a... of minus 8 - correction - minus 9. And thenit turns out the peak was 15 arc seconds belowthat, but that checks because the precedingorbit - the m-ximized position turned out to beon line 12 instead of line 9.

227 22 26 26 SPT So they really want to shoot them there with65 arc seconds up instead of 80, so that allchecks right. Now there is a little puzzleabout why I had to go to 417 instead of closerto 405. And it could be that the bright spothad moved a little bit or a different region ofthe bright spot had simply become a little moreintense or something like that.

227 22 26 46 SPT But, at any rate, that's the spot where it max-imized - for - except the DOWN, minus 24, andRIGHT, 417. Now you told me about the new activeregion that's Just emerging. I'm afraid I don'tsee it at all yet.

227 22 27 02 SPT And so I've gone ahead and done the last stepshere of this orbit on active region 86.

227 22 28 51 CDR This is the 509 - Ed Whitsett, Lou Ramon,Bruce McCandless, second half of the debriefing.I'm discussing the HHMU. Was the HHMU kickbothersome? No, it moved around, gave you anice cue ; it reminded you that you were puttingout too much thrust if it gave you a good kick,so it wasn't bad.

227 22 29 12 CDR The second one, did the kick provide a usefulpiloting cue? I guess you'd have to say it doesbecause it does tell you very quickly how - howmuch thrust you're putting in. Do you feel the


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thrust level is about right? Yes, I thinkit is about right. If it was any larger, you'dget yourself in trouble and if it were any _aSler,you wouldn't have any action. By that I mean youcouldn't get to translate when you wanted to.

227 22 29 38 CDR Did you normally command full HHMU thrust? I'dsay today it was about half and half. I triedto stick with power corrections today, particularlythe first time around. I wanted to see if Icould fly around good and precisely, and I could.But doggone it! It's Just not the way to fly.It's like riding a unicycle when you're supposedto be going somewhere. You might want to ridea unicycle for a stunt, but as far as going any-where on one, you would never want to go anywhere.It's the same way with this HHMU. I wouldn'tcare if it was 50 times lighter than a backpack.A guy'd be crazy to go outside with an HHMU.

227 22 30 13 CDR The thing is not intuitive, it takes too muchtrainingtime. It's Just - it's Just not worthit. We're - we're passed the day of having toeconomize in weight like that. We got stuff onthis workshop that - that safe over there thatchannels the film must weigh 3000 pounds or more.And if we can ... - send one of those into space,we can sure send a couple-hundred-pound backpackthat works right. If anybody ever built an HHMUto go outside, I'd think he was crazy - crazy.And we really ought to write this report up whereit says that this is - this is - It's Just aninteresting thing to look at. It's like a lotof science. You do it and you really don't haveit in mind. Let's don't do any H]_U work forreal. I'd be the first one to stand up and sayforget it. If you ever got in bad troubleout there with the HHMU, you'd be through. Ifyou ever lost your cues, if you ever startedlooking off into black space, if your visor camedown over your face in the da_k or something,you'd be finished. You'd spin up - you wouldn'teven know where you were. You'd be so tangledup in your umbilical you'd never get away. Crazyidea.


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227 22 BI 25 CDR Did you sometimes command wrong thrusts withthe HHMU. Answer : Every once in a while butnot - not - enough to worry about. Mostly itwas in roll. The thing I found myself doing mostin the way of errors was I'd want to be translatingup and rolling left and so instead of sticking myhand out to the right and give a kind of thrustup that would achieve both ends, I'd put it overmy head and do it. And then, of course, thenI'd be translating left and would not have beentranslating up.

227 22 31 55 CDR Did you experience any disorientation? No, but Ithink when you're getting to close objects youtend to get a little bit confused. You - Whenyou're getting close - There's no such such thingas a pure maneuver. So you see your toes approach-ing - You don't know whether to thrust up becauseyou know if you thrust up, you're not going to bethrough your c.g. exactly, which means that you'regoing to get some rotation. Or you don't knowwhether to rotate because that's going to ms keyou translate and bump into it. The whole - thewhole idea of HHMU is Just an interesting thing -that's _.11 it is. Be like trying to fly in spaceby turning around and shooting a rifle in theopposite direction. You can probably do it butwho the heck wants to do it that way. It's -We need a guidance system or something. We needsomething standard.

227 22 32 45 CDR Did you have any difficulty aiming the HHMU? No,because I knew the constraints in aiming itand tried to aim it only in the places that Icould myself. But I'll Just have to admit thatyour chances of finding your c.g. are small. Ihunted a.llover for it today. I got above it,below it, all around. One thing I did muchbetter today is get my arm out further so thatmoments were more ... than they had been, inreduced left translation. But still - I thinkwe're Just performing an experiment and not reallydeveloping hardware for the future. And that'swhat we ought to be in the business - particularlyyou, Ed. You're in the Air Force. They don'twant any HHMU. They want something they can flyaround and do something with.


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227 22 33 26 CDR Could you normally position the HHMU to gettranslation without rotation? Answer, no. Itried. Every once in a while I'd hit it, butnormally, no. But I could correct it, though.Did thruster impingement on you or your HHMUproduce a noticeable effect? Answer, yes. It -I noticed it when I was trying to get translation,particularly in Y or to get a good - when I wasclose to something. The thruster impingementon me was b_1_y and bothersome. The thrusterimpingement on whatever I was close to would hebothersome. So all in all, that's - that's aboutit for the thing. You can get around it. I flewthe first one without bumping into anything andwithout having any trouble and decided that's -it's Just - for show. It's a waste of time andit's a waste of gas. So I said I'll fly it aroundfaster this time; I tried it faster. Well, I gotout of control a couple of times; not - not bad.If I'd been out in the middle, I'd have stoppedit, but you're in a box. You Just reach out and

_- catch yourself. Still it's not the way you'dlike to be. I tried flying around by pushingoff and then midcoursing with the thing. Ifound that if I pushed off slowly, I could do itokay, but it's still not the way to do it. Ipushed off fast to get somewhere fast, then Ihad trouble correcting my attitude - in translation.You could learn to do it - I think you couldlearn to do it. I could probably do it now,having - That was the first effort at that. Ithink that should go under worthwhile things totry. I'm suspicious that we want - in the suit,maybe do an HHMU one run, one time. I don'tthink we want to use up our SOP for it, and Idon't think the HHMU is going to overcome theforces of its umbilical. I'm really in a quandarythere. If we used our - our SOP for the HHMU,I'd think we were mR_ing a - a drastic disservice -doing a drastic disservice to the Air Force ...that's because you Just aren't going to ever useit. We only have one - AC - SOP. I hope thatwe use it for - for flying it in DIRECT and thenwhatever time we got left we can use it maybein CMG and RATE GYRO, but mostly we use it inDIRECT because that's going to be the thing we're


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going to use someday. And all this other isinteresting. I'd say RATE GYR0 has a betterchance of getting in than CMG but both of them,that we talked about, are Just extra - extra problemsthat we don't need. A nice, ..., direct andyou could fly this baby all over and do all thethings that you want to do.

227 22 35 56 CDR I got to go now. CDR out. That's the end ofthe briefing on 509. It goes to Ed Whitsett,Bruce McCandless, and Lou Ramon.

227 22 36 07 CDR CDR out.

227 22 51 54 CDR Okay, S019 again. Get ready for a mark. We'regoing to close the shutter. The first exposureis 270.

227 22 52 03 CDR MARK. SHUTTER CLOSED. Okay, let's go for thebig next one which is a 90-second exposure.Let me give you a mark when I open it. I've gota picture there.

227 22 52 17 CDR MARK. Just OPENED the SHUTTER. I'm going offthe comm for a few minutes.227 22 53 31 CDR Stand by for a _rk. I'm CLOSING the SHUTTER now.

Stand by.

227 22 53 35 CDR MARK. As you know that was field 707, exposure 055.Now we're going to the next one. 301.1, 301.1.

227 22 53 47 CDR Okay, got that. That's ROTATION; 24.5, thatought to be easy. 24.5, that's perfect. Nowwe're going for a 270; let me spin it up, andgive you the call. Okay, that's about it, rightthere. Standing by. Pick up a new one.

227 22 54 15 CDR MARK. Okay, picked up a new one.

227 22 54 17 CDR MARK. We got it. Everything is good. Okay, we'venow got 301.1, 24.5. Field 705, 270-secondexposure. Right after this, we'll give you a90 and an 30.

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227 22 58 24 CDR Okay; CDR. We're Just finishing up this 270-secondexposure on field 2 - 705. I'll give you a markin Just a moment.

227 22 58 43 CDR MARK; SHUTTER is CLOSED. Now let's go for a90-second one. Same thing. Okay, let's pick upa new slide and go back to STOWAGE. Stand by togo OPEN.

227 22 58 58 CDR MARK. OPEN. This is a 90-second exposure, field705. Nobody touches the machine save the operatoras he puts the slide home and takes it away. Slidenumber 58, incidentaly.

227 22 59 17 CDR Going off the comm.

227 23 00 16 CDR Stand by.227 23 00 17 CDR MARK. Okay, that was the completion of a 60 -

90-second exposure; we're now going for 30. Pickup a new slide; put it in position. Let this go.Herewego.

227 23 00 34 CDR MARK. Open on a 30-second exposure. That'sfield 705, picture 59.

CDR When this gets finished we're going to go to abrand new field, gentlemen. And it's approachingfinishing, so stay loose. Stand by for an OPEN.

227 23 01 0B CDR MARK. That's OPEN. Okay, let's go 318.8, 318.8,31 - 318 .8 .

227 23 01 15 CDR There's one of them. And 23.5. That ought to beeasy to get to because we happen to be at 23.5 -right there. Okay, what you want there is a270-second exposure, field 413. Okay -

227 23 01 52 CDR MARK. Just put her in, gang. Everything's goingwell. 61. Now what l've done a couple times -and it might confuse you a little bit ; it's con-fused me. I have moved a slide over there withouta picture in it. No, maybe it had the old picturein there, a couple of times - maybe it had the oldpicture in there. And I can feel that it - itdidn't feel the same way, so I knew that - so Iknew that I didn't have a new picture. Now I onlyf_ left in there a second. I don'tknow whether it


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bothered the original picture; I sort of doubt it,but - that's why sometimes these numbers seem alittle bit larger than they should be. Two timesI think I've Jumped two numbers. So if you sud-denly find that I've Jumped a couple numbers it'sprob - I've probably done this before at othertimes and never realized it was significant, be-cause I'd never thought about the counter doingthat. So, you better take this note, that I've -I've run that in a couple of times real quick.I hope that it hasn't affected the long exposureswe've had. I don't think it probably has but -because I've never left it in there over a second,because I can feel it when it doesn't go in thereright. It's conceivable that - no, that - that'sright.

227 23 03 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you over Canaries forl0 minutes.

227 23 03 57 CC And, Owen, your comment a while ago regardingfilament 28 is correct. That has turned intoprominence 28 . And if anybody's available, we'dlike to suggest perhaps modifying this next ATMpass that we got coming up that Al's going to run.

SPT Okay. Standby Just a minute.

SPT Okay, I'm ready to copy. Go ahead, Bob.

CC Okay. Do you have the schedule pad there? I canrefer to it. Or if not, I'll Just read this toyou.

SPT No, I don't have it here. I'm downstairs. Goahead.

CC Okay, at - on the 23:27 pass at 23 minutes timeremaining, we suggest m?_ning building block ll,JOP 4A, step 4 on prominence 28.

SPT Okay, what about prior to time 23?

227 23 05 25 CC We'd llke to go ahead and maintain the currentpointing that we got there. It's - it should beno problem. Actually, all we're doing is changinga JOP _ Bravo - -


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227 23 05 35 CDR Stand by for a mark - completion.

227 23 05 37 CDR MARK; completion, 270. Now we go for a 90. Okay,pick up a new slide this time; do it right for achange.

227 23 05 50 CDR MARK. OPEN on the 90-second exposure.

CC Okay, at that time it calls for a h Bravo, step 1.SPT What do you recommend us to do to that, since

there's no filament?

CC Stand by 1.CDR There's 9 minutes and 9 -.-

227 23 ll 20 CDR Okay, stand by for the mark. This will be a com-pletion of a 2y0-second exposure on star field 616.It's frame number 063.

227 23 ii 39 CDR MARK. SHUTTER CLOSED. Let's go for a 90-secondexposure, which is what you want next. And thereit is, a picked up new one, hit it and stand by;ready to go.

227 23 ii 51 CDR MARK. OPEN, on 90-second exposure, field 616.23:13; I'm going to start 30 seconds late on thatlast exposure. Well, probably about a minute ;takes 30 seconds to adjust. So I won't get youa 270, but I'll get you as long as I can.

CDR How's supper there, Big O?

SPT ... up. I got a good pad for you.

227 23 12 35 CDR You got it on you? I'ii come get it right afterthis one.SPT I'ii give it to you right now. It's that block

stuff right there .... twice ... modifying ...CDR 4A, 2, B 28.SPT Pr_nence 28.

227 23 12 57 CDR 4A, 4 on prominence 28; 4A, 4 again. Okay, stand/-_ by here. We're going to open the - CLOSE the


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SHUTTER again. This was a 90-second exposure ; andthen I'm going to retrim. Stand by -

227 23 13 09 CDR MARK; SHUTTER OPEN. Okay, let's go to 098.8.04.1. Okay, you want a 270 exposure. I'm Justgoing to give you what I can give you, and I'llcall mark when I can. Okay, pick up a new one.Stand by -

227 23 13 45 CDR MARK. Okay that's 65 and it's field number 611,98.8, ROTATION; 4.1, TILT, and sunrise is at 23:18.And so I'm going to watch my clock, and I'll giveyou a mark at the end. And I'll stay on this timeso that you can time it on the tape if you want.I'm watching you with my watch, too, so everythingshould be okay.

227 23 15 12 CDR This would be incredible, but I'm not sure we'renot going to make it. It's only 23:15 right now.Gives us 3 whole more minutes, and we're almostat 60 percent, so we may Just make this.

227 23 16 50 CDR We're going to mske this full 270, space fans, asJack would say. I'll give you a mark at the com-pletion, and that'll be the end of the game. We'llgo into the CARRIAGE RETRACTED, STOWAGE spot, andthat 's it. CARRIAGE RETRACTED, close the hatch -repress. Not repress; leave it in vent until itwarms up.

227 23 17 31 CDE Stand by now.

227 23 17 32 CDR MARK; CLOSED. CARRIAGE RETRACTED, film hatchCLOSED. Okay, we got every exposure; new record.Okay, and I discussed the fact of cycling some ofthose frames a couple of times. You should beable to tell it by the fact that the counter num-bers Jumped; I don't think any of them were intheir positions over a second, so I don't thinkwe've had any double exposures. We maybe had acouple today of double exposures of - The secondexposure was a second long or something like that.And my guess is I've probably done that severalother times, but I've always been able to feel andsay, "Oh, oh; that was wrong. I did not pick upa frame." So you might be alert to that sort ofthing, otherwise. I'll try to do better next time.

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228 00 06 38 SPT Okay, this is the SPT recording on channel A witha message to the biomed people, especially to thosewho are concerned about our drug stowage aboardthe spacecraft, and also a copy needs to go directto Dr. Paul Buchanan. This is in response to yourgeneral message number 1928 Alfa on CB/drugs, onday 19, which is today. The last portion inquiresabout the drug stowage status, and this is thefollowing information. In W-706 there are threeslots for two cans each. In the left slot, thefirst can, which is serial number 1034, is empty.This is presumably all Skylab 2; in other words,mission-1 drugs. Most of them are presnmably now"found in 707 in the two boxes labeled "TopicalDrugs" and "Tablets and Capsules" containers. Nowthe rear can of that left slot is number 1037. Ithas been opened, and there are a number of loosedrugs inside, all gray taped, and the gray - the -the can is taped over and marked "Command ModuleDrugs for SL-3 and 4."

228 00 08 l0 SPT That's how I found it and that's where it stillremains, so I presume that Joe Kerwin brought thisup in the command module, put them all in there,and left them for the next two missions. Now inthe second slot, there are two cans, both of whichI opened. The first can is serial number 1038 andthe second can is serial number 1033. I openedone of them up to get out the scop/Dex tabletsearly in the flight, and I believe the second onewas opened for Mylanta. Dr. Buchanan prescribe -prescribed that for one of the crewmen who hada little bit of an uneasy stomach at one point,and the Mylanta, as I recall, was the reason Iopened the second can. Now the Mylanta and thescop/Dex have been placed down under "Tablets andDrugs" and the remainder of the can, all but thosetwo bottles, we'll repack and switch back into slotnumber 2. Now the third slot contains cans 1035and 1036, which remain unopened. I assume thatthese were cans for Skylab 4.

228 00 09 22 SPT Now from our own comm_nd module, there were twocans, one was labeled can A and the other can B.Neither of those cans are opened as yet, and Ihave temporarily stowed them in locker 732 herein the wardroom until we have some other indica-

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suspect that there is some rearrangement of drugsthat is required, and nothing in our activationllst, as I recall, calls for any of this. And ifyou would send me up a message describing whetheror not the present state is satisfactory and, ifnot, how it can be modified, I would appreciateit. This message goes to biomed and those in-terested in dug - _rug stowage and Dr. PaulBuchanan.

228 00 l0 08 SPT End of message from the SPT.

228 00 ll 44 PLT Howdy, space fans, this is Jack on channel A. Thesubject is M509. We got both bottles rechargedat 22:00; they're sitting at about 1500 pounds atthe moment, and the batteries ... charge as wereported earlier. Thank you and good night.

228 00 16 06 CDR This is the CDR debriefing ATM run. I ran as ad-vertised or as requested. I did JOP 4A, step 2and a J0P 4A,_ step 4 and another JOP 4A, step 4.When I did the second one, I made a good alignmenton - When I did the first one, I m_ximized theH-alpha portion. When I did the second one, Imoved to a different place and maximized the 8 2Bset again. On the third one, of which we only gotone half in - by that I mean we got the 82B, AUTOand we got a mirror align - a MIRROR AUTORASTER, but we did not get a - We got a PATROL,NORMAL but not a PATROL, LONG - PATROL, SHORT on56. I moved to the bl_nk area. This - this lookslike a possible forming spot for an arch filament.

228 00 17 02 CDR Certainly, we have a very nice one about - sincewe studied the first of two 82B - first two 4A ...and the fol - the last one we - 4A, step 4 - 4A,step 4, and then the small filament - I mean smallprominence, which is a little bit above - Let mesee which way that is, north _or south.

228 00 17 B6 CDR It would be south of the main arch and theprominence part of it, visible in H-alpha on thelimb. And then it looks like there's Just a hintthat maybe there's an arch that you can't see therein - a - H-alpha, but there is an arch. I checkedit in DETECTOR 3 of this ...; didn't get any action,but I decided to take some data there anyway. If _


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it turns out there's nothing there, I don't thinkwe've lost much, except maybe 82B - a frame of 82B.But maybe they can get some background informationthere, or there, in fact, may be some data there forthem that they haven't yet observed. Other thanthat, this was a completely nominal pass.

228 00 18 24 CDR CDR out. That information, by the way, goes to theA TM bac kr oom.

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228 01 h4 23 SPT Okay, we're making the last run here which willget finished up about 01:52. This is the - factshere on shopping llst 13 item ... I could havegiven Jim a photograph off Sun center, but Iwanted to give him one on Sun center so that hecould get the whole corona in. Although thosedisks are, of course, going to be overexposed so

"_ you can't get the whole corona. I'm looking outhere at this prominence on the west limb rightnow, and I did want to get in a long exposurethere, so I Just stopped off at shopping list 13.

228 01 44 53 SPT The shopping list I have I think is a particularlyinteresting one because there's really a nice pro-minence picking up over here, and the DETECTORnumber 3 peaked up very nicely about l0 - 20 arcseconds off the limb. I gave 82B about a 6-minuteexposure. In limb-pointing mode, I noted that wasJust a little over 20 arc seconds off the limb -20, 22, something like that, in LIMB POINTING.So I hope the prominence exposures come out prettywell. And I've also noticed on the XUV MON thatit's really getting bright over on the east limb.This information may not get down to you to countfor anything on the planning, but look forward toa little more activity in the next few days.

228 01 45 32 SPT End of this briefing from the SPT. Out. (whistle)228 01 51 50 PLT Hello, space fans, this is Jack on channel A.

We're going to try a little more TO02 at themoment. Time on my watch is coming up on 13:52 -

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228 01 52 08 PLT MARK. Day 228, and the temperature of the sextantat this time is 67 degrees and rising, and thediopters are minus 0.5, and we're going to do thiswith the window cover removed; try a little morestar-to-Moon - see if I can get a few of thembefore my phone call comes through here. And I seemy friend Diphda Just coming through the ozonelayer there, and when she gets above the ozonelayer, she's going to be mine.

228 01 53 i0 PLT I want to get the zero biases when this is alldone. Okay, I got her laying on the edge of thelimb of the Moon, there. Tell you why I wasn'tfocused; doublecheck the window cover removed.Had a little wasted effort earlier today. Don'tlike that up here. Well, I guess that's a minus0.5. It's a pain - why it wasn't turned all theway around once. I'll check that later.

228 01 54 06 PLT Okay, Diphda is above the ozone layer& let's getto work. Get the trusty flashlight out here.They got the lights off in the area. This is _T002, for my friend, Bob Nute, Bob Randle fromthe Ames Research Center, Sunnydale, California,nice place to be from; one of my favorite places.

228 01 54 44 PLT MARK. Number i, 29.227.228 01 55 ii PLT MARK. Number 2, 29.205. Getting these marks a

little better without that window cover in there;that goofs you all up. Also goofs you up whenthat star or whatever you're sighting on is belowthe ozone layer, so don't ever do that.

228 01 55 36 PLT MARK. Number 3, 29.182.228 01 55 57 PLT MARK. Number h, 29.161.

228 01 56 22 PLT MARK. Number 5, 29.146.228 01 56 41 PLT MARK. Number 6, 29.130. Now that's more like it.228 01 57 04 PLT MARK. That's about 7, I guess, 29.113.228 01 57 26 PLT MARK. Number 8, 29.097; 29.097, that was.

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PLT In about 5 minutes, O.SPT Okay. That 's fine.

228 01 57 59 PLT MARK. I don't know what that is but that's 29.073.Give you one more - for good measure, Namefilters. Both filters on the Moon on - on thelower path. No filters on Diphda.

228 01 58 50 PLT Having a hard time getting this one for goodmeasure.

228 01 59 00 PLT MARK. That's the last, 29.0 - 29.033. Okay, Igot Just a few minutes; we're going to take somezero biases now. Temperature of this machine is,present time, is 71, m-ke it 72 degrees. Sorry,I got to quit here when we're going so good.Chs]k us up another star-to-Moon. I think that'stwo of them. Okay, there's Fomalhaut, for zerobias. Hello, Fomalhaut.

228 02 O0 38 PLT MARK. 0.004.p_

228 02 00 55 PLT MARK. 0.001.228 02 01 07 PLT MARK. 0.004.228 02 01 19 PLT MARK. 0.00 - that's a bad one. Forgive me for

tampering with scientific data here.228 02 01 30 PLT MARK. 0.003. And the final one.228 02 01 51 PLT MARK. 0.000. Okay, that takes care of, I

believe, our second run on star-to-Moon. Thatwas Diphda to the Moon. And I'm going to have towrap it up now and go do something else, but that'sthe end of TO02 for tonight. The w_y I read it,we won't need to do anymore T00h's [sic]. Ifigure myself complete on that, I believe. Letme look it up one moment on my little checklisthere. Keeping track of all this somewhere.

228 02 02 27 PLT Wrong checklist. I believe that's two star-to-Moons. I got four star-to-stars, two to go, andwe got all six Moon-to-Moons. So, that's com-plete; that T002-3 I believe, is complete. Andalso TO02-_, stadimeter orbital is completebecause we got two runs on that ; and I want to do


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one extra one at night. I will do that, butaccording to my tabulations T002-4 and T002-3 areofficially complete. So I'm going to sign offnow and I'll be back with you again tomorrow onT002.

228 02 03 20 PLT Out. So long and good night.

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228 02 h5 21 SPT Okay, here's some information on channel A fromthe SPT. This information goes to Dr. PaulBuchanan, to Dr. Bill Thornton, to Dr. Ed Michels.And the first thing - I'd like for this to get tothem tomorrow morning as soon as possible, please.The first thing I want to review is the exercisethat I have done for the last ii days, startingon mission day 8. The first week I'm not going .--to consider - as being a transient period andnot representative of any sort of level that wehave presume - hopefully stablized at. Startingon mission day 8, SPT's exercise is 2/2/3000.Mark I A's, 50 repetitions; Mark I B's, 20 repe-titions. Mission day 9: SPT's 2/X/2000. 60repetitions of A; 30 repetitions of B. On mis-sion day 10, I did no exercise and the CDR andPLT also did no exercise on that day.

228 02 46 57 SPT On mission day ll: SPT did 2/15/2100; A, 50 rep-etitions; B, 30 repetitions; D's 20 repetitions.On mission day 12: SPT did 2/15/2000. A's,60 repetitions; B's, hO repetitions; C, 30 repeti-tions. On mission day 13: 2/15/2000. A's, 50repetitions; B's, 30 repetitions. Mission day 14:2/22/3000. A, 60 repetitions; B, 40 repetitions.Mission day 15: 2/33/5000. A, 60 repetitions;B, 60 repetitions_ C_ 30 repetitions.

228 02 48 21 SPT Mission day 16: 2/17/2200. Mission day 17:2/45 - that's 2/45/6000. A's, 60 repetitions;B's, 60 repetitions; D's, h0 repetitions.Mark II exerciser, 5 minutes. Mission-_ay 18:2/35/5300; A, 60 repetitions; B, 60 repetitions;D, h0 repetitions. _


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228 02 49 13 SPT Mission day 19: 2/30/4400. A's, 80 repetitions;B's, 60 repetitions; D_ hO repetitions. Sothat brings us up to date, and since I startedthere, I will go back and find out what d_V thatwas. I believe it was mission day 8, I believe.There's been only i day that I have not exer-cised. Some of the earlier days, I would agreethat my exercise levels have been insufficient.There appears to be a trend for increasing thework levels at the present time that is associatedwith increasing time available for the exercise,and I expect that it will be maintained at approx-imately the present level.

228 02 50 06 SPT In some ways another 60 to 4000 or 5000 watt-minutes on the average and something like 60reps of A - A's and so on, something like thatgeneral neighborhood. Incidentally, my BMMD onmission day 19 is about 5.984, and that is higherthan any day - stand by - that's higher than anyday since mission day 14. So I guess it's the

f--_ highestin about the last 5 days. So I'd appre-ciate it if you would review these data and seeif they are the same information that you havereceived on the down-link. On some of the -several of my days I've worked fairly late in theevening and the information was not available onthe status report. It came in late on channel A,and may not have been incorporated in your data.That sounds like a truth and you apparently hadsome days of exercise missing, whereas I onlyfind 1 day missing all the way back throughmission day 8. I'd appreciate any comments youhave about this, and if you can send them up ona pad so we don't have to crowd it all into avery brief communication pass, that would beappreciated. The information Just transmitted isfor Doctors Buchanan, Thornton, and Michels, andplease get it to them ASAP.

228 02 51 40 SPT End of message from the SPT.

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228 12 36 58 CDR This is the CDR debriefing the ATM run which isnot quite over yet. Everything went nominally.We made one error. I thought we were omitting54 on this particular JOP, and much later in theJOP as I was computing, I noticed we were not; soI started it late, and I'll have to truncate itat - so they'll only get three passes of theirinformat ion.

228 12 38 38 CDR CDR once again with some information for the back-room. 56-1 shopping list item - so while we'reat the same point, as it were, for J0P 15C, I'vegiven them a PATROL SHORT.

228 12 41 55 CDR This is the CDR again with - as we begin. We didthe procedures for the 400-kilometer level, so Itrust these X-ray/54 ... completed it; F30 [?] on56. Everything else is nominal. I'm ... 55 run,o.

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228 13 18 05 CDR This is the CDR with information for Lou Ramonand others interested in T013. I've begun theT01 3 checkout.

228 13 19 06 CDR Okay, I'm going to cal now FMU-1. Following that,I'll cal FMU-2, so the data should be on the tape,starting about 30 seconds from now.

228 13 20 56 CDR CDR again on T013. I cal'd FMU plate 1 fourtimes because the little wire that runs from thepin happens to interfere with the calibrate rod.So I moved it out of the way and did it again.I'm going - going over to FMU-2 now.

228 iB 22 46 CDR Okay, this is the CDR on TIB [sic] again. I -have cal'd both plates, and it's interesting thatthey drilled those holes and put those bolts inJust at the right place - of all the places theygot on there, just at the right place so thatwhen you move the strut back and forth, it strikesit. So I think you've probably found it out inground testing, but nevertheless that is what _probably gives a little spike as it goes home.


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228 13 23 12 CDR As it rests there for the 5 seconds, it - it doesn'tlook like it interferes particularly.

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228 14 17 51 PLT Howdy, space fans. This is Jack on channel A.This is for the ATMworld. And this is the debriefon day 228, second run of the day starting at13:19. I completed all of that as advertised.Everything came off without a hitch except for - Idid not do the four-limb coali_ment at the bot-tom of the rev, opting instead to permit Owen todo that since he did the first one. And I don'tknow anybody who could do it better than him. Andso what we decided to do was to have 0wen do thata couple of revs later, and instead I picked upone of his little segments there and did it.

228 14 18 40 PLT I did the building block 1 Echo, step 1 from the -two revs down;that is, the 16:36rev. And I didthere a building block l0 although the snmmarysheet calls for a building block ll, but you askedfor a building block 10. I assume that's no mis-print because something like that occurred to methe other day, too, and that is, in fact, whatyou meant. So you got a building block l0 therethat is complete.

228 14 19 16 PLT I've noticed in the 13:19 rev, that pass, thatyou - on S055 never wanted to turn on DETECTOR 5.Now I don't mind turning DETECTOR 5 on when itdrifts off at all, so if you'd like to specifyDETECTOR 5, I'll be very happy to turn it back onany time it cuts off. And, if necessary, let herrest for a while and then turn her back on. Sodon't leave DETECTOR 5 off of your schedule on myaccount. I'd be very happy to work it for you.

228 14 19 51 PLT I gave you one extra GRATING SCAN on the step 1 -correction - step l, building block 1 Bravo, gaveyou one extra GRATING SCAN on that. And thatpretty much wraps up the debrief for this rev. Iused the persistent image scope on the XUV MONITORand it seems to work quite well. Very pleasedwith the way it does work and it works better than


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I had anticipated that it might, considerablybetter than it does on the simulators.

228 14 20 34 PLT I also took the photograph "of the XUV MONITOR usingthe Polaroid and we've got one of those sittinghere for use today. And as I mentioned earlier, itlooks like we got a couple of nice bright spots at270 coming around the east limb. And it lookslike we got a - a lesser bright area. I shouldn'thave said bright spot. I meant a bright area onthe east limb. Also, a bright area, as you know,going around the west llmb. And then Just abovecen- right at Sun center there appears to be a -a very black spot, which is quite small. And thenright above it is the - a - another very brightspot, which must be our little active region there.So Owen's going to come on now. We'll have thisphotograph for him and he'll pick you up on thenext rev.

228 14 21 37 PLT Thank you.228 lh 25 19 SPT Here comes some PRD meter readings: 066 for the

SFT, 066.

228 lh" 25 35 SPT Okay, mske that 068; 068 for the SPT.228 14 27 18 SPT 156 for the PLT; 156 for the PLT's PRD.

228 lh 27 58 SPT 165 for the CDR; 165 for the CDR's PRD.228 14 28 22 SPT End of the PRD message.

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228 15 17 31 PLT Help me.CDR I'll be back ... make it and let's get it done.

PLT Yes, okay.(Clattering noises)

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Ramon. We have Just got things set up. TheEDS POWER is ON, and we - while I want to voicerecard - voice record the start of the T013calibration check. Did you calibrate number 2here ?

CDR ... calibrate, ... get everything ...

228 15 18 53 PLT And we're going to go right into the soaring thing,huh? Okay. Since we're running behind in gettingall the TV and cameras and stuff set up, we'regoing to - and we have to make a deadline withHouston. We're going to perform the soaringfirst, task number -

CDR ... cal ...

228 15 19 22 PLT Okay. And we're doing the cal on FMU-1 at thistime.

228 15 19 47 PLT Okay. We're doing the cal on FMU number 2 at this___ time.

PLT And I take it this is - okay, we're doing it threetimes. This is task number 3 we're going to do,right, Al? Okay, we did it four times on FMUnumber 2.

CDR ... be the same, Just like you said before ....

228 15 20 40 PLT Okay. Now I got to reset the TV because we gotit in a different position.

228 15 21 44 CDR Okay, this is the CDR, and I'm on the FMU-1. I'vebeen moving around a little bit to make sure thatI know how to move between FMUs. So you're prob-ably reading the data there. Now during the cal,we ran into the little bar that comes up, thatgives the cal number, continues to run into the -the -we'll - we'll Just have to live with that.I assume it's satisfactory since -we'll have tolook at it - indicates it's far enough. We'reready to go on sequence 3 Just as soon as we'recalled, which will be about-2 minutes from now.

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228 15 24 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for lO minutes,and I'll let you know when our data is locked upsolid.

CDR Roger. And we're recording on the VTR right now.CC Understand. Owen, we would like you to let us

have the DAS for a few seconds. We're going tocommand a dump enable and also turn some heaters ...

SPY I'ii try to get them right now.CC And you got ... to go.SPT Yes....

228 15 25 08 CC And for the guys doing the T013, we've got gooddata locked up solid now. So you can proceedthrough T03 - T013, task number 3.

CDR ...

228 15 25 35 CC Roger. Channel A record is fine, A1. And beforeyou go over there, one small request. Before youturn the camera off after doing task number 3, we'dlike you to repeat step number 4 on page 30-1,which is the time correlation sequence. Well,actually, we only want ... cameras have beenturned on since that time. But since you werea little ahead we thought you may have gottenahead of that. But before we do that we've gota time correlation on that film for this task,num1_ er 3.

CDR Will do.

228 15 26 08 PLT Okay, I'm going to tell you what to do. Okay,we're voice recording task number 3. Worst caseinput Just starting. The subject is Alan Bean.His position is feet in the FMU-1 restraints;and Houston is locked up. These are your fixed-position tasks. Rapidly move both arms up anddown, out from the side through an angle of 90degrees like a bird flapping his wings for lO to20 seconds.

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PLT Okay, stand by for my mark.228 15 26 50 PLT MARK. Okay, he'_ flapping his arms 90 degreesout and back down to his sides. Stabilize and

repeat arm movement.CC Skylab, Houston. We've finished our commanding

enable here.

PLT Twenty seconds. Stabilize and repeat arm marks -arm movements - on my mark.

228 15 27 20 PLT MARK. Okay, he's repeating his arm movements nowfor another 20 seconds.

CDR ... recording of the ... position minus 9 arc seconds... And Just want you to ...

228 15 27 40 PLT MARK. That's 20 seconds. Now, A1, what I wantyou to do is crouch and quickly straighten yourbody as in a pushoff and stabilize. Perform thisfive or six times for 30 to 40 seconds total.Okay, I'm going to give him a mark for the - thepushoff. Stand by.

228 15 28 01 PLT MARK. Five or six times in the 30 or 40 secondperiod, so you don't have to do it too rapidly.That 's about right. Okay, he 's pushing off fromFMU-1. That's three; 20 seconds. Okay, we'd liketo make the co-,_ent that the pushoffs that he'smaking are harder than any pushoff that you wouldbe likely to make in a zero-g situation. Okay,now he's going to give some like you would make ina zero-g situation. A typical pushoff for zero g.Very - very much less force in this kind of apushoff than in the original one. Okay, that 'sfour of them. Okay, there's five zero-g pushoffs.Okay, disengage your seat from the restraints, A1.Don't get snagged up in that cable. Okay, we'regoing to soar between FMUs. I guess we need Owendown here for this, don't we - or you going to dothis by yourself? Okay, ready to soar. Forcefullypush off with the feet from FMU-I and soar to 2,and then reverse the process, soaring four times -do four laps, as rapidly as practical for 30 to 40seconds. Okay, on my mark he's going to soar fromFMU-1 over to FMU-2. Stand by.


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228 15 30 07 PLT MARK. Soar from FMU-2 to 1. Say again. Okay.Now he's going to soar again to FMU-2.

228 15 30 18 PLT MARK. Soaring from 2 - or correction, from 1 to2. Now he's on FMU-2 and he's getting ready tosoar back to 1.

228 15 30 28 PLT MARK. And he hits FMU-1. 0ks_y,now those arepretty fast move maneuvering. He's doing some morenormally - normal speed now. He's at FMU-1 andnow he's going back to FMU - correction, he wason FMU-2, now he's back at FMU-1. Okay, now,these are normal zero-g pushoffs as opposed tothe earlier ones which were more forceful thanyou would normally use. And he's - Okay, nowhe's back at FMU-1. Now he's going to gofoot-to-foot. Those are all foot-to-hand. He _makes a 18 0-degree rotation and lands feet upon FMU-2. Going to do that again - going backto FMU-1. There he goes, he had his feet onFMU-1 Just like a cat, landing feet first.Going to do more - off -

228 15 31 31 PLT MARK; FMU-2. Reverses his position, soars -

228 15 31 38 PLT MARK. Back to U - FMU-1 and lands feet first.CDR ...

PLT Now another hard one - he's going to give you acouple nominal zero-g pushoffs foot-to-foot.There, he Just made one to FMU number 2. Pushingoff at 2 now.

228 15 31 56 PLT MARK. MARK to i. Landing on his feet. Pushingoff as you would normally do in zero g, veryeasily and very gently.

228 15 32 ll PLT MARK; FMU-2. Now going back to FMU-1.

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PLT Okay, 0wen, we're ready for you to come down andperform.

228 15 32 30 CC Skylab, Houston, we dropped out on comm there fora second. We still have about 2 minutes lefthere at Vanguard. And Owen, we did lose the ...indication of limb offset when you go to limb scan.

PLT The correct way ...CDR ... which one....

CDR Now get the ...

PLT Now Owen's going to describe this?

CDR Yes....PLT Okay....SPT Okay.

228 15 33 46 SPT MARK. Start soaring, both of you.

228 15 33 54 SPT MARK. They Just then came back. There goes -there they go again, stand by -

228 15 33 59 SPT MARK. They Just soared now, they Just landednow. Turn around, come back, there they go,soaring -

228 15 34 08 SPT MARK. They Just got back.

228 15 34 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'llsee you at Hawaii at 16:34.

SPT 0kay, stand by. Soar, both of you.228 15 34 30 SPT MARK.

CDR 0kay, ... SI.

228 15 34 40 CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, we areseeing clearly ... motions of the spacecraft butwe are seeing the data ...

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PLT (Whistling)PLT Whooee!

228 15 35 59 SPT Okay, you guys, let's cool it down there. We'retrying to get this thing stable so I can get you,11 started. Got the DOORS OPENED, got theH-alpha 1 on film. So you stable down there?

PLT (Whistling)

SPT Hey. Would you guys get stable so we can start,please.

228 15 36 21 CDR Okay, this is - this is the CDR. We finisheddoing step 3, we're going to go back and dostep 1. Do FMU-1 again.

SPT Can you read me, Al?PLT ...

SPT ... Can you hear me down there, Al?CDR ...SPT 0kay, we're ...PLT ...

SPT Okay. Can you read me good?

228 15 37 09 CDR We're on A, but we don't hear you.SPT Okay. I'm - I'm on A right now.SPT Okay. Jump.

CDR Just a minute, we're disconnected. We'll do itin Just a second.

228 15 37 24 SPT Okay, that was a false alarm apparently. They'renot ready yet.PLT Ready.

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PLT ... don't you?SPT Yes. He's - -

PLT Super ...CDR Just wait ... put the ATM monitor on there, O?SPT Yes.

CDR You're going to put the ATM monitor on now, huh?

SPT It's already on.CDR Okay.

SPT Let 's go.CDR Here we go.

228 15 38 05 CDR MARK.

SPT Okay. They Just Jumped off the wall and youcan see the excursion rather clearly on theATM monitor. It was probably an arc minute orso. They're coming back and you can see theexcursion up and down on the monitor quiteclearly.

228 15 38 41 SPT Okay, they're stopping now. And we'll see if thistransient damps out. It looks like it is dampingpretty well on the H-alpha scope right now and -still drifting around a little, presumably underCMG control, but it does not have the large oscil-lations that it had while we were Jumping backand forth. Okay, this is the end of the test.Out. And SPT is going to go back to his EXPERIMENTPOINTING MODE. And turn the VTR OFF.

228 15 39 22 PLT Okay .... OFF .... ?CDR Yes .... both - both of them.PLT I had it in ... inertial ... EXPERIMENT POINTING.

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PLT I can tell, ... a request for ... plate.CDR Holler when you're ready.PLT Anytime.SIT Yes....

228 15 40 52 SPT Okay, we are now stable in the EXPERIMENT POINTINGMODE. You have, again, a look at the H-alpha limband we're ready for the Jump.

CREW Let's go.

228 15 41 00 SPT Okay. We're Just giving them a mark to Jumpright now. They're soaring across the room andI can see no disturbance at all on the H-alphadisplay and SOLAR INERTIAL - EXPERIMENT POINTINGand you should be recording that on the videoright now. No disturbances visible and as far asI can see from the display in EXPERIMENT POINTING.

PLT Okay. Turn off the VTR, 0.SPT ...PLT Okay, you got the VTR, OFF.

CDR You got the VTR, OFF, right.

SPT That 's right.

CDR Got to get a time ...

228 15 42 12 CDR This is the CDR on channel A. We finished doingthe TV sequence 3, on T13. What we're getting readyto do now, is go back to l, put on the camera, andgo through the sequence precisely like the book,l, 2, 3, 1. We'll get a time correlation for youand everything else. So Just stand by and listen.

228 15 43 08 CDR MARK. That was time 15:43:05, 15:43:05. Thatought to time correlate pretty well with what we'vebeen doing. And we're going to give you anotherone when we start - turn the recorder off for awhile.


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228 1544 50 CDR Okay, this is for TOI3 again, CDR. I'm going togive you some new cals on the FMU. First it willbe i and then 2. CDR, out.

228 15 45 42 CDR That was FMU-I, now going to 2.

228 15 48 32 CDR The thing that you're picking up on FMU-I now,as far as forces, is sort of the way that you dowhen you got your triangle shoes on the floorand you're just resting. Usually kind of moveyour body back and forth - and you probably seethat on film, just - exercising. It's much morecomfortable than Just floating and you feel likeyou're making some headway keeping your physicalfitness.

228 15 50 07 PLT Okay, here we are again, space fans, on channel A.We're going to start with task number i on TOI3.These are gross body motions. The cameras arerunning; the TV is on. This is task number l,gross body motion. The subject is A1 Bean. He's

/--_ got his feet positioned in the FMU-I restraints.Now, AI, what I want you to do is to knock onFMU-2 at the approximate center of the sense platebelow the handhold with the side of the first asfollows: Four times at 1-second intervals.

PLT Oh, I need the VTR, OFF now, please.228 15 51 ii SPT It's OFF.

PLT Thank you. Okay. You're supposed to come overhere and knock on this one right here.

CDR ...?

PLT Yes, just get off of there for a minute.CDR ...

228 15 51 29 PLT Knock on FMU-2 at the approximate center of thesense plate below the handhold over with the sideof the fist as follows: Four times at 1-secondintervals with a 9-inch hand travel. Nine-inchhand travel, 1-second interval, four times.

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PLT Okay, he's doing the first one with his feetrestrained, 2, 3, 4. Now he's going to do itwith his feet unrestrained, l, 2, 3, 4. Okay,now I want you to do it three times at half-secondintervals with a 5-inch hand travel. Okay,he's going to restrain his feet first and knockon FMU-2, l, 2, 3, 4, 5. Now feet unrestrained,l, 2, 3, 4, 5. Okay, now four times at 2-secondintervals with 14-inch hand travel. He's goingto do it feet restrained first, 14-inch, 1,2,3,4,5. That 's enough. Okay, he 's going to unres-train his feet now. Do it again, l, 2, 3, 4, 5.Okay. Now what we're going to do - it says re-main stationary at FMU-2. I guess I do that whilethe subject performs the experiment exercises.Read the checklist, demonstrate maneuvers tothe subject. After each of the following exerclses,the subject will stabilize for about 5 seconds.Okay, the respiration exercises. Now it doesn'tsay what one you get in. It's the only one youcan do, I guess because - get in FMU-1.

CDR ...

228 15 53 32 PLT Okay, that was the guy who was supposed to knockon the plate over there. So you did it ; that'saS1 right, I got the picture now. Okay, respira-tion exercises. A1, breathe deeply approximatelysix times. Okay, he's breathing deeply, standingon the FMU-1 foot restraint.

228 15 53 58 PLT DACs are both on ana running. Okay, after thisI'd like you to cough five times.

CDR (Cough)PLT One.

CDR (Cough)PLT Two.

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CDR (Cough)PLT Five. Okay. I'd like you to simulate sneezingfive to six times.

CDR (Sneeze)PLT One.

CDR (Sneeze)PLT Two.

CDR (Sneeze)PLT Three.

CDR (Sneeze)PLT Four.CDR (Sneeze )PLT Five. Okay now we're going to do some arm

exercises. I got to get the VTR ON. Owen, m_friend, I wonder if you could put the VTR onagain for me, please. Thank you. Now the VTRis running and A1 is going to do his arm exercisesnow. If I can get unlocked from the floor, I'mgoing to get over here so I can demonstrate them.AI, what I want you to do is - with your rightarm straight and rigid at the side, raise it out90 degrees from the side and return. Like this.Stand by.

CDR Okay.228 15 55 25 PLT MARK. l, 2, 3. Okay, A1, that's enough. Next

exercise is B. Right arm straight and rigid atthe side, raise it in front of the body like so -90 degrees and return.

CDR Three times?

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228 15 56 09 PLT I'll get this. Okay. Now do your - how about -your left arm is correct; l, 2, l, 1. Okay,that's three of them. With the right arm straightand rigid at the side, raise the arm 90 degreesin front of the body, move it though 90 degreesto the side, right side, and return. Okay, rightarm, straight out, 90 degrees to the side, andreturn, like that, l, 2, B. Okay, now with botharms straight and rigid to the side, raise themsimultaneous straight out 90 degrees from eachside. Move them through 90 degrees in front ofthe bo_v then lower both arms to the side simulta-neously, like so, three times. Let me get yourcable out of the way, l, 2, B.

228 15 57 12 PLT Okay, there's one more arm exercise,A1. Inone continuous movement, raise the left arm infront of the body 90 degrees and move the handtowards the shoulder to an angle of 150. Returnthe arm to the side while straightening, inthis manner. Stand by. Left arm, l, 2, 3; verywell done. These are bodY exercises. Okay, I'dlike you to bend the upper body forward, bow,zero to 180 degrees at the waist, three times, inthis manner. Okay, he's going to bow - bow downnow, l, 2, 3. Raise the right foot from therestraints and stabilize. Okay, he's detachinghis right foot from EMU number 1 at this time.

228 15 58 15 PLT Perform each of the following, three times asshown. With the right leg straight and rigid,raise it out to the side to an angle of 35 to_0 degrees and return, in this manner. Threetimes. Ready, l, 2, B. Okay, with the rightleg straight and rigid, raise it out in frontof the body through an angle of B5 to 40 degrees,in this manner, and return. Three times; l, 2, B.Okay, in one continuous movement, raise theright knee upward in front of the body throughangle of 45 de_rees while kee_in_ the lower legvertical and return it gently in this m=_ner.Ready, l, 2, B. Okay, we're going to get theVTR, OFF. Okay, O., I wonder if you could turnthe VTR OFF for me now, please.


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228 15 59 35 SPT It's done.

228 15 59 36 PLT Thank you. Okay, now we're to set up the TV forsoaring. We've already done enough of that.

CDR ... exercise.

PLT No, that was task n11mber - number 2. No, thatwas task number l, excuse me, we're - yes, thatwas a simulated console operation so we had tofinish off n11mber - nl_mher 2 - number 1. Turnoff the DAC for a minute, so we can do a TV.

PLT ...

CDR Well, we don't have to ...

PLT ...CDR Yes, yes.PLT ... _ hotel.

228 16 02 26 PLT Okay. Here's the ... exercise ... Are you ready?

PLT Okay. Give me the ..., turn camera on.CDR ...PLT ...

228 16 04 37 CDR This is the CDR, I'm on F_J-1. Just a few minutespreviously I removed the screws from the pip pinon FMU-1 and 2. So if you saw some Jiggling around,that's what was going on, I was removing the screws.

PLT (Whistling)CDR Starting to ...PLT No ...CDR ... how about ... back. Turn aroumd ...

228 16 05 49 PLT Push off from i with your feet, stabilize withhands. Okay.

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PLT Okay. Stand by to ... stabilize with hand.

CDR All right, I'm ready.

PLT And after you push off l, you're going to haveto ...

228 16 06 17 PLT Okay, here's what I want you to do, is crouch foryour - We're beginning the soaring exercises.Yes, the recorder's on. Beginning the soaringexercises, release your left foot from the restraintsand crouch for free soaring. Use a handhold tokeep your feet on FMU-1. Now, when you push off,you go to FMU-2, stabilize your hands only. Attaboy.Now position your feet on FMU-2 and push off toFMU-1, stabilizing with the hands only. Okay,now pushing off there with your hands, turn andstabilize at FMU-2 with hands only. So, it'shands to hands, 180 degrees. Okay, there he is -

228 16 07 04 PLT MARK. His hand's on FMU-2. Okay, you did it Justright, you went back hand to hand on FMU-1. Okay,and that's all that's requested. Okay, voicerecord the task number 1 gross body motions arecompleted. And do you have any pertinent comments,Al? Okay, I'm going to have to, before we go totask 2, turn off the VTR. And let's see, you andI'd like to do some more soaring back and forthbetween lockers just to kill it off.

CDR ...

228 15 07 45 PLT Okay? Okay, this is the end of 2 - correction,end of l, I'm going to turn off the VTR.

CDR ... we're running out of time ....

228 16 08 40 PLT Okay, T013 fans, we're beginning to start tocommence on task number 2. The PLT is stabilizinghimself over here in restraints. The cameras arerunning. Task number 2, simu - simulated consoleoperation. The subject is A1 Bean. Attach your-self to FMU-1. Okay, the SPT is not going to doany gross motions because he's quietly doing hisjob in another area. Read the following simulatedactions to the subject for him to perform. Allow


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3 to 5 seconds pause between each item, A1. Okay,the first item I'd like you to perform is withyour right hand, flipping switches, 3 to 5 seconds.

CDR A]S right, I'm flipping.

228 16 09 39 PLT Okay, he's flipping the switch on the 542 taperecorder box, on and then off on the experiment 2recorders, which we're not using. Don't do thatone. Okay, lamp test switch. Okay, now withyou right hand I'd like you to do a rotatingselector switch at chest height. Okay, he's goingdown to the - don't do that one, do this one.He's doing - do this one right here, would youplease. That's the one, you got it right to beginwith. He's doing rotary switch on SIA number 540.Now, he's doing a fake one up above his - up above542. Okay, A1, now with your right hand, doflipping switches again. He's faking it thistime. And then with your lefthand do someof thetranslational hand controller operations. Pluson minus-X, left-hand THC. Okay, he's doin_left/right, forward and aft, up and down motions

f-_ withhislefthand.

228 16 i0 46 PLT Okay, the next one is Echo with your right handnow, flipping switches. Okay, he's flipping realones at 542. Now ... number 540. Okay, withyour left hand, make a keyboard entry. Okay, he'ssimulating punching keyboard. Now, punching 542his left index finger. Okay, now with your righthand do a rotational hand controller attitudenulling sequence. Okay, he's nulling his rateswith right hand simulated attitude controllingwith the ROT controller. Okay, now with your righthand do some yaw inputs on the ROT controller.Okay, he's doing all the yaw input, simulated now,with the right hand. Okay, now with your lefthand do a keyboard entry. Keyboard entry, he's -he's touching the 542. Now, with you right hand,do some more ROT controller yaw input. Doingyaw input.

228 16 ll 51 PLT Left-hand keyboard entry. Okay, he's punching542. Now a keyboard entry, his left index finger.Okay, now there's scae ROT controller pitch inputwith your right hand. Okay, right hand, he'sdoing pitch down, pitch up, simulated. Left


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hand, do a keyboard entry. Okay, he's punching542 with his left hand. Okay, now right handflipping switches, reach up and do it. There'ssome - there's some switches above your head.

228 16 12 23 PLT Okay, he's rotating rotary switches and flippingtoggle switches. Okay, this is task number 2,simulated console ops are completed. Do you haveany pertinent comments, Al? Okay, we're goingto press on to task 3, which is worst case inputs.We've already done that for Houston contact. We'resupposed to have Houston acquisition for this so -we don't have at this time. We've already doneit. So it looks like to me that we won't have todo that again.

228 16 12 58 CDR Let's do this again on film.

PLT Okay, we're doing this for - -CDR ...

PLT - - we're going to do this for film only thistime. He's positioning his feet in the sat -FMU restraints. This is task number 3, worstcase inputs. The subject is A1 Bean. Now,we're not going to have Houston acquisition onthis, we've already done that, but we're goingto repeat the movements for the DAC. Rapidlymove both arms up and down, out from the side,I'll get your wire here, to an angle of 90 degreeslike a bird flapping his wings for lO to 20 seconds.

228 16 13 34 PLT MARK. Started already. Okay, A1, that's20 seconds. Stabilize and do it again.

228 16 13 48 PLT MARK. Started again.

228 16 14 O0 PLT MARK. That's complete. Crouch and quicklystraighten the body as in a pushoff, stabilize,five or six times in a 30 - 40 second period.Okay, he's done two of them now.

CDR ...PLT Now he's pushing off with a force, which is

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PLT Now, he's going to do some normal pushoffs.That's two of them. Okay, and that's complete.Disengage your feet from the restraints. I'llwatch your cable for snagging. And now what I'dlike you to do is to soar between the FMUs.

CDR ...

228 16 lh 52 PLT Okay, he's going to push off forcefully, veryhard, landing on his hands on FMU-1, correction,on 2. Now, he's going back to 1. Doing thisvery forcef_llly this time. Okay, he's back to1 again at - Okay, now, he's going to do somenormal pushoffs like he'd really do in zero g.Much easier, much slower, much more smoothly.Okay, there's one lap, pushing off on 1 goingback to 2 again. Okay, that's 2. And now theseare worst case tasks coming up. I don't thinkwe'll need the - well, we're supposed to havea mark from the SPT when simultaneously soar.You ready to give us some marks, 0wen? Going tohave to do withoutthe marksbecauseOwen's inthe head.

CDR ... call them out?

PLT Okay .... three times.

PLT 0.? Could you give a couple of marks onchannel A when we push off ...

CDR Yes, Just ... channel A and holler mark, and soforth.

SPT Okay, I'm on channel A, stand by for pushoff -

228 16 17 lh SPT MARK. There they go. Okay, stand by for thenext pushoff -

228 16 17 21 SPT MARK. Okay, here comes the next pushoff -228 16 17 28 SPT MARK.

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228 16 17 35 SPT MARK. Stand by for a pushoff.PLT ...

SPT Stand by -228 16 17 50 SPT MARK.

SPT Stand by for a pushoff -228 16 17 59 SPT MARK.

PLT Okay, folks, that takes care of soaring. Andnow the next thing to do, after putting thingsback we knocked all over, is to record thattask number 3, worst case inputs, are completedand - TV is required. Well, we've done all that.And you want to go back to do i, did you say?Oh, I didn't know that.

CDR ...3. Doesn'tsaythathere.CDR ...

228 16 19 05 PLT Okay, now we're going back and do task number iagain, gross body motions. Subject once - -

CDR ...

228 16 19 23 PLT - - subject once again is Alan Bean, and we'reready to proceed again with task number i, grossbody motions. Don't move around too much, O.And we must inform the SPT to take it easy. Andthe time on my mark is going to be 16:20, day 228.

228 16 20 00 PLT MARK it. Okay, AI, I go over here and knock onFMU-2. Now, since you did it first, would youlike to do it again?

CDR You do it.

228 16 20 i0 PLT Okay, this time the observer is going to poundon the FMU-2 number - number 2. And l'm doingit with my right foot restrained first in thegrid with triangle shoes. Okay, l'm going to -at 1-second intervals, with a 9-inch hand travel.A 1001, a 1002, a 1003, a 1004. Okay, I'm goingto do it three set times at half-second intervals,with a 5-inch hand travel, l, 2, 3. Okay, I'mgoing to do it four times at 2-second intervals


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with lh-inch hand travel. A i001, a 1002, a 1003,1004, a 1005, a 1006, a 1007, a 1008, a 1009,a 1010. Okay, that's four of them - at leastfour, maybe five. Okay, remRin stationary atFMU-2 while subject performs the experimentexercises, read the checklist, and demonstrate tothe subject. I'm going to get over here where hecan see me demonstrate. Can't see very well upthere. I didn't do that unrestrained, let me doit unrestrained.

228 16 21 29 PLT Okay, I'm going to Just hand - hang on to thehandle on FMU-2 and do the same set of knockingexercises on the FMU-2 plate. Okay, four timesat 1-second intervals. Here we go; 9-inch handtravel. A 1001, a 1002, a 1003, a 100h. Okay,three times at half-second intervals with 5-inchhand travel, 1,22, 3. Okay, four times at a2-second interval with lh-inch. A i001, a 1002,a 1003,a 1004,a 1005,a 1006,a 1007,a 1008,a 100_, a 1G10. Okay, that was about five ofthem. Okay, that was without being restrained byfeet,holdingby the hand. Okay, now going todo respiration exercises first, A1, and breathedeeply about six times.

CDR Okay.228 16 22 33 PLT l, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Okay, cough five times,

pleas e.CDR (Cough )PLT One.

CDR (Cough)PLT Two.

CDR (CoughPLT Three.

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CDR ...

228 16 23 07 PLT Every other one he put his hand to his mouth.Simulate sneezing five to six times.

CDR (Sneeze)PLT One.

CDR (Sneeze)PLT Two. Hand to mouth.

CDR (Sneeze)

PLT Three.

CDR (Sneeze)

PLT Four.Handtomouth.

CDR (Sneeze)PLT Five.CDR (Sneeze)

228 16 23 24 PLT Six. Hand to mouth. Okay, arm exercises. Rightarm up side 90 degrees and back, 1 - -

CDR Three times?228 16 23 35 PLT - - 2, 3, and that's it. Okay, right arm up

front and back 90 degrees, i, 2, 3. Okay, rightarm - left arm up 90 degrees from side, and thenmove hand to shoulder, arm back to side, i, 2, 3.Moves his arm up there fairly rapidly. More sothan he probably knew. Okay, right arm straightand rigid at the side, raise your arm 90 degreesin the front, then around to the side, back down,i, 2 - Just like demonstrated, that's it, 3, verygood. Both arms straight and rigid at the side.Raise them simultaneously out 90 degrees fromeach side. And then through to the front90 degrees and then to the side again, i, 2, 3,very good. Okay, in one continuous movement,


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228 16 2h 53 PLT Okay, body exercises. Okay, bow, zero to80 degrees at the waist, three times, don't bendknees, l, 2, 3. Remove right foot from restraintsand stabilize; Perform each of the following threetimes as shown. Raise - with the right legstraight and rigid, raise it out to the side.Angle 35 - 40 and return, l, 2, 3. Okay, do it tothe front now, A1, 2, 3. Okay, in one continuousmovement, raise the right knee upward in front ofthe body to angle 45, while keeping the lower legvertical, and return gently. One, 2, kind of likepedaling a bike, 3, okay.

228 16 25 49 PLT Soaring exercises; this is - picture - this isgoing to be A1 flying between FMU-1 and 2. Ithinkwe've alreadygotthis on filmbut we cando it again. Perhaps we do not. Okay, releaseleft foot from restraint, push off and stabilizewith hands only. Okay, and turn around, put your

_ feet on there, and stabilizewith hands only.Okay, now turn around, put your feet on there andstabilize with hands, turn and stabilize on FMU-2with the hands only. Okay, he's turned, he'slanded on FMU-2, and now he's going to do thesame thing.

228 16 26 38 PLT Okay, now these are being done about the normalspeed used to move around in zero g. Okay, you'vecompleted that, A1. He's soaring one more time,however, back to FMU-2, and then back to 1 witha double somersault. Okay, that's about it, A1.That is - the end of task number l, gross bodymotions. And do you have any pertinent commentyou'd like to record at this time?

CDR ...

228 16 27 15 PLT Okay, he'll have - record his pertinent commentslater and says we've got to go back and do stepnumber 30. Say again what that is, A1.

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PLT I don't even see a step 30. Well, maybe it's30-1, the whole thing.

CDR Could be.

228 16 28 00 PLT Gross body motions is task l, which we Justrepeated. Maybe that was it. Task number l,page 30-1. There's a checklist somewhere I'llgo take a look at it.

CDR ...

228 16 28 19 PLT Let's turn the cameras off, and I'll let you look.

PLT I don't think there's any checklist that goes upto 30 steps.

CDR Okay. If you want to turn that off and do thosegross body motion things - I mean -

PLT You mean - we - use up the TV. Well we can useup the film, also, if you want. Why don't we dothat? P

CDR Don't have ...

PLT We can always do it - I think they'd like to dumpthis whole thing.

CDR ... Some other kind of soaring ... I justthink ...

PLT ...CDR Why don't I Just ...PLT ..

228 16 30 21 CDR This is the CDR debriefing TI3. I think theonly problem you are going to have, Lou, is -the experimenter is going to have is - decidingwhich maneuvers are - or not which, I think youcan tell the difference between soaring and theother. I think the important thing is to separateout the soaring that we did, worst case, andthe soaring that we did that was normal. Samething with all the other things we did. We didsort of normal things on s_ne, and then we didsome per the ... If anything and all that - we


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Just did the best we could. The pushoff, wepushed off hard to get data for you, but at thesame time we realized that probably pushoffsaren't that way up here, and they are not thatway at all. You'd bang your head real hard, andso, we did some nominal pushoffs. Right now I'mgoing to cal FMU-1 and 2 again for you.

228 16 31 53 CDR Four cals on FMU-1, now I'll give four on FMU-2.

228 16 32 4_ CDR I gave you six on FMU-2. Now l'm going to stowthem.

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228 16 58 15 SPT Okay, for the ATM science room, here is the infor-mation on the last four-limb coalignment done atabout 16:30 on day 228. That's the upper limb.I'llread Just now the nonstippledblocks in ourATM log. The upper limb is plus 1GO7, plus 1005,plus 1005. And the lower limb: minus 892,minus 895. The left limb: minus 915, minus 915,minus 917. And the right limb, plus 975. The55 MIRROR position is still 0932, line 9, col-umn 32. For information for the stippled area,the FINE SUN SENSOR readings: IN are plus 298,plus 806: OUT, they are plus 355, plus 835. ThatJust happens to be the location I was at when Itook them. Now I'll again comment on the factthat the white light Sun on the XUV SLIT is about1 arc second larger in radius than in the H-alphaSun inner limb. And so I've therefore set thealignment to the inside edge of the white lightslit. That way they are presllm_bly in alignment,sensor aligned with the center of the slit allover the whole Sun. I presume that is because ofthe very bright white light image. White m_gnifiesthe image seen on the vidicon by Just about 1 arcsecond, it appears.

228 17 O0 06 SPT End of message to the ATM PIs.

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blood analysis people, biomed area, and Dr. PaulBuchanan. On mission day 20 after the Mll0 run,I first of all - Stand by.

228 17 03 08 SPT Okay, back on channel A with the information tothe Mll0 group, and those interested in bloodanalyses, Dr. Paul Buchanan. I first took samplesfrom the three syringes used from the Mll0 experi-ment. I have all those hemoglobin numbers. AndI then pricked my left small finger, took anotherset of samples from the blood in my left finger.Those numbers follow. First of my syringes wasCDR using my right eye: 15.h, 15.2, 15.4, 15.2.Average is about 15.3. With my left eye: 15.6,15.5, 15.6, 15.4. Average about 15.5. Left eyea little bit higher as it usually has been. Thepilot's blood from the syringe and, incidentally,these samples were taken as soon as the blood wastransferred from the syringe to the ASP, thecentrifuge started, then I came back and ran thehemoglobins _mmediately, so it's probably been inthe syringe no longer than, oh, 15 to 30 minutes.

228 17 04 21 SPT The pilot's numbers measured with my right eye:16.4, 16.9, 16.2, 16.7, 16.9, 16.4; averagingabout 16.6. With my left eye: 16.8, 16.7, 16.9,16.5, 16.4, 16.4. Average is 16.6. The SPT's bloodanalyzed with my right eye: 14.7, 14.0, 14.0,14.0, 13.8, 14.0. Average is 14.1. With my lefteye: 14.8 , 14.4, 14.6, 14.5, 14.7, 14.6; averaging14.6 on that run. Over all probably 14.3 or 4.So these are remarkably different than those takenjust a week ago for the CDR and especially the SPT.I then pricked my little finger, took some bloodin one of the capillary tubes, went through thesame analysis from the blood from my little fingerand here are these numbers. For the SPT, righteye: 15.8 , 15.6, 15.6, 15.8 , 15.8 , 15.4; averaging15.7. With my left eye: 16.1, 15.6, 16.0, 15.5,15.6, 15.9; averaging 15.6. Overall average, sayof 15.6 or 7. So there's a very significant dif-ference then between the blood drawn from my littlefinger and in that taken from the syringe. Standby.


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228 17 08 01 SPT Okay, looking at m_ finger average today, I got15.6 or 7 and stand by.

228 17 i0 31 SPT Okay, continuing on where I was, looking back atmy finger check on day 225. About 3 days ago Iwas getting 15.5 or 6 compared with 15.6 or 7today; remarkably close. I therefore conclude, Ipresume you would agree, that the hemoglobin mea-surements with blood from a syringe are unreliableand that's apparently conclusive with the resultthat Bill Thornton got down there with the testson the ground and l'd appreciate any further com-ments you might have about it.

228 17 ii 01 SPT End of message for the MII0 Pls.228 17 22 05 PLT Okay, space fans. This is Jack on channel A. The

subject is M509. Battery charge was terminated onBAT 7 at 17:20 and at the same time was initiatedon BAT 6.

228 17 22 22 PLT That's for Lou Ramon and 509_ out.

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228 18 52 40 CDR This is the CDR debrief - This is the informationfor the ATM science room. I'm debriefing therun I Just completed. The time now is 18:52. It'snot completed yet for another 5 minutes. I didthe remaining 4 - JOP 4A chips 1 and 3, and step 3,and step i came off without a hitch, as far as Iknow. For the time remaining, I'm doing shoppinglist item number 16, and what I'm doing is takinga long exposure. I'm not selecting LIMB SCAN orLIMB POINTING; I'm Just putting it out there andletting it sit. And I think that ought to giveus the information we want.

228 18 52 50 CDR That information was ... CDR out.

228 18 57 40 PLT Okay, space fans. This is Jack on channel A.Here we are with S019 for - for my friend andassociate, Karl Henize. We've got the mirrorextended. We've got the ROTATION and TILT set.We're standing by for some clarification on the


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Nu z and the time now is 18:58. The Nu z on padis minus 6.4. The Nu Z on the spacecraft isminus 2.7.

SPT ... We got you the ...228 18 58 17 PLT Stand by.

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