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219 00 20 03 CC Skylab Houston through Va_uard. We've got youfor l0 minutes and you - we show you are repressedand inside the workshop.

SPT You're right there, Story.CC And if you could spare a moment, could you tell us

what you got done.SPT Yes, that's all it's going to take is a moment.

We got it all done.CC Okay.CC Understand the ramp came off all right.SPT Yes.

CC And you got the - -SPT S149 went out okay and so did 230.CC Okay and you got the reefing lines attached all

right.SPT Yes.

CC Thank you.CC Skylab is everybody reading me?CDR I think we are.SPT Yes, Story, go ahead.

CC Okay, I've got a message for you from Vice PresidentAgnew. Your fellow Americans and people of alInations applaude your courage and ingenuity. Everygeneration has it's heroes, but not since the ageof the great terrestrial explorers has any onegroup captured sow ell as the astronauts theimagination of mankind. Just as all generationsnow honor the memory of those early pioneers, future

/-_ generations will honor the accomplishments of theexplorers of space. My very best wishes on your


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219 oo 29 48 cc Okay.CC We're 30 seconds to LOS and we'll see you overAscension at 2 minutes.CDR Okay, that's disconnected and if you want me to

Just go down there and connect the 393 to thecondensate tank, I can do it.

CC Stand by 1.CDR Okay.

CC Why don't you Just follow the checklist on that,A1. Let the PLT get it.

219 O0 30 35 CDR You bet.219 O0 33 O0 CC Skylab, we're AOS, Ascension for lO minutes.

PLT Story, you got anything time critical on thatpost-EVA or can we go ahead and get the some chowfirst?

CC We're working that. Just a second.CC PLT, Houston.PLT Go ahead, Story.CC Okay. We need to get the recorders off and we'd

like to get you down to page 3.1-5 up to the LSUdisconnect, prior to eating.

PLT Okay. Thank you.CC And we're also working on a plan to transfer about

an hour to an hour and a half of your post-EVAwork to tomorrow morning.

PLT Okay. We like that too. Thank you.

CC And one other thing, on the private comm, we 'reworking out a scheme to get you better comm on theprivate comm which will involve us talking on VHFand you on S-bands, but we need a little more timeto work that out and we could do it better tomorrownight than tonight, but what's your feeling?


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BKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

219 Ol 17 _O CC Skylab, Hou.ston. AOS, Guam, 9 minutes.PLT Okay. Hello there, Crip. Just for the reoord,

we used PCU number 15 - 015 on the MDA, this time.CC Okay, very good , Jack. You guys pIAt in a hard day's

work today.PLT Oh, it went by pretty fast.

219 01 18 15 CC Well, good to hear that.CC I'd like to talk for a few minutes about our sched-

ule passes for this evening. We've got your phonecalls currently set up and we delayed them a littlebit from what our original setup was. Currentlygot yours, Jack, set up for about 02:17, overCanary, if that's satisfactory. And Owen's setup at 02:55, at Guam.

PLT Sounds good to me.PLT Sounds good for O. too.CC Okay, very fine. I'm sure the gals are looking

forward to hearing from you. This pass was setup to be the evening status report, if you've gotit we can take it, if not, we'll get it later.

219 01 19 05 PLT Okay, we don't have it ready, Bob.CC Okay. What I would recommend then is that that

Canary pass at 02:17 would be a good time, if AIcould give it to me then. That's plenty of time,I believe, such that maybe you can get it set up.The next pass coming up at Vanguard at 01:57 isstill scheduled to be a reed pass, if that's satis-factory.

PLT Yes, those are both fine.CC Okay; very good. We're still puzzled a little bit

about what went on with the EVA lights out there.And I was wondering if the Big 0 could tell us,when your Sun end lights were out, were - couldhe see whether the center work station lights wereon or not?


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219 01 24 ii CC Owen, the correct place to store S230, you're abso-lutely correct, they do want to keep that cold, isin W-756, one of the freezers in the wardroom.

SPT Okay, fine. W-756. Thank you.CC Roger. It was suppose to have been a pen-and-ink

in to pick that up, but apparently it's not in yourbook or something.

SPT I thought I -SPT I thought I put all the pen-and-inks in there. I

do now see a pen-and-ink at the bottom that saysW-756 - that must be it right there. So it hasbeen pen-and-inked correctly. Thank you.

CC 0keydoke.219 01 26 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from going

LOS. Next pass is at Vanguard at 01:57, and thatwill be your medical conference. And I'll have you

_-_ again at Ascension at 02:14. 01:56, med conference;02:14, Ascension. See you later. And I got someprocedures that allow you not to have to do allof your EVA stuff tonight and I'll get those toyou as soon as I get you again.

SPT Okay, Bob. And thanks to everybody down there forall their long, hard work today, too. Over.

219 01 27 08 CC Okeydoke. You guys did quite a bit up thereyourselves.

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219 02 04 26 CC Skylab, Houston. I've got you for about 3 minutes.PLT Okay, Crip.CC Hey, Jack, can you give us an idea when you think

you're going to get in that EVA Checklist tonight.We can shorten it up and leave you some items todo tomorrow. If you guys think you can get allthe way through it, fine and dandy.

PLT AI says we're going to get it finished.CC Okay, when the boss speaks, troops obey. l'd

like to pass on to CDR that the condensate dumpon the holding tank is not required tonight, surehe'll be happy to hear that.

PLT The S055 guys might be interested to know that, -that on the ramp that I took off - l'm Just lookingat it now - the top part of that ramp didn't showany marks on it at all, so - after getting itoff and inside I looked at the underside of it.The ramp really works on both sides and underneaththere's a scar about - or a gouge about three-quarters of an inch long by a little over aneighth of an inch wide. It runs from the ramp,three-quarters of an inch back and it's allshiny silver; so apparently it was wearing inthere fairly good and could possibly have causedthe problem.

CC Okay, l'm sure they'll be pleased to hear that.Did you copy my comment about the condensateholding tank not being required to dump it tonight.

PLT No, I didn't hear that.CC Okay, if you'd pass that on to AI, l'd appreciateit.CC And, - is the CDR available? Or is he busy?PLT AI is listening, and for the record SOP 016 has

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219 02 06 40 CC Roger, on 6000.. Okay. what I want to tell A1was that tonight when he goes up to purge the fuelcells, we've reached - =mend the QDM and we wantto switch over our cryo tanks. And can you copydown those positions or I can get you a littlebit later.

CDR Give me about i0 seconds to get out a pencil.CC We've got about 30 seconds until we're going LOS

and I'm - I'll - we'll get you at the next pass.It's at Ascension at 02:14. That's also whenwe'll be standing by for the evening status report.

CDR Okay, I've got that in hand; I'll be ready tocopy the message.

219 02 07 27 CC Okay, thank you sir. And if you're copy, weneed RIGHT on the VHF antenna.219 02 15 19 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for about a

minute and a half.CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for about another

minute and a half.CDR Is this where you want that night report? (Music).CC Yes, I tell you what A1, we're going to drop out

for about 30 seconds here in about a minute sowhy don't we hold up on that and let me go aheadand give you the switch positions for changingover the cryo tanks.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, on panel 2, 02 HEATERS 1, AUTO; 02 HEATERS 2,OFF; HYDROGEN HEATERS l, OFF; HYDROGEN HEATERS 2,AUTO, HYDROGEN FANS 1, OFF ; HYDROGEN FANS 2, AUTO ;and that's all of it. This switches from - overfrom OX tank 2 to l, and hydrogen 1 to 2.

CDR Okay, I'll do this _-,,ediately after the fuelcell purge, okay? (Music).


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CC Okay, we're going to drop out here for about30 seconds to a minute and I'ii give you a call.And for Jack, we'll be set up for his home callon this pass over Canary on VHF using rightantenna.

CDR He' s on the way.219 02 17 01 CC In about a minute.219 02 18 48 CC Skylab, Houston, through Canary for 12 minutes,

and we're standing by for the evening statusreport.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're standing by for theevening status report, when you get it.

CDR Just getting it here, Crip.CC 0keydoke.CDR Okay, here she comes. Urine volume: 117, 140,

165. Drinking water gun readings: 4736, 7823,5661. BMMD: 6.248, 6.248, 6.245; SPT, 5.985,5.983, 5.986; 6.959, 6.958, 6.964. No exercise,no medication. Sleep: 6-1/2/G; 6/F to G; 7/g.Okay, food log: we don't - aren't able to giveyou that at the moment. We're - haven't eatenanything yet and we'll try to give you that thelast pass of the night or if not, early tomorrowmorning. We'll give it last pass tonight ifyou'll stay up that late.

CC We'll stay up a long time for you.CDR Okay, next comes the photo log. 16 millimeter:

M151/EVA prep, post CI18. Just a second; we didn'tput that down. Just get that in a minute. Let'sgo to 35 millimeter: CX28; frame count 2_.ERE? same as yesterday. This - CI18 has 13 per-cent remaining, 13. So now let me give youDrawer A configuration: A-1 same as yesterday.A-2, 03, CI18, 13, CI17. A-3 and A-4 are the sameas yesterday. And the rest of the business isnot applicable.


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219 02 22 02 CC Okay, great we copied all of that.

CDR And we'll give you the rest of the informationlater tonig ht.

CC Roger. Is Dr. Okay, happen to be availiable?

CDR He's listening. He's taking a picture of hisspider's web.

CC Oh, great. I've heard that - that we finally gotone spun last night. We had a couple of itemshere. I was wondering - Have you closed out theATM C&D yet, or is Jack going to do that later?

SPT Bob, I believe that's on the PLT's checklist,isn't it, for the post-EVA?

CC Roger, it is. I was wondering if mRybe I couldtell you about a couple of itmes that we'd liketo get because he's up there on a phone call.We don't have to get them now but I Just want tomA_e sure that they get done later.

SPT If you could wait until the next pass, I'dappreciate it.

CC Okay, we'll do that.

SPT A1 says he'll copy it, if you wait a minute.CC Okay, tell you what, I've got one I could give

to - give to A1 and maybe he could accomplish itfor me. We do need a - to get a reg adjust in andif you're standing by I'll go ahead and read it.

SPT That doesn't sounds like the ATMpanel.

CC No, No, I'm going to hold up on that ATM panel.

SPT He's on his way to the MDA, so he'll talk to youfrom up there.

CC Okay, fine.

SPT He's got the spider - he's got the spider cageopen right now with one eye up in that directionto make sure we don't have spiders _mning aroundthe ... spacecraft ...


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CC Better watch out if they get out.219 02 24 58 @DR Okay, Crip. I'm up here ready to do what you hadin mind.

CC Okay, well, since I've got you there, I.'ve acouple of things we can - we can do. The - we'rea little bit concerned about that - the fact thatyou didn't get an 82A and B light out there andwe would like you to, on the ATM panel, to putyour ALERT/STATUS to VARIABLE on the lighting.We' re ass_1_ug it 's - was in FIX.

CDR Actually, unless somebody changed it, they'reOFF right now.

SPT We assumed that was the only problem, Bob. Wehad all those lighting switches off.

CC Oh, okay, we were trying to figure out what theproblem was. Well, had - had - Did you check it

_ after you turned them back on?CDR No, we haven't done it. We've - You know, you

said don't bother the panel unless we give you aprocedure. I'ii turn th_n on right now - if youwant me to.

CC Why don't you. If you'd go to VARIABLE and giveus a LAMP TEST, we would appreciate it.

CDR Well, I went to VARIABLE and got no lights at allon any of them for STATUS.

CC Okay. Roger, but did you take the LAMP TESTselect below that and switch to STATUS?CDR Yes, now we've got everything. I hadn't turned

the variable up enough. It was full down. Answeris: they all work.

CC C_ay, we're going to - we're going to assume, Iguess, that that was the problem. Then, could youconfirm for us, down on your console powerdistribution, that you've got both circuit breakerson STATUS LIGHTING backup pulled?


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219 02 25 49 CDR That's affirmative. Both pulled.CC Okay, appreciate that. Could we get you to go to

panel 206 and do a REG ADJUST for us?CDR I'm right there, ready to do it.CC C_ay, if you've got samething handy, we'd kind of

like to mark the current position of those REGADJUST pots.

CDR Give me Just a second.CDR They are marked.CC Okay. Very good. What we wanted to do is to

turn them both down simultaneously and, lookingon PCG, TOTAL, if you would, decrease ADJUST 1 -or correction -PCG, TOTAL 1 by 3 amps and PCG,TOTAL 2 by 9 amps and do that simultaneously forus please. Just about 20 degrees counterclockwiseshould do it.

CDR How does that look to you? It's hard to read3 and 9 up here but that was kind of a guess atit.

CC Okay that's - we'll take a look at it and couldyou give us your readings of - for PCG, TOTALnow on -mps?

CDR Left, 40. Right, 37.CC Roger, copy. 40 and 37. And now on the - We

need to get, under ATM, the amps reading.BUS AMPS.219 02 28 03 CDR TO the transfer bus, we're getting about 15 from

the ATM on l, and l0 on 2.

CC Okay, I understand a minus 15 and a minus lO?CDR That's right. It's headed towards the transferbus, in other words, coming from the ATM.


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CC Roger. Very good. Okay. Appreciate that. Wehad some other items on the ATM C_D closeout butI'ii get those to Jack later after the phone call.

CDR Okay, no trouble if you want them done now. I'mJust standing here.CC Okay, well, one thing we need to do is to check

the M0L SIEVE A HEAT EXCHANGER in and outreadings. Jack was having a problem with that onhis checklist a while ago.

CDR In and out on A is 65 and 36.CC Roger, copy. 65 and 36.CDR 64 end 25 on B.CC Okay. You can tell Jack, when he's ready, that

he can press on in that checklist, that thosereadings look good to us. He was hung up thereawhile ago.

CDR Okay, I guess they're still out of limits as faras the checklist is concerned, but you're satisfiedIs that correct?

CC That 's affirmative.

CDR I 'Ii sure tell him.CC Okay, we're reading above 48 on that out temp.And 46 was - 46 was cutoff.

219 02 29 50 CC Okay, we're about i minute from LOS currently,and we'll have - have you again at Guam at 02:55and that'll be set up for Owen's phone conversation.

219 02 56 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Guam for about6-1/2 minutes.

CDR We been kind of chatting down here, - Crip, becauseit seems a lot warmer down here than it did whenwe left this morning. What did it do, heat up,and now it's cooling off again, or what?

CC Well, I'll see if I can get a reading for you onthat now.


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CDR What islands are we over? Are we over Guam rightat this minute?

CC That 's affirmative.CDR I didn't know, it was so big. It's a big one.CC You got - probably looking at the Philippines outthere also.CDR Could be, yes. It's quite a number of big islands.CC AI, we're speculating that you should start cooling

down now that you got the heat exchanger fans backon. They were off for a good period of time there.

CDR Maybe that's it. You're speculating too that we'regoing to start being cooler down here now withthis configuration, than we were Just previouslywith Just a parasol, huh?

CC That's what we speculate, yes. AI, while l'vegot you here on the loop, can you tell us what timeyou'd like to wake up tomorrow?

CDR Yes, I think we're going to get to bed about -let me - let me go look at the Flight Plan andI'll tell you at the next station, okay?

CC Okay, that'll he fine. Normally, this would heabout your going-to-bed time. I ima6ine you'regoing to be up a little bit late. You can dothat, well uh, we got you over Honeysuckle shortlyafter this and you can tell me there, at about03:07.

CDR Okay, we - we're probably going to be up another2 hours - be my guess.

CC Okay.219 02 58 44 CC And do we have Jack up at the ATM panel, Al?

CDR No, Jack's down here putting up some EVA equipment,but maybe Owen's up there. No, Owen's on thephone, Jack's down here and he's listening.


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CC Okay, I wonder if I could have him -_e some notesfor us. We've noticed that he has been doing somestuff with - up the ATM panel. And on closeouttonight, we'd like to get the EXPERIMENT ROLL atminus 5400. And we also want to make in sure thatMPC is INHIBITED. And we also want to verify thatthe EVA AUTO DOORS are in STORAGE.

CDR He 's got them.CC Okey doke, very good.

219 03 02 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.We'll see you again at Honeysuckle at 03:08. Andwe will be giving you a call at Honeysuckle.

CDR You might keep calling us for the next hour or so,Crip.

219 03 02 25 CC Okay, I'll call until we decide not to - till youdec - until you tell me not to. And Skylab, we'renot really sure where you stand on that ATM C&Dpanel reconfig. For your information, on thestar tracker, we do have - computer controlinhibited on the star tracker. So it wouldn'tbe working properly and we want to leave it securetonight.

219 03 07 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Honeysuckle for about4 minutes.

SPT Okay, Crip, I didn't get the message on the finesun sensor.CC Okay, it was - it was on the star tracker I was

talking about. We've become a little bit con-cerned about the thing getting unlocked at night -and a couple of times the shutter hasn't closedfor us properly, so we're going to set a standardprocedure where we have you manually close theshutter - and we want you to do that tonight totake the STAR TRACKER SHUTTER to CLOSE - and we'llgo ahead and reenable computer control - and thisis going to be a nightly occurrence Just to maWesure that we maintain a good star tracker forEREP ops and so forth.

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CC Roger, we'll be sending you a checklist change tomA_e sure this gets done in the future. And yougot the other changes on the ATM C&D for thecloseout didn't you?

SPT Yes, we got that and I guess that was experimentingroll you wanted at minus 5200, that right?

CC That 's affirmative.

PLT Okay, that's all done.CDR Okay, it looks to me like the best bet is Just to

get up an hour later, Crip.CC Copied. One hour later?

CDR Roger. That'll Just flip everything that can -we can take that out and still not - we don't wantto miss the ATM, and we don't want to miss theM092 - and so maybe we could Just pull it out ofthere sc_aewhere else, and we'll work on that otherstuff. And if we don't make it, you can so an ...two days from now. We'll try to get that taperecorder change, but we don't know if we can ornot.

CC Okay, we - we concur with that. If you'd like, wecan make a rec_endation on how you arrange aroundor we could leave it to you.

CDR Make a rec - make a recommendation on what? Howto move it around?

CC Roger. We've kind of t-lked about it previouslymaybe Just lopping some stuff off the front there.

CDR Okay, y'all make your recommendations and we'llsure follow them.

219 03 i0 59 CC Roger.CDR Well, we Just whistled by the continent of Australia

pretty doggone fast. You can see it in one fellswoop here.

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CDR Yes, I was kind of looking out for it. Didn'tsee it. That Great Barrier Reef is samething.It's easily vivible from up here - Multiplemultiple shallow-water reef that you can see fromup here.

CC Roger, I believe that's great diving country outthere off the Great Barrier Reef. Like to try itsometime. The - we're getting ready to go -start into unattended ops, and if you guys wouldstay off the DASS for us, we'd appreciate it. Wegot about I minute left until LOS. Our next passis going to be at Canary at 03:55 and would youlike a call from there?

CDR Right. We'll probably Just be getting finishedand getting ready to hit the pad.

CC Okay, I will give you a call at Canary at 0B:55.219 0B ii OB CDR Thanks, Crip.

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SPT I think we ought to have one for the ATM becauseI didn't _now when our day off is coming and sincewe're starting sort of full-scale ops tomorrow,I'd like to- at least to know, shortly thereafter,is it possible, what things we could use and whatwe c_nnot. Now, I do have tape over those twoitems you Just mentioned and I do understand thatyou do select the appropriate sync generator fromthe ground and perhaps Just leave it on. Is thatcorrect? And then we won't have any use for theswitch. But I think we had ought to have thatlist there so it doesn't rely on Just one man'smemory and all three of us will know about it.

219 04 04 00 CC Roger.

CC Owen, we understand your request and we'll try toput something together that satisfies your request.SPT Okay. Thank you a lot, Bob.

CC Roger. And in answer to Al's earlier question onthe LCGs, we would like them stowed in Dog h2h, upin the dome 424, and they are planned to be reused.

CDR Didn't know that. Now let me get something straightabout this, if I can - the command module config-uration. The only two switches I've really changedwere the 02 heaters. I reversed them. That is,I put HEATER 1 to AUTO and _TER 2 to OFF. Theother four were already in that position. By thatposition, I mean the position you gave me.

219 Oh 05 l0 CC Okay, I guess - we're a little bit confused hereright now on - on the - We did not expect themto be in that position.

CDR Let me tell you the position they're in at themoment. 02 HEATER l, AUTO; 0 2 HEATER 2, OFF. NowI changed those so that that's how they are atthe moment, right Just like it ... Now the onesthat were always like this and still are like thisare: H2 HEATER l, OFF; H2 HEATER 2, AUTO; H-1FAN, OFF ; H-2 FAN AUTO.


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CC Okay, that's what we read up to you and that'swhat we wanted. We'll try to look into the problemof why they were different than we - we thought -we - thought they were.

CDR I think you should look into it because we certainlydon't go around changing those heaters and fansbecause - you know, you're controlling the wholething. All I can imagine is they've been that waysince day 1. We Just never changed them and perhapssomebody sent a message or thought they did tellingus to change them and it never occurred.

CC Okay. We'll - we'll look into that, A1.

219 04 06 17 CDR Okay. I don't have _ Systems Book - it would beinteresting to know what the quiescent configurationthat the Systems Checklist calls for. I bet itcalls for Just those four that - as they are now,so they been that way.

CC Roger, AI. Why don't you Just don't sweat thatand we'll - we'll look into it and see if - seeif we can explain it. We don't see any big problemwith it. And I could tsIk a little bit about theFlight Plan for tomorrow and our recommendationsfor modifications.

CDR Let - let me get it in my hand.CDR Go ahead.

219 04 07 07 CC Roger. On - What we're recon_aending is deletingthe overage food transfers that we have scheduledfor you and Jack at 14:00.

CDR Good suggestions.

CC Okay. And we - we know that Owen really wants toget into that ATM, so what we're recommending thereis deleting out that housekeeping period he's gotscheduled at around - oh, I guess it's about 14:15.And that won't give him a - the full hour catch-upbut it doesn't look like his postsleep activitiesare going to be too crowded and he can just go aheadand get on that ATM activation at the - the time wegot scheduled. And then if he's got any catchingup on his postsleep he can take it out of thathousekeeping time at 14:15.


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CDR That didn't _-ke sense. You cut the housekeepingtime and then said, "If he has any m-_ing up to do,he can do it in the housekeeping time." But itdoesn't make any difference, you're right. We'llget up - Wake us up like we said and we'll get upand do these - per what you Just said.

219 04 08 17 CC Roger, A1. What I was Just saying was that we haveno housekeeping scheduled in that period and sincethe ATM activation and checkout has got to be tiedto sunrise, it's - it's required to be done at thattime or - it's either that or losing an ATM passand it - that's really your choice.

CDR Well, that means he has to make the pass at 13:15or whatever it says on his pad.

CC Yes, sir. That's correct.CDR He'll be there.

CC 0keydokey and we're about, going LOS here. CRO isgoing to be 04:35 and do you want a call?

CDR Yes, that' ll be the last one. We'll tell you aboutour food there, too. And then we'll hit the pads.

219 04 08 55 CC 0keydoke. That'll be fine.

219 04 35 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Carnarvon for14 minutes.

PLT And it ain't going to be long and I'm going to beA - LOS for about 6 hours, my friend.

CC Getting a little tuckered, huh?

PLT Got to get ready for tomorrow.

CC Right, that's a good idea. I know you guys havebeen going at it long and hard and wouldn't besurprised if you're already in the rack. We didhave one question, if somebody's available, wewere - are interested in determining what theMOL SIEVE A HEAT EXCHANGER, OUT temperature isbecause there was quite a disparity between yourreading and the ground. Is there anybody could

"_ give us one more reading on that or are you alltucked in?


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PLT No, I'm on mMwa_ up there now.CO Thank you very much.

CDR Okay, here's the evening food report.CC Go ahead.

CDR CDR: one salt pack; deviation, add cherry drink,add peaches, subtract strawberries, chicken andrice, and a biscuit. Okay, SPT: nine ri - ninesalt, add an apple drink, subtract a pork andpotato, a biscuit, a strawberry, and a lemonpudding (music). PLT: four salt packs, omitall noon meals plus mashed potatoes, add threeapple Juice.

CC Roger; when you said plus mashed potatoes meanshe did not get it, right?

CDR That's right.

219 04 37 27 CC Okay; copy that. And did you gentlemen have achance to get any exercise other than your EVA?

CDR Not a single bit. We Just got finished puttingall the gear away.

CC Sorry about that.

PLT Hey, Crip, that's reading 25 degrees.CC Understand; 25 degrees.

PLT Yes. What are you reading?

CC Jack, you're cutting out there. I understand 25.Is that correct?

PLT That's affirmative, Crip.

CC Okay, that's - that's about half of what we'regetting. We don't understand that at all.

219 04 38 47 CC CDR, Houston. Last night, and I think maybe coupletimes previously, you've expressed some concernover the - your midcourse 2 being 8-1/2 feet persecond and, well, they got some dance for you on


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that is - we're still looking into it. We're notsure of the complete story ourself [sic]. Wewould like to know if you - what your chart solu-tion was ?

CDR I don't have it here. I can look it up tomorrow,but it was something llke 3 feet per second for-ward compared to 8 and I don't remember the upand downs.

CC Okay. But there was a considerable disparitybetween the two, is what you're telling me.0kay, it - -

219 04 39 26 CDR Well not only that, but the fact that all of asudden, after a good TPI and a good midcourse l,it pops up with 8 when I really expects somethinglike eight-tenths or something.

CC Roger.CDR I'm not sure that I didn't put in 8 forward and

then immediately turn around and have to break itout. That - And some - something is f_mny there,but I don't know what it is.

CC Okay. Copy that and if Jack hasn't departed theSTS area, could he give us mol sieve B?

CC If he's -PLT Now what do you want me to do, Crip?

CC Jack, if you're still in the STS area, we wouldlike to get M0L SIEVE B HEAT EXCHANGER, OUT temp.If ygu've already departed the area, forget it.

PLT I'll get it.

219 04 40 21 PLT Reading 25 degrees also.

CC Roger. Understand 25, also.

CC Try tapping on your meter or anything?CDR We hit the meter, but it's still 35, [sic] A_ 25, B.CC Okay _,we copy.


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219 04 41 ii CC And we are reading 50, five zero, on both of them.CDR Well, there's something strange.

219 04 49 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.Our last call for tonight. Wish you good night.If you need to talk to us, we'll be over Bermudaat about 05:24. The Crimson Team won't be aroundtomorrow, but we'll see you on execute, day aftertomorrow.

SPT Okay, Crip. Thank you for all of your good work.Have a good day off.

CC Hope - hope you guys get a good night's sleepafter all that hard work.

PLT Ah, we enjoyed it. It's Just like I was tellingthe guys, riding a white horse on the top of theworld.

SPT Kind of - kind of like Peter Pan. It remindedme of.

CC Sounded like a tour guide there, going over theAndes.

SPT Yes, we're really coming up on something spectac-ular now, too. Look on m_ map and see if I canfigure it out.

PLT That's New Zealand.

SPT Near the water ... coming in.219 04 50 26 CC Roger. You're over New Zealand.

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219 12 07 53 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for lh minutes at Canary.SPT Good morning, Bill.CC Good morning.CDR Say Bill, our teleprinter didn't work today. And

we went up there and looked at it and it looks likethe friction drive, the rubber - looks almost likeabout a 5-inch - no, no, no - 1-inch washer - itslipped off its little drive shaft. And we're upthere fixing it now. And so Just as soon as we getit fixed, you're going to have to send up most ofthe teleprinter messages that you sent up this morn-ing, because they kind of overlapped one another asthey printed - -

CC We copy that, AI.CDR - - tell you in a minute which one - which was the

last good one.CC Copy. And when you have a moment, we have a couple

of messages here for you.219 12 08 48 CDR Okay, go ahead. And then we'll work on the printer.

CC Okay. We understand that the cryo tank configurationis as follows: the H2 nnmber 1 HEATERS, OFF; H2n1_er 1 FANS, OFF; H 2 2 W_TERS, AUTO; H2 2 FANS,AUTO. And if this is the case, we want you toconfigure it as follows: H2 1 HEATERS, AUTO;H 2 1 FANS, AUTO; and H2 HEATERS and FANS, OFF.2

219 12 09 55 CDR Okay. I'll sure do that. In other words, you wantthe H2 1 HEATERS and FANS, AUTO, H2 2 HEATERS andFANS, OFF. Now there was this - a real funny lastnight because when y'all called up and asked me toconfigure them the way you said we were - should -that you just read first, that's the way they alreadywere. And we didn't, for sure - didn't go up there

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no, no - EECOM saying so. So somehow they must havetold us to do it and then - and then whoever did itdidn't log it or something - is all I can guess.

CC A1, the indication that we have is there may be awiring reversal and we're in the process of checkingit out.

219 12 i0 44 CDR That would be something wouldn't it. Okay, now I'mgoing to go up there and configure them right nowand then get back to work on the teleprinter, unlessyou have something else.

CC We need the DAS for a Y-2 gyro compensation.

CDR You've got the DA$, we hadn't bothered it.

219 12 ii i0 CC And A1, if you got any good teleprinter messages,we need to know the number of the last good one.

CDR Okay. Jack's got them and he'll probably say inJust a second. He's gone to the co_nand modulea minute.

CC Copy.219 12 12 00 CDR And as a result of this teleprinter problem you're

either - I suspicion you'll want to think about send-ing up another spare with Jer. Even though we'renot using their spare, I don't know how long thisone will last. Now one thing we need to know. Thelittle rubber grommet about - I'm going to revisethe distance of it. It's about three-quarters ofan inch long and about three-eighths of an inch indiameter. It drives the paper roller - slipped tothe left as you view the paper roller. Now whatwe plan to do is look at it and move it back intoposition, but it may be that you'll want us to takeit off again and reverse it and then put it back onso that it'll hold tighter; I don't know. We'llJust put it in a temporary position here so it willwork, and you can think it over and we'll do whatyou want.

CC We copy that, and we'll get you an answer on it.


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you can send the message. The rubber roller at thetop of it had slipped off and was binding againstthe case and tearing up the rubber - few rubber chipslaying around. But we squared it back in it again,and it looks like it's going to work all right.

CC Very good. We'll be sending a test message up.

219 12 19 18 CC And this test message is going to be an ATM schedule.However, discard this message. Do not use this ATMschedule that's coming up. It's simply for testpurpo ses.

PLT _ay.219 12 20 51 CDR You still there, Bill?

CC That's affirmative. Go ahead, Skylab.CDR I thought there was nothing new in the world, until

I floated by the head a little while ago, and Ilooked in there and Jack was in there using theurinal upside down. Seemed to work pretty good.

CC (Laughter) We copy.CDR (Laughter) That's a Marine. It takes a lot of guts

to do it that way, but it seemed to work.

CC (Laughter) Copy.219 12 21 18 CDH He claims it's the most natural attitude now that

he's looked at it. Anatomically speaking, it seemsto work a little better.

CC We'll run an anthropometric study on that one.

CDR Ask his backup pilot to check it out on the ground.We don't want to keep doing it in space Im]ess theycan do it down there.

CC (Laughter) Okay. We'll have to find another Marine,I g uess.

219 12 22 33 CC Skylab, could you check the teleprinter up-links,and see that they're coming through all right at/ this time?


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219 12 13 00 CDR Okay, the last good pad that csme up was sheet i,I guess you'd call it, or sheet 2 - of the - no,sheet 1 of the ATM schedule. In other words it's -here's the Code: 1127-1, ll5 ATM schedule 11/219.Now when it got down to the next plate, where it said1127-2, ATM schedule 11/219, that's where it quitworking. They sort of overlap. Anything after that.

CC We copy .that,A1.

CDR The SWS cue cards, for example, overlapped - anddidn't work. And then there's probably some otherthings that Just didn't even print. We're goingto go back up there and work on it.

CC Copy.219 12 14 06 CC SPT, Houston.219 12 14 40 SPT SPT. Go ahead.

CC What time do you p18/_ to make your first ATM pass,Owen?

SPT Whatever time the schedule says. I thought it was13:00 - 13:15 or something like that. I haven'tlooked at it yet.

CC Okay. And are you free to copy solar activityup date at this time?

SPT Go ahead.

219 12 15 13 CC Active region 85 at 9/0.4 has produced a subfaintflare at 02:58 Zulu and a subnormal with C-1 X-raysat 07:30 Zulu. There's a slight decay in the lead-er [?] plage, active region 86 at 25/0.8, have anarch filament system present with occasional pointbrightenings. That' s all.

SPT Okay, I've got it Bill, thank you.

219 12 18 14 CDR You still there, Houston?

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CC And we're going to be LOS in approximately 1 minute.We'ii have you again at Carnarvon at 12:h8.

CDR Coming through real fine, Bill.219 12 23 16 CC We copy. Thank you.

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219 12 23 29 CDR Now this is the one, thought, that when we getit finished, which it looks like it's almostfinished, you want us to Just throw it away. Isthat correct?

CC That is affirmative. That ATM schedule we wantdiscarded. And we'll get the rest of them up asfast as we can.

CDR Okeydoke.

CDR Bad news. It J_med again. We'll take this headout and replace it with the other head, becauseit's the head drive. Then we'll take a look atthe little rubber grommet and see what we can doabout it.

CC Copy that, AI.CC That spare, AI, is located in M-202, in case you

don't have it.

CDR Thank you. M-202. We'll find it. Yes. Thelittle rubber is gone off again. What we're go-ing to have to do, I suspect, is take it down inthe workshop and take that rubber off and try tofind some sort of adhesive material and slide thelittle rubber grommet back on again. Otherwiseit Just isn't going to work ...

219 12 24 53 CC Copy.219 12 50 37 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for 9 minutes.CDR Morning.

CC Morning to you, sir.

CDR The teleprinter is ready to go on your command.And then we'll go up there and check the firstmessage and see how it came out. The littlerubber grommet slipped down again. And if you

._ could give that a high priority,we'd like to getsc_e sort of repair on it, because that was ouronly spare that's in there now.


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CC Okay. Thanks for getting that teleprinter rightup. We'll be sending stuff to you right now.

CDR Okay. And it seems to me that the fundamentalproblem is going to be keeping this little rubbergrommet on the metal shaft that it's on. It movesto your - to the the left, to the viewer's left,as it prints out. I mean, it spins around as itprints out normally, but in this case, it movedto the left and engaged the frame of the case.And it sort of distended the left end of thegrommet, so that the grommet no longer is a perfectcylinder but rather a sort of - a cylinder witha flare on the left end as you view it. Now itseems to me maybe, we've got some sort of glue orsomething we might be able to put up here on itand then slide it back on, but we won't do it.We'll wait until we hear from you.

219 12 51 58 CC Okay. That's a good description, A1, and I gotit.

CDR It looks like it's printing okay so far, Story.CC Thanks, A1.

CDR The print on the left-hand side of the page ismuch lighter than normal, but the right-hand sideis okay. We can still read both halves, andmaybe the left will improve, but essentially, theleft is printing a little bit lighter than theright.

CC Copy.CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over Hawaii in 14 minutes. And, Owen, during thenight, we selected primary motor only on theS055 door, and we're seeing normal operations onone motor.

219 13 00 31 CC And as we go over the hill here, Skylab, Y-2 mayfail the integral test, and no action required.219 13 13 21 CC Skylab, we've got you through Hawaii for 8 minutes.

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about 20 seconds. And we see you did get acaution and warning on Y-2 failed integral, andwe hope you got our call on that prior to leavingHoneysuckle_

PLT Yes, sir. We did, Story, thank you.

CC Okay.SPT It does show us running on single right now. And

CLUSTER CAUTION and WARNING, of course, is in ATMALERT. And, also, l'd like to know where the ATMfellows would like for me to pick up on the ATMcheckout. What page on the ATM Checklist in theirdata book would they like us to begin at? Over.

CC Be right with you.PLT l've got a couple of words for my friend and

colleague, Don Lind, on his experiment, if he'saround, or if you want to relay it to him.

CC He's in an altitude test at the Cape; I'ii giveit to him.

219 13 lh 2h PLT Okay. In placing his clip on his experiment, itall came off all right, but I thought he mightwant to know that the placement is as follows:When you're laying along the truss with your headtoward the command module, the one clip is aboutthree-eighths of an inch to the right of the testpattern. And the other clip is about three-fourthsto 1 inch to the left - to the left of the testpattern. I wasn't able to get that one right onthe edge of it, because of the little knot in thebracket that holds the barrel of the thing to-gether_ it wouldn't clip over that. So, I hadto move it right adjacent to it. And that putit three-eighths of an inch to the right.

CC Okay.

219 13 15 2B CC And, Owen, you should have an ATM schedule padthere that'll tell you where to pick up.

SPT Well, the latest ATM schedule pad that came up,r I'm Just lookingat it right now, is a ih:58,


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which starts the nominal experiment work. AndI was wondering about htis first rev coming upnext, for checkout, C & D, I think it's calledon my Flight Plan. And that one, I do not havean ATM schedule on, I don't believe. I show anactivation and checkout on my Flight Plan, andthat's not on the ATM schedule.

CC We thought you - we sent you up a checkout padprior to the teleprinter fail, Owen.

SPT Okay. I'll see if I've got one. I'm not surewhether - it's in my ledger or not.

219 13 17 00 CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead, Story.CC I've got that ATM pad here in front of me, Owen,

if you'd like for me to read parts of it to you,to get you started,SPT Ah, no, I think you're talking about 11:27, and

I do have the first half of that that looks okay,starting at 13:26, the TV down-link.CC Okay. That's what we need.SPT Okay. About the, oh, first 8 or l0 inches of that

looks okay. Maybe I can even read a little furtherthan that.

219 13 18 02 CC Okay. Have you got down through "At - at 9 minutesof day remaining, observation observing time,"down on through "Earth horizon light and fineSun sensor?"

SPT Yes, I've got that.

CC Okay. That's all there is. We sent the rest toyou.

SPT Okay. Fine. I see the other's a repeat. Yes,that's fine. Thank you.

CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see youover stateside in 4 minutes.


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SPT 0kay, Story. Are you ready for the EVA AUTODOOR to come to ENABLE, and for me to go ahead andopen up all the doors? That sort of stuff's noton this pad, but I assume you're ready for me togo ahead with all of the normal power operations.

219 13 22 00 CC That's affirmative, 0wen. You can press on asnormal.

219 13 25 36 CC Skylab, we're AOS Goldstone for 6 minutes.

SPT Roger, Story. And active region 85 really lookslike it's ready to produce a little activity.

CC Okay. And we'll be looking for some TV overGoldstone. And on your CBRM SELECT switches, weneed tape on both the rotary and toggle switch.

SPT Okay, I'll put it on the toggles as well.CC Thanks - -

SPT How many - how m_ny of the toggles?

CC Just the CBRM SELECT toggle.

SPT Story, I'm giving you down-link television of theATM display. Would you tell us when you can seeit from down there?

219 13 27 38 CC We're getting it now, Owen.

SPT Okay. That's H-alpha 2 you're looking at rightnow. I want to give you a white-light coronagraphand then discuss it for a minute.

CC Okay.219 13 28 01 SPT Okay, you can see the corona now, I assume.

CC Yes, sir.SPT Okay. Now when I powered it up maybe 30 seconds

ago Just as I was giving you that first call, therewas a very bright blob up at about, oh, 130 - about130. And I thought it was very likely some con-

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pressed portion of the telescope there. But Justas I started to give you a call, it's now slowlydrifted off the screen. So it could be that itwas something out there in front of the telescope.It looked like it was going to be a permanentfixture for a while. But at any rate it driftedon out of the field of view now.

CC Okay,CC Was it in-

219 13 29 40 SPT And now, Story, can you see the little Jitter onH-alpha 1 at this point?

CC Yes, we've got it, Owen. And Just as you're doing,we'd like you to cycle through all the things youcan send us on TV.

SPT Okay. I can probably give you a bit of XUV MONalso, although I've not powered it up yet. I'lldo it right now.

SPT Active region 85, which is down there about6 o'clock on your display right now, when you turnthe brightness way down, shows a - a series ofvery bright points. Four to five more or lessarranged vertically in the present view. Andthey - they're very small points right along theneutral line and - or even perhaps one's - it'seither side of the neutral line. And really lookmuch brighter than the surrounding plage.

CC Roger.CC And we're going LOS here, Owen. We'll see you

over MLA in 1 minute, And we'll be dumping thetape recorders over MLA.

219 13 31 21 SPT Okay, I'm going to give you a little XUV MON inthe last few seconds here.

219 13 33 54 CC Skylab, we're back with you over MLA and Bermudafor 12 minutes.

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CC It's about h by 5.

SPT Okay, fine. I gota headset rigged up here withthe TRANSMIT button taped down. Just wanted tomake sure _t was coming through all right.

CC And we got about three integrations on the XUVmonitor and that's where we went LOS, Owen.

SPT Okay, now areyou getting down-link at this point -TV?

CC Not yet.SPT Okay. Let me know and I'll give you some more

XUV MON.

219 13 35 ll SPT Okay, while we're waiting on that, I want to giveyou some panel configurations so you'll know exactlywhere I'm at. I got on my display panels, allfour switches to BUS 2. On my LIGHTING panel, I'mrunning INTEGRAL,FIXED; NUMERIC, FIXED; and ALERTSTATUS, I'm also going to put down in FIX.

CC Copy.SPT And I've put the EVA AUTO DOOR to ENABLE. And,

of course, leaving tape to sick . .. switch, thepower system CBRM Sk_LW.CTrotary and the toggleswitch, and everything else. Okay, on my consolepower distribution, all of my experiments areselected up to the EXPERIMENT BUS 1/NUMERIC LIGHT-ING BUS position. All the circuit breakers areCLOSED except STATUS LIGHTING BACKUP. Two circuitbreakers OPEN.

219 13 36 16 CC We copy that, Owen.SPT Okay. I'm standing by for more integration here,

when you got the TV.

219 13 36 37 CC And, Owen, we're GO for the TV now.

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SPT You might ask ATM if there's anything else thathe wants in particular on that TV at this point -more important than the others.

CC We' re working that, Owen.219 13 38 ll SPT Okay. I'm starting on the S056 powerup and check-

out on page 1-7 at this time if Millican and crewwould like to watch it from down there.

CC 0wen, if possible, we'd like some more TV on theXUV MONITOR. We only go three bl_ps.

SPT Oh, I gave you a lot of them.

CC I know, we're Just not getting them.

219 13 38 37 SPT Blip, blip, blip. There's a long one. We'll getthe corona out there.

SPT Blip. Now it's ready to go. I can see the corona.Blip. Blip. Blip. How about those?

219 13 39 05 CC I can't see it on the screen, Owen. We're pickingthat up in MLA, but we're not real time here inHouston.

SPT Okay, how about that H-alpha? That's a nice steadypicture. Do you see that one in Houston?

CC The TV's Just going to MLA, Owen. We'll - we'llget the playback later.

SPT Okay. Understand. I Just didn't quite understandwhat you were telling me before. Okay. It oughtto have plenty of XUV MON now on the tape downthere then.

CC Okay. Press on with the rest of your stuff.

SPT Incidentally, I didn't know - we may have alreadypassed in the other procedures. Would you liketo have the H-alpha camera power on now so wecan start taking H-alpha 1 pictures? I'll needto go H-alpha 1 CAMERA, ON, and H-alpha 1 to AUTO.

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SPT Okay.

CC And if you've got a pencil and paper, I've got anupdate to your mineral supplements today.

SPT Go ahead.

CC CDR, two phosphorus, one magnesium, two potassium;SPT, three calcium, one magnesium, two potassium_PLT, four calcium, two phosphorus. Disregard theother items on the current med status pad.

SPT Okay, we'll go Just by the one you sent up now.CC Thanks.

SPT Incidentally, when you call them up, I - if youcould give us the five-digit code, that way wewouldn't have to woi_i=yabout keeping track ofwhich element and stuff.

_ CC I should have done that. Thanks.CC Disregard all the other items, not Just the sup-

plement items, on that reed status pad.SPT In other words, disregard the whole pad?CC Yes.

SPT Okay.

219 13 h2 35 SPT Okay, Story. I've got S056 down through thatfirst set of procedures. I don't get my READYlight.

CC Copy.CC Did you get the lights on H-alpha, 0wen?SPT No, because - no, I did not.

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SPT Negative. Just a minute. Okay, now I've got it.I've got to go to ALERT STATUS, VARIABLE out ofFIX.

CC Roger.SPT And I have my S056 READY light, but not my H-alpha

READY light because I don't have my H-alpha LCAMERA POWER, ON.

CC Roger.SPT Frames remaining 5998 on S056.CC Got it.

219 13 h40l SPT And the Millican machine is running.

SPT The next note was something we had some discussionabout whether or not it was supposed to have beendeleted or not. And that is the "Do not power upberyllium or aluminum high voltage until 24 hoursafter EVA." We have complete at least approxi-mately that now, and I'm wondering if they'reready to have the BERYLLIUM ALUMINUM HIGH VOLTAGEPOWER turned ON?

219 13 44 36 CC We're ready, Owen. You've got a GO.SPT Thank you.CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS here, Skylab. See

you over Ascension in 7 minutes.SPT Okay. Do you want me to wait for Ascension before

turning the HIGH VOLTAGE, ON?CC Yes. We prefer you wait until Ascension, Owen.

219 13 45 46 SPT Thank you.

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219 13 52 16 CC Skylab, we've got you through Ascensionfor l0 minutes.

SPT Okay, Story.

CC And, Owen, we'd like a clarification onyour light status there, On the alertstatus light, was it going from VARIABLEyour light status there. On the _T._RTSTATUS light, was it going from VARIABLEto FI_ that got you the light?

SPT The READY lights came on when I went fromFIXED to variable.

CC Copy.219 13 53 03 SPT My S056 door is closed at this time.

And I'm going to put HIGH VOLTAGE ALUMINUMswitch ON, now.

SPT Okay. That count 's remaining appropriatelylow. I'm going to go ahead with theBERYLLIUM switch, now.

CC Owen, you going to need the DAB, now?SPT No. Go ahead.

CC Okay. We'd like to reconfigure the Ygyros.

SPT Good idea. We'd appreciate that.

219 13 54 21 SPT Okay. Here comes the door.

SPT Okay. Those counts look reasonable, andwe did step automatically to position 2on both the beryllium and the alnm_uum.And there are all sorts of transientsgoing across the white light coronagraphnow. Be nice for you to see those.They're mostly Just - They look likelittle out of focus balloons drifting


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across the field of view of the corona-graph. There are not too many of them,but I've seen a half a dozen since I'vebeen talking about them, here.

CC Okay, Owen.219 13 57 56 SPT Story, as I was rolling the canister to

minus 10,800, the white light coronagraphpicture, which I was looking at at the time,moved off the display to the ll o'clockposition, and Just disappeared, Now I'malso looking at H-alpha 2, and as well asthe crosspointer needles on S052. And thecanister was staying very close to Suncenter. And at this point, I do not havea white light coronagraph display. Littleconsiderably ... about that fact. Okay.Now it's back.

CC Okay, Owen.

SPT Now I've got it.CC CDR OR PLT, Houston.CDR Go ahead.

219 13 59 04 CC Okay, A1. On your VTR electronics change-out on page 4-10, disregard that note onreal time TV.CDR Okay. Understand. Got it in sight. I

was Just reading the book.CC And when you're done with your changeout

there, from the ground we'd like to do afast forward and rewind. And then we'llbe looking for some TV over Goldstone atabout 15:0_. And as a reminder in yourchecklist there, channel B has been flip-flopped for channel A, of course.

219 13 59 45 CDR Good point. And another thing, I'm notsure - we're going to get on it right now,but this procedure looks a little bit


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CC Okay.219 14 01 56 CC We're going LOS here in 15 seconds, Skylab.

We'll see you over Carnarvon in 24 minutes,at 14:24. And we're running on rate gyroY-l, with redundancy management enabled.

219 14 02 i0 CDR Roger.219 14 24 38 CC Skylab, we've got you loud and clear throughCarnarvon for i0 minutes.219 14 24 5_ 8PT Okay, Story. On that first rev I got only

chip A of building block i complete. Andlet me give you a little more informationabout it. On 82 Alfa I gave it both -both of the time exposures, and on 82Baker, the 1-minute exposure but not the 4-minute exposure. As far as your last com-ment about the time on H-alpha i begins todrift to the horizon light, I never did seeany drift on H-alpha i or 2 until the timeremaining counter had counted out and theH-alpha doors closed. So there was no ef-fect of any light into the fine Sun sensor.Looking at the white light coronagraph onseveral occasions, I did notice there is arather bright disk about one-half solarradius in diameter which drifts through thefield of view. It's not something ex-ternal, it is rather sharply in focus; it'slike a reflection from something. And itwill drift across, normally, around theperiphery of the white light coronagraphimage. And it's got me puzzled at thispoint. I don't know what sort of an arti-fact it is. But I'ii keep on the alert forit, and when it's possible, why maybe Ican give you a picture of it. Now I pro-pose you Just pick up at 14:58 with the padas scheduled. One other thing that was notcomplete, I guess, was the S054 powerup.I delayed doing the image dissector and soon until we were in AOS. And I'll - Do


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you want to wait until the Sun is up or canwe do s_e of what powering up here over -over Australia.

CC You can do it right here, Owen.SPT Okay.

219 I_ 27 i0 SPT My IMAGE DISSECTOR switch is going to ENABLE,X-RAY IMAGE switch to ENABLE, PHOTO MULTI-PLIER to ENABLE. IMAGE THRESHOLD is at 256.Photo MULTIPLIER is reading very erratic,of course, at this point, 100's, 200's,around in that range. IMAGE INTENSITY COUNTis around 10, l0 to 15 and somewhat oscil-lating. We still have no television scanon the X-ray _mage. BRIGHTNESS control isfUll clockwise, and I can see no TV sweep.I have not got the timer installed yet, butwe will get that timer installed so we willget that checked out as soon as we can.Okay, I'm going to go GRATING, IN again.And it is shown IN, back to OUT.

219 14 29 07 CC Owen, Houston.SPT Go ahead.

CC Now to get that X-ray image Owen, on -on the console power distribution, youneed the X-RAY SPECT switch to BUS 2.

219 lh 29 23 SPT Okay. Went to down.CDR Say, Story, are the ATM Folks putting to-

gether this teleprinter up-link that'sgoing to explain to us sort of the situa-tion on the ATM and the strategy of opera-ting from now on, so that we know what'sgood and what's bad, and kind of what'sgoing on. Right now we're a little bitin the dark.

CC Understand you want a s11mmary pad, Owen,on the ATM?

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supposedly putting it together. My guessis they Just haven't had reaction timeyet, but Crip and Adam and the back roomthere probably know about it.

219 14 30 31 CC Okay. That's affirmative. General message004 and it should be up there.

SPT Okay. We haven't seen it yet. Maybe itJust csme up this morning or something.We'll check the teleprinter right bow -again. Okay, it Just came off the tele-printer, Story. ThAnk you.

CC Sure.

SPT Boy, that's quick response.CC We aim to please.SPT Yes, sir.CC And we sent up two copies of that, 0wen.SPT Okay, thank you.

219 14 32 31 SPT Story, I don't see that image test dot atthe top of the screen in IMAGE THRESHOLDposition i. Is that supposed to be pre-sent even with the door pinned open?

CC Stand by i, (>wen.219 14 35 03 CC Skylab, we're l0 seconds to LOS here.

We'll be picking you up over G_,,m in3 minutes.

SPT Okay, Story. And there's a possibilitythat you might want me to do chip B onbuilding block 1 at the beginning of thenext orbit or right after those alignments,instead of the planned activities for thisnext rev. And if that's - if you shouldwant to do that, Just let me know by voiceand I'll modify it and do that.

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SPT I'm - I'm going to be away from the c_,_._,_here for about 15 minutes.

CC Start right in at 14:58, Owen.CC Skylab, we've got you _hrough Guam for 9

minutes.

CC SPT, Houston,SPT Go ahead.

CC Now, we'd like you Just to press on, onthe 14:58 pad when you get there.

SPT Thank you.

219 14 40 13 CC And why don't you try looking at the X-rayimage and using the counter test. Youought to get a 4 by h image on the tube.

SPT I do get that one.CC Thank you.CC CDR, Houston,CDR Story CDR. Did you call?

CC Yes, sir. Wondered how you were coming onthe VTR electronics changeout.219 14 42 49 CDR Well, we've got the old ones off. We're

getting ready to put the new ones on. Onefunny, out of MDA tool kit, the 3/16-inch-long Allen wrench - I put it in the screwand then started using the ratchet on it,and I was ratcheting it, and it soundedgood, but nothing was moving. I looked upat the tool itself and this ratchet toolhad been Jammed up a little bit, not theratchet but the 3/16 Allen. Instead ofJust having a plain - plain straight barit's got a bar with a pin and a sleeve sur-rounding it - sort of ... up. Theonly problem was that the coupling betweenthe sleeve and the Allen is broken, so


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219 14 43 51 CC Okay. We copy that. We were planning onusing Arabella as a model to check outthe VTR, coming up over Goldstone here, inabout 20 minutes. It doesn't look likeyou'll be ready for a VTR checkout, butwe wonder if you could give us some handheldTV of Arabella over Goldstone?

CDR We'll sure give it a go.

CC And we'll need the bypass connector hookedup for that. And we'll need Owen to go toTV on the video switch.

CDR Two problems, there. One, we don't knowwhat the bypass connector is, and thesecond one - I tell you what we can do, wecan get this thing rigged out, I'm kind ofafraid to start running it with the powercables disconnected like they are. Whydon't we wait until the next time aroundand we'll give it to you then?

CC Okay. It'd be fine.219 14 _5 01 CDR Yes. We got all this power disconnected

and circuit breakers out and everything.I'd sure hate to - start fooling with itnow.

CC Okay.SC ...

CDR We'll give it to you - next time.

CC Roger.CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll

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CDR What we did, Story, now, is take the 3/16-long Allen hit out of the spare tools lockerdown in the - the experiment compartment,and we're moving that one up to the MDA-so we'll be sure to have a good one up there.

21914475_ cc Sotit.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

219 15 04 00 CC Skylab, we!ve got you stateside for 16 minutes.SPT Okay, Story. How do you read me?CC Loud and clear.

SPT Okay. I just completed the S055 mirror alignment.The limb, with the FSS BIAS, IN, was reading10 27. I've aligned the mechanical crosshairs,1025. And there was a lot of change down. Ineed you to bring the mechanical reticle a longway down, to make that align. I'm Just nowgetting started on the four-limb coalignment.And you can expect these first few alignmentson the first few days here will probably take alittle longer than they will after we getorganized better a little later. I Just checkedour friend Arabella on the way up and she didcompletely spin a new web last night. And she'sa very fast learner indeed. This time the webis essentially, at first glance, like one youwould find on the ground. It has the radials toall four sides of the box, approximatelyconverging on the center with the circ1_m9erentiallines spiraling all the way out, or at least mostof the way out. It would be a very satisfactoryweb on the ground I would think. And we'll dowhat we can to get some photographs of it later.And I think the other two fellows are going totry to get the handheld TV on the next pass.Now, I should also be feeding you some ATM TVat this time if you got any video capabilityright now. Jack says he's pulled the circuitbreakers for that, however, so I guess you'reout of luck at the moment for anybody.

CC Okay. Yes. No TV this stateside pass, Owen.SPT Okay.

219 15 05 54 CC And we'd like a star tracker lockon. And thepad you've got up there now should be good.

SPT The one from 2 days ago?CC Yes, sir.


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BPT _ay.8PT AI, Jack says he's got whatever you were hooking

up, hooked up now.PLT AI, what I've got is - I found a way to bypass

the VTR. I've got the coax connectors hookedup. How about turning it on real time to theground?

CDR If you want, it's okay withme, but don't workon anything while you're doing it. Just hookit up and stand away from all that gear.

PLT I will. I've got it all connected.

CDR Okay. But don't - don't fool with any box theconnector' s in.

PLT I won't.

219 15 07 OB SPT Okay. Okay, Story thinks - Jack thinks he'sgot the hookup completed now. And we shouldbe sending you down some real-time TV.

CC Okay, we'll take it.

PLT Hey, Story, we ought to have a picture of themad professor working on the ATM panel there.You got it ?

PLT Story, we're right in the middle of the _T_hookup, but we've got the bypass coax hookedup. So you should be getting some real time.Let us know how it comes out.

219 15 07 56 CC Okay. We've got a circuit breaker for you toclose on panel 2 02, TELEVISION, ATM VIDEO.

SPT Okay.219 15 08 19 SPT Okay, it's CLOSED now.

PLT Okay, it's closed now. I noticed the TV airlockmodule circuit breaker is out also.

CC And we're getting you right now, Jack. We'retaking a look at you.


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PLT Okay.SPT And you should have your star.

CC Looks like you've got a good star there, 0wen.Stay off the DAS a while, while we update Nu L.

SPT Okay.SPT Another point, the two-limb Sun is very clearlyvi sible -

219 15 12 58 SPT Yes, I'm going to give you a little TV of theH-alpha, as I'm performing this four-limbcoalignment, Story.

CC Okay, Owen.

SPT Okay. Can you see the H-alpha there?

CC We're looking at it.

SPT Okay. I'm on page 2-1 and I'm putting a reticleon the inner limb. See the spicules stickingout above the top of the - over the top ofcrosshair there?

CC Roger.

SPT Reading is plis 1002. Jack's picture ATMpeople are reading down there also.SPT Okay. l'm going to give you a picture of the

SLIT now also, so you can see how wide these,lines really do look.

SPT Plus 997.219 15 15 22 SPT MARK that.

SPT And put it to H-alpha i, RETICLE, right in thesame spot. Okay.

CC PLT, Houston.CDR Go ahead.CC That you, Al?


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CDR Yes, he's listening.CC Okay. When you get to running M092, delay the

vent if possible beyond 15:h7. That's afterdump commence. Looking at the time line,that's probably no problem for you. Andprior to disconnect in the bypass, be sure toopen up on panel 202, the same circuitbreaker you closed there. That's TELEVISION,ATM VIDEO. And also on panel 202, TELEVISION,POWER AM circuit breaker, you can close thatto get us back in a nominal configuration.

PLT Okay. Then I get them all closed when we'refinished, rig ht?

CC That's right. And complete the VTR changeoutprocedure per the checklist.

PLT Wilco.

CC CDR, Houston.CDR Go.

219 15 18 56 CC Could you clarify what part of the teleprinteryou exchang ed?

CDR I had to tele - change the whole big boxbecause the drive wheel that failed was theblack one. It's part of that big box, asopposed to the little red one that's part ofthe little head. So that's why I mentioned thatwe changed the last one we got up here.

CC Okay. We understand that. Thank you.

CDR It's a shame to lose that big electronicsbox Just because of that little rubber wheel.

CC We'll work on the grommet.

219 15 19 37 CC And, Skylab, we're coming up here on a42 minute LOS. We'll see you over Carnarvonat 16:02. And, Owen, on the CAUTION/WARNINGpanel, ACS MALFS, we'd like you to ENABLE theRATE GYROS.

SPT Roger.


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CC And during the LOS here we'll be on Y-I only,redundancy manag ement enabled.

219 15 20 00 SPT Y-I with redundancy management and RATE GYROS,ENABLED. Okay. They're ENABLED.

CC And during the dumps if you have any kind offailure, which is unlikely, all you need to dois put Y-1 back on the line.

SPT Okay, put Y-1 back on. It is on now, ofCOUrSe.

CC That' s affirmative.

SPT Okay.

219 16 03 29 CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon for7 minutes.

CC And, CDR, from what we can see down here, itlooks like the VTR procedure is complete.

SPT That's right. I think they got it all changed,Story.

CC Okay. Understand we're clear to do somecommanding on the VTR.

SPT Just a minute. Let me get that throughconfirmation from them. I 'm not sure whatthey've all done. Okay. The answer is yes,Story.

CC Okay. And I got a couple of things for youhere, Owen. The test - the test dot on theX-ray image is different than the flightvehicle - than in the simulator. All you getis some random dots around the 12 o'clockposition of the CRT. And if the brightness isturned up at all, that will preclude youseeing those test dots.

219 16 Oh 35 SPT Oh. That's interesting. So I'll try thatagain. And then I was going to do my debriefingon the real time here on this pass instead of onchannel B. Go ahead with anything you got upfor us first.


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CC The med pad that you've got up there is goodexcept, of course, the supplements which wecalled to you. And delete paragraphs 4 and 6.

SPT Okay. Just a minute I've got to pull it outand see what it is.

CC Roger.

SPT Are you t_Iking about med status ll05?CC Affirmative.

SPT Okay, down in remarks, I see a paragraph h.I don't see paragraph 6.

SPT Maybe you've got a different message than mine.

CC It's buried down in there, about the last h lines.It' s concerning ED63.

SPT I thought this was a med status report.

CC Yes, reed status. That's right.

219 16 06 52 SPT Okay. My ll05 is med status, got a bunch ofpreflight information on it. My ll05 Alfa 2,again is more reed status M092 and then someremarks and stuff. Remarks says 1 through h,then some stuff down there for A and B. Idon't see anything like h and 6.

CC Okay. You don't have a ll05-A3.

SPT Okay. I'll have to go look up Alfa 3. Standby. I tell you, I'll look it up later andremember to mark out. I'll put it on my notepad to delete paragraphs h and 6.

CC Or we've got an updated pad down here we cansend you, Owen. You can Just use that one.

SPT So I can throw all my ll05 and Just keep yourll05 Alfa 3?

CC Stand by l, Owen.

219 16 08 00 SPT Okay. Let me go ahead with this update here.This is the ATM information on that last pass.Now I managed to do all of step 6. I did not


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do step 7. On the coalignment, I had toactually repeat that about three times. Thattook up the extra time. It turns out thatthe H-alpha image is slightly larger indiameter than the white light image on the XUVSLIT display, l'd say it's a couple ofarc seconds in dia - radius, about 4 arc-secondsin diameter larger on H-alpha, even accountingfor the double limb. The double limb isclearly apparent and I'm not talking about theouter limb. l'm talking about the inner limb.And so I have to shade it Just a little bitinside on the H-alpha i and 2 or H-alphaalignment to make it agree with the XUV SLITposition. And the following numbers are theones I got for the four-limb coalignmentstarting down the blocks that you will find inour pad. H-alpha I is plus 1002, plus 997plus i001, minus 893, minus 895. I skippedH-alpha l[sic]. 82B is minus 914 minus 915,plus 973, and the coalignment is still atup/down or is aligned 0832, very close towhat it was on mission i. Essentiallyidentical. Now as far as - -

219 16 09 32 CC We're coming up on 15 seconds to LOS, Owen.We'll see you over Guam in 7 minutes. Bedumping the tape recorders at Guam.

SPT Okay, I've got a little bit more informationon the experiments S055 after detector clipout,S054 last frame might have been a little be -below 400 kilometers. S055 had some goodmirror align scan in the last few minutes, andsome good J0P 7 data.

CC We copied then.219 16 16 58 CC Skylab, AOS Guam 7 minutes.

CDR Hello.

CC Who's that?CDR CDR, Just calling this ...

CC Okay, A1. And over Goldstone we'd like tocheck out the VTR. We'll be - we'd like about4 minutes of real-time TV and VTR record. Wecan command all that from the ground. Then


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we'll interrupt real-time TV and dump the VTR,to check it out. So, in the next i0 or 12minutes here, we'd like you to do eitherTV 59-C or aim the TV camera at anything ofyour option and turn it on.

CDR We're working on 92 now. So we're not goingto be able to do anything optional. But wedo have the TV setup pointing at the ATMpanel. Owen will be up there in a minute soyou can get some good shots of him at work.

CC Okay. That's fine.CDR Okay. And I'ii go power up the TV right this

minute so it' ll be running when it comes overthe hill.

CC Swell.

219 16 18 21 CDR We changed our minds. We'll give you thatkind of TV, later. We'll give you a littleeffort of Jack in the tank, here. We'regoing to pump him down, see how he does. Youcan watch his veins distend and that sort ofthing.

CC Okay. I'll be looking. And all you need is -is to aim it at something like that and thenturn the power on. We'll do all the co_andingof the VTR from down here.

CC SPT, Houston.SPT Stand by.

CC Okay. You can disregard the med pads you'vegot up there. We're sending right up now,1130-1 and 1130 Alfa 2.

SPT That'll supersede all the other stuff, right?

219 16 19 35 CC Yes, forget all the other stuff, and we'dlike the DAS here for a few minutes toupdate Y-2.

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CC And while I've got you, Owen. We've beennoticing down here that, during the nightportions of orbit, that you're leaving theMPC in ROLL ENABLE. And we'd like to havethose in INHIBIT during the night portion.

SPT Very good. Just forgot. Thank you.

219 16 20 29 SPT We changed our minds again. We're going togive you the grand variety show. We'll giveyou everything we got all at once.

CC Okay. We 'll be waiting.

CDR Okay. Not all at once, but in a row.219 16 22 39 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds until LOS. We'll

see you over Goldstone in 17 minutes at 16:h0.CDR Say, Big O. I'll also glance out the window.

If it looks good I'll take it off the windowand point it out and you can shift it downhe re.

SPT Okay, that'll be fine.

CDR Give them the old montage effect.

CC We're still reading you loud and clear.

219 16 23 20 CDR Are you reading us on intercom, Story?CC I heard that last call.

SPT No, I've got a hot mike, Story. So you'rereading me, but A1 hasn't ... a headset, soyou only heard one-half of the conversation.

CC I heard A1, too.SPT Uh-oh. Well then I don't understand that.

You press transmit, Al?CDR Do you hear me now, Story.CC Loud and clear.

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SPT Maybe we never got it reconfigured from EVAyesterday.

CDR ... we had yesterday?CC We don't mind listening to you.

219 16 23 57 SPT Say again.CC We don't mind listening to you; Just wanted

you to know that we were.CDR (Laughter) I'm glad you told us, Story. Say,

how about trying to figure out how it is ...I hooked up this way? We don't think we shouldbe transmitting ... hookup.

CC We're going LOS. See you over Goldstone.CDR Okay.

219 16 24 23 SPT The only thing I can figure out, A1, is thatit's something up in the ...

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

219 16 h0 22 CC Skylab, Houston. Got you AOS stateside for15 minutes.

PLT Roger, Story. And we figured out why we weresending down the intercom a while ago ; we gotit straightened out.

CC We straightened it out too, but you beat us toit.

CDR Okay. What was your solution?

CC We thought because you had the intercom tapedthere and you were hot mike, that anyone elsethat was ICOMing the same channel would transmit.

CDR Fantastic.

SPT You caught us in the act. Caught me with amistake.

SPT Have you got some TV down there, Story?

CC We 're looking at you, 0wen.219 16 43 33 CC And, Owen, we'd like some more color on the TV

to check out the VTR. So we'd like to go backto looking at you.SPT Done.

CC And we've got it.SPT And, Story, I'm going to send the TV down to the

workshop where the - where Jack and A1 aregetting set up for M092 runs.

CC No. We'd like to stay right here, Owen, Okay.Go ahead. That'll be fine.

SPT Okay.219 16 45 45 SPT Okay. I think I mentioned on the last rev that

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0VERRIDE, after - correction, go back to ENABLE,so I left it there. Now change i is incorporatedin this book, which I think does call for theOVERRIDE. Is that what you're getting at?

CC Yes, sir.

219 16 52 26 CC CDR, Houston.CDR Go ahead.

CC Looking at your momentum, AI, we show there hasbeen a vent fairly recently. Did you use themain vacuum valve or anything to check out theM 092 reg ulator?

CDR The only - We did not use the LENP vent. Theonly thing we've done is the trash airlockhandle happened to be in VENT instead of PRESS,and so we pressed. We didn't vent.

CC Okay.CDR And that's through the tank. That shouldn't

bother anything. We haven't touched any of theair so far. We've turned on the - M - the massspectrometer, but that isn't a vent. It - ituses vacuum, but it isn't enough to worry about.

CC Thanks.CDR Okeydoke.

CDR Are we cleared to go ahead and continue withthe LBNP?CC Affirmative.

CDR Say again.CC That's affirmative, AI, press on.

CDR Okay. I don't know where your vent came from.Trying to think about it right now. We haven'ttouched the valves, and the only thing we've - -


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219 16 55 29 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see youover the Vanguard in ll minutes and all thesystems are looking good.

219 17 05 48 CC Skylab, we've got you over the Vanguard for8 minutes.SPT Okay, Story. ThAnk you.

CC CDR, Houston.CDR Go ahead.CC Is your number 2 tape recorder in the B position,

Al?

219 17 07 25 CC And we're getting good data now, Al.CDR Okay.CDR What happened, Story, is we got - The knob

apparently is loose and it was halfway between2 and 3, the knob was, but it was really on 3.Looked good, but wasn't; we'll - we'll fix it.

CC Okay. Thank you.219 17 09 04 CDR If you're getting good data, Story, I won't

bother to take the backup data. How does itlook to you?

CC It's looking good to me, A1. Let me check withthe biomeds.

CC A1, we've got good data down here.CDR Good. Let me tell you something I put on the

tape recorder that could probably save us sometime. I recorded the legbands on Jack, and thenOwen, and I did ours the other day. We'regoing to try to use the same band - legbandsall the time. We've got about 20 pair up hereand they all look the same, 1_nless you searcharound and try to find these numbers. Andwe've got all sorts of different rules aboutusing letters and umbers. So, if these legbands,which we think satisfy the rules, are okay,then we're Just going to keep using them.Would you see if that's an okay thing?


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CC Okay. We'll put the band numbers and the datatogether and get that to you as soon as we can,A1.

CDR I've got to make an adjustment here in a second,but as soon as I do, I'll read you the band numbers.

CC Okay.CC SPT, Houston.SPT Go ahead.

219 17 l0 45 CC Owen, did you get a second GRATING AUTO SCANafter you rolled the canister?

SPT I thought I did. Didn't show up on the telemetry?Have they dumped it yet.9 Or were you looking atit then?CC We saw a MIRROR LINE SCAN when we had LOS.SPT Okay. Well, I think - Oh, that's right. I

left it in MLS and then switched it to GRATINGAUTO SCAN. And I did give you another GRATINGAUTO SCAN on the end of that. So building block 36was completed as scheduled. Since then, I've alsopicked up item 5 on the shopping list and doneone of those, and I'm now picking up buildingblock i0 and running it, as it was omitted in theearlier preceding rev. And, so I've repointedto another spot in the active region 85. And I'mdoing a building block i0 to complete this orbit.

CC Ok ay.2_19 17 ll 47 SPT Incidentally, I've also given 55 several other -

well, at least one other set of mirror linescans across the neutral line in active region85. Couple of minutes of MLS across theneutral line pointed at the bright spot.

CC Copy.SPT The pattern of brightness is changing here

_]most from minute to minute. The brightestelement in the whole active region is the onethat I did the building block 36 at. And ithas been the brightest all along. However,


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say, 5 minutes ago, there was another brightregion right next to the Sun spot, that rose inintensity. And now it is _eeayel down to moreor less thesame level as the plage in general.And so, all of these bright points are Just sortof continually changing their contrast with theplage in background more or less with timecontents like 5 minutes or so. Over.

CC Okay.219 17 12 55 SPT Looks like we Just got another trip out on S055.

I'm going to leave detector 5 off this time.CDR Okay, Houston. Let me give you those cuff

numbers and the - the cuff letters, so that youcan check them out.

CC Go ahead, A1.CDR CDR:CH and BU;CH, left; BU, right is the CAL.CC Okay.CDR SPT: AX BU; AX, BU.CC Got them.

CDR PLT: AD and 6"/;AD, CV.219 17 14 29 CC Owen, we'd like to inhibit Y-1 redundancy

management. Then I've got two DAS numbers for you.SPT Go ahead.

CC 52,015, 50,020.sPT 52,015, 50,020.CC That's correct.

CC And we'd like that before the next dump.

CC And that's because we - we're venting, Owen.CC And we're going LOS here, Skylah. We'll see

you over Goldstone in 1 hour and 3 minutes at 18:17.

219 17 15 17 SPT Okay, those were *_*

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