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Skylab 2 PAO Mission Commentary 1 of 5
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did his usual magnificent job, and he has the five balls again.
... the NOUN 93's were plus 00060, plus 00075, plus 00059.
The time 54:30. And it looks like we're right on the timeline.
CC Hey, very good, Pete. Sounds good. In-
_i'de_a_ w'_ '_ink the little comm problem we had with you
back there in Madrid was a ground problem; so we think your
systems are all okay.
SC Okay and the PLT has a few words for yon
GARBLE.
CC Roger. Go ahead PLT.
SC Okay, Dick, the only thing was we pumped
the primary glycol accumulator up to about 50 percent. By
putting the radiators back on the line, apparently one of them
needed some fluid, because the glycol (static)
CC PLT, Houston. You dropped out right after
you said, "after you put the radiator back on the line. what
happened?
PAO Skylab Control Houston, 58 minutes ground
elapsed time. We appear to have had loss of signal with
Carnarvon at this time.
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read through
the ARIA?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're through the ARIA.
How do you read?
SC We read you through the ARIA (static)
(inaudible) .
CC CDR, Houston. That transmission I copied
that you read me - you were very garbled, Would you try again
once more, please.
SC Okay, Houston, how do you read? i, 2, 3,
4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, i.
CC Roger , CDR. That time I copied you weak
but clear. This comm through this pass though is very bad.
Be advised we expect AOS at Texas at about i plus 34.
SC Okay. We'll see you then.
CC And Skylab; Houston. One little comment we
had on the waste water dump checklist that you may be in now.
In the event any time that you do happen to dump through
zero, down to zero, if you do, we'd like you to deactivate
the evaporator for about 30 minutes.
BC Okay. I'ii do that.
CC Okay. Good.
CC Go ahead. Go ahead.
PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at i hour
2 minutes ground elapsed time. We expect no further communi-
cations with the crew aboard Skylab until our next acquisition
over Texas. Meanwhile, an early look at our rendezvous evalua-
tion gives us the following numbers. The NCI phasing burn
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SC Whoopee.
CC And, I've got a Star acquision pad for
you on
page l-Alfa.
SC Go ahead.
CC Roger.
CC Star 25 22 83 292 33 0740 258, go ahead.
SC Star 25 is 22 83 292, Star 33 0740 and 258.
CC Roger. You got that right. We' re about
i minute from LOS in Texas. We're going to have a short
break and then we'll see you at Newfoundland VHF for once
only.
SC Okay. Also, be advised, Houston, we've
read about your first 5 calls, Dick, and you weren't reading
us getting for some reason.
CC Roger, understand.
SC I'ii talk to you about the ECS at New
Foundland, just two things of general interest, we're having
a whole lot of fun with all this brown cord up here, and
secondly we can see the S-IVB out ahead of us and it really
makes a plume when it vents.
CC Roger, Copy.
SC I guess we're coming up on the Mississippi
River right now, I can still a lot of flooding down there
and everything.
CC Roger, understand.
SC Okay, look. We're on the time line,
except for one thing, we have not gotten to the waste water
vent, because of the (garble) in front of the panel and that
is what we are reconfiguring right now, (Chuckle) and Dr.
Kerwin is wrestling the big pivot - -
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at i hour,
40 minutes ground elapsed time. We've had loss of signal over
Texas, our next station to acquire, NewFoundland. Meanwhile,
the NCC-I preliminary maneuver pad was passed to the crew
aboard Skylab. This calls for a burn at 2 hours, 23 minutes,
30 seconds ground elapsed time, with a Delta-V of 207.4 feet
per second, the duration of the burn, 9 seconds. The resulting
orbit should read, 201.3 nautical miles by 194.2 nautical
miles. This maneuver will be performed outside of station
contact. We're at i hour 40 minutes ground elapsed time,
continuing to monitor, this is Skylab Control, Houston.
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SC (Inaudible)
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS at ARIA. We're going to see you at Goldstone at
3:04.
SC Okay, Houston. It appears like we're on
the time line. It's because we do not have an ... we have 4 hours
to get organized and we're in very good shape, and we are in the
contest of getting ready to eat.
CC Roger. Copy. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 2 hours 38 minutes
ground elapsed time. We've had loss of signal now - loss of
voice communications through ARIA. The next station to acquire
the Skylab will be Goldstone some 26 minutes from this time.
Just prior to the ARIA pass, Skylab did perform the NCI maneuver
successfully. This, Commander Pete Conrad reported, was a
nominal burn on time. We're at 2 hours 39 minutes. This is
Skyla5 Control, Houston.
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and the docked command service module with the crew aboard
now crossing over the Isthmus of Panama. Some 9 minutes out
of acquisition by the tracking ship Vanguard lapping over into
a somewhat scratchy relay aircraft flying off the coast of
South America. Had some communications problems during the
Stateside pass which we hope will be resolved by the next time
around. Flight plan calls for a GO/NO GO for the standup EVA
to repair the damage and attempt to swing out the remaining
solar wing. This GO/NO GO will be given over the Vanguard
tracking ship. We have a real-time playback of the fly-around
television being switched out now to the news center. Back
up on the line at Vanguard acquisition in 8-1/2 minutes. At 9
hours 51 minutes ground elapsed time, this is Skylab Control.
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PLT
CDR _ Do you se_
Yeah. _hat tool?
to sunset.
CDR Okay. I'm going to have to quit pretty
quick.
PLT Pete?
CDR Yeah.
PLT I hate to say it, but we ain't going
to do it with the tools we got.
PLT ...
PLT Don't worry about it.
CDR Back off here.
CDR Well it's better than maneuvering around
him.
PLT Where's the ...
PLT It's over to your right.
PLT Joe, if you could just hold the end.
SPT Okay.
PLT I'ii take the 2 ... apart.
PLT Okay.
PLT Where do they come apart?
SPT It must be that way.
PLT Okay. It's all yours.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 13 minutes to
sunset.
CDR Got
you, 13 minutes to sunset, Houston.
CDR ...
watch it you're knocking thruster
switches and everything else. Get that pole down out Of there.
CDR Okay, Houston, the problem is the tools
wouldn't do the job. We're going to have to give up on it,
but I really feel bad because it's Just one more tiny old 1/2
inch strap. But boy, did it rivet itself to the side of this
thing. Hey, Dick.
CC Roger, Go ahead.
PLT What it is is a piece of angle where
the sections of the meteoroid shield - It runs right down
next to it. It's wrapped around it just below the uppermost
... module - and it's wrapped around it over the rivet
line over to the right to about 2-1/2 feet and that beam does
not bend and I can't budge that strap. That ... little strap
that's wrapped around it.
SPT What is it that's - - ... Watch
it, Joe.
PLT Where's the ATM?
SPT To your right. You're clear to move
directly to the right. Right. Okay.
PLT Let me get around and start the hatch
in.
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in.
PLT Can I move to my right, Joe?
SPT ...
CDR It is so frustrating to see such a little
tiny thing hold that baby on there.
SPT Yeah.
PLT Darn.
PLT Hey, you got the cue card?
SPT Yep.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 11 minutes
and 15 seconds to sunset. We're going to see you at the Van-
guard.
SPT Instructions? I sure don't see any.
SPT Unstow lanyard, pull and close the hatch.
PLT You're going to have to hang on to my
bottom feet there again.
SPT All right.
PLT Shoot. Wait a minute. Just let me
hook them in - -
PLT All right.
SPT I've got one foot between two of my
legs. Now let's see if that works.
SPT Oops, that hit me right in the head.
CDR ...
SPT Nope, wait a minute.
PLT There you go.
SPT Hey, God darn it_
PLT I'm sorry.
SPT No, I know you are. I realize that, but
I can't. It's very hard when you are trying to fly - -
PLT I've got to close this son-of-a-gun ...
PAO This is Skylab Control at loss of signal
from the Texas station, still 14 minutes until acquisition
by the tracking ship Vanguard. Skylab 2 crew apparently un-
succesful in bending back the aluminum angle. What Pete Conrad
described as running some 2-1/2 feet and along the edge of the
solar wing beam, that the tools that were carried aboard were
inadequate for removing this rather husky piece of angle. He
was concerned somewhat about the remaining daylight time. Get-
ting down now at about 9 minutes of daylight left on this rev-
olution before the spacecraft crosses inte darkness. We'll
listen at the _anguard pass for any further comments from the
crew on their @uc_ess or l_e_ thereof in freeing the electrically
electrical generating solar cell wing. At 11:24 ground elapsed
time, this is Skylab Control.
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CDR Okay.
CDR Well go to 4 jet ullage and we'll
give it a try. When it can be.
CDR We had the breakers out, now shall I
cycle the breakers and go through the whole thing - cycle the
breakers, extend release for 5 seconds_ then to retract
4 jet ullage. Okay?
CC Roger Pete, we concur with that pro-
cedure.
CC CDR Houston. One more suggestion on
panel 229, 2 breakers EPS GROUP 4, panel 229.
CDR Okay, 229 EPS GROUP 4. We're checking.
CC Roger.
CDR And they're verified CLOSED.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay Houston_ that didn't do it.
CC Roger, copy.
CDR Okay, we're down to the third proce-
dure Houston, about hold the EXTEND RELEASE switch and
then go to RETRACT.
CC Roger, copy Pete.
CC Skylab Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS at Vanguard. We have a potential ARIA pass after
a short break in just a few minutes. And if we miss that
one, we got Hawaii at 12:44.
CDR 12:44 okay. If we miss you at ARIA,
we'll see you in an hour. And I guess we'll try this
third one and I guess the fourth one is another super duper
EVA, right?
PAO This is Skylab Control. We'll leave
the circuit up for any possible communication through the
ARIA aircraft which is flying along the ground track to the
east of the tracking ship Vanguard. If that is unsuccessful,
and we get no communications through this aircraft, we'll
be about an hour before we come up on Hawaii. The orbit
precessing westward all the time takes us off the range and
the tracking stations at this particular time of the or-
bital day are few and far between. The flight controllers
here in the Control room are discussing any possible meth-
ods for trouble shooting the probe and drogue difficulty
in getting the capture and the hard docking. Conrad said
that he would attempt a few more times to hard dock. He's
got another night eighteen minutes of darkness before
coming around in the daylight again. Current orbital
measurements on the command service module perigee 233.9
nautical by 240. Orbital period i hour 33 minutes 9 sec-
onds.
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tions we're going to call you at that pass and that will
probably be the last AOS today.
CDR Yes sir, we'll see how much we can
get done in the next hour and a half.
CC Okay real fine. We're about 30 sec-
onds from LOS now and we'll see you at Vanguard next time
around.
CDR Okay, sure glad we practiced those
procedures on that probe.
CC Yes sir, looking good.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours
ground elapsed time. We've had loss of signal out of the
Vanguard tracking station. It's unlikely we will continue
to pick up communications through the ARIA aircraft out
east of Vanguard. The attempt at docking, hard docking
was indeed successful. The crew believes that i0 of the
12 main latches did fire. They're proceeding with the
tunnel pressure integrity check and going through their
presleep checklist. There will be one more call in an hour
and 30 minutes from now over Vanguard again. Then the crew
will go to bed, and proceed with the days work tomorrow.
Or going into the workshop and deploying the parasol thermal
shield. At 15 hours 2 minutes ground elapsed time, this
is Skylab Control.
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I guess -
PLT Okay, this is Paul, ready to copy.
CC Number one, I guess we'd like to get
over for G.m.t. so your checklist tomorrow will give you some
good AOS times. We'd like you to set 17:00 GET, or BET rather,
to set time at 06:00 G.m.t.
CC Did you copy, Paul?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
PLT Loud and clear now.
CC Okey doke, we lost you there for awhile.
Did you get the time set at 17:00 BET time will be 06:00 G.m.t.?
PLT No, we didn't get any of your messages
at all, Bob. As soon as you said you had messages for us, you
quit.
CC Okay. Let's try it again. We would like
to give you - set your timer so you can go back to G.m.t. and
at 17:00 elapsed time the time will be 06:00 G.m.t.
PLT Okay.
CC Okey dokey. And we would also like if
you got time meal status for day i.
CC Okay. We would also like to insure that
VHF A and B are OFF before going to sleep.
PLT Okay, we had them OFF and then I noticed
that I had a barber pole in a power amplifier. And I'm still
not sure what games that those guys can play with it down there
so we left B DUPLEX UP just to make sure he wouldn't be able
to get ahold of it. That's why it's ON now.
CC Okay. Okay, we're taking care of that.
You can turn VHF A and B OFF.
CDII Okay, Bob, and for your information the
CDR ate everything.
CC All right. Okay doke, Roger.
PLT The PLT dipped the first spoonful of
his asparagus was half wood, so I only ate about one-third
of it, mostly the non-woody part.
CC Rog.
PLT The SPT said he ate everything. I'm going
to have eaten everything else, Bob.
CC Okay, very good. Thank you, Paul.
CDR Okay. We have the LiOH canister changed
out. We've done the quiescent switch checklist. We got a
couple of questions for you. What mode would you like to leave
the computer in - you want to leave it in P00 and ACCEPT? And
while you' re answering that one - let me - we had one on whether
we're supposed to use this max power down. Do you want that
or not?
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SC Okay.
CC Okay. A-15. On the stowage location
for 16 millimeter cassette takeup it should be VOX 524 instead
of 527.
SC Okay. Got that one.
CC Okay now if you'll Jump over in activa-
tion checklist to page 2-18 -
SC All right go ahead, E MEMORY DUMP?
CC Roger. After the E MEMORY D_MP there
we want a note to the effect that after guidance has given a
GO on the E MEMORY DUMP, perform P06, program 06_ CMC POWER
DOWN and that's on page 2-78.
SC Okay.
CC Okay the next one is on page 2-29.
SC Go ahead.
CC Okay we want to delete the last line of
step 2 which reads panel 311 pressure equalization valve
OPEN, we want to leave it CLOSED.
SC Okay.
CC Okay. The next one is on page 2-42;
these are the changes to your ATM panel configuration, com-
mand changes, -
SC Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay about halfway down the lefthand
side where it says mode talkback solar inertial it should be
CMG.
SC Roger.
CC Okay, righthand side status word 2, counter
i indicator should be 0353.
SC Okay.
CC Status word 4, counter 2 should read
I000.
SC You cut out Hank. What was the (garble)
switch.
CC Okay, i000. Did you copy?
SC No. Say the checks both once again, Hank.
CC One thousand, i000.
SC Okay.
CC Okay on the rate gyro monitor Y should be
3/l.
SC Okay.
CC Okay the next one is on page 2-43, right
under the last item that we've got pinned in there about the
hold for 25 seconds, we want to add EVA AUTO DOOR SWITCH to
STORAGE.
SC Okay.
CC Okay the next one is on page 2-50.
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CC Skylab, Houston.
SC Go ahead.
CC Okay, we got about 5-1/2 more minutes
now through Bermuda, and for your info, the med conference
over Madrid has been scrubbed.
SC Okay, we're all healthy. And let's
hear from Rusty some more on that probe. We didn't catch
your last remark.
CC Okay.
CC All right. It sounds as though, since
you've already vented the probe, that the thing we're
looking for is the clocking on the center shaft, and other
than that - and the caution about the probe being free, you're
to press on with a normal probe removal as per the activation
checklist.
SC All right. And what's your opinion on
if we had to undock? How we'd go about doing it? Do you
think we could get the capture latches to cock?
CC Okay, we're thinking about that, Pete,
and we have a considerably longer procedure on verification
of the probe capability, that will come later in the mission
that'll answer that question specifically. One further comment
on the probe removal, and that is: In your judgment you'll
have to look at the back end of the probe, and if yon feel
that it's going to be safer removing it with the pyro cover
back on, that is avoiding sharp edges, feel free to do so and
let us know.
SC Okay. Stand by for the clocking. Pete's
looking at it.
CC Roger.
SC Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
SC Okay, the line perpendicular to the
flatch on that rod is rotated 15 degrees counterclockwise
from the plus-Z axis as we view it. Or from the Z-axis, I
should say.
CC Okay, understand. If you stand by just -
15 degrees counterclockwise from the Z-axis, and that's
counterclockwise looking up at the probe from down in
the command module?
SC That is correct.
SC (garble) talking about the removal (garble)
CC Ro_,i I t-ha_, _ystems 2-10. Let me just
verify. In other words_ you're sa_ing that the that that llne
is essentially over the ratchet handle. By the extension of
the line you just talked about, it's over the ratchet handle.
SC That's right (garble).
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SC Who's it for?
CC That's for the PLT.
SC Ready.
CC Okay, there on panel 390 in the aft lock
activation, we want to turn heat exchanger pans 1 ON. And
the reason we're doing that, Paul, is we want to stir up the
air there prior to getting a sniff sample there.
SC The E-MOD's coming at you.
CC Roger.
SC Okay, Joe, you want the number 1 fan,
or do you want them all on?
CC Just the number i.
SC Okay. And we chose like you to look
at how we got that great big load on MAIN A because, as we remember
at it, it Just sort of kinda of took care of itself there. We
were turning heaters on and off. But whatever heater cycle
it was on, or maybe you'll see something on the data, but I'ii tell
you, we had one big load on that bus for a minute.
CC Roger. We'll take a look at it.
CC And, for info, our attitude plan is, after
we do the CMG reset here at Honeysuckle - at Hawaii, we're going
to command a small pitch maneuver to get a little more power
in preparation for activation.
CC Roger.
SC And, Pete, we got one more probe question
for you here in trying to psyche this one out.
SC Go ahead.
CC Okay. If the probe is not bagged yet,
if you'll look, minus X along the probe and using the strut
with the yellow end on it as a 12 o'clock reference, I wonder
if you could give us the clocking of the capture latch which
is sticking in.
SC Hey, Rusty, on page 2-11 is the one you
can't see on that picture.
CC Okay, I've got it. And let me ask you
another question. Have you rotated the head of the probe?
Or do you think it's the same as it was for docking attempts?
SC We haven't touched that, and I'm sure it's
the same. It's just the way we took it out of there.
CC Okay. Fine. So that's - looking in the
direction, I was saying that's something like 7 or 8 o'clock.
SC I don't know. It's in the bag now.
CC Okay, fine. We've got it. Thank you.
SC (Garble) , Houston.
CC Go ahead.
SC Okay, we passed the TDI monitor check
with flying colors. It s p_ k_hlte. _o_hxng that we could
see at all.
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CC Okay on panel 2.
SC Yeah.
CC Okay our H2 heaters, one, OFF. 02 heaters,
one, OFF. And H2 fans, one, OFF and H2 fans, two, OFF.
CC Skylab how do you read me?
SC (static) are you going to (GARBLE) us
i? Hello, hello.
CC Skylab Houston we' re in a key hole now.
If you'll hang on a second or two.
SC GARBLE.
CC Okay, I think we're pretty good now, how
about yon?
CC Okay. On panel 2 that was H2 heaters, one;
02 heaters, one, OFF. That was two switches.
SC Okay, H2 heater, one, and 02 heater, one,
are OFF.
CC Okay and H2 fans i and 2, OFF.
CC CDR did you copy that last on the H2 fans?
SC Where'd you disappear to that time?
CC I don't know. Did you get the H2 fans
OFF?
SC I got the H2 fans OFF, yeah.
CC Okay. That's it.
SC Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SC Okay on the panel activation I suppose
you know, but I want to be reassured that we have a power
system alert light, a bat charger alert light, the battery
and charger lights on CBRN 15 are ON and the our charger -
the bat charge bat volts and reg volts talkbacks are all
barberpoled. Does that jive with the power problems that
you've got?
CC That's affirmative. That all jives, Joe.
We've lost that CBRM.
SC Okay and I did not connect the CBRM an-
tenna because my assumption is we aren't going to use the -
I don't mean CBRN or FNRBM, the noise burst monitor. Now
I'm ready to do the DAS test if you are.
CC Okay standby the DAS test. We agree
with the other things you said.
SC Glad you can understand them.
CC SPT, Houston.
CC SPT, Houston.
SC (Static) (Garble).
CC SPT, Houston. I'm reading you broken.
We would like for you to go ahead and configure for the
GARBLE. We are not going to use it. We'll correct that but
we would like to get it connected up.
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SC Okay. _ r _'|
PAO Skylab Control, Hous _on. We're about
a minute and a half away now from acquisition by Goldstone.
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CC Skylab, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. (static) and set it at
19:21. It's just past 19:21 and it looks like you're GO for
(static) .
CC Skylab, Houston.
PAO Skylah Control, Houston. We've just gone
out of acquisition range with Ascension. The next station to
acquire will be Carnarvon, some 22 minutes from this time.
The last message passed by Henry Hartsfield, which may or
may not have been heard by the crew_ was a request to command
reset for a roll maneuver. Since we have been experiencing
some drift in attitudes, and to do this via the control
moment gyros versus the attitude thrusters would be highly
desirable from the mission point-of-view. We're at 19 hours
14 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control,
Houston.
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CC Standby one.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. For Paul - well we'll
go ahead and delay doing that right now. Looks like it's
going to be quite awhile before we need the things. If it turns
out that we do need them, it looks like the SPT may have
some free time later to say it.
SC Yeah, okay. That's just a rather
lengthy procedure and I didn't want to waste time doing it
twice, that's all Hank.
CC Okay, and we got about i minute to
LOS so we'll be coming up at Goldstone at 14.
SC Roger.
SC (garble) around here. Hey, something
else for them to think about is since we got a late start
we got about 2 hours and 45 minutes left to go in the bake out
of bed i. You ought to ask Vick what they want to do about
bake out of bed 2.
CC Roger, copy.
SC Well, why don't we do it tonight or put it
off until tomorrow morning on that one?
PAO This is Skylab Control. 19:59 Greenwich
mean time. Loss of signal out of the Guam station. 14 minutes
and a half until acquisition at Goldstone station in the
Mojave Desert in California and a fairly lengthy stateside pass
through most of the stations. During this just completed
pass over Guam, Paul Weitz reported that there has been no
change in the TDI level in the workshop. The sensor still
came out white. He did comment that it smells like hot
metal. OWS pressure holding now at 5.1 pounds. Weitz also
reported that there's no detectable carbon monoxide in the
workshop. And as they prepare for their lunch meal the
crew will close off the workshop but consider the airlock
module as a habitable area for the time being until activation
of the workshop itself is complete. Currently the Skylab
cluster is in an orbit measuring 235.1 nautical miles at
Perigee, and 239.2 nautical miles at Apogee. Orbital
period 1 hour 33 minutes and 22 seconds. At 20:01 Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston the time for the reset
is 01:36. That will be the time for the nominal H-cage. 01:36
and we'll warn you again at close to that time.
CDR Understand 01:36. That's two minutes
from now, but we'll hustle.
CC Roger, and once we get the parasol re-
tracted, we do not plan to do anything more with it tonight. We're
going to take a look at it, and we think we've got almost a full
deployment and pulling in will do the rest for us.
SPT I understand.
CC And for the CDR, we're not too concerned
about getting it all the way down before the reset. The main
thing we want is that you do have the rod brake on when the
reset starts or the nominal H-cage starts.
CC Skylab, Houston we're going to give yon
a little more time here. We're going to delay that reset to
40.
CDR Okay. 40.
SPT Okay, we're pulling it in Houston. Be
advised the rods we're pulling in are quite cool and feel very
nice to the touch.
CC Roger, copy.
CC SPT, Houston. Did the CDR, PLT take
a rest between the Hawaii and Vanguard?
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger, we'd like to know if the CDR,
PLT took a rest between Hawaii and Vanguard?
SPT They took a break, Houston.
CC Roger, copy.
SPT Okay, Houston, we got it in.
CC Okay. I understand you got a full re-
traction and you've followed - completed the checklist through
at least 42.
SPT I didn't say that. We're presently
double checking that. We got it all the way into the mark
on rod Alpha and we rod brake clamp thing tightened down.
CC Roger, sounds good. We're going to
start the reset - the nominal H-cage immediately. Now, for the
rest of the evening, we'd like for you guys to go back and if
you haven't eaten already, eat, and we're going to try to get
on with the nominal flight plan.
SPT Okay, good enough. Also rod B is gathering
frost as it lays here in the fiery workshop.
CC And we'd like to insure that you do
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CC Okay.
CC Okay, we're almost LOS now, we'll be
picking you up over at Hawaii at 37.
PLT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal through the Vanguard tracking ship. With a successful
retraction and clamping of the center pole of the Skylab parasol.
The brake set prior to the time the commands were sent to
reset the control moment gyros using the thrusters on the orbital
workshop. Still 18 minutes remaining of nightside pass. It
will likely take a couple of dayside passes before a trend is
observed of reduced temperatures - temperatures coming down.
Acquisition directly over the Hawaii station in 55 minutes.
At 01 hours 41 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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CDR Roger
CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS, Skylab.
We'll be coming up on Vanguard, as I said, at - it'll be
about 09 now, and we'd like to say, you guys did a tre-
mendous Job down there. We've got everybody smiling here,
now that we've got that parasol out.
PLT Okay. Thank you. And tell those people
that I'm awful sorry about that breaker. I thrashed it around
(garbled) in that heat exchanger break, but I Just flipped
it up with my toe.
CC And if you still read us, we'd like to
get that (garble) system activated.
CDR Roger, you got a page number for that, Hank?
SC Okay, that's page 2-137.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Skylab
cluster has gone over the hill from Hawaii tracking station.
It is now just north of the equator in the Central Pacific.
Twenty minutes to Vanguard. The trend in temperatures as
shown on the numerous different measurement points through-
out the workshop is definitely downward. And as mentioned
by spacecraft communicator Jack Hartsfield, it's likely
that the workshop atmospheric temperatures will be below
i00 degrees Fahrenheit by tomorrow morning. They're now
around 120 to 125. We're still estimating around 10:30
for the change of shift press conference in the Johnson
Space Center news room. Participants again. Skylab
Program Director, William C. Schneider. Flight Director
Neil Hutchinson, and Jack Kinzler, Chief of the Johnson
Space Center Technical Services Division, who will discuss
his invention. Eighteen minutes to Vanguard where there
will be a medical consultation on a private loop. And at
2 hours 50 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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We are not going to touch it this time. We're going to let you
guys fool with it. We'd like to get in solar inertial once so
we'd know what it looked like and if we get off we can get our-
selves back on.
CC Okay, we'll try to work that.
CC Okay, we've got a pass probably in
about oh, Vanguard coming up. We'll be trying to work that
then at around 4:46.
SPT Okay, what is the temperatures doing
in the
workshop there?
CC I'ii try to get a report for you on
that. Meanwhile, we'd like to find out if you did put the
SEVA report on channel A or B. We're dumping A right now.
We didn't see it there last dump.
SPT We haven't gotten to the evening reports.
It is still about the middle of the afternoon for us. Pete
and Paul are working pretty hard on the condensate system
They're dleaning up the command module and stuff like that.
CC Okay understand. We just want to
make sure you did know that we were recording channel A.
And you will be putting the medical status report on channel
A for us later. Is that correct?
SPT Yes, and we're going to have a couple
of large (garble) I think because we have enough other problems
coming up. We're going to stick with it. We are in good shape
andwe've had our private medical talk. And we don't have any-
thing to report.
CC Roger. I think all we are interested
in there is the food and, you know, whether you took any
drugs or not and that kind of stuff.
SPT We are eating like hogs and drinking
lots of water.
CC Very good.
SPT this evening status report and we'll get
as much of this to you as we can.
CC Roger Joe, understand. If you could also
put down, we would like sort of a relative amount of time
spent between the airlock module MDA and the workshop today.
I guess they're kind of interested in what kind of tempera-
tures you were experiencing. You can put that on channel A.
SPT My off the cuff answer (garble) they can
apparently get thatby looking at my biomed tonight.
CC Okay_ tlhey Mere kind of interested in
that for the other guys too though Joe. Okay, the skin tents
have dropped about 70 degrees. We're going to have LOS
here in about 1 minute. We're going to be over Vanguard
at 4:46. We were kind of hoping that you guys were going
to bed. Do you want us to give a call there or not?
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SPT Yes.
CC You want us to give you a call at
Vanguard understand.
SPT Roger.
CC And I guess I must have got somebody
there. We would like to verify that you did get the ele-
phant trunk installed between the OWS and the airlock module.
SPT Affirmative.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We have a
note now from Dr. Willard Hawkins on the medical breifing
eaTlier. This is a private conversation between medical
officers to assess the status of true health. It is not
to prescribe drugs or anything of that sort. Here is the
information given to us by Dr. Hawkins. "The crew has
remained in good physical condition during the first 2 days
in spite of a fatiguing first day and also in relation
to the thermal stress of today in the orbital workshop.
No symptoms of motion sickness have been experienced."
And that is the end of the report. This is Skylab Control
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CC That's affirm.
SPT We didn't do anything. I'll go check it.
SPT If you're ready, let me give you
a status of our ECS, all right?
CC Okeydoke, go ahead.
SPT Okay, we presently are running both
condensing heat exchangers A, and tool sieve A and B. We just
finished a condensate dump into the waste tank. We have two
ducts. Ducts i and 2 were running in the workshop. We got
the airlock module duct fan on HIGH with all the mol sieve
air going to the workshop through that diverter valve. We've
got the MDA fans on low, the CSM fans on low, and the three AM
eirc fans we just turned on about 5 minutes ago on LOW.
CC Okay, we copy. We got all four fans
running in ducts 1 and 2. Is that affirm?
SPT Hell I turned them on. I'll go check.
CC Okay.
SPT You still want to leave just ducts 1 and 2,
leave 3 off, right?
CC That's affirm.
SPT Okay. You say duct 2 is the low one?
CC Negative. Duct i.
SPT Okay.
CC Rog, Joe. We have initiated a new one now.
And it might be if you got time, it might be wise to take
a look out and see. Looks like we're going the right direction.
SPT Roger.
CC And CDR, Houston. If you got a chance,
I guess maybe we'd like to get an idea about how much longer
you guys are planning on working.
CDR I'm trying to make dinner. I don't think
we're going to work very much longer. I would like to go to
bed, but everytime we do, something comes up. Duct i for
600 plus; CSM.
CC Roger, understand. Duct 1 600 plus; CSM.
CDR Duct 2 (garble) 550 and duct 3 (garble)
75; CSM.
CC Roger, copy.
CDR And, Crip, as soon as we get into sun-
shine, I'ii give you a hack on the maneuver. I guess it'll
be gone by then.
CC Roger. Also be advised that we're
starting to get a lot of feedback out of those SIAs. If you
might could do a little adjustment. I don't know whether it's
ringing there or not.
CDR Yeah, it is.
CDR Hey, Crip, how much temperature skid
drop are you getting. Does it really look like that the
shield's working?
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module without touching anything. Seeing who can complete the most
360.
CC Roger. Sure like to see that on TV
sometime.
CDR Well, we'll work it for you. Just let
us get the rest of the things squared away. We've just kind of
practicing enroute going back and forth during our busy pass.
PAO Skylab Control. We have i minute
and 18 seconds before daylight for the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised that we
didn't make out very well on trying to find the Sun. And I
guess if you guys would like to give it a go, we would
appreciate it.
CDR Okay. It looks like we're a good bit
off at X.
CC How does Y look?
CDR Well, we overshot.
CC Okay, we got a couple more minutes left here.
The next pass is not going to be until Guam at 05:46 and we don't
plan on giving you a call for that one. If you're still up and
you need us for some reason, well go ahead and give us one.
It's 05:46.
CDR 46. Okay, Crip. Crip, meal status report
for the food people. The CDR ate everything today except his
asparagus for dinner. The SPT ate everything. The PLT ate
everything except the white bread and the macaroni and cheese
at dinner time. We think we got all the drinks, but to tell
you the truth we're really not sure because the packing on
these command module meals is strange and it's hard to find
everything.
CC Rog, we copy.
CC Okay, we are i minute to LOS.
CC And, Joe, we would like to remind you
once more about the strapdown initialization, because it will
be all fouled up when and if you do find it.
CDR Understand.
CC Okay, guys. I'Ii see you in a couple of
days here.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 5 hours i0
minutes and 50 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal now
at the Ascension tracking station as the spacecraft is going on it's
181 revolution traveling over the African - center part of
Africa and then up over the Soviet Union. And during the past conver-
sation they indicated that we did not - looking at our data
coming back from the ATM on battery charge, we noticed that
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we did not have the Sun. We're not getting the kind of data
that we would expect when we have the Sun directly over the
ATM. That means that we did not reach solar inertial which is
what we've been trying to find. At that - at the time we do
reach solar inertial we do a procedure call initializing
strapdown which is essentially telling the gyros the attitude
control system, that you now have the Sun directly over-
head and then any variation from that will be recorded by
the computers. Since we didn't - although we didn't get that
we also have initialized strapdown, and we've informed the
crew that they should now try to find the Sun. They are
in a much better position to do it since they do have a visual
references. And they'll be trying to reach the get the Sun
directly over the ATM and then they will again initialize
strapdown. And at that time we will have solar inertial
and hopefully the attitude problems will be entirely cleared
up. The crew will be doing that before they go to sleep. We
will not call the crew at Guam which is our next station
in approximately 34 minutes and a half. But we may hear from
them again if they are still up and are still working, and
that's still a possibility. Still no idea of what the temperatures
are in the inside of the orbital workshop because they have
not yet come on scale at a 120 degrees. They should be doing
that during the night and we expect to see something on that
a little bit later. The external temperatures on the vehicle
are substantially lower than they were earlier. This is Skylab
Control. We'll be back up again on the hour or at the time
we have acquisition of signal at Guam. Time now is 5 hours
12 minutes and 48 seconds Greenwich mean time.
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CC Six minutes.
SC I'd like to know what's in there.
CC Roger. Six minutes is in there now,
Joe.
SC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. When you get a - break
there at the console, I got three switches I want you to hit.
SC Okay, read them up.
CC Okay, we - on panel 207, now that we
got the ATM coolant loop up, we'd like to get you to ENABLE on
the caution and warning. The pump DELTA-P coolant temp and
heater temp unter ATM canister.
SC Roger.
SC And, I'm ready to copy the star tracker
pad.
CC Roger. The star is Canopus and it
will be available day, 28:00; night, 03:00. Inner gimbal
minus 0660; out of gimbal plus 1620; and up at the top there
I missed, that should be 5,000 and in the box goes i. Remarks
do not enable R-plane error update until you get a go from the
ground. In other words, do not do 52011, 50011 until advised.
SC Okay, understand that and I'm think
I'ii also do this without computer control of the star tracker,
to let it go into wide search.
CC Okay, that's good.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Madrid at 20 and we plan
to dump the recorder there.
SC Roger.
SC Say, Hank. Tomorrow why don't you plan on
giving us revelie.
CC Roger, will do.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; at 13 hours
16 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
with Bermuda. Madrid to acquire in approximately 4 minutes.
The crew awakening early this morning sounds cheerful and
ready. We heard from all three crewmembers during
that pass, Conrad, Weitz, Kerwin. Meanwhile, Joe Kerwin,
getting data from the ground, making inputs into the attitude
and pointing control system aboard the orbital workshop. To
know the vehicles drift in yaw, the APCS is commanded manually
by the astronauts at the control and display console of the
Apollo telescope mount. While Kerwin is doing this, Conrad
and Weitz are preparing breakfast aboard the command module.
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we would like for you to bring up the optics and see if you
can find us a couple of stars. And give us the ID and
shaft and trunnion off the (garble), just use the telescope.
And the time to the nearest minute. And that way we could make
sure that the computer's doing the right thing.
SC Okay. I'Ii see what I can do.
CC And you got 13 minutes of night left,
Pete.
CC Skylab, Houston, for the SPT.
SC I'm getting your stars right now, Hank.
SC Hey, Hank, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
SC But sometime today, we'll tag up on B channel
or whatever we're suppose to be recording on for the medics.
One of the things that we're going to have to straighten out
is how much water we drank yesterday. And seeing that we
were all drinking out of the same gun and everything, we've
- I think we've mentioned some numbers on that but I'd like
to refine them. If we didn't send you numbers, would you
let us know so that we go ahead and tag up on that? I'm
gonna try and bring all that stuff up to date tonight in the
Evening Report some time.
CC Okay. Copy. And we're about LOS
now. Hawaii is coming up at 04.
SC Okay. See you then.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; at 15 hours
15 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal over
Honeysuckle. The next station to acquire will be Hawaii in
approximately 14 minutes.
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CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Yep. I presume that those water tanks are
going to be about the longest thing in the spacecraft to cool
down, right?
CC Roger. We probably think so, but that may
at least keep us from cycling the heaters on for a while.
CDR Yeah. And the plus Z SAL is almost cold.
CC Roger. Our telemeters show this colder
than the minus Z.
CDR Well, at least you know it works right
around that area.
CC Roger.
SC You may also be interested to know, Hank,
that, I don't think any of us have found a problem in mobility
or stability at any task we've had to do yet.
CC Hey, that's beautiful.
CC We never did get a report yesterday. Did
you see anything wrong with that dome hatch? This is kind of
going back a pace, you know. We had a vent leak there or
something. Did you notice anything abnormal with it?
SC No, nothing other than, - I looked it over
fairly carefully. It looked completely normal. All forces on
opening it appeared to be normal. The only thing was there
was some debris on the inside of the screen. But it did
appear to all be on the screens, not on the valve.
CC Roger. Copy. Was the workshop fairly
clean, or was there a lot of things floating around in there
when you opened her up?
SC We got a fairly good collection, but l
think for a vehicle, a total combined vehicle of this volume,
I think it's pretty darn clean.
SC Tell them about your - -
SC Yes. My biggest prize so far, is about a
6-inch long drill bit. It's about 3/16, I guess, found that.
There's a fair amount of stuff in that ah - oh what's that one
valve, that panel 403, that 403 valve in the dome of the airlock
had about an inch and a half of stuff in the bottom of the
debris collector in it.
CC Roger. Copy.
SC Still there, Henry?
CC That's affirmative.
SC CDR has completed testing all the fire
sensors and the bad one we mentioned yesterday, we put back
on the line just to see what would happen.
SC And presently in the process of bringing
the SOP/SOMAs to bring you up to date on him. The PLT is
about halfway down page 91.
CC Roger. Copy.
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SC - Room activation.
CC Okay, Pete. Could you give us a quick
rundown, if it's convenient on where you are in the time line
now?
SC Roger. I am at wardroom activation.
SC And the PLT just finished hooking up the
water tank 7 and we are just moving into the waste management
compartment. Right now I am starting bed 2 bakeout initiation.
CC Roger. Copy.
SC Okay, the SPT is doing the waste manage-
ment compartment activation, page 2-81. And, Hank, I like
to know how the star acquisition data look to you. And also
whether you guys are looking around for a nut for us to put
the cover back - the pyro cover back on the probe. What we'd
llke to do as soon as we get a free hour or so is to attempt
to engage the probe in the drogue in a more or less normal way.
So that we'll have confidence we can do it when we deactivate.
CC Okay, To let let you know what's going on
down here. Rusty is working up a procedure for some of the
fellows on troubleshooting that probe. And, we hope to get
that up to you some time today.
SC Okay. Tell them to remember the Kilo-
India, Sierra-Sierra mode.
CC Roger.
CC Joe, want to ask you a question about the
momentum. We think we are in good shape. However we're not
absolutely sure. We want to watch it awhile. We have not
enabled a star tracker update. We're going to hold that awhile.
You can expect those SAS fairings for a while until we get
squared away. We'd like to look at it for perhaps another rev
here.
SC Okay. It just oceured to me that you're
going to lose the star before too long due to occultation.
CC Roger. We should acquire next time. And
another little bit of information - -
CC Skylab, for the PLT.
SC Yeah.
CC We'd like to know which purge you were
working on then, and whether there was a water heater or chill-
er, and how long the purge had been going.
SC You mean when the water dump pressure was
slow coming down? What are you talking about?
were CC doing
you a purgeR._ 4 _r_8%_oing a purge now? Or,
SC Yeah. I'm in the process of doing a dump
through the wardroom dumps for the checklist right now and and
activating the trash box.
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SC Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. 30 seconds LOS.
Honeysuckle at 20.
SC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; now receiving
the followon picture of that first pass over the States with
Skylab on television.
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CC Roger. Copy.
SC Okay. The SPT is still in the waste
management compartment on page 2-81. And, Hank, I'd like to
know how the star acquisition looks to you and also whether you
guys are looking around for a nut for us to put the cover of
that thing-pyro cover back on the probe. What we'd like to do
if we get a free hour or so, is to attempt to engage the probe
in the drogue in a more or less normal way, so that we'll have
confidence we we can do it when we deactivate.
CC Okay. To let you know what's going on
down here. Rusty's working up a procedure for some of the
fellows on troubleshooting that probe. And we hope to get that
up to you some time today.
SC Okay. Tell them to remember the Kilo-
India_ Sierra-Sierra mode. _
CC Roger.!|_1 _! _ i"_ |
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; the television
we're now looking at is a playback of the first televised
stateside pass by the crew aboard Skylab.
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the drawings, so because
but is theWh_eA_t_nning
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to theto hatch
look
section just a little bit out forward of the SAS beam, was
there a seam where meteoroid shield bolted together running
logitudinally?
CC Yes, sir. And we've looked at all of those
angles in there and all of them can be cut with the tool,
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and throw the switches we would like for you to pull the
circuit breakers again.
CC And before we lose comm here, which is
a pretty low elevation pass, we would llke to verify that
somebody has turned the TV off.
CDR Okay, we'll take care of it and we'll
see that the radiators are in bypass.
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Roger, go ahead.
CDR Just had a fire alarm in the OWS heat
exchanger compartment. We don't see anything. I turned
off the alarm and reset it again. And it must have been a
(garble). We don't see anything. Anything you'd like us
to look at in there?
CC We're looking and we're just about to
lose you for a long LOS. Keep an eye out. Everything looks
okay down here, at a cursory glance. We'll see you over
Goldstone at 22:45.
CDR Okay.
CC We're right in the middle of the south
Atlantic anomaly. I don't know whether I'd accept that thing
or not.
PAO This is Skylab Control 21:42 Greenwich
mean time. We've had LOS from Vanguard. Next pass over
that ship will be a little bit longer duration, higher
elevation angle. At about 61 degrees, we're now in 2 min-
utes away from Goldstone. No further tracking station
until Goldstone. Goldstone and Texas it shaves down
the edge of the California and Baja California and Mexican
coast, and moves out into the Pacific on descending nodes
for the next several revolutions, beginning to come back across
the Indian subcontinent and central Asia and China on the ascend-
ing nodes. And hour and i minute to Goldstone. And at
21:43 Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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You have to have the fecal bag there a certain way or you
just don't get enough vacuum through the urine system
enough flow, to pull urine down the urine tube, but the
othr two guys have been working on that down for a while.
They say it works okay.
CC Roger, copy.
PLT Hello, Henry. Look at page i01, will
you please.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Under PLT there, the first step there.
(garble) water tank work (garble) and move.
CC Okay, we give up.
PLT About an extra half, notifying you.
CC Okay.
PLT Not only that, but I'm not continuing
per the checklist.
CC Okay, stand by for a minute.
CC Paul, we'd like to verify that you
completed the water purge after we terminated that time.
PLT Okay, this is screwed up, doing this
stuff in bits and pieces, interrupted and that, =hat I don't
know what I've done, but I have accomplished everything in
the checklist up to this point. As spelled out in section
Bravo (garble) Flight Plan.
CC Roger, copy.
PLT As I remember, I did not finish a
15-mlnute suck on the wardroom water heater, when you
called me and want it terminated. After that then I think
I did a 5-minute purge on the chiller.
CC Okay, the message I guess follows, is
to press ahead, we think it's okay.
PLT I was hoping you'd say that.
CC PLT, Houston. We'd like to get you to
turn those 35 psi toggles on, one at a time so we can watch
them.
PLT Is that the nitrogen regs you wanted
one at a time?
CC That is affirmative.
PLT Okay.
CC And another thing we'll throw out for
consideration here. It looks llke to us that the momentum
management is almost perfect, and we'd like to bring the
star tracker up according to the pad we gave you. Acquire
and enable star tracker update. That's 52011, 50011. You
can do that anytime prior to Vanguard, which is 23:10.
PLT Okay. Here comes reg A.
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CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Okay. Now, I'ii give you a film status
tomorrow. The only film we used was during rendezvous and
I'll itemize that out for you. Bring you up to date tomorrow,
when we get going. We would like you to send us, tonight
again, the procedures for the probe. The first eight steps
were okay, then you transmitted a second message. It is
split, and half garbled and the lines are jumped, and I'm
not exactly sure what it says. We request a retransmission
on that.
CC Wilco.
CDR We are a little bit behind on day 4. How-
ever with regroup the next day, we will have it all made up
and we'll get back with it at noon tomorrow. As far as we
could tell all stowage is still as specified, unless you
find the changes as noted on A record. That's it for the
status report.
CC Okay. We'd like to talk about the flight
plan. We've got about 4 minutes left, Pete. How we saw
things was perhaps; the first thing tomorrow is to just
sort of pick up where we left off and work on through, with
a couple of exceptions. There will be a press conference
tomorrow and we figure lunchtime is about the best time
to do it, at about 18:40, and there will be a trim burn
coming at about 01:07 - about a 29-second burn time. Those,
I think, are the only changes.
CDR Okay, the press conference is when?
CC Roger. It'll be about 18:40.
CDR On TV?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Where do you want the TV?
CC Okay, wait a minute. There's been a change on
the press conference time. It's 17:04.
CDR 17:04 in the wardroom, right?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR For the trim burn is when?
CC At 01:07. That'll be after dinner, in the
evening.
CDR Okay. 29 seconds drive roughly.
CC That's affirmative.
CDR I figured I'd break the orb trying to dock
the other night. I almost deorbited the thing.
CC (laughter) It's still there. We checked
on the cassette you asked about. It is not on board. That
container.
CDR Okay, I sure looked hard, but I'm glad it's
not on board. Okay.
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SC - - just like
CC Pete, we lost the last part of that trans-
mission. We handed over sites right in the middle of it.
SC Okay. Where was I?
CC Well, we got to the part where you said
you we're having trouble with the shoes in the WMC.
SC Yeah. You can't use those foot restraints
in the waste management compartment when you have triangle
shoes on. The material's so stiff that even if you hook them
over to make them big enough to put your feet in, the velcro
won't stay stuck and you just - you'd have to apply pressure
to hold a little friction in there. They just - They won't hold,
so you slip out of them. So we're ricocheting off the walls
in there. We'll probably work something out here a little
bit later. I would say that big boxes - All that big gear,
it's no problem at all to handle any of that. As a matter
of fact, most of the food boxes were done one man. So,
big stuff actually went quicker than expected. It's just a
lot of this little stuff getting anchored, doing it, collecting
it, and figuring out where to go next. And I think we'll pick
up as we go along here.
CC Roger. That was a good rundown, Pete.
CC SPT, what are you doing for us?
SC We've got a lot of other things that are
not reflected in the workload, I'm sure. If you can imagine,
it's always been said on every flight. You really generate a
lot of trash. And that command module was a sight to behold.
Now, Joe spent the better part, for a couple of hours yesterday
just cleaning the command module up. And it still needs some
more, you know, just a little bit more work. But, the command
module is Just about in the right configuration now. And
we did dispose of an awful lot of trash last night. We got
3 large plenum bags. We haven't got those below, yet.
But, we're talking about waste management. We almost thought
we'd jammed the trash airlock yesterday. The bag that had
the UCTAs in it really expanded. And we were just flat
lucky to get that one out of there.
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because we got all the parts but the retainer ring and I
spspect it broke.
CC Roger. Copy.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 14 hours ii minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've just had loss of signal. Next
station to acquire will be Madrid in approximately 4 minutes.
During the stateside pass we've heard mainly from commander
Pete Conrad who gave a very garphic rundown og what life was
like in the workshop. The discussion centered in part on the
teleprinter operation and he described such things as - as the
differences he found in food handling in the wardroom in space
versus simulations on the ground. We'll stand by and keep the
line open and pick up Skylab as we next acquire over Madrid.
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SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, going back to our
light situation. What we been using as our baseline down
here to sort of program our power is 15 lights in the
workshop on low. If you're comfortable with some other
configuration, you say you got about 12 on now in high we'd
like to - to know so we can , you know, update our baseline
SC Okay, that's a pretty good number, Hank.
Why don't you base go on 12 on high.
CC Okay, we'll work from that basis then.
PAO We've been listening to CAP COM, Henry
Hartsfield, talk with Paul Weitz about the lighting for
the filming of Mlbl. That's a time and motion study designed
to evaluate the metabolic experiment MITI, which is scheduled
to start later this afternoon.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 1 minute
to LOS. You're looking good going over the hill. Carnarvon
at i0.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, at 17 hours
48 minutes ground elapsed time. We've had acquisition - had
loss of signal now with Ascension. The next station to
acquire will be Carnarvon in approximately 22 minutes.
During that relatively long pass over Canary and Ascension
we received definite conformation from the Skylab crew
that they had in fact spent the night in the multiple
docking adapter versus the command module. Jokingly, they
asked if the command module was still there and to the status
and were assured by CAP COM, Hartsfield that the command
module was in good shape. Skylab crew Pete Conrad, Paul
Weitz, and Joe Kerwin have essentially completed their
orbital workshop activation. Shortly this afternoon
they will press on to activate the medical experiments
M92, M93, and 171, these being activated and calibrated
for use. The lower body and negetive pressure device,
the vectorcardiogram system, the metabolic analyzer, and
the ergometer system are the principal pieces of equipment
that are involved. And mainly this activation calls for
Kerwin to turn knobs and watch gages and make the
electronics active for operational use. Later in the
afternoon MITI and M192 will be put into use with Paul
Weitz as the subject, and Dr. Joe Kerwin as the observer.
We're about 20 minutes away now from acquisition over
Carnarvon and at 17 hours 50 minutes Greenwich mean time
this is Skylab Control, Houston.
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CC (Garble)
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; at 18 hours
9 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition
through Carnarvon with Skylab now on its 203rd revolution of
the orbital workshop. We'll stand by and monitor as CAP COM,
Henry Hartsfield, places his call to the crew aboard the
space station.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
8-1/2 minutes.
SC (Garble)
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. We have approxi-
mately 3-i/2 minutes remaining on this pass over Carnarvon.
The only contact with the crew thus far has been a callup
from CAP COM, Henry Hartsfield, which stated we had them under
acquisition and a brief acknowledgment from Pilot Paul Weitz.
We'll stand by and continue to monitor for the balance of the
pass. This Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Guam at 25.
SC Say, Hank, did I remember you saying
we're going to have a trim burn today?
_- CC That's affirmative. It'll come after
dinner tonight, Pete. A little after 01:00.
SC A little after 01:00. Okay.
SC Commander Weitz has just entered the
waste management compartment to see if our new equipment is
worth - I mean, that's the most serious test today.
CC Roger. Copy.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; at 18 hours
19 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
through Carnarvon. We should be acquiring Skylab through
Guam in approximately 5 minutes.
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