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SL-IV MC-1301/I
Time: 17:56 CST 39:23:56 GMT
12/24/73
million little fire flies and it's really beautiful. We're just
wondering if one of the systems somewhere along the line just
belched or burped.
CC Roger, we'll check.
SPT Must have been something impulsive Hank,
because the first time we saw it they were really whistling by,
coming from the aft end and then they slowed up, I guess it's
just the slower ones comin_ by now.
CC And Skylab for info, all three of your
families are in the viewing room now watching the play back
of TV81.
CDR Very good.
SPT Very good, Merry Christmas to them all.
Even the little guy.
PLT And Merry Christmas to the Pogues.
CDR I bet they sure are jealous of that tree.
CC How did you make that tree, Jer?
CDR Say again Hank.
CC How did you make that tree, what did you
use?
CDR We made it out of herring bones out of the
food cans,
CC That was a real neat tree.
CDR Thank you, hey the entire area - New England
area is clear as a bell. New York City you just can't lose.
PLT Not just New York City Hank, but the old
hometown of Buffalo is wide open.
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SL-IV MC1302/I
Time: 18:09 CST, 14:00:09 GMT
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SL-IV MC1304/I
Time: 18:40 CST, 40:00:40 GMT
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TIME: 19:05 CST, 40:01:05 GMT
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SL-IV MC-1306/I
Time: 19:33 CST 40:01:33 GMT
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SL-IV MC1307/I
Time: 19:45 CST, 40:01:45 GMT
12/24/73
CC That's affirmative.
SPT - - them. Go ahead.
CC You're absolutely correct with that
Ed, that's true.
SPT Okay. Tell old Cathy I'll get her some
data in another couple of days or so.
CC Okay, we'll schedule it. And we're about
20 seconds from LOS. We'll see you at Canaries at 57, with
a recorder dump.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 1
hour 53 minutes. With loss of signal through Bermuda. Next
acquisition in 3 minutes and 30 seconds through Canary Island
tracking station. As Skylab begins it 3,241st revolution
of the Earth since launch from Cape Kennedy, on May 14th.
Crew of Skylab IV concluding their 39th day in orbit. A day of
performing more photography of Kohoutek Comet Kohoutek
which tomorrow will receive the attention of the crew as they
go outside the vehicle to install three separate instruments
to record data on the comet. The cameras will be put out
during a scheduled 5_i/2 hours extravehicular activity,
with Commander Gerald Cart, and Bill Pogue exiting the
spacecraft:, while Scien - Science Pilot Ed Gibson remains
inside monitorin_ the extravehicular work of his two fellow
astronauts. His position will be at the Mul - at the MDA
Apollo telescope mount control and display panel, monitoring
the systems and supervising the checklist as the crew goes
through their work outside the vehicle. Next acquisition in
2 minutes through Canary. We_ll hold the line up until this
pass,
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SL-IV MC1308/I
TIME: 19:55 CST, 40:01:55 GMT
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SL-IV MC1309/I
TIME: 20:16 CST, 40:02:16 GMT
12/24/73
above 400K and also the one for 60 minutes we could never
get in one dayside. How do they propose to plan - how do we
propose to carry that one off?
CC Okay, I'ii try to get an answer for you
at Honeysuckle.
SPT Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 2 hours
25 minutes. Loss of signal through Tananarive, next
acquisition in 16 minutes and I0 seconds will be the
Honeysuckle tracking station in Australia. Christmas messages
continue to go up to the crew. The most recent one is from
the Mission Evaluation room and Glynn S. Lunney who is in
addition to being head of the ApolloSoyuz test project here
at the Johnson Space Center is also manager of the Apollo
Spacecraft Program Office at the Johnson Space Center. The
message reads: "To the three crewmembers of Skylab IV, you
guys are doing a great job up there and givinK Santa a run
for his money. So here is a Christmas wish for you from the
MER and Lunnet. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and all
that kind of jive from all of us here in Building 45.
Building 45 is right next door to the Mission Control Center
here at the Johnson Space Center. Another message being
prepared for relay up tonight to Skylab-IV crew, specifically
Pilot Bill Pogue is a message from his family. One from his
18-year-old daughter, a simple "jingle bells, jingle bells,
fa-la_fa-la, fa_la° We opened all you Christmas presents
ha, ha, ha." Signed Lana Pogue, 18-year-old daughter of
Pilot Bill Pogue. Another message signed by Mrs. William Pogue.
Tom 16_year-old son of the Pilot and 20-year-old son Bill
and again Lana Pogue reads as follows. To Bill (Wilbur),
we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas,
we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." And at
the bottom is a little caricature saying "Go Cowboys."
Apparently Pilot Pogue is a fan of the Cowboys. Next
acquisition will be through the Honeysuckle tracking station
in 13 minutes and 55 seconds. At Greenwich mean time
2 hours and 28 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MCI310/I
Time: 20:41 CST, 40:02:41 GMT
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SL-IV MC-1311/I
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SL-IV MC1312/I
TIME: 21:12 CST, 40:03:12 GMT
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TIME: 21:45 CST, 40:03:45 GMT
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SL-IV MC-1316/I
Time: 05:47 CST 40:11:47 GMT
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SL-IV MC-1319/I
Time: 07:36 CST, 40:13:36 GMT
12/25/73
wait until about January 5th to view a dimmer, but still quite
visible, Kohoutek. Whether the comet will survice the close
brush with the Sun is by no means certain. The Sun's energy may
strip the nucleus to nothing, blowing it away into space.
Such was the fate of the Comet Ensor in 1906 and the Comet
Westphal in 1913. Still other comets have increased tremendously
in brightness, becoming visible in daylight as they neared the
Sun. The quick passage by the Sun may produce unusual shapes,
knots or circles or streamers, in Kohoutekts tail. By using
Skylab_s special comet camera, $201, and a 35-millimeter camera
designed to record very tiny amounts of matter in the vacuum
around the orbiting space station, this third team of astro-
nauts to work aboard the laboratory this year may give
scientists another key to unlocking the secrets of a very com-
plex univers. Skylab now 1 hour 21 minutes from acquisition
at Vanguard. At 13 hours 41 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-1320/I
Time: 09:02 CST 40:15:02 GMT
12/25/73
CC Thanks, Jer.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and
about 4 minutes to Ascension. Be dumping the data/voice
there.
CDR Roger, Story. And, we're jumping in our
suits right now.
CC Okay, thanks, Jer.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has had
loss of signal. Ascension will pick up Skylab in less than
2 minutes. We'll continue to monitor. Jerry Carr reporting
just before Ascension loss of signal that they were getting
into their p_essure suits. EVA officer is assessing the
t_me line now. We'll come back with a report on how the
crew is moving alon_ in these preparations as soon as he gives
a report to the Flight Director.
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SL-IV MC1321/I
TIME: 09:15 CST, 40:15:15 GMT
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SL-IV MC-1322/1
Time: I0:00 CST 40:16:00 GMT
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SL-IV MC1323/I
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Time: 10:49 CST 40:16:49 GMT
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SL-IV MC-1327/I
Time: 11:36 CST 40:17:36 GMT
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SL-IV MC1328/I
TIME: 11:48 CST, 40:17:48 GMT
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SL-IV MC-1330/I
Time: 12:24 CST 40:18:24 GMT
12/25/73
PLT MARK.
PLT MARK. I'm ready.
CDR Got it?
PLT What do you have? What's next?
CC Skylab, we're about a minute from LOS.
About 15 minutes to Canaries at 18:38. Be dumping the data/
voice at Canary, and for Ed. You may get a CAUTION SECON -
DARY TEMP LOW, why you can punch it out and ignore it.
PLT And, Story, you may tell the people there
this boom is very, very steady. I don't see any oscillations
at all. They were concerned about it.
SPT Okay, Story, understand. And what about
if we get a RESET somewhere along here during one of these
long S020 exposures. Is there anything we can do to terminate
that exposure and pick it up again later?
PLT Bravo 2. Stand by. And I'm standing by.
CC Ed, we are not expecting a CMG RESET.
If you do, just stop the experiment and stop the clock and
pick it up after you're stable again.
PLT Well all I know is to go to STORAGE, but
you told me -
CDR Story, to stop the experiment, though,
we donot have to advance to a new plate.
CC Yes. You want to go to STORAGE to stop
the experiment.
SPT Okay.
PLT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
Vanguard's range now. The next station is Canary Islands in
11-1/2 minutes. Operations with the S020 and T025 cameras'
going well. After the - all of the T025 exposures have been
taken, the $201 experiment will replace T025 on the ATM truss.
Visibility apparently very good according to description by
Skylab Commander Jerry Carr. The weather is clear. Coming over
South America he gave a brief description of the (garble) Fault,
a geological fault in that area. This extravehicular activity
has been going on now 1 hour 33 minutes. Planned for 5-1/2 hours.
At 18 hours 28 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1331/I
TIME: 12::36 CST, 40:18:36 GMT
12/25/73
CC That's affirm.
CDR He's just taking T025 off of the strut.
PLT No, that was taped on, Story. And - -
CDR No, that's, Ed, you're talking to (garble).
PLT I don't think I can. I - I'm -
CDR Ed, just let him stick it in there and
tether to the nearest handrail and I'ii take care of it when
I get back. Right. Just Just tether it near by Bill. Don't
go thrashing around in there.
PLT I will not.
CDR Okay it's about time; we're getting close
to sunset_, Bill. Okay.
PLT I think what Jerry's talking about is we
got to go to STORAGE.
CDR Yeah, and Bill is - you know half way in
the locker right now.
PLT Yeah, I'm - -
PLT Okay, I'm standing by to go to STORAGE.
CDR Let's just wait and rest. Yes, you're
doing a very good job.
PLT It's darkl Till you get the lights on.
That's affirm. To the aft compartment. Real good peinting.
I'm proud of that. Boy that was hard to get. He can tell
me cause it's not all I gotta to do is to twist this knob
from 1 back to Ed.
PLT Got it, STORAGE.
SPT Story, I assure we have 7 minutes 59
seconds remaining on the 60-minute exposure?
CC Okay, Ed.
PLT Well, okay, would you read it once again
reset the handrail and all that stuff. All right. Yeah, let's
just get on with the transfere now.
CDR Well, don't you have to roll for 201?
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SL-IV MC-1332/I
Time: 12:48 CST 40:18:48 GMT
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SL-IV MC-1333/I
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SL-IV MC-1334/I
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SL-IV MC1335/I
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SL-IV MC1338/I
Time: 14:59 CST 40:20:59 GMT
12/25/73
and cool in the LCG is good and cool. What seems to be the
problem?
CC We're just reading with your comments on
the - the ice flakes and we're reading 35 degrees on your
inlet 02 temperature. Has it changed any in the last hour or
two that you know of?
CDR I don't think so. I haven't noticed it.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm trying to stow some of this hose back
in the umbilical or in the sphere (?) l've got 40 feet pulled
out, so I_'ii put a few feet back in. That's been done.
PLT You're goin_ to have to wait to do all
this, Ed, cause I - I have it in position. I have it aimed
back in the FAS. I'm waiting for the shadow to come into
the FAS. Okay? Now - I haven't done it, but I want to keep
them closed here until I get ready to use them.
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SL-IV MC1339/I
Time: 15:13 CST, 40:21:13 GMT
12/25/73
PLT Okay.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay.
CDR All right I can get 0316, right? Well, I'm
right here. I can get them. Okay, lighting at a AM at DA,
right? Okay. ATM's off, DA's off.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, about
32 minutes to Texas as 21:41.
CDR Man, am I throwing out the ice crystals now.
PLT Are we waiting for night or are we going
to do this in the daytime? Okay, I was just wondering how -
I'm going to do the comet.
PLT Yeah.
PAO Skylab, Control. Greenwich mean time
21 hours ii minutes. Loss of signal t_rough the Carnarvon/
Honeysuckle tracking station. Next acquisition will be in
29 minutes and 20 seconds through the Texas tracking station.
EVA now 4 hours and 16 minutes. The maneuver for $201 still
underway with Science Pilot Ed Gibson performing the activities
associated with the maneuver inside the multiple docking
adapter at the Apollo telescope and control and display
panel. Additional discussions by Commander Carr and Pilot
Pogue concerning the ice flakes floating around the - Commander
Cart's pressure suit. ALSA, which is the Apollo life support
assembly, which consists of the pressure suit, the secondary
oxygen pack, the LSU, the Life Support Umbilical, the 60-foot
long umbilical which provides air and water coolant for the
suit. The discussions with the extra-ve extravehicular
activity officer here at the control center indications are
that this is water freezing condensation from the suit valve
freezing and being dislodged at the vent valve. Commander Carr
was advised to put part of the umbilical back inside the
airlock module. He estimated he had 40_foot out of the 60-foot
long umbilical line. Next acquisition will be in 27 minutes
and 40 seconds through Texas tracking station. At Greenwich
mean time 21 hours and 13 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-1340/I
Time: 15:39 CST 40:21:39 GMT
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SL-IV MC1341/I
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SL-IV MC-1342/I
Time: 15:59 CST, 40:21:59 GMT
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SL-IV MC-1343/1
Time: 16:31 CST, 40:22:31 GMT
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SL-IV MC1344/I
Time: 16:41 CST, 40:22:41 GMT
12/25/73
number 4.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, our momentum is building up in X
again, we'll need a nominal H-cage here. And you'll probably
get excursion down to 40 to 45 degrees.
SPT Okay, would you like it right now?
CC Yes sir.
PLT Okay, what about - -
CC Skylab, we're i0 seconds to LOS. See you
over Texas in about 30 minutes at 23:15. Be dumping the data/
voice there.
CDR Okay. Do you see enough filter position?
CC We're looking.
PLT I'm ready to go to storage.
CC Still 5 CDR.
CDR Okay.
CC You have to go way back into that left-
hand rear corner angling the screw driver in order to get it
through position 4.
PLT That's storage effort. We maneuver now?
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 22
hours 48 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle. Next
acquisition in 26 minutes 50 seconds will be Texas tracking
station. Commander Carr continuing with the troubleshooting
procedures for the S054 ATM camera, at the center work station.
The EVA now 5 hours 53 minutes in duration to this point.
It will will - has already run pass the 5 hour and 30 minutes
originally scheduled, still about another 30 minutes to go
in activities at the SO54 and the closeout procedures. The
EVA on Thanksgiving Day was 6 hours and 33 minutes in duration
with on mission day 7. 6 hours and 33 minutes was duplicated
on SL-III mission, Seventh EVA in the Skylab program, 3 on
SL-II, and 3 on SL-III. The first seventh EVA on Thanskgiving
Day and this makes the 8th EVA for Skylab mission. Next
acquisition in 25 minutes and 35 seconds through Texas. At
Greenwich mean 22 hours 50 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-1345/I
Time: 17:10 CST 40:23:10 GMT
12/25/73
PLT It worked.
CDR Hot dog. Let's get everybody in close to
the CG so Ed won't have so many problems.
CC Not a bad idea.
PLT On it's way.
CDR Okay, Bill's sending down the film now.
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SL-IV MC-1346
Time: 17:20 CST, 40:23:20 GMT
12/25/73
SPT Okay.
CDR Stand back.
CDR Okay, I'm back. Wait just a minute. Let
me close the door first. Okay. Door is CLOSED.
CC Ed_ continue on with the a nominal H CAGE
after it settles down, we'll give you a GO for CMG control.
CDR No. No, I can't see out that way. I
ought to be able to see some sparklies though.
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SL-IV MC1347/I
Time: 17:26 CST, 40:23:26 GMT
12/25/73
thether ring right there. Just put it through the metal D ring.
Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 23
hours 33 mintues. EVA still in progress, EVA clock now
showing 6 hours 38 minutes, surpassing the first EVA already.
Already by 5 minutes, first EVA on Thanksgivin_ Day was 6
hours and 33 minutes in duration. And the crew still has
some time yet to bring back some more equipment and make
closeout. The work on the S054 filter successful accordin_
to Commander Carr. He was able to pull back the - pull back
and get the filter 3 in position. And he was very excited
as he did this. Science Pilot Gibson reporting attitude
problems. The vehicle was - had a problem in the Y attitude
saturated in the Y attitude he had to go to CMG control,
there was extensive TACS firings - present estimate close to
600 TACS firings during this prior to and during the stateside
pass. Next acquisition will be Madrid in 2 minutes. The
changeover presently in progress here at the Mission Control
center. Offgoin_ Flight Director Milt Windler, the on-
coming team of headed by Chuck Lewis - Fli_ht Director
Chuck Lewis.
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SL-IV MC1348/I
Time: 17:35 CST, 40:23:35 GMT
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SL-IV MC-1353/I
Time: 19:12 CST 41:01:12 GMT
12/25/73
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time i
hour and 123 minutes. Loss of signal through Madrid. The
crew advised of deletion of four seperate housekeeping tasks
tonight to give the crew a little more time after this lengthy
EVA. EVA officer still standing by the unofficial time of 7
hours. The exact hatch closing time will not be known for
several hours while ground controllers review dump data. The
crew has not been asked to confirm the time. The ground_is - .
confident that 7 hours will hold up at this time. Discussion
concerning the equipment used during the EVA which produced
ice flakes around Commander Gerald Carr_s spacesuit. Caused
apparently by a leak, a loose fitting in the O-seal of the
umbilical. The ground will evaluate the use of this equipment
and make a thorough study of the results before the EVA scheduled
for Saturday. G&N officer reports an additional 26 mibs,
minimim inpulse burns were made with the TACs thruster attitude
control system. During this last pass this was expected as
the refined attitude of the orbit was made using CMGs and TACs
followin_ the 7-hour EVA. Still no word on the total usage
of mibs during the EVA, however ground data indicates 611 or
more than 3000 pound/seconds of TACs may have been used during
the EVA. However the computer had inhibited the TACs from
firing bull the computor also said you should fire, but
Science Pilot Gibson said he had inhihited the TACs. So
therefore until the data is reviewed it will not be know
whether 6111 mibs were actually fired. Kohoutek
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SL-IV MC1354/I
Time: 19:25 CST, 41:01:25 GMT
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SL-IV MC1358/I
Time: 20:29 CST, 41:02:29 GMT
12/25/73
take a look?
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston, that's all we need then.
You can go ahead and do a normal powerdown.
CDR Roger, Hank. I'm glad that's all the
problem was.
CC So are we. Skylab, Houston, has
housekeeping 90 Bravo been accomplished step 6 and 8? We
still don't see the heat exchanger fans and everything
going.
PLT It's in work right now, Hank.
CC Okay, thank you Bill. CDR, Houston,
I guess when you get through with that powerdown we'd want
to go back and inhibit l0 Alfa again.
CDR Okay, good enough.
PLT Hank, what fans and everything are you
referring to?
CC The OWS heat exchanger fans, Bill.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, if it's convenient for
an answer now, in regard to the PCU that you you were
wearing Jerry that was leaking so bad. I wonder if on the
first EVA who ever was wearing that, did they notice any
unusual amount of water or ice or anythin_ around that
connector?
CDR Hank, I was the guy who broke those
-_CD_ - the PCUs down at the end of that EVA and I don't
remember seeing any water around them at all.
CC Okay, we copy. And we're about i
minute from LOS. Next site is Canaries at 51, and that's
scheduled for the med conference.
CDR Roger.
PLT Hank, are you still there?
CC Roger, we copy.
PLT Check the fans now, they should be
running, l've reconfigured.
CC Okay, looks good.
PLT Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
2 hours 49 mintues. The crew will shortly be in the midst
of their Christmas Day meal. Commander Carr having pork
loin, tomatoes and shrimp and stra_ erries. Science Pilot
Gibson having prime ribs of beef, green beans_ pears and
rolls, while Pilot Pogue has filet mignon, mashed potatoes,
asparagus and orange drink. They will top this off with
some extra fruitcake left behind by previous crews. Although
the Skylab-IV crew had the option of eatin_ turkey and gravy
today, they chose to stick with today's tasty menu of
SL-IV MC1358/3
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SL-IV MC1362/I
Time: 22:10 CST, 41:04:10 GMT
12/25/73
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6.5 heavy, half
light; SPT, 7.5, 7.3 heavy, 0.2 light; PLT, 7.5, 7 heavy,
half light. Volume: CDR, 1750; SPT, 2200; PLT, i000.
Water gun: CDR, 7786; SPT, 3347; PLT, 9568. Body mass:
CDR, 6.290, 6.289, 6.289; SPT, 6.350, 6.349, 6.352; PLT,
6.251, 6.251, 6.254 Exercise: none for anybody.
Mediations: CDR, chloral hydrate last night, Sudafed tonight;
SPT, none; PLT, Tinactin as directed and Oranade [?] tonight.
Clothing: CDRp one T-shirt; SPT, one pair of shorts; PLT,
none. Food log: CDR, salt 3.0, deviations, minus two
coffee with sugar, minus lemon pudding and plus fruitcake,
rehydration water plus 1.5; SPT, zero salt, zero deviations,
zero water; PLT PLT, salt 1.5, plus one fruitcake and
rehyrdation water zero. Flight Plan deviations: none.
Shopping list: none. Inoperable equipment: none.
Unscheduled stowage: none. Okay, here's the photo log:
16-millimeter, documentary photos EVA, Charlie India
78, 60, Charlie India 74. Nikons - we have a TO25 we owe
you a reading onthat. And we'll give that to you tomorrow.
70-millimeter, Charlie X-ray 171, 75, ETC, none. EREP,
no change. Drawer A: Alfa thro - Alfa 1 through Alfa 4,
no change. In the back 07, Charlie India 78, 60, Charlie
India 74, all the rest of the Nikons, no chan_e.
CC Roger, we copy Jet.
CC CDR, Houston, I understand that you
didn't find all the Christmas goodies. The - the presents
were right in the same PPK with the Christmas tree.
CDR Oh, we're supposed to open the whole
bag, huh?
CC Well, I'm exactly sure how they were
stowed. The little Christmas tree was in there with the -
in the zipper bag attachment, it should have been three
small presents in there with it.
CDR Okay, I think I know what you mean then.
We found a bag with a zipper bag on the side, but we did
not open the big bag. We just opened the zipper ba_.
CC Well, we understand that's where the
presents supposed to be in the zipper bag.
CDR No, the zipper bag only had the tree
in it, that's about all there was room for in that little
zipper bag. We'll go conduct a search though.
CC Okay, what you're lookin_ for is about
say dime size.
CDR Dime size?
CC Little tiny things. And G&S says go
easy, he doesn't want his mementum missed up again. And
we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We could say good night
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usin_ the ATM. We'd like to make sure that we don't miss any
opportunities up here, in order to get that done. So, you
just tell us what time certain observations are best
performed and let us try and work out what can be done.
MCC Great. We really appreciate that attitude.
Yeah, I'm afraid that it is behind the panel now, and that's
the reason that I don't believe you'll have a really good
view of it until around January the 8th or so, but we're
reworking that right now, to see if there's any possibility
at any time that we can get a good view of it and, if we
can come up with anything, during any of the maneuvers, or
anythinK of that sort, we'll certainly pass it on to you.
SPT Okay, and I - apparently we're goin_ to
be hearing more about which type of JOPs, JOP 18 Alfa, Bravo,
Charlie or so forth, we're going to be doin_ over the next
few days. It would be interesting to get a summary of that
and start thinking a little bit ahead.
MCC Okay, we'll sure do that. Bill Lenoir will
be talking about these things to you, daily, too as well,
but we'll get that to you.
CC And, Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. About
2 minutes to Canaries and Bill Lenoir with the visual ops.
And, when we come up over Canaries, I'll need someone at the
STS for some switch throwing.
SPT Okay, Story. Thanks very much, Bill.
MCC Thank you (garble).
PAO This is Skylab Control. Short dropout
between Ascension and Canaries. Should have acquisition
throuKh Canaries in about 20 seconds. The briefer from the
ground, on Kohoutek conference, was William Shoddy, the
Kohoutek project manager for Skylab, from the Marshall Space
FliKht Center, in Huntsville, Alabama. Scientist-Astronaut
Bill Lenoir will be next with
CC AOS Canaries/Madrid for i0 minutes. And,
someone up in the STS?
CDR On our way.
CC Okay.
CC And, while you're on your way up there.
What we're seeing is on 1-minute cycles, 5 seconds before the
even minute, we're seeinK a decrease in the ATM C&D coolant
flow.
PLT Okay, Story. I'm up here.
CC Okay, Bill. Panel 203, ATM COOLANT PUMP,
C, OFF; and then D, ON.
PLT That's complete.
CC Okay, and did you hear any noise or any
chan_e in the noise when you did that?
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PLT Negative.
CC Okay, here's Bill with visual ops.
MCC Hi guys.
SPT Good morning, Bill.
MCC Okay, let me just start off here with a
couple of quickies about the Falkland current area, Want to
emphasize what we said last time and that is that the obser_
vations you're giving us are very good data, It's new infor_
marion. The ground experts here are presently analyzing all
of the words and details that you have passed down to see what
we ought to do next. We don't yet have a good total answer
to your question, yesterday, on the red coloration that you
saw. We'll include that with the regular analysis and you
will certainly be among the first to get our answers. A word -
SPT Tell them we didn't see it as heavily today, but
there's still sort of a tint of it.
MCC Okay. Good. I hope you voice record your
total observations on that, because those are really excellent
descriptions you're giving us. The TV show you gave us was
excellent. We're sorry as you are that the tape ran out
when it did. We'll be trying again. It looks right now,
like we're going to be getting a Z-LV EREP pass on your next
day off, New Year's Day. That primarily is for the African
drought area up over the inland delta in Mall and Niger
And, we will be going, early, into Z-LV and we will be taking
the full complement of EREP instruments over the Falkland
current area. Hopefully, with TV on the VTS. So, that's
something I wanted you to be aware of, to know that that was
coming. Shortly after that, llke a week or so, we_ll be
loosing Sun in that area, as the precesion of the beta angle
causes your Sun line - Sunset/Sunrise to move further up
in the ascending part of your orbit, We will be returning
in Sun, to that area, late in the mission. In general, any
comments that you have on southern hemispheric current, in
particula_ the circum_Antartic current_ are more than welcome
and almost certainly fill a void where very little is known
at this time. And_ here again_ we will be losing Sun in
that area and not picking it up again until late in the
mission, and by that I mean late January, Some general
thoughts. The low Sun angles in ascending tracks, I have
just mentioned, we have apparently lost most of our opportunity
for the Okavango Swamp until later in the mission. Not so
much by Sun angle, but because that your passes over that
now occur early in the morning prior to your getting up.
So we'll be concentrating on looking at the inland delta
region now, up by Niger and Mall. Coming back to the
Okavango swamp later in the mission, when we can catch
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PLT Rog.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR HeyStory. My hat's off to Rusty and
whoever the guys were that worked with them on those S054 procedures.
Boy, if they hadn't been written so well, I'd never have been able
to figure out what was going on out there.
CC Okay, Jer. Good, we'll pass it on.
CC And, while I got you, what configuration
did you leave the T025 in? Did you do a normal stow on it?
CDR No, we just put the camera away last night.
CC Okay, If you get a chance today, wetd like
a normal stow on it.
CDR Yeah. We'll go ahead and get the rest of
it put away, shortly.
CC And, per your request, we did send up some
ATM, some optional passes there. They are optional. If you
are going to run them, let us know, so we wontt he running
our unattended ops. And, that ought to be in the teleprinter
now.
CDR Will do.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Jer, we still don't show H-alpha operating.
Is the EVA AUTO DOOR switch in STORAGE.
CDR No, it's ENABLED.
CC And, did you get an ENABLED prior to sunrise?
CDR Negative. I didn't.
CC Okay, that's it.
CC And future ref Jer, if you get that switch
enabled after sunrise, you need to give H-alpha a start,
cause it doesn't get the data streak (?).
CDR Yeah. I knew that, darn it, and I forgot
it.
CC Okay.
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doing, we always thought the more you did, you're better. Now
we're starting to raise the question what is an optical amount
of exercise and we wanted your inputs on this.
SPT Well, right now, none of us are complaining
of any muscle soreness or any fatigue or anything like that
from the exercise. Most of us find the exercise is a good
cobweb clearer. It makes us feel a lot better when we're
finished.
CC And, understand, you don't have a lot of
fatigue even after a hard workout.
SPT Well, immediately after work, yes. But,
it's not one of these things where you can hardly wait to
get to bed that night.
CC Okay. And yon think, maybe it's increasing
your alertness of performance during the day.
SPT I think so, very definitely. I think the
greatest factor in fatigue is what kind of sleep you get
during the night and not how hard you worked during the day.
I think if you can get yourself a couple of hours before you
go to bed to sleep to let the motor slow down and get yourself
a good night's sleep and then you're ready to roar into it
the following night.
CC So_ in general, you like the amount of
exercise that you're proposed to run from here on?
SPT Yeah. That's affirmative, Story. I
think the bigger problem as far as fatigue is concerned is
mental activity and busy work that keeps you uptight and moving
until late into the evening. That's the sort of thing we like
to get rid of and try to have an unwinding time. But I
relax very well at the ATM panel.
CC Okay. And how would you feel about a
temporary reduc _on in the amount of exercise?
SPT We would not be for that.
CC Okay. We were thinking about it just as
a means of gathering some other data points here.
SPT Well_ we'll go along with it for a while,
but I don_t think we should let anybody cap that concrete.
Story, if we were going to do that, I would propose that
essentially, we work out as hard as we always do, on a
particular feature but maybe not do that each night. That is
like I would work the bike every other day and do the other
exercises on alternate days, as opposed to decreasin_ the
exercise that you do on both. I think you really nead a hard
workout when you do it.
CC Okay. Well_ we were real interested in
getting your inputs on that. We've been thinking it over down
here and I_ve got about 20 seconds here to LOS. Enjoyed
talking with you. We_ll pick you up over Carnarvon in about
25 minutes at 20:11.
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about the stowage book down here, E-69 E-699 and that C
there means that 114 bags had urine in them and those samples
were brought home.
CDR You finally broke the code, huh?
CC Yes, we broke that one. We'll probably
work on a few ot_ers later.
CDR Got a new code for you. W-799.
CC We'll work it.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
20 hours 28 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition in 30 minutes 25 seconds will be the MILA
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think that that high time resolution data can maybe buy
us a lot. We'll be doing that tomorrow, so just wanted to
warn you that you'll see it on the pad even before the general
message comes up - -
SPT Okay, I'm glad you explained that. Looks
like a good opportunity to get time resolution and the
explanation will help, because if we were going to study
high time resolution with low,mode, I think we all would have
wondered.
MCC Yeah,okay, well. Now you know how it works.
One thing I wanted to mention, the procedure should be I guess
to use the 12.8 minute position on the 54 timer. Now if the
building block is long enough we'd like a re-initiate.
So, when the ready light comes on on the 54 timer, hit the STOP
switch to clear the logic just in case the mode hasn't quite
timed out, and then hit the START switch again.
SPT Okay, we'll do that.
MCC Okay, now the - the next topic I wanted
to discuss it was the shutter override what it was the fact that
the shutter override allows long exposure, because of the fact the
shutter is always open. Now the idea here is that by taking
long exposures, we're hoping to get data all the way out
with good microdensitometer of both density, all the way
out to 1-]/2 solar radii where we can get into the 52 field
of view. The point is that X-ray intensity varies in filter
3 goes as _ about T to the T cubed NE squared, whereas the
white light coronagraph goes like N sub E linearly with no
dependence on temperature. Therefore, you compare the data
from the two experiments and that gives you NE and and TE
independently.
SPT That's very good. Did you say you can get
out to 1-]./2 of that if we point off as far as we can?
MCC Well - -
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it's quite likely it went there while you were LOS. And
early you said you were going to take some extra TV of
the Christmas tree - have you already done that? We're
gonna be dumping that here in about 2 or 3 hours?
CDR No, I haven't done it yet. We'll get on
the stick and get it done.
CC Okay, fine, we'd appreciate it. And
here's one more that has to do with some 02 management.
First of all, let me explain what the situation is and then
ask any questions. Presently, we're engaged in M509-F7A
to reduce the N2 content of the cluster atmosphere. This'll
either require use of (garble) valves which are controlled
by 5 PSA ]pressure switch for termination of this procedure
during the sleep period. In other - in other words, it's
likely if we continue this procedure that we'll automatically
input 02 to the atmosphere when the pressure goes down to
5 psi. A couple of days ago you added 02 to the cluster
atmosphere and what we were wondering is do yon think the
noise produced by this addition of 02 would interfer with
sleep if - if the 02 were automatically added. We're kind
of in a bind as to decide whether to inhibit this procedure
during bedtime or not.
CDR That's pretty noisy, Dick. What other
options do we have? With that oxygen blowing up there
in the MDA, when you're in there, you can hardly hear your-
self think.
CC Okay, stand by just a second, Jer. Jer,
we fefinitely do not have to - to leave this procedure in
work during sleep period, so probably the best thing to do
would just be inhibit it and we can still do atmosphere
management under those circumstances. No problem.
CDR Okay, you mean you want to inhibit this
F7A?
CC Jerry, what it'll involve is before you go
to bed tlhis evening, we'll - we'll have you do one step
which is - close the dump valve for us and then reopen it
in the morning. So later on this evening, I'ii give you a
call when we want you to do that, so it's not a big deal.
Incidentally, on the answer to your question on the 509
batteries is that they are nightcap batteries.
CDR Okay, that's good - that makes us feel better.
Because they're pretty hard to hurt.
CC Hey, incidentally, Jerry, one thing that
I haven't researched completely because I haven't read
through all the air-to-ground notes when - when we're gone,
but the other day they - we sent up that message on selected
housekeeping. And what that was intended to be was an
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CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go.
CC Yeah, there is a step 13, but it came
up to you on one of the changes to the checklist. And we'll
be sure to figure which one that was and reuplink it. And let
me read it to you real fast. It says, at any time during
soak period, rotate cartridge TEMP switch to each position,
and voice record temps if possible. Over.
PLT Okay, now read the first phrase first,
again.
CC Okay. At any time during soak period.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay, got it. And we'll figure out
which - which numbered checklist change that is. There
are only two that are made to this book, we'll figure out
which one that is and reuplink it to you.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
CC Yes, sir.
CC And we're about i0 seconds from LOS.
We'll just: have a short dropout here, and then I'ii call
you at Bermuda,
CC Skylab, Houston, we're at Bermuda for
4_i/2 minutes, and I got a quick question for the SPT.
CDR Go ahead, he's listening.
SPT Okay, it seems like we get to do plenty
of talkin_ this evening about checklist changes. Our spies in
the ATM backroom were watching you doing that building block 35 -
34 and 35. And we uplinked a checklist change to the JOP
Summary Sheets that changed that building block for S056 about
2 days ago. And we suspicioned that - that it is not entered
in your books yet. It was checklist change 15 to the JOP
Summary Sheets, and if you don't have it we'll be glad to
reuplink that one also.
SPT Dick, was that the same one with 18Z
changes? I looked at it gleaned all that went with JOP 18.
And maybe I was wrong, I had not planned on doing that. We
had not got around to making those because I thought they were
all JOP 18. I had plan to do that sometime tonight.
CC Well, I tell you it was interspersed
with a bunch that were JOP 18. But no, this particular
one had to do with JOP 21.
SPT Yeah, I understand but it wasn't
interspersed with the 18. Okay
CC Well -
SPT Let me get it in there. I'll go ahead
and make that chan_e right now.
CC Okay, no problem. Well, I mean it was
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the fruitcake I've eaten over the last couple of day. You'd
probably gain 15 pounds.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS, Canary Island comes up at 02:08. And we're going
to dump the data/voice recorder there.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
2 hours 5 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda, next
acquisition in i minute and 40 seconds through Canary tracking
station. An attempt by ground controllers to troubleshoot
troublesome transducers that are - have been for the past several
days adding noise to some of the data being received here
at the Mission Control Center. The test though as the space-
craft was in the vicinity of St. Louis, Missouri, the McDonnell
Douglas Plant. Two transducers were switched off in an attempt
to track down where the trouble might exist in the electrical
systen aboard the spacecraft. These two - the noisy data
is effecting 90 parameters here at the Johnson Space Center,
of data received from the vehicle. These systems includes
the airlock electrical power system, the thermal life support
system, as well as the communication system aboard the space-
craft. This is not considered a major problem at this time.
The only _ the parameters being affected range from slight noisy
to severely noisy, and approximately only 30 percent of the 90
are in the severely noisy category. However, ground controllers
are able to extract from the data the exact parameters. These
test will continue, this is the second time a test has been
run. Today the switches were thrown on group 2 transducer
panel 200 in the structual transition section of the airlock
module. We_ll hold the line up for CAP COMM, Dick Truly.
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