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Time: 22:50 CDT 14:50 GET
5/25/73
This is Skylab Control at 14 hours
PA0
50 minutes ground elapsed time. About a minute 50 seconds
until acquisition at the Vanguard tracking ship, which is
stationed off the southeast <~oast of South America. And
hopefully we will have a positive statement from the crew
that they have been successful in docking after the |-as^
procedure that they went through. Failing that, it looks
like they go through a standoff maneuver for the evening,
and regroup tomorrow for further docking attempts. We 11
wait and see what happens here over Vanguard. The Vanguard
pass will last almost 8 minutes and the next station after
Vanguard will be Vanguard again, an hour and 38 minutes
from now. We'll stand by for the first call from sPac®~
craft communicator to the crew of Skylab II. We ve had
AOS.
Skylab Houston through the Vanguard.
cc
How do you read?
CDR
We got a hard dock out of it.
CC
Way to go.
pA0
Considerable applause here on the re
port of hard docking.
... we got a tunnel integrity
CDR
check in the work right now.
CC
Hey, way to go. Good show.
CDR
You can tell sim sup that we really
would sure like to get some ... out of this thing
after a while.
CC
You can bet your life I will Pete.
CDR
We're starting our quiescent switch
configuration with the notes that you gave me some where
back day before yesterday it seems like.
CC
Stand by for one on the quiescent
check please, Pete.
CC
CDR Houston. We've got 6 minutes left
in this pass. We do have about an hour and a half a whole
rev before we get Vanguard back again. I do have just a
few short notes that might help you go through the check
list for the post docking this evening. Over.
CDR
Fire away.
CC
Okay, the first of course is get
through the post docking work. And I'm not sure what of
this you've done on the SEVA checklist on page L/Delta.
Then go through the helmets gloves and PGA docking and
stowage and that is on pages L/l-13, L/l-14 and 15 in the
SEVA section.
CDR
Okay.
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CC
Okay, following that Pete, go through
the presleep activity on SEVA section page L/Foxtrot. And
we want to add one additional step in the presleep activity.
We need to replace system Alfa LIOH canister, it's in
Alfa 4 and stow the used canister back in Alfa 4. Over.
CDR
Okay. System A is the top system, right?
CC
That's affirmative Pete.
CDR
Okay, look we've had our problems
and you've had your problems so we'll probably press on
to get this thing completely configured according to the
checklist that you gave us. We have eaten dinner, so
whenever we get this thing done, we'll get to bed and
press on first thing in the morning. I would, because of
the docking like to go ahead, if we've got a good tunnel
and verify all latches. It sounded to me like we got at
least 10. But I would like to verify them and then we'll
put the hatch back in and go to bed. Do you concur with
it?
CC
Stand by one.
CC
Okay, you tell them you got anything
else other than that you want to do tonight? Well he does
that as far as the list.
CC
CDR Houston. On your question, we do
concur that if you have a good hatch integrity check to
verify the docking latches. Also one thing we want to be
sure to catch is a fuel cell reactants valves to unlatch
in a normal. And be advised that we will be going back
to CMG control on the SWS. We expect you may get a little
bit of movement out of it but we want to get out of TACS
only.
CDR
Okay sir it is all yours.
CC
Roger that.
CC
Skylab Houston.
CDR
Go ahead Houston.
CC
Okay, Pete. One thing in the checklist
that we were going to read you and just never had time and
got in a hassle. During the quiescent panel check on panel
201, we do not want to inhibit items 9 Alfa Charlie and
Delta. Over.
CDR
Do not inhibit 9 Alfa Charlie and
Delta.
9^
That's right Pete. And where we're
looking at our time line, we expect bed time will be some
where around 18 hours or a little bit sooner and we think
that ought to give us plenty of time to call you on this
next Vanguard pass next time around, which is about an
hour and a half from now, and if you don't have any objec—
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5/25/73
tions we're going to call you at that pass and that will
probably be the last AOS today.
C°R
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 10 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.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-61/1
Time: 23:27 CDT
5/25/73
15:26 GET
PAO
This is Skylab Control 15 hours 26
minutes ground elapse time in the Skylab 2 mission. The
Skylab space station, with a successfully docked Command
Service Module is presently over the Arabian Peninsula, and
an hour and 3 minutes out of Vanguard for the final com
munications of the evening, which will consist primarily
of a status report on the presleep checklist and the final
goodnight of the evening. In 10 <->r 15 minutes, a press
conference will be held in the Johnson Space Center news
room, small briefino room. Participants being, Mr. Bill
Schneider, Skylab Program Director, NASA headquarters.
The two Manned Space Flight Center Skylab Program Manaaers,
Kenny Kleinknecht from Johnson Space Center, and Leland
Belew from Marshall Space Flight Center. They should be
arriving within the next 10 minutes, and at 15:27 ground
elapsed time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-62/1
Time: 00:27 a.m. CDT, 16:27 GET
5/26/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control at 5 hours 27
minutes 54 seconds Greenwich mean time. We can hear the horn
buzzing in Mission Control to announce acquisition of signal
coming up in a little under 2 minutes. We'll have acquisition
of signal at Vanguard. This period of pass is approximately
10 minutes and 17 seconds, and after that there will be another
opportunity at Ascension at approximately 3 minutes later.
At this time it appears that we'll not use that opportunity,
that they'll allow the crew to go to sleep immediately after
the Vanguard pass. That's still open however, at this time.
Among the instructions we passed up - in this coming pass by
the CAP COM are instructions to reset the clock that they're
using now - the G.E.T. or ground elapsed time clock which will
be reading 17:00 hours on the next even hour. They will reset
that clock to read 06:00 Greenwich mean time and from now on the
mission will be conducted on Greenwich mean time. They also
will give instructions to the crew to go to sleep within the
next hour before 17:00 GET or 6 o'clock Greenwich mean time
and their wake-up will be left open. They can wake up when
ever they like. At any case they expect to wake up no earlier
than 9 a.m. central daylight time. There will not be a wakeup call given from the ground if present plans are continued.
There are two reset maneuvers being scheduled during the night and
the crew will be informed about this. The first reset maneuver
may take place right immediately after the Vanguard pass at
Ascension. That still is - has not been computed completely
and they're going to try and compute that in time and let the
crew know what - the exact details that reset maneuver will
be. We're going to have acquisition of signal very shortly
and you can listen in for the - - This is Skylab Control.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Van
guard for the next 11 minutes.
PAO
We have AOS.
CC
10 minutes for the next 10 minutes.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Van
guard for the next 9 minutes. How do you read?
PAO
We're trying to acquire the CSM on voice.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Van
guard for the next 8 minutes. Over.
CC
Skylab, Houston over Vanguard for the
next 7 minutes. How do you read? Over.
CDR
CC
Roger, Pete. You were a little bit
garbled there. For your information I've got a few messages
for you I'd like to give if you can copy.
PLT
Okay, Houston.
CC
Roger. Fine job today, Pete. Number 1
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5/26/73
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 1.
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.
CDR
Okay, Bob, and for your information the
CDR ate everything.
CC
All right. Okey 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 POO 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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SL-II MC-62/3
Time: 00:27 a.m. CDT, 16:27 GET
5/26/73
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CC
Stand by 1. We do want the computer
left in POO and ACCEPT.
CDR
Okay, the computer's in POO and ACCEPT and on the max power down we've stopped most of that, but
there are a couple of things that we have not done. Like, do
you want the E/P spectrometer off?
CC
Okay, Pete. They really didn't want
you to do the max power down, but ...*5
PLT
RCS q uad Bravo temperature
indicates off=scale high, associated CAUTION. At first we
didn't know if it was real or not. We ... 2 - turned
those heaters off on Bravo and I assume that it's safe to
turn them back on again.
CC
Rog. I didn't get the which C&W you
had there, Paul.
PLT
RCS quad Bravo.
CC
Rog.
PLT
And the reason we got - the reason
we got it was for temperature - that it was high at the time
and now it's off=scale high.
CC
Rog. Copy.
CC
We would like to - PLT
Go ahead.
CC
Okay. We had not planned to give you
a call over the ground station, however there's several mes
sages here that we probably ought to talk about. So we are
about a minute and one half to LOS and we'll have you again
at Ascension and at 16:43. I'll go ahead and hit you with
a couple of things here. They would like you to back out of
that MAX POWER DOWN if you could and just have the quiescent
POWER DOWN.
PLT
Okay. I think we can sort that out.
CC
Okay dokey.
PLT
Yeah, also, I got a popped circuit
breaker I want to talk about next time on panel 5. It's last
one in the second row, UTILITY. We're R/L station MAIN A.
CC
Rog. I understand that one's popped.
CDR
Well, we reset it but that's the one
that feeds the backup way that we got docked and we think it
probably popped when we docked.
CC
Okay, but it did reset okay. Is that
correct?
PLT
Yeah.
CC
Can you tell us whether you used A or
B system for docking?
CDR
Bravo.
CC
Rog. Copy, Bravo.
CDR
The bottom one in the panel I believe.
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5/26/73
CC
Rog. Okay, we're just about to go LOS
here. By the way wake-up tomorrow is going to be open-ended.
You give us a call.
MS
Yea.
CDR
Okay, that's good because look we got about
another hour at least in here. Man, this place looks like
somebody blew through here with a tornado.
CC
I think you guys earned a good night's
sleep.
CDR
We'll be around for at least another
hour and a half I think.
CC
Rog. We were going to end up doing
a CMG reset at the next station pass and that's going to move
the vehicle around a little bit.
CDR
Well we notice ... up here a
little bit.
CC
Okay, you have got a slight maneuver
going on now, but that's not a reset. We're trying to get back
PAO
We have LOS. We've have our next
axquisition of signal in about 2 minutes and 17 seconds and
the crew will be again given further information about maneuvers
We'll be on for about 2 minutes.
END OF TAPE
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SL-II MC-63/1
Time: 00:43 CDT 16:43 GET
5/25/73
we have acquisition of telemetry data
and we expect acquisition any moment now.
we are AOS over Acsension for the iu
cc
minutes for the next 10 minutes.
Okay, we are backing out of this low
PLT
cc
POWV
Rog, understand. And I guess you got
your flight plan there with you and it did have exceptions
listed on the quiescent time line. That s in your
9
checklist.
_ _ tQO but he also had the max power
down and I wasn't sure which one you wanted, so I went into
that and we'll be out in a minute.
CC
Roger, understand.
Rog, the exceptions are listed in SEVA
cQ
L-E.
CDR
Right.
CC
And we are going to be starting the
CMG reset routine very soon, and it's going to cause the
vehicle to move around, oh a good little bit. This one is
going to be kind of small, it can't be large. For your in
formation, we are probably going to have to do an^her one
of these tonight before you wake up. We ve been having to
do them about every 4 to 8 hours.
CDR
Okay.
cc
And Skylab, we would like you to select
secondary package heaters on quad Bravo.
CDR
Okay, everything works.
PLT
Well we've got the package heater and
we've got the quad heater. Do you want them both to go
to 2 and secondary as appropriate?
cc
Pete, that was a little bit garbled
on did you understand it on quad Bravo. We wanted the pack
age heaters to secondary.
CDR
Okay, the package heaters to secondary.
CC
Rog•
„
PLT
Okay except thats what's confusing. Crip.
We got two sets of heaters. One for the package and one for
the quad.
cc
Rog. It is the package.
PLT
Well the backup one for the package
is two and the backup one for the quad is second. So you
want the package heater to 2 and the quad heater left in
primary. Is that right?
CC
That is affirmative.
CDR
Okay, and by going to the caution
warning, it was a package indication that was tripping it.
CC
Rog, understand.
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5/25/73
CDR
Say, Crip, we did have to dump urine once
today, which I believe we reported. The time that we
did it all three crew members other wise we have collected
all the rest of it onboard.
CC
Roger, copy.
CC
Skylab Houston. We still have about
6 minutes left in this pass. The next pass is
going to be over Guam at 17:27 elapsed time and that will
06:27. I guess our intent now is not to give you a call
there.
CDR
Okay.
CC
Skylab Houston. I guess tomorrow
morning, what you can do is on your activation checklist
pick out a site to give us a call when you're awake and
want to go to work.
CDR
Okay.
CC
Skylab Houston. We're 1 minute to
LOS over Ascension and we'll see you manana. That pass
over Guam, in case you need us is at 06:27 GMT.
CDR
06:27, Okay, thank you.
PAO
This is Skylab Control. We have loss
of signal now at Ascension. The spacecraft is now passing
to the northeast over Africa on rev 167. Our next chance
for signal will be, as the Capcom indicated, in about 33 min
utes and 40 seconds from now at Guam. And we expect to
have no communications from the spacecraft at that time
unless the crew has something they would like to say to
the ground. They did indicate at Vanguard that they did not
expect to be asleep by 1:00 a.m. central daylight time as
they were to been instructed to go to sleep. They may be
up a little later, you may hear from them at Guam. We're
not quite certain about that. They are expecting to go to
bed as soon as possible and will get up probably get up no
earlier than 9:00 a.m. central daylight time tomorrow.
They will not be awakened from the ground. They will give
a call to the ground from their headsets whenever they are
ready to get up and go to work. This is about an hour and
a half, the 9:00 a.m. mininum sleep time will make it about
an hour and a half later than the flight plan that was set
up premission. That's to give them time to get plenty of
rest after a very hard day. This is Skylab Control at 5 hours
54 minutes and 50 seconds Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC 64/1
Times 01:25 CDT 17:25 GET
5/25/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control. We again have
the horn sounding in Mission Control, 2 minutes coming up
for opportunity for acquisition of signal at Guam. The
space station at this time is on its 167th revolution on
a decending node, passing over Japan. And we're about
1-1/2 minutes from acquisition of signal. This acquisition
of signal may not actually indicate any sort of discussion
between the crew and ground. We don't know one way or the
other whether the crew will still be awake. We will, how
ever, be getting telemetry data. And we may hear something
from the crew, since they indicated they may not yet be
asleep. We have 1 minute and 20 seconds to acquisition of
signal.
PAO
Skylab Control. We have 55 seconds to
acquisition of signal. The crew is now operating on
Greenwich mean time. They have reset their clocks at 1700
hours ground elapsed time to the Greenwich mean time 600
hours. They are now going to be getting all times in
Greenwich mean time. At 06:26:49 Greenwich mean time, we
have 38 seconds to acquisition of signal.
PAO
We have telemetry acquisition of signal.
And we should have voice acquisition of signal shortly.
PAO
AOS.
MCC
Guam tech. Comm Tech, Houston, take net
one for a voice check.
MCC
Guam, Comm Tech
MCC
Roger.
PAO
We have indications that the crew is
attempting MCC
Guam station, do you read. Over.
CDR
Affirmative Guam, loud and clear.
MCC
We have a communications problem between
the tracking station and the network, and we'll be back
with you as soon as we reestablish.
CC
Skylab, Houston. How do you read.
CDR
Loud and Clear.
CC
Okay. Read you loud and clear.
CDR
Hey, we finished clorinating the water.
P.J. Weitz is sliding into his sleeping bag, along with
Pete Conrad and Joe Kerwin. We're just about to bed out.
CC
Very good. Anything else we can do for
you tonight?
CDR
No. We did have a question. We have
turned the potable water tank on not for any other reason
than it was down to 25 percent. We figure we might as well
fill it up.
CC
Rog.
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Time: 01:25 CDT717:25 GET
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. CC
For your information, we got about
6 minutes left on this pass.
CDR
in to that day 2 activation
tomorrow, as soon as we get up and eat.
CC
Okay, no need to rush.
cc
While I got you here, we talked about
that reset routine. I don't know whether that bugged you
all. The motion, it could get up into as much as 3/10 of
a degree per second if we - on some of them, we have seen
those kind of things.
CDR
Yeah. Is it maneuvering right now?
^
i don't beleive so.
CDR
Okay, well, we got the window shades up,
so we don t know what you guys are doing.
, CC
Very good. And Pete, that potable tank
and that valve is okay like you got it.
CDR
Okay.
CC
Skylab, Houston. If you need us for
any reason tonight, if you'd give us a VERB 99, we'll
have AOS.
CDR
Okay.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute til
LOS and we 11 see you manana.
Nighty-Nite.
CDR
Nighty-Nite honey.
CDR
Hey Crip, you still with us.
CC
Affirm.
C R
Hey, I just wanted to impress on every
body how - how black or burnt looking that gold foil was
getting on the sunny side of the vehicle. I suspect that's
the reason your temperature is going up. That mylar's S**just deteriorating or whatever that gold stuff is.
CC
.
Roger. I think they got that impression
today during the fire up.
CDR
Okay.
CC
Let's hope the parasol takes care of it.
C R
Yeah. Now that we're docked, I'm not
sure how we get undocked.
CC
We'll work on that.
PA?
,„
. We have lost the signal at Guam and the
crew should be going to sleep very shortly now. They will
wake up at their will in the morning. Probably sometime
after 9:00 a.m. central daylight time. During the evening
a reset maneuver will be preformed to reset the control
moment gyros, beside that it should be a rather quite/w-T^
evening. Systems are being monitered. Temperatures kee^
to be at very acceptable levels. The suit coolant loop,
which has given some concern earlier in the last few days
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Time: 01:25 CDT 17:25 GET
5/25/73
has now risen to 36.8 degrees. Very mild temperature. Very
well above freezing, and very well above the safe range
that had been indicated earlier, and the temperatures seem to
be about the same level that they were earlier in the workshop
habitation area. So, we don't expect to hear anything more
from the crew tonight. We will have a Skylab reports on
the hour from now on, and in the event of any sort of
status change, we will come on. This is Skylab Control at
6 hours 39 minutes Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-65/1
Time: 03:00 CDT 19:00 GET
5/25/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control at 8 hours
and 2 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time,
the Skylab space station is in its 168th revolution. The
command module is completing its 12th revolution. They
are properly docked. The period of revolution is 1 Ijour
33 minutes 13.5 seconds. The low point in the orbit 235.2
nautical miles. The high point 239.7 nautical miles. That's
a variation from approximately 270 statute miles to 275
statute miles. Speed at this time 25,087.8 feet per sec
ond, approximately 17,100 miles per hour. Biomedical officer
informs us that we will have no information on the time the
crew went to sleep tonight because none of the crew members
are wearing the^operational biomedical system, the OBS which
records heart rate and related data. It allows us to deter
mine whether or not they have gone to sleep. At the present
time the command module is a very comfortable 70.6 degrees.
And it's pressurized to 4.9 pounds per square inch. This
is Skylab Control at 8 hours 1 minute and 17 seconds Green
wich mean time.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-66/1
Time: 04iOO_ a.m.
5/26/73
CDT»
20:00 GET
This is Skylab Control at 9 hours Green
PA0
wich mean time. At the present time the Flight Controller,
Milt Windier, and his team of flight controllers are
f
a slight attitude adjustment to take place
Greenwich mean time, that's a little less thanan 1
now at Honeysuckle tracking station. That will be iater i
rev 170. We are at this point - I take that back - that
on rev 169 . We are at this point early in rev 169, .just be
ginning our pass over the Equator and we're headedto the north
east - headed for the Canary Island tracking statioi„!!?«» o
have acquisition of signal there in a little over 4
There have been no new problems arising in the mission a
everything looks successful. We expect the crew tobeawakening
y
at approximately 9 o'clock, but they will not be al**ted.
will wake up on their own - at their own time and
their awakening to us and we'll be waiting for ^sometime
after 9:00 a.m. central daylight time. This is Skylab
at 1 minute and 8 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 05:00 CDT 21:00 GET
5/26/73
This is Skylab Control at 10 hours
L
Greenwich mean time. At the present time repressurization
of the orbital workshop area is preceeding on schedule
towards a completion about 12:49 Greenwich mean time. 2
hours and 50 minutes from now. Making the station ready for
habitation before the crew wakes up sometime after 1400
Greenwich mean time. At this time the pressure indicator
in that area are reading about 3.9 pounds per square inch.
There are expected - The crew's expected to enter the
workshop about 1600 Greenwich mean time, depending on crew
wakeup. That's assuming they wake up after about 8 hours
of sleep. Power usage during the final depressurization
e orbibal workshop has been relatively high and
SYFlight Director Milton Windier has reduced the pitch of
the space station to bring more direct sunlight on the ATM
solar panels, thus increasing the charge levels of the
seventeen batteries still operating aboard Skylab. ^Charger
ttery_regu1ator module number 15, which ceased operations
earlier in the mission continues to show no amperage and is
a stuck relay that cannot be repaired by the
' . hl? inactive CBRM will cost an estimated 150 to
200 watts in power generation. Battery charge is relatively
low, as electronic equipment is being operated to provide
heat needed to warm oxygen as it is released into the
rhl°p J? prevent coolant temperatures from dropping.
of P^tchup to 45 degrees, which began about
5 minn^pB
M«h i
i
charge batteries, which should be at
b<Tfor® the crew begins activation later today.
•iwLilll
^ W3Jer coolant lo°P tbat connects the suit
8ys!:em iavf been rising Steadily after a very
angle of about 25 degress up was used during the
temner^in9 nighJ:* ^fc,the Present time the SUS coolant inlet
f! reads 1
degrees Fahrenheit, far above the
J lhat caused concern for several days this past
weex. Estimated temperature in the food storage area is
12J de9rees and may be expected to rise 1 to 2
e"ters*
As a result of the lower
p
pitch angle now being used to charge the ATM batteries. At
the present time there have been no additional problems
arising at the Skylab Mission Control Center. A^d we expect
Mnfnn9w-°5iShlft 3t 7:00 this mornin9 as Flight Director
o
i!r gOGS °ff and Fli3ht Director Neil Hutchinson
Mission Control Houston at 10
hours 2 min, J18 X%S!5«
hours 2 minutes and 40 seconds, Greenwich mean time.
PA0
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-68/1
Time: 06:00 a.m. CDT, 22:00 GET
5/26/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control at 11 hours
Greenwich mean time. At the present time all systems are
still operating properly on the Skylab workshop and in the
command module. The temperature right now in the cabin of
the command module is 69.3 degrees and the pressure level in
there is 4.95. We have continued to pressurize the orbital
workshop. It is now past the 4 pound per square inch level,
and will rise to 5 pounds per square inch in plenty of time
for a crew wakeup and they're having no problems with any of
those systems so far. The TACS consumable status right now
is that we have 54.5 percent of the total amount of TACS gas
originally carried still in the tank. Considerable amount
of TACS gas was used last night but there still remains approx
imately 30 percent more than is required for all experiments
and maneuvers throughout an eight month period. This is about
8 percent at this time - about 8 percent more than was
expected in the flight plan so that there's a - there's
fortunately a very large pad in this area so that we have
plenty of TACS gas remaining. But there was quite a lot
used last night during the maneuver. This is Skylab Control
at 11 hours 1 minute and 16 seconds Greenwich mean time.
SL-II MC-69/1
Time: 07»00 a.m. CDT, 00:23:00 GET
5/26/73
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 1200 hours
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab orbital assembly now traveling
in an orbit of 239 nautical miles by 235 nautical miles, presently
passing over the southeast portion of the Pacific Ocean. The
next tracking station to acquire will be Texas, some 7 minutes
from this time. The Skylab crew aboard the command module
are still in their rest period. Wake-up time is presently
somewhat open-handed; however, it should be around 9 o'clock
central daylight time, or 1400 hours G.m.t. Also, the assign
ment of the Mission Control Center is being handled in much
the same way. Flight Director Milt Windier's team is still
on duty. However, it is expected that they will be replaced
by the Neil Hutchinson team shortly. At 1200 hours G.m.t.,
this is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC70/1
Time: 08:00 a.m. CDT, 1:00:00:00 GET
5/26/73
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 1300 hours
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab orbital assembly presently in
an orbit of 239 nautical miles by 235 nautical miles. Pres
ently passing over the Indian Ocean on the 171st revolution
for the Saturn workshop. Meanwhile, in Mission Control, the
Neil Hutchinson team is beginning to arrive on the scene.
Their team color is silver. Presently, discussions are cen
tering on the activation checklist,»*?hich represents the pro
cedures that the crew aboard Skylab will follow for entry
into the workshop today. We're at 1300 hours 1 minute Green
wich mean time. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
SL-II MC-71/1
Time: 09:00 a.m. CDT, 1:00:60 GET
5/26/73
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 1400 hours
GMT. Skylab is presently in an orbit of 239 nautical miles
by 235 nautical miles and under acquisition, at this time,
by Newfoundland Tracking. The next station to acquire will
be Madrid, in approximately 3 minutes. Meanwhile, in the
Mission Control Center, Flight Director Neil Hutchinson
continuing to go around the room consulting with his flight
control team on the very detailed activation checklist,
which the Skylab Crew will follow when they enter the work
shop for parasol deployment later on today. Presently, no
plans are laid on for a detailed analysis of the probe by
the crew after it's removed for entry into the multiple docking
adapter. And also, at this time, there is still no definite
indication as to when Conrad, Weitz, and Kerwin will wake up
to start their work day. We're at 14 hours 1 minute GMT;
this is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-72/1
Time: 09:05 a.m. CDT, 01:01:04 GET
5/26/73
cc
SC
cc
g°°dS
C
Skylab, Houston. Good morning.
Hi there.
How is it going this morning? You guys rest
Yeah, we slept pretty good. We're just "
we really just got up just a few seconds ago, and we 11 try and put
(cut out) and get with it.
CC
Okay.
,,
,
what friendly words did you all think
sc
about over the night?
,
Spacecraft Commander, Pete Conrad,
PA0
talking with CAP COM, Henry Hartsfield, here in the)Mission
Control Center. Per an agreement, which was reached last night
when the VERB 99 flashed up in the DSKY, the crew was saying
they were ready to talk. We see VERB 99 now on the command
module computer display.
, „
.. . ,ro a-rsmniSkylab Control, Houston. We have
approxi
PA0
mately 5 minutes remaining on this Madrid pass; the next station
to acquire will be Honeysuckle, and that's about 42 minutes from
this time.
sc
Hey, Henry, where are we?
You're over Madrid now.
CC
SC
We thank you.
That was Paul Weitz chiming in to the
PA0
conversation, asking for location - cc
Four more minutes on this pass,
sc
You got any big changes for us, or are
we qoing to crap off on day 2 the way we got it figured?
Yeah, Pete, we're working on it now.
cc
What we want to do is get together a package for you; try to
have it either at Honeysuckle or stateside before we get going
here. And we got a few changes for the activation checklist,
and we're also going to have some questions for you on probe
removal. We'd like to check a few things, before we puH that
thing out, to help us in the troubleshooting. And the main
is, we want to just kind of relax here a bit and get organized
start off on the right foot.
.
sc
Okay, very good. I was thinking about
that probe, too. You know we did lose a little nut, but if
you got another one of those around anywhere in the spacecrart,
we could always rob it.
CC
Roger; copy.
About a minute away now from loss ot PA0
Cc
About 1 minute to LOS; we'll be picking
you up at Honeysuckle at 00:50:00.
SC
Right. Honeysuckle at 00:50:00.
Skylab Control, Houston; 14 hours 12 min
PA0
utes G.m.t. We've had loss of signal with Madrid. Next sta
tion to acquire is Honeysuckle in approximately 37 minutes.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-73/1
Time: 09:48 a.m. CDT, 1:01:48 GET
5/26/73
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 14 hours
48 minutes Greenwich mean time. About a minute away now,from
acquisition with Honeysuckle. This will be a very short pass,
approximately 1 minute and 55 seconds in duration. We may or
may not start passing to the crew the checklist change items
for the activation. It will be a crew option. We'll stand
by and monitor.
CC
Skylab, Houston. ... Honeysuckle for a
minute and a half.
SC
We can't tell us much then, can you?
CC
No, Pete, but I'll tell you what we've got
here. We've got all the checklist changes put together in a
little package. There's about 11 of them that should bring
the activation checklist up to date. Rusty's working on the
questions on the probe. And if you like, we'll hold that
off to stateside. We're also planning a private conference
before Madrid, which will be coming up at 00:40:00.
SC
Okay. Whose the private with?
CC
Okay. It'll be with the surgeon.
SC
All righty.
SC
If you could go ahead, maybe - Yeah, let me get an activation checklist of my dumps while I
have just finished breakfast, and I'll copy some of this.
CC
Okay. And the computer's yours, too.
SC
Okay. How about battery A, has that got a
good enough charge on it, yet?
CC
Okay. We want to let it continue to charge.
And ah - We've only got about 15 seconds left here (static)
at Goldstone, which is coming up at 00:18:00.
CC
I'll repeat. Goldstone at 00:18:00.
SC
Okay. Roger.
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 14 hours
52 minutes GMT. We've just had loss of signal with Honeysuckle.
The next station to acquire over the States will be Goldstone,
aDDroximatelv 26 minutes from this time.
SL-II MC74/1
Time: 10:02 a.m. CDT, 1:02:02 GET
5/26/73
PAO
Skylab Control Houston, at 15 hours
2 minutes Greenwich mean time. The private conversation
referred to by CAP COM Henry Hartsfield during the up coming
Madrid pass is the routinely scheduled surgeon crew conversation
set up on a daily basis. A medical bulletin will be released
later. We're at 15 hours 3 minutes Gmt. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC75/1
Time: 10:17 a.m. CDT, 1:02:17 GET
5/26/73
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston at 15 hours 17
minutes Greenwich mean time, approximately one minute away
now from acquisition through Goldstone. The Skylab workshop
presently in a orbit of 238.9 nautical miles by 235.1. Dur
ing the stateside pass we expect checklist changes.
PAO
Standing by now for Henry Hartsfield's
call up to the crew.
CC
Skylab Houston stateside for about
11 1/2 minutes.
SC
Okay we're ready to copy. We've got the
activation checklist open. Be advised that we've pressurized
the tunnel and we had very little leakage on it last night,
maybe a tenth of a psi. So we got a good tunnel and we're
standing by for your word.
CC
Roger. Copy. The first item is on
page A-3, that's a little time line we put in the front of
the checklist.
SC
Up there that's mission day 2. Go ahead.
CC
Okay there is just a typo there on the
M168 relocation. It gives you page 2-12; that really should
be page 2-121.
SC
Okay, whose column is that in?
CC
SPT column.
SC
Yeah, and it should be 2 dash what?
CC
2-121.
SC
Okay. We got it.
CC
Okay the next one is on page A-5.
SC
Go ahead.
CC
And the CDR column all the way at the
bottom of the page the quiescent configuration - we just want
to write a little note there Pete to the effect that do not
configure panel 275 until all battery charging is complete.
SC
Understand.
CC
Okay. The next one is on page A-10.
SC
Go ahead.
CC
Okay step 6. The TV input station 320
should be 133. The same thing applies to step 7 that should
be panel 133. Okay after step 10 we want to add a step 10-A
that says VTR power switch on.
SC
Okay.
CC
And step 12, second line, that panel 320
should be 133. And in addition after VTR standby we want to
add VTR power switch OFF.
SC
We've got it.
CC
Okay next one is on A-13.
SC
Go ahead.
CC
Okay. The first two lines up there should
be changed to read connect CWG electrical harness to CCA.
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5/26/73
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 DUMP 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
1 indicator should be 0353.
SC
Okay.
CC
Status word 4, counter 2 should read
1000.
SC
You cut out Hank. What was the (garble)
switch.
CC
Okay, 1000. Did you copy?
SC
No. Say the checks both once again. Hank.
CC
One thousand, 1000.
Okay.
SC
Okay on the rate gyro monitor Y should be
CC
3/1.
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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SL-II MC75/3 "~79/3
Time: 10:17 a.m. CDT, 1:02:17 GET
5/26/73
o>i -k
SC
Break, break. What have you got for us
on the probe. I'm scared we're going to get all this stuff
in and not get the probe stuff where we can get in there.
CC
Okay we've only got a couple items, Pete,
and then Rusty has got some words for you on the probes.
SC
Okay.
CC
Okay on page 2-50 we don't want you to
close the hatch channel. We'd like for that to read Don
CHARCOAL MASS and then just place the hatch over the opening.
SC
Okay.
CC
And the last one is on page 2-60. On
the circuit breaker configuration, panel 614, on the righthand
side on duct 3 fans we want to keep all those open - the four
duct 3 fan circuit breakers, we'll only use 8 fans.
SC
That's affirm.
CC
Okay and Rusty has got some words for you
on the probe.
CC
Okay Skylab we've got 3-1/2 minutes here
left in the pass for your information and let me tell you what
we want on the probe. There is a general caution note - I
don't know who is going to do it - but when you collapse the
probe for removal be aware of the fact that it may come com
pletely free of the drogue right at that time.
SC
Okay we are guessing that it will.
CC
Right. That's what we're guessing also.
Okay when you get up in there Pete what we're interested in
finding out is what is the clocking of the center shaft latch
on the aft end of the probe relative to the CSM axes. If you what we're recognizing is pressing on with a normal probe
removal checklist but before you do anything look at the flats
on the center shaft and give us your orientation. And a good
reference, by the way, is systems checklist page 2-10, gives
you a look at the back end of that whole probe and you can
reference the flats to that.
SC
Okay. Now you don't want us to put the
pyro cover back on with all the handles, huh?
CC
Pete, we don't want it to go back on
permanently at this time but if that helps to determine the
orientation go ahead and do it, then take it off and then go
through the rest of the probe collapsing and removal.
Okay.
SC
Okay now CC
Rusty, the picture I'm looking at has the
SC
cover on and I'm not sure I know what flats you're talking
about?
Okay, Paul, the shaft - it's a circular
CC
shaft with a flat on each side and what we're recommending
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5/26/73
in a way is if you can draw a perpendicular through those
flats and then give us the clocking of that line with respect
to the command module or that diagram on 2-10, either one.
SC
All right.
CC
Okay. Now the only other things we want,
when you vent the probe, is when you press the button to bleed
the nitrogen out keep watching that shaft and let us know if
it rotates. There is a possibility that it may rotate 30 to
40 degrees. We don't think it will but we would like to know
if it does.
SC
Unfortunately we vented it last night.
CC
You vented the probe itself or the tunnel?
SC
No we checked the docking latched, by
the way it made all 12 of them and in the process of doing
that we went ahead and bled the probe. And I have the feeling
that you're right. Joe said the probe was quite free in there
after he bled it and I have the feeling that the whole probe
is just loose in there and we do not have any capture latches.
CC
Roger. If you did then all we can get
from you is the clocking of the shaft before you - Okay we're
going to have LOS in about 15 seconds. We'll pick it up
GARBLE in about 1 minute.
CC
Skylab Houston how do you read?
END OF TAPE
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Times 10:30 a.m. CDT, 1:02:30 GET
5/26/73
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 you 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
Roger. It has systems 2-10. Let me just
verify. In other words, you're saying that the - that that line
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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CC
Okay, fine. Thank you. We have it, and
go ahead and proceed with the removal then.
SC
Okay, but that now. Rusty, is the line
perpendicular to the flat.
CC
Roger; we understand. That's the
line perpendicular to the flat. Thank you.
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston. We've been
listening to Backup Commander Rusty Schweickart chat with
the crew about the probe. Presently sitting at the CAP COM'
console - CC
Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds
from LOS. We'll pick you up over Madrid at 40.
SC
Return at 40.
SC
Did you read comm check on that one?
CC
Roger. We heard Houston's comm check;
we read you loud and clear, thank you.
CC
Copy.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-77/1
Time: 10:39 a.m. CDT, 1:02:39 GET
5/26/73
CC
Skylab, Houston, through Madrid for
7 minutes.
SC
Okay. We've got the probe out and the
capture latches were not engaged.
CC
Roger. Understand.
PAO
That's CAP COM Henry Hartsfield speaking
to the crew aboard Skylab on this Madrid acquisition, Paul
Weitz responding to that call.
SC
Okay, Houston. Here's a data plate for
you, 2 capture latches are out and one capture latch is
stuck in.
CC
Roger. Copy.
SC
Hey, Houston.
CC
Go ahead.
SC
Another data plate on that probe. It
turned out that that one was squashed and the little ear,
when I kicked it, it came up. It looks, to me, like 2 of
them had captured and this one, for what ever re- you can
tell better on the ground than I can. It would not come up
and allow the little lever to trip and lock it. It looked
like something was out of sequence with the trigger on that latch.
CC
Roger. Copy.
SC
Now. We've got all three capture latches
latched and if I push on the end of the probe, it will re
lease all three capture latches, they'll all fold and then
pull them all down. Now let's push that up. Now let it
go, they should all lock.
SC
All down?
Yeah. Two of them are up and the third
one is stuck down and I can't answer for you, why, and so
is the little center button stuck down.
CC
Pete, let me make sure I understand you.
You went through your little sequence there, at one point
you had all three capture latches out and you then tripped
it again, and they went in and one of them stayed in and
the button is - on the end of the probe is also staying
depressed.
SC
With me Rusty?
CC
Pete, do you read?
SC
Yeah, go ahead.
CC
Yes. Did you read my summary there?
Did it agree with what had happened?
SC
No, I didn't read your summary, let me
give it to you again. When we took the probe out, 2 latches
were out and they were out, but appar - (loss of comm) Push the plunger in the end of the probe - SC
Capture latch released.
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Time: 10:39 a.m. CDT, 1:02:39 GET
5/26/73
SC
Capture catch released, but left side
button, it sticks in now; and the one latch, capture latch
stays flush and the other two pop up.
cc
Okay, Pete. At one point you mentioned
also, that the one that was flush, popped out when you kicked
the trigger on it, is that correct?
SC
Well, that's what I thought, but that s
what's not doing it now.
SC
Yes it is, too.
SC
I take that back, it is. Paul just did
it and it came up.
CC
Okay. I'll tell you what, we're going
to digest all that, Pete, and the boys in the backroom will
be working and we'll probably come back to you at some
later point. I suggest just going ahead with the time line.
CC
And one further question. What's the
status of the pyro cover? Did you put it on, or do you
still have it off?
SC
It's off.
CC
Okay, fine. We'll assume it'll stay off,
then and you're going to let us know where you stow it
temporarily?
SC
Yeah. We'll put the pyro cover in with
the probe in the bag.
CC
Okay, thanks.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds
from LOS. We'll pick you up again at Honeysuckle at 2.5.
SC
Okay.
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 15 hours
52 minutes Greenwich mean time, our next station to acquire
will be Honeysuckle. We're out of range, now with Madrid
and that will be approximately 34 minutes from this time.
This is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-78/1
Times 11;04 a.m. CDT, 01:03:04 GET
5/26/73
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston; 16 hours 4 minutes
Greenwich mean time. During our Madrid pass, we had a momentary
communications dropout. However, we have recovered the tape,
and we'll play that tape for you now.
cc
Yes. Did you read my summary there; did
it agree with what had happened?
SC
No, I didn't read your summary. Let me
give it to you again. When we took the probe out, two latches
were out. Add they were out, but apparently not locked. One
was flush. Okay. Now, if we push the plunger in the end of
the probe - SC
Capture latch release - SC
- - capture latch release left side, but it
sticks in now, and the one latch, capture latch, stays flush,
and the other two pop up.
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston. That completes
our tape playback.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-79/1
Timei 11:24 a.m. CDT, 01:03:24 GET
5/26/73
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 16 hours 25 min
utes Greenwich mean time, less than a minute away now from
acquisition with Honeysuckle. The Skylab presently in an
orbit of 239 nautical miles by 235 nautical miles. We will
stand by to pick up conversation at that time when CAP COM,
Henry Hartsfield, calls up the crew of Skylab.
CC
Skylab, Houston, to Honeysuckle for about
9 minutes.
CC
Skylab, Houston, to Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
SC
Roger, Houston. And be advised we had a
MAIN A undexvolt, which sucked the voltage down to about 25 volts,
and it turns out to be a heater cycle, as best we can determine
it. We must have had all the heaters on at one time. If you
^ can look at your low bed rate, if you'd add that on, maybe
you can come up with a better scheme for configuring these
heaters for us. We just spent 10 minutes sorting that one out.
CC
Roger.
SC
And we've got about 5 minutes to go on the
TDI sampling. We've gotten out sample and we're waiting the
15 minutes.
CC
Roger; copy. And we got a couple of things
for you too. It looks like we missed a couple of checklist
changes here that we should have gotten.
SC
Okay, hold it, and let me bring you up.
We've got the secondary glycol evap dried out and the primary
evap is on its way. Would you like E-memory dumped?
CC
Stand by.
CC
While we get set down here, we're - just
for your information, we're going to do a CMG reset at 16:33 at
about 6 minutes from now. Maximum excursion, we expect, is about
35 degrees in roll and 5 degrees each in pitch and yaw.
SC
Okay. Go ahead with your checklist changes.
CC
Okay, on page A-9, we had a comment earlier
about whether you want to close the latch handle, the hatch
handle, and that same comment applies there. On panel 312, we
just want that to read to close the hatch.
SC
Okay, just close the hatch; don't lock it,
is what you're saying.
CC
We don't - well, we had you closing in
the hatch handle then laying the hatch over on the dogs. We
didn't want to do that, we just want to strick that out so it
just says close the hatch.
SC
Oh, okay.
CC
But don't lock the hatch. And we're ready
for the E-memory dump any time.
CC
And the only other checklist change we
got for you is on page 2-51.
�SL-II MC-79/2
Time: 11:24 a.m. CDT, 01:03:24 GET
5/26/73
•t
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, JOB, you want the number 1 fan,
or do you want them all on?
CC
Just the number 1.
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 11 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. Jlave 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.
Okay. Fine. So that's - looking in the
CC
I
was
saying
that's something like 7 or 8 o'clock.
direction,
I
don't
know. It's in the bag now.
SC
Okay,
fine.
We've got it. Thank you.
CC
(Garble),
Houston.
SC
Go ahead.
CC
Okay,
we passed the TDI monitor check
SC
It's
pure white. Nothing that we could
with flying colors,
see at all.
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5/26/73
CC
Roger; copy. That's good news.
SC
And we're on our way to the MDA. I wish
I had a poloroid picture to send down to you guys from the
inside of this command module with three suits, all that gear,
a drogue, a probe, and a hatch, Joe, Paul, and Pete.
CC
Roger. I'd like to see that myself.
SC
It's unbelievable.
CC
Okay, the CMG maneuver is coming up and
we got the E-memory dump; you're cleared to do the power down
now.
SC
Okay, going to P06.
SL-II MC-80/1
Time: 11:35 a.m. CDT, 1:03:35 GET
5/26/73
Cc
And, Pete, if you have the docking
index angles available, we'd like to get those.
SC
It's minus 1.5.
CC
Roger; copy. Minus 1.5.
cc
Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds
from LOS. Looking good going over the hill. We'll see you
at Hawaii at 45.
., ,
gC
Okay, we've done the E—Mode. The (garble)
is deactive and (garble) proceed the MDA hatch opened.
CC
Roger; copy.
, t
5C
Paul just went in, and he said it s
very cold in there with the (garble).
CC
50 in there, I think.
SC
Yeah, boy, and it looks great. He just turned
on the lights.
Skylab Control, Houston, at 16 hours
PA0
35 minutes ground elapsed time. We've just had loss of sig
nal with Honeysuckle. Hawaii will be the next station to
acquire. We heard the rather lengthy discussion over Honey
suckle with the crew aboard Skylab, Pete Conrad reporting the
TDI sample tube completely white. At that point they proceeded to open the hatch to the multiple docking adapter. You
heard the remarks that it was quite cold in there, in the order
of 50 degrees. The lights in the multiple docking adapter
apparently working. The main A undervolt, referred to as in
the command service module, Conrad speculating that possibly
a configuration of all the heaters on at once could have
caused this. This data will be looked at on the ground.
Meanwhile, as we approach Hawaii, a maneuver is planned to
pitch the vehicle down 11 degrees to an attitude of 36 degrees,
and this providing for a better electrical power system, which
will be utilized in the course of the activation today. This
pitch-down maneuver has been computed by the EGIL flight controller
in the Mission Control Center, and the command will be given
by the ASCO console. We're at 16 hours 37 minutes Greenwich
mean time, and this is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
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SL-II MC-81/1
Times 11:44 a.m. CDT, 1:03:44 GET
5/26/73
PAO
Skylab Control Houston, at 16 hours
45 minutes Greenwich mean time apporaching acquisition now
with Hawaii. As we last saw the Skylab vehicle over Honey
suckle the multiple docking adapter hatch was just being opened
and the pilot Paul Weitz was proceeding inside as the activation
of the orbital workshop was at it's very beginning. Standing
by now for acquisition.
CC
Skylab, Houston to Hawaii for 9-1/2 minutes.
SC
Okay Houston, we're in the MDA and
we're pretty busy. I'm working on (garble) and we're jumping
around a little bit to try and clean up the command module
because we got so much stuff in it. So we're moving the
probe and drogue at this place. Be advised that nobody has
had any trouble so far in the MDA. And be advised to tell
the doctors that we did not in fact try our motion sickness pills
this morning because none of us felt like we needed them.
CC
Roger, copy.
SC
Also we've got a window shade dump.
And the command module is really beginning to pick up water
on the inside of it I noticed. Our side hatch has got quite
a bit of moisture on it and so do our windows. Just generally
picking up moisture all over. But now that we've got this
MDA dry air I think maybe that will help a little bit.
CC
Roger, copy.
CC
Skylab, Houston. The pitch maneuver's
in work, should be about 11 degrees.
SC
Okay, we're going to (garble) this
up up here so you guys can maneuver away to your hearts content.
SC
So far we've collected one screw, one
nut, and one piece of red thread floating around in the
MDA otherwise it's clean as a whistle. It's very nice.
CC
Roger, copy.
PAO
That's commander Pete Conrad reporting
on the status of the multiple docking adapter inside.
PAO
Sky lab Control Houston, the Skyled)
crew now inside the multiple docking adapter as the activation
process has started.
CC
Skylab, Houston, whenever it's con
venient we'd like to get a reading on the CL seunple.
SC
Okay, Houston, it was about 5 parts
per million.
CC
Roger, copy.
PAO
Very little conversation with the
crew at this time. Apparently preoccupied and busy as - as
they start through their checklist.
CC
Skylab, Houston, we're about 15 seconds
from LOS. We'll be picking you up at Goldstone at 57.
�SL-II MC-81/2
Time: 11:44 a.m. CDT, 1:03:44 GET
5.26.73
SC
Okay Houston, the MDA Doc is in
the command module and the suit circuit is deactivated.
CC
Copy.
PAO
Skylab Control Houston, we've had loss
of signal with Hawaii. We should be picking up Goldstone
in approximately 2 minutes.
SL-II MC-82/1
Time: 11:55 a.m. CDT, 1:03:55 GET
5/26/73
CC
Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 5 minutes.
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, standing by
now for acquisition there with Goldstone. The five parts
per million CO referred to in that test is well within acceptable
limits.
SC
Roger, Houston, and we may be off the
air here. We're going through umbilical connect crap and so
forth.
CC
Roger.
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 17 hours
2 minutes Greenwich mean time. A very little conversation
with the crew as they're continuing through the checklist as
the activation inside the multiple docking adapter continues.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-83/1
Time: 12:06 p.m. CDT, 1:04:06 GET
5/26/73
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston. We've just
had loss of signal. Our next station to acquire will be
Newfoundland.
PAO
As the activation of multiple docking
adapter proceeds. Commander Pete Conrad presumably is
spending much of his time inside the command and service
module, squaring things away at that point, while Kerwin
and Weitz, we would expect, are mainly preoccupied with the
MTA activities. We're at 17 hours 7 minutes ground Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC
Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for
7-% minutes.
SC
Okay, Houston. We're hooking up umbilical
for SPS PT configuration check's been made; those guys are
pressing on.
CC
Roger, Copy.
PAO
That was Commander Pete Conrad responding
from the command module, stating that Kerwin and Weitz are
pressing on.
PAO
Henry Hartsfield, our CAP COM, here in
Mission Control.
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 17 hours
13 minutes Greenwich mean time. About 2 minutes 45 seconds
remaining on this pass over Bermuda. The activation of
multiple docking adapter continuing with Kerwin and Weitz
working inside, and meanwhile. Commander Pete Conrad remain
ing in the command and service module. We'll stand by and
continue to monitor the conversation that takes place during
this pass.
CC
Skylab, Houston, we're about 1 minute to
LOS. Be seeing you at Canaries at 17.
SC
Roger, Houston.
CC
Okay, no need to acknowledge. And for
your info, we're playing back the data, now on the main A
undervolt. We don't think it's a big problem at this point,
but we are working on a plan. We'll have them for you later
this morning and we may want to change some switches and
bus setups in the command module.
SC
Yeah, that's what we finally concluded that it wasn't just sure we got too many heaters or some - PAO
Skylab Control, Houston. We've had loss
of signal with Bermuda. The next station to acquire is
Canary in less than one minute. We'll stand by and continue
to monitor. Meanwhile, the crew aboard Skylab continuing
to press on through the activation, Weitz and Kerwin, presently
in the multiple docking adapter; Pete Conrad communicating
with the ground through the command and service module. It
appears at this point, the Skylab Crew very much on their
time line for the activation.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC84/1
Time: 12:17 p.m. CDT, 1:04:17 GET
5/26/73
PAO
It appears at this point the Skylab
crew very much on their time line for activation.
CC
Skylab Houston through Canaries for
about 15 minutes.
SC
Okay, Houston.
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 17 hours
23 minutes Greenwich mean time. Almost no conversation with
the crew during this pass. The crew most preoccupied at this
point as they go through their checklist for activation.
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston. The EGIL flight
controller reports, looking at his data that the caution warn
ing system is working in good shape aboard the MDA. Very little
conversation over the flight director's loop at this point,
controllers monitoring their consoles, watching data as it
appears.
SC
Hello.
CC
Hello.
CC
Skylab, Houston, you called?
PAO
We heard the callup from Pete Conrad to
conjecture here. He was CC
Did you call?
PAO
The conjecture here that he was trying
to reach Weitz and Kerwin via the comm loop in the workshop.
SC
Say Houston, Paul wanted me to tell you
he's got a primary coolant temp low. Is that to be expected?
CC
Standby 1. Roger that's expected. Temps
are running real low down there in the MDA.
SC
Okay the other thing is I've gone all
the way through the complete hookup and includes panel 230
CSMs with (garble). It actually got in a barber pole and none
of our SIA's need to talk to one another down there.
CC
Roger, we copy. During one of those
checkouts we heard someone say hello, hello there on the trans
mitter, I guess.
SC
That was me, Jim, sitting on VOX 98.
That doesn't count.
CC
Okay.
CC
Houston.
SC
Go ahead.
CC
Those SIAs aren't going to work until
you get down to the page 233 there for the PLT where he puts
the 8 audiocircuits in; closes those.
SC
Okay.
PAO
The SIA is the intercom system aboard
the workshop.
SC
We figured it was some place here.
�SL-II MC84/2
Time: 12:17 p.m. CDT, 1:04:17 GET
5/26/73
SC
Hey, Brad, SPT is about to start ATM
panel Y activation.
CC
Roger, and I assume that all the items
previous to that have been accomplished.
SC
That's affirmative.
PAO
That report from Skylab that the Science
Pilot, Joe Kerwin getting ready to start the Apollo telescope
mount activation, moving well along now into the time line.
We presently show a Greenwich mean time of 17 hours 32 min
utes. And 1 minute 45 seconds until loss of signal with
Ascension.
CC
Skylab Houston we're about a minute and
a half from LOS. Next contact is Carnarvon at 01 and at
Carnarvon we plan to uplink a test message to the teleprinter
and when you get that you can take a look at it and tell us if
it looks all right and then we'll be all set to send the pads
and the rest of the uplinks.
SC
Okay.
SL-II MC-85/1
Time: 12:33 p.m. CDT, 1:04:33 GET
5/26/73
SC
How do you read from the MDA, Houston?
CC
Okay, we're reading you, Paul. There's
a little squeal in the background. Looks like you're getting
some feedback from SIAs there.
SC
Yeah. That was one of them. Okay.
CC
Hey, you sounded real good then.
SC
Roger. We're getting there.
SC
PLT's on page 2-35.
CC
Roger, copy.
SC
The CDR's finishing up primary GLY ADAPT
DRYOUT, and I'll (garble) where the glycol circ reads (garble),
CC
Roger. Copy.
PAO
We just heard from Pilot Paul Weitz,
speaking through the intercom aboard the workshop.
SC
Houston, Skylab.
CC
Go ahead.
SC
Never mind, we'll catch you later.
CC
Okay. Well, I've got a few seconds to
LOS.
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 17 hours
34 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've just had loss of
signal on this Ascension pass. The next station to acquire
will be Carnarvon, and at that time, from the Mission Control
Center, we will do an initial checkout of the teleprinter
system aboard Skylab. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC86/1
Time: 12:59 p.m. CDT, 1:04:59 GET
5/26/73
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 1800 hours
Greenwich mean time. We're standing by now for acquisition
of signal over Carnarvon. We presently show the workshop in
an orbit of 240.5 nautical miles by 234.2 nautical miles.
During this Carnarvon pass we should have the initial check
out of the teleprinter aboard the workshop. We'll standby
now and continue to monitor any conversations as they develop.
CC
Skylab Houston through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle for about 10 minutes.
SC
Roger, Houston. How do you read?
CC
Roger, read you loud and clear.
SC
GARBLE okay the CDR has completed the
command module configuration through CM02 systems config and
I just completed the caution and warning checkout on the
GARBLE except for 392. And we're waiting right
now to go into the lock and the OWS; we're configuring for
that.
CC
Roger and we do have things we'd like
for you to set up in the command module. Are you up there
now?
SC
Yeah, but what do you want set up in the
command module?
CC
Okay we've looked at this heater prob
lem; we think you've already powered down enough things that
you're probably not going to get that undervolt again. However,
we would like to go ahead and reconfigure the heaters. We
were going to do it tonight anyhow but we'll go ahead and do
it and then we'll be doubly sure that we probably won't get
another undervolt, if you want to do that now.
SC
Okay, if you'll wait 2 seconds I'll take
you down into the command module and you can tell me what to
do.
CC
And Skylab for information we're going to
command the fill valves closed according to flight plan.
SC
Okay and I'm down in the command module
now. Could you tell me what you want done?
CC
Okay, panel 226; circuit breaker 02 fiftywatt heaters Main A, tow; MAIN A OPEN.
SC
Was that two breakers?
CC
That is tank 2, MAIN A.
SC
Are you with us Houston?
CC
Okay, we're in a hole right now between
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. How do you read?
SC
You're right it was 251 OPEN, right,
MAIN A?
CC
Positive, tank 2 MAIN A OPEN. On 50 watt.
SC
That's done.
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Time: 12:59 p.m. CDT, 1:04:59 GET
5/26/73
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
1? 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 you?
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 1 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.
�SL-II MC86/3
Time: 12:59 p.m. CDT, 1:04:59 GET
5/26/73
SC
Oh. Houston are you there?
CC
Roger. How do you read?
SC
Okay. Do you want the EP spec on or off
on the panel 16?
CC
Roger. We want it on - ON.
CC
SPT, Houston.
SC
Houston.
CC
Joe we'd like to make one last attempt
on that CBRN number 15. We'd like you to hit the ALL/ON switch.
SC
You bet. Okay we did it Hank and the
lights are out at the moment.
CC
Hey, looks like me may have it back.
SC
Whoopee.
CC
We'll know when we get some sunlight.
SC
That'll be soon, right?
CC
We've got about 3 minutes to go. And
we're about 10 seconds from LOS. We'll be seeing you at
Hawaii at 23 and we plan to dump the data recorder there.
SC
Okay.
CC
And your teleprinter message should be
up there now.
SC
We'll take a look.
PAO
Skylab Control Houston at 18 hours
12 minutes Greenwich mean time. The next station we'll acquire
will be Hawaii in approximately 11-1/2 minutes. The later
portion of that pass over Honeysuckle that was Joe Kerwin the
Science Pilot who was speaking with Hank Hartsfield while he
was at the Apollo telescope mount control and display panel,
going through the activation process there. Eighteen hours,
13 minutes Greenwich mean time this is Skylab Control Houston.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-87/1
Time: 1:22 p.m. CDT, 1:05:22 GET
5/26/73
CC
Houston through Hawaii for 9 minutes.
SC
Roger, Houston. Paul's down turning
on the fans in the OWS at this time. Joe is monitoring him
(garble) further word for you on that in just a minute. I
can see Paul is on his way back up now.
CC
Roger; copy.
PAO
Hank Hartsfield talking to Skylab
through Hawaii.
SC
Your teleprinter message came through.
It's kind of faded at the end. I hope they come through better
than that.
CC
Do you mean that all the message
wasn't there, or it just printed rather weakly at the end?
SC
It printed rather weakly at the
end.
SC
Okay, Paul is out. He's closing the
(garble) lock hatch at this time.
CC
Copy.
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston. That's Paul
Weitz who's taken off the airlock module aft hatch. Entered
the orbital workshop and appears to have activated the fans.
CC
Skylab, Houston. For information we're
going to have to do another CMG reset here. Be coming up
in a couple of minutes.
SC
Okay, Houston. What's the problem?
We've had two ACS^malfs here in the last couple of minutes.
CC
~ Well, the CMGs are saturated now (garble).
SC
Okay, all right. Are you ready for
the DAS test yet?
CC
Roger.
SC
Okay, here comes a (garble).
CC
Skylab, Houston. We just want him to
TACS on the control mode.
SC
Did you do that?
CC
Negative, I think it went out
20 degrees in attitude to cause it, and we'd like for you
to stay off the DAS while we command the system.
SC
Roger.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. Goldstone coming up at 35.
SC
Roger. Do you still want us to stay
off the DAS?
CC
Okay, you can clear the caution on
your ACS malf, and we'll be standing by for Goldstone for
the DAS checks.
SC
Okay.
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston. We're about
a minute and a half away now from acquisition by Goldstone.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-88/1
|Time: 1:34 p.m. CDT, 01:05:34 GET
w5/26/73
CC
Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 6 minutes
SC
Hello.
SC
Hello, Houston, we hear you.
CC
Okay. Read you loud and clear.
SC
Hey, Houston; PLT.
CC
PLT, go ahead.
SC
Okay, on our very quick inspection, the
OWS appears to be in good shape. It feels a little bit warm,
as you might expect. From the 3 or to 5 minutes I spent in
there, I would say, subjectively, it's about - it's a dry
heat, I guess. It feels like 90 to a 100 degrees in the
desert. Hank, I could feel heat radiating from all around
me, but in the short time I was in there, I never felt un
comfortable. I had the soft shoes and the gloves on, and
nothing I touched even felt hot to me.
CC
Roger; copy.
PA0
It's Paul Weitz giving his first - cc
SPT, are you ready for those DAS tests?
SC
That's affirmative.
sc
Okay, I'm going to give you 10,000.
Please acknowledge.
cc
SPT, you got a GO on the first one.
SC
Okay, here comes 20,000.
cc
And, Paul, did you notice the duct flows
when you turned the fans on downstairs?
SC
If you want numbers, I didn't notice
numbers. They came up to what I expected to be normal.
cc
Okay; copy. And you have a GO on the
second one, Joe.
sc
Okay, and did I get this fuse thing going?
Turned on eight fans down there.
SC
You did want only eight fans turned on
for this, right?
cc
And, SPT, you got a GO on the third one.
We wanted all twelve fans, but that's okay.
SC
All right.
PA0
We heard Paul Weitz's first assessment of
the workshop.
CC
SPT, you got a GO on number 1.
CC
SPT, GO on number 2.
PA0
Meanwhile, Science Pilot, Joe Kerwin, making
an initial checkout of the ATM digital computer.
CC
j,
A GO on number 3.
cc
JwpjV
And you have a GO on number 4. All look good.
SC >• 1
Okay, thank you. And, Hank, it looks as
if CPRs 15 came off the line again. Is that right?
CC
Roger; we concur. I think we still got
:roubles with it.
SC
Okay.
�
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SL-II MC-88/2
Time: 1:34 p.m. CDT, 01:05:34 GET
5/26/73
SC
And by the way, Houston, this is SPT. I
take it you didn't have any changes for me on page 2-38 for
addition.
CC
That's affirmative; no changes there. And
if you want to clear that BATT VOLTS light, I guess you can
turn the charger and reg off - SC
Okay.
CC
- - and number 15 there.
SC
Okay, (garble).
CC
And, Joe, while you're there, do you have
any other talkbacks on the fire system that look like they
might be out of kilter?
SC
CDR says the fire detection system checked
out 40.
CC
Roger; copy.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We're about 10 seconds
from LOS; we'll pick you up again over Bermuda at 45.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-89/1
Time: 13:45 p.m. CDT, 1:05:45 GET
5/26/73
CC
Skylab, Houston, through Mila for
10-1/2 minutes.
sc
Gosh Houston, we're just (garble)
your checklist here.
Cc
I didn't copy that last. Would you
say again?
,
,
SC
By gosh, we're just logging along
on the checklist here and we're gonna (garble) TDI sampling
in the OWS area after awhile.
CC
Roger, copy and for - Joe if you
are still at the ATM console, we would like for you to stay
off the DAS. We're gonna - we think the reason that our
momentum is building up is we're a little bit out of plane
so we're gonna command a Z rotation.
SC
Okay, you got it.
PAO
This would be a pitch down of some
6 degrees; this maneuver coming up. ASCO will be the flight
controller putting in the command.
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 18 hours
and 48 minutes Greenwich mean time. We heard from commander
Pete Conrad reporting that they're moving well along on the
time line. Paul Weitz has been inside the workshop. He
gave a very good description of the temperature inside.
CC
Skylab to the CDR.
SC
Houston, SPT.
CC
Go SPT.
Spt
Roger, I'm not sure if it's okay for
me to go ahead with pages 2-42 and 2-43 or not with what
you guys are doing.
CC
Stand by.
CC
Okay Joe, the DAS is yours and also
we got a little message for the CDR.
SC
Go ahead and I'll relay.
CC
Okay, we goofed up a while ago and
didn't beat the quiscent checklist against our power
down on the panel 226, so next time Pete goes up there we d
like for him to go to 226 and turn 02 heater number 2, 100
watt, close the main B circuit breaker.
SC
Okay.
PAO
That last comment refers to the heater
configuration aboard the command and service module.
sc
Okay, Houston that was 100 watt 02 heater
2 MAIN B. Right?
CC
That is affirmative.
SC
It's on.
CC
Thank you sir.
Skylab, Houston, we're about 1 minute
cc
from LOS. We'll be picking up Ascension at 02.
�SL-II MC-89/2
Time: 13:45 p.m. CDT, 1:05:45 GET
5/26/73
Skylab Control Houston, we've had
loss of signal with Bermuda. Ascension will be acquired
by Skylab in approximately 6 minutes. We're now at 18 hours
56 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control Houston.
SL-II MC90/1
Time: 1:58 p.m. CDT, 1:05:58 GET
5/26/73
PA0
. PA0
Skylab Control, Houston, at 19 hours and
I minute Greenwich mean time, less than a minute away now
from acquisition through Ascension. This should be a long
pass over the Ascension station, somewhere in excess of
10 minutes.
cc
Skylab, Houston through Ascension for
II minutes.
sc
Roger, Houston; SPT. Over.
cc
Roger. Go ahead.
sc
Okay. In rolling the canister to unlock
the GSE nitrogen purge fitting, the initial roll postion was
minus 1440 instead of 1350 per the checklist. I thought about
it and went ahead and did the procedure? and it appeared to
work very well. I then deployed the scan spec mirror to the
unlock position per the red line checklist. And looked at
the DAS counter 2 scan spec mirror position; it read 6901,
|
f which is garbage. I just thought I'd pass that along for
evaluation and reassurance.
cc
Roger. Copy.
sc
I think it's because I don't have the
experiment powered up yet.
cc
That is affirmative. That's the reason,
Joe.
sc
Okay, and I'm about to sample TDI through
y
the aft hatch.
cc
Roger. Copy.
PA0
Joe Kerwin reporting he's getting ready
to sample the TDI through the aft airlock module hatch.
.cc
Skylab, Houston. Ww're going to be starting
a pitch maneuver here shortly to get you 6 degrees more
into the Sun for power, and we'd like you to stay clear of
the DAS.
cc
Skylab, Houston. Did you copy, reference
the DAS?
sc
No. Say again.
cc
Roger. We're going to be commanding a
maneuver in pitch, and we'd like to keep the DAS free.
sc
Okay, it is. Joe is in sampling the
workshop air right now.
cc
Roger. Copy.
sc
CDR is taking out the launch pins for
• the film vault, and the PLT is in the midst of his - getting
ready for water separator (garble) wetting.
CC
Roger. Copy.
CC
Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
SC
GARBLE.
PA0
Skylab Control, Houston; 19 hours 7 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Science Pilot Joe Kerwin has been into
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5/26/73
the workshop taking samples. The crew moving well along in
compliance with their time lines at this point.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-91/1
Time: 2:00 p.m. CDT, 01:06:10 GET
5/26/73
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
Skylab 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.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-92/1
Time: 2:26 p.m. CDT, 01:06:26 GET
5/26/73
PAO
Skylab Control, Houston, at 19 hours 26 min
utes Greenwich mean time, and 2:25 p.m. central daylight time.
One point of clarification, when Paul Weitz first entered the
orbital workshop, he was wearing a mask and was observed by
Science Pilot, Joe Kerwin, during this time, through the hatch
while he, too, was wearing a mask. The TDI CO sampling, which
was done following this, took place through the aft airlock
module hatch with no crewmember inside the orbital workshop.
This is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-93/1
Time: 2:34 p.m. CDT, 01:06:34 GET
5/26/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control at 19:34 Greenwich
mean time, 30 seconds out from the Carnarvon, Australia, Track
ing Station. A pass that will last about 10 minutes and
40 seconds. A short hop across West Irian and to the Guam
tracking coverage. We should have acquisition at this time;
we'll stand by for CAP COM's call.
SC
Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
10 minutes.
CC
Skylab, Houston. Do you have anything to
report on the TDI sniff?
SC
It's cooking. It's time (garble), Houston,
and so far it doesn't look like anything, but we'll let it
run its full (garble).
CC
Roger; copy. And for the SPT, we just
dug out some info and learned that the canister was launched
with a roll of 14 30. So the reading he got was right on the
money.
SC
Okay. He's nodding his head, and if you're
looking at the data, you may have just seen a note to (garble)
the command module. We activated the water system again so
that we could get some chow.
CC
Roger; copy. And to help our pyro situation,
I guess we'd like to get the OWS entry lights turned off there
in the aft lock here while we're eating lunch - after you com
plete the sniff.
SC
Okay, we'll get that as soon as we're done
testing for TDI. I though I turned them off when I came
out. Hank.
CC
Okay, you may have. Yeah, he did.
SC
If you think I'm not power conscious here,
I thought I'd thought about it, and you guys caught me. And I
have something else for you on the corner space tank dump system.
(Garble) heaters when you're ready to listen.
CC
Okay, go ahead.
SC
Turn to procedure on page - wait until I
find the page.
CC
And we'd like for you to keep clear of the
DAS for the next few minutes.
SC
I'm within 3 feet of it. That won't
hurt it, will it?
CC
That'll be safe enough.
SC
On page 119, Henry, he's preping for this You ready to listen to me? You were talking about some
thing else to somebody else.
CC
Go ahead.
SC
Okay. Anyway, apparently, on our corner
space tank, it appears that the secondary vent heater did not
work. I turned it on, and the light came on, and I came back
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Time: 2:34 p.m. CDT, 01:06:34 GET
5/26/73
and checked it about 20 minutes later. The temperature was
reading zero. I cycled the circuit breaker. The light went
out and came back on. I went to primary, and afterwhile its
temperature came right on up. So I went ahead and did that
dump, using the primary system. You might think about it and
see what other readings you have on the ground, if any, and
1
let us know.
CC
Roger; we copy.
Su .
•
Also, I don't know, but I turned that heater
off about 10 minutes ago, after having dumped through it, and the
temperature is still pegged high, in excess of 150.
cc
Roger; we copy.
Sky lab, the DAS is yours.
^.
Skylab, Houston. For info, we're going to
be sending up via teleprint, hopefully prior to the stateside
pass, some mod's to the parasol deployment checklist; so you'll
have time to browse them over before you have to do it.
sc
Okay.
CC
Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Guam
at 49.
sc
Okay. Stand by for the TDI results.
CC
Okay.
S(- ,
TD1 level's okay. There's no discernable
change in color.
cc
Roger; copy. That's good news.
,fc
Smells kind of funny in there, though.
Smells like hot metal for some reason.
cc
Roger.
sc
Or it's from this vent on.
^
Smell anything like butterscotch pudding?
. PA0 ,
This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal through the Carnarvon, Australia, Tracking Station.
About 2-1/2 minutes to Guam. We'll leave this circuit up for
that small jump across to the Guam station. At 19:46 Zulu
and standing by, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC94/1
Time: 2:47 p.m. CDT, 1:06:47 GET
5/26/73
CC
Skylab, Houston through Guam for
9 minutes.
SC
Roger, Houston.
SC
Roger. We'll have some (garble) results
for you in a couple or 3 minutes.
CC
Okay. Standing by.
SC
Hello, Houston.
CC
Roger. Go ahead.
SC
Okay. No detectable CO, according to
our tester in the workshop.
CC
Roger. Copy.
SC
We're going to close the hatch again
and eagerly awaiting your GO for entry.
CC
Roger.
SC
You want me to turn on those other
three spare, other four fans, Hank, or just let her run on
eight.
CC
Stand by 1.
9C
Okay, Paul. We'd like to just leave
it like it is now, and you can turn out the lights and go
on about your business.
sc
Okay. That's complete; the lights are
out, and Joe's securing the airlock aft hatch, right
now.
SC
And we're going to leave the airlock
forward hatch open. (Consider the airlock is - the walk
compartment of the airlock is usable and livable.
CC
Roger. We concur.
sc
Hey, Henry. I've got one more question
for the ECS guys.
CC
Okay. Go ahead.
SC
Okay. I don't want to waste going
through one of these water separator plate wetting deals. The
dewpoint right now is 36 degrees. Is it going to do me
any good to wet the plates now and put them in?
CC
Stand by 1.
SC
Okay.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 2:55 p.m. CDT, 1:06:55 GET
5/26/73
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 1 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 1. 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?
PA0
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.
END OF TAPE
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Times 15:13 p.m. CDT, 1:07:13 GET
5/26/73
PA0
This is Skylab Control; 20:13 Greenwich
mean time, which translates out to 3:13 central daylight time;
44 seconds now from a good solid state-side pass. We've got
a LOS, now.
cc
That's affirmative. It looks like
you ought to be coming right up, or near, Seattle.
sc
Okay. Mr. Weitz just recognized the
world?
sc
Oh yeah. And we'd like you to pass
along to the Principal Investigator of ah - sc
Pardon me, (chuckle) to Don Lind, that
his experiment is in super shape.
CC
Roger; copy.
sc
We can see it out the window.
cc
Skylab, Houston (garble) you notice
any lights changing down on your CBRMs. We're managing
5 and 6. Because of the attitude, we're having trouble
getting the batteries charged. So, we're just kinda switching
them around. So, that would explain any lights that you see
on those 2.
SC
Roger, Houston.
sc
Say, Houston, you with us?
CC
That's affirmative.
sc
_
We're getting ready to eat lunch. Waiting
for your GO to go on into the workshop and it's my - contamination
goes on any one of these 4 STS windows. They are just as clean
as a whistle. They're as clean windows as I've ever seen in a
spacecraft.
CC
Roger; copy.
cc
CDR, Houston. You're GO for entering
OWS and the modifications of procedure should be coming up
SC
Okay. We're going to go eat. It's
kinda hard to get away from the windows, especially for the
new boys.
CC
Roger.
SC
The Pacific Northwest is really some
thing. Right now, we're over what appears to be a fairly
major weather system with pretty good overcast clouds in the
Montana, Dakotas region.
CC
Roger; copy.
CC
And for info, we're also going to be
doing another CMG reset at 2:08, a nominal (garble).
SC
Roger. We'll wait for all the clang,
bang and the bells to ring.
SC
Also, Hank, not having spent any great time
at 237 nautical miles, why we passed some familiar landmarks like
NAS Whimpy and a couple of other airfields. And we can see
those runways pretty good. So, hopefully we'll do pretty
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SL-II MC-97/1 —10?
Time: 3:23 p.m. CDT, 1:07:23 GET
5/26/73
sc
Pete, tell them about the one operation;
it wasn't any easier.
Sc
Yes, the doctor wanted me to remind
you, though, that the one operation that has not changed in
the history of manned space flight was just performed by
a CDR, and, as usual, its backup (garble) it takes approxi
mately 1 (garble).
CC
(Laughter) Roger; copy.
SC
(garble) and we just passed Florida, as
I'm sure you know. And that we were able to make out - the
(garble) Cape and from there we could all (garble) could not
actually see the buildings. Do you see the cleared area around
the VAB? Do you see the (garble) way out to the pads, both
pads, and also make out quite distinctly the (garble).
CC
Wow, must be pretty down there today.
SC
It looks like they get some super
big boomers in Miami, and that's just right to the Cape, too.
CC
Roger. In fact, one of them must have
got us, because we are having a little trouble with our command
lines. That teleprinter message on the procedure change
may be a little late getting up to you. However, there
are no changes, at least up to step 5.
SC
Okay, good enough. Gosh, something's
coming in now.
CC
Okay, the step 5 was in the parasol
deployment.
SC
That looks like black magic - that stuff
coming out of that teleprinter.
CC
Skylab, Houston. For info, we'll be
dumping the data recorded over Bermuda, which is just a
couple of minutes from now.
SC
Okay, and as I remember, the cue cards
for the (garble) deployment are in the back of the rendezvous
book. Is that right?
CC
Stand by.
CC
That's a correct location. Back of the
rendezvous book.
SC
Okay, thank you.
SC
Hey, Hank, you with us?
CC
Roger.
SC
Okay, I rewound the video tape recorder.
It took about 3 minutes and 20 seconds for it to rewind. That s
all configured for you.
CC
Roger, thank you.
CC
Skylab, Houston. Teleprinter load
should be up to you now, and you look those over. If you
got any comments, you can give them back to us. We got about
1 minute left on this pass.
�V
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SC
Okay, Houston, I've got them in hand,
and the teleprinter does a very nice job, except it's awfully
faint.
. .
.
SC
We don't know whether it s this particular
paper or whether that's the way it's going to be the
rest of the time. (garble) difficult to read.
CC
You can read it all, can't you, Pete?
SC
I think so. Hank.
SC
Okay, we're just short of LOS. And
our next contact is going to be Carnarvon at 13, which
is a long time from now, and we'll be dumping the recorder
there again.
.
SC
Okay, hopefully we'll have had lunch
by then, and we'll work these changes while we're doing lunch.
CC
Okay.
PAO
This is Skylab Control. We've had
loss of signal apparently. The station is in the eastern
test range. Next station Carnarvon in 39 minutes. During
the just completed stateside pass, the commander reported
that he could see runways on airfields across the northern
United States. And commented that, hopefully, we'll do pretty
well with EREP, referring to the earth resources experiment
package, which does multispectral scanning and photography
of Earth features. He also commented that the mobility in
zero-g, going back and forth along the multiple docking adapter
and airlock to the CSM and performing their activation chores,
he commented that the mobility is super. Coming across Florida
they reported seeing features at Kennedy Space Center, the
cleared area around the vehicle assembly building. Conrad
also brought up the fact that the Skylab windows were as
clean as any he'd ever seen in any spacecraft. And looking
up toward the telescope mount truss, he mentioned that the
that Don Lend's experiment was in super shape. This refers to
,,-nr-un Astronaut Don Lend, who is also a co-investigator on experiment
t y I number S23Q. magnetospheric particle composition experiment.
jtf'yirf.His co-investigator is Dr. Johannes Guiss of the University of
/perne in Switzerland. The detector is mounted on the ATM strut, with
cuff over it. And the detectors will be brought in during
'the EVA in which the ATM film canisters are retrieved.
QT Crew presently is having a lunch meal, and they should be well
into preparations for deploying the parasol during the next
M stateside pass, which is still another hour and 15 minutes
away, when we come across Goldstone. Next station to
acquire will be Carnarvon in 36 minutes, followed by Guam,
with a slight gap between the two stations. At 20:36
Greenwich mean time, 3:36 central time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 3:23 p.m. CDT, 1:07:23 GET
5/26/73
SC
Okay, Houston, I've got them in hand,
and the teleprinter does a very nice job, except it's awfully
faint.
SC
We don't know whether it's this particular
paper or whether that's the way it's going to be the
rest of the time. (garble) difficult to read.
CC
You can read it all, can't you, Pete?
SC
I think so, Hank.
SC
Okay, we're just short of LOS. And
our next contact is going to be Carnarvon at 13, which
is a long time from now, and we'll be dumping the recorder
there again.
SC
Okay, hopefully we'll have had lunch
by then, and we'll work these changes while we're doing lunch.
CC
Okay.
PAO
This is Skylab Control. We've had
loss of signal apparently. The station is in the eastern
test range. Next station Carnarvon in 39 minutes. During
the just completed stateside pass, the commander reported
that he could see runways on airfields across the northern
United States. And commented that, hopefully, we'll do pretty
well with EREP, referring to the earth resources experiment
package, which does multispectral scanning and photography
of Earth features. He also commented that the mobility in
zero-g, going back and forth along the multiple docking adapter
and airlock to the CSM and performing their activation chores,
he commented that the mobility is super. Coming across Florida
they reported seeing features at Kennedy Space Center, the
cleared area around the vehicle assembly building. Conrad
also brought up the fact that the Skylab windows were as
clean as any he'd ever seen in any spacecraft. And looking
up toward the telescope mount truss, he mentioned that the that Don Lend's experiment was in super shape. This refers to
Astronaut Don Lend, who is also a co-investigator on experiment
number S230, magnetospheric particle composition experiment.
His co-investigator is Dr. Johannes Guiss of the University of
Berne in Switzerland. The detector is mounted on the ATM strut, with
a cuff over it. And the detectors will be brought in during
the EVA in which the ATM film canisters are retrieved.
Crew presently is having a lunch meal, and they should be well
into preparations for deploying the parasol during the next
stateside pass, which is still another hour and 15 minutes
away, when we come across Goldstone. Next station to
acquire will be Carnarvon in 36 minutes, followed by Guam,
with a slight gap between the two stations. At 20:36
Greenwich mean time, 3:36 central time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC98/1
Time: 16:12 p.m. CDT, 1:08:12 GET
5/26/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control; 21 hours 12 min
utes Greenwich mean time. We have acquisition at Carnarvon.
This Carnarvon pass lasts almost 10 minutes. Flight Direc
tor Neil Hutchinson has been going over the procedures for
deploying the parasol device to understand in his mind,
how the thing works, how the rods are attached one at a time
and pushed out with retainer knobs attached.
CC
Carnarvon for 7 minutes and we'll be dump
ing the recorder.
SC
Roger. Okay. The CDR's headed into the
workshop right now with duals ahead trying to (garble).
CC
Roger; copy. And the next guy through
the airlock there we'd like to get him to turn OWS heat
exchange fans number one off. We don't need that anymore
and we'll conserve a little power.
CC
Skylab, Houston. Did you have any ques
tions on the mods we sent up by teleprinter?
SC
I just finished incorporating them in
the cue card, Hank. We haven't really had the time to go
over and review them. We'll do that later.
CC
Okay. And ah - For the SPT there, he's
to set up the TV. We'd like to give you some words on order
of priority. The number 1 priority is, that he be able to
observe the deployment. If the TV camera's going to inter
fere with his observation, then eyeballs come first.
SC
Roger. This morning is the first time
I had an inkling you guys wanted to see this and I just
haven't thought about it, yet.
CC
Okay. It's called out there on our page
A-4 in the time line.
SC
Yeah, which I saw this morning for the
first time.
SC
Say, Hank. There's one whale of a lot
of stuff in that command module. And we'll see if we can
get it out.
CC
Okay.
SC
Because in order to neaten it up to leave
room for three guys, among other things, we had to dismantle
the TV and restow it. In order to get it out, we are going to
have to move a whole lot of other stuff.
SC
We'll try to do it, but we're not promising
anything, is what I'm saying, I guess.
CC
Okay. That's good, but before you try it,
take a look out the window and see if you think you're still
going to be able to see if the TV camera is installed.
SC
Ahhh yeah, well, oh I see your side yeah.
CC
Well, the number 1 priority is being able to
see it with your eyballs, and if the camera interferes we
don't want the camera.
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you cannot see out that window with the TV
camera in there.
,
i tried that yesterday and I coudn t see
sc
and I didn't get any TV by trying to do both.
CC
Okay; copy.
,a ,..
i guess, if it's feasible, what we^d like
cc
to do is have you eyeball the deployment and after it's de
ployed give us a TV picture of it.
SC
Understand you.
Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
cc
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Guam at 27.
SC
Roger, Houston.
.
This is Skylab Control; 21:22 Greenwich
PA0
mean time, in a gap now between Ca:rnarvon 'Track*"9
and the Guam Island Tracking Station in the western Pacific.
Some discussion over Carnarvon on deployment of the parasol
through the solar scientific airlock. It was mentioned that
TV would be desirable through the command module window as
the parasol is extended up above the workshop wall. However,
the eyeball observation was prime. TV would be nice, but
not to let it interfere with Kerwin's visual observation of
the parasol. However, it was mentioned that after it was
successfully deployed, it would be highly desirable to have
a television picture. The parasol that is being carried was
the brain-child of Jack Kinzler, who is Chief*°VidwIre fo?
Services Division at Johnson Space Center. The hardware for
the parasol, all of the telescoping tubing up, and all or
the deployment mechanism adapted to the TO-27 canister we
all built in the Tex Services Machine Shop. The parasol
canopy was also constructed here at Johnson Space
During all of the testing and modification period, the test
teams worked around the clock. Most of the testing was ..
headed up by Don Arabian. The poles wort, rather Uke oollapa
able tent poles, in that they-re aiuminuopolesortubinq o
descending diameters to telescope inside each other with
sc
—ZSiHlrMIS & Hrur-
Environment Test Division, building 32. ^"^"^.^rigqers
all the care of a parachutte. In fact, parachutte riggers
did most of the actual packing_and folding down to a packag
iiAnnnnh fro fit into the 8 by 8 inch square canister, which
is^some 53 inches long inside.
teflon sleeves, then sheets
of Teflon on the 4 sides of the canister
END OF TAPE
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Time: 4:25 p.m. CDT, 1:08:25 GET
5/26/73
_ which is some 53 inches long inside.
PA0
Teflon sleeves, thin sheets of Teflon on the four sf^es
the canister, will aid in allowing the canopy to slide outward.
The Teflon will act as a lubricant. We're less than a minute
away now from Guam station. We'll leave the circuit up for
the Guam pass. And we're 25 minutes out of Goldstone. This
is Skylab Control standing by.
Skylab, Houston through Guam for 8 ramcc
Sc
Roger, Houston. This is the SPT. (garble)
The other two guys are in the workshop getting ready for
parasol deployment.
cc
Roger; copy. And, for your information,
we'll be switching the mission timer from B to A according
to the Flight Plan.
CC
Skylab for the SPT.
SC
Go ahead.
cc
Okay. Are you up in the STS or ATM panel
now?
SC
I'm moving now, but I can get there
(GARBLE.)
,
^ ^
.
Cc
You're picking up a lot of feeabacK
through the SIAs, Joe. I'm having trouble reading you l0UdScqUGal*
I know. I had my hands full of (garble).
iftfl had to use the wrong VOX. Go ahead.
.
v
oh, okay. Sometime when you get a break
cc
there, we'd like for you to take a look at the Calfax
fasteners on the teleprinter print cartridge and see if
they are tied. J don't know whether that's - I can't imagine
tnem not being tiea, but it's one thing we couldn't check.
sc
Standby. They're all tied. Hank.
CC
Okay, thank you.
CC
Skylab, Houston. For info, we're initializing
a shutdown.
SC
Roger.
CC
Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
CC
Skylab, Houston. For information, we're
commanding a (garble).
SC
Roger.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds
from LOS. Goldstone at 51.
PAO
This is Skylab Control, 21:35 Greenwich
mean time. And we have gone out of range over the hill from
the Guam Island tracking station; 15 minutes now until
Goldstone in California. Crew at this time making preparations
for attaching the canister containing the Skylab parasol to
�SL-II MC99/2
Time: 4:25 p.m. CDT, 1:08:25 GET
5/26/73
the solar airlock (scientific airlock), a rather tedious job
of extending the parasol, attaching one section of rod at a
time to the central core rod, the main shaft of the parasol.
This main shaft is actually part of the hardware for the T027
experiment, and the parasol four diagonal ribs and central
hub were simply attached to the existing experiment hardware.
The outer ends of the telescoping ribs are attached by screws
to the inner plate, end plate, of the canister, and as the
canopy is fully extended by successive attachments of rods,
much like going down in a hole with drill stem in an oil well,
the four screws will be released at the end plate, allowing
the ends of the rods to pass on out through the canister
past the wall of the workshop and rotate 90 degrees into the
four corners, taking the folded parasol canopy with it. At
21:37, up again at Goldstone in 13 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
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ime: 16:48 p.m. CDT, 1:08:48 GET
5/26/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control. 21:48 Greenwich
mean time, 4:48 Central daylight time. Acquisition at
Goldstone in 2 minutes 25 seconds. Crew still at this time
making preparations for deploying the Skylab parasol. They
first have to move a water tank from the floor of the
workshop up to it's permanent resting place lashed down up in
the - near the dome. During this stateside pass the final
discussion of the changes in the deployment procedure for
the parasol will be carried out. Just one more stateside
pass after this one. And then we are pretty much on the
back side of the orbit which takes us through the Hawaii
station and Vanguard for several REVs before we start coming
back on the main part of the network. Less than a minute
now to Goldstone. We'll standby for the initial call from
the spacecraft communicator Hank Hartsfield. Standing by
at 21:50 Greenwich time, this is Skylab Control.
CC
Skylab, Houston to Goldstone and
stateside for 15 minutes.
SC
Roger Houston. We have had what we
consider to be 3 false alarms from BUS 1 fire detector in
the center sleep compartment. And in all(garble) instances,
^fcthey were transient, lasting less than two seconds. However,
^Rhe first time it does give you a start. And for right now
we got Bus 1 powered off on that detector.
CC
Okay. Would you say again the location?
SC
The detector in the center sleep
compartment. Sleep compartment number 2.
SC
Roger, copy.
SC
Work is progressing. We've relocated
the (garble) holding tank, and that went like a piece of
cake, just like two thousand and in one. We've done the tripod
move. We got the foil off the SAL. It is in good condition
we're in a process of moving the T027 down now, while Joe
hunts for the (garble) bags.
CC
Roger, copy.
CC
Skylab, Houston. Paul, we're having to
manage this momentum and do maneuvers here pretty often as you
know and we feel that we can't afford to have a maneuver
while you're pushing this thing out. Now you can work
all the way up to step 22A, but we'd kind of like to a
feel for, later on in the pass here. We got about 12 more
minutes. About when are you going to get to that so we can
manage the momentum?
SC
Okay, Hank. Paul heard that and tells
me that they don't have a field yet for what they are going
to be at that - We'll let you know.
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5/26/73
okay, I just wanted to make you
cc
aware. I knew you wouldn't know at this point. But as you
start working along maybe you can get an idea about when
it will be.
You bet.
SC
.
.,
Skylab, Houston. We'd like to verify
cc
that - that you have read the procedure and don't have any
questions about it because we're starting to come up on the
time of day when we don't have many station contacts. In fact,
after we dJrop out stateside here, we'll pick you up at Vanguard
in about 20 minutes and that's the last pass before Goldstone.
Okay, I'll pass that word to the
sc
workshop Hank. How many minutes left on this pass?
Okay, we got 10 minutes here.
cc
SC
Okay.
END OF TAPE
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5/26/73
CC
Skylab, Houston. For information, we'll
be commanding the spectrometer on the CSM; no action required.
SC
How do you read, Houston?
CC
Roger; I'm reading you loud and clear, Pete.
SC
Okay, I got you on the speaker box (garble).
1 got one of my hot gloves back on again. The speaker box is
about 130. We're taking the tape off the box and we're taking
our time right now, and if we have any questions on the pro
cedures, we will wait to ask you.
CC
Roger; copy.
SC
It occurs to me, the question I had was
why did you want to reverse the sleeves on the SAL tripod?
CC
Say again, please?
SC
On the SAL tripod, why did you reverse the
speed on it? You know, I just couldn't figure out why (garble).
CC
That's the screws that - the way the thing
is mounted there for launch, Pete, you know, you turn those
around, as part of activation.
CC
SPT, Houston.
SC
He's down in the workshop.
CC
Okay. SPT, just give us a call when you're
ee for a minute.
•
SC
Can I relay you. Hank?
CC
Negative. I just got a little pass we want
him to perform here sometime when he's free, and I need to read
it to him whenever he's got a chance to listen.
SC
Okay.
CC
Skylab, Houston. For information, no action
required, we're going to do another nominal H-cage in about
2 minutes.
SC
Okay.
CC
Skylab, Houston. Is one of the guys
near the ATM console?
SC
No, we're all in the OWS.
CC
Okay. We're just trying to verify here.
We saw a change of status on the CBRM's. We're managing 5 and 6,
Now, we're about a minute from LOS now. We'll be picking you
up at Vanguard at 17.
SC
Okay.
CC
And the reset are the nominal H-cage should
be starting now.
SC
How many minutes until sunset?
CC
Okay, sunset's coming up in 13 minutes.
SC
Sure gets hot down here on the stateside
pass, and the other thing is when that TACS goes off, it sounds
_like somebody's beating on the bottom of the lab with a hammer.
CC
Roger.
PAO
This is Skylab Control at 22:06 Greenwich
mean time, 5:06 central daylight. Ten minutes to Vanguard
Tracking Station. Apparently we have had loss of signal
through Mila, a tracking station near Kennedy Space Center
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in Florida. Pete Conrad commented that during this last pass,
that moving the water tank from the floor of the workshop up
onto the wall, was a "piece of cake". And just a few moments
ago, he said that any time the TACS system, or thruster attitude
control system fired, it sounds like someone pounding on the
workshop with a hammer. We'll bring the line up again at
Vanguard in about 9 minutes. At 22:07 Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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L-II MC102/1
/26/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control, 22:15 Greenwich
mean time. Little over a minute out from the Vanguard Tracking
Ship for the first pass over that tracking vessel this
evening. Three successive - four successive passes, 177
178, 179. After Vanguard, it's long dry spell until we hit
the States again now; almost a complete revolution. We
should have a status report from the crew during the Vanguard
pass on how the work in preparing the Skylab parasol is
proceeding. We'll stand by for spacecraft communicator
Hank Hartsfield's first call. 22:16 Greenwich mean time,
standing by, this is Skylab Control.
CDR
Houston, you read?
CC
Roger, read you loud and clear. We're
through Vanguard for about 8 minutes.
CDR
Okay, Houston. Damn it. Between
steps 6 and 7 you didn't verify bottom. Teflon flaps is
innermost and top is out. And unfortunately, the forward
flaps run vertically. Now, do you mean the flaps that are
inside, the two vertical running flaps? There are 4 flaps
there. If you hadn't sent us the change, we'd understood it.
CC
Okay. The way that's suppose to be, is
he bottom flaps should be folded upwards, then the two side
laps folded across, and then the last flap on top should
•
be folded down.
CDR
Okay. That means we have to refold it.
Do you understand that?
CC
Right. The purpose of that, Pete, is
to keep the SAL door, when it pushes in and down from pulling
that flap down.
CDR
Okay. I'm not arguing with you, I'm
telling you we have to change it. Is that what you expected
us to have to do, change it?
CC
Negative, we did not expect that.
CDR
Because it's not packed that way.
You want us to hold while you verify or do you want us to
change it? I understand what you're talking about.
CC
We want it changed, Pete. We want it
so that the SAL door will not drag the flap down. So, that
top flap has to be on the outside folded down.
CDR
Top flap folded down. You will have.
CC
That's the thing we uncovered last
night, Pete, when we were working in the trainer. The - When
they packed it, we didn't know about that problem with the
SAL door.
CDR
Yeah, I understand that, I just wanted
you to understand that we were going to have to rearrange those
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5/26/73
flaps because it was not packed the way you described it
to start with.
CC
Okay. We did that in the trainer. That's
easy to do.
CDR
Okay.
CC
Skylab, Houston. For your info on the
maneuver, we're doing a pitch maneuver now to pick up the
power situation. We shouldn't have to do that again while
we're deploying. Our next nominal H-cage is going to have
to be done at 23:39 over Texas, which is on the next contact
after Vanguard. So, the only constraint we have on you is
that we cannot be maneuvering while you're doing steps 33 to
35 and that is when you actually deploy the parasol. So,
if you reach that point in the checklist and it looks like
it's getting close to the time we're going to have to do that
reset, we're going to have to hold up until we get it completed.
CDR
We understand that. But we need your
steps at the time, so we can write it down. It was 34 and
35 and when are we over Texas?
CC
Okay. Over Texas at 23:39, that's when
we have to do a re - nominal H-cage. And the steps were
, 34, and 35. That's when you do the last little push to
5loy the parasol.
•
CDR
Okay.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds
to LOS. We'll be picking you up at Goldstone at 28. And ah we show you coming up close to termination of bed-1 bake-out,
we want to delay bed 2.
CDR
Say again about bed-1 bake-out. Hank.
CC
Roger. According to our time, it's
just about through and we want to delay number 2.
CDR
Okay.
PAO
This is Skylab Control. We've had
loss of signal from tracking ship Vanguard. The Skylab
cluster now over the South Atlantic an hour and 2 minutes
out of Goldstone; almost a complete rev before the next
station pass. We're proceeding quite well on preparing the
Skylab parasol for deployment. The Teflon flaps, which are
the ends, actually, of long sheets of Teflon on the four
sides of the canister, are being repacked so that the upper
flap is downward to avoid any binding with the opening of the
airlock - scientific airlock door; a fairly minor operation.
It was checked out in a trainer last night and found to be
the best way to avoid any possible difficulties. At 22:26
Greenwich mean time, up again in 1 hour and 1 minute,
this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 18:18 p.m. CDT, 1:10:18 GET
5/26/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control, 23:18 Greenwich
mean time. Slightly over 9 minutes to acquisition on the final
stateside pass of the day. Pickup at Goldstone and just sliced
through the western edge of the Texas circle. Flight controll
ers here in the control room are taking advantage of this long
LOS period to drag out brown-bags and go down to the snack
bar and other places in the building and in general, stretch
their legs. After Goldstone and Texas we have about 3 or 4
successive passes at the lower end of the descending node,
passing through the Vanguard tracking ship acquisition range.
Orbit continuing to precess westward during this time of the
day off the range coming back on to it in the early morning.
During the upcoming stateside pass we should get a fairly good
estimate or evaluation by the crew on how they stand with the
deployment of the Skylab parasol. At least verbal descriptions
and if they've found the time to take the effort to unstow the
television camera, hopefully a picture. Up again in 7-1/2
minutes with Goldstone acquisition. At 23:20 Greenwich mean
this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-104/1
Time: 18:26 CDT 1:10:26 GET
5/26/73
This is Skylab Control 23 hours 26 min
utes Greenwich mean time, slightly over a minute until
acquisition through Goldstone and a small slice of the
Texas station. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson went on
the flight director loop and asked everyone to settle
down after this long LOS period,;sit down and settle down.
Everyone anticipating and hoping for a successful Skylab
parasol deployment, either completed or near completion.
They will leave the air-to-ground line up to catch the
first call as we have acquisition of signal. At 23:27 stand
ing by, this is Skylab Control.
CC
Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for
12-1/2 minutes.
CDR
Hello, Houston.
CC
Hello there.
CDR
(garble) Be advised we have invented we have - - We are getting a little coolant break. It's
pretty warm down there. So we are progressing slow but
sure and everything so far is working.
cc
Okay Pete. We had a little dropout
there, some noise. Could you tell us what step you're on?
CDR
We're about to put rod Delta on.
CC
Roger, copy.
CRR
Okay, we had no trouble venting it down.
It vented in about 4 minutes and it held zero for 10 minutes
without any outgassing. Going at it very smoothly and,
so far, the rod extension has gone very easily. And as I
say, we're just taking a little heat break.
CC
Hey, that's a good lick.
CDR
And Paul has terminated mol sieve IB
bake-out. Now we noticed that the dewpoint has gotten up
to 44 and we want to know whether you want us to go ahead
a little later in the day or (garble)
CDR
Hello, Houston. Are you there?
CC
Roger.
CDR
You're breaking up. Hank. Did you
copy my last about the mol sieve?
cc
Roger, understand you are terminating
the bed-1 bake-out.
CDR
That's right. Also, did you get in on
the onboard dewpoint?
cc
Roger, we copy 44. Is that correct?
CDR
That's affirmative. If you want us to
do it later on, just let us know and we'll do it. Now I
have something else on a PP C02. We've got three active sensors
and they are all reading differently. Just for your infor
mation - PAO
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Times 18:32 CDT 01:10:32 GET
5/26/73
PLT
this is how we'll do it.
CDR
Now, I got something else on the PCC 02.
We've got three active sensors, and they are all reading
differently, just for your information. Sieve B IN is read
ing 2 millimeters, Seive A is reading 3, and surprisingly
well,not so surprisingly because , since it's been doing it
but Seive A-OUT is reading about 4-1/2.
CC
Roger, we copy, and we have telemetry
on those.
CDR
Okay. Also, How about, just for onboard
information, confirming or correcting our report indication
that showed that our Panel 225 the 120 psi 02 regulator
is regulating to 140, also, let me look a minute, the N2
is regulating to about 165.
CC
Okay. Those figures agree with what we
got down here, Paul, and they're acceptable.
PLT
Okay. So everythings working right that way
but those are the right numbers.
PLT
Okay, Henry, Now, let me verify about
this parasol extension stuff.
CC
Okay. Go ahead.
PLT
We can do everything except Step-33,34,
and 35 while you're maneuvering the vehicle. Is that right?
CC
Stand by 1 minute.
CC
Skylab, Houston, we're coming up at
in about 5 minutes, with the nominal H- case, and we would like
for you not to do any more extensions until after maneuver
is complete. Once that maneuver is complete, you're clear
to press on through the deployment. The thing we don't we
don't want to do is be deploying while - when the maneuver
is going on and thrust is firing.
CDR
Okay, I thought that might be the case,
which wasn't clear before. When's that maneuver going to
be over. You know?
CC
Stand by. I'll get an answer on that.
CDR
Okay. Either a time, or another AOS.
Just so we know when we can pick up.
CC
Okay. We are about 6 more minutes on
this pass, and then we'll be picking up Vanguard at 54.
CDR
You cut out, Henry. All I got was 4.
Say again.
CC
Okay. We have about 6 more minutes on
this pass, and then we'll pick you up at Vanguard at 54.
CDR
Okay. When can we continue the mission.
You want to wait until we pick up at Vanguard? You give
us the GO then?
CC
s tand by.
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5/26/73
cc
Skylab Houston. You're clear to proceed
with the deployment at 23:45.
CDR
23:45, Okay.
t
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we're getting a good picture down
^"cDR
Okay. That's TV specialist Dr. Kerwin.
Paul he - would you look at the picture of the right
window, in the foreground you see the see the MDA, that
white painted, (garble) behind that is ATM the strutwork, and
mostly the@rest of it is dirt. I don't think is this picture
you can see the - the thing deployed yet. If you like I 11
take it to the left hand window now, and give you a hand held
shot of it. And tell me, what are your - what are TV
opportunities? Do you have any over Vanguard?
CC
That's negative. And we got about 4
minutes left, and if you could give us that other window,
we'd appreciate it.
CDR
(Garbled)
CDR
Okay, Henry - Let me - You did say we
could resume deployment at 23:45?
CC
That is affirmative.
CDR
Okay.
CC
And Joe, before we lose you, we would
like to get the TV on tne BTR, in any event.
SPT
Okay, I'll turn it on, and you guys
can start it anytime you want. How's that?
CC
We're going to have to have you start
it, because we probably won't be in a station contact when
they get it deployed.
SPT
Oh. Okay. You wanted - You wanted to
get it on the BTR, the deployment itself.
CC
That is affirmative.
SPT
Oh. All right.
PAO
Kerwin has moved the camera over to the
left Command Module rendezvous window looking up through the
telescope mount truss, back toward the area where the parasol
should be poking up through the scientific airlock. You can
see the bottom of the — see the bottom of the telescope mount.
SPT
Okay Henry, you're looking at a hand
held view out of the left window, with the monitor between
my knee and unfortunately, I don't think you can see the
orange sail material, which is right in the center line of
that ATM strut - (garble), because I have to move my head
to the very right hand side of the window to see it, and I
can't get the TV camera in over there. There isn't room.
CC
I guess we're having trouble seeing it.
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Time: 18:32 CDT 01:10,32 GET
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5/26/73
SPT
If I try to move it to the right, the
body of the camera's too long, and I can't hack it.
CC
Skylab, we're about 45 seconds from LOS.
Vanguard at 54.
PAO
This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal as the cluster passed out the southern edge of
the Texas acquisition circle. Slightly over 12 minutes
until acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard, which will
be almost straight over head at a 86 degree elevation angle.
90 Degrees being straight up, obviously. Total pass time
of 7 minutes and 20 seconds. The crew had attached sev
eral of the extension rods and had it partially deployed
through the airlock scientific, scientific airlock, and on
the television picture from the lefthand window, the still
folded canapy could be seen at the apex of the truss frame
of the telescope mount. Any subsequent television will be
loaded on the on-board vidio tape recorder, in as much as
there are no more stations with live capability until
tomorrow. We'll return with this circuit in 11 minutes
with the Vanguard pass. After Vanguard, it will be about
an hour and 8 minute gap again until Hawaii. At 23:43
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-106/1
Timei 18:52 p.m. CDT, 1:10:52 GET
5/26/73
This is Skylab Control, 23 hours 52
minutes Greenwich mean time. A minute and a half out of track
ing ship Vanguard at the start of revolution number 177 for
the orbital workshop. We should continue to hear a proqress
report on deployment of the Skylab parasol. After Vanguard
there will be another long break of an excess of an hour be
fore we come up on Hawaii, stand by now for the resumption
of communications from the crew of Skylab and the ground.
_ , .;rc .
Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for
7-1/2 minutes.
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Roger, Houston. The parasol is I think
completely deployed. I m just going down to check on it.
cc
Roger.
PLT
It's not completely extended, it's
not deployed.
cc
Roger.
„.
Correction, we're about to extend rod
Echo, rod Echo.
cc
Okay.
Roger, copy rod Echo.
PLT
Hey, Henry?
cc
Go ahead.
PL"L
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Time: 18:52 p.m. CDT, 1:10:52 GET
5/26/73
telescope and rods are locked.
PLT
Okay. (Garble)
PLT
How important is TV Hank? It's dark
outside now, you want to wait for light?
CC
Negative. We want to get it out.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We would like for
you to get a visual verification on the deployment. Whether
we get TV or not is not important. We want you to have a visual
on it though.
PLT
No chance of a visual, Paul, until we
go into sunrise.
PLT
When did that start. Hank? We're at
the first mark on E now. How far can we progress before deal
ing?
CC
Okay, you can progress all the way up
to step 32. That's when you start the final deployment.
PLT
Okay.
CC
Thirty-two is releasing the brake.
Go up to 32. We have about 26 minutes to sunrise.
CC
And we're one minute from LOS. Our next
contact is Hawaii at 03.
PAO
This is Skylab Control. Apparently
we have had loss of signal through Vanguard with the Skylab
cluster. Not too much farther to go now in the extension rod
attachment to bring the Skylab parasol out to the full exten
sion point where the 4 ribs will fly upward and outward to
90 degrees to the center pole. However, they express a desire
to wait until spacecraft sunrise before doing this. And sun
rise for them will be in 23 minutes. However, the Skylab will
not be over any ground station for another hour. Hawaii in
59 minutes at 00:03 Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-107
Time: 19:32 CDT 1:11:32 GET
5/26/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control 0032 Greenwich
mean time. Skylab space station just crossing the island
of Ceylon on over into the Bay of Bengal on revolution
number 178. Fifty-two minutes remaining until the space
craft sunset. And it is hoped that the Skylab parasol de
ployment will be accomplished during this day side pass.
We're still a half hour out of Hawaii. It's fairly quiet
in the Control Room here. People are taking a , again
taking this long LOS break as an opportunity for meals,
getting a cup of coffee. We'll bring up the circuit again
at acquisition Hawaii in 28 minutes. And at 0033 Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-108/1
Times 19:53 p.m. CDT, 1:11:53 GET
5/26/73
PAo
This is Skylab Control, 00:53 Greenwich
mean time. Skylab space station and command service module,
known as the Skylab cluster, now nearing the three-quarter-way
point of revolution 178, crossing just south of the Aleutian
Island chain, some 8 minutes and 50 seconds out of acquisition
at Hawaii. A group of about 30 people just came into the
viewing room here in the control center. This group is made
up of people from the Johnson Space Center Technical Services
Division, Crew System Division, and other elements of the
NASA center, plus people from the support contractor organiza
tions who were involved in design, fabrication, and testing
of the Skylab parasol. They've come in to see the final hear the final report of deployment, hopefully, which will
be over Hawaii and most probably over Vanguard a few moments
later. We'll be up again in 7 minutes at 00:55 Greenwich mean
time. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Skylab was the first space station operated by NASA; it was launched without a crew on May 14, 1973. Skylab had three manned missions: Skylab 2, launched May 25, 1973, lasting 28 days, Skylab 3, launched July 28, 1973, lasting 60 days, and Skylab 4, launched November 16, 1973, lasting 84 days. Crews on Skylab conducted a variety of experiments during their missions, including experiments in human physiology, circadian rhythms, solar physics and astronomy, and material sciences. Important earth resources studies were conducting including studies on geology, hurricanes, and land and vegetation patterns.
Two of the more important components for conducting research on Skylab were the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) and the Earth Resources Experiment Package (EREP). The ATM was a multi-spectral solar observatory, and NASA’s first full-scale manned astronomical observatory in space. The ATM yielded a significant number of images and provided useful data for understanding our sun. The EREP provided thousands of images of the Earth’s surface in visible, infrared, and microwave spectral regions.
Skylab remained in orbit, unoccupied after the Skylab 4 mission, until July 11, 1973, when the space station reentered Earth’s atmosphere.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab#Manned_missions
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/shuttle/f_skylab1.html
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-402/ch4.htm
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This mission commentary primarily depicts the Skylab 2 crew unpacking and assembling the solar parasol. The Skylab 2 crew is also depicted deploying the solar parasol.
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Conrad, Charles, Jr.
Weitz, Paul J.
Kerwin, Joseph P.
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SL-II MC-109/1
Time: 20:02 CDT 1:12:02 GET
5/26/73
This is Skylab Control 1 hour and 1 min
ute ground elap - I mean Greenwich mean time. We have
had data acquisition through Hawaii tracking station. We 11
stand by for resumption of air-to-grwnd MUHiwtion^
This pass is only 5-1/2 minutes long. This is Skylab Con
pA0
tr0lCCtandin9 by*
Skylab, Houston to Hawaii for 5 minutes.
PLt
Roger, Houston. Stand by one, we're
trying to get the PB on the VTR and Pete will have a chat
Wlth c°U*
C
Skylab, Houston. We've got about 4 min
utes left on this pass. Can you give us a report?
CDR
Be right with you, Houston.
Okay, Houston. We had a clean deploy
CDR
ment as far as rods clearing and e^ryhthing, but it s not
laid out the way it's supposed to be. And we ve gotpic
tures of it on the VTR for you. Now right at the moment,
we've operated voided the rod in and out a couple of inches
short stroke-wise rapidly, which has improved the deploy
ment. But the problem seems to be that the folds in
material have taken too much of a set. And it is more
fully deployed in the front across the upper skirts. But,
there are two folds emanating from the set, 3 folds emanating from the center deployment plate; one to each side an
one towards the base skirt. So, in effeet,we 1have a trap
ezoid which is the smallest dimension toward the base of
the vehicle. Now, that's as far as we We gone. We:re
open for suggestions. I have the feeling that if we pulled
it all the way in close to the vehicle that it would touch
in the back and along the sides. It might possibly "SlP
the folds out of the material and if we did push her back
out again and gently oscillate it in and out, as we have in
the past, which seems to improve it. But, I think we ve
gotten about as much out of it as we're going to get. My
guess is we've only got about 12 to 14 feet at the
back end with perhaps 18 to 20 at the front end. And
don't even know the dimensions of the sail.
cc
Okay the dimensions are supposed to
be 22 by 24, Pete.
CDR
Well, it's possible that we ve got it
completely backwards and we could turn it 180 degrees. That
would - which way do you want - which dimension do you want
the 24?
cc
Twenty-four is the length of it, l i
feet should be the width.
CDR
Okay. Then it is in fact a square.
I mean a rectangle.
CC
Yes.
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5/26/73
CDR
Is that right, Houston, it's a rectangle?
CC
Roger, it's rectangular and the center,
of it - the hub is off center on the rectangle. There's
to be the poles that are pointed back toward the ATM should
be the ones that have a length without fabric on them.
CDR
That's the way it is.
CC
That's the way it should be.
CDR
If you are able to dump our TV we, I
think, give you a pretty good TV of it. It just does look
to me like the end aft toward the aft skirt has got three wrin
kles. One coming between the aft skirt line and one on each
side running along you know running outboard to the side.
And that it's pinched the fabric, you know. It's taken a
permanent set. And the front end, which has the strings on
it, that's pretty well deployed.
CC
Okay, we're about 15 seconds from LOS.
We'll think about it and we'll talk to you at Vanguard.
We hope to have a plan then. Vanguard is coming up at 30.
CDR
Three zero, Roger.
CC
Skylab, Houston. If you can still read,
we'd like to terminate that Bat A charge and get Bat B to
charging. And also, if anybody is free, we'd like to start
them on the water flight servicing.
CDR
Okay, we were just going to ask you
that.
PAO
This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal through the Hawaii tracking station. Coming up
on Vanguard in 21 minutes. There was considerable applause
in the viewing room from the people who are involved in
designing, fabricating, testing the parasol when it was re
ported that it had deployed with a few wrinkles in the after
end of it - end pointing - facing toward the telescope
mount. Meanwhile, here on the ground, discussion is underway
on how would be the best way to try to shake the wrinkles
out. And, hopefully, over Vanguard, some word will be passed
up to the crew on how would be the best way to correct the
problems and get the full 22 by 24 foot dimensions out
of the parasol for the optimum solar shading. We'll come
back up at Vanguard in 20 minutes. At 01:10 Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-110/1
Time: 20:21 CDT 01:02:21
5/26/73
This is Skvlab Control 01 hours 21
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orouos scattered around the room, on how the beat wayto
shake loosethe folds in the canopy. The main consensus
seems t^be to pull it down fairly close » the workshop^
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And we'll be coming up on the reset in ure
6-1/^nute. for the^
Vanguard pass at 01:23 Greenwich mean time. This is
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Control.
END OF TAPE
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�SL-II MC-111/1
Times 20:28 p.m. CDT, 1:12:28 GET
5/26/73
This is Skylab Control 01 hours 28
PA0
minutes Greenwich mean time. About a minute and 56 seconds
out from Vanguard tracking ship nearing the end of revolution
178 for the workshop. After Vanguard, we again have a long
gap of about an hour before Hawaii. Hawaii pass will be almost
due overhead, 81 degrees elevation, maximum elevation. And
we expect another status report from the crew on the retraction
operation of withdrawing the center support rod, taking off
the rods as they bring it in. Forty-five seconds to acquisition.
However, occasionally we get acquisition ahead of the clock
time. So, at this time we'll bring up the circuit for the Vanguard
pass, which has a duration of 10 minutes and 2 seconds. Skylab
Control standing by.
CC
Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for
9 minutes.
CDR
Go ahead.
CC
Roger. First off, we'd like to get Joe
to tell us what he saw out the window. We would like to know
if the rods are approximately in the same plane.
SPT
Well, we don't think so, Houston. We
can see the ends of all the rods.
It's completely free of
anything and there's nothing hanging it up.
SPT
And if you want to know what it looked
when it deployed I can see the thing stickin up, bunched in
the middle, billowed a little bit at the top and at the bottom,
and when they deployed it, all four legs came up. The front legs,
that is, the forward ones closest to the command module, came
up smartly. It looks as if they actually went over center a
little bit, then bounced back. The back ones did not come up,
it looked like, all the way - didn't come to 90 degrees.
They went slowly and they just kind of drifted to a stop.
CC
Okay. What kind of an angle do you think
they made with the plane of the first two rods?
SPT
It's your guess, but I guess 30 degrees,
something like that.
CC
Okay, we would like for the CDR and the
PLT to go back in the workshop and pull her in and we'd like
for you to pull as many rods in at one whack. Undo the rod
break and bring in about three at a time and them remove them
and we want you to complete the procedures down to step 43 so
you've done a full retraction and got the rod A configuration
proper. And we're going to be doing a nominal H-cage at the
end of this pass and we want to get it in close.
SPT
It worked.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We'll give the time
for that reset so that you can be sure and have the rod brake
on when we start it.
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5/26/73
r£T
Skylab, Houston the time for the reset
is 01:36. That will be the time for the nominal H-cage. 01:3
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.
i re_
CC
Roger, and once we get theparasolre
We.re
tracted, we do not plan to do anything mojr® with
. 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.
cdt
I understand.
And for the CDR, we're not too concerned
cc
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
reset starts or the nominal H-cage starts.
Skylab, Houston we're going to give you
cc
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.
SPT, Houston. Did the CDR, PLT take
CC
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?
5PT
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 «£ 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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5/26/73
complete step 41 there, Paul. We'd like to make sure we get
the push rod knob A on there and the set screw in.
PLT
That didn't work. Hank. It's a little
tough getting these two sections separated. We'll get on that
as soon as we can.
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.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-112/1
Times 20:58 CDT, 1:12:58 GET
5/26/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control. 01 hours 58 min
utes Greenwich mean time, 38 minutes away from Hawaii.
Skylab cluster crossing the east African coast in the straights
between the Island of Madagascar and the continent of Africa.
Here in the Mission Control Center there's a great deal of
confidence that the recently deployed Skylab parasol will
have a good effect on the internal temperatures of the Skylab
workshop. Johnson Space Center Technical Services Division
Chief Jack Kindsler just spoke to the group of people in his
division and other elements of the center and support contrac
tors in the viewing room, and expressed the belief that as
the parasol gets warmed up by the Sun during the next couple
of dayside passes, the wrinkles in the after end of the canopy
which apparently were set by the cold soak during the early
part of the deployment will indeed flatten out. And that the
parasol will provide the designed effect of lowering the
temperatures, and acting as a parasol in name and indeed for
the Skylab workshop. 37 minutes to Hawaii. At 02:00 hours
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-113/1
Time: 21:19 CDT 1:13:19 GET
5/26/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control 2 hours 19 min
utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab cluster now over north
central China, midway through the 179th workshop revolution.
Seventeen minutes out of Hawaii. Thirty-eight minutes re
maining in the current dayside pass. And flight controllers
will be observing the workshop temperatures during the next
couple dayside passes to see if there is a trend of
temperature reduction in the workshop structure and in
the atmosphere. It will probably take at least 2 revolu
tions for the temperatures to begin a downward trend.
And hopefully through the night, the workshop will be in
a comfortable temperature, by the start of tomorrow's crew
workday. People here in the Control Center are well sat
isfied with the deployment of the Skylab parasol. And
as the inventor of the parasol mentioned in his pep talk
to the people in the viewing room who had built and tested
the device, he felt that the wrinkles seen in the after
end were a result of cold soak and that as the Sun warmed
up the canopy, the wrinkles would flatten out.> We're
looking now at a handover from Flight Director Neil Hutch
inson to Milt Windier at about 10:15 central time. And
anticipating a press conference shortly there after, per
haps 10:30 p.m. central. Participants will be William C.
Schneider, Director of Skylab Program NASA Headquarters,
Flight Director Neil Hutchinson, and Jack Kinsler who is
Chief of the Technical Service Division Johnson Space Cen
ter, the man who's brainchild the parasol was. Fifteen min
utes out of Hawaii, at 02:22 Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-114/1
Time: 21:36 CDT 01:13:36 GET
5/26/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control 2 hours 36 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We have acquisition now, even though
the clock says we're some 15 seconds away, through the
Hawaii station. Almost directly over the Hawaii station.
81 degrees elevation angle maximum. We'll see how the solar
sunshade or Skylab parasol is working as we read temperatures
on this pass. See if they're coming down.
SC
See you over Hawaii for 10 minutes.
CC
Okay, we got a lot of things we want to
talk about on this pass. I guess I'll get on with it. First
off we're planning a medical conference at Vanguard, which
is about 03:04. That will be the next station contact
after this one. The next item is that we have a requirement
that one of you wear the OBS tonight, since we don't have
any (garble) in the Command Module, and depending upon the
CSM fan, we're recommending the SPT.
CDR
Okay.
CC
And for the SPT, we'd like to get his
opinion on - we can only - we can't dump all of the VTR
tape to get that pictures back of the parasol, and we'd
like to know whether it would be better to lop off the
first part or the last part. In other words, about where
in there was the pictures of the deployed parasol?
SPT
Hank, if you might get the pictures of
the actual deployment at the beginning, and the pictures
most actually representative of the configuration in which
we ditched it down are at the end, and you can take your
choice.
CC
Okay, thank you.
SPT
Hey, Hank.
CC
Go ahead.
SPT
I got to apologize profusely, but I
inadvertently opened the circuit breakers to the amp hour
integrator number 8, and it's reset to zero onboard.
CC
Roger. Copy.
CC
And our maneuver plan is here, we're
going to take a look at the temperatures, and we think
they're coming down. We're prepared to command a solar
inertial here over Hawaii. Just let you know, and we're
also prepared to back that up at Vanguard as a last choice.
SPT
You say you think they're coming down
or if they're coming down.
CC
Well we're looking at them now to see
what they look like.
SPT
We just finished weighing all the mol sieve
heat exchanges. What do you do with them? Just stand by
until tomorrow.
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Time: 21:36 CDT 01:13:36
5/26/73
CC
Okay, while we're getting an answer on
that, we'd like to know how far you got in the - your
checks, have you done the quiescent panel yet?
CDR
Yeah. I rated panel 351, which we're
leaving UP so that we can have water. I was gonna do 352,
382, and 378, 79, 76, 399, 377, 600, 602, 601,603, 604 and
side hatch tunnel hatch, and that's it. The rest of it's
done. BAT B is being charged. I just did an 02 purge.
CC
Okay, what we're getting at, Pete, we we're wondering how you feel about trying to get the VCS
dump in tonight, and get some circulation going.
CDR
Boy, you bet, we can do that.
CDR
Hey, if you think those temps are coming
down, and that will help any, that's no strain. We're in
good shape up here.
CC
Okay, then, in that case, we'd like fot
you to do Step 1 & 2 on Page 2-62, and following that, on
Panel 390, I'd like to get all four OWS heat exchanger
fans on. Just place all four of them to'on'. And tomorrows
flight plan, of course, we'll delete that part of it ahd
do Steps 3 & 4.
CDR
You say you wanted the OWS heat exchanger
fans on or off?
CC
On. O N. After you install the duc|f
according to Steps 1 & 2 on Page 2-62, Panel 390 in the
lock there, we want to get all four heat exchanger fans on.
CDR
Will do. How did the temps look?
CC
Okay, it looks like to us the temps are
coming down, so we're going to put the solar inertial in
WORK.
CDR
Very good. Very good.
CC
Okay, and another thing, Pete, we're
looking at two flight plans tomorrow. We - We're just
taking a tentative look at a flight plan that doesn't
consider anything in the workshop. And we have the other
alternative is going as planned with a what we launched
with. Now, we'll try to get - We'd like to get your opinion
on this, how you feel about working in the workshop tomorrow.
CDR
Well Buck, if you bring those temperatures
down any at all, I'm guessing, but, we spent the better
part of 2 or 3 hours down there, and everytime we'd get
hot, we'd come up and take a rest. Now, if the temperatures
are coming down, and they've come down at - I don't know Maybe Paul's got a different idea, but/I'd say it was
at least 120 in there today, but you carrwork in thfere.
It's dry*j We didn't get any problems with heat, whenever we
just got too hot, we'd come up and cool off for awhile and
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5/26/73
cool off and go back to work, so
.th®y
riband*'
I would like to stick with our original flight plan,
\
go start activating it down there.
we'll
CC
Okay, our best estimate, Pete, is we 11
be below 100 degrees in there by tomorrow morning•
CDR
Well, what do you think it was in there
today?
Skar^elH think we're pretty well
calibrated. You bring it down 20. We
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any bicycles or anything, but we can get down there and^at
least start configuring things, and we U ]
p
as best we can. If we cannot, we can come out. As far
the temps are coming down. I think that s gre .
like to press for the normal flight pi®". V
...
CC
Okay, I guess we will concur with that
then. We uplinked you a contingency on dock procedure
regard to the probe! By Poking them together you^robably
aot now
That is just a get me home thing. Tomorrow we
hope to have a better analysis of the probe for you.
PLT
Okay', HenJy! when we put on the yCs ducts
and we turn on the OWS heat exchangers, what do we do
S2 vent fan. r>o you want to unplug the vent and go ahead
and fire up that fan, or leave it like it
rr
Stand by just 1.
^ _
That's the A - that's the A-N duct fan.
pLT
Roger. I understand. Let me get an
CC
answer on that right quick.
Roger. We'd like to proceed with un
capping that duct, -day!ettingotthteifanigoing.sEvA
Do
we have time ^^over ^with^now?
right now in this pass. I guess we'd like to delay those.
PLT
HowYabout if I record them on Channel A
for now and you can listen to them, and if we get a
chance. I'll give them to you, and otherwise, they
on tape, and you can listen and see if you got any
further questions.
up to you with that.
jUst getting ready tocome
That's real good. Press on with that.
x was
CcT
Skylab, Houston.
solar inertial now.
You're on your way to
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Skylab was the first space station operated by NASA; it was launched without a crew on May 14, 1973. Skylab had three manned missions: Skylab 2, launched May 25, 1973, lasting 28 days, Skylab 3, launched July 28, 1973, lasting 60 days, and Skylab 4, launched November 16, 1973, lasting 84 days. Crews on Skylab conducted a variety of experiments during their missions, including experiments in human physiology, circadian rhythms, solar physics and astronomy, and material sciences. Important earth resources studies were conducting including studies on geology, hurricanes, and land and vegetation patterns.
Two of the more important components for conducting research on Skylab were the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) and the Earth Resources Experiment Package (EREP). The ATM was a multi-spectral solar observatory, and NASA’s first full-scale manned astronomical observatory in space. The ATM yielded a significant number of images and provided useful data for understanding our sun. The EREP provided thousands of images of the Earth’s surface in visible, infrared, and microwave spectral regions.
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Weitz, Paul J.
Kerwin, Joseph P.
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SL-II MC-114/4
Time: 21:36 CDT 01:13:36 GET
5/26/73
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 th.t we've got ££P.r.sol out. ^^those
that I'm awful sorry about that breaker. Ithnrtjd it
(garbled) in that heat exchanger break, but I 311st flipped
it up with my toe.
...
CC
And if you still read us, we d like to
get that (garble) system activated.
Roger, you got a page number for that. Hank?
CDR
SC
Okay, that's page 2-137.
This is Skylab Control. The Skylab
pA0
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
100 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 th®re
will be a medical consultation on a private loop. And at
2 hours 50 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 22:07 CDT 1:14:07 GET
5/26/73
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in the maneuver but I still believe you. And what is your
ground figure for TACS percent (garble)?
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CC
The last figure I saw was 51 percent.
In fact, we're showing 51.6 percent now, Joe. 0**Y'.
got a couple of other items for you. We "c^esdthat
you leave all the hatches open tonight. No need to ciose
them up. And we'd also like to inform you that there will
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5/26/73
not be a trim burn tomorrow. We only have 5 foot per sec
ond capability and we're going to try to use it at th
optimum tim .
okay, no trim burn. We will leave the
hatches open tonight. One to 5 feet per second above.
QQ
That's above the SMRCS red line.
SPT
Okay.
CC
SPT Houston. We'd like you to select
1 and 3 in the Y AXIS. And you may get another failure
alert there until we can get the drift correction in.
gpT
Okay, you don't want me to do any DAS
work, iust select it on the panel, right?
we'd like you to select it through the
cc
DAS.
SPT
Oh, Okay.
Skylab, Houston. As soon as you grt tne^
cc
gyros configured, we'd like you to do a nominal H-cage. We re
about 20 seconds from LOS. We hope you guys get a good
night's rest, and we'll see you in the morning.
SPT
Gyros and then a nominal H—cage, Okay.
Cc
And Skylab, if you get a chance, we'd
like you to put the evening status report on channel A.
PAO
This is Skylab Control. We have ap
parently had loss of signal through the Vanguard tracking
station. One hour and 37 seconds until Hawaii acquisition.
A very low elevation angle pass, only 2 and a quarter min
utes long. And then Vanguard an hour and 28 minutes from
now. By then the crew will likely be in the sleep period.
Some difficulties experienced with the Y-axis rate gyro,
which the flight controllers here in the Control Center
feel confident they will be able to sort out and go into
solar inertial rev later than intended. They had planned to
command solar inertial attitude during this Vanguard pass,
but it's been delayed 1 rev until the rate gyro problem
is sorted out. At 3 hours 19 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-116/1
Times 23:32 CDT 1:15:32 GET
5/26/73
PAO
This is Skylab Control at 4 hours 32
minutes Greenwich mean time. We're going to play for you
now the record-recording of the air-to-ground during the
Hawaii pass. As it turns out, the flight director indicated
that he needed some additional conversation with the crew
at Hawaii. And the crew is still in the process of wrapping
up before going to bed and they will be again contacted
now at Vanguard and possibly even as late as Ascension. So
we are now going to play the Hawaii track and we'll have
another acquisition or signal coming up in a little under
15 minutes. This is Skylab Control and here is the air-toground.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii
for the next 2 minutes. How do you read?
CC
Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii
for about the next 3 minutes. How do you read?
CDR
Read you loud and clear. How me?
CC
Okay, same here. Sorry to bother you
but we've got a short pass, a couple of important items I'd
like to get up to you. We're going to be turning on your
airlock module primary coolant loop. And that's going to
give you a pri cool flow caution or warning loop.
CDR
Okay. We're in the process of dumping
the condensate plate as soon as we brought the thing on
condensate tank filled to the top with water.
e're working
that problem right now.
CC
Roger, understand it filled with water.
Okay, we would like on panel 203 for you to take the mol sieve B
fan power to secondary.
PLT
It's in secondary, Houston.
CC
Roger, thank you. We know you have
been having some problems still with the APCS and we're going
to be trying to work those out for you a little bit later.
So, just don't worry about them right now. We're trying
to get back to solar inertial and didn't. We'll be trying - CC
Rog. We said that we should be close
to solar inertial attitude. We're not solar inertial mode,
we'll be working that ourselves.
PLT
Well, you're not even very close. You
don't have (garble) Do you know where to go?
CC
Probably not.
CDR
Well I'm looking out the window and
it looks as if you need plus rotation about Y and a plus about
X. And I'm not sure of the magnitude, but about 10 degrees or more
CC
I'm sorry, I couldn't copy there. Did
you say we were about 10 degrees off?
PLT
We are more than 10 degrees off. It's
hard to estimate, but it's a plus Y and a plus X rotation.
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5/26/73
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'll 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, they were 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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Time: 23:32 CDT 1:15:32 GET
5/26/73
SPT
yes
cc
You'want us to give you a call at
Vanguard understand.
CCT
AndSI*guess I must have got somebody
there. We would like to verify that you did get the
phant trunk installed between the OWS and the
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note now from Dr. Willard Hawkins on the medical jjreifing
earlier. This is a private conversationbetween «edical
officers to assess the status of
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END OF TAPE
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Time: 23:47 CDT, 1:15:47 GET
5/27/73
CC
Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
CDR
Loud and clear (garble).
CC
Okay. We're a little bit garbled. I'd
like to talk about maneuvering here a little bit if I could,
to Joe.
SC
(Garble)
CC
Roger. We are prepared to put a maneuver
to try to reacquire solar inertial and there's some confusion
on our part about whether we should go plus or minus Y. We
understood you to say plus Y awhile ago. We think it's minus.
Will you confirm that?
SPT
Okay, let's talk about it. Maybe I'm
getting it wrong. It would appear to take - to require a pitch
above the Y axis. I was going to say toward the CSM, if that
makes any sense to you. As I stand facing the CSM and look
up the Z-axis, the Sun is forward of the zenith. It's in other words, it's between the plus-Z axis and the plus-X
axis.
CC
Okay, that's a plus-Y. That - we got
up there on the top of the MDA - we got the plus-Y axis indicated
and that still sounds like a plus-Y rotation to us.
SPT
Well, I thought it was. What have you
got for X?
CC
Okay, about plus 15 degrees.
SPT
That sounds right.
CC
Let's go back and review that again.
You say the Sun is between the CSM and the ATM?
SPT
Yes. That's right.
CC
That's a negative-Y rotation.
CC
You're right, you're right. Okay, it is
a plus-Y rotation.
SPT
Nyaaa nyaaa.
CC
Okay. Okay, what we're going to do is
put in a plus-Y rotation of 40 degrees and a plus-X rotation of
15 degrees. We got a maneuver time on it of 15 minutes. If we
don't hack it this time we'll probably suggest turning it over
to you. And before you would ever try to do it, you would need
to - before you ever select solar inertial mode, you need to
make sure that you put in a command to initialize your strapdowns because they're way off right now.
SPT
Understand.
CC
And for Pete or Paul, I guess maybe we'd
like to ask a question. Is there any reason that duct 1 flow
would be down now. We've got a substantial drop in it.
SPT
(Garble) MDA. Oh, duct 1. No, not that I
know of. I can go check it if you want.
SPT
Talking about duct 1 in the workshop,
right?
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5/27/73
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 mol sieve A and B. We just
finished a condensate dump into the waste tank. We have two
ducts. Ducts 1 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
circ 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 1.
SPT
Okay.
CC
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 1 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'll 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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5/27/73
CC
That's affirm. It looks like it's really
coming down. Did you hear my last call back when we were - at
Guam I gave you a call that we'd dropped 70 degrees.
CC
That's skin temp. I'll probably get a
hack for you - what the workshop temperature inside - what we
think it is. Okay, the next pass is going to be coming up at
Ascension at 05:00. And would you like us just to forget that call?
CDR
No, we're eating. We're trying to get
to bed. I think that everybody shouldn't worry too much if
we slipped a day, around here a little bit. Let us sleep in in
the morning. (Garble) We're hanging in there. We've had a lot
of (garble) come up today. You know - kind of held us back.
CC
Rog, Pete. I'm getting an awful lot
of feedback there still. We're going to have LOS in about 1
minute. We will give you a call at Ascension and I understand
that your recommendation is you'd like to sleep in tomorrow.
CC
And we concur.
CC
And we would like to make sure that we
have the VTR MAIN POWER switch left on because we want to
dump it and take a look at that dump - parasol deployment parasol, rather.
CDR
Okay, Crip, and how's that on the
squeal now? That should be a little bit better. We've com
pleted everything today, but with all the rest of the little
master alarms and the few things that came up, we're running a
little behind. We'll sleep in. We'll press on with the day 4
just like it is in the book and hopefully we can catch up. You
know, somewhere along in there and then we'll screw our day back
around to the right time.
CC
Rog, Pete. You're doing a fantastic job.
(garble) sleep in.
CDR
and besides that (garble) completed
(garble).
PAO
This is Skylab Control. We have loss of
signal at Vanguard. The spacecraft is now traveling over the
ocean on rev 181. We'll have acquisition of signal again at
Ascension in about 3 minutes. During the conversation, one of
the important points that was brought up is the pitch maneuver
that has now been commanded at Vanguard. There was some question in
the minds of flight controllers as to whether the crew had
indicated that the craft was pitched up in their opinion or
pitched down. And there was a question here whether they
should do a 40 degree maneuver in one direction or the other.
They did clarify that. The indication is that the crew - from
the crew that there was a pitch up and we are pitched up 40
degrees, so we are now in the process of pitching down and
we're also doing a roll of 15 degrees. And hope that we can
get the spacecraft properly in solar inertial mode. They are
not absolutely certain that 15 degrees is the right number, but
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5/27/73
it gives them a fairly wide range of latitude. They know that
it's something a little over 10 and 15 should get them well
within range and they have a range of about 9 degrees. They
also indicated that there are figures here on - from telemetry
data was that we had a 75 cubic feet per minute air flow through
duct 1 in the orbital workshop. However, visual inspection
there indicated that that indicator was not reading properly.
And we have a 600 cubic feet per minute reading which is a proper
reading for that duct with four fans operating. Some of the
noise you may have noticed earlier was feedback from a speaker
intercomm and they did clarify that. They reduced the sound
levels there and we got good clear voice after that. No figures
yet on what the temperatures are inside the orbital workshop.
It's about 70 degrees reduction in temperature on the outside
of the workshop, but the inside of the workshop still has it's
temperatures now leveling out, all at off-scale high. As you
know before we had a lot of temperatures that were below 120
degrees because of their location, but once you have air flowing
that 120 degree level is now pretty well spread throughout the
workshop with the exception of a couple of temperature scales.
Crew is presently eating and trying to get ready for bed. They
have now been given an okay to sleep in in the morning.
There will be no wakeup call given, and they may be asleep
promptly after this Ascension pass which is now 50 seconds away.
This again puts them a little bit behind the Flight Plan, but
they hope to catch up in the next couple of days. This won't
be a problem now that they have the major task fulfilled. This
is Skylab Control. We'll be staying live now. In 36 seconds you
should hear acquisition of signal at Ascension. The Ascension
pass is about a 9-minute and 48-second pass. And that's now just
27 seconds away. They should be finalizing because after that
we have a period of over 40 minutes before we have acquisition
of signal again at Guam. And during that period we would
expect them to have gone to sleep. This is Skylab Control.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Ascen
sion for the next 10 minutes.
CDR
Rog. Have you all found the Sun yet?
CC
We're waiting for you to tell us.
CDR
Did you get my (garble) on the first
Skylab record?
CC
Negative. You faded out there. Which
of the - CDR
CDR is faded from a dredge airlock completing
a complete 360 going through the OWS dome hatch without touching
anything and not contacting till in the middle of the airlock.
That's as far as we've made it so far. In our world breaking record
attempt to go for the dredge airlock through locker AA the command
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SL-II MC-616/1
Time:
2 0 : 4 1 CDT, 1 4 : 0 1 : 4 1 GMT
6/6/73
This i s Skylab Control, Greenwich mean
time 1 hour 41 minutes. As t h e Skylab s p a c e s t a t i o n completes
i t ' s 337th revolution as i t nears the Vanguard tracking station.
We e x p e c t CapCom Hank H a r t s f i e l d t o r e a d up t h e e v e n i n g news
to the crew as the Skylab space station will s t a r t i t s 338th
revolution.
CC
Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 11 min
utes.
PLT
Hi there.
CC
And s o you d o n ' t get confused we goofed
up and sent you page 1 of the flight plan twice.
PLT
Say again what you did?
c c
Okay, we sent page 1 of the flight plan
twice.
c c
(Garble) Belay that.
We d i d n ' t s e n d i t t w i c e
we just put i t i n the wrong order.
PLT
You're forgiven.
PLT
Okay, Houston, i f you want a status report
on where we are, we're about to open the hatch.
We f i g u r e d
t o h a v e t h e EVA w r a p p e d up i n a b o u t an h o u r and a h a l f .
CC
A few people got up on that one.
PLT
(Laughter)
MCC
I'm glad I stayed awake.
PLT
No. seriously, we are a t the place on page
3 on t h e cue c a r d where i t s a y s OBM's a n d LCG k n o t t i n g ,
s o we're going t o p r e t t y much wind i t up there.
We're going
to smoke through the rest of i t and see i f there's any l i t t l e
details we could catch up on.
And go through t h e EVA p l a n
one more time and eat our ice cream and strawberries.
MCC
Sounds like preflight.
PLT
Hey, Rusty, I can't find that (garble).
I remember seeing i t that has the S082 dope on i t .
Is there
anything else of interest on that one?
MCC
Stand by.
S CHWEICKART
Yes, PJ, i t does have some other things on
it.
Stand by just 1.
PLT
Okay.
CDR
You know me, Rusty.
I like to get things
done early and not work late.
CDR
I t ' s like the night before Christmas up
here.
The suits are hung by the fireplace with their LSU's in
place just waiting to go.
MCC
Okay, Skylab.
I ' l l tell you what.
It's
not too long a message, but i t does have some other things
on i t t h a t deal with the prep and what we think w e ' l l do here
i s retransmit i t to you here over Ascension which i s coming
up in about 15 minutes.
PA0
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6/6/73
1 4 : 0 1 : 4 1 GMT
CDR
What's the message numbers, Rusty?
SCHWEICKART
I t ' s 1316 Alfa and aside from what we
already talked up, Pete, most of i t deals with Post and I
think the only thing in (garble) is getting the right film
magazine out of 141 there.
CDR
And I got i t (garble) and i t ' s ready to go.
END OF TAPE
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6/6/73
cc
Skylab, Houston, we need
c l e a n e d up o n t h e ATM p a n e l .
CDR
Shoot.
CC
Okay, we need t o get t h e H-alfa
camera OFF, and close the doors on H a l f a 1 and 2 , and the
S056 d o o r CLOSED, and MPC INHIBIT.
CDR
Okay, I was seeing how many of those you'd
pick up.
You did pretty good.
CC
And - CDR
I think we've got a bat charge light.
CC
The star trackers kicked off again and
we're getting some angles for you now.
We n e e d t o r e a c q u i r e .
CDR
How come I have a b a t charge l i g h t ,
Houston?
CC
Okay, s t a r t r a c k e r a n g l e s a r e OUTER
1500, INNER i s 0035.
And t h e b a t c h a r g e l i g h t o n CBRM 1 3 i s
no sweat; we just had the heaters on during the dark period
the re.
CDR
Hey, how come the heaters on the
night s i d e made the bat charge l i g h t come on then?
CC
I ' l l get an answer.
CDR
(garble)
CC
Okay, what happened there was the
heaters were on during the day l i g h t so the bat didn't get
completely charged.
CDR
Okay.
How much of a sweat i s i t ,
f o r power tomorrow on EVA?
CDR
Or to put i t another way, I ' d like a
briefing.
I don't want to be hanging half way out the hatch
and have PJ s t a r t t a l k i n g about b a t t e r y c h a r g e r s and PCG and
this that and the other thing without understanding whats going
B
on.
Okay?
CC
Okay.
The EVA power down we s e n t you
up there - the things we're going t o command o f f , t o t a l 1106
w a t t s and we c a l c u l a t e f o r the EVA, y o u ' l l need 1012 w a t t s
and t h a t i n c l u d e s the VTR which w e ' r e s c r u b b i n g , s o we
think we've got a real good margin.
CDR
Okay.
I won't scrub the VTR, you
f
know.
You'd be surprised how much you can see from the i n s i d e .
And I t h i n k w e ' l l put t h e camera up here and PJ can r e a l l y give
you a good shot of Joe standing out there because t h a t ' s the
wide open from t h i s STS window.
CC
Okay, we - t h a t ' s a good idea, we got
t h e - t h e VTR s c h e d u l e i n t h a t 1012 w a t t s and w e ' r e about
LOS now, P e t e .
Vanguard will be coming up in - correction
Ascension coming up in 56 and that w i l l be your med conference.
CDR
Okay, see you later.
*f
END OF TAPE
k U A . l l
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6/6/73
PAO
This i s Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
one hour 55 minutes.
On t h e p r e v i o u s p a s s a c r o s s Vanguard
tracking station Science Pilot Kerwin jokingly told the ground
we're about ready t o open the hatch and we should have the
EVA o v e r i n about an hour and a h a l f .
His comments were
a d d r e s s e d t o t h e f a c t t h a t t h e crew i s t h a t w e l l a h e a d on t h e EVA
preparations for tomorrow morning.
When t h a t remark came
down from Skylab space s t a t i o n , s e v e r a l of the f l i g h t c o n t r o l
lers here in the Mission Control Center stood up and looked
around quite surprised.
Commander Conrad mentioned that they
were ready with their equipment for tomorrow morning.
He
said the LSU's are by the fireplace ready to go.
The LSU
i s the Life Support Umbilical which i s a 60-foot long umbilical
cord that the crew - through which the crew will receive their
oxygen and water supply for their liquid cooled garment that
they wear underneath their Apollo-type pressure suits for the
EVA.
We now a r e e n t e r i n g t h e A s c e n s i o n t r a c k i n g s t a t i o n ,
during which time Skylab Flight Surgeon, Dr. Charles Ross
will have the evening medical conference with the crew.
At
Greenwich mean time one hour 56 minutes, t h i s i s Skylab Control.
CC
Skylab, Houston.
We've got about 15 min
utes left.
SPT
Fifteen minutes?
CC
Roger, we're picking up Canary and Madrid
here contiguous.
SPT
Woo woo.
Okay, l e t ' s hear the l a t e show.
CC
Hey, I could give you a l i t t l e run down
on t h e power h e r e you asked about j u s t b e f o r e LOS a w h i l e ago.
The actions you're taking there are essentially cutting a l l
t h e f a n s o f f and g e t a l l t h e l i g h t s i n OWS, g e t t i n g t h e
w a r d r o o m w a t e r h e a t e r s o f f a n d t h e ATM C&D c o o l a n t l o o p o f f a n d
o n e o f t h e ( g a r b l e ) i s POWER DOWN, a n d t h a t t o t a l s o u t a b o u t
415 watts.
Now, j u s t p r i o r t o t h e EVA what w e ' r e going t o
d o i s command OFF t h e ATM e x p e r i m e n t p o w e r a n d g e t r e g s
three and 15 off which are not outputting anyhow, get your
bat h e a t e r ' s o f f , power down experiment Pointing and the
r e a l b i g g y t h e r e i s s w i t c h t h e ATM - t h e r m a l c o n t r o l s y s t e m
over to survival which saves us 466 watts.
And a l l t h i s comes
up to 1100.
And then t h e t h i n g s t h a t a r e required f o r your
EVA - a l l y o u r l i g h t s , SUS pumps, t a p e r e c o r d e r , and c o n
v e r t e r , t h e primary c o o l a n t l o o p , and LSU power comes o u t
t o about 887 and t h e n VTR i s a n o t h e r 125 f o r a t o t a l of 1 , 0 1 2 .
SPT
Okay, we noticed that l i t t l e note not t o
use the food heaters for lunch tomorrow.
I ' l l have you know
that we've only been using the food heaters for one food
each day and that's the evening frozen the meal.
CC
Roger, copy.
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SPT
Now, Henry, l e t me make s u r e t h a t t h e way
we're figuring on going tomorrow.
And I d o n ' t know what happened
to that message I told Rusty I'm missing.
We're going to basically
work from three books/pieces of paper.
One of them
b e i n g t h e EVA c u e c a r d s , a n o t h e r b e i n g t h e EVA c h e c k l i s t , and
t h e t h i r d b e i n g t h a t EVA p r o c e d u r e t h a t was s e n t up h e r e t o d a y
and yesterday - part of i t was in that stuff yesterday.
So
I assume that everything you're talking about i s included in
either checklist changes, cue card changes, or in that procedure,
is that right?
CC
That's affirmative.
SPT
And I remember s e e i n g t h a t message, Rusty
and I don't know how i t was thrown out of (garble).
CDR
Hey, by the way, what are you planner types
planning for the day after tomorrow so that we could get this space
craft put back in the right shape.
Don't forget we got tools
and you know a l l that other Mickey Mouse s a i l s are hanging
around and man, there's junk a l l over everywhere, so i t ' s
n o t j u s t t h e r e g u l a r EVA p o s t - o p e r a t i o n .
Copy that?
CC
Roger, we've got people looking at that,
Pete, and they're - we hope t o have a plan.
CDR
Okay, i t i s definitely going to take
us - I think we ought t o have a 12-man hour three hour each no e x c u s e me - n i n e manhour t h r e e h o u r e a c h p e r i o d i n a d d i t i o n
t o t h e normal p o s t EVA OPS t o p u t t h i s s p a c e c r a f t back i n shape
because we've done torn i t apart for the last two days.
CC
Roger, we concur.
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-619/1
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2 1 : 0 4 CDT, 1 4 : 0 2 : 0 4 GMT
6/6/73
MCC
Henry?
^C
Hey, CDR o r t r o o p s up t h e r e .
We'd
like to say just a word about the lighting related to the power
here.
If you get out there, especially i f Joe gets up around
the discone antenna i n the evening there when i t s dark, and
decides he does not need the docking lights, PJ could pull
the breakers.
There are two breakers, they knock out the two
d i f f e r e n t l i g h t s t h a t apply t o t h a t a r e a , and we could
save power and would appreciate i t i f you don't need
those lights, Joe, to let PJ turn them off.
P L T
Are the breakers labeled what, docking
light?
MCC
Stand by, I ' l l get the specific
label on the panel for you.
PLT
1 got
another question while you're
doing that.
Remember, you said something about a reconfiguration
of the STS panel tonight.
I see that tomorrow night, but I don't
see anything to do tonight yet.
, MCC
Okay, we got that one.
The circuit
breakers for the docking light are on panel (garble).
PLT
Hello, Houston, you s t i l l there?
MCC
Roger.
PLT
Maybe I'm confused,
I have here a
message for (garble) I got a message number for you.
1414,
now i s t h a t t o be performed tonight or tomorrow night?
MCC
Roger, that has to be done prior to
t h e EVA.
That's the one I was talking about earlier, that i f
you could do, i t ' s a real short one, you might do i t tonight.
r - i a v.
^ » okay*
You c a n ' t ask me tomorrows
Flight Plan, and I thought - I locked in right away on
presleep plan tomorrow night. (Laughter)
MCC
Paul, the - we have two ways t o turn
off the docking lights - there's a switch on 207 which turns them
We g 0 t
t h e c i r c u l t breakers which turn off
u 7c
u' °r °n
half the lights
each of them.
And I ' l l t e l l you r i g h t now which
one turns off which lights.
. SPT
you in a minute.
H e
'8 en route
t o t h e MDA,
Rusty, he'll call
,
. . PL*
docking light switch
are the breakers, on
MCC
Okay, Rusty, I see the switch, the
above the caution warning.
Where
what panel?
202.
PLT
Okay, which one?
, 1 4 MCJ4 t
Okay» i t ? s next t o the bottom row and i t ' s
docking lights 1 and 2.
P J T
,
down, whatever i t
0h
is.
» yeah, okay.
I'm doing that power
The three configurations now, Hank.
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CC
Roger.
Copy.
PLT
O k a y , t h a t m a d e t h e AM b a t t e r i e s
6 and 7 s t a r t discharging (garble)
c c
Roger, we're going to take those
off the line tonight to keep them up.
PLT
Okay.
END OF TAPE
two BATS
�SL-II MC-620/1
Time:
2 1 : 1 0 CDT 1 4 : 0 2 : 1 0 GMT
6/6/73
CC
Skylab, Houston.
To f i l l you i n a
l i t t l e more on the power thing, the reason that we're doing
t h i s REG a d j u s t t o n i g h t i s - t h e p l a n i s t h a t i f we g e t i n t o
a bind and have to do the pitchup to 45 degrees for thermal
reasons, that to handle the loads we're gonna bring the
AM BATS o n t h e l i n e , a n d s o w e ' r e a l l s e t u p t o d o t h a t
and command i t from the ground.
PLT
Okay.
S CHWEICKART
And Skylab, Houston h e r e , we - and a s
I mentioned earlier had not thought about the view out the
STS w i n d o w a n d i f y o u c a n g e t a TV v i e w o u t t h e r e , t h a t
would be appreciated.
We c a n p i c k u p t h e r e a l - t i m e o v e r
the s t a t e s , which w i l l be shortly after sunrise, and w e ' l l
g i v e y o u a GO f o r u s e o f a VTR i f y o u w a n t t o t r y t h a t a l s o .
CDR
I have thought of physically putting
the camera there, Rusty, but there's nothing behind
your head, and you can see the whole dipole antenna
to the base, below the base, and the A-Frame, a l l through
t h a t w i n d o w , and I ' l l t h i n k y o u ' l l h a v e e x c e l l e n t TV o f J o e .
Mcc
Yeah, I think that would be a - very
educational here, and I think everyone would look forward to
seeing i t , i f it's no sweat.
CDR
Okay, I went back up t o look at
the s a i l again.
There i s no doubt about i t that the
orange i s beginning to fade.
I would say that i t ' s a nice
orangy-frost-gold now, i f that i s a good description.
And
I think I can get the TV up there t o where I can show you
about a 6 inch strip about 3 inches wide of i t .
In full
zoom, you might think about what that would do for color
resolution.
And we can work that one l a t e r .
^cc
Okay, fine.
It just so happens I
have i n my very hand a t t h e moment a couple o f samples o f
the sail material here, which have been exposed to various
thermal c y c l i n g , and l e t me ask you, with your d e s c r i p t i o n
if you might take a gander at the stationary end of the
LBNP f o r c o l o r c o m p a r i s o n w i t h what y o u j u s t d e s c r i b e d t o
me .
don't know.
I t ' s s t i l l much more
oranger than that, Rusty.
That's a flat gold and this has
s t i l l got a lot of orange l e f t in i t , but i t ' s - i t looks
faded.
That's what i t looks like.
CDR
1
**CC
Okay, fine, well i t ' s between two of
them that we got here i n our hands right now.
So that does
give us some hack on i t , thanks.
. CDR
Okay, give us a l i t t l e more advance
warning i f we're going to do a s a i l deployment, w i l l you?
MCC
1
kee
P frying to get
some, but I'm not
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6/6/73
having much luck.
Skylab, Houston.
We're about 30 seconds
from LOS.
Be c o m i n g u p o n G u a m a t 4 0 , a n d I d o h a v e s o m e n e w s
if you've got time to listen to it there, if not we'll do
it in the morning.
PAO
This is Skylab Control.
Greenwich
mean time 2 hours and 15 minutes. The previous several
passes had Commander Conrad, Science Pilot Kerwin, and
Pilot Paul Weitz discussing preparations for tomorrow's
EVA.
Commander Conrad passed to the ground a suggestion
that they use the TV camera tomorrow by placing it at one
of the windows in the STS, the structural transition section,
which is between the airlock module and the MDA, the multiple
docking adaptor.
There are four windows, 8 by 12 inches, oval
windows spaced 90 degrees apart, on the outside of the STS.
Commander Conrad said that by placing the camera in one of
those windows, they might get a good picture of Science
Pilot Joe Kerwin as he passes out the equipment for the EVA.
At G r e e n w i c h m e a n t i m e 2 h o u r s a n d 1 7 m i n u t e s , t h i s i s
Skylab Control, with next acquisition at - over the Guam
Island tracking station in 23 minutes.
cc
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-621/1
Time:
2 1 : 3 8 CDT, 1 4 : 0 2 : 3 8 GMT
6/6/73
PAO
This i s Skylab Control, Greenwich mean
time two hours 38 minutes.
We w i l l h a v e a c q u i s i t i o n o f t h e
Skylab space s t a t i o n over the Guam I s l a n d tracking s t a t i o n
momentarily.
We'll hold the line up for conversations.
Probably
the last conversation with the crew tonight before they get
t h e good-night c a l l from Cap Com Hank H a r t s f i e l d .
CC
Skylab, Houston through Guam f o r 1 0 minutes.
PLT
Hi.
CC
PLT?
PLT
Yeah?
CC
Yeah, h e y , PJ l e t me t e l l you a b o u t one
thing here t h a t ' s come in l a t e and just a warning f o r tomorrow.
If you've got message 1326 around which i s the second part
of t h e EVA p r o c e d u r e s t h a t i s the p o r t i o n where y o u ' r e changing
out the S082-A film?
P L T
Well, we just happen to be there, talking
i t over.
Let me - t h e s e message numbers d o n ' t r e a l l y do a n y t h i n g f o r
us, Rusty.
We d o n ' t f i l e them by message number.
We g o t t a
have a subject.
Yeah, I see how I missed that other card I
missed the - well anyway I made what I thought was most of
the changes and threw that other message away.
I missed changing
the stowage compartment number though.
CC
Okay, well the one I'm talking about now,
t h e n , P a u l i s g e n e r a l message EVA a d d i t i o n a l .
PLT
I'm looking at i t Rusty, go ahead.
SCHWEICKART
Okay.
Down t h e r e where - a f t e r t h e magazine
i s a l l replaced and you're up at panel 130 doing the film
checks there, the verifications?
PLT
Yeah.
SCHWEICKART
Okay, we found out l a t e here, unfortunately,
t h a t t h e r e may be a r e l a y r a c e l o g i c problem which means t h a t
when you - okay you go down about three l i n e s there and y o u ' r e s t e p
and i t s a y s main power s w i t c h ON?
pCT
I'm looking, wait a minute.
SCHWEICKART
Okay, i t ' s right after i t says EV-3 and
y o u r e s e t t h e f i l m c o u n t e r a n d t h e n i t s a y s XUV SPECT MAIN
POWER s w i t c h ON a n d t h e n i t t a l k s a b o u t t h e p o w e r d o o r s .
P L T
Yeah, okay I got i t .
(Garble) are you
getting to handling these things?
You know, I got a 16-foot
message here and I'm trying to read from i t .
I t ' s hard to
find things sometimes.
But I've found that place, go ahead.
SCHWEICKART
Okay, the problem here i s that the door
i s open - the outer door i s open when you s t a r t this thing
a n d i f y o u j u s t t u r n t h e m a i n p o w e r ON t h e n t h e r e - i t ' s p o s
sible that the logic race will be such that you will not get
a film decrement even though everything i s okay.
And t h e way
t o f i x t h a t up i s j u s t before main power switch ON, go ahead
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and put the power door switch OFF and wait i o r tne doors t o
close.
In other words, wait about 20 seconds and then go
r i g h t a h e a d w i t h t h e m a i n p o w e r s w i t c h ON e t c e t e r a .
PLT
You're saying then that the power door's
power to the doors i s independen t of on the main power switch
position?
SCHWEICHKART
Yeah, the main power position will affect boi
doors, both the outer door, the thermal shield door and the inner
door.
If you have the main power switch OFF t h e i n n e r
door
will remain closed but the thermal shield door will s t i l l open
a n d c l o s e when y o u h i t t h e POWER DOOR s w i t c h .
PLT
Okay, so just ahead of main power
switch
ON y o u w a n t me t o s a y p o w e r d o o r s O F F .
SCHWEICKART
Right and then wait 20 seconds and then
press on with i t just as written.
PLT
Okay.
SCHWE1CKART
And I hope - I ' d l i k e t o promise you t h a t
t
that s the l a s t change on anything we got here.
And l e t me
try that just before we go t o bed here.
PLT
Okay.
Skylab, Houston.
I've got a few news items
Are you too busy to listen or rather wait?
PLT
No, take them up.
okay,
t n v,<
/
/
I ' l l s t a r t off by saying on this day
1Q
in history, 1944 we landed i n Normandy.
President Nixon's
made several new appointments t h i s week.
Former Defense Secre
t a r y , Melvin Laird has been made p r e s i d e n t i a l counselor f o r
domestic affairs.
Laird said that he will form close ties with
the heads of a l l the federal departments and agencies with
members of Congress and with the President.
He w i l l have cab
inet s t a t u s and w i l l be a member of the National Security
Counsel.
General Alexander Hague w i l l r e t i r e from the Army to
become Nixon s assistant in charge of the White House s t a f f .
Hague, as you recall, waas former assistant t o Henry Kissinger
and has been acting as the White House Chief of Staff about
one month.
Kansas City Police Chief, C.M. Kelley i s expected
to become permanent Director of the FBI.
Kelley's been in
his present job since 61 and i s considered an innovator of
new police methods and techniques.
Kelley was an FBI agent
for more than 20 years.
Ronald Zeigler, White House - CC
here.
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CC
Kelly has been in his present job
since '61 and is considered an innovator of new police methods
and techniques. Kelly was an FBI agent for more than 20 years.
Ronald Zeigler, White House Press Secretary will become a
presidential assistant for communications in addition to keeping
his present duties.
MCC
Okay, President Nixon will be near the
Cape Kennedy area Friday when he delivers a commencement
address at Florida Technological University.
The new school
was founded in 1968 and will be graduating about 700 students.
Vice President Spiro Agnew spoke to U.S. Governors at the National
Governer's Conference Wednesday at Stateline, Nevada.
Agnew
told the audience that he is " available for consultation,
available for counseling."
MCC
In Paris, Henry Kissinger resumed secret
talks with Lee Due Tho, solithuro member from Hanoi. The two
representatives are seeking ways to halt continued violations
of the cease-fire in Viet Nam.
Congress was told by Deputy
Defense Secretary, William Clements that the Pentagon will
not order any more F-lll fighter bombers when the current
production run ends late next year. The Air Force will have
543 of the aircraft by that time.
MCC
The Senate Watergate hearings continue
to be televised during the daytime hours. Wednesday's hearings
featured Hugh Sloan, Jr., former Republican Campaign Treasurer.
Sloan discussed the intricate business of receiving and handling
huge sums of money during the election campaign.
He also
expressed his concern that the committee to re-elect the President
might be involved in the Watergate affair, but said he was
ignored by other officials.
A bill has passed the House of
Representatives to raise the minimum wage from a $1.60 an hour
to $2.20 an hour next year.
They will also extend coverage
to six million more American workers, including household
domestic workers. The bill now goes to the Senate.
CC
I guess my wife's going to get a raise.
CC
Wet weather in the mid-west caused by this
Spring's heavy flooding has delayed Spring crop planting.
Farmers and federal agricultural officials can't agree however,
whether delay will mean higher prices for consumers.
Bridgette
Bardot announced that she will retire from film making. "I
have had enough" she was quoted as saying. Some baseball
scores from yesterday, National League - Philadelphia 4,
Houston nothing. Dodgers 10, Chicago 1, Montreal 7, Atlanta
6, San Francisco 3, Pittsburg 2, Cinncinatti 6, New York 5,
Saint Louis 5 and San Diego 3. In the American League the
scores were 7 to 4, 9 to 2, 8 to 6, 5 to 4, and 5 to 2.
PLT
(Garble) report.
SCHWEICKART
Good night Henry.
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6/6/73
CC
SCHWEICKART
PLT
CDR
cc
Goodnight Rusty.
Goodnight, Henry.
Good day you all.
Thank you, we appreciated that.
Skylab, Houston we're about 30 seconds
from LOS.
We'll see you in the morning.
Okay, Hank you might make sure you give
us a holler (garble) we're up by 11:00.
What are the State s
passes (garble)?
Have you got them?
Y o u s a y y o u w a n t a w a k e - u p c a l l i n trie
CDR
morning^ Pete.
well, if you got one around" give us a holler
Real good.
We appreciate the good (garble) even though we have
been needling you.
We'll give (garble)
And we just need to - one last message here
cc
we need to INHIBIT the MOMENTUM DUMP on the next rev.
We messed
, .
This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean
time two hours 51 minutes.
The crew has closed out their
14th day in space as the Skylab space station passed over the
Guam tracking island - tracking station on rev 338.
The crew
closed out the night by getting the daily news report from
Astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Hank Hartsfield.
The daily
medical bulletin from Dr. Charles Ross, Skylab Flight Surgeon
is as follows:
"The Skylab crew is in good physical condition
for tomorrow's EVA.
The Science Pilot mentioned his complete
lack of symptoms while conducting vigorous head movements during
the Ml31 protocol and the fact that none of the crew has ever
experienced any motion sickness.
The crew's day tomorrow
begins at 6:00 a.m. Houston time.
The EVA preparations will
run for about 3-1/2 to 4 hours.
EVA hatch opening is scheduled
for 10:37 a.m. central daylight time.
A four-hour EVA is
planned to accomplish five - four different activities:
de
ployment of the orbital workshop solar array panel, pin
ning back the S054 door in the Apollo telescope mount and
changing out the S082 film magazine.
The crew will be wearing
Apollo-type suits during the extravehicular activity.
The
crew will be attached to the vehicle by means of a 60-foot
long tether in which lines are provided to carry w 3 er, electri
cal power and oxygen.
During the EVA, Dr. Kerwm, an£.Commander Conrad will be hard-suited while inside the vehicle
in a pressurized portion of the vehicle, Pilot P a u l Weitz
will be soft-suited. He will not be wearing helmet or gloves
during this exercise.
He'll be in the pressurized portion
of what is referred to as the structural transition section,
a portion
between the multiple docking adapter and the air
lock module.
Pilot Weitz will monitor systems inside the STS,
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and will also read Out procedures to the other two crew mem
bers as they perform the EVA. It's a possibility that the
TV camera will be put up at one of the windows of the STS.
There are four 8 by 12 inch oval windows spaced 90 degrees
apart on the outside of the structural transisition section,
and it's possible to get - possible they may get a picture
of Science Pilot Kerwin exiting the spacecraft. For early
space-watchers in the Houston area, tomorrow morning at
5:39 a.m., Skylab space station will pass on a westerly,
west to north path over Houston.
It will be visible for four
minutes and 14 seconds at an elevation of 15 degrees. At
Greenwich mean time two hours and 55 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
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6/6/73
A0
This i s Skylab Control, Greenwich
mean time 3 hours 5 minutes as the spacecraft i s on i t ' s
338th revolution of the Earth going over the South Pacific.
The crew h a s b e e n b i d good n i g h t f o r t h e e v e n i n g by CAPCOM
Hank Hartsfield and Astronaut Rusty Schweickart.
The crew will
arise at 6 a.m. Houston time, Central Daylight time to
begin a big day of extravehicular activities.
At 3 hours
6 minutes Greenwich mean time t h i s concludes the reports
from the mission control center.
The next report will be
Thursday morning at 6 a.m. Central Daylight time.
This is
Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 3 hours, 6 minutes.
p
END OF TAPE
�SL-II MC-624 / 1
Time:
06:07 CDT,
6/7/73
1 4 : 1 1 : 0 1 GMT
PAO
This i s Skylab Control at 11 hours 1 minute
Greenwich mean time.
We're standing by for acquisition at of Skylab at the Honeysuckle Creek station in Australia.
Ex
pect to wake up the crew at that time, i f they're not already
awake.
Vehicle status has not changed over night.
CBRMs 3
and 15 are s t i l l offline and number 17 s t i l l has a degraded
output 4 to 4-1/2 amps below what's expected.
There was no
TACS g a s usage o v e r n i g h t .
We'll stand by for the wakeup c a l l .
CC
Good morning, Skylab.
This i s Houston.
We
got you at Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
SC
Go ahead, Houston.
CC
Hi there.
CC
Skylab, Houston.
We're starting our morning
chores on commanding.
We're going back to s o l a r i n e r t i a mode
and closing fine sensor doors.
SC
How d i d t h e i n e r t i a go l a s t n i g h t ?
(Garble).
CC
Sorry, Joe.
Didn't copy the question.
SC
I ' l l c a t c h y o u l a t e r , I ' m a t a b a d VOX.
CC
Okay, w e ' r e about 1 minute from LOS h e r e .
We're going to see you at Hawaii at 11:23.
PAO
This i s Skylab Control; 11 hours and 9 minutes
Greenwich mean time.
We've had loss of signal at Honeysuckle.
The Hawaii station w i l l acquire i n about 13-1/2 minutes.
Entire
day today will be devoted to the extravehicular activity and
preparations for that activity and cleanup after the activity.
EVA d e s i g n e d t o f r e e t h e s o l a r a r r a y w i n g i n a n a t t e m p t t o improve
the electrical power situation on Skylab.
Two Apollo t e l e s c o p e
mount a c t i v i t i e s may be performed l a t e r t h i s evening by Joe
Kerwin, the science pilot, and Paul Weitz, the pilot.
However,
other than that and a short break for housekeeping tasks, the
entire day will be devoted to the extravehicular activity.
At
11 hours 10 minutes Greenwich mean time, this i s Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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> / 7 / 73
PAO
This i s Skylab Control at 11 hours 22
minutes Greenwich mean time.
Skylab about to be acquired
at the Hawaii Station.
Now on i t s 343rd r e v o l u t i o n of t h e
Earth.
We'll stand by for acquisition at Hawaii.
CC
Hi there, Skylab; Houston.
We g o t y o u
at Hawaii for 7 minutes.
SC
Okay.
SC
I say, Houston, how did the momentum go
last night?
We d i d n o t i n h i b i t .
We f o u n d a s t a r i n s t e a d t h a t
looked l i k e we had a good Nz; so I'm i n t e r e s t e d in how things
came out.
CC
Joe, that work you did on the startracker
fixed us up r e a l f i n e , and we had no problems with momentum
throughout the evening.
SC
Okay.
SC
Say, Dick, there was a general message
sent up during the night or morning sometime, and one of them
w a s o n t h e MOL SIEVE.
CC
Roger.
SC
The answer i s yes.
CC
Okay, thank you much.
SC
And you might p a s s on t o t h e ECS guys t h a t
I inadvertently turned that thing off yesterday, and that's what
brought to mind the whole business about checking out the
primary timer.
We n e e d a l l k i n d s o f w o r d o n w h a t ' s s u p p o s e d
to happen when you i n i t i a l l y activate a timer.
Well, I got
to playing with the secondary one yesterday, in the course
o f p u t t i n g i t b a c k o n , a n d t h e s e c o n d a r y t i m e r o n MOL SIEVE A
worked like we always thought i t would work.
That i s , regardless
o f BED p o s i t i o n , a s s o o n a s you t u r n on t h a t t i m e r , i t i m m e d i a t e l y
vents A to adsorb and B to desorb.
CC
Roger; copy.
SC
And we heard they weren't supposed t o work
like that, but that one does.
Even i f i t ' s already there,
i t ' l l send a squirt of nitrogen through there and just
dump i t r i g h t away.
But i t works l i k e we thought i t didn't
anymore.
CC
Hey, Paul, are you i n secondary now?
SC
That's affirm.
CC
Okay.
CC
Well, PLT, t h a t ' s a l l kind of interesting.
The EGIL says that i t can happen the way you described.
It will
not - He thinks though i t w i l l not n e c e s s a r i l y happen t h a t way
everytime.
So possibly i t ' s been just coincidence so far.
At any r a t e , we are going to schedule a - a good timer checkout
when we get to i t .
SC
Okay.
Darn i t , l e t ' s say t h a t my d a t a , o r
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what I ' m b a s i n g my remark o n i s t h e f a c t t h a t I t u r n e d t h e
MOL SIEVE - I i n a d v e r t e n t l y t u r n e d i t o f f , t u r n e d i t b a c k o n ,
and heard i t dump the gas but not cycle.
You know you can
hear - that thing gives you a big sigh i n your face when i t
cycles, and I didn't hear i t do t h a t .
So I opened up the
cover and looked, and A was in adsorb, B was in desorb
And
I thought I said, "Well, I wonder i f I'm double stroking that
bed?
So I ' l l hit i t one time and see i f i t cycles."
So I
turned the timer off, back on, and gave i t a shot of air and
dumped i t , and n o t h i n g happened t o t h e BED i n d i c a t o r s .
They
stayed where they were.
So I watched i t , thinking about what
EGIL i s going t o s a y , f o r a minute o r two, and then I turned
a n d b a c k o n , and
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Roger; understand.
Skylab, Houston.
We're about
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Roger, Dick.
30 seconds
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1 4 : 1 1 : 3 1 GMT
CC
Hello again, Skylab.
This i s Houston, and
we've got you for about the next 8 minutes.
SC
Roger.
CC
Skylab, Houston.
We're going to have a
short break, and we'll see you a t Bermuda.
SC
Roger, Richard.
END OF TAPE
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6/7/73
CC
Hello again, Skylab.
We're a t Bermuda
for the next 6 minutes.
SC
Okay, Houston.
CC
Skylab, Houston.
We're one minute t o LOS.
We're going to see you at the Canary Islands at 11:53.
SC
Roger, Dick.
PAO
This i s Skylab Control; 11 hours 51 minutes
Greenwich mean time.
We've had loss of signal at Bermuda.
There was no air-ground conversation during this pass over
t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s , o t h e r t h a n t h e u s u a l a m e n i t i e s a t AOS and
LOS.
We'll pick up Skylab at the Canary Island Station in
about a minute and a half.
We'll continue to stand by for
that pass.
END OF TAPE
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Time:
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6/7/73
CC
Skylab, Houston.
W e ' r e AOS a t Canary
for 10 minutes.
SC
Roger, Dick.
And we j u s t passed over
an area that's almost like Meteorology for Naval Aviators textbook
pictures of developing cyclonic depressions.
They got a tropical
depression out here about oh a couple of 100 miles behind us now?
CC
Let me c h e c k w i t h t h e w e a t h e r man, P a u l .
CC
Skylab, Houston.
There i s a very large
low pressure center that you just passed over and i t ' s about
a 43 degrees north.
So i t can hardly be a tropical depression,
but i t i s - i t i s a large low area.
And t h a t ' s probably
what you saw.
SC
Yeah.
I t ' s loud and clear out there.
CC
Skylab, Houston.
We're about 1 minute
from LOS a t C a n a r i e s .
You guys are s t i l l on a long descending
pass down the African Continent.
And we're going t o see you
at Honeysuckle at 12:38.
SC
Roger, Dick.
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i
s i s S k y l a b C o n t r o l a t 1 2 h o u r s 4 m i n u t e s
Greenwich mean time.
Skylab has passed out of range of the
Canary Station now.
At acquisition of the spacecraft a t Canaries,
the Pilot Paul Weitz reported sighting what he thought was a
classic textbook developing cyclonic depression just shortly
b e f o r e AOS.
Checked with the weather man; showed that there
is a large low pressure center in that area 42 degrees north.
:ie d e s c r i b e d i t , however, a s a p l a i n o l d s t o r m , n o t h i n g too
fancy.
We'll next acquire Skylab at the Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia, Station in 33 minutes.
I t ' s about 1 minute after
the crew i s scheduled to begin preparations for the upcoming
extravehicular Activity.
Those preparations scheduled to
begin at 15 hours, 37 minutes Greenwich mean time, or 7:37
I beg your pardon, those are scheduled to begin at 12:40
Greenwich mean time, or 7:40 central daylight time.
Hatch
opening i s scheduled at 15 hours, 37 minutes Greenwich mean
time or 10:37 central daylight time.
At 12 hours 6 minutes
this i s Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time:
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6/7/73
i s i s Skylab Control 12 hours 37 minutes
Greenwich mean time.
We're about 1/2 minute away from acqui
sition at Honeysuckle.
EVA p r e p a r a t i o n i s s c h e d u l e d t o s t a r t
12 hours 40 minutes.
The maroon team has taken over in the
Mission Operations Control Room.
Flight Director is Milton
Windier.
CAP COM A s t r o n a u t Bob C r i p p e n a n d t h e b a c k u p c r e w
Commander A s t r o n a u t R u s s e l l S c h w e i c k a r t i s a t t h e CAP COM c o n
sole also.
We'll stand by for the Honeysuckle pass.
c c
Good morning, Skylab.
We've got you
over Honeysuckle for about 8-1/2 minutes.
s c
Roger, Houston.
I'm ready to go ahead
w i t h ATM C&D p a n e l c o n f i g u r a t i o n p r o c e d u r e , o k a y ?
CC
Stan d by.
s c
An<* a n o t h e r t h i n g ,
I want you to verify
on the checklist on page 1.2-3 in the right hand corner that
w a s X e d o u t b e f o r e - d o y o u w a n t me t o c l o s e t h e OWS p a n e l 2
valve or not?
CC
Getting a reading on that, Paul.
Hold on.
SC
Okay.
CC
Okay, that's an affirmative PJ.
SC
On which one?
On t h e N2 v a l v e ?
CC
Yes s i r , affirmative on the N2.
What
was the other one?
SC
I'm ready to do
" p r e p s " w i t h ATM C&D
panel configuration soon as you guys say i t ' s okay.
CC
Okay.
Y o u ' v e g o t a GO o n t h a t , P a u l .
SC
You're easy to get along with this
morning.
Thank you.
SC
Houston, CDR.
CC
Go ahead.
SC
Oh my God, i s t h i s Rusty?
CC
That's affirmative.
SC
You better give us - what's the e a r l i e s t
time we can s t a r t
Rusty ?
CC
Okay, you've got a sunset a t right around
14:10.
Hold on, I ' l l get the exact time.
S C ,
Okay.
I'm not sure that w e ' l l make that
but there s - we're - try to (garble) things and just kinda
how f a s t i t goes, otherwise w e ' l l cool i t t o the r i g h t time.
CC
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Okay, we understand.
And we're s o r t of
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f o r positive
...
,CC
ID purposes we'd
like just a word of confirmation that you'll be playing the
role of EV1 end that Dr. Kerwln win b e p l a y l n g P t h /,°L'of
SC
Say again Rusty.
I was top side.
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CC
Roger.
Since we don't have any red
stripes around the arm we're just interested in being positive
that the player for EV1 w i l l be the commander and that the
p l a y e r f o r EV2 w i l l be t h e SPT.
Is that correct?
SC
That's Charlie.
CC
Charlie Pete Conrad.
SC
Okay, l e t me t e l l you where we a r e .
I'm
doing the visors right now which i s out of step and we're right
a t " s t r i p off the clothes, put on the biomed LCG's GO."
CC
Okay, we're right with you on our check
list here, thank you.
PAO
This i s Skylab Control.
Pete Conrad
reporting that he i s at this time coating the helmet visors
with anti-fog compound and he and Joe Kerwin are preparing to
put on the biomedical sensors and the liquid cooled garment.
To c l a r i f y conversation between Conrad and Rusty Schweickart,
a few minutes ago there i s a possibility the crew will be
ready and will open the hatch one sunset early.
There is a
possibility that hatch opening time w i l l be moved up to 14
hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time o r 9:03 c e n t r a l daylight
time.
The regular hatch opening time i s scheduled for 15:30.
CC
Go ahead.
SC
Okay, I just want to double check, verify
Houston on S054.
I can go ahead and turn the main power
switch OFF, the door w i l l stay open, right?
CC
That's affirmative.
SC
Okay.
PAO
Skylab Control.
We're s t i l l holding
w i t h t h e F l i g h t Plan time f o r h a t c h opening of 1 5 : 3 7 Gmt o r
10:37 central daylight time, with the possibility of a hatch
opening a t 1 4 : 0 3 Gmt o r 9 : 0 3 c e n t r a l d a y l i g h t time.
CC
Okay, Skylab we've got about 30 seconds
l e f t here at Honeysuckle; going to pick up Hawaii at 58.
SC
Say again, Rusty.
CC
Right, we've got about 10 seconds here
and we're going to pick you up a t Hawaii a t 58.
SC
See you then.
PAO
This i s Skylab Control at 12 hours 48
minutes Greenwich mean time.
We've had loss of signal at
Honeysuckle on the 344th revolution.
Hawaii will acquire in
about 10-1/2 minutes.
Crew i s i n t h e i r EVA p r e p a r a t i o n s a t
this time.
Pete Conrad reporting he was coating the visors
with the anti-fog compound.
He and Joe Kerwin ready to don
the biomedical sensors and the liquid cooled garments.
Regu
l a r hatch open time f o r t h i s EVA, 15 hours 37 minutes Gmt.
That will be at sunset with the possibility that if the crew
s t a y s ahead o f t h e time l i n e on t h e EVA p r e p a r a t i o n s and i s
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ready t o go 1 revolution e a r l y o r 1 sunset early we would pe
mit them to open the hatch at 14 hours 3 minutes Greenwich
mean time.
Four h o u r s s c h e d u l e d f o r t h i s EVA.
At 12 hours
49 minutes this i s Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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6/7/73
PA0
T h l s i s Skylab Control; 12 hours 57 minutes
Greenwich mean time.
We're less than a minute away from
acquisition a t Hawaii; w e ' l l stand by for that pass.
CC
Okay, Skylab.
We g o t y o u a g a i n a t H a w a i i
for about 10 minutes.
SC
Okay.
CC
Okay, Paul.
You might want t o expect the
PRIMARY COOLANT FLOW CAUTION AND WARNING h e r e .
EGIL's going
to be powering down the primary system.
I beg your pardon,
t h e y 1 1 b e p o w e r i n g i t u p , w h i c h w i l l g i v e y o u a C&W t h e r e
on PRIMARY COOLANT FLOW.
SC
Okay.
C
C
A
n d a l s o , PJ, f o r you up i n your area,
,
we r e going t o be doing some commanding here.
Specifically
we r e g o i n g t o e n a b l e AUTO RESET, and w e ' d l i k e you t o s t a y '
c l e a r o f the DAS.
I don't think you have any operations there,
but we d l e t you know t h a t .
SC
Okay.
CC
PLT, give a c a l l when you got a second.
SC
Calling Rusty.
Y
eah» okay" enc/
We g o t a n i n d i c a t i o n h e r e , P J ,
J
the S054 main power and thermal power are s t i l l on
Is
that the case up there?
We're looking at page 1.2-3, where
i t calls for them both to be off.
Yeah, and I finished that (garble).
L e t me g.
All right?
c c
Okay.
Appreciate i t .
SC
No, both the switches are i n the OFF position
CC
Okay, stand by just 1.
CC
okay, we may have a p u l s e r problem t h e r e o r
It hhe m b o ?t h! ' «t. o OnNi ', a nw d t h e n bd o lt ihk eb a cy ko u O tFoF ad g a1i 8n . g o a h e a d a n d c c l e
S c
Okay.
Task complete.
CC
okay>
Paul,
Stand by on that.
It looks
l i k e we may have a problem with the switch; w e ' l l get back
with you.
S C
double check.
r »I
°
Right.
I'm going in the workshop.
Okay, PLT.
We're going to go ahead and
command i t from the ground here and see whether that gives
us positive indication at a l l .
SC
Go ahead.
S C
CC
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Skylab was the first space station operated by NASA; it was launched without a crew on May 14, 1973. Skylab had three manned missions: Skylab 2, launched May 25, 1973, lasting 28 days, Skylab 3, launched July 28, 1973, lasting 60 days, and Skylab 4, launched November 16, 1973, lasting 84 days. Crews on Skylab conducted a variety of experiments during their missions, including experiments in human physiology, circadian rhythms, solar physics and astronomy, and material sciences. Important earth resources studies were conducting including studies on geology, hurricanes, and land and vegetation patterns.
Two of the more important components for conducting research on Skylab were the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) and the Earth Resources Experiment Package (EREP). The ATM was a multi-spectral solar observatory, and NASA’s first full-scale manned astronomical observatory in space. The ATM yielded a significant number of images and provided useful data for understanding our sun. The EREP provided thousands of images of the Earth’s surface in visible, infrared, and microwave spectral regions.
Skylab remained in orbit, unoccupied after the Skylab 4 mission, until July 11, 1973, when the space station reentered Earth’s atmosphere.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab#Manned_missions
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/shuttle/f_skylab1.html
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-402/ch4.htm
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This mission commentary primarily depicts the Skylab 2 crew working on, and maintaining the Apollo Telescope Mount systems.
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John F. Kennedy Space Center
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Skylab 1
Skylab 2
Conrad, Charles, Jr.
Weitz, Paul J.
Kerwin, Joseph P.
Extravehicular mobility units
Apollo Telescope Mount
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Human factors in engineering design
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SL-III MC-1/1
Time: 05:01 CDT 09:10:01 GMT
7/28/73
LCC
This is Skylab launch control. T minus
1 hour 7 minutes and counting toward lift off in the second
manned mission in Skylab. At this time checks are underway on
the radar beacon aboard the space vehicle. There are two
of these beacons actually located in the instrument unit of
the Saturn IB. They're used in conjunction with ground
radars to track the velocity position and the acceleration
vehicle during the power phase of flight.
Up at the
320 foot level at the pad launch complex 39, the close out
crew are making their final preparations. They are taking
down some connector panels which connect the white room to
the space craft and sealing off the boost protective cover
hatch, which has now been pulled closed. We're continuing to
aim for a lift off time of 7:10:50, that is 10 minutes
50 seconds after 7:00 a.m. eastern daylight time this
rooming.
Now T minus 1 hour 6 minutes and countinq, this
is Kennedy Launch Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC—2/1
Time: 05:10 CDT 09:10:11 GMT
7/28/73
LCC
This is Skylab Launch Control. T minus
56 minutes 58 seconds and counting.
Just completed
was a very critical power transfer test. During this test
the power is transferred from the ground source, which has
been being used up to this point to conserve on the flight
batteries. Transfer to those flight batteries to ensure that
all systems are operating during and after that transfer.
Transfer was made, the various elements of the launch team
reported in that systems continued operating correctly. We
switch back then to the ground source and we'll stay on that
ground source down to a T minus 50 second mark in the
countdown at which time we'll switch finally to the flight
batteries and stay on the flight batteries from that point on.
Coming up in the countdown are checks of the digital rain
safety receivers aboard the space vehicle. These receivers
are part of what's called the secure arrange safety systems
aboard the Skylab. A range safety officer could send a destruct
signal to the rockets if it became erratic or straight off
course. He would do this by initiating the emergency cut off,
and if necessary, the propellant dispersion command. The
systems are located on each stage of the Saturn IB. The
two receivers in each stage and they receive the signal from
the range safety officer, and then send them through the
proper channels to perform the propellant dispersion. These
actions of course will be taken only if the vehicle were so
erratic that it endangered land areas, and also only after
the crew has been advised and has used one of the escape
options that is open to them. Countdown proceeding smoothly
now in the final hour. T minus 55 minutes 23 seconds and
counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL III MC3/1
Times 05:23 CDT 09:10:23 GMT
7/28/73
LCC
This is Skylab Launch Control, T-minus 45
minutes and counting. Chief Staff Supervisor, Bill Schick
advises that the swing arm, swing arm number 9, with the
environmental chamber will be coming back, it's coming back
now to the 12 degree or park position. Schick advises also
this and other aspects of the count continue to go well.
All on time or actually running somewhat ahead of schedule.
The environmental chamber at the end of swing arm 9, will
remain at the park position here. This is about 10 to 12
feet from the spacecraft. It could be quickly moved back
to the spacecraft in an emergency. Swing arm number 9 is
somewhat of a misnomer, the facilities here at complex 39
were designed for the larger Saturn V vehicle, 365-foot
tall. Specially designed 127-foot pedestal adapts the
smaller Saturn IB so that it does use the same upper swing
arm. Actually this is the fifth of the five swing arms used
for the Saturn IB, but it does continue to carry that
swing arm 9 designator, which it gained back in the Saturn V
program. Once the swingarm is moved back, launch escape
system is armed. That's the small rocket tower that can
be seen perched on top of the command module. That system
could be used by the astronauts in an emergency to pull the
command module free of the space vehicle. It would lift
it up in an arcing path, high enough so that the parachutes
could deploy and it could come down for a normal landing.
That launch escape system, interestingly enough, develops
a 147,000 pounds of thrust, that's about twice that
developed by the Mercury Redstone rocket, which launched
our first two astronauts into suborbital space. However
that's a rather short duration burn of 3.2 minutes for the
launch escape system. The escape system itself is 33 feet
long, weighs about 8,000 pounds. Now, T minus 42 minutes
57 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-4/1
Time: 05:00 CDT 9:10:00 GMT
7/28/73
LCC
This is Skylab Launch Control. T minus
34 minutes 59 seconds and counting. The closeout crew, which
left the pad area just a short time ago, has now cleared that
area. And the test supervisor. Chuck Henchel has announced
that the KSC area is now cleared for launch. Range safety
command receiver checks now have been completed and also the
replenishing of the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen is
continuing. Liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, the cryogenic
fuels for the Saturn IB, were loaded earlier this morning.
Actually completed loading at about the T minus 4 hour mark
in the countdown. These are continuing to be replenished
down through the countdown until we get into the terminal
sequencer; the replenishing is then stopped.
£t is necessary
to replenish these because there is some bci
ff that takes
place. T minus 34 minutes 11 seconds and co ~.r.g, this is
Kennedy Launch Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL-III MC 5/1
Time: 05:45 CDT, 09:10:45 GET
7/28/73
LCC
This is Skylab Launch Control, we are
T minus 23 minutes 48 seconds and counting toward the lift off
of the second manned mission in the Skylab program. Count
continuing to go smoothly here at Launch Complex 39. Preflight
command checks with the Mission Control Center in Houston
have just been completed. These are the checks of the systems
which are used to remotely command various functions in the
vehicle. Checkout of radar beacon number 1 has been
completed. Checkout of radar beacon number 2 underway as
all continues to go well. Science pilot Owen Garriott at
this time is completing some checks of the service module
reaction control system. He's armed that system which in
a sense means that he has opened valves allowing the hypergolic
fuels to flow down to the engine area. Hypergolic fuels are
ones that ignite on contact. In this case, for the service
module reaction control system, these fuels are monomethyl
hydrazine and nitrogen tetrocide. The system has been
pressurized, Garriott is now reading off the different
temperatures and pressures and the fuel quantities. Hypergolic
fuels are actually loaded aboard the service module well
before the countdown began. Service module reaction control
system provides stabalization and control of the spacecraft
during Earth orbit and docking. It can also be used for minor
course changes or the backup system for deorbiting the
spacecraft. We're continuing to look for 7:10 lift-off.
Actually to be more accurate 07:10:50, 50 seconds after
07:10. We have a window which extends to 07:19:27, that's
a.m. eastern daylight time. Weather continues to look good.
The sun is about to come here at Kennedy Space Center, it's
coming up through some cloud cover, we expect some of that
to blow off and at lift-off time, approximately 22 minutes
from now, we'll be looking for some scattered clouds, surface
winds at 6 knots, temperature is approximately 76 degrees
farenheit, and a visibility of about 8 miles. There is a
possibility of some ground fog but 8 miles visibility should
be good in most areas. T minus 21 minutes 44 seconds and
counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL-III MC 6/1
Times 05:53 CDT 09:10:53 GMT
7/28/73
MCC
This is Skylab Launch Control. T minus
15 minutes and we're in a planned brief hold at this time.
This is actually a clock adjustment hold. It's to insured
that we are lifting off at the proper time to get us in the
best trajectory toward the orbiting laboratory. We'll resume
our countdown at 6:55:50 seconds. That's 6:55 am and 50
seconds. Chief Test Supervisor Bill Schick just reported to us
before going into the hold that all systems are in good shapem the
countdown has been running very smoothly. As we lift off at
7:50 this morning the orbiting Skylab will be some 300 nautical
miles South of Newfoundland. Predicted lift-off time 7:10:50
at this time. The orbiting lab of course was launched back on
May 14. Flight controllers out at Houston report that all
systems aboard there are in good shape and ready for the
second crew to move in and set up housekeeping. That crew
aboard the command service module this morning eager to get
there. When the count resumes at the T minus 15 minutes mark the
?Launch operations manager Paul Donnelley here in the firing room
he has the abort advisory responsibility up to the point when
the space vehicle clears the tower. He'll make some communi
cation checks with the astronauts on the special astro launch
circuit. This is a circuit on which the spacecraft test
conductor, the astronaut communicator Bob Crippen here in the
firing room and Donnelly use with the astronauts during the final
4 minutes of launch. This is essentially to isolate them from
any other discussions which might be going on in the operational
intercom system here in the firing room which link together
the various members of the launch team. Also as the count resumes
spacecraft will be going to full internal power. Up to this
point it has been powered by the fuel cells aboard the space
craft but also it has had a ground source fed to it as a backup.
We're about to resume the count.
MARK. T minus 15 minutes and counting now. Preparations under
way at this time now to chill the systems in the second stage which
will be receiving the very cold liquid hydrogen after first
stage burnout and as the second stage ignites. T minus 14 minutes
45 seconds and counting. This is Kenneday Launch Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL-III MC-7/1
Time: 06:01 CDT 01:11:01 GMT
7/28/73
LCC
This is Skylab Launch Control. T minus
8 minutes 59 seconds and counting. Bean, Garriott and Lousma
are now finishing up their checks inside the spacecraft.
Final launch vehicle checks also being made now before going
on the automatic sequencer. There is not an ignition switch
or button for the Saturn launches either the Saturn 5 or the
Saturn IB. An automatic sequencer takes over the count at
T minus 3 minutes and 7 seconds. And that sequencer then
initiates all action from that time, including the ignition.
There are some 91 cameras out at the pad that will cover the
action at ignition detailing the sequence of events for engineers
to study after the launch. A number of visitors here at
Kennedy Space Center have jammed the entire space center.
35000 guests have taken all available space on the space
center and this does not include thousands of people who are
lining the highways nearby. T minus 8 minutes 8 seconds and
counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-8/1
Time: 06:04 CDT 01:11:04 GMT
7/28/73
LCC
This is Skylab Launch Control passing
the 6 minute mark in the countdown. T minus 5 minutes 57 sec
onds and counting. At this time various elements of the
Skylab team reporting in to the test supervisor with their
go or no go status. This team includes the mission controllers
in Houston. The Program Director who is watching from
here at Kennedy Space Center for this launch. The Air Force
Eastern test range who will perform tracking during the powered
phase of the flight, and of course the launch team here in
the firing room, all reporting in at this time. Houston
flight just reported in that they are go for the start of
the automatic sequencer. The Program Director William Schneider
also reports we're go for launch. Swing arm number 9, that's
the access arm that reaches across the launch tower to the
spacecraft, will be swinging back to the full retract position
just a few moments from now. Up to this point it's been in
a park position for about the last 40 minutes in a stand by
park position about 10 to 15 feet from the spacecraft. T minus
5 minutes. And sswing arm number 9 coming back now. It will swing
back 180 degrees, and a fully park position beside the launch
tower and it will remain there now through launch. Safety and
test support now reporting to the test supervisor Chuck Henschel
that we are go for launch. The range also says we are go for
launch. Launch Operations Manager, Paul Donnelly has given his go
and Walter Kapryan, Director of Launch Operations gives us a go
for launch. T minus 4 minutes 32 seconds and counting, this
is Kennedy Launch Control.
END OF TAPE
�SL-III MC 9/1
Time: 06:06 CDT 01:11:06 GMT
7/28/73
LCC
This is Skylab Launch Control. T minus
3 yes, 3 minutes 30 seconds and continuing to count. Launch
Vehicle Test Conductor Norm Carlson has reported to the
Test Supervisor that the launch vehicle is cleared for launch.
Essentially what he is saying is the launch vehicle is ready
to go on the automatic sequencer. The automatic sequencer
comes into play at T minus 3 minutes 7 seconds in the count
down.
Launch sequence has started now we passed the three
minutes 7 seconds mark and we're on the automatic sequencer.
Liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen have been being replenished
up to this point. That replenish now will be terminated, the
vents will be closed and the fuel tanks will be pressurized.
This replenish has been necessary since these are cryogenic
or extremely cold fuels which do boil off. They were fueled.
Fueling was completely about 5 hours before launch and it's
necessary to continue to replenish them on down through the
final portion of the countdown. Various elements of the
launch team now reporting in. All coming in on a go condition.
T minus 2 minutes 20 seconds and continuing to count. Here
in the firing room we are having what's called operational
silence. The men have reported in that they're go. There
will be no further reporting in now except when they see a
problem. If they saw a problem they could report in. Could
request an override to this automatic sequencer and stop
the count. Bob Crippen the Astronaut Communicator here in the
firing room is reporting the countdown clock times to the
crew. Chuck Henschel the test supervisor reporting - END OF TAPE
�SL-III MC-10/1
Time: 06:08 CST 09:11:08 GMT
7/28/73
LCC
- - supervisor reporting the countdown
clock times here to the firing room team. Paul Downey, the
Launch Operations Manager just called up to the crew, said
the launch team wishes you good luck, and Godspeed. T
minus 1 minute 36 seconds and counting. A large status
board here in the firing room shows the status of the various
systems and also shows the action being taken by the automatic
sequencer. The instrument unit ready light now is on. The
emergency dectection system ready light is on. Launch sequence
start light of course came on at the T minus 3 minute 7 second
mark in the countdown. Pressurization of the tanks now showing
up now on our status board. ^S.IVB LOX tank now pressurized.
SIB fuel tank pressurized as we approach the 1 minute mark
in the countdown. MARK. T minus 1 minute, T minus 1 minute
and counting. In the spacecraft, Garriot and Lousma have
essentially completed their check out, and their - astronauts
Bean, Garriot and Lousma, they are ready to become the second
manned crew to man the orbiting Skylaboratory. T minus
42 seconds. Spacecraft commander now has made the final
guidance alignment. That's the final action to be taken
by the crew onboard the spacecraft until after the launch.
T minus 30 seconds. T minus 30 seconds and counting. The ^ight
first stage engines will ignite at 3.1 seconds in our count
down. They will be held down while thrust is built up until
the zero mark at which time we'll get liftoff. We'll be
looking for liftoff right at the T zero mark. We passed
the 15 second mark in the count. T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6,
5, 4, 3, 2. We have ignition sequence start. All ignitions all ignitions are running, all engines running. We have a
liftoff. And the second manned crew has cleared the tower.
CDR
Roll and pitch program, Houston.
CC
Roger, roll and pitch, Skylab. And thrust
looks good on all engines.
PAO
A1 Bean reports. Al Bean reports the
automatic maneuver that puts Skylab on the proper course.
Altitude 0.7 of a mile. Velocity 1432 feet per second.
36 seconds.
CDR
It's got a pretty noise to it right now.
CC
Roger that. You're looking real good.
PAO
Fifty seconds. 2-1/2 miles high.
1700 feet per second.
CDR
Comm down.
CC
Roger. Stand by for Mode 1 Bravo.
CDR
Roll arc (garble).
CC
Mode 1 Bravo.
CC
Roger.
CDR
Propellant DUMP is RCS command.
�SL-III MC-10/2
Time: 06:08 CDT 09:11:08 GMT
7/28/73
CC
Roger.
PLT
I get a great feeling of motion up here,
Dick. I really feel like it's moving out.
CC
Roger, PLT. And Skylab, Houston, you're
feet wet.
CDR
Understand.
PAO
One minute 30 seconds, 10 miles high now,
5 miles down range. Velocity 3280 feet per second. Thrust
still looking good. Trajectory looking good.
CDR
EDB engine out and LV rates off.
CC
Stand by for Mode 1 Charlie capability.
MARK. 1 Charlie.
Understand.
CDR
Skylab, Houston. Go for staging.
CC
Roger. GO here.
CDR
Twenty-two miles high, 19 miles down range.
PAO
Velocity 5800 feet per second. Standing by for staging.
CDR
Inboards. Outboards. Staging.
Roger.
CC
Good staging. Ignition on the SIVB stage.
PAO
Roger. We're watching the thrust come up now.
CC
Skylab, Houston. Thrust looks good on SIVB.
CDR
That's good news.
Two minutes 45 seconds. Altitude 41-1/2
PAO
miles. Velocity 7695 feet per second. Down range 60 miles
now.
Roger. Tower jettison, you're mode 2.—
CC
CDR
Guidance initiate.
Roger. Everything is looking real good.
CC
you're GO in 3 minutes.
CDR
It's nice and bright up here in the Sun.
CC
Roger.
PAO
Three minutes 15 seconds. Altitude 55 miles,
down range 90 miles, velocity 8889 feet per second. Thrust
still good on the second stage.
PLT
Okay, Dick, the cabin pressure is locked up
real good here. You should have seen that tower go.
CC
Roger. Understand.
CDR
And we're GO at 4 minutes —
CC
Roger, Skylab. We concur, you're GO
in 4.
PAO
Everything is still looking good. Skylab
now 142 miles down range. Altitude 70 miles, velocity
9135 feet per second.
PLT
Hey, we'd like to try that lift-off again.
That was great there Dick.
�SL-III MC-10/3
Time: 06:08 CDT 09:11:08 GMT
7/28/73
CC
My turn next.
PAO
That's a report there from Jack Lousma.
Four minutes 40 seconds down range now, 197 nautical miles
altitude 80 miles, velocity 10027 feet per second. Skylab
has achieved 34 percent of the velocity needed for orbit.
CC
There you GO at j^A looking real great.
PAO
Five minutes 35 seconds. Down range
283 nautical miles now, 88 miles high, 11687 feet per second.
PLT
Go at 6.
-^CC
Roger, CDR. Go at 6.
PAO
Skylab has 47 percent of the velocity needed
for orbit now. 12796 feet per second. Down range 354 nautical
miles. Altitude 91-1/2.
PLT
We're right on time.
CC
Roger. Omni Charlie. Thank you, sir.
PLT
I want to keep old Ed down there happy.
CC
He's happy.
CDR
Okay, we just put on the gimbal motors,
Houston.
CC
Roger, CDR.
CC
Skylab, Houston. We see 4 good gimbal
motors, good trims. You're go at 7 minutes, looking real good.
CDR
Roger.
PAO
Seven minutes 10 seconds now. Down range
473 nautical miles, velocity 15380 feet per second, altitude
92 nautical miles. Seven minutes 40 seconds. Skylab now
has 65 percent of the velocity needed for orbit.
CDR
PU shift, Houston. We're go at 8.
CC
Roger, PU shift. And we concur, you're go
at 8 minutes.
PAO
Propellant utilization shift. The mixture
ratio for the propellant has changed now to provide a better
propellant feed at altitude. Eight minutes 16 seconds.
Skylab now 648 nautical miles down range. Altitude 89 nautical
miles. Velocity 19172 feet per second. 75 percent of the
velocity needed for orbit now achieved.
CDR
We're go at 9, Houston.
CC
Roger, CDR, go at 9 minutes.
\PAO
Flight Director Phil Shaffer taking a
status for the Eurasian gate.
CDR
- - in the CMF.
CC
Roger.
PAO
He advises the range safety officer that
Skylab is go at the gate. Passing that gate will permit Skylab
to fly over portions of the land masses of Europe and Asia.
CC
CDR, Houston. We're predicting a guidance
�SL-III MC-10/4 *"
Time: 06:08 CDT 09:11:08 GMT
7/28/73
CC
cutoff at 9 plus 53.
CDR
Roger, 9 plus 53.
CC
Stand by for mode 3 Alfa capability.
MARK. Mode 3 Alfa.
CDR
Roger, 3 Alfa.
CC
Stand by for mode 4 capability. MARK,
mode 4.
CDR
Roger, mode 4.
PAO
Skylab could now get into orbit if it
had to abort, using the service propulsion system. At 9 min
utes 50 seconds.
V- CDR
125, 709. 122.2 by 83.2, we look good.
CC
Sounds real great.
PLT
You sure know it when it quits.
CC
Roger.
PAO
That was an onboard readout of the orbit,
122.2 nautical miles by 82.2 anutical miles. We'll confirm
the orbit with tracking in a little bit.
\
CC
Skylab, Houston. We've confirmed your orbit
•^and you're GO for orbit. Looks good.
CDR
Okay, tell the guys at KSC thanks. It
was a nice, nice job.
CC
Roger, Al.
PAO
And .the heaviest command and service module
ever to be launched is now in orbit, 13410 pounds^
CC
Hold separation sequence. We're aboift 45 sec
onds from LOS in Bermuda. We're going to drop out for about a
minute and a half, and I'll give you a call at ARIA.
CDR
Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-III
MC 11/1
Time: 06:22 CST, 09:11:22 GET
7/28/73
PAO
The first Skylab command and service
module held a weight record before this, that weight was
13,383 pounds. We're standing by for communications through
a tracking aircraft.
CC
Skylab, Houston, through ARIA. How
do you read?
CDR
Read you pretty good, Dick. Everything's
going along all right.
CC
Roger. I hear a little bit of static
on the line but I heard fairly reasonably. We're standing by.
CDR
Okay.
CDR
And we're standing by for (garble), Houston.
CC
Roger.
SPEAKER Out stretchers are too long. As we move by
rapidly, it looks almost like we're above some strated layer at
5000 feet or something like that. They are really moving
out.
CC
Roger.
PAO
This is Skylab control at 16 minutes
ground elapsed time. Communication is very bad through the
aircraft. Skylab will be acquired by the Madrid tracking
station in about 3-1/2 minutes.
END OF TAPE
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Skylab was the first space station operated by NASA; it was launched without a crew on May 14, 1973. Skylab had three manned missions: Skylab 2, launched May 25, 1973, lasting 28 days, Skylab 3, launched July 28, 1973, lasting 60 days, and Skylab 4, launched November 16, 1973, lasting 84 days. Crews on Skylab conducted a variety of experiments during their missions, including experiments in human physiology, circadian rhythms, solar physics and astronomy, and material sciences. Important earth resources studies were conducting including studies on geology, hurricanes, and land and vegetation patterns.
Two of the more important components for conducting research on Skylab were the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) and the Earth Resources Experiment Package (EREP). The ATM was a multi-spectral solar observatory, and NASA’s first full-scale manned astronomical observatory in space. The ATM yielded a significant number of images and provided useful data for understanding our sun. The EREP provided thousands of images of the Earth’s surface in visible, infrared, and microwave spectral regions.
Skylab remained in orbit, unoccupied after the Skylab 4 mission, until July 11, 1973, when the space station reentered Earth’s atmosphere.
References:
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https://www.nasa.gov/missions/shuttle/f_skylab1.html
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-402/ch4.htm
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"SL-III MC-1/1 Time: 05:01 CDT 09:10 GMT 7/28/73" - "SL-III MC-10/4 Time:06:08 CDT 09:11:08 GMT 7/8/73."
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This mission commentary describes the Skylab 3 launch.
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1973-07-28
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1970-1979
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Merritt Island (Fla.)
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Skylab Program
Skylab 3
Lousma, Jack R.
Bean, Alan L.
Garriott, Owen K.
Saturn launch vehicles
Onboard equipment
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Box 17, Folder 6
University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama
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Public Affairs Office
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812
Phone:
May 1, 1973
205, 453-0034, 453-0035
THE SKYLAB STUDENT PROJECT
In 1971, the NASA, in an effort to involve the general public in
the Skylab program, conceived the Skylab Student Project.
The primary
aim of the project is to stimulate national interest in science and
technology in general and in particular the nation's space programs.
To insure that this country have available an adequate scientific
a n d t e c h n i c a l m a n p o w e r p o o l f o r t h e f u t u r e , t h e lo g i c a l s o u r c e s e e m e d
to be our young people.
Therefore, it was NASA's decision to direct
the Skylab Student Project to those young people who have indicated
an interest in science and technology and to foster that interest through
direct participation in an ongoing program emphasizing as wide a spectrum
of science and technology as possible^ Skylab, with its many diverse
experiments, provided the ideal opportunity for such participation.
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) provided an
existing, closely associated contact with all students, grades 9 through
12, in United States sponsored schools.
For this reason, the NSTA
was asked to sponsor, organize, and administer a national competition
for high school students.
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The competition called for individual students (or groups of
students) to develop meaningful experiments to be flown on Skylab.
To facilitate the organizing and administering of the program, the
NSTA chose to divide the participating students into 12 geographical
regions with a regional chairman appointed to receive all proposals
for his region.
The regional chairmen then appointed a committee of
eminent scientists, engineers, and science educators to evaluate each
proposal.
Some 80, 000 applications for proposals were requested by
teachers, 3, 409 proposals were submitted and approximately 300
regional winners selected.
Each participant received a Certificate
of Merit.
The 300 winning regional proposals were transmitted to the NSTA
where they were further screened.
In March 1972,
n 3 fuUtUchl 25 national winners were announced and assigned science advisers
at the Marshall Space Flight Center, the Center selected by NASA
to be responsible for the Student Project.
Working closely with their advisors, the students prepared an
evaluation of their experiments in terms of compatibility with the Skylab
program and its necessary constraints.
These evaluations were
presented at a preliminary design review at the Marshall Center.
The
review board, made up of NASA officials from the Marshall Center,
Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, and NASA Headquarters,
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the proposed student experiments to practical, space qualified
hardware.
It was determined that 11 of the proposed student experiments
would require additional hardware development, while eight of the
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could be satisfied using data from existing
experiments of Skylab principal investigators.
The results of this effort
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July 1972.
At this time, each student discussed efforts made in
furthering the development of his or her experiment.
Programmatic
aspects, hardware details, mission requirements and other elements
were considered and a final go-ahead with the project was given.
For those experiments that required hardware development,
an acceptance review was held at the Marshall Center in January 1973.
Test results were received and the hardware was declared flightworthy.
The hardware was then delivered to the Kennedy Space
Center for installation i n the Skylab.
The 25 student experimenters range in age from 14-18 years.
Their mean age is 15.8 years (female 15.4, male 15.9).
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students are females.
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Student Experiments to be Flown on Skylab
1.
DANIEL C. BOCHSLER, age 16, Route 2, Box 75, Silverton,
Oregon, 97381.
"Possible Confirmation of Objects within Mercury's
Orbit." Silverton Union High School, Mr. John P. Daily, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment: ED-22, This experiment will attempt to identify a
planetary body which may orbit the Sun at a distance approximately 0. 1
the distance from Earth to the Sun (Mercury's orbit is 0. 3 to 0. 4 the
distance to Earth's orbit).
The experiment is to be performed by
examining about 30, 000 Skylab solar telescope photographs.
2.
VINCENT W. CONVERSE, age 19, 1704 Roosevelt Road,
Rockford, Illinois, 61111. "Zero Gravity Mass Measurement." Harlem
High School, Miss Mary J. Trumbauer, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment: ED-74, This experiment complements the existing
Skylab specimen mass and body mass measurement devices.
The
equipment consists of a simple leaf spring anchored at one end
with a mass at the other end which is to be measured.
The experiment
operates on the same principle as the baseline Skylab mass measurement
devices and can therefore be used as an excellent demonstration of these.
3.
98031.
TROY A. CRITES, age 16, 736 Wynwood Drive, Kent, Washington,
"Space Observation and Prediction of Volcanic Eruptions."
Kent Junior High, Mr. Richard C. Putnam, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment: ED-12, The aim of this experiment is to analyze
infrared surveys of known volcanoes obtained by baseline Skylab Earth
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resources experiment equipment.
The data will be compared to
ground-based data to determine whether remote sensing can detect
increased thermal radiation which may precede an imminent eruption.
4.
W. BRIAN DUNLAP, age 16, 6695 Abbot Avenue, Youngstown,
Ohio, 44515.
"Liquid Motion in Zero Gravity." Austintown Fitch
High School, Mr. Paul J. Pallante, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment: ED-78, The aim of this experiment is to observe
the motion of a gas bubble surrounded by a fluid when excited by a
simple mechanical system of calibrated driving force of simple
frequency.
5.
96701.
JOHN C. HAMILTON, age 17, 12 Honu Street, Aiea, Hawaii,
"Spectrography of Selected Quasars."
Aiea High School,
Mr. James A. Fuchigami, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment: ED-23, In this experiment, selected photographs
obtained by the ultraviolet stellar astronomy equipment will be analyzed.
Photographs of target areas in which quasars have been identified will
be studied to obtain spectral data in the ultraviolet regions to augment
existing data in the radio and visible ranges.
6.
ALISON HOPFIELD, age 15, 183 Hartley Avenue, Princeton,
New Jersey, 08540.
"Photography of Libration Clouds. "
Princeton
Day School, Mr. Norman Sperling, director, Duncan Planetarium.
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Experiment: ED-21, This experiment will use the Skylab
solar telescope cameras to obtain information on two regions in the
Moon's orbit.
At two points in the orbit of the Moon, ahead of and
following the Moon in its path, a condition of gravitational equilibrium
is conducive to the collection of space particles.
When each of these
regions comes within sight of the Skylab solar telescopes the brightness
polarization of the reflected light will be measured.
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KATHY L. JACKSON, age 17, 18718 Capetown Drive, Houston,
Texas, 77058.
"A Measure of Motor Sensory Performance During
Prolonged Inflight Zero "G"." Clear Creek High School, Mrs. Mary K.
Kimzey, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment:
ED-41, This experiment uses a standard eye-hand
coordination test apparatus to measure changes in motor sensory skill
of crew members.
8.
ROGER G. JOHNSTON, age 19, 1833 Draper Drive, St. Paul,
Minnesota, 55113.
"Capillary Action Studies in a State of Free Fall."
Alexander Ramsey High School, Mr. Theodore E. Molitor, teacher/
sponsor.
Experiment: ED-72, The aim of this experiment is to determine
if the zero gravity environment induces changes in the characteristics
of capillary and wicking action from the familiar Earth-Gravity
characteristics.
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9.
JEANNE L. LEVENTHAL, age 17, 1511 Arch Street,
Berkeley, California, 94708.
"X-Ray Emission from the Planet
Jupiter." Berkeley High School, Mr. Harry E. Choulett, teacher/
sponsor.
Experiment: ED-25, The aim of this experiment is to detect
X-rays emitting from Jupiter.
The X-ray emission detected by
Skylab will be compared with solar activity and Jupiter's radio emission
to derive more information on the mechanisms of that great planet.
10.
TODD A. MEISTER, age 17, 33-04 93 Street, Jackson Heights,
New York, 11372.
"In Vitro Immunology."
Bronx High School of
Science, Mr. Vincent G. Galasso, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment: ED-32, This experiment is directed toward determining
the effects of zero gravity on antigenic changes in surface membranes.
11.
JUDITHS. MILES, a^e 17, 3 Dewey Road, Lexington,
Massachusetts, 02173.
"Web Formation in Zero Gravity."
Lexington
High School, Mr. J. Michael Conley, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment:^ED- 52^)This experiment will observe the web building
process and the detailed structure of the web of the common cross spider
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(arenus diadematus) in a normal environment and in a Skylab environment.
Analysis of experiment results will be similar to analysis of similar
experiments, without the Skylab environment, performed by the
Research Division of the North Carolina Department of Mental Health,
Raleigh, North Carolina.
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CHERYL A. PELTZ, age 16, 7117 S. Windermere,
Littleton, Colorado, 80120.
Gravity. "
"Cytoplasmic Streaming in Zero
Arapahoe High School, Mr. Gordon B. Scheels, teacher/
sponsor.
Experiment: ED-63, The aim of this experiment is to perform
microscopic observation of leaf cells of elodea plants in zero gravity
to determine if there is any difference between the intracellular
cytoplasm compared with cytoplasmic motion of similar leaf cells on
Earth.
13.
Texas,
TERRY C. QUIST, age 18, 3818 Longridge Drive, San Antonio,
78228.
"Earth Orbital Neutron Analysis."
Thomas Jefferson
High School, Mr. Michael Stewart, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment:
ED-76, In this experiment, detectors inside Skylab
record impacts of high energy neutrons.
The detectors mounted on
the inboard facee of water tanks, will be able to discriminate between
neutrons in four energy spectra.
The neutrons, which have been
moderated by their passage through the water in the tanks, impact the
detectors and produce fission particles which in turn interact with a
plastic material.
Chemical treatment of the interaction reveals readily
identifiable tracks.
14.
JOE W. REIHS, age 18, 12824 Wallis Street, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, 70815.
"X-Ray Content in Association with Stellar Spectral
Classes." Tara High School, Mrs. Helen W. Boyd, teacher/sponsor.
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Experiment: ED-24, The primary aim of this experiment is
to make observations of celestial regions in X-ray wavelengths in
an attempt to relate X-ray emissions to other spectral characteristics
of stars observed.
In addition, observations of the Sun in X-ray and
other spectral regions will be studied to reevaluate the Sun and its
relation to other stellar classes.
15.
DONALD W. SCHLACK, age 17, 9217 Appleby Street,
Downey, California, 90240.
"Phototropic Orientation of an Embryo
Plant in Zero Gravity." Downey High School. Miss Jean C. Beaton,
teacher/sponsor.
16.
JOEL G. WORDEKEMPER, age 14, 810 East Sherman Street,
West Point, Nebraska, 68788.
"Plant Growth in Zero Gravity."
Central Catholic High School, Mrs. Lois M. Schaaf, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment: ED-61/62, These two experiments have been
combined into a single joint experiment whose objectives are:
1.
To determine the difference in root and stem growth and
orientation of radish seeds in specimens grown in zero gravity and on
Earth under similar environmental conditions.
2.
To determine whether
light can be used as a substitute for gravity in causing the roots and
stems of radish seeds to grow in the appropriate direction in zero gravity,
and to determine the minimum light level required.
17.
NEAL W. SHANNON, age 18, 2849 Foster Ridge Road, Atlanta,
Georgia, 30345.
'A Search for Pulsars in Ultraviolet Wavelengths."
Fernbank Science Center, Dr. Paul H. Knappenberger, teacher/sponsor.
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Experiment:
ED-26, Objective of this experiment is to make
ultraviolet observations of selected celestial regions in an attempt
to relate ultraviolet emissions with known radio-emitting pulsars and
with the pulsar in the Crab Nebula which is known to emit invisible
light and radio spectra.
18.
ROBERT L. STAEHLE, age 18, Huntington Hills-North,
Rochester, New York, 14622.
"Behavior of Bacteria and Bacterial
Spores in the Skylab Space Environment. " Harley School.
Mr. Alan H. Soanes, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment:
Ed-31, In this experiment colonies of various species
of bacteria will be studied in the Skylab zero gravity environment to
determine if this environment induces variations in survival, growth
and mutations of the spores which are different from those observed
in identical colonies on Earth.
19.
JOE B. ZMOLEK, age 19, 1914 Hazel Street, Oshkosh,
Wisconsin, 54901.
"Earth's Absorption of Radiant Heat. "
Lourdes
High School, Mr. William L. Behring, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment: ED-11, Objective of this experiment is to derive
information on the attenuation of heat energy in Earth's atmosphere.
Measurements are to be made simultaneously at the Earth's surface and
at Skylab altitude to determine differences in radiant heat levels.
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Student Experiments Requiring Other Affiliation
1.
KEITH L. STEIN, age 15, 2167 Regent Court South, Westbury,
New York.
"Micro Organisms in Varying Gravity."
W. Trespar
Clarke High School, Dennis Unger, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment: ED-33, The objective of this experiment was to
subject numerous different species of bacteria to a complex regime
of varying levels of gravitational forces.
The varying "G" levels
were to be achieved by mounting the specimens at different radii on
a centrifuge.
Skylab.
Restraints precluded performing this experiment on
Since previously planned microbiology Detailed Test
Objectives includes some of the data Keith is interested in, he will
be associated with Dr. Ferguson, Johnson Space Center, the principal
coordinating scientist for this investigation.
2.
KENT M. BRANDT, age 16, 11380 Grand Oak Drive,
Grand Blanc, Michigan.
"Chick Embryology." Grand Blanc Senior
High School, Mr. Charles E. Martell III, teacher/sponsor.
Experiment: ED-51, This experiment proposed launching a number
of fertile chicken eggs, incubating the eggs in orbit and observing the
development of the embryo.
Incubation periods would vary so that
returned eggs would reflect changes in maturity and in development
as a result of weightlessness.
Excessive weight and hardware complexity
precluded development in allotted time.
Kent indicated an interest in
biorythyms and was associated with Circadian Rhythm-Pocket Mice S071,
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under the direction of Dr. John Lindberg, principal investigator.
3.
KEITH McGEE, age 18, 122 Sunflower Street, Garland, Texas.
"Colloidal State. " South Garland High School, Mrs. Ann B. Patterson,
teacher/sponsor.
Experiment:
ED-71, The objective of this experiment was to
investigate the effect of a zero gravity environment on the colloidal
state of matter as opposed to the known characteristic of this state in
a one-G environment.
Hardware complexity and the inability to obtain
a stable platform on Skylab forced this experiment to be eliminated.
Keith has been associated with Dr. Robert Snyder, Marshall Space
Flight Center, who was involved in the Apollo 14 and 17 electrophoresis
demonstrations and who is currently continuing his investigations in
this area.
4.
KIRK M. SHERHART, age 19, 2144 Earlmont Road, Berkley,
Michigan.
"Powder Flow."
Berkley High School, Mrs. Helen Politzer,
teacher-sponsor.
Experiment: ED-73, The objective of this experiment was to study
the parameters involved in achieving the flow of powdered or granulated
materials as opposed to liquids.
Studies revealed that development
problems existed that precluded production of hardware within the
allowable time.
Kirk has been affiliated with the NASA researchers
on materials flow in a zero gravity environment.
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5.
GREGORY A. MERKEL., age 18, Wilbraham and Monson
Academy, Springfield, Massachusetts.
"Brownian Motion."
Wilbraham and Monson Academy, Mr. Solon S. Economou,
teacher-sponsor.
Experiment:
ED-75, The objective of this experiment was to
investigate the effect of zero gravity on the Brownian progression
of a solute through its advent. This experiment requires a highly
stable platform and Skylab is not capable of providing the degree
of stability.
Greg indicated a strong interest in astronomy and was
associated with Dr. Karl Henize, University of Texas, principal
investigator for S019, Ultraviolet Stellar Astronomy.
6.
JAMES E. HEALY, age 18, 84 S. Gillette Avenue, Bayport,
New York.
"Universal Gravity Constant." St. Anthony's High School,
Dr. Paul Mottl, teacher-sponsor.
Experiment:
ED-77, The objective of this experiment was to be the
determination of the universal gravitation constant in a null-G environment.
A modified Carendish balance was proposed to fly in an attempt to
measure the constant.
Unfortunately, the random forces induced
on the masses of the balance by Skylab disturbances exceeded the
mass attraction forces on the Carendish balance.
Jim indicated an
interest in the T013 - - Crew Vehicle Disturbance experiment.
He
and the principal investigator, Mr. Bruce Conway, have developed a
meaningful association.
NASA— MSFC
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Skylab was the first space station operated by NASA; it was launched without a crew on May 14, 1973. Skylab had three manned missions: Skylab 2, launched May 25, 1973, lasting 28 days, Skylab 3, launched July 28, 1973, lasting 60 days, and Skylab 4, launched November 16, 1973, lasting 84 days. Crews on Skylab conducted a variety of experiments during their missions, including experiments in human physiology, circadian rhythms, solar physics and astronomy, and material sciences. Important earth resources studies were conducting including studies on geology, hurricanes, and land and vegetation patterns.
Two of the more important components for conducting research on Skylab were the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) and the Earth Resources Experiment Package (EREP). The ATM was a multi-spectral solar observatory, and NASA’s first full-scale manned astronomical observatory in space. The ATM yielded a significant number of images and provided useful data for understanding our sun. The EREP provided thousands of images of the Earth’s surface in visible, infrared, and microwave spectral regions.
Skylab remained in orbit, unoccupied after the Skylab 4 mission, until July 11, 1973, when the space station reentered Earth’s atmosphere.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab#Manned_missions
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/shuttle/f_skylab1.html
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-402/ch4.htm
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Students involved in the student experiment selection are: Bochsler, Daniel C., Converse, Vincent W., Crites, Troy A., Dunlap, W. Brian, Hamilton, John C., Hopfield, Alison, Jackson, Kathy L., Johnston, Roger G., Leventhal, Jeanne L., Meister, Todd A., Miles, Judith S., Peltz, Cheryl A., Quist, Terry C., Reihs, Joe W., Schlack, Donald W., Wordekemper, Joel G., Shannon, Neal W., Staehle, Robert L., Zmolek, Joe B. Students whose experiments were held in consideration for future programs are Stein, Keith L., Brandt, Kent M., McGee, Keith, Sherhart, Kirk M., Merkel, Gregory A., Healy, James E.
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1973-05-01
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1970-1979
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George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. Public Affairs Office
Skylab Program
Science—Study and teaching
National Science Teaching Association
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.)
Experimentation
Apollo Telescope Mount
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Reports
Text
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Box 19, Folder 30
University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama
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Tony O'Neil Apollo Telescope Mount Collection
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sdsp_skyl_000091
Title
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Apollo Telescope Mount Collection Photos.
Creator
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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Date
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1971
Temporal Coverage
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1970-1979
Subject
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Skylab Program
Apollo Telescope Mount
Experimentation
Type
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Color Photographs
Still Image
Source
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Tony O'Neil Apollo Telescope Mount Collection
Box 1, Folder 4
University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama
Language
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en
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Relation
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Skylab Document Scanning Project Metadata
Skylab 50th Anniversary
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https://digitalprojects.uah.edu/files/original/214/15017/spc-apso-000004-007.Jpeg
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Title
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
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Title
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"ASTP Prime Crew."
Creator
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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Identifier
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spc-apso-000004-007
Description
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This illustration is an excerpt from the "Apollo/Soyuz Mission Presentation" given by J.L. Crafts in September 1974.
Date
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1974-09-27
Source
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University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
Language
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en
Rights
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https://digitalprojects.uah.edu/files/original/214/15018/spc-apso-000004-008.Jpeg
057043d60c8f742d618cb87aeb526707
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Title
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
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Title
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"ASTP Prime Crew-USSR."
Creator
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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Identifier
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spc-apso-000004-008
Source
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University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
Language
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en
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Description
An account of the resource
This illustration is an excerpt from the "Apollo/Soyuz Mission Presentation" given by J.L. Crafts in September 1974.
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https://digitalprojects.uah.edu/files/original/214/15019/-Apollo-Soyuz_U.S.Soviet-1975.jpg
5e0f62598adb37eef1d07252b024d54f
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Title
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
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Title
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"Handshake in Space" (Apollo-Soyuz: U.S. and Soviet rendezvous in space)
Creator
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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Description
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A photo of Thomas P. Stafford and Alexei Leonov shaking hands in space after a successful docking between the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts.
Date
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1975-07-17
Source
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University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
Language
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en
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https://digitalprojects.uah.edu/files/original/214/15020/spc-apso-000045-004.Jpeg
ffba60c01c241ce1367b2a89dcde4b83
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Title
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
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Title
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ASTP crew members pose in front of an Apollo-Soyuz mockup during a tour of Kennedy Space Flight Center.
Creator
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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Identifier
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spc-apso-000045_004
Description
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"American and Soviet crewmen for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project visited KSC today as part of a familiarization tour for the Soviet cosmonauts. During their tour, they inspected a full-scale mockup of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft in a docked configuration in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building. From left are Astronauts Vance Brand and Thomas P. Stafford, Cosmonauts Aleksey Leonov and Valeriy Kubesov, and Astronaut Donald K. Slayton. Launch of history's first international manned space station is scheduled for July 15, 1975."
Date
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1975-02-10
Source
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University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
Language
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en
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https://digitalprojects.uah.edu/files/original/214/15021/spc-apso-000004-055.Jpeg
0a717bc1eb8e708dbb28a711e4c0f8b5
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Title
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
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Title
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USA and USSR Docking Systems for the ASTP
Creator
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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Identifier
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spc-apso-000004-001
Description
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Photograph of the Androgynous Peripheral Attach System for the Apollo craft and the Soyuz craft.
Date
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1974-09-27
Source
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University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
Language
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en
Rights
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https://digitalprojects.uah.edu/files/original/214/15022/spc-apso-000011-001.Jpeg
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https://digitalprojects.uah.edu/files/original/214/15022/Screenshot_2025-08-01_124810.png
ac970980958239492e6eb8c3b90d713e
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Title
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Dublin Core
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Title
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Apollo Soyuz Test Project information card.
Creator
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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Identifier
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spc-apso-000011-001
Description
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An information card discussing the ASTP in short but precise detail.
Date
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circa 1975
Source
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University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
Language
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en
Rights
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https://digitalprojects.uah.edu/files/original/214/15023/ThePartnership-Select-Photos-004.Jpeg
594a5b94b46202e7ab02830522c3889b
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Title
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RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
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Title
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Soyuz Craft
Creator
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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Description
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The Soyuz craft waits for the Apollo craft to maneuver closer to dock.
Date
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1975-07-17
Source
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University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
Language
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en
Rights
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