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.... SK YLAB 1/3, TECHNICAL AIR-TO-GROUND

_! VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

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_ TES T DIVISIO N

_.;. PROGR AM OPE RATIONS OFFICE

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7" Nati onal Ae ro n_J_,_____nd Space Ad m inist r ati on

_ L YNDON B . JOHNSON SPACE CENTER" H ou ston, Te xas

._- OC TOBER 1973


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This docu ment is the transcription of the tech n ical air-to-grou n d

(TAG) voice communications of the S k ylab 1 / 3 mission. The tra n script isd ivide d i n to t h ree c ol u mn s ti me, s p eaker, a n d te x t. Th e ti me co l , - - _c on si s ts of fo u r mu l tidigit n --'_bers for d a y s , h o u r s , mi nu tes, and s eco nds(e.g. , 20 9 22 4 5 12). All ti mes a r e expre s sed in Greenwich mea n ti me ( GMT)for the Julian da t e s show n as the first th r ee n umbers of the time col1 - ,n.

The sp e a ke r col , - ,n in d icat e s the sou r ce of a transmis s io n ; th e text col1 - ,ncontains the verb a ti m tr a nscript of the com munications.

A series of three d ots (...) is used to desig na te those portions ofthe text that could not be tr a nscribe d because of garbling. One d a sh (-)

is use d to i nd icat e a speaker's paus e or a self-i n terruptio n and sub s e-

q uent completion of a thought. Two dash e s (- -) are use d to i nd ic a t e a ninterruption by another spea k er or the poi n t at which a recor d i n g w a sa bruptly ter minated. Wor d s given unusu a l emphasis by the speaker areu n derli n e d .

The Sk yl a b i mission began with lift-off of the orbital wor k shop at

17: 30 : 0 0 GMT (12: 3 0: 0 0 c.d.t.) o n May 14. Th e sec o nd thr e e-man t e am t ooccupy th e worksho p , the Skylab 3 crew, lifted off a t i1:1 0 :50.5 G MT(06:10:5 0 .5 c.d.t.) on July 2 8. The Skylab 3 crew sp lamhed d ow n in the

P a cific Ocean a t 2 2 :19:54 GMT (17:19:54 c.d.t.) o n Septemb e r 25, 197 3 .

Speakers i n the transcript may be identified a s follows.

Spacecraft :

CDR Commander Alan L. Bean

PLT Pilot JackR. Lousma

SPT Scientist pilot Owen (0.) K. Garriott

CREW Unident if ied c r e wme mbe r

MS Multiple speakers

Miss ion Cont r o l Ce nt e r s:

CC Capsulecommunicator(CAPCOMM)

MCC Unidentifiedspeaker,other thanCC, in t he Mis s ion Op e r a t ionsCont r ol Room or a S t a f f S up p or t

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F Flightdirector

S S u rgeon

Remot e site s :

AA Unidentifiedtation

CT Com munications technician

(CO_ ZECH)

REC R ecovery h elicopter

NEW USS NEW ORLW._NS

When any crewman is engaged in extravehicular activity (EVA), hissp e ake r de s igna t ion is suf f ixe d by EVA t o indic a t e his s t a tus (e .g.,

CDR- A).

Tr anscription of these t a pes was m ana ged by Willi a m A. Kelley, TestDivision, Progr a m Oper a tions Office, to whom inquiries regarding thisdocument should be ref e rred.

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S KYLAB AIR- TO- GROUND VOICE TRANS CRIPTION

209 ii i0 52 CDR Clock has started. Roger. Roll and pitch program,Houston.

CC Roger. Roll and pitch, Skylab. And thrust looks

good on a l l e ngine s .

CDR Roger. Feels good up here.

209 ii ii 30 CDR Got a pretty noise to it right now.

CC Roger that. You're looking real good.

2 09 ii ll _5 PLT Okay, H o ust o n . The cabin pressure's starting t oc ome down.

CC Roger. Stand by for Mode I Bravo.

CDR Roll program- -

2 0 9 ii Ii 5 0 CC MARK. Mode I Bravo .

CDR - - c o mplete .

CC Roger.

SPT PROPWTJ.ANT DUMP, RCS CO MMAND.

CC Roger.

PLT I get a great feeling of motion up here, Dick.

I t r e a l l y f e e l s l ike it 's moving on.

209 ll 12 08 CC Roger, PLT. And, Skylab, Houston; your feet wet.

CDR Understand.

209 ll 12 3_ CDR EDS 2 ENGINE, OUT, and LV RATEs, OFF.

CC Stand by for Mode I Charlie capability.

209 ll 12 39 CC MARK. I Charlie.

CDR Understand.


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209 ii 1 2 50 CC Skylab, Houston. GO f o r staging.

CDR Roger. Go here.

2 09 ll 13 09 CDR INBOARDS.

209 ll 13 12 CDR OUTBOARDS.

2 09 ll 13 14 CDR STAGING.

CC Roger.

2 09 ll 13 2 0 CDR Looks like the S-IVB's running.

CC Roger. We're watching the thrust come up now.Skylab, Houston. Thrust is - looks good on S-IVB.

CDR That 's good news.

209 ii 13 43 CDR Tower jett.

2 09 ii 13 44 CC Roge r . Towe r Jettison; you' r e Mode II.

209 ii 13 49 CDR Guidance initiate.

20 9 ii 13 53 CC Roge r . Everything is looking r eal good. You' r eGO at 3 minutes.

CDR Nice and bright up here in the Sun.

CC Roger.

2 09 ll 14 31 PLT Okay, Dick, the cabin pressure's locked up realgood here. You should of seen that tower go.

CC Roger. Understand.

209 Ii lh 42 PLT And we're GO at 4 minutes.

209 ii 14 46 CC Roger, Skylab. We concur; you're GO at h.

CDR Dark blue to black horizon. Beautiful horizon.

CC Roger.

209 ll 15 14 PLT Yes, we'd like to try that lift-off again. Thatwa s gr e a t t he r e , D ic k.


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CC My turn next.

209 ii 15 43 CDR We're GO at 5 minutes.

209 ll 15 47 CC Roger, CDR. Concur. You're GO at 5. Looking realgreat .

209 ll 16 42 CDR GO at 6.

209 ll 16 44 CC Roger, CDR. GO at 6.

209 ll 17 09 PLT There's OMNI Charlie for you, Houston; right ontime.

209 ll 17 12 CC Roger. OMNI Charlie. Thank you, sir.

PLT Want to keep old Ed down there happy.

CC He 's happy.

209 ll 17 35 CDR Okay, we Just put on the gimbal motors, Houston.

CC Roger,CDR.

2 09 ii 17 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We see four good gimbal motors,good trims. You're GO at 7 minutes; looking real

good.

CDR Roger.

2 09 ii 18 4 2 CDR PU shift, Houston; and we're GO at 8.

CC Roger. PU shift. And we concur. You're GO at8 minut es .

2 09 ii 19 39 CDR We're GO at 9, Houston.

209 ii 19 42 CC Roger, CDR. GO at 9 minutes.

CDR There's a better horizon up here than in the CMS.

CC Roger.

2 09 ii 2 0 08 CC CDR, Houston. We're predicting a guidance cutoffat 9 plus 53.

CDR Roger; 9 plus 53.


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CC Stand by for Mode III Alfa capability.

209 ll 20 20 CC MARK. Mode III Alfa.

CDR Roger. III Alfa.

CC Stand by for Mode IV capability.

209 ll 20 29 CC MARK. Mode IV.

CDR Roger. Mode IV.

209 ll 20 44 CDR SHUTDOWN, Houston.

CC Roger....

209 ll 20 48 CDR We've got 25,709. 122.2 by 8B.2. We look good.

CC Sounds real great.

SPT You sure know it when it quits.

CC Roger.

209 ll 21 2B CC $kylab, Hous - -

CDR ... it?

209 ll 21 25 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 anic e , nic e Job.

CC Roger, A1.

209 ll 21 52 CC Skylab, Houston. You look real good. You're GO

for a nominal separation sequence. We're about

45 seconds 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.

209 ll 22 OB CDR Okay.

209 ll 2B 55 CC Skylab, Houston through ARIA. How do you read?

CDR Read you pretty good, Dick. Everything's goingalongright. _-_


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CC Ro ger. I he a r a little bit o f st a tic o n t h e li n es,but I - I heard you very readable. We ' re stan d ing

by.

CDR " Okay.

209 I i 2_ 58 CDR And we're standing by f o r a trim here, H o ust o n.

CC Roger.

209 ll 25 2 3 SPT Cloud struct u res are too ... and, as we move byrapidly, it looks al mnst like we're above somes tratus layer a t 5000 feet or something like that.The y a r e r e a l ly moving out .

CC Roger.

209 ll 29 01 CDR We SEPed, Houston.

CC Roger, CDR.

209 ll 29 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about h5 seconds from LOSARIA. We'l l dr o p o ut about 3 0 s ec o nds, and I'i i

ca ll y o u at Madri d .

CDR Okay.

20 9 ll 3 0 00 CC And, Skylab; Houston. If you're still there, we'dlike a GO from you, so we could do our S-IVBmaneuver.

CDR Okay, we' r e not facing it, yet. We'll give you aGO as so o n as we see it.

CC Okay, r eal fine.

2 09 ii 31 02 C C Skylab, Houston. We're A - A0S Madrid fo r 3 minutes.

CDR Okay, we got this baby right in front, and it isbeautiful. All fou r petals a r e open. We can seethe dome of the hydrogen ta n k, and it looks realnice and clea n inside. It's Just floating along

behind us.

CC Roger, CDR. And are we GO to maneuver it?

CDR You bet.

CC Okay.


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CDR GO.

CC Okay, tha n k you. We will on - on time.

CDR It's sure pretty up here in the sunlight with thep et a ls out .

CC Roger.

209 ll 31 47 CDR Looks like it's venting something also from theba c k, a l t hough we c a n 't se e t he e ngine .

SPT There's a couple of wide-angle plumes between about

ll o'clock and 2 o'clock, and then another onebetween 5 and 8 o'clock down there.

209 ll 32 04 CC Roger. And, Skylab; Houston. I got two or threethings here for you at Madrid. One is we'd like

to delete the waste water dump that's in yourtime line at 1 plus 10; that's Just a reminder.

I've got a couple of pads for you. The first one

is a backup GDC align pad, page 1 Alfa.

CDR Okay. Hold on a minute, and we'll get it.

CC Okay.

209 ll 32 42 CC And, Skylab; Houston. The booster maneuver will

s t a r t in a bout 20 se c onds .

209 ll 33 07 PLT Well, we see her maneuvering now, Dick. Looks

l ike she 's p it c hing up f r om whe r e we s t a nd.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Hous - -

CDR Go ahead on that pad, Dick.

209 ll 33 25 CC Roger. Backup GDC align. 33 / 37; 161.0, 046.3,346.1. Go a he a d.

CDR Roger. Stars 33 and 37; 161.0, 046.3, 346.1.

209 ii 33 53 CC Roger. Turn to page 5-Alfa. l've got a launch

r e nde zvous r e a l ign p a d; a nd, while you'r e t ur ningt he r e , we 'r e a bout 30 se c onds f r om LOS Ma dr id .

Your NC-I and Talign pads are GO. We'll see youat ARIA at 52.


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CDR Okay, I don't think I'll have time for that padon 5- Alf a .

CC Okay, it's also - it's in yo u r Launch Checklist ,

page 2_- 12.

CDR Okay. Stand by.

2 09 ll 34 3 9 CDR Okay, I've got 2 -1 2 . Go ahe ad , Dick.

CC Roger. Roll i s fo u r balls, 2 55. 2 , 3 57 . 9.

CDR Four balls, 255.2, 3 57.9.

2 09 ll 3 4 58 CC Roger. Good readback. See you a t ARIA.

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TAG Tape 20 9-O h / T- 2

- T i me: 209:12:00 to 209 : 13:30Pag e i of 6/ 9

S EYLAB AI R-TO- GROUND VOIC E TRANSCRIPTIO N

209 1 2 02 5 8 CC S k y la b, H o u s t on t h ro u g h ARIA f or 7 m i nu t e s .

CDR Roger, Hous t on . We hea r yo u ve r y , very wea k .

CC Ro g e r, AI. I he ar yo u cle ar, b u t a ls o very weak .How n ow ?

CDR We di d t h e 3 -foot- pe r - seco n d pos igr a de SE P b u r n .

Ever yt hin g els e is go in g c orr ec t . We did t heEMS DELTA-V t es t th is p a s s .... and s t a rt e d at

mi n us i00 , e n d ed up at minus 99 . 6 one t ime andmi nus 99 .7 th e o t he r ti me.

CC CDR, Hous t on. You'll have t o sa y ag ain t h o s etw o n umbe rs . The f i r s t o ne y o u st a rte d atmi n us i 00 an d t hen en de d up wit h wh a t? A n d rea dme th e secon d o n e .

CDR 99.6 and 99.7.

CC Roger. 99.6 and 99.7. Thank y o u very much.And, CDR, anytime during thi s p a ss, if y o u getany informati o n o n the t wo P5 2 s, I'll be glad tocopy of them - copy them. I'll - I h a v e a c o upl eof notes here for you t o let y o u kn o w a bout.

Yo u r C MC vector, during the boo s t, d e v e l o pe d

about a 3 0-foot-per-secon d out- o f-plan e , a ndwe intend on upd a ting the CMC vector at Madrid.And a l so we - O u r initial loo k at t h e X an d Y

PIPAs ma kes us t t hink t he y p r oba bly wil l ne e d a

compensation, and we'r e going to tak e anotherlook at them over the States. Over.

PLT Understand. And, Dick, when we put the radi a torson the line, we g o t a c o uple o f inter mittentGLYCOL F LOW LOW light s , an d the accumulator' sreading 3 5 percent n o w. We're g o ing t o put alittle more in her when we get around to it .

CC Roger, PLT.

CREW . .. number 2 .


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2 09 12 05 h0 CC Break. Break. Skylah, Houston. If you're callingme, you're too far down in the noise. Unable to

read you. Over.

CDR No, we weren't calling you, but it is fairlynoisy. We're in work on the P52. We'll give youa call in a few moments.

CC Roger, A1. I'm standing by. And be advised

the - the weather conditions today for ARIA a r epretty poor, so if we do have comm trouble throughARIA, it's not your onboard systems. And I'mstanding by. We're AOS for the next h minutes.

CDR We ought to m_ke it by then.

2 09 1 2 06 16 CC Roger.

CDR Okay, the NOUN 05 is all zeros.

CC Roger.

CDR Not bad for a physicist, huh? Okay, the NOUN 93s

are plus all zips, plus 0 2 1, plus ll3. I'll sayit again; all zips, plus 0 2 1, and plus ll3. Howdo you he a r ?

CC We got them loud and clear, CDR. I copy them,

and go ahead and tell me the torque time.

CDR 00 :56 :17.

CC Roge r . 00 :56:17. Thank you.

CDR Okay. We' r e going to go fo r the option 2 now.

CC Roger.

CDR Okay, the ti me we' r e using is 7: 0 1:38.00.

CC 7:01:38.00.

CDR Roge r . That's the T-align time we a r e using.

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CC S k y lab , H ous t on. We ' re abou t 1 minu t e f rom LOS.We'r e g oin g t o s ee yo u a t Texas in 1 plus 02.

CDR Ok a y , we'll be t he r e .

CC Ok ay.

PLT When you fire th e thrusters up her e , it l o oksl i ke l i ghtning going by the windo w.

CC Roger. And th a t AOS time I read to you wrong.It's ab o ut 1 plus 3 2 .

2 09 1 2 l0 17 CDR I wondered.

2 09 12 h 3 0 7 CC S ky l ab, H o u s t o n at Tex a s for 5 mi nu te s .

CDR The sec o nd P52, stars 33 and 37, NOUN 05, a llzeros. We did it again. NOUN 9 3 , plus 23 0,plus 33 2 , minus 1 2 9 ; and the tim e of torque wa s01:03:49. 0 0.

CC Roger, CDR. I've g o t i t, a nd I've got an N C-Iprelimin a ry pad for y o u page 1-5.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger. Starting with NOUN 95, 0 02 , 18, 05.00;plus 2 1 3 .8, plus four balls, plus f o ur balls;179, 074, 00 2 ; 199.5, 00:10; weight: 3 1219;Trims: plus 1. 3 7, plus 0 .51. Go ahead.

CDR Okay, 00 2 , 18, 05.00; plus 2 1 3 .8, p lus all z i p,plus all zip; 179, 074, 00 2 ; 199.5, 00:10;31 2 19, plus 1. 3 7, plus 0.51.

CC Roger, CDR. And on the burn attitude check rightbelo w th a t, it's star, 2 5; sh a ft, 25 0 . 3 ;t m_ nuion, 37.6. Go a he a d.

CBR R o ger. 25, 2 5.0 3 , 3 7.6.

CC Ro g er . And I got a couple o f n ot es. Th i s NC-Ib urn wi ll h e t he du al b_k b urn o f t he d ay . And

y ou' ll be happ y t o kn ow t ha t no plane chan ge i sr e qu i r e d.


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CDR That's great. And wh e n we went through our P31,we got a NOUN 81 of 2 2 2.7.

CC Roger, A1.

209 12 46 14 CC CDR, Houston. For your information, we've Justlooked at your EEFSMMAT, and I do not have a

star acquisition pad for you right now, but as

soon a s t he Guida nc e Of f ic e r ge t s one ginne d up ,we 'l l ha ve one f o r you.

CDR Okay.

CDR And if you're finished with P52, Houston, I'll goon and do P20.

CC Roger. We are happy with the P52, and you canha ve i t , A1.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from

LOS and I'll give you a call at Madrid at 1 plus51.

2 09 12 48 2 1 CDR Okeydoke.

2 09 13 0 2 2 1 CC Skylab, Houston at Madrid for 5 minutes. We'd

like ACCEPT so we can get your vectors up to you.

PLT Okay, Dick; we'll give it to you.

CC Roger. And I've got several pad updates for you.

The first one is the final NC-1 pad on page 1-5.

PLT Okay, stand by 1.

PLT Okay, Dick, I'm looking at page 5. Go ahead.

CC Roger. Starting with - There are Just three or

four changes, but I 'm going to read the wholepad, and I think it will be easier, startingwith NOUN 95. 00 2 , 18, 06.00; plus 214.8,plus four zips, plus four zips; 179, 075, 00 2 ,

2 00.5, 00:10. Go ahead.

PLT Okay, I've got 00 2 , 18, 06.00; plus 2 14.8, plusall balls, plus all balls; 179, 075, 00 2 , 2 00.5,00:10.


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CC Ro ger. That's c o rrect. A n d I' d 1_ke t o chang eth e s ha ft a n d t z ,, n nio n down u nder the bur n attit u de

check Just below th a t, Jack. I'd like to ch - n getwo numbers: s ha ft shoul d rea d 24 9 .4, t x ,,nn_o n

should read 3 7.9. Go ahead.

PLT Ok a y. New shaft a nd t_ mnion are 2 49.4 an d 3 7.9.

CC Roger. How a bout flipping up to page l-Alfa?And this will be an update to the backup GDC align

pad.

PLT Okay, go ahead.

CC Roger. S s me s tars, 33 , 3 7; 161.1, 048.1, 3 46.2.Go ahe ad.

PLT Okay, 33 and 37; 161.1, 048.1, 346. 2 .

CC Roger. Stand by. And also next, PLT, on thatblank on the left, you might can write out - We'dlike you to do a PIPA bias update for us. If

r you'll take down the n u mbers, this will be viaVERB 21, NOUN 01. Over. And, Skyl a b; Houston.You can go back to BLOCK; we got the vectors up.

PLT Okay, we'll go back t o BLOCK, and go ahead withthe VERB 21, NOUN O1.

CC Roger. It's all three axes. Address 1452,da t a 00665 ; a ddr e ss 1454, da t a 76647; a ddr e ss 1456,data 0 3 570. Go ahead.

2 09 1 3 0 6 16 PLT Okay, I've got the ad dress 145 2 is 00665;address 1454 is 76647; address 1456 is 0 3 570.

CC Roger; g o od re a dback. And if you have the resultsof your BMAG 2 camparison check on pag e 1-4, we'dlike to have th a t. And we've looke d at the bird.You're GO for the NC-1 b u r n.

PLT Roger. GO f o r the burn. Thank y o u. And s a y

a ga in t he p a ge .

CC It's on page l-h, kind of at the t o p, Jack, onthe right-hand c o l,-_n, BMAG 2 c u _p a ris on . Whileyou'r e looking fo r t ha t , f l ight wa nt s t o knowhow you guys all liked zero g tod a y?


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PLT We're doing great. We g o t two suit s off . Wed o n't have any _ 4 AG c om paris o ns for y o u y e t.

CC Okay, good. We're coming close to LOS here at

Madrid, and w e 'll see y o u down at the A RIA ata bout 2 plus 25. You're GO for NC-1. See you.

2 0 9 1 3 07 2 3 PLT Okay, Dick. Tlo - *Iky o u.

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TAG Tap e 2 09-0 5 / T-3Ti me : 20 9 :1 3 : 30 t o 2 0 9 : 1 5: 00P a ge I o f 9 / 1 5

S KYLAB AI R-T 0 - GROUND VOI CE T RANSC RI P TIO N

209 1 3 3 5 2 9 C C Skyl a b, H o u s t on t h r o ugh A RIA . Ho w do y o u r e a d?

20 9 1 3 3 5 h8 CC S kylab, Housto n through A RIA for 8 minute s . Ho wdo you r e a d?

2 09 1 3 3 7 3 4 CC S kylab, H o ust o n thr ou g h ARIA f o r 8 minu tes .

2 09 13 3 7 41 CDR Hous t on , Sk y l ab . W e hear y ou in te rmi tte n t l y . No tt oo cl e arl y, t hou g h.

CC S ky lah , Hous t on. W e 'v e g o t a lo t o f s t a ti c. I

c a n bar e ly h ear y ou. We are in t e re s te d in knowin gho w t h e N C-I bur n we n t, t ho u g h. Go ah e ad.

CDR It c ame o ff cor r e c t l y . On ti me . We didn't c opy

the DELTA-V C . We were in attitud e and the NOUN

85s were minus 00 1 , plus 005, and plus 008 . Thestar check th a t you gave us wi th s t a r 2 5 wascorr e ct. Ho wever, using th e horiz o n check, which -as sort of a b a ckup, the horizon was not any wherenear the 1 2 -degree windo w mark at burn time. Itwas up a round 3 5.

CC Roger, CDR. I copied all of that. And - and one

more que s tion. We wanted to verify that you gotthe PIPA biases in, pr i or to the NC-1 burn.

CDR We got them in.

CDR We got them in, Dick, for sure.

CC CDR, Houston. Sorry, I didn't catch that last.S a y again, ple a se.

CDR Roger. We got the PIPA b ia se s in, prior to burn.

CC Rog -Roger, CDR. I understa n d y o u did get themin. Be a d vised th a t I do have a star acq pad for

you, but I'll give it to you l a ter when we havebetter comm. And, if you g e t the P5 2 opt i on 3information, I'm stand i ng by for it. We've stillgot about 6 minutes left here at A RIA.


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CDR Roger. We're wondering which P52 option B you'retalking about. The very first one?

MCC No, the one that's supposed to be going on now.

CC Negative. CDR, negative. I got that other

option 3, and we're a little bit ahead of you.

We just thought, prior to this ARIA pass, youmight poss ib ly ge t t he one t ha t 's c oming up r ightnow. If not, no problem. We'll get it at theStates.

209 1B 40 06 CDR Okay, we weren't planning to do that for l0 more

minutes, but we,ll get on it right now. We've

ha t c he d a l i t t l e p r oble m with t he MANUAL dr ive , onthe OPTICS. In that in DIRECT, when we drive to

an angle, it doesn't want to stop there. It just

keeps going. And we're having a little troublesetting the proper angle so that we could then

l ook out a t a s t a r ; i t t r a ns f e r s r a t he r r a p idly.And we have n 't ha d a ny t r ouble wi t h a ut o op t ic s ,however. It points very well. We don't have any

trouble marking on the star. It's merely when we

try to go to a decided shaft and trunnion, then

it's almost impossible to do. So we really had

be t t e r deve lop a be t t e r t e c hnique doe t he re .

209 13 40 46 CC Roger, CDR; I copied that. And no particular

hurry on the P52. We'll take it when you've got

it. We're standing by for 4 more minutes.

209 13 42 07 CDR Starting on the P52 right now, Dick, and firsts t a r is 37.

CC CDR, Houston. CDR, Houston. You're just about

unr e a da ble . S or r y, I unde r s t a nd you'r e r e a dingme some P52 information, but I have not gottenany of it.

CDR Hello, Houston, we did our GDC align and got a ...

We 'l l give you t ha t inf o rma t ion a t t he ne xt s t a t ionbe c a use we ha ve dif f ic ul t y he a r ing you.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS

at ARIA. We'll see you at Goldstone at 03:01, and

I'ii have a star acq pad for you up there. You've


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been Just abo u t un r e adab le f o r t he l ast 3 m i n ut e sof t h e p a ss, a n d so I di dn 't get a n y of t he i n for-

matio n duri n g that ti me.

209 1 3 44 20 CDR Ok a y, I'Ii read it agai n to you if you can take it.3 7, 45 ... a11 ba l ls i; NOUN 93 , plus 00 9 , minu s 017,

plus 024, ... time; 02: 3 2:56.00 .

209 14 1 2 32 CC Skylab, H o ust o n. G o ldst o ne f o r 9 mi nu tes.

CDR Okay, we got some ne ws for you. We worked on thato ptics .

CC Go ahead .

CDR We kind of got the feeling that m a ybe we hadn'tzeroed it well enough and - although we'd done ita couple o f tim e s, because we went back, zeroedit ag a in, and drove it manu a lly b o th in RESOLVEand DI RECT, and it worked p e rfectly. S o scratchthat up a s a mystery at the m o ment.

CC Roger. The one question we had on that, A1, wa sdid you see this phenomen a [ sic ] both driving itin HIGH and LO W rat e s?

CDR We s aw it in all rates. And it looked like it was

driving in HIG H in all rates. But things a reworking well at the moment.

CC Okay, let me continue d ow n my list then . W e're alittle bit puzzled about the horizon check. We'restill thinking about that one. There was somethought that it might be possible that you had s eenthe terminator because of the c o nditions you werein at the time; ho we ver, we really Just don't kno w.We're tr a cking you here at Goldstone, but we'llhave to run the inf o rmation and, by Madrid, we'llhave a good look at the way the NC-2 - correction,the NC-1 burn went. And there's one number on

your P52 opti o n 3 , which is the NOUN 9 3 Z, thatI'd like for you to give me ag a in.

CDR Okay. That's plus 0 2h. And no w th a t y o u mentionthis business about the terminator, I wouldn't be

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CC Well, the terminator was quite a bit below you

t he r e and we 'r e - we 'r e che c king t he a ngle s .That might have been right, but we were a little

bit puzzled as to how the star check could have

been so good and the horizon check not. At anyrate, we're thinking about it. And I never got

BMAG 2 results, page 1-4. Did you get them?

CDR I sure do. Let me give them to you right now.NOUN 20, 178.74, 155.09, 359.82. Now the ASCP

t humbwhe e ls we r e 177.6, 158.1, 359.4; a nd t ha twas the DELTA-T of 46. Now we have a BMAG I com-

parison going at this time, and we've been 25 min-utes into it. So next time we talk with you,

we 'l l give you some inf o r ma t ion on BMAG i, a l so .

209 14 15 06 CC Good show. If you'll -l've got an NC-2 prelimi-nary pad for you, page 1-9.

209 14 15 12 PLT And while you're thinking about that, I completed

the fuel cell purge and I noticed, on FUEL CELL i,

t he hydr oge n f low didn 't qui t e c ome ba c k to whe r eit was to begin with. It's riding about - it

appears to me about 0.01 pounds per hour higher

than the - than straight across from the 02 pointer.

CC Roger, PLT; and for whoever is going to copy the

NC-2 pad, I am going to have a DELTA-Vy for you.

It's printed in there as zeros, but I have one.

The r e a son is you ha ve a s l ight out - o f - p l a ne ,and we think we're a little bit better off gettingit out of the way here at NC-2 instead of savingit for - by doing it here, we should reduce what

we have to get out in NCC and NSR.

CDR Sounds like a good idea. We're ready to copy.

CC Okay, starting with NOUN 28, 004, 33, 57.00,

p lus 153.5 . Oka y, he r e 's your D ELTA- Vy, minus 014.0 .

Oka y, s t a r t ing a ga in wit h D ELTA- Vz, p lus f our ba l l s ,180, 256, 356, 139.7, 00:07. We ight , 30557; t r ims ,plus 1.38, plus 0.41. Go ahead.

CDR Okay. 004, 33, 57.00, plus 153.5, 14.0 - that's

a minus, plus all zips, 180, 256, 356, 139.7,00: 07, 30557, p lus 1.38 , p lus 0.41.


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CC Okay, and we'd like to give you a burn star c h eckfor these burn s , s ince we ha ve a c o uple o f funnie s .For this one, it'll be star 13. And that should

give you a sh a ft of plus 3 18.4 and a trunnion ofplus 07.7. Two remarks : this will be a single

Bank burn, bank Alfa, which is nominal, and the

other one was th a t DELTA-Vy was due to a slight

out - o f - p l a ne . I a l r e a dy to ld you about t ha t one .

CDR Okay, understand that. St a r 1 3 , plus 3 18.h andp lus 07.7 and ba nk Al f a .

CC Roger. And stand by ple a se, Just a second.

CDR The more I think about this terminator business,

t he mor e I t hink you'r e r ight .

CC Skylab, Houston. We see a decrease in helium and

p rop e l l a nt s in qua d Br a vo , a nd we 'd l ike t o sec ur et ha t quad.

209 l_ 18 21 CDR Well, I tell you. We were Just getting ready to

tell you that we got some sort of sparklers going

by the right-hand window, over by Jack, but wedon't have any going by the left. And it's quite

a bit. We Just did that purge, and we thought

maybe that was it, but maybe we've got somethingspraying out that side. I don't know.

209 14 18 46 CC Roger. We'll secure quad Bravo here and continueto look at it.

209 14 18 51 PLT It looks like you're driving through a kind of asnowstorm real fast. It's going from minux X out

to plus X, Dick.

CC Roger. Have you secured quad Bravo?

PLT Affirm.

CC Roger. Thank you.

CDR Did you want both the helium and the propellantsecured?

CC That 's affirmative, CDR.


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CDR Ok a y , we did both of th e m.

PLT And we've still g o t the s n owstorm out the rights ide the re .

CC Roger.

PLT I'm wo nd eri n g if it' s got so mething to d o with

th a t H2 o n FUEL CELL i. Of course, we c an't tell

wh a t FUEL CE LL 3 is d oing on H2 be ca use the meterisn't wor king.

CC Roger. We're continuing to look at it.

209 14 19 54 CC Skyl a b, Housto n . While we're co n tinui n g to lookat this, I got a couple of o t her notes. O n e is -i s t he c oo la nt p roble m, Ja c k, t ha t you saw, Jus t

a fter lau n ch, was almost identic a l to the idica-tio n s th a t Pete a nd his guys got o n S L-2, an d wethi n k that w a s due to - Just a situ a tio n in - outin the r ad i a tors - the thermal co n traction in the

radiators, a n d was a n ominal s itu a tio n , no problem.And I - I have a s t ar a cquisitio n p ad on page l-Alfa,

if we have a cha n ce to copy it.

2 09 14 2 0 2 8 PLT Can I go ahead and get my H2 PURGE LINE HEATER,

OFF, in spite o f what's g o ing on? It looks likeit st o pped fo r a minute, then it star t ed back upagain. It's l o oking kind of inte rm ittent rightn o w, Dick; the snowstorm, that is.

CC Roger. Stand by a second.

PLT Some of the particles are bigger than others.

Some of them look like pieces of frost and others

look like a very, very fine rain, and then there

is a bunch of them that streak by with sizes inbetween.

CC PLT, Houston. On FUEL CELL l, the EECOM would

like you to cycle the H2 PURGE LINE HEATER, please.

PLT Roger......

CC I'm sorry. Excuse me. Excuse me. H 2 PURGE LINE

VALVE, EECOM would like you to cycle that. Be ad- _ \vised we're sJ_out 2 0 seconds from LOS here at Gold-

stone. And we'll pick you up at Canary at 03: 2 5.


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CDR C_ay. A n d we 'ii b e sta n ding by for t h at star acqpad.

CC Okay.

209 14 21 3 1 PLT Okay, I cycled it, and it went back to about the

same pl a ce. Do you want me to leave my H 2 PURGE

LINE HEATER, ON, I t ak e it. Is that right?

209 14 21 4 0 CC Neg a tive, PLT. If you hear me, you can turn itOF F.

209 14 3 6 00 CC Skylab, Hou s t o n. A0S Canary for 7 minutes.

CDR Ro ger. Loud and c l ear, H o u s t on .

CC Roger. I wasn't sure you got m y last tr a nsmissi o n.It was to J a ck and that it's o k a y to t u r n the PURGE

LINE HEATER, OFF, and I've got some q uad B r e c on -figur a tion things to read up to y o u, th a t we s ugge s t.

f CDR Ok a y . Let me t e l l y o u what I've don e, a n d t h en itma y sa ve you some r e a ding.

CC 0kay.

2 0 9 14 36 2 6 CDR I set the DAP a t ll00 2 , ll011. I turne d OFF _ ]]quad B for roll - B / D ROLL a nd I've turned OFFqu a d B in YAW auto switches. And I got A / C ROLL,ON.

CC Roger. Thank you, y o u're right with us. Th a t'sexactly what I was going to suggest.

CDR Okeyd o ke . We've bee n l o oking at t h is ma lf pro-cedure and, of course, we can't go ver y far be-cause right now the pressure d o esn't appear t o bedecreasing. I will say th a t th e sp a rkl e rs th a twe were having out the right-hand win d ow are gone.But th a t, of course, could be bec a u s e of thehydr oge n dump .

2 0 9 14 3 7 1 2 CC Roger. Okay. I've got a couple of other thi n gsto tell you. We track e d you at Goldst on e, and itlooks like you g o t o ff a real g o o d executi o n onthe NC-1 burn. So we're still thinking ab out thatfun n y h o riz on c h eck, but the burn went well . W e


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do not have any vectors that we need to up-link

to you at this time. The SWS tracking lights in

the VHF have been turned on, and they a ppear tobe working okay. And I have a star acq pad on

p age 1- Al f a .

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. On 1-Alfa, the only thing that I - that

changes on it, A1, are the shaft and trunni o ns f o rthe first and second stars. So the first star

shaft angle is 251.8, 17B - correction - shaftis 251.8 ; t _ 1=n_ on, 037.2. F o r t he sec ond s t a r :sha f t , 046.6; t r unnion, 034.7.

CDR Okay. 251.8, 37.2; 046.6, and 34.7.

CC Th a t's correct. You got it.

209 14 38 44 CC And, CDR; Houston. On the optics problem you had

a _hi l e a go , one poss ib le exp la na t ion c ould - mightbe some contamination in that s witch that caused

you momentarily to be hung in a high rate - which

might explain it. And so to be conservative, we'drecnmmend that you - when you - that you put itin low rate and leave it there.

209 14 39 06 CDR Excellent suggestion; we'll put it back right now.

CC Roger.

CDR Exactly where's the vent for the hydrogen purge?

CC Stand by.

209 14 39 47 CC While we're looking that up for you, CDR, be advised

we did see quad Bravo decreasing before we did the

H2 purge, so it - it might have been that. It was

well - I'll take it back - running a little bit

lower in quantity before we did the H 2 purge. Andwe're look - -

CDR Okay, let me give you - -

CC Go ahead.


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CDR - - I had nothing important. I was just going to

give you the results of the HMAG i align, if youwa nt e d the m.

CC Roger, go ahead.

2 09 14 h0 15 CDR Okay. 179.87, 206.30, 358.71. ASCP tht_bwheelsare 180.7, 207.6, 357.4, DELTA-T 38. Now at -

Do we owe you any other information?

CC CDR, negative. I'm happy, I've got - I've gottenit a l l .

CDR Okay.

209 lh 4 2 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 2 0 seconds f r om LOS.Honeysuckle a t 04: 07.

CDR Roge r.

CC Skylab, Houston. That pu r ge is close to windownu mbe r 5 on the right-hand side.

CDR Okay. That makes sense then.

2 09 14 4 2 41 CC Roger.

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2 09 15 18 26 C C Skyl a b, Ho ust on. We 're AOS at Hoaey su ckl e f or

7 mi n ute s .

CDR Okay. W e 're Just trying to g e t a lockon to thewor kshop VH F .

CC Roger. And I've got three pads to read you.

The first o n e i s NC-2 fi n al, page 1- 9 .

CDR Ok ay, we've got a lockon. And it looks alittle bit err a tic, probably bec a use we'reover range. It s hows about 60 miles. So wea dd th a t to t h e cycle thi n g an d we've got - n otb a d distance. Okay. Ready to copy.

20 9 15 1 9 07 CC Roger. Starti n g with NOUN 28, 004, 33 , 55.00,

plu s 155.4; the DELTA-Vy is mi n us 015.0.

Starti n g again with DELT A-V z , plus four b-l Iq ;

180, 256, 33 5, excuse me, correct th a t. Th e

yaw for NOUN 22 should be 3 55; DELTA-V C 142.7,00:07. Go ahe a d.

CDR Okay, 004, 33 , 55.00, plus 155.4; mi n us 015.0,a ll zips; 180, 3 55, 33 5; 142.7, 00:07.

CC Roger. l'd like to correct o n n oun 22, AI.The pitch is 256, the y a w is 3 55. Go ahead.

CC CDR, Hou s to n . I f you rea d tho s e b a c k , youdroppe d out. Say again please.

CDR Okay. 180, 2 56, 355.

209 15 20 47 CC Roger. That's c o rrect. And I'd llke t o - onthat star check for star 13, I'd llke t o

correct the shaft and trunni o ns. The shaft

should r e a d p lus 314.8 , t _mnion p lus 08 .1.

CDR Okay. Plus 314.8 and plus 08.1.


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CC Roger. And next pad is NCC preliminary pad,

p age i- ii .

CDR Go ahead.

209 15 21 23 CC Roger. 005, 20, 00.00, plus 037.0, minus 000.2,

p lus 000.9; 180, 074, 001; 023.6, 00: 02.Go a he a d.

CDR 005, 20, 00.00, plus 037.0, minus 000.2, plus

000.9; 180, 074, 001; 023.6, 00: 02.

CC That's right. And the weight is 30085; trims,

plus 1.39, plus 0.34. And a star check for

t his bur n . S t a r 25 ; sha f t , p lus 246.7; t r unnion,plus 38.0. Go ahead.

CDR Roger. 25, and then plus 246.7, and plus 38.0.

209 15 2 2 55 CC Roger. And the next one is NSR preliminaryp a d on ne xt p a ge .

209 15 22 59 CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. Plus 017.4, plus 008.2, plus 001.9; 183,

2 85, 0 2 6. Skip DELTA-V C , I'll get that for

you la t e r ; bur n t ime 00: O1. We ight , 29972;trims, plus 1.39, plus 0.32. Go ahead.

CC Break, break, CDR. Stand by 1 before you readback. Skylab, Houston. If you can continue gettingmarks here, we'd appreciate it. We're not surewhy you've s t op p e d he r e .

209 15 2_ 02 CDR Okay. We'll take a look for the tracking lightagain. When it went into the dark, we could no

longer see it, and s o we stopped taking marks.We 'l l look out t he r e a ga in.

CC Okay. And I'm standing by to copy yourreadback.

CDR Okay. We've got the tracking light and we'll

start taking sc_e. ThRnks for getting on us.


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CC Roger.

209 15 24 20 CDR Okay. Readback, plus 17.4, plus 008.2, plus

001.9; 183, 285, 026. DELTA-V C will co me up

later, and then 00:01; 29972; plus 1. B9,p lus 0.32.

CC Roger. That's a good readback. We're about

1 minute from LOS here at Honeysuckle. We'llbe at Hawaii at 04:26. Be advised we are

t a lking a bout he r e a t rouble shoot ing p r oc edureon qu a d Bravo. And I'll be tA1_ing a bout thatt o you p r oba bly a t H a wa i i .

CDR Ok a y. And we no t i ced, at le ast as far ascockpit gages are concerned, th a t the pressure

is not changed either in the manif o ld or thehelium tanks since we shut them both off.

209 15 25 18 CC Okay. Roger. We confirm th o se readings ont he ground.

209 15 3 7 00 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Hawaii f o r 8 minutes.

CDR Roger. We're Just standing by ready to do theburn.

CC Roger, A1. I have a pr o ced u re here that we'regoing to be doing after the burn up at

Goldstone on the qu a d. If you got a couple ofminutes, I thought I'd lik e to describe whatwe're going to do while we watch it on the

ground. If you're too close to the burn and

like - like to put th a t off, I'll be glad t o .But I think I can explain to you gener a llywhat we plan to do, to try and check it o ut.

CDR I'd prefer you waited to Goldstone.

209 15 3 7 3 8 CC Ok a y, we'll be prep a red right at Goldstone A0Sand - and right after we - I guess - We sh o u ld

watch y o u do the b u rn here, and we'll get aburn status right after the burn. A n d then

right at Goldstone A0S we'll set up a particularconfiguration and get right t o it.


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CDR Sounds good.

CC And, CDR; Houston. Be advised we are going to

be cn mmaudlng the spectrometer ON here at Hawaii.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. Controllers have looked at the

the burn. You look real good; you're GO forNC-2.

CDR Roger.

209 15 39 44 PLT Dick, I've noticed when we go into darkness

since the heaters come on, I guess the main bus

is getting down to around 2 5-1 / 2, 2 6 volts and

the fuel cells really put out. I'm sort of standing

by to put a BAT number 2 on if necessary. I noticet ha t t he ba t t e r y - e nt ry ba t t e r ie s a r e t a kingqui t e a loa d r ight now.

CC Roger, Jack. Copy.

PLT And we Just got an 02 FLOW HIGH, Houston. It

seems to be staying up around 0.9 right now.

CC Roger, Jack. And EECOM's happy with the elec-

t r ic a i p owe r sys t e m r ight now, so your p r oc e dur eof Just standing by and watching is a good one

and the 0 2 FLI [sic, FLOW HIGH] he thi n ks is due

t o t he e nr ic hme nt p r oc e dur e s we 'r e going t hr ough.

PLT Yes, probably. We're getting down around 5 psi

or maybe a little less now.

2 09 15 40 59 CC Roger.

209 15 41 24 CDR Another problem we've had. Now that we're

staying in low rate, it's next to impossible toget the star check done, because it takes so longto get to the shaft and trunnion angles of the

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CC Ro ger, CDR . We h ad t ho ught ab o ut that, b u t -a n d we were h opi n g ge n er a lly, it would be p o s s ibleto get close to thos e a n gles a little bit e arlier,but I guess we'll Just have to live with that one.

CDR Roger . There's now - real way to track, youk now, up to 12 minutes and then get there . We

Just ca n 't - aren't able to do it with the authoritywe have in those s h a fts and tr u nnions, at low

settings.

209 15 42 22 CDR We'll make sure we keep thi s GD - GDC cl o sely

aligned and we'll also every night peri o d takea look for - and make sure that the I MU is centered

in. S o I don't think we'll have any problem.

209 15 45 0 7 CDR There's t h e residual, H o ust o n . Zer o , plus410, a nd p lus 610.

CC Roger. We see them, A1.

CDR That thing gives you a nice kick.

CC Roger. We're going LOS here a t H awa ii. We'llsee you at Goldstone at 0 4: 3 7.

2 09 15 45 2 7 CDR Okay. _

2 09 1 5 h8 2 5 CC S ky la b, H ous t o n . We 'r e AOS a t G olds t one f o r

7 mi nu tes . We don 't n e e d any mor e i n f orma ti onon t h e N C- 2 b urn ; it loo k e d re al go od t o us ont h e gr ou n d. I' v e g o t a qu a d Bravo ch e c k ou t I'dl ike t o get s t a rte d on an d one no t e f or Jack.

You mig h t e x pe c t t h e 02 F LOW HIGH li g h t ab o u t

every i0 mi nu te s o r so. It s ee ms t o be acom b ina t ion o f e n ri chmen t pr oc e d ure an d alsot h e ac cum ul a t o r c y cl e, which is abo u t everyi0 m i nu t e s. Ov e r.

P LT Rig h t, o kay . W e' ll wa t ch f or t ha t, Dic k . W eunder s t and t h e 10- mi nu te t h i n g an d e xp e c t t o g e t

a l itt l e 0 2 H IGH on t h e e n r ichm e n t an d w e 're re ad yt o co py t h e RCS pr oc e d ure .


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2 0 9 15 49 05 CC Okay, I t h ink rat h er than copy it down, letme explai n briefly what we're g o ing t o do, and

then we'll get started. We'llneed one guy tohelp us out here. First, we're going to set

up a configuration where we can check out thethrusters in quad Bravo one at a time and see if

t he r e 's some kind of a n e l e c t r ic a l p r oble m inope ning t he oxidize r s ide a nd le t t ing i t gothrough a thruster. In case that doesn't work,after we look at that, then we'll look at a pro-

blem possibly in the direct coils. So what we'd

like you to do first is on panel 1 check ROTATIONCONTROL of POW_t_ 1 and 2 - 2 switches to OFF.

CDR They're OFF.

CC And, on panel 8, AUTO RCS Jet SELECTS for quadBravo, OF F , ve r ify.

CDR Okay. B1, B 2 , B3, and Bh are OFF.

2 09 15 49 56 CC Roger; thank you. Now, on panel 2 , servicemodule RCS , QUAD PRIMARY PROPELT.WNT Bra vo t o

OPEN. And we're going to monitor manifold

pressure her_ on the ground for a decay and I'll

l e t you know whe n t o p r oc ee d.

CDR It's OPEN and we can see s ome things c o mi n gout right now. The s a me spray we tR1ked about

be f o r e is c oming out r ight now.

CC Roger. Stand by.

2 09 15 50 2 3 CC Skylab, Houston. Go shead and CLOSE that now.

CDR Okay, it took a few minutes last time for it to

diminish a nd i t 's be ing t r ue to f or m; i t 's s l owlyde c r e a s ing but qui t e a numbe r o f p a r t ic l e s c omingout.

CC Roger, A1. Why don't we stop right therean d let us think about it from here?

CDR Sounds good.


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209 15 50 47 CC While - while it looks like we've got a couple

of minutes that I didn't plan on though, I do have

the numbers that I didn't have - have for you

awhile ago on the NSR preliminary pad, if you'd

like to copy them down.

209 15 51 01 CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. DELTA-V C is 006.4; DELTA-V C at ignition,

2.0; D ELTA- V C a t t a i lof f , minus 13.0.

CDR Roger. 006.4, 2.0, and 13.0.

CC Roger. That's correct.

CDR Boy, San Fransico looks pretty right out the

window. I guess that's what it is.

CC Roger. Should be.

209 15 52 03 CDR You know, Dick, those green circular fields

that are - that they use thoseround irrigationthings on are pretty visible from up here even.

CC Roger.

CDR Little bit smaller but very - very clear.

CC Roger; easy to see, huh?

CDR This would be a heck of a good day for an EREP

p a ss a c r os s this p a r t o f the c ount r y.

CC Roger that.

209 15 52 39 CDR The spray on our right-hand window has lessened

e ve n mor e but ha sn't quit e c omp le t e ly.

CC Roger. Thank you.

CDR I guess it probably - I wonder if you can

tell from looking at the fuel usage in the other

qua d, whic h - whic h wa y t ha t t hing's vent ing.


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CC Sk yla b , H ou sto n , W e b e l ieve t he vent wher e ver

it is, is causi n g you to h av e a pl u s yaw bec au seof the reactio n we ca n see o n the mi n us yaw a c-tivity.

CDR Roger.

PLT The p a rticles a r e a ll d ifferent sizes, Dic k .They're - Some of th e m come out a nd loo k li k ekind of clot s .

CC Roger.

20 9 1 5 5 4 1 3 CC Skylab, Housto n . We'r e a b out i minute from LOS.Bermuda at 04 - 50 - 04:50.

CDR Okay, we'll be waiting for you.

CC Okay.

2 09 15 55 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We probably will have a short

p r oce dur e t o c ont inue t his qua d one mor e s t e pat Bermuda. I'll have that procedure for youwhe n we ge t t he r e .

CDR We 'll be ready.

209 15 55 22 CC Okay.

209 16 03 25 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Bermuda for 4 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda for 3 minutes.

CDR Okay. We hear you loud and clear.

209 16 Oh 19 CC Roger, CDR. That comm is a little bit scratchy

here. We were a little bit late locking up.

On the quad we've had some second thoughts andat the - at the moment we're completely GO forr e nde zvous . We s t i l l ha ve a l l our de o rbi tcapabilities and so we elect now not to

t r oubl e sho ot it a nymor e , t o a void a p oss ibl e

hard start. And since we - since the procedurewe we r e t h inking a bout involve d l ight ing acouple of the thrasters. How do you read?


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2 09 16 0 9 14 CC Sk y lsb , Hou s t on . Ca na ry for 8 minu t es .

CDR Lou d and Cle a r.

CC Ro g e r, AI. So r r y f o r t he cn -_ pro bl e ms b ackt he re a t B e r mud a. Wh at I was try in g t o te lly ou in case y ou di d n' t h ear, is we d o n 't in te ndt o do an y mo r e tr ou b l e sh o o t in g r i g h t now onq uad Br avo. I t looks li k e we' re c o mpl et el y GOf o r t h e re nd e zvous. We ' ve s t ill got o u r de o r bi tc ap a b ili tie s. And we 'd li ke to t h i n k a bo u t t ha ton e f o r a wh i l e .

CDR Okay.

209 16 09 42 CC And while I'm waiting to see if we have some

final pads to read up to you here, on the optics.

We think the IMU looks so great, and you're get-

t ing c he c ks by - dur ing t he t r a c king a nyway, t ha tprobably - star checks are not required for thenext burn. In the event that you would like to

make them, in order to save time, one thing you

might consider is dropping out of MINKEY and thenusing - going into P52 and letting auto opticstake you to a star, and then reenter MINKEY after

that. But we really don't think it's required.

209 16 l0 16 CDR Okay. One thing we've had up here that's a

l i t t le unusua l , we 've ha d a GLYCOL F LOW, c a ut ion /

warning tw o times s o far. It was on momentary,and we could only tell that it was that particularc aut ion and wa r ning by pushing RES ET. Ea c ht ime we c he c ke d t he p r e ssur e s a nd e ve r yt hing,we found them to be satisfactory and withinlimits.

CC Okay, we'll take a close look.

PLT You may notice we put a little bit in the

a c c umula t or , t oo , wa y ba c k a f t e r inse r t ion, D ic k.

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209 16 ll 21 CC And, Skylab; Houston. On the GLYCOL FLOW light,

a r e t hose t wo c a ut ion a nd wa r nings you've

me nt ione d t ha t you ha d mome nt a r il y, we r e t he yrecently? Or were they the s a me ones that were

re por te d e ar lie r?

CDR We've had a total of _hree, and we had the most

r e c e nt one a p p r oxima t e ly 15 minut e s a go.

CC Okay, thank you.

209 16 ll 54 PLT Something quite interesting Just drifted by the

right window. I wish we could have got a pictureof it. But it was a piece of frost the shape ofa cone, the same size as the thruster nozzle.

CC Roger that.

209 16 12 ll PLT It must have been about - it must have been about

4 to 6 inches along the long axis of the cone.

209 16 12 18 CC Roger. Copy.

209 16 13 09 CDR And, Houston, are those NCC / NSR pads going to bethe final ones, or have you got a couple in your

hip p oc ke t down t he r e ?

CC Roger. Negative. We will have new pads to read

t o you he r e a t Cana r y a nd Asc e nsion, a nd t he y'r e

in work now. We've still got - we've still gota bout l l t o 12 minut e s be t wee n t he se t wo s it e s ,so i t shouldn 't be a ny p r oble m.

CDR Okay. Well, we've got to go to final commhere in about 5, that's why I wondered.

CC Roger. We 're hustling.


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CC Skylab, Houston. I've got a final pad forNCC he re .

CDR Okay, ready to copy.

209 16 14 01 CC Roger. NOUN ll, 005, 20, 03.41, plus 036.h, plus

three balls 5, minus 004.5; 180, 082, 002; 023.2,00: 02. Go she a d.

CDR 005, 20, 03.41, plus 036.4, plus 000.5, minus

004.5; 180, 082, 002; 023.2, 00:02.

CC Roger. Good readback. I'd like to also update

the trims. Pitch is plus 1.47; yaw is plus 0.29;

and I've got an NSR pad for you.

CDR Go ahead.

209 16 15 13 CC Roger. N@UN 81, plus 018.6, plus 009.4, minus003.2; 176, 301, 028 ; 007.6, 00: 01, 3.2, 13.5 .Go a head.

CDR Okay, back on those trims: Plus 01.47, plus0.29. Now, NOUN 81 is plus 018.6, plus 009.4,

minus 003.2; 176, 301, 028 ; 007.6, 00: 01, 3.2,a nd 13.5.

CC That's affirm. And the trims are the same for

both burns. And we'd like to switch quadCha r l ie t o t he PS M.

CDR Okay.

CC Roger. And that's all I've got for you here.

We're still standing by for about 8 more minutesa t - a t Asc e ns ion.

CDR Okay. Quad Charlie is on PSM.

209 16 16 42 CC Roger.

209 16 19 15 CC Skylab, Houston. Realize you're real busy. We've

still got about 6 minutes left at Ascension. Wenever did get the P52 option 3 data on page 1-8.

If anybodyhas a chance,you might readit to us

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CDR We got it right here.

SPT Okay, it's a - Star 34 is the first star; star41 is the second star; our NOUN 05s have zip for

error. NOUN 93 is plus 00.020, minus 00.037, and

minus 00.003. Time of torquing was 3 hours,53 minutes, 5_. 00 . Over.

CC Roger. Thank you very much.

209 16 20 15 CC Skylab, Houston. You're lo o king real good.You'r e GO f or NCC.

SPT Okay. GO here.

209 16 22 47 CDR And it looks like the C MC came up with a solutionthat satisfies our c_p limits, Houst o n.

CC Roger. We certainly concur, CDR, looks real good.

CDR Okay . Those are t h e o n es we'll burn.

CC Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LO S ; Carnarvona t 05: 40.

209 16 24 00 CDR Roger.

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20 9 16 5 2 1 3 CC Skyl a b, H o ust o n . Carn a rv o n for h minutes.

209 16 52 17 CDR Loud and clear.

CC Roger. Standing by for NCC b u r n status.

CDR Okay. B ur n came off on time. DELTA-V C,

minus 1 3 .7 at attitude. NOUN 85: minus 0. 2 ,minus O.1, and minus 0. 2 . And I applied theCMC so lut ion, a s you know.

CC Roger, A1; we got that. I got a couple of other

notes for you. One of them is - is you might

of supposed that the PIPA bias update thatwe put in awhile ago could possibly have been

from that venting that we had not expected, butthat is not true. We do have a PIPA bias on

board that is good. And I have one correction in- you_ " checklist at about 6 plus h0.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger. There where you see the - the VERB h8

ENTER for the DAP, we'd like to delete the partthat says, "Load h jet." We'd like to leave

the DAP configuration as it is. And Just a

reminder for you since we're doing that a ndwe 've los t t his qua d, your br a king a ut ho r i t y

a nd your Z- t r a ns la t ion a ut hor it y dur ing t he f ina lmaneuvers is going to be cut in half.

CDR Well, ne a r as we can figure out - Okay.

CC Roger, A1. And we will be handing over from

Carnarvon to Honeysuckle here in a fe w minutes,wo we've got about a total of about 5 or

6 minutes left in this pass. I'm standing by.

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CDR We've been doing some daydreaming here Just to

make sure we understand it completely. If weended up using the SCS, we wouldn't have anyZ-translation at all. As long as we stay on

the CMC, we will have half authority. Do youc onc ur wit h t ha t one ?

CC Stand by.

CC CDR, Houston. That's affirmative; you'recorrect .

CDR Okay.

CDR Okay, Houston, that looks like the solutionwe're going to burn. We used the 18.6 for X and

a 0.6 from the first recycle and a 9.7 from this

f ina l comp .

CC Roger, A1. We're loo_ing at it with you.

209 16 57 38 CDR Everybody happy?

CC Stand by l, A1.

209 16 58 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We were not A0S and did not

see t he p os t - NCC so lut ion, a nd we Jus t wa nt e dto verify that that's what this is - these

numbe r s a r e c oming f r om.

2 09 16 58 2 6 CDR Right. The post one was plus 18.6, plus 9.7,and plus 0.6. So we put the X in Z for that one,

and Y for the final comp. And we're going toPRO now.

2 09 16 58 40 CC Roger; and we're happy.

209 16 58 50 CC Skylab, Houston. You're looking real good.You'r e GO f or NS R.

CDR Okay. GO here.

209 16 59 2 9 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS; Hawaiia t 06:02.


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P LT Just f o r t h e record, Dick, I g o t a n ,mm a tcheds o l uti on for N S R on t h e c h arts . Not q uite as

good as yours, but t h ey're in the ball p ark. Igot plus 18.6 in X a n d plus 5.8 i n Z , which is

the o n e that's a little bit off.

209 17 00 00 CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.

20 9 17 15 2 9 CC S kylab, Houston. A0S Hawaii for 5 minut e s.

20 9 17 15 33 CDR Roger. Read you s ort of scratchy, Houston .

CC Rog e r. S ame here, AI. l'm s ta n di n g by for yourNS R burn statu s.

CDR Okay . The burn came o ff o n ti me. DELT A-V C was

minus ...... were a ll zips, minus 0. i andminus 0.i. And we burne d the NOUN 81s th a t we

discussed; n a mely, the CMC.

PLT Hey, Dick, you've got a whole lot of noise in thetransmis s ion. I wonder if you could a sk the

comm gu y s to s ee if they c a n work on them.

CC Roger. How do you read n ow, Jack?

PLT l'm reading you, but it sounds like you're

st anding unde r nea th a wa te r f a l l .

CC Roger.

CDR Actually, I think that may be VHF from the

workshop, l've noticed that before we picked upthe tone, we woul d get - Just sort of backgrou n dnoise from their transpon d er; Ju s t a s te ad y scr a tchThen when I try VHF range RESET, it would work.

PLT I Ju s t turne d o ff my VHF, Dick, and th a t' s wh a tit is, the VHF.

CC Roger. Okay. I do have two or three notes for

you guys that I wanted to tell you here at Hawaii.

We've do ne s o me t - lking ab o ut t h e braking gat e swit h t his r e duc e d a ut hor i t y due t o the qua d tha t 's

out. And Just to remind you, the breaking gates

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t he m a nd, p a r t ic ul a r ly, hi t t he f i r s t one Jus ta bout on sc he dule , you shouldn't ha ve a ny p r obl e m

f ol lowing t hose p r in t e d ga t e s r ight on in .Another item is that you'd be interested to know

t ha t t he S - IVB de orbi t wa s suc c es s f ul a f ewminutes ago. And EECOM asked me to tell you that

if you a r e being bugged by the caution and warning

due to this 02 enrichment, it's okay to, on

panel 25 2 , to put the WASTE STOWAGE VENT VALVEt o CLOS E, which should s t op the c a ut ion a ndwarnings. But I'm not sure what your presents t owa ge c onf igur a t ion is a t t h is mome nt , so

t ha t might be inc onve nie nt f o r you to do.

PLT Okay, thanks, Dick. We really don't mind it

coming on, and we don't want to upset the

stowage at the moment; so we'll Just go asconfigured.

CC Okay, fine. And one more thing, we'd like to

t r a nsf e r qua d Al fa to t he PS M.

209 17 18 30 CDR Okay, here it comes.

2 09 17 18 31 CC Roger.

209 17 18 39 CDH You got it.

CC Thank you.

CC PLT, Houston. Back to the problems with the

s towa ge and ge t t ing t o t ha t ve nt va lve . Ano the rthing is, it would be okay if you waited until

after docking to close that, if that would bemor e c onve nie nt t o you a t your c a l l .

PLT Yes, I think it would. The only other time we

get in there is for a waste water dump. And it

looks like we've only got h0 percent. So I

think we'll Just leave it like you say. Thank

you, D ick.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 2 0 seconds fromLOS at Hawaii. We'll see you at Goldstonea t 06: 15 .


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CDR Ok a y, t h e first recycle s h owed t he ti me a t07 : 16 : 40.25, a n d n a rrow ed the NOUN 91s r ightthere.

CC Roger. Th a nk you, A1.

209 17 20 49 CDR Tell Duane Mosel a nd Mason Mines they'v e got ap r e t t y nice che cklis t he r e .

209 17 20 5h CC Roger. He's sitting right here; I sur e will.

209 17 26 28 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone for 5 minut e s.

209 17 26 31 CDR Okay, loud and clea r .

CC Roger.

CDR We can resolve the ATM solar panels r eal well.We haven't been able to see the wo r kshop, Imean, the woekshop body o r its wing 2 , but weca n see the othe r .

CC Roger, A1.

CDR And we got VHF lockup, Houston - 27 mil e s.

CC Roger, CDR.

CDR That's not true. Looks like a funny lockup - 276.

We think it will Jump here. We'll try anotherlockup.

CC CDR, Houston. We've still got about 3 minutes

here a t Goldstone. A couple of things for you.One is when we get to Bermuda, if we could,

we'd like to get ahead of the tiem line Just

a little bit a nd do our logic sequence checks.And also, we figured out a way, we think, th a tif you h a d to go to SCS control in the Z-axisthat you could get Z-translation, but it is a

l i t t l e bi t ine f f ic ient , i f you'd l ike t o l is t e nto th a t real quickly.

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CC Okay, if you are in 8C8, and you want to translate

in Z- axis , we 'd r e c omme nd the f o l lowing: AUTO RCSSELECT switch is A / C ROLL, all of them to MAIN A,which they ar in now. And then Delta 1 and

Delta 2 to MAIN Bravo. If you - In this config-ur a t ion, you c a n ge t bo t h p lus - o r minus - Z t r a ns -l a t ion . H owe ve r , t he e f f ic ie nc y c ould be imp r ove dfor a single translation to turn D1, OFF, for a

p lus - Z t r a ns la t ion or D 2, OF F , f o r a minus- Zt r ansla t ion. Ove r .

CDR Okay. I understood all but the very first

sentence, Dick, about putting all - Did you sayall A / C ones on Main A?

CC That's affirmative. All the A / C ROLL Jets toMAIN Alfa .

CDR Okay, understand it. I'll keep it in mind.

CC Roger, CDR.

CDR Okay.

CC A1, why don't you think about that a little bit?

And if we need to tA]_ about it later, we can.

We're about a minute from LOS at Goldstone, andwe're going to have about a 3- or 4-minute

dropout. And I'll call you agaon when we gett o MLA.

209 17 30 43 CDR Okay.

209 17 35 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at MLA and Bermudafor the - ll minutes.

209 17 35 05 PLT Okay, Dick.

CDR We're ready to go on that test when you are.

CC Roger. We were waiting for our data to lock up

real solid before we give you a GO.

209 17 35 43 CC Skylab, we're going to drop out and into a

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209 17 37 B5 CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of keyhole. Nowwe're AOS Be_mada for the next 9 minutes. Our

data is locked up real fine, and you're clearto do the SEQ logic check down through SEQ LOGIC -

two of them, ON, up - anytime.

CDR Okay.

209 17 37 56 CDR Okay, we've got the SEQ LOGIC up, and ON, twoof them.

CC Roger. Stand by.

CC Skylab Houston. The system looks real good.You're GO for PYRO ARM as required.

CDR I understand.

CDR Been doing a little thinking about this

procedure, Dick, on SCS. Which way do we move

t he t r a ns l a t iona l c ont r o l le r f or p lus- Z usingt his sc he m_?

CC CDR, Houston. It's - plus-Z is a down movement

of the THC, Just like normal.

CDR Okay.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston; I've got a preliminary TPI pad,

p age 1- 15 , a nyt ime somebody ge t s a c ha nce t ocopy. We've still got about 6 minutes left in

t his p a ss .

CDR Okay. And I'm still a little puzzled why we

bothered to put A / C ROLL on MAIN A, unless we'regoing t o p ul l some c ir c uit br e a ke r s or some t hing.

S o I 'm s t i l l a l i t t le p uzzle d about t ha t p r oc e dur e .

CC CDR, CDR, we'll have to give you a "gotcha" on

that one. It really doesn't matter, MAIN A or

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CDR Okay. Make s sense.

CC So y o ur - -

CDR Go ahead.

CC So your configuration is okay, with additionof t hose t wo D e l t a t hr us t e r swit c he s .

CDR Got you. Okay, ready to go .

209 17 hl 2 9 CC Okay, NOUN 37: 007, 1 2 , 2 0. 2 8; plus 18.9,plus three balls, minus 06.6; plus 19.8 / 96,

plus O0.1 / 01, plus 0 2 .7 /2 6. Skip DELTA-Vc; I'll

get it later for you. Burn time: O0:O1,

three balls, 0 2 0, 3 59. And I'll get the other

two DELTA-VcS in a minute. The weight is 2 9905;trims: plus 1.47, plus 0. 2 9. Go ahead.

209 17 4 2 49 CDR Okay. 007, 1 2 , 20: 2 8; plus 18.9, plus all zips,minus 06.6; plus 19.8 / 96, plus O0_l / 01,plus02.7 / 26; O0:01, all zips, 020, 359; 29905;plus 1.47 and plus 0. 2 9.

CC Roger. And one remark, this burn is 2 0 seconds,two quad u llage. And I've got a cocking-attitudepad for you that's a couple of pages over. It hink it 's 1- 17.

CDR Okay. Ready to copy.

CC 191, 354, 003. Go ahead.

CDR 191, 354, 003.

CC Roger. Thank you much.

CC And incidentally, CDR, on the TPI pad, the

NOUN 59 - the DELTA-Vs that I read you do take

into acco u nt your present configuration ofthrusters.

CDR Okay, thanks.

2 09 17 44 23 CC The burn times do. Yes.


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2 09 17 44 25 CDR Okay .

2 09 1 7 45 0 2 CC Sk y la b, Hous t on. I h a v e t he D ELTA-Vc'S I ca n

fi ll i n f o r y ou on a pre limina ry TPI pa d.

2 0 9 1 7 45 14 CDR G o ah ead .

CC Ro ger . DELTA-Vc , 00 6. 7 . Do wn at t he bo tt om ,

DELTA- V c a t i g ni t ion , 2 .3 ; t ailo ff, 13.3. Goahe ad .

P LT 006. 7, 2 .3 , and 13.3.

CC Ro ger . Than_ y o u.

209 17 46 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 3 0 seconds from LOS;Asc ension a t 06: 4 2.

2 0 9 17 46 15 CDR Roger.

209 17 54 05 CC Skyl a b, Houston. Ascension for 9 minutes.

2 0 9 17 5h 33 CC S kylab, Houston. We're Ascens i on for 8 minute s .

209 17 55 56 CC S kyl a b, Houston. AOS Ascens i on for 7 minutes.

209 17 56 O0 CDR Loud and clear.

CC Roger. And I've got a TPI f i nal pad, page 1-15,when you c a n c op y.

CDR Houston, whenever you get back i n c o -, ,, I'll bere a dy to copy.

CC Okay. Ho w do you re a d me now, Al?

CDR Re a d you r e al good ...

CC Roger. Why don't I go ahea d and start? If Ihav e to rere a d any of it, I'll be glad t o .

Starting with NOUN 3 7: 00 7 , 16, 4 0 .5 7 ; plus 18.2,m_uu s 00 .7, mi nu s 0 8.7; plus 20.2 / 9 8,minus 0 0.8 / 04, plus 0 0.5 / 04; 006.7, 0 0 : 0 1; 001,01 0 , 3 57, 2. 3 , 1 3 .5. Go ahead.


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CDR 007, 16 , 40 . 57; plus 18 . 2, minus 00 . 7 , minus 08 . 7;plus 20.2 / 98, mi n us 00.8 / 04, plus 00.5 / 04 ; 006.7,0 0:0 1 ; 0 0 1 , 01 0, 3 57, 2. 3 , 13 .5 .

209 17 57 56 CC Roger, CDI - CDR. Good readback.

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20 9 18 O 0 18 CC S kylab, H o u s t on. We'v e l oo ked at all T M. Y o u'relook i ng real good. You're GO for TPI.

CDR Okay. The s oluti o n s lo o k pretty good up heretoo, Dick. Th a n k s .

CC Roger.

CDR I noticed th a t you came to our t l me, wh i ch isokay. Wh i ch is good.

CC Roger th a t.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about h5 sec o nds from

LOS. We'll wee you at Carnarvon at 07:lb.

209 18 0 2 lO CDR Okay.

209 18 2 6 26 CC Skylab, Houston; we're a t Carnarvon forl0 minutes. We've got good data; we'll wa tch

you do the burn. An d after you're squareda way after the burn, I've got a couple of thingsto talk a bout. But we're sta n d i ng by:

CDR Okay.

CDR We can see i t as a nice little blinking l i ght,right out i n front of us.

CC Roger, A1.

20 9 18 28 18 CC Skylab, Houston. If you called, I d i dn't getit. Say again.

CDR We d idn't call. But TPI went off o kay, a ndwe're o n the wa y.

CC Roger.

PLT Dick, where are the TV pass times, pleas e ?

CC Roger. I got them right here, if you'd like to

cop y, Ja ck.

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CC Ro ger. G ol dst on e AOS i n 7 h ou r s 5 3 mi nu te s an d30 s e c o nd s , 7:5 3:30 ; an d MLA LOS i s 8 :00:09.

PLT I've got t h em, Dick; t h ank y o u.

CC And, PLT; Houston. One correction on the - that

MLA time I gave you was an AOS, not a LOS. I'dlike to correct that. The correct number for

LOS is 8:10:13, 8: 10: 13.

PLT Okay, Dick ; thank you.

209 18 32 25 CC Skylab, Houston. I think you're through withyour first short data point. If you are, we've

still got about 3 minutes left in this pass.And some time I've got a couple of notes I'd

like to read to you about - we'd like to clean

up t he r e s t o f t he Rende zvous Book wit h r e spe c tto this quad checklist changes. And also a dockedDAP thing I'd like to give you.

CDR Okay, just a second.

CC Roger. Any time.

CDR Okay, go ahe a d, Houst o n .

2 09 18 33 07 CC Ro ger. First of all, on the configuration forthe docked - docked DAP, we'd like for you to

load, at your nex t best opportunity through -via VERB 44 ENTER; r e gis t e r l , l l 011; r e gis t e r 2,00346; and register 3, four balls 3. Over.

CDR Roger. ii011, 00346, 0 0 0 03 .

CC Roger, Alan. I have two small checklist changes.

The first one is on page 1-16 in the Rendezvous

Book. On t he p r e - br a king swit c h l is t , de le t e there f e r e nc e t o your AUTO RCS S ELECT swit che s . We 'vea l r e a dy t a lke d a bout t he c onf igur a t ion t ha t we 'l lhave there. And the second one is over on page1 - 17.

CDR Go ahead.


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2 0 9 18 3 4 1 3 CC Rog e r . On 1-17, down th e re in the bottom right-hand c o r ne r in the se c t ion c a l l e d "Af t e r ha r d

dock," on the right-hand side ab o ut 2 / 3 of theway down, there's a list of auto RCX - auto RCS

selects to b e turned off. I'd like to deletethrusters Alf a 1 and Delta 2 fr o m that list tobe t ur ne d o f f .

209 18 3 4 3 5 CDR Okay, th e n that l e av e s Alfa 3 , Charli e 4, Bravo 3 ,a nd D e l t a 4.

CC That's affirm. And be advised over the ev e ningand next couple of days, we'r e going to go throughall of the ch e cklists from her e for the mission.

And I'll get you a message up as to what corrections

we'd like for the trim burns and so forth, but

this ought to take care of us for tonight.

CDR Okay.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from

LOS at Carnarvon. We're going to drop out about

3 minutes, and I'll call you at Guam.

209 18 3 6 00 CDR Rog e r.

209 18 3 9 0 3 CC Skylab, Houston. Standing by at G,,_ for

lO minut es .

CDR Rog e r.

CDR Houston, Skylab.

CC Go ahead .

209 18 41 3 _ CDR In order to g e t this up / down thrust, I'v e gotto put D ROLL, ON. And I assume you want me

to put D1 and D2 in MAIN B. Is that correct?

CC Rog e r. Stand by and let m e look back and makesur e t ha t 's whe r e we wa nt i t .


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CDR Yes, b e c a u s e s ee, I hav e - I've h ad t h em OFF,t h e B / D ROLL's OFF all the time. But i n order

to get th i s - -

CC CDR, affirmative. D1 and D2 to MAIN Bravo.

CDR Okay, I think we're configured properly no w.Thank you.

CC Okay.

CDR And we can see the - You just turn off thet r ac king l ight s, H ous t on?

CC Stand by, A1; I'll check.

209 18 43 2B CC Skylab, Houston. Affirmative. We did Just

t ur n of f t he t r a c king l ight s .

CDR Okay, things are looking good.

CC Roger.

CDR And we Just loaded your docked DAP load,Houston.

CC Roger. Thank you, A1.

209 18 45 42 PLT And, Dick, Just for the record, TPI charts giveus a X of plus 16.1 and a Z of a minus 7.3.

CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.

209 18 47 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from

LOS here at Guam. Goldstone at 7:53. Be

advised that while you're on your way up to

the SWS today, we did have a rate gyro redundancyma nage me nt f a i lur e in t he Y- axis o f t he S WS .

We 'r e p r e se nt ly conf igure d in Y- 1 only, in t heY-axil. We will be in that configuration atdoc king. We l l , t ha t 's t he only dif f e r e nc e f r omthe nominal as far as docking goes. We will

be in ATT HOLD mode when you get there.

CDR Okay. Sounds good, Dick.


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CC Ro ger .

209 18 148 31 CC And, Skylab; Houston. Incidentally, the reasonthat c_11 is coming up to you a little bit late

is because it Just happened v ithin the last 20 or30 minut es.

CDR No strain.

CC Roger. See you at Goldstone.

CDR Go t an a wful b i g midc o ur s e .

CC Roger.

209 19 0 4 3 5 CC S kylab, Houston. We're AO S Goldstone.

CDR Okay.

CDR S hould have some TV down there, Dick.

CC Roger. We can see i t try i ng to lock up, but i t'snot - don't have a p i cture yet.

PLT We're looking at the u n ders i de of it no w, D i ck,which is the S 149 out the end of our solar airlockand we can also see the par a sol fl a pping in thebreeze .

CC Roger . We have a good picture a nd we're looking

at i t.

SPT Ok a y, Dick, we're z oom ed a ll t h e way o ut n ow .

CC Roger.

PLT Looking right in the wardroom window. Nobody 'shome.

209 19 06 18 CC Roger. But you will b e .

SPT Dick, i s there anyt h ing I can d o t o t h at pictu r eto touch it up? We don't have the Earth in the

b a ckgr o und yet, b u t a s i d e fr om t h at doe s it l oo kl ike i t ne e ds a ny f ocus o r a nyt hing?


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209 19 06 37 CC Roger. The picture looks pretty good. We are -

Just about the bottom half of the picture seemsto be blocked out by the bottom half I guess it

is o f the window s t r uc t ur e , but t he p ic t ure it s e l flooks pretty good. Maybe it - may it is the zoomse t t ing you have .

PLT Yes, I noticed that all the way in. I haven't

been able to get rid of it.

CC Okay. Well, the picture we do have, which is about

the top 60 percent of the screen, is pretty good.

209 19 07 21 CC And, Skylab; Houston. Request you switch QUADD e l t a t o t he PS M.

PLT Roger.

PLT I don't know the reason for the deal on the bottom

there, Dick. Can't seem to get that out of there.

CC PLT, Houston. INCO suggests that the color wheel

might be stuck. You might take the camera and

Just shake it. Don' knock it around hard but Just

kind of Jostle it on the bracket and possiblythat'd get rid of it. But we do have a good pic-ture in the portion that we see.

209 19 08 16 PLT We got a TEMP HIGH on RCS A, Houston.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. G&C reminds us that the same

thing happened on 2 - that during this phase we

did get hot quads and it was on A. So Just

an eye on it, and so will we.

PLT Roger.

209 19 09 05 PLT Dick, I'm going to take the camera loose, try the

handholds, see if we can do better, and Owen willge t some a bst r a c t shot s .

CDR Which flight are we on?

CC Roger, Jack.


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209 19 09 58 PLT Okay, Dick, that half moon in the bottom of the

p ic t ur e is a f unc t ion o f some t hing be s ides thewindow.

CC Roger. We Just came to the same conclusion, Jack

and INC0 suggests cycling the PO WER - TV CAMERAPOWER switch OFF and then back ON again.

PLT You mean S-BAND AUX TV?

CC That affirm. That 's affirmative. Excuse me.

209 19 l0 53 PLT Here's our home in the sky, Dick.

CC Roger; we're handing over at the moment and we'll

get TV back in a second.

209 19 12 3 3 CC Skylab, Houston. We got o u r picture back now.We can see the Earth in the background and ap-

p a re nt ly t he c yc l ing swit c h didn 't he lp so we 'l lp r oba bly l ive wit h wha t we ha ve .

SPT Well, the old p a rasol there, Dick, is really blow-ing in the breeze. Looks like about a 10- or 15-knot

gale every time the thrusters fire in Just a

ve ry gent le f lya r ound he re .

CC Roger. We were watching that very thing then.

SPT A1 thinks he'll probably knock off the flyaround

at this point to avoid blowing that parasol aw a y.

CC I think that's certainly your call and looks likewe conc ur.

2 09 19 13 30 SP T You ca n t ell th a t the Jets h a ve fo r ced the p a r a solup a g ai nst t h e si d e - the shin y s urfa c e o f t h eworkshop as we fly arou n d and then it's the recoilfrom th e springs - the fishing rods th a t springit b a ck out.

CC Roger, Ow_n. We cert a inly concur. We thi n k that'd

be a pru d ent thing to do.

SPT Y o u can see it flopping t h ere in t h e bre e ze.

CDR In f a ct we've blow n it a little bit more than

we'd l ike to t o tell y o u the truth. We'll try


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to drift off to the side a little bit and then

ma ybe we c a n p r eve nt hit t ing i t .

209 19 l_ 09 CC Roger, CDR. Concur with that.

CDR As you can probably also tell, it appears to be

rotated by about the 5 to l0 degrees as expected.

CC Roger.

209 19 14 49 CDR The problem is, we're trying to slide around to

the front of it, and every time we fire aft

t hr us t e r s , whic h move us t ha t d ir e c t io n, i t t e ndsto get under the front edge of the Sun, shade.We'll try to Just drift a little bit longer.

CC Roger, CDR.

209 19 15 35 CDR We're drifting away the best we can. I'd like to

turn a little bit to the left and show it to you

better, but every time I start to turn that way,

it gives the parasol a flip, up at the front.

CC Roger, CDR. Do what you think is best to avoid

as much blowing of the parasol as you can. We'll

do wit hout t he p ic tur e .

PLT Got any more suggestions on how to get the half

moon out of t he p ic t ur e , D ic k?

CC PLT, the only other suggestion that we had wasthat you might try taking the lens off the cameraand trying to turn the color wheel with your fin-ge r , but t ha t 's about our l a s t cho ic e he r e .

209 19 17 00 PLT The focus and the lighting looks pretty good uphere. How's it look down there?

CC It's been looking real good, Jack.

PLT Okay.

PLT How much daylight we got left, Dick?


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CC Skylab, you've got about 23-1 / 2 minutes of day-light, and sunset time for you, if you'd like to

Jot it down, is 8 plus 30.

PLT Okay.

209 19 18 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We've taken a look at both theCSM and the SWS; they both look good. You're GO

for docking. We're about 2 minutes from LOS at

Bermuda. We expect to be at Carnarvon at about

8:52, so we'll see you ther e . At - Prob a bly atthe Carnarvon pass or Sl,a m following that, I dohave some changes for you in the "No comm" section

of the Entry Checklist. So after you get docked

and squared aw a y, it's in locker R-1. You mightget that out, and I'll get that out of the way.

You're GO for docking. We're about a minute and

a half from LOS.

CDR Roger.

209 19 19 h3 CC And, CDR; Houston. Suggest you go a head and got o PO0.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOI CE TRAN SC RIPTION

209 20 03 46 CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for 7 minutes.

209 20 04 17 CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for 6 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston at Carnarvon. How do you read?

209 20 05 36 CC Skylab, Houston at Carnarvon. How do you read?

209 20 06 08 CC Skylab, Houston at Carnarvon for 4-1 / 2 minutes.

209 20 06 50 CC Skylab, Houston at Carnarvon for 4 minutes.

209 20 06 55 CDR Roger. How do you hear now, Dick?

CC Roger. Loud a n d clear now.

CDR Okay. We're docked. That went real well. The

t unne l p r e ssur e int e gr i t y c he c k wor ke d f ine . Wehave not removed the hatch yet and we're havinga snack, and then we're going to get after it.

CC Roger, CDR; a nd we'd like ACCEPT on the computer.We've got some CMC servicing to do.

CDR Ok ay.

CC And also some commanding to the SWS attitude

control s ystem, loading some dock g a ins and soforth. And I have two checklists or changes in -

S t a nd by i .

209 20 0 7 3 9 CC S ky l ab, Houst on . Re q ue s t A CCEPT. I' m s o rry, Isee that you do have it. And I'v e got cha n ges -o n e change in the Activati o n Checklist and a

couple of changes in the Entry Ch e cklist if youhappen to have that book out, and that' s ali thecheckli s t change s I have in front o f me no w.

209 20 08 00 CDR Okay, go a head on the Activation. I've g o t o neo f tho s e in front o f m e .

CC Okay, A1. If you'll turn to page 1- 3 .

CDR Okay, we're there.


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CC Okay. Down there in the - under CSM / RCS pr o pel -le n t reconfiguration in the lower right-hand c o l-,rmn, you want to - that quad Bravo entry shouldread, "Quad Br a vo, CLOSE; T-Ikback s , t wo of themt o ba r be r p ole , ve r if y."

CDR Okay.

209 20 08 45 CDR Okay. Just a second. We have the Entry booknow, H oust on.

CC 0kay_ in the Entry Checklist, first on page ll-1,

i f you'l l t ur n ha c k t o the r e .

CDR Okay. Go ahead.

CC Roger. That block data pad that's written in

there on ll-l, the one for day 210, you should

Just delete that whole pad. It turns out that

it covers a period that's about 5 or 6 hours

from now. We won't need it, plus there's some

ve r y ha d we a t he r in t ha t a r e a , a p oss ibl e hur r i -cane brewing. So we'd Just like to delete that.

And the next change is on page E / ll-10.

209 20 09 _0 CDR Okay, we made the change and we're standing byon l l - 10.

CC Okay. The next to the bottom entry, delete the

words in there that say, "Load NOUN 47 and NOUN _8

f r om de o r bit bur n p a d." Inc ide nt a l l y, t he se Ent r yChe c kl is t c ha nge s , A1, should ha ve be e n - t he y'r ein the NO COX section and they should have been

made preflight. We missed them and I Just - we

Jus t wa nte d to ge t the m up da te d whe n we c ould .We 'r e a bout -

CDR Okay.

CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS here at Carnarvon.

Guam is coming up at 09:07, and I'll get the last

t wo c ha nge s in t he Ent r y book t he r e .

209 20 i0 25 CDR Okay, could you give us GMT time hack roughly,r ight now?

CC Roger. The CMC is on GMT and the time now is

20 hour s l0 minut e s a nd B5 se c onds .


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CDR Thank you.

CC Roger.

2 09 20 17 41 CC Skylab, Houston. Gua m for 6 minutes.

PLT Okay, Houston. We've got the BAT A cha r ge goingand the secondary water bl o wer drying out. Wet ur ne d o f f t he p r lmA_ y, we l l be f o r e we doc ked,Just like in the checklist, but it is

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