Prepared by
Test Division
This document is the transcription of the technical air-to-ground
(TAG) voice communications of the Skylab 1 /2 mission. The transcript is
divided into three col1_mns -- time, speaker, and text. The time coD n, n
consists of three two-digit pairs for hours, minutes, and seconds (e.g.,
22 h5 12). All times are expressed in Greenwich mean time (GMT) for the
Julian dates shown as the first three numbers of the TAG t ape identifi-
cation. The speaker columu indicates the source of a transmission; the
text column contains the verbatim transcript of the communications.
A series of three dots (...) is use to designate those portions of
the text that could not be transcribed because of garbling. One dash (-)
is used to indicate a speaker's pause or a self-interruption and subse-
quent completion of a thought. Two dashes (- -) are used to indicate an
interruption by another speaker or the point at which a recording was
abruptly termi nated. Words gi ven unusual emphasi s by the speaker are
underlined.
The Skylab 1 mission began with lift-o f of the orbit al works op at
17:30:00 GMT (12:B0:00 c.d.t.) on May 14. Because of damage to the solar
array system of the workshop during max q-alpha, the lift-off of Skylab 2
was delayed until 13:00:00 GMT (08:00:00 c.d.t.) on May 25. The Skylab 2
crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at B:49:48 GMT (08:49:48 c.d.t.)
on June 29, 1973.
Speakers i n the transcri pt may be i denti fi ed as follows.
Spacecraft:
PLT Pilot PaulJ.Weitz
CREW Uni denti fi ed crewmember
MS Multiple speakers
CC Capsulecommunicator(CAPC0_4)
MCC Unidentifiedspeaker,otherthan
_ ControlRoomora StaffSupport
AA Unidentifiedtation
CT Communicationsechnician
(CO_ _CH)
ELS EarthLandingSystemteam
REC Recoveryhelicopter
TICO USSTICONDEROGA
When any crewman is engaged in extravehic ular activity (EVA), his
speaker designation is suffixed by EVA to indicate his statu (e.g.,
CDR-EVA).
Transcri pti on of these tapes was managed by Wi lli am A. Kelley, Test
Di vi si on, Program Operati ons Offi ce, to who i nqui res regardi ng thi s docu-
ment should be referred.
 
THIS IS THE EDITED VERSION OF THE C[[ANNEL 8 COMMI.N[CATIONS. RAW
MEDICAL DATA HAS BEE': DELETED.
NASA has never pubh ly released raw medical data from manned spac
fligfits, Medical d_ta obtaine_ on Sk-ylab missions is proprier_ory to the principal
investigators involved in the p_r_cular experiments involved. Fragments of raw
medical data have no intrinsic ,tiagnostic value until compared and colla ed with
preflight and posfflighr medical irfformation,
The medical experimen_ PI's will meet weekly to di cuss their data and
briefings to-the press v,i[1 be sche uled after these meetings,
NASA will continue to regularly report on the general health and well-
being of the Skylab fti_ht crew,
 
13 O0 04 CDR LIFT-OFF. And the clock is running.
13 00 ii CDH Clear the tower. And,_Houston; Skylab 2. We fix
anything. Got a pitch and a roll program.
CC Roger, Skylab 2. The thrust is GO on all engines.
SPT Boy, is that a smooth ridel
CC Roger.
CC Roger. Standby for Mode I Bravo.
13 01 01 CC MARK. Mode I Bravo.
CDR Roger. P OPELLANT DUMP is RCS COMMAND.
P_ CC Roger.
13 01 ll CC Skylab, Houston; you are feet wet.
CDR Roger. Feet wet.
CDR Okay. EDS AUTO 2 ENGINE OUT. LAUNCH VEHICLE RATES
are all OFF.
13 01 50 CC MARK. You're Mode I Charlie.
CDR I Charlie.
looki ng good.
13 02 28 CDR I got an SIVB light, Houston, and a nice staging.
CC Roger that.
 
CC Roger. Tower Jettison. You're Mode II.
CDR Okay, Houston. The computer looks good here.
CC Roger. We concur. The CMC is GO.
CC Skylab, Houston. Looking good. GO at 4 minutes.
CDR And we're GO here, Houston.
1B 05 9 CC Skylab, Houston. You're GO at 5 minutes. The
traJectory's ri ght on the nomi nal.
CDR And we're GO here, Houston. Looks good in here.
CC Roger.
1B 06 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. You're GO at 6 minutes.
PLT Roger. We're GO up here.
CC Roger.
CDR Omni Charlie for you, Houston. Stand by for the
gi mbal motors at 7.
CC Roger.
1B 07 O1 CC Skylab, Houston. We're GO at 7 minutes.
CDR Okay, Houston. Four good gimbal motors And we're
GO at 7.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Hey, did we Just have - did we Just have PU shift,
Houston?
IB 08 06 CC Roger. We concur, and you're GO at 8 minutes.
CDR Okay.
 
CC That 's affirm.
13 09 01 CC Skylab, Houston. You're GO at R minutes.
CDR Okay. We're GO here.
CC Stand by for Mode III Alfa.
13 09 23 CC MARK. You're Mode III Alfa.
CDR III Alfa.
13 09 32 CC MARK. You're Mode IV.
CDR Mode IV.
13 09 50 CDR Got a perfect shutdown, Houston; 25, 825.
CC Roger.Copy.
CC Roger. Looks good. Stand by.
13 l0 36 CC Skylab, Houston; we confirm you're GO for you're
in a nominal orbit and you're cleared for a nominal
sep - separati on sequence.
CDR Roger, Houston. Thank you.
13 16 37 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we don't have ARIA data,
and could you give us an idea of how the separation
went?
13 17 00 CDR Also, Houston, it - it read about 2.3 feet per second
on separation and - and 3._ on the C MC.
CC Roger; copy. 2.3 feet per second on the EMS; CMC
read 3.4.
anything pri r to giving me those two numbers, I
did not g t it.
/
 
13 18 17 CDR Hello, Houston. How do you read?
CC CDR, Houston. I read you now. How me?
CDR Read you loud and clear. We've got a good look at
the booster, and you've got four perfectly deployed
SLA panels. No sweat.
13 18 31 CC Roger. Thank you much.
13 19 53 CC And, Skylab; Houston. We've got you AOS in Mad rid
now. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
13 20 58 PLT Hello, Houston. You read the PLT?
CC PLT, Houston. I read you loud and clear. How me?
PLT Roger. We've been reading y u loud and clear.
Apparently you are not readi ng the CDR.
CC Okay, I'm reading you loud and clear and be advised
that the NC1 pad, the T-align pad, and the backup -
correcti on, the backup GDC ali gn pad, the launch
rendezvous realign pad, and the NC1 pad are all goo .
N o update requi red.
PLT Okay; all good. Did you get the dope on the separa-
tion from the SIV?
CC Paul, what I got was - was the two numbers: the 3 -
the 2.3 and the 3.4 feet per second. I copied that
the SLA panels are all deployed okay, and I didn't
get anythi ng else.
13 21 39 PLT ... we're Just watching it opening slowly here.
You got a very stable SIV.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, Housto . How - how do you read me, Houston?
You read the CDR?
and clear.
13 21 5_ CDR Okay. I guess we're coming up over Europe here.
I never seen so m_uy contrails in my life down there.
CC I trust you're higher than all of them.
CDR I hope so.
IB 22 B9 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS
and Madrid, and we'll see you t the ARIA at 52.
1B 22 46 CDR Okay, H uston. And be advised we're Just climbing
slowly above the SIVB, out in front of him, and he's
very stable. And it's no sweat on those SLA panels.
1B 22 58 CC Roger; copy. Thank you.
CDR And do you read, Houston?
CC Affirmative. Go ahead.
1B 2B 12 CDR Okay, we're Just dumping the cabin to 4 now.
CC Roger; copy.
13 51 B8 CC Skylab, Houston; through the ARIA. How do you read
13 52 1B CC Skylab, Houston; throu h the ARIA for 9 minutes.
How do you read?
Carnarvon?
CDR You're breaking up, Houston.
CC Roger, CDR. I hear a lot of static, also, and
we are up-li nki ng through ARIA.
CDR We read you loud and clear. We're on the time
llne; we'll give you all the data at Carnarvon.
1B 52 46 CC Roger, P te. I can hear you transmitting, but
I Just can't make it out. We're kind of garbled.
by
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CDR Okay, Houston. I said I read you now, we're on
the time line, I'ii give you all the data at
Carnarvon.
CC Rog - Roger. e concur and I'm standing by.
13 54 44 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read now?
13 55 20 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read now?
CDR Houston, we read you loud and clear. How me?
CC Roger. Loud and clear now, Pete. And I'm standing
by for the data.
CDR Okay. Our first 52 was with star 25 and 33.
The Doctor did a magnificent Job with a nominal 5
of five balls. The torquing ang - the - the
torques were mi nus 00.010, plus 00.071,
plus 00.056. The time 50:00. We have Just completed
P52, option 2. The stars were 25 and 3B. Ag ain,
the Doctor did his usual magnifi cent job, and he
has the five balls again. And the NOUN 93's were
plus 000.60, plus 000.75, plus 00.059. The time
54:30. And it looks like we're right on the
ti me li ne.
13 56 23 CC Hey, very good, Pete. Sounds good. Incidentally,
we think the little comm problem we had with you
back there at Madrid was a ground problem; so we
thi nk your systems are all okay.
CDR Okay, and the PLT has a few words for you ...
CC Roger. Go ahead, PLT.
PLT Okay, Dick. The only thing was we pumped the
pri mary glycol accumulator up to about 50 percent.
When we put the radiators back on the line,
apparently one of them needed some flui d, because
the glycol .....
li ne." What happened?
 
you read?
CDR We read you through the ARIA, Houston. Once we ...
comm ... too good today.
agai n once more, please.
CDR Okay, Houston. How do you read? l, 2, 3, h, 5, 4,
3, 2, i.
CC Roger, CDR. That time I copied you weak but clear.
This - this comm through this pass though is very
bad. Be advised we expect AOS at Texas t about 1
plus 34.
CDR Okay. We' ii see you then.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. One little co mment we had on
the waste water dump checklist that you may be in
now. In the event, any time that you do happen to
dump through zero - down to zero - if you do, we'd
like you to deactivate the evaporator for about
30 mi nutes.
CDR Okay. Understand.
END OF TAPE
SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
14 33 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Texas for 5-1 /2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at exas for 5 minutes.
CC Slylab, Houston. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
CDR Houston, we read you loud and clear. ow us?
CC Loud and clear, Pete. Be advised, we do not need the
P52, and I've got a couple of pads, and before the pass
is over, we'd like for the PLT to amplify the remarks
u
CC Okay. Here's an NC1 preliminary ad, page 1-5.
CDR Go ahead.
CC 002, 23, 30.14; plus 207.4, plus all zeros, plus al
zeros; 180, 009, 002; 194.0, 00:09. The weight is
30,852; pitch trim, plus 107, plus 0.35. Go ahead.
And, Skylab; Houston. We'd like you to stop the cabin
repress, we're hi gh enough.
CDR Okay, that's what - Joe was crawling all over me and I
was batti ng hi m away.
CC (Laughter) Okay. An I'm standing by for a readback.
CDR Okay. 02, 23, 30.14; plus 207.4, plus all balls,
plus all balls; plus 180, 009, 002; 19h.0, 00:09;
30,852; plus 07, plus 0.35.
CC That's ffirm, and the burn attitude check is star 33.
CDR Star 33.
CC Roger. Shaft is 0740, trunnion, 258. This'll be a
dual bank SPS burn. And be advised, there's no plane
change requi red.
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CDR Whoopee !
CC And, I've got a star acquisition pad for you on
page l-Alfa.
CC Roger. Star 25; 228.3, 29.2; 33; 074.0, 25.8. Go
ahead.
CDR Star 25; 228.3, 29.2; star 33; 07h.0 and 25.8.
CC Roger. You got that right. We're about i minute from
LOS at Texas. We're going to have a short break and
then we'll see you at Newfoundland, VHF voice only.
CDR Okay.
SPT Also, be advised, Houston, we've r ad about your first
five calls, Dick, and you weren't reading us again for
some reas n.
CC Roger ; understand.
SPT I'll ta]k to you about the ECS at Newfoundland. Just
two things of general interest. We're having a whole
lot of fun with a]] this brown cord up here; and, sec-
ondly, we can see the SIVB out ahead of us, and it
really makes a plume when it vents.
CC Roger; copy.
CDR I guess we're coming up n the Mississippi River right
now; I can still see a lot of flooding down there and
everything.
CC Roger ; understand.
13 48 42 CDR Okay, look. We're on the time line, except for one
thing. We have not gotten to the waste water vent
bec use of the big blivet [sic] in front of the panel,
and that is what we are reconfiguring right now
(chuckle), and Dr. Kerwin is wrestling the big blivet
free and ...
 
you read?
CDR ... you.
CC I heard you Just a second, Pete. Try again, ple se.
CDR Okay, how do you read? i, 2, 3, h.
CC Roger. You're dropping down in strength, but I think
I can copy you. And we're looking for EMS DELTA-V
test results, if you've got them fo r us.
CDR Okay. I have a little note here to give them to you.
Our bias was plus 1.2 feet per second in 1 minute and
40 seconds. Just to keep me honest, it went from
minus 100 to minus 98.8. It passed the other check
Just fine. On the long burn, it looks like we'll bias
at 2-1/2 feet per second.
CC Roger, Pete. Would you say that last again, please.
CDR I say it looks like we need to bias our big burn ...,
but it won't make any difference. Break on that one.
We had a good BMAG-2 drift check. If you're ready
to copy the numbers, I'll give them to you.
CC Go ahead.
14 45 20 CDR Okay. NOUN 20 was 180.44, 213.63, 35999. The atti-
tude set thumbwheels were 181.5, 215.5, and 000.2,
and the length of time was 33 minutes.
CC Roger, Pete. On the EMS DELTA-B test results - at
that time, it was very weak. Let me read them back
to you real fast to make sure I got them right. It
was plus 1.2 feet per second and 1 minute and 40 sec-
onds and it went from minus i00 to minus 98.8 and the
rest of the check went okay.
14 45 50 CDR That's affirmative. And we have completed everything
on the time line. And we are in the process of dump-
ing the waste water at this time. We're well into ...
we've ... is Weitz. We're head over heels in all kinds
ofpackages.
enjoyi ng the zero g?
CDR Everybody up here is enjoying the zero g super, and
we're standing by for your up-link at Madrid.
CC Roger. Very good. We've still got about B minutes
left and, if the PLT has the time, he might amplify
on the glycol accumulator.
PLT Okay here's what it was, Dick. We serviced the -
brought the glycol accumulated quanti ty up to 50 per-
cent - 50 percent. When we put the radiators back on
the line we got - obviously at least one of the radi-
ators took a big slug of fluid. We dropped pressure.
We dropped quantity. We got a GLYCOL FLOW LOW light
momentari ly. The quanti ty stabi li zed at about 40 per-
cent. We've been watching it since. On the night
side, apparently as the fluid cooled and got on down
to about 37 or B8 percent and is now back up to _l.
CC Roger. Thank you much. I copy that.
PLT The main thing is that it appears to not be a leak in
there; we Just didn't expect that big slug to go.
CC Roger. We copy, Paul.
CC And, PLT; Houston. Our initial thoughts are that we
think we're stabili zed and have got a good system,
but we're conti nui ng to thi nk about i t.
CDR Okay. Roger.
PLT Yes, we agree with you. But what we want to do is
get your concurrence on that before we service it
again to bring it up to 50 to 55 for the SEVA.
CDR Yes.
CC Okay. Real fine. We'll think about it.
CDR ... we're watching the SIVB out there in front of us
vent - at least I presume it's the SIVB out there in
front of us venti ng.
 
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CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. W 're about to have LOS here at
Newfoundland. We'll have a short break and see you
at M adri d.
CDR Okay, sir. And be advised we're loading the DAP now
wi th your wei ght constrai nts.
14 49 37 CC Okay.
14 52 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 5-1 /2 minutes.
How do you read?
CDR Hi, Houston. Rea you loud and clear. Standing by
for your up-li nk.
CC Roger. Stand by.
CDR Okay.
CC Roger, Pete. Go ahead to ACCEPT. And as soon as we
have good data, we'll go ahead and up-link.
14 53 04 CDR You're in ACCEPT P20.
CC Okay, and I've got an NC1 final pad for you, page 1-5.
CDR I'm ready to copy.
CC Okay. 002, 23, 37.35; plus 206.3, plus four balls,
plus four balls; 180, 009, 002; 193.0, 00:09. All t e
rest of the remarks are the same as the preliminary
pad. Go ahead.
CDR 002, 23, 37.B5; plus 206.3, plus all balls, plus all
balls, 180, 009, 002_ 193.0, 00:09, and it's dual bank,
and the rest of the remarks are the same.
14 54 14 CC Roger. That's correct.
14 55 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're ready to terminate the waste
water dump, and we believe that the second 02 purge
has been accomplished Wonder if you could verify
that for us?
CC Roger. Thank you much.
CC CDR, Houston. You vectors are in, and you can go
back to BLOCK.
14 56 51 CDR Roger. Back to BLOCK and standing by for the old NC1.
! CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS here
at Madrid. We're goingto see you at ARIA 2 plus 27.
The bird looks as good to us down here as it does to
you. You're GO for NC1.
CDR Roger. GO for NC1, and that's super.
CC Roger.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We've taken a look; you have a
concurrence with us. You're GO to reservice a coolant
lo p any time you want.
CDR Okay. Thanks, Dick.
14 57 59 CC Roger.
15 27 56 CC Skylab, Houston through ARIA. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston thro gh ARIA for the next - for the
next 9 minutes. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston thro gh ARIA. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston thro gh ARIA. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston thro gh ARIA. How do you read?
15 30 23 CDR Hello, Houston. Read you loud and clear. How me?
CC Roger. I read you kind of weak, and we've got a lot
of background static, Pete, but I can hear you. Go
ahead.
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CDR Okay, Houston. We had a nominal burn on time. DELTA-V
C
read minus 15.1. The burn attitude was what we trimmed
at .... minus 0.2, 85 plus 0.2 reaching plus 0.1. Do
you read that?
CC Roger. I copied the DELTA-V C minus 15.1, and your
tr_ on attitude were minus 0.2, plus ._, and
plus 0.1. Is that right?
CDR ... was plus three zeros.
CC Roger. I copied plus 0.2 on - on the first one.
CDR ... R, P, Y.
CC Okay. Let me see if I got them right this time, now,
Pete. Minus 0.2, plus 0.2, and plus 0.1.
CDR hat's right. You're comin in a little better. We
Just completed a P52 option 2. Do you want that?
CC Affirmative. Go ahead.
CDR I have the option. How do yo read, Houston?
CC Skylab, Houston. I can hear you, but I've got a lot
of background static. But I can copy you. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, P52 option 3, star 25, star 33; 105 all balls;
plus four ba]ls 9, plus three balls 66, plus three
balls 50. The time 02:29:00.
CC CDR, Houston. I got everything but the time. Say
the ti me agai n, please.
CDR 02 plus 29 plus 00.
CC Roger. Copied it all. Thank you.
CC And, CDR; Houston.
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CC Roger, Pete. You know a couple days ago, I told yo
that we were going to be passing up sunrise-sunset
times for you for when - around the flyaround and SEVA
time. Be advised the sunrise-sunsets that you see in
the Launch Checklist in the Flight Plan are accurate
today. I you don't want them to the nearest second,
I'll Just let it go at that. Over.
CDR That's okay; Just let them go. We'll ask you if we
need them.
15 33 39 CC Okay; real fine. We've still got about 4 minutes
left in this pass, and I'm standing by.
15 37 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS at
ARIA. We're going to see you at Goldstone at 03:04.
CDR Okay, Houston. And be advised that we're on the time
line. It's because we do not have an NP6. We have
2 more hours to get organized and we're in very good
shape, and we are in the process of getting ready to
eat ...
END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
16 04 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Goldstone for the
next 9 mi nutes.
CDR (Laughter) Roger, Houston. How do you read?
CC I read you loud, Pete. There was a squeal in the
background. Now, try agai n, please.
CDR The squeal in the background is the PLT (laughter)
... and the SPT eating lunch (laughter). He tried
to eat his ... mike along with his sandwich, and it
was too hard for him to get down.
PLT I told him we were - -
CDR Okay, we got our fuel cell purge off on ime, and
we are enjoying, in fact, a very nice meal.
CC Very good.
CDR Most of our stowage is reconfigured. We have a little
bit ore to do, but I figure we have more than
adequate time, and we'll be in very good shape. I
guess we have not got the TV out, because we left
TV cameras - we had to do so much shuffling down below
to get into the lockers, that we just didn't get
that out. Is there another station later on where
you might get a peek at it, because that's the next
thing we're going to do is rig cameras and TV after
lunch.
, CC Okay, Pete. Why don't you Just let us know when
you get it set up, and we'll set up a later pass if
we have the time. And also, Pete, I've got an NC2
preliminary pad, page 1-9, if you have time o copy
sometime during his pass. We've still got 7 minutes.
SC I'm ready to copy; go ahead.
CC Okay. 004, 41, 19.27; plus 043.7, plus four balls,
180, 189, 009; 030.3. 00:02. And I'm told I read
NOUN 22 yaw incorrectly. It should be 001. Over.
 
CDR Okay. 004, 41, 19.27 plus 043.7, all balls, 180,
189, 001; 030.3, 00:02.
CC That's affirm. The weight is 30,225; pitch trim,
plus 1.08; yaw trim, plus 026. And this wi l he a
si ngle-bank burn.
CC That's affirm.
DAP work, would you get us - give us ACCEPT? We'd
li ke to update pi pa bi as.
16 08 19 CDR You've got ACCEPT.
CC Thank you.
CDR It's all yours at P20.
CC Thank you. And also, Pete, we've got about 5 more
minutes left in this pass. We'd like to - since
we've had o many changes the last few days, there
is a couple or three remarks we'd like to visit with
you about, about the upcomi ng remai nder of the
rendezvous.
CC Okay. First one. Right after NCC, we think there'll
be - you're in a good attitude to go ahead and try
to acquire VHF lock-on - that's at about 5 plus 30,
to get a VHF ranging system check; no marks. And
be advised you probably will lose the lock-on some-
time after 5 plus 40.
CDR Okay, Dick, I got that noted in here.
CC Okay. Good. The next one is, and I think you're
already aware of thi s, take sextant marks pre-NSR,
whenever the SWS i s vi si ble, and our trajectory
data predicts that it should be visible until at least
NCC plus 12 mi nutes.
 
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CDR Wait a minute. It'll be visible from the NCC burn
for 12 inutes afterwards? Is that what you're say-
ing for NSR?
CC And, the last one, Pete, is - overnight we've done
some more thinking, and we've done some computer runs
about the VHF patterns on the SWS. And it t urns out
that you're going to get better VHF during the
terminal phase if we Just leave the vehicle in EGIL
speci al atti tude rather than goi ng to solar i nerti al.
And since that helps us out so much up at the
h a
in EG - will remain in EGIL special attitude, where
it is now, until about 7 plus 36, which is ove r Guam,
and then we'll roll left about 28 degrees to the fly-
around attitude, which will put both wing routes in
the Sun. And you will have VHF and sextant available
from TPI right on down to stationkeeping. Ove r.
CDR Okay. So for the fly-around, we'll be roll left 28
and pitch to whatever EGIL's pitch attitude is these
days. What, 50 degrees?
CC It's about 45 degrees today, Pete. And you can go
back to BLOCK.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. Do you still read me on the
VH F through Goldstone?
CDE That 's affirm.
CC Okay, we cut out for a second there. The current
EGIL special pitch attitude is about 45 degrees, and
you are correct. By the time you get there and for
the fly-around, it will be in the attitude we talked
about which is roll. So both wing routes are in the
Sun and pitched up about 45 degrees. Also, we need
a potable tank i nlet valve closed.
16 ll 49 PLT Okay, it's goi g to CLOSE.
CC Thank you.
CC He's listening right here.
CDR Tell him the butterscotch sure is good today on the
lunch.
CC Roger that.
16 16 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Bermuda for the next
9 mi nutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CDR Say, Houston; Skylab.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Whereabouts are we right now? What did we jus pass
over?
CC Well, you're just past - you're Just to the east of
the Great Lakes and above them. You're right at
about 50 degrees north lati tude.
CDR Oh, I - we passed over something that had a lot of
ice in it, some snow on the ground. We were trying
to figure out where we were.
CC Roger. I think it's called Canada.
CDR Well, its a fair hop for me. I've never been this far
north before.
CC Roger.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We still have about 8 minutes
left in this pass. If you guys have the launch
checklist still out, I got two or three corrections
back on the Flight Plan pages that are L-Echo. Over.
CDR Okay, Houston. He's handing it to me right now.
CC Okay, standing by.
CC Read you loud and clear now.
CDR Okay. l'm at SEVA L-Echo.
li sts perform class and panel confi gurati on and has
a bunch of exceptions. I'd like to -
CDR Yes.
CC - I'd like to add two exceptionsto that list. First
is on panel 3-25, CABIN PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE, two
of them to CL SE. We want - we do not want to
accomplish that. And the secon one is all the items
listed for panel 3-75. Over.
CDR Okay. Perform the CSM systems check 3-1 through 3-9
except. And, add to that list 3-25 CABIN PRESS RELIEF
VALVES, CLOSED. Do not do that. And, do not recon-
fi gure panel 3-75.
CC That's affirm. And now, I have one last one that we
would like you to do. This is an additional check
we would like you to accomplish on panel 399. The
AUX/GLYCOL EVAP IN TEMPERATURE VALVE to MAX. And,
that's listed on page S/3-10 of the Systems Checklist.
CDR ... It is VENT, now, is that correct?
CC You cut out for a second. Say again, please.
CDR You want us to put the valve, when we get to it, to
MAX and it's now in VENT. Is that correct?
 
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CC It says, I think, in the checklist, Pete, "as re-
quired." And we want it in MAX. And also be advised
all these changes are for this presleep period Just
fo thi s eveni ng.
CDR Understand.
CC Okay, real fine. We have about 4 minutes left in
this pass. Standing by.
CC And, CDR; Houston. In the event you have time to
get the TV out prior to Honeysuckle at 4 plus 10,
that's where we think we'd like to stick it in t e
Fli ght Plan.
CDR Stick what in the Flight Plan? TV?
16 20 40 CC That little TV check that we were - had set up in
there.
CC 0kay, real fine.
We'll see you at Canary at - after a very short
break.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're A0S through Canary for he
next 7 mi nutes.
CC Stand by 1.
the 0WS vector, and we'll catch the CSM vector at
Honeysuckle.
16 26 50 C R Okay. You've got ACCEPT.
CC And, CDR; Houston. The Honeysuckle pass is about
4 plus 10, and we'd like you either in P 0 or
P-20 so we can get that up-link in.
 
CC Roger.
C Very good.
can go back to BLOCK.
CDR Very good.
CC CDR, Houston. Be advised, looking at the data, we
expect that it's possi le sometime in the next few
minutes, you might get a caution and warning on
HIGH 02 FLOW, due to the purge configuration, but,
there's no problem with it. We're about i minute
from LOS at Honeysuckle, and we'll be there at
4 plus i0.
CDR Okay.
16 31 05 CC And, you're presently starting a very long pass over
Africa.
SC Okay.
17 l0 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Honeysuckle for the
next 8 mi nutes.
CC Skylab, Houst n. We're AOS at Honeysuckle for the
next 7 mi nutes.
CC Skylab, Houst n. We're AOS at Honeysuckle for the
next 6-1/2 minutes.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We need ACCEPT.
17 13 08 CC Skylab, Houston at Honeysuckle for 5-1 /2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Skylab. We're in P20. I'm ready to go to
ACCEPT. And, I have P52 data for you.
CC Roger, Pete. We do need ACCEPT, but we already have
copiedthe NOUN 93s off our data. And, I've got
three pads for you.
CDR Okay. I'm ready to copy.
CC Roger. First, is final pad for NC2 on page 1-9.
CDR Go ahead.
CC 004, 41, 19.24; plus 044.5, plus 4 balls, 180, 189,
001; 031.1, 00:02. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, 0h - 004, 41, 19.24; plus 0h4.5, plus all balls
180, 189, 001; the next one didn't make sense, but I
think you meant 0B0.1, 00:02. Is that correct?
CC Roger. DELTA-VC should be 031.1.
CDR Roger, 31.1.
CC Roger, that's affirm. And the remarks are same as
the preliminary pad. The next one I ve got is a
preliminary NCC pad which is on page 1-11.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. 005, 27, 26 10; plus 038.7, plus 007.3, plus
001.0; 180, 007, 012; 026.0. The weight, 30,090; and
the trims are plus 1.08; and plus 0.24. Go ahead.
CDR 005, 27, 26.10; plus 038.7, plus 007.3, plus 001.0;
180, 007, 012; 026.0. And, the weight, 30,090; pitch
trim plus 1.08; yaw trim, plus 0.24.
CC Roger. That's a good readback. I got a preliminary
NSR on 1-12.
CDR Go ahead.
CC 981, plus 016.7, plus 004.6, minus 004.2; 177, 239,
016; 005.1. Go ahead.
CDR Plus 016.7, plus 004.6, minus 004.2; 177, 239, 016;
005 .i .
CC That's affirm. The weight is 29,970.
CC And the trims are plus 108; and plus 022. In remarks
on this pad - in c se of an SCS burn, the ignition
on the EMS would be at a DELTA-VC of I.i. And you _.
 
CC Roger. 29,970.
CDR Okay, 29,970_ plus 1.08, plus 022. Start on an
SCS burn at plus i.i with a tail off of minus 12.7.
We got the camera TV ready to go if you want it.
17 18 i0 CC Roger. Roger. We have already checked it, Pete, and
it looks good. It's a good check out.
CDR Okay ...
CC And, you can go to BLOCK and we are going to o_nand
the electron-proton spectrometer, ON, now.
CDR Ri ckey-t ickey.
CC Roger that. We're about 30 seconds from LOS here;
we'll see you at Hawaii at 22 - _ plus 29.
SC h plus 29. Roger Roger.
CC Rog r.
END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
17 32 0_ CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii for the next
6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS t Hawaii for the next
6minutes
.
C Skyl b, Houst n. We're A S in Hawaii through VHF voice
for the next 3-1/2 minutes.
CDR ... VHF, Houston.
CC I heard you answer me, Pete, but I didn't understand
it. Say again, please.
CDR I said you've got the VHF.
CC That's affirm. We got an S-band problem at the Ha waii
tracking station.
17 37 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS at
Hawaii. We have not seen S-band data here, but when we
saw you at Honeysuckle you were - looked read good.
You're GO for the burn, and we're going to see you at
Goldstone at 4 plus 41.
CDR Okay, that's Just about - burn time and - we're Just
standing by to make the burn.
CC Very good, Pete. And when you get squared away after
the burn, I've got a little note here that I want to
ta1_ to you about about something later on.
CDR Okay.
17 45 42 CC Skylab, Houston; through VHF at Goldstone. How do you
read?
read?
F-
CC I can read you, Pete. We're having antenna problems
on the ground. How'd the burn go?
CDR Okay, Richard. I find that I goosed it a little bit -
... out of trouble .... I'd say at about a NOUN 85.
But the EMS read minus ll.0. And I called up NOUN 85
... and it read plus 1.6 feet per second, nothing an
out of plane minus 0.2. Did you read that, Houston?
CC Pete, I copied EMS minus ll.0 and NOUN 85 plus 1.6 nd
and o t-of-plane of minus 0.2 and that's all I copy.
CDR No, it wasn't an out-of-plane ... Joe probed a NOUN 85.
I di n't see him do it. I probed on top of that, so I
write down our residual. After I got to a flashing 37,
... in the window I called up 1685 and I read the fol-
lowing num ers, and I don't know whether they mean
anything or not: plus 1.6, nothing is out of plane
at mi nus 0.2.
CC Skylab, Houston; we copied that. And, if you read me,
we're going to have a Newfoundla d AOS at about
4 plus 51.
17 53 01 CC Skylab; Houston. We're AOS at Bermuda for the next
7 mi nutes.
CC Hey, loud and clear. That's good. We've been having
problems here. Getting back to the NC2 burn, Pete.
We di dn't qui te understand about whether you thi nk
you underburned it, and if so, by how much?
CDR Yes, what happened was that something swung off the
i nstrument panel and there was burning and Joe went
and hit PROCEED and shutdo_m so that we were at a
1685. I did not see hi do that, and I thought we
were wanderi n_ for the burn atti tude, so I reached.
up nd probed myself without either one of us seeing
the residuals on the DSKY. And that _mediately stuck
 
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point, I called NOUN 1685 and looked at it. And it
said plus 1.6, nothing in Y, and I forget the other
number I gave you - a minus 0.2. So I think I under-
burned by 1.6 feet per second.
CC Roger, Pete. Now, we do have your vector on the ground
through Bermuda; and you di d burn about 1.6 underburn,
and i t 's no problem.
CDR Okay.
CDR It looks like shirt - short burn logic in the CMC [sic]
that wasn't supposed to be that way in the s acecraft
is that way in the spacecraft, huh?
CC Roger. Maybe so.
CDR Well, we'll find out on the next one because that's
an even qui cker one.
CC Roger.
17 56 54 CDR Joe's got A marked. It's been swelling up since about
mark 4, so I think we're in real good shape.
CC And, Pete, we've still got you for about 3 minutes.
I ve got a couple of things here I'd like to talk to
you about, if you have the time. If you don't, we're
coming up on a long Canary and Ascension pass.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, subject is the maneuver that we may or may not
need to do for the lighting on wing one when you get
to the flyaround. If possible, we'd like to know,
prior to you going LOS at Guam, if you are going to
need this maneuver. And, if you can't t ll us at
Guam, tell us as soon a you get to Goldstone. If
the answer is yes, that you do want to roll the wing
more into the sunlight, we'd like to accomplish that
maneuver duri ng the statesi de AOS; thi s i s hi le you're
flying around, and the maneuver time we propose to set
in is 5 minutes. The reason for this is that this
will result in a situation where no SWS maneuvering
be required while the CSM is soft docked to the SWS,
_j
a soft dock roll by the SWS band S. Over.
17 58 22 CDR I give up. You guys tell me what attitude you would
like to keep it in, and if I can't flirt my way around
it, I'll call you and tell you when I get there.
CC Wait a minute, Pete. The bird is going to be - When
you get to it, the bird is going to be in the attitude
we talked about, which has both wing routes in the
sunlight. The question is, is that good enough for
the SEVA? And we hope that it is. If it is not, then
we are going to roll it during the stateside pass.
Over.
CDR Well, it seems to me that I already said I didn't see
any reason why that wouldn't be all right for the
SEVA about a week ago. So if you want to leave her
roll 2820 and pitch to the EGIL special, whatever
that comes out to be, that's okay with me.
CC Roger. We're together, Pete. We ntend to leave it
at 2820 unless you tell us that you - In after looking
at it, that that Just is not enough lighting. We've
got about 50 seconds left until LOS here in Bermuda,
and I'll see you at Canary.
CDR Yes, and I also understand your preference is if we
thought we had enough lighting, you'd like to go back
to the EGIL special: zero roll and 50 pitch, right?
CC No, sir. We'd Just soon stay ith both wings in the
sunlight, and it'll - The vehicle would stay then as
you will initially see it when you start the fly -
around- you know, with both wing routes in the
sunlight.
CDR Bye.
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18 03 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Cana ry for 14 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hou ton. We're standing by for the final pad.
CC Roger. I'll have it in a mi ute and I do have one
other thing I'd like to talk to you about, if you've
got ti me.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, Pete. This concerns your CSM control mode con-
figuration during the SEVA. We suggest, when Paul
is outside, that you inhibit thruster A-4, as well,
as thruster A-3 for the SEVA. The reason is, if we
don't, and had a failed thruster on of A-h, we'd end
up with a pl s-X translation The pitch control i
fine with only Charlie 3 and Charlie _ on. Jerry Carr
verified it this morning over in the CMS and that con-
trol works good. You might think about that on . To
snmmarize th t, that's - We want to inhibit A-3 and
A-_.
CDR Understand.
CC And, one more thing, Pete. It's in the checklist and
on - in the SEVA section in back of the Launch Check-
list on page 1-1.
CC Roger.
CC Go ahead.
CDR How long do we have to keep running this 02 vent?
CC Stand by 1.
CC CDR, Houston. We want to leave the 02 vent going until
Just prior to the SEVA. And, one thing I forgot to
tell you, I had written down here, was we've turned
on the SWS tracki ng li ght.
CDR Okay. Could we try VHF now, or do you think we
wouldn't get it until after NCC?
 
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CC I think you might as well wait, Pete. Because of the
attitudes and the way they are, I don't think you'd
have any ... here, and you might as well wait unt l
right after NCC.
CDR Okay.
CC Roger.
18 ii 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got 6-1 /2 minutes left.
I've ot a NCC final pad for you on page i-ii.
CC 005, 27, 26.30; plus 036.3, plus 006.5, minus 015.0;
176, 031, 011; 026.4. Go ahead.
CDR 005, 27, 26.30; plus 036.3, plus 006.5, minus 015.0;
176, 031, 011; 026.4.
CC That's good readback, Pete, and now I've got an NSR
pad for you, is you're ready to copy.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Plus 021.0, plus 004.3, minus 017.5; 173, 265, 010;
and stand by on the DELTA-V counter, please.
CC The DELTA-Vc, Pete, is 014.2. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Plus 021.0, plus 004.3, minus 0175; 17.3, 265,
010; 014.2.
CC Roger, Pete; good readback. We've still got 4 minutes
lef in the pass, and l'm standing by.
2 mi nutes.
CC Okay.
18 16 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We've looked at the bird. You're G
for the NCC burn.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And, Skylab, we've still got about 1-1 /2 minute left
in this pass. We're going to have a out a 3 minute
break and then we're going to see you through an ARIA
aircraft sitting on the ground at Cape Tow .
DR Okay.
CC ARIA ... stand by, stand by.
CDR Roger.
CC Okay ...
CC Skylab, Houston, through ARIA; how do you read?
- CDR Inaudible.
CDR Hello, Houston. Be advised that we have VHF ranging.
We picked it up right after NCC at 117.08 miles. We
still have a lock, and the SPT is able to track the
trac ing lights although they are quite dim; so I'd
suspect that's atti tude. Is that correct?
CC Roger, that is affirm, Pete; and that's good news on
the VHF.
CDR The - We had a good NCC burn with a minus 12 9 on the
residuals, for DELTA-Vc, the burn was on time. The
burn was trimmed at the burn ttitude. We had 0 in X,
minus 0.2 in Y, and 0 in Z. And be advised, it does
leave a large residual. It was again about 1.6 foot
plus that we had to take out.
CC Roger. Copy, P te. Thank you.
18 45 49 CDR And our first cut through the P3h recycle show very
good agreement wi th the ground soluti on NSR.
' . . . . 9 :
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR And be advised we did g with the on board which was
a little different from the ground. Let me read you
NOUN 81 .... CC is plus 037.5, plus 0060, minus 13.2.
CC Roger, Pete. Copy.
CDR And be advised that we have a match pair solution which
we will burn that is plus 20.9, of course I don't know
the o t of plane yet, and minus 14.7.
CC Roger. Copy.
18 h7 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're ready to swap quad Charlie
to the PSM.
CC That's affirm.
18 51 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're GO for the next NSR burn.
CDR Roger, Houston; and we're GO here.
CC Very good.
END OF TAPE
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Hello there, CDR. We're in Hawaii. How do you read?
CDR Roger. Read you loud and clear. The burn was on time.
It was plus O.1, minus O.1, minus O.1. EMS read, by
this, 10.9 and I gave - let me read you the NOUN 81.
It was plus 20.9, plus 4.4, and minus lb.7.
CC Roger. Got that.
19 08 04 CDR Okay. We're in the process of maneuvering heads up.
CC Roger, Pete Sounds real good.
CDR Say, Houston; CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR There is just one whale of a lot of noise on VHF; do
you guys have any idea where that's all coming from?
CC Stand by l, Pete.
CDR I mean all around the world we've been getting it, not
Just over Hawaii or something like that. And, my other
uestion is, we should not have VHF ranging now, right?
CC To your second question, that's affirm - affirmative.
We should not have VHF ranging now. And, I guess we
don't have a quick answer for the noise on the VHF,
although our - you know, our past experience on
i nterference from control towers and so forth. But,
no - no better answer than that, Pete.
CDR Okay.
19 ll 55 CDR Okay. Houston, on our first recycle we're a little
bit more than - little bit less than 4 minutes early.
You agree wi th that?
 
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CC Roger. We are looking at it on the data. And, CDR;
Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS at Hawaii.
We're going to see you at Goldstone at 06:19.
CDR 06:19.
CC Roger.
19 19 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Goldstone for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And, Pete, we're going to have a TPI preliminary pad
for you at Bermuda, not at Goldstone. And, it's about
time to swat - swap quad Alfa to the PSM, and along
that li ne, we ki nd of thi nk your onboard i nstrumenta-
tion reading for quad Alfa may be in error. We're
showing a transducer reading of ab ut 97 percent on
board, and it should be reading about 83. Over.
CDR Yes, it's stuck high, I guess. It's reading well
over 100 percent. We can -we can now make out the
ATM solar win s, and the sextant, and the workshop
very clearly.
CC Roger.
CDR And I have got VHF range back; it appears to be about
63 mi les.
CC Roger; copy. We're closing.
19 21 16 CDR Okay, have Houston, - I have A on the PSM now, and
quad ... propellant valves are both barber pole.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Did you get my - What do you all think about that
h-minutes slip? We got a couple of NOUN 49s and they
will prove our vector here, Houston.
CC Roger. At the moment, Pete, we 're sho wing you closer
to the nominal than a h-minute slip. But it can
change. We're Just going to have to press on and
look at some more data
 
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DR Okay.
19 24 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about to go LOS at Goldstone
We'll see you at Mila at 06:27.
CDR Say, Houston, could we secure this 02 purge at 6 hours
and 30 minutes, isn't it?
CC It was a - -
19 29 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Mila for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS at Mila for 8 minutes.
CDR Hey, Houston. Do you read Skylab?
CC Roger, Pete. Loud and clear. Go ahead.
CDR One of th guides that's on there is Washington Center,
would you go for that?
- CC (Laughter) Roger. They clear you for anything?
CDR No, but they Just cleared 32 Quebec somebody for
something.
CC (Laughter) Roger.
CDR And, be advised we got VHF ranging back. We lost it
for a while. We got t back Just in the nick of time
to keep Mr. Weitz at work on this charts.
CC ood, good. And we're - and, also, Pete, we're
working for an answer for you on the 02 purge and get
it back to you as soon as we can.
CDR Yes, we're getting - the MASTER ALARM light is tied
to the SPS burns, it's very convenient; comes on
right at the wrong time, when 02 flow goes HIGH.
CC And, one thing, Pete; on the C&W if you inhibit that
one - that one parameter it might elp that situation
in event we don't get an answer, that we can knock
it out.
CDR Okay.
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CDR And, we do have you at Bermuda, is that right? Or
we have you at Newfoundland?
CC The situation is, Pete, we're in the middle of a
Bermuda pass and we do have telemetry shutoff right
now in order to et the TPI pads out.
CDR Oh, okay. We're standing by.
CC Roger that.
CC CDR, Houston. I've got a TPI prelimina ry pad for
you, page 1-14.
CDR Go ahead.
19 35 59 CC 007, 04, 46.00; plus 18.3, plus 00.7, minus 06.7;
plus 19.447, plus 00.602, plus 02.312. Go ahead.
CDR 007, 04, 46.00; plus 18.3, plus 00.7, minus 06.7;
plus 19.4h7, plus 00.602, plus 02.312.
19 37 0 CC That's affirm. That's a good readback P te, and I've
got a docking attitude pad for you on page 1-17.
CDR Go head.
CC And, CDR; Houston. You're GO to terminate the purg
whenever you li ke.
CDR Whoopee. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CDR Be advised our recycle gave us 07:0 2:27.95 as a TPI
time.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC And, CDR; Houston Also on TPI, the burn SCS. The
ignition is EMB counter 0.8. DELTA-V C 6.9. Trim to
tai loff of 12.6.
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CDR Okay. Set the counter at 69, light t 0.8 and trim
to minus 12.6. Is that right?
CC That's affirm, Pete, and we're going LOS. See you at
Ascension at 06:45.
CDR Okay. You got a CSM weight trim for me?
CC Skylab, Houston. If you're still reading me, go with
what you've got on the weight and trims.
SC ...
19 46 45 CC Skylab, Houston; through Ascension. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read through Ascension
f r the next 8 minutes?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Ascension for the next
4 mi nutes.
CDR How do you read, Houston?
CC Read you loud and clear, Pete. I've got a final TPI
pad f r you.
CDR Okay, I'm ready to copy.
19 51 O0 CC Okay. 007; 03; 50.00; plus 18.4; plus 01.3; minus 07.2;
plus 19.6/48; plus 01.2/05; plus 01.9/lO; 007.1. Go
ahead.
CDR 007; 03; 50.00; plus 18.4; plus 01.3; minus 07.2;
plus 19.6/48; plus 01.2/05; plus O1.9/10; 007.1, and our
time came out to be 73:47:63. How does that grab you?
CC Awful close. Nobody'sperfect.
CC And, CDR; Houston. On the potential SCS, the gnition
is at E_ counter reading of 1.O and a trim to
mi nus 12.6.
Looks real good. You're GO for the TPI burn.
 
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And, we got about 1 minute and 30 seconds, Pete, until
LOS. We're going to see you at Carnarvon at 07:18.
CDR Okay.
20 19 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Carnarvon for the
next 9 mi nutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. We had a good TPI burn on time with
the following NOUN 81. Wait 1.
CC Okay.
CDR Page open. We burned, plus 18.1; plus 00.6; and
minus 0.78. The burn was on time; the DELTA-V C was
minus 12. The residuals that the burn added to
were all balls; minus 0.2; all balls. Since that
time, we have had TPM 1. The final comn for TPM 1
was 00.5; minus all balls; plus 00.3.
CC Roger, CDR. Copied al that.
CDR We've completed the TV Prep Checklist. And, we will
go into the - rest of this when we get there.
CC Very good.
CC And, Pete, we still have about 8 minutes left in
thi s pass, and we're standi ng by.
CDR Eight minutes. Now you get to watch our next burn.
CC Roger. We're watching.
CC Affirm,Pete,we are. We gotit. 1
CDR Okay.
We'll see you at Guam at 07:31.
CDR Okay. ---.
SKYLAB AIR T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
20 31 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Guam for the next
l0 mi nutes.
SC Tallyho the Skylab. We got her in daylight at
_.5 miles 29 feet per second.
J
CDR Say, Houst0n;icould you tell me if the workshop is
fi ri ng TACS?
CC Stand by l; I'll check. Hang on.
CDR As a matter of fact, you don't have to tell me. I
thought I was flying through clouds up here, and
everytime it fires the TACS puffs I can see it,
and it's a big burst of gas out of it.
20 33 35 CC Roge . That's affirm. Pete, you're right. We are
firing.
CC And Skylab; Houston. We want quads Bravo and Delta
to the PSM when you can
20 34 04 CDR Just fired the TACS pulse.
CC Roger.
20 34 ll CDR Just fired another one. Man, does it shoot a big
cloud out when it does that.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy my request to Bravo
and Delta quads to the PSM?
CDR Everything's on PSM, Houston.
 
CDR Hey, Houston; how do you read now?
CC I read you loud and clear, Pete. How me?
CDR Okay, I'm on VOX. You'll hear it all.
CC Okay, good.
CDR I need to start breaking right now.
CC Roger.
deployed solar panel. I'd say it's l, right?
20 35 50 CC Roger. That's what we think. And CDR, Houston; in
about i minute we'll be starting the SWS maneuver,
and I'ii let you know when we issue the command.
CDR Okay.
SC EECOM ... you're looking -
CDR Down to i0 feet a second. No, 1,000 feet.
CC Roger.
PLT You guys getting TV, Houston?
CC Roger, Paul, we do have TB, TV and it's k nd of
hard to see right now, but it's getting better as
you get closer.
20 37 07 CC And Skylab, Houston. We've issued a maneuver to
the SWS. You ought to see it move a little bit.
 
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PLT What it is, Dick, is a very high contrast target.
It's hard to get that sucker right on TV so you can
see anythi ng.
CDR ... opening on it - on the pad.
CC And PLT, Hous on. If you have a chance to answer,
we'd like to know what the light setting is on the
television. Maybe it'll help us tune ours up.
PLT I'm switching back and forth between peak and
average to try to get it, Dick.
CC Roger, Paul; copy.
PLT I'm getting the best picture on Pete, which is what
you got right now. And look at it; it's Just not
convenient for me to get my head around to read the
numbers to you.
CC No, that's okay.
CDR I got to get ..., man. I don't like what's going on.
CC And PLT Ho ston. Just leave it at peak lighting,
and it's looking better and better to us.
PLT Yes. Man that TACS makes a mess, doesn't it?
20 39 50 SPT Okay, Houston, the meteoroid shield area is solid
gold.
CC Roger; copy.
SPT Looks rather smooth. SAS wing number l, you can see
it. It's, it looks like it's a good 15 degrees
deployed.
PLT Can't ... see it. I'm trying to handhold the darn
thing.
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20 40 24 CC And, Skylab, we're about 1 minute from LOS at Guam.
We're going to see you at Goldstone at 7:57.
SPT Roger.
PLT There it is, Dick. There is the wing.
CC Roger. We're looking at it, Paul.
SPT I don't see anything wrapped around it. See the
outboard - see right now that the outb ard solar
panel i s deployed partly.
CDR There's nothing left over on the other side. See
some tubes a d wi ri ng sti cki ng out.
CC Roger, Pete.
PLT ... turn off the ranging. Jockey it around here.
20 41 17 SPT Oh! What's that? Oh, I've been working with that
di nkey li ttle TV screen.
CC And Skylab; Houston. The lighting that you've got
set on the TV camera right now is super. We're
about - we're very close to LOS now, and you can go
ahead wi th your photography.
20 41 36 PLT Okay, be advised the meteroid shield is pushed up
in under the SAS panel for its whole length, right
under that bi g ferr .
CDR Yes, I can see the butterfly hinge under there.
CC Roger.
SPT One piece wrapped around the top on this side?
CDR ... let's - let's go around - -
PLT I got to get some photos now.
20 42 17 CDR How good are ...
SC What'stfor?
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20 56 48 CDR Okay, Colonel. Let me rig your TV.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got you AOS at Goldstone.
20 56 56 CDR Hey, Joe. You have the Rendezvous Checklist? Dig
out and load VERB 23 NOUN 22 with the docking angle.
CC Skylab, Houst n. We're A0S at Goldstone. We've got
you for the next 16 minutes.
CDR Okay, Houston.
CDR Let me - -
CDR - - Let me give you a brief description. As you
suspected, solar wi ng 2 ri ght?
SPT Yeah, we saw it.
20 8 02 CDR 2 is gone completely off the bird.
20 58 08 CDR ... Solar wing 1 is, in fact, partially deployed.
And the reason that you got different readings not sym-
metric between your three solar panels, is there's a
bulge of meteori te shi eld underneath i t i n the mi ddle,
and it looks to be holding it down. I - I think that we
can take care of that with the SEVA. It looks, at first
inspection, like we ought to be able to get it out. The
gold foil has turned considerably black in the sun.
CC Roger; copy.
CC Go ahead.
SPT On the vent modules, all the covers are still intact.
CC Roger.
SPT The covers did not leave the vent modules on wing
number 1.
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CC Copy.
PLT Can't tell which way to point this son of a gun for
nothing.
CC Roger. (Laughter)
CDR Okay, Houston, are we too close or too far for you?
CC I think you're real good, Pete. We can - we can
see that whole wi ng.
CDR Okay. Be advised that we have all four service
modules QUA]3 li ghts on from verheat. They're read-
i ng 200 degrees.
CC Roger.
PLT Why can't I find it? One thing, this TV set's too
big for in here.
PLT See that, Dick?
CC Roger, we're looking at it. I assume you're pointing
just about in the place where the meteoroid shield
is underneath the wings. Is that correct?
PLT Well, I'm trying to, but my picture has turned inside
out and backwards, and that camera hangs up in here
i n the couch structure.
CC (Laughter) Roger.
CDR Okay, Houston, it looks like the meteoroid shield,
at the upper SAG [?I panel on the SAS wing, has
wrapped around i t Just slightly.
CC ... are we?
CDR Now, my guess is that our easiest thing to do is
Just go to the end and try and deploy it.
CC Roger. Pete, from which side of the SAS is the
meteoroid shield slightly wrapped around? Is it on
the side of the main tunnel, o the underside?
 
CDR Can you see a good TV picture, or not?
21 01 26 PLT No, I haven't been able to give them one. I Just
can't point it. The darn spacecraft keeps drifting.
I have a hard time getting the thing to - correlated.
CC Well, hang in there, Paul. It isn't real steady,
but every now and then we're getting some pretty
clear views and we can replay them. And o e other
question - -
CDR Houston, what is under the gold foil next to the
tank? The gold foil looks like it has been cleaned
off under that meteoroid skin, too. Or no, I guess
i t's the Teflo from the meteoroid skin's laying on
the gold - under the SAS wing.
PLT The worst possible place for me to try to point
thi s thi n .
PLT Almost anyplace else. I'd like to be looking more
out the window. There, that's good. There. Betterl
CC And, Skylab, Houston; we think that's green Teflon
on the underside of the meteoroid shield that you
were probably commenti ng on Just a mi ute ago.
PLT Yes, that's what it is. Now, right by the scientific
airlock, the aluminum - the gold oil has curled up
on - at the, oh, plus-X end of it. But I don't
think that'll hinder any kind of a deployment
attempt.
CC Roger. And Skylab, Houston; request you go to
P-collide on the TV so we can see a little bit better
down i n the crevi ce.
PLT That's where I've been, babe.
 
CDR All right, I'm getting awful close to the discone
antenna, as about 5 feet sitting outside the window
there.
CC And, Pete, one question that I would like to ask you,
and that is: you said you could see the butterfly
hin e a while ago; could you tell us the condition
of i t?
21 03 41 CDR Well, the butterfly hinge is underneath the SAS
win all the way on the far side of it, and it's up.
CC Roger.
PLT I mean - I didn't even notice it, Pe e.
PLT Oh. The meteoroid shield came loose and wrapped
around it from the o her side.
PLT I can see it.
CDR Yes, and the one - the one thing that's bothering
me, though, is that - that if this was the wing that
was down and locked, and then they opened it, that it
pulled thatmeteoroid shield as far as it id. It
pulled it 18 ...
21 0h 30 SPT That s a hell of a good point.
CDR See, and that's where it - it - it's hanging up the
solar panel right at the upper vent plate. Does
that make sense to you, Houston, the upper of the
three vent plates, which is Just below where the
meteoroid shield starts, the top part of it starts,
and that part is wrapped onto the SAS beam by about
3 or 4 inches.
CC Roger, Pete. And I think you gave us a real good
picture of that piece of metal, just a second ago.
CDR Still with us, Houston?
 
left in this pass.
SPT Tell me - tell me when daylight is -
CC Night, 08:2&.
CC CDR, Houston; you still got 21 minutes of daylight,
and i t's at 08:26.
CDR Now where would you like to go, anybody?
C R I got to - I got to get away from this. Shall I
get down? No, I think we've lost them.
PLT No, we got them.
SPT We - well -
CDR All right, let's get down. I got to get out of the
way of this discone. We're going to get down and
drop below i t.
PLT Hey, this TV don't work very good as far as high
contrast.
CDR Look, Paul. I'll keep it cocked this way so that
you can get TV out your window. But you got to tell
me where I'm going over there. Well, I want to.
21 06 3_ CC CDR, Houston. We've seen enough televisio to let
us think a lot about this. You're cleared to t rn
off the TV and complete any photography you haven t
gotten, and you're cleared for a soft dock.
21 06 58 CDR Getting ready for - Reckon I got a -
PLT Hey, Dick, are you there?
CC Affirm, Paul; go ahead.
PLT I can't understand you, but there's that little piece
that looks like a row of bolts that's wrapped up
over the edge of that beam fairing.
 
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CC Roger, we see that, Paul. And if yo did not copy
m last - We think we have seen enough TV here.
You're cleared to turn off the TV, comple e your
photography, i f necessary, and you're cleared for
a soft dock.
SPT Just a little hinge door.
21 07 52 CC CDR, Houston; do you read?
21 07 55 CDR Look where it tore down the other tunnel, too. See
there? Other tunnel. That's clean.
CC CDR, Houston. Do you read?
21 08 i_ PLT We haven't seen it y t. You're almost too close,
Pete.
PLT I'll back away.
CDR Look how it's scratched the gold shielding down the
wardroom window. Think that whole thing tore off of
there?
CDR I think the key part is right where all those wires
are. See them hanging out that upper vent. If we
don't get it out there, we ain't gonna get it up.
Right?
SPT A row of bolts.
SPT That's our hi ge line. You think that's what is
left of a hinge?
PLT Left a row of bolts.
SPT Is that far enough out to et a good view?
CDR If I look at the banjo hinge, I've gotta get down
lower. The banjo hinge on this side of the main
tunnel is Just clean wiped off. See it?
 
SPT Hey, look, lookl It's - it's - ugh.
SPT Yaw.
PLT I don't know what I want you to do.
CDR How's that?
CC CDR, Houston. Do you read?
PLT How much fuel we using?
21 l0 13 CDR Now is that good TV for you, or not?
CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, we are seeing the TV,
and how do you copy?
PLT A strong signal, yet. Houston, you st ll with us?
CC Skylab, Houston, affirmative; how do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
PLT Get a picture of the top end of that thing?
CDR ... look I'm scared to get underneath too far.
There's ATM panels down there. S e.
CDR I'm going to start heading for the front nd of the
vehicle.
 
SC ...
21 12 13 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
CDR Loud and clear.
CC Roger. Pete. We got a whole lot of good TV there.
And you're clear to secure the television and com-
plete any photography, i f necessary, and you're
cleared for oft dock.
at 08:25?
CC t's 08:26, Pete. It's 13 minutes from now. You're
abo t 1 minute from LOS at Goldstone. We're going
to see you at Carnarvon at 08:56.
CDR Okay. We're going to go ahead and soft dock at
thi s ti me.
CDR Okay.
21 13 18 PLT I've got one more picture here. Yes. I Just -
CC And Skylab, Houston; we think e may have an ARIA
pass, although we had trouble the last time, it'll
be about 08:32.
21 13 51 CDR Okay, Houston.
21 35 35 CC Skylab. Houston through ARIA. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read through ARIA?
CREW ...
r
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21 36 14 CC CDR, Houston. I think I cut you out.
21 45 57 ARIA ARIA. LOS ...
21 56 47 CC Skylab, Houston_ we're AOS at Carnarvon for the
next 6 mi nutes.
CDR Roger, Houston; we had a good soft dock. We are
sitting here eat ng dinner at the moment, and every-
thing's Just fine. On the time line.
CC Real fine, Pete.
CDR We've been sittin here kicking around our plan of
attack for ..., and I think what we are going to try
to do is see how tight the metal is curled up along
the upper edge of it there. Just work our way down
toward the edge of the SAS panel and try and free
her up from down there where we can exert the m st
pressure.
CC Roger, Pete. Copy. Why don't you guys finish your
dinner and keep talking about it, and we got some
folks talking about it on the ground, and we'll get
together when we can get a chance.
CDR Okay. Could you get anything out of the TV or not?
CC Yes, we could, Pete. And we also had some folks
taking Polaroids of it when we happened to get a
real good shot. And we - we've got some folks over
at Marshall taking a look at it also, and we think
we are in pretty good shape.
PLT Okay, that's good, Dick. I'm sorry about it. It
was the only way I could mount the monitor. It was
upside down and backwards from the way I was pointing
the thing. Plus that camera is almost too big to
maneuver around in this - windows number 2 and 4.
With the lens right up against the window, then, the
connectors actually protrude down i nto the couch, ...
and it was hanging up on th_ headbeam and the head-
rest and all that Jazz.
 
CC Roger. Well, we think e got enough. And anyway,
it was fun listening to you trying to handle it.
PLT Yes you'll handle all my letters, huh?
CC And, kylab, Houston. We're wondering if you get a
chance if you could give us a rough estimate of what
you think the CSM X-axis is between the X-axis and
the Sun.
CDR Well, I can do you a little bit better than that.
Can I tell you what my docking attitude is? How
does tha do?
CC Okay, go ahead.
21 59 45 CDR Okay, we are rolled about 200 degrees, and we're
pitched about 32 degrees, and we're yaw at about
5 degrees.
END OF TAPE
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:_ SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
22 00 22 CDR Okay, Houston. Let me ask you a question. Nobody
seamed to get too excited about these service module
quads getting hot. Is that okay? All the lights
are out now.
during - Just due to the usage you were giving them
right there and we don't think anything's wrong.
And, we are taking a look now at the quantities that
we have and we w_re going to let you know what -
what they are and what the status is in Just a second.
CDR Yes, how much did we use?
CC ur best estimate right now, Pete, is about 100 pounds.
CDR You mean for the flyaround?
CC That's affirm, Pete. About 100 to ll0 pounds during
the dri vea ound. And, we're putti ng those numbers
together now, Pete, and I'll have a little better
status for you either here or one of the succeeding
stations.
CC Roger.
CDR Now, we Just popped out in the sunlight, and I have
a good look out my window of three wir bundles
hanging - hanglng'off where that w
ing used to be.
Oh, I'm also guessing that"
- that we should be able
to get a look at some portion of the parasol when
we stick it out. As I mentioned before, in the fly-
around, I see no reason to clear any deblis - bris
away from the SAL. There is some crinkled up pieces
of gold foil around it, but that's about it. There
are no hanging wires, or plates, or anything like
that that could damage i t.
CC Roger, Pete. Copy.
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PLT Yes, I see them, but I don't think they are going to
be in the way.
CC And, CDR; we've got about 40 seconds from LOS here.
We're going to see you at Guam at 09:10.
CDR Guam at 09:10. Roger.
CC Roger.
22 l0 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Guam for the next
12 mi nutes.
CDR Roger. Houston.
Bravo.
CC Skylab, Houston. We still have several minutes left
in G am pass. I think we dropped out because of a
shading problem on the OWS. How do you read?
CDR Okay. We read you loud and clear, now. We wondered
what happened to you.
CC Well, we Just hid for a while, there.
CDR Boy, I've had some big things on my noses in space
before, but this is by far the biggest. They sure
beat the Agena or the LM.
CC (Laughter) Roger.
one of them tree trlmkS in the asparagus.
CC (Laughter) Roger.
CDR Say, while we got you, we might comment a little bit
about some of the new stuff we've run into tod ay,
like - like some of the food in the cans. I had
the stewed tomatoes for lunch. And, I'd be betting
they would be real hard to handle up here, and it
turned out t at even as goopy as they are, they were
 
chi cken and gravy.
CC Roger, Pete. That sounds real good. We're about to
go LOS here at Guam in about 15 seconds. We'll see
you up at Goldstone at 09:3B, and I'll have some w ords
there on your RCS quanti ti es.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. Be advised we'll be standing
by at G ldstone, and we'll try to get the logic
sequence check out of the way.
CDR Okay, Houston.
22 B4 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone for the next
l_ mi nutes.
CDR Okay. You're kind of breaking up, Hou ton. Maybe
it's our antenna pattern. I noticed we're kind of
on top of the SWS, looking down at the world.
CC Roger. Understand. While we take a look and make
sure we have good data before doing the sequential
logic checks, I have a couple of three things I'd
like to mention to you.
CDR You're breaking up badly, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. Request duplex Bravo, duplex Bravo.
CDR Okay. Duplex Bravo.
CC And, be advised I'm reading you loud and clear.
CDR Okay. You're breaking up.
CC Skylab, Houston We're GO on the sequential logic
check. Stand byl.
do the logic sequence check. Is that right?
 
CC Skylab, Houston. Affirmative. We are ready for the
sequenti al logi c check. Go ahead.
22 36 18 CD Okay. Th SEQs logic - two of them are OFF. The
SEQs PYRO ALARM, two of them are SAFE. And the SEQs
ZB6 logic, two of them gone CLOSED. They are CLOSED.
And, the SEQs ARM cbs gone CLOSED.
22 36 37 CC Roger. And we are ready for sequential logic, two
of them on UP.
CC Roger.
22 36 58 CC Skylab, Houston. It looks good. You're GO for YRO
ARM.
22 37 03 CDR Roger. Understand ... east of San Francisco?
CC And, Sky ab; Houston. How do you read now?
CDR Roger. Read you loud and clear. What did we just
pass by, just east of San Francisco?
CC Yes, sir, sure did.
CC And, CDR; Houston. If you're reading me loud and
clear, I got a couple or three things I'd like to
pass up to you.
CC Read you loud and clear, Pete. How me now?
CDR Okay. What are we doing, passing down the California
coast?
CC Roger. Looks to me Just - probably Just left eastern
Cali forni a and over Nevada now somewhere around there.
CDR Okay
CC And, if you're reading me loud and clear, and I'm
not breaking up, I've got a couple of things for you. _
i_.
CDR You're pretty good now. Go ah ad.
CC Okay, after you get on dock you know we've got the
evaporator deacti vated, and we'd Just as s on leave
it that way for contamination. But be advised if you
do start getting warm and need to activate it, that's
okay wi th us.
CC And here's a little rundown on the RCS situation.
CDR Breaking up again badly.
CC Okay. I'll wait until we have good com m.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. On the RCS situation, Pete. In the original
planning, Flight Plan - -
CC Skylab, Houston. Request omni Charlie.
22 _2 28 CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, request select best
omni.
best omni .
CDR Loud and clear.
CC Roger, Pete. Read you loud and clear now. We've
been having our problems here on the ground. We've
still got about 3 minutes left in his pass.
 
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CC Okay. What I wanted to tell you was - is that orig-
inally we had allowed about 400 pounds for the SEVA,
RCS, and right now we're about 140 p unds d wn from
the Flight Plan; so that still leaves about 260 pounds,
which is well more than twice what you spent n that
whole drivearound before. And, that allow ance st ll
protects both the red - the RCS deorbit redlines, and
so in essence you're on fat RCS, but I - you know,
just be advised those are the kind o nu mbers we're
looki ng at.
CC Incidentally, also, we believe that your onboard read-
ings of Bravo and Delta may be about 5 percent high
when we run it through the computers here on the
ground. And, the PSM reading is off-scale - high,
and actually you have about 70 percent - 70 percent
remaining.
DR Okay.
CC And, Pete, while I've still got you here, our pre-
liminary recnmmendation is - I think goes along with
yours - and that is the first try should be Just
pulling at the bottom of the beam. And, I guess our
recommendati on as far as tool confi gurati on mi ght be
one pull with the SAS hook, one with a cable cutter,
and one with a mushroom and tether.
CDR Okay. You want us o pull on the bottom first. We'll
give her a o.
to LOS, and Vanguard is at 09:58 - about l0 minutes.
CDR Okay. We're on SEVA L-I - 2. We've all eaten and
we're right at the bottom of the page, and we're
reconfiguring the spacecraft and cleaning it up.
 
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23 01 12 CC Skylab, Houston at the Vanguard. How do you read?
CDR Loud and clear, Houston.
CC Roger, Pete.
and I think we'll make it Just about on time.
CC Real good, Pete. W 've talked about a lot of things
here on the ground, but I - I guess about the only
thing we feel like passing up is the fact that we
probably think if that piece of metal that's bent over
the win is indeed a little piece of angle iron, that
you probably cannot cut it. And so, if you want to
get out of the way, you'll probably have to bend it
out of the way, but it'll be strictly your call when
you guys get out here.
CDR It - it's not bent up over the top of the SAS beam.
It's Just bent along to the side of it with Just a
curl over the top, and it didn't look like it had
any high beam structure in that part of it.
CC Roger. Sounds good, and we'll Just leave it to your
call as to how to get it done.
CDR Okay. Paul tells me it was some angle in there. I
di dn't see that.
on the ground. It all looks good to us. You're
cleared for a local flight. Hav fun and fly safe.
And we'll see you at the next pass.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston We're about 1 m nute from LOS.
We'll see you at Goldstone at ll:10.
CDR Okay, Houston.
CDR Houston, be advised for some reason we seem to have
stab li zed lower left corner i n the docki ng t rget,
which s ys that we are lower - we're resting on about
the 7:]0-8:00 position of the docking ring or some-
t ing, looks like. We're off to one side. And, we've
Just stayed put.
23 08 05 CC Roger. Copy.
23 21 02 AA ARIA 5 ... What is status of S-Sand?
AA ARIA 5 ... What's your S-band status?
END OF TAPE
CDR It looks to me like it's clean underneath there
except th t spot, huh?
PLT Yes.
CDR Is there a black piece that's curled up Just at the
lip, next to the green?
PLT I don't understand what you're talking about.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS at Goldstone for
l0 minutes. (Laughter)
PLT I don't think it's that green thing that's hanging
li ttle bi t, whi c I'm dri fti ng towards.
SPT Don't go too much luther to the right - -
CC Roger.
SPT -- ... diffucult.
PLT Right.
CDR Now, it's down underneath there where it's hung up.
See that?
CDR Maybe we ought to Just - -
00 12 30 PLT No, let me - let me trade tool , Joe. Okay, I'm
trying to get the ... - didn't th nk this through
too carefully. I got to get the T one.
 
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CDR I've got a cut-off point here in a out 12 -
12 mi nutes.
PLT Then what?
CDR I got to get the heck back. We'll be in night.
00 12 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone.
CDR See where that piece is coming.
PLT ... my couch.
00 12 59 PLT B, I'm sure.
00 13 02 PLT Look, I see the piece folded up over the edge with
the wires coming out of it.
CDR That's the one I'm talking about.
PLT That's the one I was talking about. It's green.
CDR es....
ri ght, i sn't there?
PLT Gosh durn:
PLT Huh?
PLT We're trading tools.
PLT The prong thing.
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PLT Understand.
PLT They aren't maneuvering this s n of a gun, are they?
CDR I don't know.
PLT How're you doing, Joe?
00 l_ ll SPT All right. Got the one off. Got the other one
coming.
CDR The Earth is going by. Hey, listen, we're running
i nto dark pretty fast.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone. How do
you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, we are AOS at
Goldstone.
PLT Okay. You going to hold my foot down there?
SPT Yes.
PLT Just hold the one foot. T is one.
SPT I can't hold the foot but I can hold the knee.
PLT All right. That's going to be Just as good for
you. Shoot. Okay.
PLT Head for that piece that's wrapp d around.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, we're AOS at
Goldstone.
SPT Yes.
CDR Take a look at that window. Is that window clean?
00 15 38 PLT What window?
 
PLT Yes.
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
O0 16 16 PLT Better get down a little more, Pete.
PLT Whup, whup, whup! Not out - n t out_
PLT Hey, that's what s doing it. That son of a gun is
poked in there like it's naile in.
PLT Wait a minute - hold it - don't go in any closer.
CDR Okay.
PLT I can't get my gosh durned tool out. Oh, shoot.
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
PLT That's what's doing it, Pete. You ain't never
going to get - -
CDR Can you pry it? With a tool?
PLT Stick it in here and bend it up? That' what I was
Just doi ng.
PLT Push up?
O0 17 05 PLT I don't have that much control over it, Pete.
PLT Oh, shoot
PLT Have you got a hold of my legs, Joe?
SPT Yes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Goldstone AOS for
5 minutes.
CC Roger. We're 15 minutes from sunset right now.
oo 17 38 cc MARK.
CDR Okay, the little timy strap which goes up by the
top vent. It swung around so hard that the screws
in it Just riveted into the SAS panel. We pulled
as hard as we could on the end of the SAS panel.
-- We couldn't get it out right now. We're station-
keeping on the side of the SAS panel - and Paul's
trying to break it loose, but the little tiny
strip. Heck; it isn't a 1/2 an inch wide; but,
man, is it riveted on:
00 18 ll CC Roger, I understand, Pete. And, I'll keep you
advised about the time to sunset. Right now, we've
got about 4 minutes to LOS and about lh minutes
and 15 seconds to sunset.
00 18 2_ CDR Okay. I'm going to have to quit pretty quick.
PLT Pete?
CDR Yes.
PLT I hate to say it, but we ain't going to do it with
the tools we got.
CDR Back off here, where I can start maneuveri g
around him. Where's the ...?
PLT Nothingto your right.
SPT Okay.
SPT Okay.
PLT Wher do they come apart? It must be that way
Okay. It's all yours.
SPT Thank you.
O0 19 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 13 minutes to sunset.
CDR Got you; 13 minutes to sunset, Houston. You didn't
- Watch it. You're knocking thruster switches and
everything else. Get that pole down out of there.
Okay, Houston. The problem is, the tools wouldn't
do the Job. And, we're going to have to give up
on it; ut, I really feel bad because it's Just one
little tiny old 1/2-inch strap. But, boy, did it
rivet itself to the side of this thing.
PLT Hey, Dick.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
PLT What it is, it's a piece of angle where the sections
of the meteoroid shield are bolt - It ru s right down
next to it. It's wrapped around it Just below the
uppermost vent module. And, i t's wrapped around i t,
over the rivet line, over a length of ab ut
2-1/2 feet, and that beam does not bend, and I can't
budge that str p - dar little strap that's wrapped
around i t.
PLT Where's the ATM?
PLT To your right. You're clear to move directly to
the ri ght.
CDR Right? Okay .... around here and get - -
 
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00 20 57 PLT Can I move to my right, Joe?
SPT ... let see - -
CDR It is so frustrating to see such a little tiny thing
hold that baby on there.
SPT Yes.
LT Darn.
SPT Yes.
00 21 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about ll minutes and
15 seconds to sunset. We're going to see you at the
Vanguard.
SPT Instruction? Well, I sure don't see any.
SPT Unstow lanyard, pull and close the hatch.
PLT You're going to have to hang on to my bottom feet
there agai n.
PLT Or else Just let me hook them in - -
SPT All right. I've got one foot between two of my
legs. Now, let's see if that works.
PLT Oops, that hit m right in the head.
CDR ...
PLT There you go.
It's very hard when you are trying to fly - -
 
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00 22 26 PLT Why can't I close this son of a gun?
00 36 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS at Vanguard.
00 36 42 CDR Hello, Houston. We got a problem. We're repressing
the cabin to 4. We're a little over & right now.
I've made two attempt to get a soft dock, and now
I can't get one, and we are just about to s art
through the emergency procedures and stand by for
any of you suggesti ons.
CC Roger, Pete; copy.
PLT Okay, let me read you this, Pete. The second
docki ng attempt - wi thdraw to formati on di stance,
PROBE EXTEND/RELEASE to EXTEND/RELEASE for 5 seconds,
then to RETRACT.
00 37 28 CDR RET ACT. Okay?
PLT Attempt redocking. At contact, go plus-X until
capture.
CDR All right. Here we go. I may not have held it
5 seconds.
PLT Yes. Hold plus-X until we get capture or a
reasonable ti me.
PLT Get it?
PLT The bugger stayed gray, huh?
CDR Yes. Now, we got a third and final docking attempt,
okay. And you've got positi ve indication and no
capture, ri ght?
CC Skylab, Houston. Just a reminder. You'r configured
two Jet and you might need four Jet to get that
capture.
CDR Well, I didn't the last time. We'll recycle it again.
Let's see. EXTEND/R LEASE switch for 5 seconds,
then 2, through OFF to RETRACT, correct?
00 39 26 PLT I'm going off VOX.
CC Skylab, Houston. You might check panel 8, DOCKING
PROBE ci rcui t breakers; and they should go EXTEND /
RELEASE and t en RETRACT; and get barber poles in
all positions.
00 40 27 CDR Okay, now. The docking probe circuit breakers are
IN. You mean we get soft capture, we should get
barber poles?
00 h0 37 CDR Okay.
CDR Well, we'll go to four-Jet ullage, and we'll give it
a try. Would it be - we had the breakers out; now
shall I cycle the breakers and go through the whole
thing - cycle the breakers, EXTEND/RET_SE for
5 seconds, then to RETRACT, four-Jet ullage. Okay?
CC Roger, Pete. We concur with that procedure.
CC CDR, Houston. One more sugge tion, on panel 229,
two breakers; EPS, GROUP 4 - panel 229.
CDR Okay, 229; EPS, GROUP 4. We're checking.
CC Roger.
CC Roger, copy.
RETRACT.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS
at Vanguard. We have a potential ARIA pass after
a short brea in Just a few minutes. And, if we
miss that one, we got Hawaii at 12:_4.
00 45 47 CDR 12:44, Okay. If we miss you at ARIA, we'll see you
in an hour. And, I guess we'll try this third one.
And, I guess the fourth one is another super-duper
EVA, ri gh ?
00 50 50 CC Skylab, Houston. H