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report.
CC Well, in a word I can tell you he's doing
great. But I'll - I'll able find out that a little later
this evening.
CDR Okay, thank you, Just whenever you
get a little slower pace.
CC Rog, he's getting meaner and meaner
everyday.
CDR Good he's being himself, then.
CC Rog.
CC And Skylab, Houston, as we go over the
hill. You might want to get the VTR plugged in properly
so we have some kind of backup for this live downlink
at Goldstone if you have a chance before then.
CDR Roger.
CC Thank you.
PAO - - Honeysuckle, 22 minutes to Goldstone
tracking station in the Mojave Desert. Inquiry about the
condition of fellow Astronaut Fred Haise was made by
Skylab IV crew. Haise had a crackup in an airplane modified
BTL# near Galveston's Scholes Field several weeks ago. And
was burned in getting out of the wreckage and has had to have
considerable amount of skin grafting and burn repairs done.
CAP COMM, Dick Truly said he's doing fine, getting meaner and
meaner everyday. But he'll get additional information to pass
up to the crew later on this evening. Back in 21 minutes for
Goldstone. At 23:14 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1505/I
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here, the small one is what you see at first glance. And
then after your eyes began to accommodate to the light and
you begin to pick up the details, then you begin to pick up
this faint part of the tail back here and then you begin to
pick up this and then very last, but not least, you begin to
get this little sort of a cloud area over here. But this is
certainly what you see first. And this is like Ed was
saying - tlhis is like what we're used to seeing. But when
you really got a chance to look at it, then you can really see
that spike and the faint part of the tail here. The source
of our measurement here of 4 to 5 degrees with me holding my
index finger in my glove out and it - it covered, I think about
from here down to here on the comet. And so we figure it's about
4 to 5 degrees.
CC Okay, thank you, Jer. Let me see if there
are any other questions here and then if you've got anything else
you'd like to add, go ahead.
CDR The next thing is, is this coma here looks
pretty much the same size - maybe slightly larger now than
Mercury, and it's nice and sort of a a white. And I - I
claim a kind of a blue-white, but it's good and white. But
it's - this tail moving out behind it really starts turning
yellow and it does it very quickly.
CC Roger.
PLT Dick, a sort of a quantitative gauge is that
during the last orbit when I took the hat, I could see the spike
down into the airglow. And then through the nucleus of the coma,
and actually going into the airglow. I lost it shortly after
that, but that must be a pretty bright spike to be able to see it
in the background of the airglow.
CC Roger, Bill, understand.
CDR And, Dick, we've got a little bad news to
go along with the good news. And that is that the - the
(static) with us is jammed and doesn't look like we got a
single frame.
CC Oh no.
CDR ¥eah, it looks like the - the plug is pulled
the sprocket holder to pieces. You got anything else, Dick?
CC We're about 30 seconds to LOS, and we'll
I_ii tell you what. During the LOS period, I'ii poll the
folks and see if we have any other questions. But it is
certainly a fascinating discussion and we got real good TV
picture. We sure appreciate it from you guys.
CDR Okay, and I guess you got the same thing
on the VTR for reference D if you want to look at it again.
CC Okay. And we're just going to drop out
for a minute and a half or 2 minutes, and I'ii call you
Bermuda,
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SL-IV MCI510/I
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SL-IV MC1512/I
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SL-IV MC1517/I
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CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Ed, we've seen canister pressure a little bit
higher than normal. It's - that's not too abnormal for a post
EVA situation, but we think the better part of valor on the
SO56 X-REA HIGH VOLTAGE POWER ALUMINUM and BERYLLIUM switches
to OFF would be a good idea.
SPT You got them?
CC Okay, and we're about to have a Keyhold here
at MILA and I'll give you a call when we're out of Keyhole.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're out of keyhole here.
And SPT, Houston, one other short note for you if you've got
about 30 seconds to listen.
SPT Yeah, it's kind of quiet time now, Dick,
go ahead.
CC Okay, awhile ago, we uplinked a message in
the teleprinter. The name of it in its -called general message
ATM note. What it is it's a long series of proposed things
that you and Bill Lenoir are going to get to talk about tomorrow
on the ATM conference that may or may not depend on your
discussion end up as checklist changes on S054 in the JOP
summary sheet. There are two things I want to mention to you now.
Number one, you might take a look at these prior to the ATM
conference, that might help you out, and number two, whatever
you do, do not put them in the JOP summary sheets until a
regular JOP summary sheet checklist change shows up.
SPT Okay, very good, Dick. I'ii take a look
at them tonight. Thank you.
CC Okay, real fine, Ed. And we're about 30
seconds from handover and for the med conference. The next
station is Ascension at 03:20 and that's the PLT's phone call.
And that's antennas left to right.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal as
it were as the circuit is handed over to the crew physican,
Dr. Jerry Hordinsky for the evening medical status report or
medical conference with the crew. The physican will take the
remainder of the Bermuda pass about the next 6-1/2 mintues.
And CAP COMM will get the circuit back for Ascension in
13 minutes at which time, we shall return. At 03:06 Green-
which mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1518/I
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SL-IV MC1520/I
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between 470 and 570 persons who may be killed during the
102-hour New Year's holiday weekend, takes into account the
gasoline shortage. During last year's three-day holiday
weekend, 438 persons died on the nation's roads. An aval
an avalanche tumbled down a little-used ski slope in Park
City West, Utah, today, killing one ski instructor and
slightly injuring another. Scene of the avalanche was a
back portion of the resort and not one of the regular runs.
It had been snowing heavily out there for four days. In
Tel Aviv, Premier Golda Meir's Labor Party campaigned for
Monday's crucial election on the issues of security against
the Arab enemy and peace in the Middle East. Opinion polls
showed her party which has dominated Israeli politics for
years, was running only a fraction ahead of the newly united
right-wing opposition. President Nixen signed into law a
$375 million measure designed to encourage the formation of
health maintenance organizations or group health plans. The
bill requires employers of 25 or more persons to offer the
option of such health plans in addition to private insurance
in negotiating health benefits with employees. Here's a
few football scores for bowl games today. The Sun Bowl,
Missouri 34, Auburn 17. Here in Houston at the Bluebonnet
Bowl, the University of Houston 47, Tulane 7. At the East/
West shrine game, East 35, West 7. And at the Gator Bowl
in the thrid quarter Texas Tech 21, Tennessee 13.
SPT Sounds like the University of Houston
did it to them.
CC They really did Ed. Hey Ed, Phil says
you get an A minus tonight on closing out the ATM. We
need the MPC roll to inhibit.
SPT I plan to get that tomorrow morning,
Dick.
CC (Chuckle) Okay, well we'd appreciate
it tonight.
CDR Dick, I've got power to the VTR now. You
might check it have them check it quickly and see if it
is the way you need it.
CC Good show, we'll do that. Thank you.
CC We like it, Jerry.
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SL-IV MC1521/I
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on that and get them after that period so we can correct for
the max Beta condition.
CDR Yeah, that's what I mean.
CC Okay.
CDR Send us a note on the pad then and
we'll start doing that.
CC Okay, that's fine. Okay, we'll - that'll
minimize the delta excursion between those two and we'll send
you a reminder of that so that you can turn it off about start
turning off about 5 or 6 days prior to that max. And,
CDR Sounds good.
CC Okay, very good. We're about 15 seconds
from LOS. Next station contact is over Guam in 34 minutes and
we'll say good morning here.
CDR Roger.
SPT So long, Crip.
CC Bye, bye.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 28 minutes and
47 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now
across the coast of Africa. 33 minutes from now our next
acquisition signal at Guam. For lengthy periods both this
morning and this afternoon Skylab chief scientist Ed Gibson
will point the space station solar telescope at the comet
Kohoutek. The comet now about 15,000,000 miles from the Sun
is following a looping course that will bring it within
75,000_000 miles of the Earth by mid-January. The present
time it's a little over i00,000,000 miles from the planet.
After yesterday's 3-1/2 hour spacewalk, the crew sketched
the comet and showed their drawings to scientists in the
mission control center by way of television. All together
a dozen scientific instruments have been used by the astronauts
in their attempt to expand man's knowledge of the tiny visitor
believed to kave come from 5,000,000,000,000 miles out in space.
Medical experiments today include blood sampling from all three
crew memberap done this morning, and that will be processed a
little later in the day and also a test of Pilot Bill Pogue's
cardiovascular system, that's M092 experiment and M093, which
is vect_rcardiogram. Also a number of passes on the ATM,
the total time at the solar instruments today will be about
6 and a half hours, Also scheduled for operation today is
S019, one of the star_looking experiments and a number of
handkeld pkoto assignments, several of them officially scheduled
in tke Flight Plan. Those photo assignments include major
geological areas of North America. Skylab crew has its next
daF off sckeduled for Thursday. They'd previsouly had
a da_ sch6duled a little earlier, but they decided to delay
that, They have an early Earth resources pass on New Year's
Dayj th6y'_ll be getting up at 5 a.m. according to the present
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to wait until late this week to see the comet, which should
be visible just after sunset in the southwestern sky. The
white light coronagraph is also being used for today's obser-
vation, that's the fourth of the four instruments on JOP 18D.
That's used to record the total visible light from the comet,
and this is one of the instruments which has followed the comet
since it came close to the Sun. Gibson will follow images
being recorded by this device on his TV monitor on the ATM
console. That's of course been broadcast to ground before,
and that may again happen. There is time set aside for
recording white light coronagraph imagery today on the TV
monitor. We're approximately 1 minute from acquisition of
signal at Honeysuckle. We'll keep the line open now for
spacecraft: communicator Carl Henize.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honey-
suckle for 2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Carl.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Say again.
SPT Carl, I1ve got a request for the folks
who are planning the 18Ds.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT If they could put the initial pointing
or initial location of the comet somewhere other than on a
line, which is horizontal and the same width as the spot in
the white light coronagraph display. Turns out we have a
black bar which runs across the display, and the comet, this
morning, was positioned underneath that black bar. I think
if they worked to try to put it in the lower right-hand
quadrant, that would probably be better and easier to work
with.
CC Okay, we - we copy that. And, we're
going to have LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll be seeing you
over Vanguard at 16:19.
SPT Thank you, Carl.
CC Sure thing.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 57-1/2 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station, now passing just
north of New Zealand, has passed out of range of the Honey-
suckle Creek, Australia tracking station. 22 minutes to our
next acquisition of signal at Vanguard. This is Skylab Control
at 58 minutes after the hour.
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SL-IV MC1533/I
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CC Okay, we copy.
CC Ed, in closing up from the JOP 18
Ed, in closing up on the JOP 18D we noticed that the - the
SO82B door is not completely closed again, but this is some-
thing tha1: we'll handle from down here. And we have i minute
to LOS. And we'll be seeing you - we'll be seeing you over
the Canaries at 18:20, a couple of minutes.
SPT Okay, Karl. I'm wondering if then someone
could explain to me a little bit about what the pointing was
this morning. Apparently it was to look at the plasma tail
and that, as I can tell from what I saw up here, you were
thinking was not anywhere near the dust tail.
CC That's an interesting comment, and we'll
check up on that.
PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 18 minutes and
52 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has
passed out of range at Bermuda. We're about 1 minute and
40 seconds from acquisition at Canary Island. There will be
a pass through Canary Island and Madrid with a brief interruption
between them. And the total length of the two passes should
be about 10 minutes. We'll bring the line up live now for
air-to-ground. Carl Henize at the spacecraft communicator's
console.
CC Skylab, Houston; standing by for 9 minutes.
We're talking through Canary and Madrid. And when we reach
Madrid, that's about 18:21, we'll be dumping the tapes. And
Ed, your your surmise concerning the plasma tail was correct,
we were aiming out there to get the plasma tail today on that
18D.
SPT Okay, I'd be kind of interested in knowing
how the people on the ground know where the plasma tail is.
CC I guess there's a question. Do you have
any visual indication?
SPT Not on the plasma tail I certainly don't.
CC Right.
SPT We're not putting that tail anywhere near
the slit or the center of the display. And I'm wondering how
they know at what angle the plasma tail is coming off from the
nucleus.
CC Roger, we're - we're trying to get the rational
on that.
SPT Hey, Karl, I can give you some more drift
information. Over the last nightside at 16:55 the position
on the overlay after I had done the roll on both the canister
and the overlay, was a minus 123 and a plus 26. At 17:32,
over the nightside with no drift compensation it ended up at
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not going to come out with very good long time exposures, with
the drifts; that we're working with.
CC Right, I'm (garble) discussion of that
problem right now. And, we'll be coming up with something
improved, pretty soon, I hope.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS. We'll
see you over Texas, 19:41, 30 minutes from now.
SPT Rog, Karl. So long.
CC So long.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours Ii minutes and
41 seconds. We've now lost signal at Honeysuckle Creek. Our
next acquisition half an hour away will be at Texas. Every-
thing seems to be moving along fairly smoothly now on today's
activities, which focus primarily on the comet Kohoutek. That
was described earlier this morning during a conference with
Bill Lenoir on the ATM experiments. The ATM is being used
now while the comet is within close range of the Sun. Will
continue to be used that way for the next several days. Later
on, of course, the corollary experiment, which are used out
of the scientific airlock will be brought into play again.
This is Skylab Control at 12 minutes and 20 seconds after the
hour.
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on that. I think it's more white than orange. But the tail
itself is a yellowish orange.
CC Right. Incidentally, I'm personally interested
in the direction of that spike. You indicated it's not directly
pointed at the Sun, or can you tell very well?
SPT I'ii have to try and get a better look at
it again. Yesterday it had the appearence that it was pointed
at the Sun. I'ii go ahead and try and get another look. The
problem is you try to dark get yourself dark adapted and then
you so you don't look where the Sun is, and then you start
looking as soon as Sun's gone down. But 1111 try and get an
answer the next couple of passes.
CC Right. I'm not trying to get you to spend
any time that should be spent otherwise. But yesterday in
our discussions I guess people have told you that that's probably
the old tail that curves back behind the Sun. And if it's
really the old tail it should sort of aim a little - a little
bit north of the Sun probably. But that's - some theories say
that.
SPT Okay, Karl, I'ii try and get a little better
estimate for you. Yesterday it looked like it was pointed
right at the Sun.
CC Okay, good. Glad to have that confirmed.
CC Incidentally, you are seeing this through
one of the STS windows in solar inertial attitude? Is that
correct?
SPT That's affirmative, Karl. Apparently the
people who us gave the estimates of what we could see forgot
that there was part of the panel cut out at the bottom and a
few sections of that panel missing except for the support
structure.
CC That's great, because these eyeball observations
you're making are very important to us down here.
SPT From the white light coronagraph pictures
which we've sent down, there was one day there, maybe two days
ago or so, where that one spike did show up quite prominently,
at least it did on our display up here and I was able to photo-
graph it with the Polariod. l_m wondering if you had done the
same down there - been able to correlate the roll and see whether
that spike gets pointed directly at the Sun.
CC Roger, Ed. We're not sure that we recorded
that on t]_e TV down herep but we're double checking on that.
SPT Okay_ we sent it down on a couple of occasions
when we were doing an 18C, I believe it was.
CC Okay, fine. We'll check to see whether we
got any data down here.
CC We've got i minute to LOS. We'll see you over
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CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of siKnal
through Honeysuckle Creek. TrackinK station Texas coming up
in 27 minutes. 10-1/2 minute pass over Texas inasmuch as
the space station will go almost directly over that station
in Corpus Christi. 86.8 degrees elevation angle. We'll
return in 26 minutes. This is Skylab Control at 20:49 Green-
wich mean time.
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CC that.
SPT Is that the drift, Karl?
CC Right, lines 14 and 15, we changed the
drift - we've changed the drift every 10 minutes in X and
every 4 minutes in Y.
SPT Got it.
CC And that's imperically adjusted to suit
what you gave us this morning.
SPT Thank you.
CC And we've got 30 seconds to LOS and we'll
pick you up over Tananarive in about i0 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
through tracking station Madrid. Next station upcoming will
be the voice relay station at Tananarive on the island of
Madagascar, more properly the Malagasy Republic. That's
13 minutes from now, at 21:46, this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 21:59 Greenwich
mean time. Space station Skylab coming up in 50 seconds
across the voice relay station at Tananarive. Standing
by now for resumption of conversation between Spacecraft
Communicator Karl Henize and the crew of Skylab IV.
CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for
4 to 5 minutes, we'll drop out early because of the antenna
problems at Tananarive probably.
SPT Roger, Karl.
CC Skylab, Houston we expect LOS sometime
in the next 1 to 3 minutes we'll see you over
PAO This is Skylab Control. The voice relay
station at Tananarive on the island of Madagascar is having
technical difficulties with the antenna at that station.
There were several dropouts of the downlink between space
station Skylab and Tananarive. Next station in 15 minutes
will be Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, we'll return at that
time. And at 22:07 Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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now, quick look. And then as your eyes begin accommodate more and
more you can see more and more of the tail. And the coma
rather than being a big bright dot llke llke was in our
sketch yesterdayp I see it as a brighter dot but smaller and
with more of the tail billowing out behind it. And with
binoculars you can very definitely see the sunward spike,
and it's pointed right directly at the Sun, and it's also
quite orange. And I could not see this the sunward spike
with the unaided eye, only with binoculars_ and with binoculars
the tail Just about doubled in length from what I could see
quick look. And it's - the tail is essentially yellow and
orange_ there's not much white left_ and the coma is more of
a white_yellow.
CC How about the material that you saw
yesterday between the tail and the sunward spike, can you still
detect that in the binocs.
CDR That's affirmative. I can see a brightening
on that one side but not on the other side.
PLT And Dick, real quick PLT. Do you have the
recorders?
CC Jerry, one question concerning your estimate
as 4 to 5 times as much tail as you'd described yesterday.
You gave the estimate yesterday as I recall
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we'll just: kind of - kind of play that one by ear. I'm not
sure whether anybody reminded you or not about the family
comm, but it's set up for you this evening at Goldstone at
03:48.
CDR Okay, 03:48 on the family comm and give
me that med conference again.
CC Okay, Guam at 03:23.
CDR Okay.
CC And we've still got about 3 minutes here.
I'm standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston, in case we have an early
LOS, Honeysuckle comes up at 23:59. We show still a minute
and a half here. So I'ii see you at Honeysuckle.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, hello at Honeysuckle for
9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, Dick, we're doing our show biz
right now, documentary photos.
CC Okay, Jer, have at it.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, Ed.
SPT Tell the S052 folks that the ready light
has mysteriously reappeared again.
CC Okay, I will.
SPT Say, Dick, that CMG reset looks eminent
what's it look like down there?
CC Stand by. Ed, G&S thinks now that
the gimbal angles are looking okay, we'll probably get a
couple of desat firings, but we do not expect an auto reset
in the immediate future.
SPT Okay, very good. I was looking at HC and
that has been climbing all the way along here. Thank yen.
CC Roger, well the momentum is off nominal,
but the gimbal angles are looking in good shape.
SPT Good to hear, thank you.
CC SPT, Houston. We notice you're in mirror
auto raster which is okay with us. We would like to remind
you to get us some - a couple of grating scans before 00:36.
SPT Okay. Dick, I'm afraid I shouldn't have
said anything. My ready light has disappeared again, on WLC.
CC Just as mysteriously, I presume?
SPT That's right.
CC Okay, I'ii tell them that also.
CC Skylab, Houston, i minute to LOS. Hawaii
at 00:19, and we're going to dump the data/voice recorder
at Hawaii.
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CC Great.
CDR 52 you say.
CC That's right 00:52 and I'ii give you
warning there and that pass is it's a Canary, Ascension
pass so it's a pretty long one shouldn't be any problem.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston i minute to LOS, Bermuda
at 00:43.
CDR Roger, Dick.
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he asked for it. For you, we were asking for 28 hours and
due to lost events or being late here and there, we were
getting a little bit less than what we were asking for. But,
the two missions essentially, the the total that were get-
ting from each of you was - turned out to be almost exactly the
same. This - the summary of this is that using a great deal
of hindsight, it's apparent to us that our thinking was
biased by the late SL-III results and the scheduling during
this time was too ambitious. At that time, which was about
i0 days or so ago, maybe 2 weeks, we've been scheduling
you for 24 hours of science per day, that does not include
PT _ and incidentally, the numbers that we took out of the
two mlssiens were based on the same kind of tally. We didn't
use different ground rules. And since the last 2 weeks,
you've stayed completely up with our Flight Plans, or ahead
of us, and as far as we're concerned, these last 2 weeks
have been just going smooth as glass, with regard to getting
done what we scheduled and we think it's a lot smarter flight
planning. That's all I have to say here on this first part.
I do have some other things we can talk about as we go through
the details. I thought at this point, guys, we still have
about 2_i/2 minutes at Bermuda, I thought I would turn it
back over to you and see if that portion of the - of the
conversation you asked us about is clear now.
CDR Okay, Dick. Thanks a lot, it makes me
feel a little bit better. I understand now why we went off
at such a fire house pace there. I really thought I'd made it
plain to people that we did not intend to operate at that
kind of pace, because for a mission that was going to be a
extra 28 or so days longer, it seemed to me we had to
go for endurance not for max performance right at the - in the
beginning_ I think one other area that you did not mention
that was not preplanned or not in the mission plan and that
was all these medical tasks that we had, the limb volumes, the -
the girth measurements, and all that stuff, we and the facial
photographs, the stereo photographs, the IR photographs, all
that stuff we received little or no training and had never
seen the stuff before. So - that really turns into a time
user. I might also add, too, that we very definitely felt
the pressure come off about 10 days ago, when you guys shifted
gears down there. And I'ii tell you, it was a very welcome
event .
CC Well, I tell you what, Jerry. There's an
interesting thing there, we even though we started asking -
we started scheduling a few hours less. We're getting the
same output as we were before and that was the point I
was trying to make, which was a difference between you and
Al's crew. That was essentially what we were - the way we
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were handling that mission those first few weeks. And so,
that was just an extra burden and we didn't really appreciate
at that time. We're about 45 seconds from LOS. We're
going to go - the next station is Ascension at 02:36. I'll
go ahead and use this 30 seconds to touch on the next subject,
which is the next paragraph or so which talks about the number
of accomplishments which we think is important for the hours
invested. The message is real simple there. I think the
paragraphs say that, and as you guys feel that the prep
or post time for any of these science en - endeavors can be
shortened_ we want you to feel good about them, but if you
find that you have the free time, naturally that - that ends
up allowing us getting us more science per unit time. I think
that's obvious and really doesn't need a whole lot more
explanation. I see we're goin_ LOS here very shortly, so I'll
give you a call at Ascension.
CDR Okay, Dick.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
from tracking station Bermuda. Space station Skylab covering
the gap across the mid Atlantic between the Bermuda limits and
in 5 minutes, we_ll come up on the northwestern horizon from
the lonely rock in the South Atlantic called Ascension Island.
And that antenna will track Skylab for a period of about 10-1/2
minutes, and the resumption of the operations conference be-
tween the crew of Skylab IV and Spacecraft Communicator Dick
Truly. Standing by for Ascension acquisition, Skylab Control.
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that_ I'ii shut up add let you read me the evening status
report.
CDR Okay, we'll put that million dollars in
the bank and save it for Shuttle. Evening status report.
Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6.5 heavy, half light, SPT, 7.0, heavy -
7 heavy, PLT - -
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some old film that's bad now because of the radiation off some
SL II reels and we've been working on a procedure that we
hope will help fix that up. So I'ii talk to you guys stateside,
next pass is the doctors.
CDR Okay, that's real good, thank you Dick.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
through Carnarvon, 2 minutes to reacquisitlon at Guam and
the medical conference between Skylab IV crew and Dr. Jerry
Hordinsky the crew physician. We'll return for the Goldstone
pass in 27 minutes. And as soon as it's available the summary
of the medical con - medical conference. This stateside pass
likely will be the final conversation with the crew tonight
before bedtime ending in about 45 minutes at Bermuda LOS.
At 03:21 Greenwich mean time returning in 27 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.
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CC It's in work.
CC Bill, would you try slewing some of the
paper out for us, please?
CC Bill, would you try slewing some of the
paper out for us, please.
PLT I'm sorry, Crip, yes I did.
PLT It's already been done.
CC Okay.
CC I wonder while I'm pondering this problem
here with the teleprinter if Ed or somebody has got time to
copy down this first ATM pass.
PLT Okay, the woodpecker is working now.
SPT Stand by just a minute on that, Crip, I'll
be right with you.
CC Well_ okay, we may have it solved here.
PLT Some old stuff is coming through, Crip.
I noticed I had a piece of what looks like a JOP 18 Delta here,
but it Just picked up in the middle here and so forth, that's
when I came up here a minute ago. I came up early this morning
and there was nothing but blank paper. And after I told you
about the problem I came up here and there was a piece of a
message in there which I assume you couldn't have sent from the time
I told you about the problem until I got up here. And now some more
stuff is coming out but I don't think it's your test message.
CC Okayp we had a JOP 18D handy and we were
Just using that, Bill.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay. And we had sent a portion of a
message up there between the time you reported it to us and
before you got up there and that was an 18D also.
SPT Okay, and Crip, we do have the ATM schedule
that's 46_i1 AI. We got that last night.
CC Okay. I guess we probably need to understand
what youtve got on board then. Can you give us an idea what
the last thing you got on the teleprinter was. Have any way
of identifying that?
SPT Okay Crip, we've got a 46:33 Charlie, a
46:36 and a 46:37.
CC Okay, we copy that. 333 -
CDR And we all each of us have got our summaries
and details,
CC Rog.
PLT Crip, 46:14 Bravo i is comln_ through good.
CC Okay, that's what we're loading now.
CC Okayp I guess we_ve got it working again,
and we"ll have the INCO busy here trying to get the rest of
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savings time, which begins about a week from now. That means
that for the next several days, the crew will be waking up
or have a standard wakeup time of 5 a.m. centeral standard
time rather than the 6 a.m. time they've been waking up so
far. On January 2nd, just a couple days from now, we'll have
a crew day off, and the crew will be allowed to sleep then two
hours later than normal, which will then be 7 o'clock in the
morning. That January 2nd, there will also be a crew press
conference, the the midmission press conference, on the crew
day off, and newsmen who are selecting press questions will
be meeting today at i p.m. in building i in the briefing room.
Agaln_ that's newsmen selecting questions for the press con-
ference to be held on January 2, should be in the building
i briefing room today at i p.m. Those newsmen wishing to make inputs
to the press conference should either call Howard Benedict of
the Associated Press at area code 713_333_3535; that's Howard
Benedict of AP at 333-3535 in the Houston area; or they may
call the News Center here at Johnson Space Center to make
inputs to the press conference on January 2. Newsmen will
be selecting those press questions today at 1 p.m. central
standard time. Again, the early wakeups will begin tomorrow
for the Earth resources pass_ particularly, which will cover
the South American tip and an area of the Falkland Current off
the coast of South America in the Atlantic Ocean and then will
cross the Atlantic and cover areas of north Africa at the
end of the pass, a very extended pass from the tip of South
America to the northern part of north Africa. 8 minutes to
our next acquisition of signal at Canary Islands. 47-1/2
minutes after the hour. This is Skylab Control.
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turns out, that was just a higher noise level that's apparently
associated with the higher temperature of the instrument and
the detectors. Gibson says that it could well be that the
data being gathered is in fact data on the coma of the comet,
that is to say the large could of gases that surround the
head of the comet, rather than the nucleus, the small object
that in fact produces all the gases in the tail. The nucleus
itself is only about 25 miles across. The ground team is
unable really to determine what they're looking at all over -
the observation shows an area that's 5 arc minutes on a
side, and that's a very large area, about 130,000 miles
on each side square view and that's part of the raster of
the instrument; and apparently there are no sharp indications
of differences which would indicate that perhaps they're
looking at a larger surface than merely the nucleus.
the Skylah crew is spending a good part of today
looking at the comet. They're also - have been watchln_ the
ground. Last night Commander Gerald Carr took some time
to look at BaJa California in the Los Angeles Basin area.
Commander said on the tape message returned to the ground
early this morning that during the evening he looked at the
Los Angeles Basin because that area is home for him. He was
trying to see the San Andreas Fault at the same time. He
said, "Quite frankly I was like a dog in a butcher shop. I
didn't know which way to turn". And, the pilot was with him.
They had both the Hasselblad and the 300-millimeter telephoto
lens for the Nikon. They took some pictures with both.
They I believe they saw the San Andreas Fault very
very plainly, had no doublt about where it was. And he said,
however he could like to take a couple of more looks at it
to make sure that he wasn't mistaking another fault in that
area. But, he said he wasn't able to see nearly as much in
the Baja California region. They took a number of pictures
of Los Angeles and Orange Country area with the Hasselblad
camera, the 70-millimeter camera. And, also they took some
of the northern end of Baja California. Using a 300-millimeter
lens they should get some very detailed pictures of the Los
Angeles area. The Nikon was used on the Los Angeles Basin
for a couple of shots. And they have on previous days taken
p_ctures of a number of other areas, but, one other thin_
they took yesterday, was of the Grand Canyon area. They took
two p_ctures o2 the Grand Canyon. They attempted to find Phoenix
but didn't have any luck there. They did say they saw the
Meteor Crater. They photographed a couple of nights ago,
the area around Miami, using that same 300-millimeter lens,
w[_Jich g_ves very excellent pictures of using telephoto lenses
that gives a very good close-up of cities. However, that of
course doesn)t compare in resolution quality with the high
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