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[i]Eight docking attempts were required to successfully achieve a hard docking following the standup extravehicular activity. Although capture latch engagement (soft dock) and undocking were successfully achieved prior to the standup extravehicular activity, the subsequent eight attempts never resulted in capture latch engagement and hard docking was performed using the emergency docking procedure ... the docking problem was similar to an anomaly that occurred on the Apollo 14 mission.[/i]
[i]CC: Skylab, Houston we're AOS at Hawaii. CONRAD: Roger, Houston. You - we've done our second EVA and we have gotten probe ... the docking mechanism - we have removed the screw which unfortunately is now in orbit. But we have the probe cover off and the Apollo cover, and we are just reviewing the procedures ...[/i]
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