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Episodes Tagged with "Earth Resources Experiment Package"

Posted on February 15, 2023

NASA’s first priority was to get Skylab back into solar inertial attitude.  This was both the coolest attitude and would point the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) solar arrays directly at the sun. Thus the crew would have the most electrical power possi...

P2-Astronaut Paul Weitz prepares to use bicycle ergometer

P3-Weitz Skylab 2 pilot mans the control and display console of the Apollo Telescope Mount

P1-Lower Body Negative Pressure Experiment

Posted on March 1, 2023

“Houston, Skylab. I’d like you to be the first to know that the PLT is the proud father of a genuine flare.” Joe Kerwin

P3-ATM

P2-Skylab 500

P1-PeteBike

Posted on March 16, 2023

On Mission day 25, the crew was informed that they had surpassed the Russian space endurance record set by Soyuz 11 on Salyut 1 in 1971.

P5-Trash

P4-DiagTrash

P3-Fecal

P2-Hygine

P1-Sleep