Posted on September 7, 2023
In space, on the day the second crew left Skylab, which was September 25, 1973, the orbital workshop began it’s third unmanned period.
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Tagged:Al Bean, Ed Gibson, Jerry Carr, Kenneth Kleinknecht, Kohoutek, Skylab, Skylab 4, William Pogue
Posted on October 19, 2023
“There was no strike in space by any stretch of the imagination. What could we threaten to do, go live on the moon? If any of these writers had gotten their information from just one of us, the crew or other people directly involved, responsible repo...
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Posted on November 3, 2023
“Nothing was outside, three times I went out that hatch into the ‘truly great outdoors.’ When I was out there, it was a silent world, except for the whispers of my own breath. Sometimes I felt totally alone, like the world below didn’t even know I wa...
Posted on November 17, 2023
“We and everybody on the ground thought that it was going to be a beautiful, brilliant comet. It turned out to be beautiful all right, but it was so faint that we really had to work to find it. Once we did find it, we observed a gorgeous thing: small...
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Posted on December 1, 2023
This crew was the first to celebrate a new year in space 17 times as they orbited the earth and moved through the time zones.
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Posted on April 19, 2024
Scientists had long been intrigued by Mercury, the innermost planet of our solar system. Despite its proximity to the Sun, Mercury remained largely unexplored, with many questions remaining about its surface features, geological composition, and magn...
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Tagged:Atlas Centaur, Canopus, Deep Space Network, Giuseppe Colombo, Kohoutek, Mariner 10, Mercury, Nasa, Titan, Venus