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 September 22, 2023
“As we rode, the big blue eyes of Al Shepard bored into each of us looking for any sign of weakness, any indication that one of these rookies was not ready to go. I looked back with a defiant smile, ‘Not you, Big Al, or anyone else is getting my seat...
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Posted on October 6, 2023
One stowaway was on the bicycle ergometer, another was in the LBNP (lower body negative pressure device), and the third was sitting on the toilet in the waste management compartment.
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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 December 15, 2023
The next time an American would venture outside of a spacecraft would be on a Space Shuttle flight and that was nine years later. In less than a decade, from June 1965 to February 1974, American astronauts had learned to effectively work in Earth orb...
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Tagged:Apollo Telescope Mount, Atm, Ed Gibson, Eva, Jerry Carr, Skylab, Skylab 4, Solar Flare, William Pogue
Posted on January 5, 2024
Activating the station upon arrival was a challenge, but packing up to return home was also a major event that took several days. For Carr and his crew, this was the last planned visit, but they left open the possibility of a return visit at some poi...
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