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Scope and Contents This collection consists of 11 color slides, 23 color prints, 49 digital scans, and two slide presentations of drawings all relating to early interior design concepts of the Skylab ...
The ISS interior looks like what it is, where scientists do important work. Skylab still felt like people of tomorrow living in space.
Rising temperatures — 179 degrees Fahrenheit (82 degrees Celsius) on Skylab’s hull, 100.4 F (38 C) in its habitable interior — looked set to double.
Flight controllers moved Skylab's secondary solar panels to face the sun to provide as much electricity as possible, but because of the loss of the debris shield this caused the station's interior ...
Dubbed Skylab in February 1970, a full-sized mockup was completed even before the final three Apollo missions, 18, 19, and 20, were canceled by Congress.
Skylab, the first U.S. space station, remains the largest station launched into orbit in one piece. When its last crew departed in February 1974, it still had plenty of oxygen, water, and other ...
Flight controllers moved Skylab's secondary solar panels to face the sun to provide as much electricity as possible, but because of the loss of the debris shield this caused the station's interior ...
Skylab was the United States' first space station and represented the nation's first effort at long-term human space missions.
U.S. military astronauts commanded all three of Skylab's crewed missions that took place in 1973 and 1974 and accounted for seven of its nine crew members.The Apollo 12 commander who'd walked on ...
Image used with permission by copyright holder Thursday is the 40th anniversary of Skylab falling back to Earth. While most people know it as America’s first manned space station, its influence ...