On Aug 14, 3:44�am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Dr.Smith wrote:
I always had this image in my head that the first astronauts to visit Skylab
after several years of abandonment, would look like the scene were the
astronauts board Discovery in 2010. �The would enter a station dark and cold
with no light .

Read up on the rescue repair mission to Salyut 7, because that's a lot
like what it was like:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_7

Pat

Last crew made prep for future visitors left a christmas tree of stuff
on display

junking the saturn family of launchers was a major blunder