NASA Celebrates Skylab Anniversary at Von Braun Forum

Al Feinberg
Headquarters, Washington Nov. 5, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-4504)

Jerry Berg
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
(Phone: 256/544-0034)

RELEASE: 03-358

NASA CELEBRATES SKYLAB ANNIVERSARY AT VON BRAUN FORUM

Eight NASA astronauts who lived and worked on Skylab,
America's first space station, will celebrate the 30th
anniversary of the historic laboratory on Nov. 10, during the
annual Von Braun Forum in Huntsville, Ala.

Eight of the nine NASA astronauts, who lived on Skylab for
periods as long as 84 days, will lead panel discussions. The
eight astronauts, Owen Garriott, Joe Kerwin, Ed Gibson, Paul
Weitz, Jerry Carr, Jack Lousma, Al Bean and Bill Pogue, will
discuss past and present achievements in human spaceflight.
Pete Conrad, the ninth Skylab crewman, died in 1999.

The public event is at 3 p.m. EST at the Chan Auditorium at
the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and admission is
free.

Skylab, a two-level workshop was made from a converted Saturn
S-IVB stage. It was launched May 14, 1973 atop a Saturn V
rocket, the same vehicle that launched the Apollo moon
missions. Weighing nearly 100 tons and having the same volume
as a small, three-bedroom house, Skylab orbited Earth for more
than 171 days.

Three different, three-person crews staffed Skylab and
performed hundreds of solar and microgravity experiments.
While Skylab remains a bright page in NASA history, its
success was not without problems. About 63 seconds after
launch, a meteoroid protection shield ripped and tore off a
solar array panel, jamming and preventing the deployment of
another. As a result, Skylab was subject to serious
overheating. The first crew launch, originally scheduled the
day after Skylab's, was delayed 10 days, while teams at NASA's
Marshall Space Flight Center worked around the clock to devise
solutions to the problem.

Following ground team instructions, the first Skylab crew,
Conrad, Weitz, and Kerwin, successfully erected a reflective
parasol sunshade and cut a strap to open the remaining solar
array. The mission continued until the crew returned to Earth
on June 22, 1973, clearing the way for the two follow-on
missions.

Skylab proved humans could live and work in space for long
periods without artificial gravity, and experiments showed
microgravity was not only beneficial but also necessary for
some research. Skylab was a major stepping-stone toward
developing the International Space Station, a 16-nation
orbiting laboratory under construction in space since 1998.

For information about NASA on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

For information about the Skylab 30th Anniversary, visit:

http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/b...os/skylab.html

For more information about Skylab history, visit the Marshall
Center History Web site at:

http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/



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Ron Baalke ) writes:
Al Feinberg
Headquarters, Washington Nov. 5, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-4504)

Jerry Berg
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
(Phone: 256/544-0034)

RELEASE: 03-358

NASA CELEBRATES SKYLAB ANNIVERSARY AT VON BRAUN FORUM

Eight NASA astronauts who lived and worked on Skylab,
America's first space station, will celebrate the 30th
anniversary of the historic laboratory on Nov. 10, during the
annual Von Braun Forum in Huntsville, Ala.

I take it that this date of celebration is merely a time when
the particpants could all get together...

Eight of the nine NASA astronauts, who lived on Skylab for
periods as long as 84 days, will lead panel discussions. The
eight astronauts, Owen Garriott, Joe Kerwin, Ed Gibson, Paul
Weitz, Jerry Carr, Jack Lousma, Al Bean and Bill Pogue, will
discuss past and present achievements in human spaceflight.
Pete Conrad, the ninth Skylab crewman, died in 1999.

The public event is at 3 p.m. EST at the Chan Auditorium at
the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and admission is
free.

Skylab, a two-level workshop was made from a converted Saturn
S-IVB stage. It was launched May 14, 1973 atop a Saturn V
rocket, the same vehicle that launched the Apollo moon
missions. Weighing nearly 100 tons and having the same volume
as a small, three-bedroom house, Skylab orbited Earth for more
than 171 days.

Ummm.... Yeah, a lot more then 171 days... 6 years and 2 months,
so that'd be around 3360 days...

I think they meant to say, was manned for more ( about ) 171 days...

Three different, three-person crews staffed Skylab and
performed hundreds of solar and microgravity experiments.
While Skylab remains a bright page in NASA history, its
success was not without problems. About 63 seconds after
launch, a meteoroid protection shield ripped and tore off a
solar array panel, jamming and preventing the deployment of
another. As a result, Skylab was subject to serious
overheating. The first crew launch, originally scheduled the
day after Skylab's, was delayed 10 days, while teams at NASA's
Marshall Space Flight Center worked around the clock to devise
solutions to the problem.

Following ground team instructions, the first Skylab crew,
Conrad, Weitz, and Kerwin, successfully erected a reflective
parasol sunshade and cut a strap to open the remaining solar
array. The mission continued until the crew returned to Earth
on June 22, 1973, clearing the way for the two follow-on
missions.

Skylab proved humans could live and work in space for long
periods without artificial gravity, and experiments showed
microgravity was not only beneficial but also necessary for
some research. Skylab was a major stepping-stone toward
developing the International Space Station, a 16-nation
orbiting laboratory under construction in space since 1998.

For information about NASA on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

For information about the Skylab 30th Anniversary, visit:

http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/b...os/skylab.html

For more information about Skylab history, visit the Marshall
Center History Web site at:

http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/

Andre


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On 6 Nov 2003 00:47:23 GMT, (Andre Lieven)
wrote:

SNIP!

....Jesus ****ing Christ, Andre! TRIM YOUR QUOTES!!!

About 63 seconds after launch, a meteoroid protection shield ripped and tore off a
solar array panel, jamming and preventing the deployment of another.

....Which brings up the question of the day: was this separation
captured by ground cameras or not?


OM

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On or about Wed, 05 Nov 2003 19:14:26 -0600, OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org made the sensational claim that:
...Which brings up the question of the day: was this separation
captured by ground cameras or not?

IIRC, it wasn't, it was obscured by clouds.
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OM (om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org) writes:
On 6 Nov 2003 00:47:23 GMT, (Andre Lieven)
wrote:

SNIP!

...Jesus ****ing Christ, Andre! TRIM YOUR QUOTES!!!

:-)

About 63 seconds after launch, a meteoroid protection shield ripped
and tore off a
solar array panel, jamming and preventing the deployment of another.

...Which brings up the question of the day: was this separation
captured by ground cameras or not?

Was it on a side imaged by said cameras ?

Andre

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"Three different, three-person crews staffed Skylab... '

Uh, three different three-MAN crews MANNED the skylab, you
language-challenged twit.



"Ron Baalke" wrote in message
...

Al Feinberg
Headquarters, Washington Nov. 5, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-4504)

Jerry Berg
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
(Phone: 256/544-0034)

RELEASE: 03-358

NASA CELEBRATES SKYLAB ANNIVERSARY AT VON BRAUN FORUM

Eight NASA astronauts who lived and worked on Skylab,
America's first space station, will celebrate the 30th
anniversary of the historic laboratory on Nov. 10, during the
annual Von Braun Forum in Huntsville, Ala.

Eight of the nine NASA astronauts, who lived on Skylab for
periods as long as 84 days, will lead panel discussions. The
eight astronauts, Owen Garriott, Joe Kerwin, Ed Gibson, Paul
Weitz, Jerry Carr, Jack Lousma, Al Bean and Bill Pogue, will
discuss past and present achievements in human spaceflight.
Pete Conrad, the ninth Skylab crewman, died in 1999.

The public event is at 3 p.m. EST at the Chan Auditorium at
the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and admission is
free.

Skylab, a two-level workshop was made from a converted Saturn
S-IVB stage. It was launched May 14, 1973 atop a Saturn V
rocket, the same vehicle that launched the Apollo moon
missions. Weighing nearly 100 tons and having the same volume
as a small, three-bedroom house, Skylab orbited Earth for more
than 171 days.

Three different, three-person crews staffed Skylab and
performed hundreds of solar and microgravity experiments.
While Skylab remains a bright page in NASA history, its
success was not without problems. About 63 seconds after
launch, a meteoroid protection shield ripped and tore off a
solar array panel, jamming and preventing the deployment of
another. As a result, Skylab was subject to serious
overheating. The first crew launch, originally scheduled the
day after Skylab's, was delayed 10 days, while teams at NASA's
Marshall Space Flight Center worked around the clock to devise
solutions to the problem.

Following ground team instructions, the first Skylab crew,
Conrad, Weitz, and Kerwin, successfully erected a reflective
parasol sunshade and cut a strap to open the remaining solar
array. The mission continued until the crew returned to Earth
on June 22, 1973, clearing the way for the two follow-on
missions.

Skylab proved humans could live and work in space for long
periods without artificial gravity, and experiments showed
microgravity was not only beneficial but also necessary for
some research. Skylab was a major stepping-stone toward
developing the International Space Station, a 16-nation
orbiting laboratory under construction in space since 1998.

For information about NASA on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

For information about the Skylab 30th Anniversary, visit:

http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/b...os/skylab.html

For more information about Skylab history, visit the Marshall
Center History Web site at:

http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/



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(Ron Baalke) wrote in message ...
Al Feinberg
Headquarters, Washington Nov. 5, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-4504)

Jerry Berg
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
(Phone: 256/544-0034)

RELEASE: 03-358

NASA CELEBRATES SKYLAB ANNIVERSARY AT VON BRAUN FORUM

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Three different, three-person crews staffed Skylab and
performed hundreds of solar and microgravity experiments...

D'ahhh, good god.

Y'know, I'm as Left as the next guy, and am all for inclusiveness and
all that, but that's got to be some of the clumsiest PC prose I've
ever seen. F'cripesake, there's nothing "exclusive" in saying three
different three-man crews manned the Skylab. I mean, hell, they were
all _guys_ then, right? Jayzus. Gimme a break.

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With all of the PC crap aside folks... what ever happened to the NASA that
could pull-off the fix-it-up job necessary for the 1st "manned" Skylab flight.
It wasn't as gut-wrenching as Apollo 13 or the Apollo 12 lift-off, but it did
show what could get done with a "hammer and duct tape" per se.

olks... what ever happened to the NASA that
could pull-off the fix-it-up job necessary for the 1st "manned" Skylab
flight.

Whatever happened to a NASA that could launch a station so many years ago that
was robust enough to not only do its job, survive the initial problem but be
essentially abandoned for all those years and was reactivated and ran untill it
deorbited.

Opinion today is that ISS left unmanned would be permanetely lost.

(Hallerb) writes:

Whatever happened to a NASA that could launch a station so many years ago that
was robust enough to not only do its job, survive the initial problem but be
essentially abandoned for all those years and was reactivated and ran untill it
deorbited.

Opinion today is that ISS left unmanned would be permanetely lost.

1. That's an opinion, and it's not surprising you agree with this
opinion.

2. That opinion really says that it's likely that problems would arise
that would require a crew on board to fix and without such a crew,
it's possible that the ground could "lose control" of ISS as a result
of a serious problem. That's possibilities piled on top of
possibilities, which does not equal certainty.

3. At the time, it was my impression (from stories in the media) that
Skylab controllers were almost shocked that they were able to
"reactivate" Skylab. Also the level of "reactivation" included
communications, power, and attitude control. This was not a complete
"reactivation" that would be required to host a crew. This is all you
really need to keep ISS going until another crew can get there with
tools and components to repair known problems.

4. Both Salyut 6 and Mir were left unmanned for periods of time and
were "reactivated". Salyut 6 was a particularly bad case. Mir wasn't
much better (considering its age). I wouldn't put it past the
Russians to attempt to "reactivate" ISS if a problem arose.

Jeff
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