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SP-4011 Skylab: A
Chronology
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- LIST OF
ILLUSTRATIONS [vii-ix]
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- 1958 concept for a
two-man orbiting laboratory.
- Plans for 1960
Ideal Home Exhibition, London.
- Photographs of
Ideal Home Exhibition, London.
- 1960 design of
inflatable space laboratory.
- 1961 design of use
of Apollo as a space station.
- 1962 design of
radial, integral-launch space station.
- Variety of space
station designs, circa 1962.
- Rene Berglund and
models of his modular space station.
- Apollo X
spacecraft, 1964.
- Design based on
sketch by Wernher von Braun.
- Early design of
S-IVB Workshop, 1965.
- First conceptual
sketch of an Orbital Workshop, mid-1965.
- S-IVB space
station design with accommodations for either Gemini or Apollo
spacecraft.
- Sketches showing
comparative crew-compartment volume of the Apollo/SLA Workshop and
the Manned Orbiting Laboratory.
- George Mueller's
concept of the S-IVB Workshop, August 1966.
- An advanced
airlock concept from Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., August
1966.
- Two advanced
airlock configurations from McDonnell Aircraft Corporation,
December 1966.
- Early version of
Apollo telescope mount.
- Sketch of S-IVB
experiments cluster.
- Airlock tunnel
assembly in fabrication.
- Engineering
mockup of the Saturn I Workshop at MSFC.
- Airlock trainer,
MSC.
- A conceptual
design for a lunar module adapter laboratory from MSC, April
1968.
- AAP cluster
design from NASA Hq, September 1968.
- Three sketches
from "Big G" study by McDonnell Douglas Corporation, August
1969.
- Sketch of the
Apollo telescope mount.
- Sketch of the
multiple docking adapter.
- Sketch of the
Orbital Workshop.
- Skylab Workshop
test vehicle being prepared for shipment.
- Fabrication of
Orbital Workshop at McDonnell Douglas.
- Nose cone for
the fixed airlock payload shroud being mounted at McDonnell
Douglas.
- Crew quarters
mockup in the Skylab high fidelity mockup, McDonnell
Douglas.
- NASA acceptance
checkout of the multiple docking adapter at Martin
Marietta.
- Training mockup
of the multiple docking adapter.
- Multiple docking
adapter flight article being prepared for shipment.
- A simulation of
film retrieval from the Apollo telescope mount in Neutral Buoyancy
Tank, MSFC.
- Crew quarters in
Skylab Orbital Workshop training model.
- Airlock module
being mated to the multiple docking adapter at McDonnell
Douglas.
- Map locating
Skylab management.
- Orbital Workshop
shower.
- Apollo telescope
mount being placed in the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory,
MSC.
- Skylab astronauts
training for extravehicular activity in the Neutral Buoyancy Tank,
MSFC.
- Astronauts about
to enter 20-foot altitude chamber at MSC for 56-day
test.
- Orbital Workshop
being turned over to NASA at McDonnell Douglas.
- Skylab 2 crew in
simulation exercises at MSC.
- Multiple docking
adapter being tested at Martin Marietta.
- Skylab airlock
module and multiple docking adapter being moved to the work stand
at KSC.
- Skylab airlock
module/multiple docking adapter emerging from the Super Guppy at
KSC.
- Sketch of Skylab
unmanned launch configuration.
- Apollo telescope
mount being moved from the clean room at KSC.
- Skylab 4 crew in
flight training at JSC.
- Martin Marietta
engineers testing Skylab medical equipment.
- Astronauts sample
the food they will eat in space.
- Martin Marietta
engineer testing the foot-controlled maneuvering
unit.
- Acceptance
checkout of multiple docking adapter at Martin
Marietta.
- Skylab 1 and 2 on
launch pads at KSC.
- The wounded
Orbital Workshop in orbit as seen from Skylab 2.
- Simulation of
inserting the Skylab parasol Sun shade into the
airlock.
- Twin-pole shade
being sewn at International Latex Corporation.
- Astronauts
training in use of cutting tools in Neutral Buoyancy Tank,
MSFC.
- Skylab 3 being
rolled out to LC-39 at KSC.
- Closeup of
partially deployed solar. array wing.
- Skylab 2
astronauts in EVA attempts to free solar array
wing.
- Central Florida
photographed from Skylab 2.
- Orbital Workshop
with parasol in place.
- Large solar flare
photographed by the ATM.
- Skylab 2 being
hoisted aboard U.S.S. Ticonderoga.
- Twin-pole solar
sail being examined by astronauts and mounted in simulation in the
Neutral Buoyancy Tank, MSFC.
- Skylab 3 crewmen
in egress training at MSFC.
- Astronaut Alan
Bean trains with the data acquisition camera at
JSC.
- Astronaut Jack
Lousma flying the astronaut maneuvering unit in the Orbital
Workshop.
- Skylab 3
parachutes open.
- Skylab 3 crew on
U.S.S. New Orleans.
- Skylab 4
launch.
- Skylab 4
photographs of Comet Kohoutek, a solar flare, Wyoming, and the St.
Lawrence River.
- Skylab 4 crew
doing housekeeping.
- Last look at
Orbital Workshop from Skylab 4.
- Vice President
Gerald Ford awards the Collier Trophy of 1973 to
Skylab.
- Administrator
James Fletcher shows a crystal manufactured in space to President
Gerald Ford.
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