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Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 7h

Beautiful, colorful diagrams illustrating #Skylab's Earth surface photography operations.

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The #Skylab parasol being tested.

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Jack Lousma! #Skylab

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Gerry, Bill, Ed - the crew of #Skylab 4!

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A look at the business end of Skylab.

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Ed Gibson trains at the ATM control console simulator. #Skylab

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Skylab 4 crew - Ed Gibson, Gerald Carr, Bill Pogue. #Skylab

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The Neutral Buoyancy Simulator was the big water tank used to train #Skylab astronauts in spacewalking around the station.

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 8d

TV image of mealtime on #Skylab.

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 9d

Dr Joe and bubbles of water in microgravity! #Skylab

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 10d

A spectacular solar flare photographed from Skylab.

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 11d

Skylab's Joe Kerwin poses with Astronaut Candidate Anna Fisher after pool training. Apparently Fisher got to wear Pete Conrad's training suit, because it was the smallest available! Shuttle suits were still underway. What a fascinating view into generations meeting, and learning from one another.

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Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 12d

While Skylab was being assembled, these were the dreams. #NASA images.

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 13d

This is the end of the real-time coverage of Skylab 3. We will return on November 16 for Skylab 4! Stay tuned meanwhile with updates on other exciting Skylab history stories. #Skylab50 #SkylabOTD

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 13d

Welcome back, Skylab 3! Al, Owen and Jack splashed down #OTD in 1973!

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 13d

It's splashdown day! And the crew of Skylab 3 started it with style. #Skylab50 #SkylabOTD

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 14d

It was the last full day of the mission, and the jokes are reflective of this fact. #Skylab50 #SkylabOTD

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 15d

Campaign exhaustion was perhaps starting to set in as the crew debated the topic of returning some Skylab food items to Earth for analysis. Bruce McCandless II in Mission Control supplied remarks. #Skylab50 #SkylabOTD

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 16d

Football scores! #Skylab50 #SkylabOTD

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 17d

We feel that the crew of Skylab 3 is only getting funnier towards the end of their mission. #Skylab50 #SkylabOTD

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 18d

Now we want to know about the coin trick too! #Skylab50 #SkylabOTD

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 19d

The Skylab crew had their sleep patterns adjusted, which made for more fun and games with the CapCom. #Skylab50 #SkylabOTD

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 20d

Today, the joking just went on and on. So enjoy Jack's Japanese skills, and endless ribbing of the flight control team by the crew. All in good fun. #Skylab50 #SkylabOTD

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 21d

Spacecraft can be noisy, and people are especially noisy. Today, CapCom Bob Crippen recalled how his SMEAT colleague Bill Thornton's endless cycling kept interrupting the others. According to Al Bean, history was repeating itself on Skylab. #Skylab50 #SkylabOTD

Searching for Skylab @sf-skylab1979.bsky.social · 22d

Sad news from Skylab today: Anita the spider had apparently succumbed to the stresses of spaceflight, after an exciting mission. #Skylab50 #SkylabOTD