Skylab

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19.09.1973 biuletyn Marshall Star poinformował o śmierci podczas misji Skylab 3 pająka Anity.

This edition of the Marshall Star from 1973, a newsletter of the George C. Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama, features an article titled “Anita, Job Done, Dies Aboard Skylab.”  The article goes on to explain that Anita is a spider.

Kod: [Zaznacz]

https://twitter.com/TodaysDocument/status/1704118139947000215https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/spider-anita-skylab-3/nasm_A19740484000
AA https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3712.msg133927#msg133927

https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1707481835901476922

Spiders Anita and Arabella were part of the Skylab 3 mission that ended 50 years ago this week. They both made the journey into orbit and proved that spiders could still spin webs 🕸 in microgravity.
📷: High school student Judith Miles discussing her proposed Skylab experiment.

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Stacja orbitalna Skylab 1973-1979 https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=5503.0

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08.11.1973 załoga misji Skylab 4 pozowała do zdjęć.
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1722267741242188206

50 years ago today, Edward Gibson, Gerald Carr, and William Pogue suited up for a portrait ahead of their launch to Skylab on Nov. 16, 1973.
They were the third and last crew to visit Skylab, America's first space station. #Skylab50 More: https://go.nasa.gov/40k9iL2

2) 11.1973 Bill Pogue przygotowywał się do misji Skylab 4.
Podczas swojego lotu kosmicznego miał flagę przedstawiającą 67 plemion indiańskich z Oklahomy jako symbol dumy ze swojego dziedzictwa Choctaw
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1723047876027183358

Bill Pogue, the pilot for Skylab 4, was preparing for the mission's launch 50 years ago today. On his space flight, he carried a flag representing 67 Native American tribes of Oklahoma as a symbol of pride in his Choctaw heritage. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

3) Załoga Skylab 4 prowadziła badania Słońca.
19.12.1973 załoga wykonała zdjęcie Słońca z potężną erupcją.
Uchwyt na teleskopie Apollo (ATM) stacji Skylab umożliwił astronautom dokonywanie obserwacji Słońca na bieżąco i rejestrowanie na filmie dynamicznych zdarzeń słonecznych.

The Skylab crews became so enthusiastic in their solar observations, they would spend their free time at the ATM console watching for solar events.
Keen to learn more? Read the book "A New Sun: The Solar Results from Skylab" at https://go.nasa.gov/3txETga

The astronauts knew which instruments on the ATM to use, what questions in solar science were important, what their observations meant, and they were in constant communication with scientists on Earth who helped guide their work.
📷 Ed Gibson at the ATM console

NASA had other Sun-observing satellites in orbit before Skylab, but Skylab's trained astronauts at the controls of the advanced instruments of the ATM, and their ability to bring high-resolution photos of what they saw back to Earth meant it was a game changer in solar science.

This photo of the Sun with a massive solar flare was taken #OTD 50 years ago by astronauts onboard the Skylab space station.
Skylab's Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) allowed the astronauts to make observations of the Sun as they happened and record dynamic solar events on film.

https://x.com/NASAhistory/status/1737178512216260844


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Eksperymenty medyczne na stacji kosmicznej Skylab

Let's see how nauseous you get 😵
The Human Vestibular Function experiment used a spinning chair to test Skylab astronauts' susceptibility to motion sickness, before, during, and after their time in space. #50YearsAgo
More on Skylab medical experiments: https://go.nasa.gov/3k4jtCz
https://x.com/NASAhistory/status/1612871902162190336

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25.12.1973 po raz pierwszy Boże Narodzenie było obchodzone na stacji kosmicznej.
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1738243016836436065

Christmas crafts reach new heights!
50 years ago, the Skylab 4 astronauts built a Christmas tree from food cans, topped it with a cardboard cutout of a comet, and hung their socks with care on the wall nearby. #Skylab50
More about their celebration 🎄 https://go.nasa.gov/3GQyfVr

25.12.1973 astronauci misji Skylab 4, Bill Pogue i Gerry Carr, przeprowadzili jedyny amerykański spacer kosmiczny w Boże Narodzenie.
Był to drugi z 4. spacerów kosmicznych podczas tej misji.
Jednym z zadań EVA było fotografowanie komety Kohoutka.
https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1738977441266253922

25 December 1973. Skylab 4 astronauts Bill Pogue and Gerry Carr conducted the only spacewalk by U.S. astronauts on Christmas Day. One mission objective was to photograph Comet Kohoutek on this, the second of four spacewalks for the mission.

50 Years Ago: Skylab 4 Astronauts Push Past the One-Month Mark
John Uri Johnson Space Center DEC 18, 2023

(...) For only the second time, American astronauts celebrated Christmas in space. On the first occasion five years earlier, Apollo 8 astronauts observed Christmas as the first crew to orbit the Moon. In the more spacious Skylab workshop, and with more time to prepare, Carr, Gibson, and Pogue built a makeshift Christmas tree by repurposing food cans, used colored decals as decorations, and topped it with a cardboard cutout in the shape of a comet. They hung stockings on the wall beneath the tree and sent holiday greetings to people on the ground.

The main task on Christmas Day involved the mission’s second spacewalk. Carr and Pogue spent 7 hours and 1 minute outside the space station, then a record for Earth orbital spacewalks. In addition to replacing film cartridges in the ATM, they repaired a stuck filter wheel on an ATM instrument, and used an ultraviolet camera to photograph Comet Kohoutek. Once back inside the station, they enjoyed a Christmas dinner complete with fruitcake, talked to their families, and opened presents from the astronauts’ wives that the ground crew at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida had hidden in lockers in the Command Module. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-skylab-4-astronauts-push-past-the-one-month-mark/
https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2020/12/skylab-4-imaged-comet-kohoutek-during.html


13.12.1973 załoga już była w stanie dokonać obserwacji komety Kohoutka i przygotowywała się do jej szczegółowszego badania.
Obserwacje, które zaowocowały rysunkami i zdjęciami rozpoczęły się 18.12.1973.

13 décembre 1973
Il y a 50 ans, l'équipage de Skylab 4 se prépare pour observer la comète Kohoutek depuis leur station.
Ce 13 décembre, il l'aperçoive...
Les véritables observations (dessins et photos) vont commencer le 18 déc.
(enveloppe signée Luboš Kohoutek)

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28.12.1973 Luboš Kohoutek odwiedził JSC.
Teleskop umieszczony na stacji Skylab znacząco zwiększył wysiłki zmierzające do dokonania pomiarów wszystkich możliwych aspektów komety.
W tamtym czasie była to najlepiej zbadana kometa.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lubo%C5%A1_Kohoutek_speaks_to_Skylab_astronauts.jpg

https://skynews.ca/kohoutek-fiasco/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/kohoutek-comet-of-the-century-failed-to-impress-but-it-wasnt-such-a-disaster-after-all-180983330/
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-404/ch4.htm

28 décembre 1973
Il y a 50 ans...

https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1740270607709651429

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29.12.1973 odbył się 3. spacer załogi Skylab 4.
Wzięli w nim udział Edward George Gibson i Gerald Paul 'Jerry' Carr.
Astronauci pobrali do analizy kawałek osłony meteoroidowej modułu śluzy powietrznej.
Kontynuowali obserwacje komety Kohoutka przy użyciu ATM (Apollo Telescope Mount) i aparatu Far UV https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19770014572

Podczas spaceru, w przedniej części kombinezonu Geralda Carra, utworzył się lód w wyniku wycieku płynu chłodzącego.
Była to 9. EVA w programie stacji orbitalnej Skylab.
Czas trwania spaceru: 03h 29m.
https://www.nasa.gov/history/the-real-story-of-the-skylab-4-strike-in-space/

Il y a 50 ans, EVA de Bill Pogue et de Jerry Carr d'une durée de 3h29 dont un des objectifs était l'observation de la Comète Kohoutek depuis l'extérieur de Skylab.
Une petite ''frayeur'' pour Poque qui à eu une fuite de liquide de refroidissement

https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1740632240743440795

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Na przełomie 1973/1974 załoga Skylab 4 kontynuowała obserwacje Komety Kohoutka.
24.12.1973 kometa była najbliżej Słońca.

Comet Kohoutek, discovered by accident in March 1973, was calculated to make its closest approach of the Sun on Dec. 24, 1973.
Because it was detected early, it became the best-studied comet at the time and contributed significantly to our understanding of comets. 🧵 1/4


NASA took the opportunity to study Comet Kohoutek closely, taking hundreds of images with Skylab's Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM). The comet was only faintly visible to the naked eye, disappointing the general public. 2/4
📷 Series of coronagraphs of the comet taken Dec 27–28.


On Christmas Day, 1973, astronauts Jerry Carr and Bill Pogue performed a 7-hour spacewalk, spending a portion of the time photographing the comet.
"It was so faint that we really had to work to find it." Carr later reported in a NASA oral history. 3/4


The best visualizations of Comet Kohoutek ended up coming from the ATM’s coronagraph instrument and from a series of pencil sketches by Skylab 4 Science Pilot Ed Gibson, which were used to create this illustration. #Skylab50
Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/47eWojc 4/4
https://x.com/NASAhistory/status/1739307535406874725
https://www.forumastronomiczne.pl/index.php?/topic/469-kometa-kohoutka-1973f-kometa-stulecia/