July 11, 1979, End of Skylab |
July 11, 1979, End of Skylab |
Guest_AlexBlackwell_* |
Jul 13 2006, 08:35 PM
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Correct, and while I don't think the modifications I would have liked to see on Skylab were all that radical (the Soviets did it in the 1970s, after all)... I realized belatedly that my analogy made too much of an evolutionary leap (a ca. 1910 flying machine would have been better), but hey, why ruin a punch line? |
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Jul 13 2006, 10:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3009 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
In the mid-70's I wondered why they didn't simply make up a Thor-Agena booster, attach to the docking adapter and give it a boost. I was devastated when they let it go.
I've seen the some of SkyLab spare hardware at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, it's impressive. --Bill -------------------- |
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Jul 14 2006, 03:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3651 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I did find a Skylab launch image on Wikipedia, though. Not related to Skylab itself, but I found a page that sells an audio CD of the Apollo 11 launch. I didn't know where to put it so it might as well go here. It's supposedly very accurate (there's even a technical page describing how it was recorded) as it captured the bass frequencies the S-1C stage produced, as heard from the press site. There's an awesome preview clip of the launch until Max-Q that really lets you feel the rumble, a must-hear. If you kick the volume up, the clip will shake your place up! You can find it here. -------------------- |
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Jul 14 2006, 06:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1597 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
As for rescuing an abandonded space station, the Soyuz T15 mission did that with Salyut 7 in 1986 in an amazing mission that does not nearly get the publicity it should to this day. Cool mission, thanks for sharing! Mir to Salyut and back to Mir-- never knew they'd done that. Although it sounds like they didn't exactly rescue the space station as much as they rescued the equipment in it for Mir. |
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Jul 14 2006, 08:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Cool mission, thanks for sharing! Mir to Salyut and back to Mir-- never knew they'd done that. Although it sounds like they didn't exactly rescue the space station as much as they rescued the equipment in it for Mir. They did get Salyut 7 ready to receive at least one more crew, but the focus went to Mir and Salyut 7 was ultimately and finally abandoned. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Aug 14 2008, 08:54 AM
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Indeed already 35 years since the beginning of Skylab and by next year the program ended 30 years ago... Time flies!
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