Searching for Skylab - America's Forgotten Triumph is a 2019 documentary about the 1970s American space station Skylab. It was written by Carl Alessi and...
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Skylab was the United States' first space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. It was operated by...
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7, 2017. Roop, Lee (February 7, 2019). "Astronauts will attend 'Searching for Skylab' documentary premiere". Huntsville Real-Time News. Retrieved December...
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Joseph P. Kerwin (category Skylab program astronauts)
as the science pilot for the Skylab 2 mission from May 25, 1973, to June 22, 1973. He was the first physician to be selected for astronaut training and...
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could only be observed by scientific instrumentation and astronauts on Skylab. For most ground observers, Kohoutek only reached as bright as magnitude 0...
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later flown on Skylab 4. It was given an aluminum (Al) and magnesium fluoride (MgF2) mirror rather than rhenium. It was mounted on Skylab's Apollo Telescope...
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preferentially used in larger or more-agile (or both) spacecraft, including Skylab, Mir, and the International Space Station. Collins Aerospace – Aerospace...
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and dwarf planets such as Pluto Searching for any signs of activity, such as a cloud-like coma Searching for and studying any satellites or rings...
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Iraq, searching for mobile SCUD launchers. By conducting random bombings in suspected areas, it was hoped to deter the Iraqis from setting up for a Scud...
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Penny O'Brien (season 2), an Irish scientist and astronaut stationed on Skylab, the first space station in Earth's orbit. In 1983, she detected a coronal...
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Administrator for Space Flight, former astronaut Richard H. Truly, released a report on the deaths of the crew from physician and Skylab 2 astronaut Joseph...
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Pioneer 9 operated for a particularly long time, transmitting data until May 1983. In the 1970s, two Helios spacecraft and the Skylab Apollo Telescope Mount...
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joint-cooperation between the Department of Defense and NASA to develop Skylab. Another result of the cooperation was the Space Shuttle program. During...
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with astronaut Ronald Evans as it circled the Moon for six days. One of the mice died on the trip. Skylab 3 (1973) carried pocket mice and the first fish...
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launched June 1999, completed Kepler, launched March 2009, completed – searching for Earth-sized exoplanets in the habitable zone James Webb Space Telescope...
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evaluated in NASA and U.S. Navy test programs for manned atmosphere monitoring. They were deployed on Skylab (the first U.S. space laboratory), Apollo–Soyuz...
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Apollo program would be paused for the launch of the Skylab space station in July 1972, and subsequent missions to Skylab running through March 1973; and...
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tragic Soyuz 11 crew, space stations have been operated consecutively since Skylab (1973), having allowed a progression of long-duration direct human presence...
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This is a list of episodes and TV-movies for The Six Million Dollar Man. The episodes of The Bionic Woman that make up the crossovers are noted below...
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modified the Kennedy Space Center launch complex to handle the Saturn IB for the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project launches. The LC-34 service structure...
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"Original Canadian Series MIGHTY PLANES Makes Return Flight to Discovery for Season 4, Premiering October 1". Bell Media. Retrieved 2020-09-18. vfx, Kerosene...
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8 designs for Gemini, 12 for Apollo, 3 for Skylab, 1 for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), 135 for the Space Shuttle program, and 1 for SpaceX (NASA...
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discovering a problem with its Starliner spacecraft, Boeing is still searching for answers". The Washington Post. Retrieved 27 September 2021. Josh Dinner...
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instrument unit IBM System/4 Pi: avionics computers; military and NASA; 1967 Skylab Onboard Computers Space Shuttle General Purpose Computer AN/ASQ-155 computer...
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signs of habitable conditions on Mars in the ancient past, and also at searching for evidence—or biosignatures—of past microbial life, and water. The mission...
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Astrobotany (section Plants for life support in space)
thus becoming the first plants to flower and produce seeds in space. A Skylab experiment studied the effects of gravity and light on rice plants. The...
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"In Memoriam: Jerry Clack". Society for Classical Studies. April 22, 2019. Townsend, Jason (April 15, 2019). "Skylab and Space Shuttle Astronaut Owen Garriott...
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"PART II: Apollo Application Program -August 1965 to December 1966.". SKYLAB: A CHRONOLOGY. NASA Special Publication-4011. NASA. pp. 55, 57–59. Retrieved...
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Film of 2005: SKYLAB Best Sci-Fi: Alliance Best Horror: Short Shadow Man Best Documentary: Kings of Christmas Best Comedy: Dating Tips for Seniors Best...
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IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those...
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