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Collection:
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Collection
Name of Image:
Motor Sensory Performance - Skylab Student Experiment ED-41
Full Description:
This chart describes the Skylab student experiment Motor Sensory Performance, proposed by Kathy L. Jackson of Houston, Texas. Her proposal was a very simple but effective test to measure the potential degradation of man's motor-sensory skills while weightless. Without knowing whether or not man can retain a high level of competency in the performance of various tasks after long exposure to weightlessness, this capability could not be fully known. Skylab, with its long-duration missions, provided an ideal testing situation. The experiment Kathy Jackson proposed was similar in application to the tasks involved in docking one spacecraft to another using manual control. It required one of the greatest tests of the motor-sensory capabilities of man. In March 1972, NASA and the National Science Teachers Association selected 25 experiment proposals for flight on Skylab. Science advisors from the Marshall Space Flight Center aided and assisted the students in developing the proposals for flight on Skylab.
Date of Image:
1973-01-01
Category:
Skylab
term:
Skylab
term:
Student Experiment
term:
Motor Sensory Performance
term:
ED-41
facet_what:
Skylab
facet_where:
Texas
facet_where:
Jackson
facet_where:
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
facet_when:
March 1972
facet_when_year:
1972
Reference Number:
MSFC-75-SA-4105-2C
MIX #:
0102079
NIX #:
MSFC-0102079
MSFC Negative Number:
0102079
UID:
SPD-MARSH-0102079
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