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SKYLAB: THE SECOND MANNED MI …
1974
Description SKYLAB: THE SECOND MANNED MISSION, A SCIENTIFIC HARVEST JSC 627 - (1974) - 36 1/2 Minutes Astronauts: Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott, and Jack R. Lousma Launch date: July 28, 1973 Covers the Skylab launch activities and docking with unmanned SL-1 workshop. Includes observations of student experiments (the Minchmog minnows and Arabella, the spider), crew medical experiments, exercise routines, and the enabling of the Earth Resources Experiments Package. Shows planet Earth documentation, manned operation of the Apollo Telescope Mount for observations of the Sun and beyond, outside EVA activity, testing of the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit, experiments to explore industrial uses of space, and the Skylab living routine.
Date 1974
Astronaut Owen Garriott Perf …
Title Astronaut Owen Garriott Performs EVA During Skylab 3
Full Description Scientist-astronaut Owen K. Garriott, Skylab 3 science pilot, is seen performing an extravehicular activity at the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit, photographed with a hand- held 70mm Hasselblad camera. Garriott had just deployed the Skylab Particle Collection S149 Experiment. The experiment is mounted on one of the ATM solar panels. The purpose of the S149 experiment was to collect material from interplanetary dust particles on prepared surfaces suitable for studying their impact phenomena. Earlier during the EVA Garriott assisted astronaut Jack R. Lousma, Skylab 3 pilot, in deploying the twin pole solar shield.
Date 08/06/1973
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Skylab and Earth Limb
Title Skylab and Earth Limb
Full Description An overhead view of the Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit as photographed from the Skylab 4 Command and Service Modules (CSM) during the final fly-around by the CSM before returning home. The space station is contrasted against the pale blue Earth. During launch on May 14, 1973, some 63 seconds into flight, the micrometeor shield on the Orbital Workshop (OWS) experienced a failure that caused it to be caught up in the supersonic air flow during ascent. This ripped the shield from the OWS and damaged the tie downs that secured one of the solar array systems. Complete loss of one of the solar arrays happened at 593 seconds when the exhaust plume from the S-II's separation rockets impacted the partially deployed solar array system. Without the micrometeoroid shield that was to protect against solar heating as well, temperatures inside the OWS rose to 126 degrees fahrenheit. The gold "parasol" clearly visible in the photo, was designed to replace the missing micrometeoroid shield, protecting the workshop against solar heating. The replacement solar shield was deployed by the Skylab I crew. This enabled the Skylab Orbital Workshop to fulfill all its mission objects serving as home to additional crews before being deorbited in 1978.
Date 02/08/1974
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Skylab Solar Shield
Title Skylab Solar Shield
Full Description A sail like sunshade for possible use as a sunscreen for the Skylab Orbital Workshop (OWS) is shown being fabricated in the GE Building across the street from Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas. Three people help the steamstress feed the material through the sewing machine. The three-layered sunshade will be composed of a top layer of aluminized mylar, a middle layer of laminated nylon ripstop, and a bottom layer of thin nylon. Working on the sunshade are from left to right: Dale Gentry, Elizabeth Gauldin, Alyene Baker, and James H. Barnett Jr. Mrs. Baker, a GE employee, operates the double needle Singer sewing machine. Barnett is head of the Crew Equipment Development Section of JSC Crew Systems Division. Mrs. Gauldin is also with the Crew Systems Division. Gentry works for GE. The work shown here is part of the crash program underway to prepare a sunshield for Skylab to replace the orginal shield which was lost when Skylab 1 was launched on May 14, 1973. The improvised solar shield selected to be used will be carried to Earth orbit by the Skylab 2 crewman who will then deploy the reflective parasol to shade part of the OWS from the hot rays of the sun. Loss of the orginal sun shield has caused an overheating problem. in the Orbital Work Shop.
Date 01/01/1973
NASA Center Headquarters
The Sun Erupts
Title The Sun Erupts
Explanation The Sun [ http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/sol.html ] is a seething ball of extremely hot gas. Above, the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/interv.html ] was captured [ http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/SL4/10076406.htm ] by Skylab [ http://www.csr.utexas.edu/tsgc/archive/characterizations/skylab.html ] in 1973 throwing off one the largest eruptive prominences [ http://www-solar.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~alan/sun_course/Introduction/ Prominences.html ] in recorded history. The Sun has survived for about 5 billion years, and will likely survive for another 5 billion. The Sun is not on fire [ http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/astro/q1171.html ], will never explode [ http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/astro/q736.html ], and a solar flare [ http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/solar_flares.html ] will never destroy the Earth. The Sun [ http://solar-center.stanford.edu/folklore/folklore.html ] continues to present many unanswered questions. For example: Why is the Sun's corona so hot? [ http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/spartan/the_corona.html ] What causes the Sun's unusual magnetic field? [ http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/asr/asr95/dynamo.html ] Why does the Sun's center emit so few neutrinos? [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap971028.html ]
Artist's concept illustratin …
Title Artist's concept illustrating canister cut view of Apollo Telescope Mount
Description An artist's concept illustrating a canister cut view of the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM). The ATM is one of the five major components of the Skylab 1 space station cluster which were launched into Earth orbit. This view includes a a color-coded key to the right of the view which helps label the electrical system, instrumentation and communication system, and pointing control system.
Date 01.01.1970
Artist's concept illustratin …
Title Artist's concept illustrating crewmembers with Earth Resources Experiment
Description An artist's concept of two crew members busily engaged with the Earth Resources Experiment Package (EREP) in the Multiple Docking Adapter of the Earth-orbiting Skylab cluster.
Date 05.01.1970
Artist's concept illustratin …
Title Artist's concept illustrating cutaway view of Apollo Telescope Mount
Description An artist's concept illustrating a cutaway view of the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM). The ATM is one of the five major components of the Skylab 1 space station cluster which were launched into Earth orbit. This view includes a color coded key to different systems at the bottom right of the view. Other areas of the experiment canister are also labeled.
Date 01.01.1970
Artist's concept of deployme …
Title Artist's concept of deployment of twin pole thermal shield on Skylab
Description An artist's concept of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit illustrating the deployment of the twin pole thermal shield to shade the Orbital Workshop (OWS) from the Sun. This is one of the sunshade possibilities considered to solve the problem of the overheated OWS. Here the two Skylab 2 astronauts have completely deployed the sunshade. Note the evidence of another Skylab problem - the solar panels on the OWS are not deployed as required (26127), In this view the Skylab astronauts have partially deployed the sunshade (26128).
Date 05.18.1973
Artist's concept of deployme …
Title Artist's concept of deployment of twin pole thermal shield on Skylab
Description An artist's concept of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit illustrating the deployment of the twin pole thermal shield to shade the Orbital Workshop (OWS) from the Sun. This is one of the sunshade possibilities considered to solve the problem of the overheated OWS. Here the two Skylab 2 astronauts have completely deployed the sunshade. Note the evidence of another Skylab problem - the solar panels on the OWS are not deployed as required (26127), In this view the Skylab astronauts have partially deployed the sunshade (26128).
Date 05.18.1973
Astronaut Charles Conrad pos …
Title Astronaut Charles Conrad poses in shower facility in crew quarters
Description Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., Skylab 2 commander, smiles for the camera after a hot bath in the shower facility in the crew quarters of the Orbital Workshop of the Skylab 2 space station cluster in Earth orbit. In deploying the shower facility the shower curtain is pulled up from the floor and attached to the ceiling. The water comes through a push-button shower head attached to a flexible hose. Water is drawn off by a vacuum system.
Date 06.01.1973
Astronaut Edward Gibson trai …
Title Astronaut Edward Gibson trains with Earth Resources Experiments Package
Description Scientist-Astronaut Edward G. Gibson, Skylab 4 science pilot, turns on a switch on the control box of the S190B camera, one of the components of the Earth Resources Experiments Package (EREP). The single lens Earth Terrain Camera takes five-inch photographs. Behind Gibson is the stowed suits of Astronaut Gerald P. Carr, commander for the third manned mission. The exercise took place in the Orbital Workshop one-G trainer at JSC.
Date 09.10.1973
Astronaut Joseph Kerwin duri …
Title Astronaut Joseph Kerwin during EVA at Skylab 1 and 2 space station cluster
Description Scientist-Astronaut Joseph P. Kerwin, Skylab 2 science pilot, performs extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Skylab 1 and 2 space station cluster in Earth orbit, as seen in this reproduction taken from a color television transmission made by a TV camera aboard the station. Kerwin is just outside the Airlock Module. Kerwin assisted Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., Skylab 2 commander, during the successful EVA attempt to free the stuck solar array system wing on the Orbital Workshop.
Date 06.07.1973
Skylab 2 crewmen give demons …
Title Skylab 2 crewmen give demonstration on effects of weightlessness
Description The three Skylab 2 crewmen give a demonstration on the effects of weightlessness in the Orbital Workshop of the Skylab 1 and 2 space station cluster in Earth orbit, as seen in this reproduction taken from a color television transmission made by a TV camera aboard the space station. Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz are crouched in a fast-start stance to race around the dome area of the OWS forward compartment. The astronauts had ease of motion and good maneuverability in the zero-gravity of space.
Date 06.01.1973
Emblem for the first manned …
Title Emblem for the first manned Skylab mission
Description This is the emblem for the first manned Skylab mission. It wil be a mission of up to 28 days. The patch, designed by artist Kelly Freas, shows the Skylab silhouetted against the earth's globe, which in turn is eclipsing the Sun - showing the brilliant signet-ring pattern of the instant before total eclipse.
Date 02.01.1972
Emblem for the second manned …
Title Emblem for the second manned Skylab mission, Skylab 3
Description This is the emblem for the second manned Skylab mission. It will be a mission of up to 56 days. The patch symbolizes the main objectives of the flight. The central figure, adapted from one by Leonardo da Vinci, illustrates the proportions of the human form and suggests the many studies of man himself to be conducted in the zero-gravity environment of space. This drawing is superimposed on two hemispheres representing the two additional main areas of research - studies of the Sun and the development of techniques for survey of the Earth's resources. The left hemisphere show the Sun as it will be seen in the red light radiated by hydrogen atoms in the solar atmosphere. The right hemisphere is intended to suggest the studies of Earth resources to be conducted on Skylab. Although the patch denotes this mission as Skylab II, it is actually consided to be the Skylab III mission.
Date 02.01.1973
Emblem for the third manned …
Title Emblem for the third manned Skylab mission - Skylab 4
Description This is the emblem for the third manned Skylab mission. It will be a mission of up to 56 days. The symbols in the patch refer to the three major areas of investigation proposed in the mission. The tree represents man's natural environment and relates directly to the Skylab mission objectives of advancing the study of Earth resources. The hydrogen atom, as the basic building block of the universe, represents man's exploration of the physical world, his application of knowledge, and his development of technology. Since the Sun is composed primarily of hydrogen, it is appropriate that the symbol refers to the solar physics mission objectives. The human silhouette represents mankind and the human capacity to direct technology with a wisdom tempered by regard for his natural environment. It also directly relates to the Skylab medical studies of man himself. The rainbow, adopted from the Biblical story of the flood, symbolizes the promise that is offered man. It embraces man and extends to t
Date 02.01.1973
View of Phoenix, Arizona met …
Title View of Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area
Description A near vertical view of the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area is seen in this Skyalb 3 Earth Resources Experiments Package S190-B (five-inch earth terrain camera) photograph taken from the Skylab space station in earth orbit. Also in the picture are Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Tempe, Mesa, Laveen, Komatke, Salt River Indian Reseravation, and part of the Gila River Indian Reservation. Features which can be detected from the photograph include: cultural patterns defined by commercial, industrial, agricultural and residential areas, transportation networks consisting of major corridors, primary, secondary, and feeder streets, major urban developments on the area such as airports, Squaw Peak CIty Park, Turf Paradise Race Track and the State Fair grounds.
Date 08.15.1973
Astronaut Joseph Kerwin test …
Title Astronaut Joseph Kerwin test subject Lower Body Negative Pressure experiment
Description Scientist-Astronaut Joseph P. Kerwin, Skylab 2 science pilot, serves as test subject for the Lower Body Negative Pressure Experiment. Astronaut Paul J. Weitz, Skylab 2 pilot, assists Kerwin with the blood pressure cuff. They are in the experiment and work area of the Orbital Workshop crew quarters of the Skylab 1 and 2 space station cluster in Earth orbit. Kerwin is lying in the lower body negative pressure device. The purpose of the M092 experiment is to provide information concerning the time course of cardiovascular adaptation during flight, and to provide inflight data for predicting the degree of orthostatic intolerance and impairment of physical capacity to be expected upon return to Earth environment. The data collected in support of M092 are blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature, vectorcardiogram, LBNPD pressure, leg volume changes, and body weight.
Date Taken 1973-06-01
San Francisco and Bay Area, …
Title San Francisco and Bay Area, CA, USA
Description Although clouds obscure part of the city of San Francisco and the mouth of the Bay (37.5N, 122.0W), many cultural and natural features in the immediate vicinity are obvious. The Bay Bridge which was damaged in the 1989 earthquake, Candlestick Park, San Mateo and Dumbarton Bridges as well as the various colored settling ponds rimming the south end of the Bay, the San Andreas and Calaveras faults and many of the major highways can be seen. Color infrared photography is very useful for haze penetration and greater definition of the imagery as well as vegetation detection, depicted as shades of red.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Rendezvous and Fly Around In …
Title Rendezvous and Fly Around Inspection of Skylab I Orbital Space Station
Description This view of the Skylab Orbital Space Station was taken from the Skylab 2 Command/Service Module during it's initial fly around inspection. The micrometeoroid shield can be seen to be missing and a parasol solar shield was later fitted in its place. The damaged and partially deployed solar array, in the center of the scene, can be seen to be restrained by a strap that was later cut during an early EVA, allowing the panel to fully deploy.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Entire Island of Crete
Title Entire Island of Crete
Description Lying in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the entire Island of Crete (35.0N, 25.0E) can be seen in great detail in this cloud free view. The volcanic origins of this island can also be observed in the many sharp and angular ridgelines and rugged coastal features.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Close up View of the Damaged …
Title Close up View of the Damaged and Partially Deployed Solar Array
Description This close up view of the damaged and partially deployed solar array panel was taken from the Skylab 2 Command/Service Module during its initial fly around inspecction before docking. The aluminum hold down strap which failed to release, preventing the solar array panel from deploying properly, can be seen in place and intact. The strap was later cut during an early mission EVA allowing the solar array panel to be deployed.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Title Phoenix, AZ, USA
Description The city of Phoenix, AZ (33.5N, 112.0W) can be seen in good detail in this color infrared scene. Situated among truck crop agriculture fields, the color infrared photo depicts the vegetated fields as shades of red making the agriculture stand out in this desert environment. To the east, Lake Theodore Roosevelt and dam can be easily seen.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
White Sands, Carrizozo Lava …
Title White Sands, Carrizozo Lava Beds, NM
Description A truly remarkable view of White Sands and the nearby Carrizozo Lava Beds in southeast NM (33.5N, 106.5W). White Sands, site of the WW II atomic bomb development and testing facility and later post war nuclear weapons testing that can still be seen in the cleared circular patterns on the ground.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Astronaut Charles Conrad usi …
Title Astronaut Charles Conrad using the bicycle ergometer
Description Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., Skylab 2 commander, during an exercise session on the bicycle ergometer in the crew quarters of the Skylab Orbital Workshop (OWS) in the Skylab 2 space station cluster in Earth orbit.
Date Taken 1973-06-01
Sacramento Valley, CA, USA
Title Sacramento Valley, CA, USA
Description The Sacramento Valley (40.5N, 121.5W) of California is the northern extension of the Central Valley, main agriculture region of the state. Hundreds of truck farms, vineyards and orchards can be seen throughout the length and breadth of the valley which was reclaimed from the desert by means of intensive and extensive irrigation projects.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Astronaut Charles Conrad pos …
Title Astronaut Charles Conrad poses in shower facility in crew quarters
Description Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., Skylab 2 commander, smiles for the camera after a hot bath in the shower facility in the crew quarters of the Orbital Workshop of the Skylab 2 space station cluster in Earth orbit. In deploying the shower facility the shower curtain is pulled up from the floor and attached to the ceiling. The water comes through a push-button shower head attached to a flexible hose. Water is drawn off by a vacuum system.
Date Taken 1973-06-01
One of the Two Scientific Ai …
Title One of the Two Scientific Airlocks on the Orbital Workshop Section
Description This close up view of one of the two scientific airlocks on the Skylab Orbital Workshop Section was taken from the Skylab 2 Command/Service Module during its initial fly around inspection. The micrometeoroid shield can be seen to be missing from this section of the orbital workshop. A parasol solar shield was later devised and put in place over this damaged area through this very same airlock opening.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Lake Mead, NV
Title Lake Mead, NV
Description Lake Mead, Nevada, (36.0N, 114.5E) where the water from the Colorado River empties after it's 273 mile journey through the Grand Canyon of Arizona is the subject of this photo. Other features of interest are Hoover Dam on the south shore of Lake Mead where cheap hydroelectric power is secondary to the water resources made available in this northern desert region and the resort city of Las Vegas, just to the west of Lake Mead. In this harsh desert environment, color infrared photography readily penetrates haze, detects and portrays vegetation as shades of red.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Lake Powell, Colorado River, …
Title Lake Powell, Colorado River, Utah and Grand Canyon, Arizona
Description In this stark desert scene, Lake Powell, the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon (36.5N, 111.5W) provide the only relief and source of water. The creation of Lake Powell by the building of the Glen Canyon High Dam led directly to the establishment of a National Recreation Area surrounding the lakes. To the south, following the course of the Colorado River, the NE corner of Grand Canyon can be seen.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Mojave Desert, California
Title Mojave Desert, California
Description Color infrared orbital view of the Mojave Desert in California. In the middle of the scene is really an ancient dry lake bed just to the east of the San Bernardino Valley and the city of Los Angeles. Color infrared imagery is useful for locating vegetation, portrayed as shades of red. Generally, the brighter the shade of red, the more lush and vigorous the vegetation.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Rendezvous and Fly Around In …
Title Rendezvous and Fly Around Inspection of Skylab I Orbital Space Station
Description This view of the Skylab Orbital Space Station was taken from the Skylab 2 Command/Service Module during it's initial fly around inspection. The cables and tubing seen on top of the Orbital Space Station are all that remain of a solar panel (one of two) that was completely ripped off during launch - the other, can be seen partially deployed on the other side. At the far end of the vehicle is the Apollo Telescope Mount with extended solar panels.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Southern Italy
Title Southern Italy
Description This rare cloud free view of southern Italy (41.0N, 16.0E) shows almost all of the famous `boot' configuration of the peninsula up to just north of Naples and Mount Vesuvius. The land mass of this historic peninsula contrasts sharply with the sparkling blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Strait of Gibraltar
Title Strait of Gibraltar
Description Gateway to the Atlantic, since ancient times the Strait of Gibraltar (36.5N, 4.5W) is also the border between Africa and Europe. In Spain to the north, the dark area near the coast is the delta of the Guadalquivir River and the city of Seville. The small spike of land on the north side of the strait is the actual Rock of Gibraltar. On the African side, a cloud front cutting across from the coast is blowing into Europe from Morocco and Algeria.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Skylab 2 Farewell View from …
Title Skylab 2 Farewell View from the Departing Skylab Command/Service Module
Description This overhead view of the Skylab Space Station was taken from the Departing Skylab Command/Service Module during the Skylab 2's final fly-around inspection. The single solar panel is quite evident as well as the parasol solar shield, rigged to replace the missing micrometeoroid shield. Both the second solar panel and the micrometeoroid shield were torn away during a mishap in the original Skylab 1 liftoff and orbital insertion.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Detroit, MI, Toledo, OH and …
Title Detroit, MI, Toledo, OH and Lake Erie
Description Greater Detroit (42.0N, 82.5W) is located at the southeastern border of Michigan on the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario, Canada and Lake Huron to the north. The river connecting Lake Erie is a channel left over from the Ice Age Glaciers. The land use pattern in this scene is typical of this part of the upper midwest. The once extensive forests have been cleared for farmland and pasture, but narrow rows of trees still line farm boundries.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Skylab 2 Farewell View from …
Title Skylab 2 Farewell View from the Departing Skylab Command/Service Module
Description This overhead view of the Skylab Space Station was taken from the Departing Skylab Command/Service Module during the Skylab 2's final fly-around inspection. The single solar panel is quite evident as well as the parasol solar shield, rigged to replace the missing micrometeoroid shield. Both the second solar panel and the micrometeoroid shield were torn away during a mishap in the original Skylab 1 liftoff and orbital insertion.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Mississippi River, Yazoo Bas …
Title Mississippi River, Yazoo Basin, Memphis, TN
Description This section of the lower Mississippi River (34.0N, 90.0W) known as the Yazoo Basin, is characterized by a wide expanse of rich river bottomland with many oxbow lakes, the remains of the many changes in the riverbed over the course of many thousands of years. This soil is very fertile and productive but the region is prone to flooding. In this view, some of the back areas around the Delta National Forest show the effects of heavy spring rains.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Lake Superior, Duluth, MN
Title Lake Superior, Duluth, MN
Description This view shows the west end of Lake Superior and Duluth, MN (47.0N, 91.0W). Portions of Minnesota, Michigan and Ontario, Canada are in the scene. The Duluth metropolitan area is at the west end of the lake. The discoloration plume in the water at Duluth is the result of tailings from the iron ore smelters that process the iron ore from the nearby open pit mines seen near the upper left corner of the photo.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Louisville, KY, USA
Title Louisville, KY, USA
Description The meandering Ohio River bisecting this image is the border between Kentucky and Indiana. Louisville, KY (38.5N, 86.0W) on the south shore, is the main city seen in this predominately agricultural region where much of the native hardwood forests have been preserved in the hilly terrain. The main crops in this region include corn, alfalfa, wheat and soybeans. The dark rectangle in south Indiana near the river is The U.S. Army's Jefferson Proving Ground.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Boston, MA and New England C …
Title Boston, MA and New England Coastline
Description Boston, MA and the New England Coastline (43.5N, 84.0W) can be seen in this view. The typical rugged rocky coast of Maine is the result of heavy glacial action producing the rocky cliffs, jagged spurs of land and islands that characterize Main's Atlantic Coast. During the last Ice Age, extensive sediments were laid down producing a landscape of rolling hills with rocky outcrops.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Spac …
Title Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Description This overhead view of the central eastern shore of Florida shows the Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center (28.5N, 80.5W), where all of the NASA manned space missions originate. Sprinkled along the jutting cape are a number of KSC launch pads from the earlier Mercury, Gemini Apollo and Skylab series of space flights. Merritt Island, just south of Kennedy Space Center, is where the spacecraft liftoff tracking station is located.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
New Orleans, Louisiana, Miss …
Title New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi River, and Lake Pontchartrain
Description New Orleans,Louisiana, Mississippi River, and Lake Pontchartrain (31.0N, 91.0W) can all be seen in this single detailed view. The marshlands of the Atchafalaya Basin, previously the main drainage way for the Mississippi River, can be seen to be partially silted as a result of sediments. The long narrow field patterns fronting on the river is called the "Long Lot" system of equal land distribution based on the French Napoleonic Civil Code.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Chesapeake Bay, Potomac Rive …
Title Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River
Description The nation's capital lies astride the Potomac River (38.5N, 77.5W) at the head of the Potomac Estuary. Baltimore, MD, also in the scene, is connected to Washington by the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. The suburbs of both cities tend to cluster around the Washington and Baltimore Beltways. Most of the countryside in the eastern two-thirds of this scene is either heavily forested or is in farming, dairy operations or poultry production.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Astronaut Paul Weitz at the …
Title Astronaut Paul Weitz at the control panel of the Apollo Telescope Mount
Description Astronaut Paul J. Weitz, Skylab 2 pilot, is seated at the control and display panel of the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) in the Skylab 1 and 2 space vehicle cluster in Earth orbit.
Date Taken 1973-06-01
Lower New England, USA
Title Lower New England, USA
Description This view of lower New England, (41.5N, 72.0W) shows a rare cloud-free area stretching from northern Long Island across the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The total area covered by this photo is more than 25,000 square miles and includes all of Rhode Island, most of Massachusetts and Connecticut, part of New York and the coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Cape Cod, Boston and the offshore islands are distinctive features.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Lower Chesapeake Bay, VA, US …
Title Lower Chesapeake Bay, VA, USA
Description Norfolk and the lower Chesapeake Bay, VA (37.5N, 75.5W) at the interface of the Atlantic Ocean can be seen to be a mixture of complex currents. Outgoing tides from the bay generate considerable tubulence as they encounter coastal currents and can be observed by the sediment plumes stirred up as a result of current dynamics. Smooth flowing water has less sediment and appears darker. Turbulent water has lots of sediment and appears lighter in color.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Northwest Washington State
Title Northwest Washington State
Description Portions of northwest Washington State (48.0N, 122.5) can be seen in this view as well as portions of British Columbia, Canada. The snow covered Cascade Mountains are on the eastern side of the scene. Vancouver Island is visible in the northeast corner of the photo. The strait of Juan de Fuca separates Vancouver Islannd from the northwest corner of Washington. Seattle is near the center and the snow covered Olympic Mountains are to the east.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Skylab 2 Crewmember During E …
Title Skylab 2 Crewmember During EVA to Repair and Deploy Damaged Solar Panel
Description Close up view of Skylab 2 Crewmember Joseph P. Kerwin clearing away the remnants (cables and tubing) from the missing solar array panel during an early mission tethered extravehicular activity (EVA) to repair the damaged and partially deployed solar array panel. Conrad's life support umbilical is seen cutting diagonally across the image next to Kerwin. After the successful EVA, the solar panel was fully deployed.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
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