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Topic: SL-3: Alan Bean's Skylab II spacewalk
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Nigel Mc
Member Posts: 182
From: Sheffield, UK
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 09-01-2011 05:57 AM
   
Are there any pictures of Alan Bean's Skylab II spacewalk? I somehow missed that he had even done a spacewalk during the mission. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3324
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-01-2011 06:37 AM
See NASA photo numbers SL3-122-2611 and SL3-118-2180. |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1647
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 09-01-2011 08:56 AM
A small trivia question. Which astronauts have done both a lunar EVA and a "spacewalk" (actually getting out of the spacecraft-not just a stand-up EVA)? |
NJSPACEFAN
Member Posts: 128
From: Ocala, FL USA
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 09-01-2011 09:10 AM
How about Aldrin, Conrad, Bean and Cernan! |
SkyMan1958
Member Posts: 880
From: CA.
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 09-01-2011 09:57 AM
Does anyone know what the big pouch on Bean's belly in the pictures is? |
golddog
Member Posts: 210
From: australia
Registered: Feb 2008
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posted 09-01-2011 02:29 PM
Perhaps a tool kit? |
Skylon
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Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 09-01-2011 02:56 PM
A backup oxygen supply I believe (primary life support on Skylab EVA's was through the umbilical connecting the astronaut to Skylab). |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3324
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-01-2011 03:02 PM
That is the Astronaut Life Support Assembly. It circulates oxygen and water throughout the suit. It is the Skylab version of the Apollo PLSS. The Secondary Oxygen Pack is attached to his right leg. |
Michael Davis
Member Posts: 530
From: Houston, Texas
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 09-01-2011 03:15 PM
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Originally posted by NJSPACEFAN:
How about Aldrin, Conrad, Bean and Cernan!
And David Scott of course. He did a stand-up EVA from the CM during Apollo 9. |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 986
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 09-01-2011 03:16 PM
How about an EVA between the earth and the moon, now that had to be interesting. Offhand can't remember anyone besides Ron Evans doing the "translunar twostep"? |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2516
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 09-01-2011 03:22 PM
Al Worden was first (and farthest) on Apollo 15, Ken Mattingly on 16 and then Ron Evans on 17. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 43576
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-01-2011 03:23 PM
All three spacewalks (Worden, Mattingly and Evans) were done to retrieve film and experiment data from the SIM bay and to inspect the outside of the spacecraft (Worden's observations revealed damage to the service module by the thrusters). |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3160
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 09-01-2011 04:47 PM
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Originally posted by SkyMan1958:
Does anyone know what the big pouch on Bean's belly in the pictures is?
That's where he kept his supply of spaghetti in case he felt hungry working in space. I thought everyone knew that! |
mikej
Member Posts: 481
From: Germantown, WI USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 09-01-2011 05:37 PM
quote:
Originally posted by SkyMan1958:
Does anyone know what the big pouch on Bean's belly in the pictures is?
I wrote up a page on the Skylab A7LB suit some time ago, which describes the overall Skylab Astronaut Life Support Assembly (ALSA), including the Pressure Control Unit (the "belly pouch"), Secondary Oxygen Pack, and EVA space suit control panel. I also have pictures of the Skylab A7LB suit with all of these accessories at the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, Georgia. |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1647
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 09-01-2011 09:01 PM
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Originally posted by Michael Davis:
And David Scott of course. He did a stand-up EVA from the CM during Apollo 9.
Jack Schmitt and Jim Irwin also did stand up EVA's, but I don't count them as being the same as floating free of the spacecraft (although via a tether). I can't recall if Charlie Duke did a stand up EVA? |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3324
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-02-2011 04:22 AM
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Originally posted by MCroft04:
I can't recall if Charlie Duke did a stand up EVA?
Yes he did. All three transearth EVAs were conducted the same way with the CMP outside and the LMP doing the stand-up EVA. The CMP wore the CDR lunar surface visor assembly and oxygen purge system during the spacewalk. I heard once that Mattingly had lost his wedding ring somewhere inside the CM earlier in the flight, and Duke caught the ring as it drifted outside the hatch during the stand-up EVA. |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1647
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 09-02-2011 07:17 AM
Charlie told the ring story once at one of the autograph shows several years ago, so yes I believe it is a true story. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3324
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-02-2011 09:35 AM
Alan Bean only made one Skylab EVA and that was with Owen Garriott on September 22, 1973. |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 09-02-2011 06:57 PM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
I heard once that Mattingly had lost his wedding ring somewhere inside the CM earlier in the flight, and Duke caught the ring as it drifted outside the hatch during the stand-up EVA.
When I heard Charlie tell the story at the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation's show, he said not only did the wedding ring float out of the CM cabin just past his reach, but it floated the length of the Service Module, bounced off the back of Mattingly's helmet, and came straight back to Duke. |
Space Cadet Carl
Member Posts: 225
From: Lake Orion, Michigan
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 09-03-2011 08:03 AM
That wedding ring story is great! I've never heard it before and you just have to visualize what it must have looked like when it was happening. Crazy! |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3160
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 09-03-2011 05:33 PM
Carl, you can see the incident dramatized in the "Original Wives Club" episode (which covers Apollo 16) in "From the Earth to the Moon." You can also read about it in "Moonwalker" by Charlie and Dotty Duke. |
wickball
Member Posts: 107
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 10-15-2011 05:36 AM
Are any pictures available of the damage Worden saw, as noted above? |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2516
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 10-15-2011 07:17 AM
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Originally posted by wickball:
Are any pictures available of the damage Worden saw, as noted above?
I just finished Al Worden's book (great read by the way) and in it he states that he was not allowed to take a camera with him so there were no photos of the damage (pg 214 bottom of the third paragraph talks about not taking a camera, top of page 215 talks about the thruster damage and not being able to take a photo of it). |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3324
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 10-15-2011 09:10 AM
NASA photo S71-43202 shows Worden during his transearth EVA. You can see some blistering on the skin of the Service Module that looks like thruster-related damage. Is this the damage Worden was describing in his book? |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3165
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 10-19-2011 11:19 PM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
Is this the damage Worden was describing in his book?
Yes. You can also see it in Pierre Mion's painting, as Al worked with him to accurately depict the exact view Al had during his EVA. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3324
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 10-20-2011 09:46 AM
I didn't realise that the transearth EVA was that close to the Moon. You can see the distant Earth in this NASA photo AS17-152-23399 of Ron Evans on his EVA from the stellar-views.com website. |
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