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Skylab: venturing into the docked CM

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Henry Heatherbank Member Posts: 307 From: Adelaide, South Australia Registered: Apr 2005	posted 12-29-2022 08:10 PM How frequently did the crews go back into the docked command module during the Skylab missions? Was the hatch between the CM and Orbital Workshop kept open or closed? Did any of the crew members ever sleep aboard the CM? Was it ever used as an “extra room”?
Headshot Member Posts: 1165 From: Vancouver, WA, USA Registered: Feb 2012	posted 01-12-2023 10:23 AM This is recollection on my part, but I believe the first crew slept in the docked CM for the first few days, until the temperature in the workshop cooled down a bit. I do not know how many days that might have been. I do not recall anything about the second or third crews.
Jim Behling Member Posts: 1756 From: Cape Canaveral, FL Registered: Mar 2010	posted 01-13-2023 08:20 AM It was kept open and a duct was brought into exchange air. The CSM was not shut down during the docked phase. The fuel cells kept supplying power to the cluster until their reactants ran out. The clusters air to ground voice communications were routed through the CSM systems and antennas.

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