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Topic: Skylab CSM post-docking and entry procedures
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Sy Liebergot
Member Posts: 501
From: Pearland, Texas USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 09-03-2011 11:36 AM
   
Any Skylab historians out there? I'm having great difficulty in finding training-type/ops information on the Skylab CSM (116) details concerning post-docking, passivation and undocking/entry. I was a Skylab EGIL (Skylab EECOM), not a CSM EECOM. |
star51L
Member Posts: 354
From: Vilano Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 09-03-2011 02:27 PM
Hello Sy. Not sure if this is what you are seeking, but I found it fascinating. |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1332
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 09-03-2011 02:38 PM
Sy- I'm not sure what you mean. I always assumed you would have more stuff than most of us. I do have a guide book that covers all three missions. Is there a publication number your looking for? I do get to NASM every so often. I would be willing to look up what they have on CSM 116. |
Sy Liebergot
Member Posts: 501
From: Pearland, Texas USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 09-03-2011 02:46 PM
Gents, Thanks for the replies. However, I don't have any old docs--we/I never kept anything. I found the Skylab CSM 116-119 Systems Handbook online, but the Systems HB never contained detailed procedures, such as an AOH contained. |
Dwight
Member Posts: 577
From: Germany
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 09-04-2011 04:10 PM
Sy, I know its not what you are looking for now, but if you require documentation on the Skylab TV systems, at any point, please let me know. All of the ones I have are already in pdf format. |
Rusty B
Member Posts: 239
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 09-06-2011 01:05 AM
Skylab Flight Plan SL-1/SL-2, SL-3, AND SL-4 (April 30, 1973 SL-1 Launch) 312 pages 1 May 1972. |
Sy Liebergot
Member Posts: 501
From: Pearland, Texas USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 09-06-2011 10:09 AM
Thanks Rusty -- very helpful. Now if I can find a SLOH (Skylab Operations Handbook)... |
wickball
Member Posts: 107
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 09-06-2011 07:50 PM
Sy, I have to ask you, did you see that video "Thanksgiving With the Kranz's"? I watched it again last night and it was as great as ever! |
Sy Liebergot
Member Posts: 501
From: Pearland, Texas USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 09-06-2011 09:39 PM
Oh yeah, I have a copy. By the way, Kranz has no "t." |
wickball
Member Posts: 107
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 09-07-2011 04:21 PM
Whoops, my bad. Always had a problem remembering people's name spelling. |
Sy Liebergot
Member Posts: 501
From: Pearland, Texas USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 09-30-2011 09:39 PM
I’m now committed to compose a lecture, mainly dealing with Skylab mission SL-1 and having great difficulty — too many years have passed. Skylab stories seem to always begin with SL-2, not the arduous 10 days we on the ground experienced before the first crew went up. As a Skylab EGIL, I was fully part of that year-long program. This is the first time I've experienced the loss of knowledge that the passage of time effects. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2516
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 10-01-2011 05:47 AM
Sy, I completely sympathize with the memory anomaly. Might I suggest a call to a few Skylab astronauts to pick their memories? I was blessed by being seated next to Joe Kerwin at Spacefest 2007 and he told a great story about the docking after they had tried to free the stuck solar wing on Skylab. He had great details in his oral account of the docking issues they had and how they overcame the issue. |
Sy Liebergot
Member Posts: 501
From: Pearland, Texas USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 10-01-2011 08:26 AM
Thanks for the suggestion, but SL-2 and forward is not a problem — there's plenty of that. Putting together the SL-1 anecdotes and the story of trying to guide the re-entry is the history recovery challenge. I did treat some of this in my autobiography. I'll be visiting the archives in the University of Houston to look at Skylab training documentation and oral histories. This will take a lot of legwork — probably why it's never been included in a book. Hope I live long enough.  |
kyra
Member Posts: 583
From: Louisville CO US
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 10-01-2011 09:25 AM
David Baker's "The History of Manned Space Flight" pp. 474-480 treats this area you are wanting to describe for the lecture pretty thoroughly - the equivalent of about 30 typewritten pages on the 10 day scramble to save Skylab. Were you on Don Puddy's team? He is mentioned quite a bit. |
Sy Liebergot
Member Posts: 501
From: Pearland, Texas USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 10-01-2011 01:22 PM
Thanks Kyra, I'll check it out. I was the Bronze Team EGIL.Chuck Lewis was the Flight Diector. |
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