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Topic: Skylab lessons for International Space Station
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Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1587
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 09-12-2016 03:34 PM
   
I have been re-reading Henry S.F. Cooper's great book on Skylab, "A House in Space," and have realized how much of a learning experience it was for both the astronauts and Mission Control. I was wondering how many of these lessons were incorporated into the physical structure of the International Space Station? |
OV-105
Member Posts: 816
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 09-13-2016 11:15 AM
I would think they learned more from the Shuttle-Mir program. Not that Skylab didn't help. |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1587
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 09-13-2016 03:35 PM
I was thinking more along the lines of crew workload, color schemes inside and better ways of labeling or tying things down. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-13-2016 04:20 PM
In 2013, NASA Headquarters held an event to recognize the 40th anniversary of Skylab, which brought together Skylab and International Space Station astronauts. At that event, Kevin Ford said: "The [International] Space Station was built around what we learned on Skylab. What they put up there for us, the way the modules were sized and the way they were constructed in space... that all came out of what we learned from Skylab." Skylab astronauts also served in positions that advised and helped to design the International Space Station: - The late Bill Pogue worked with the Boeing Company in support of the space station Freedom project and the International Space Station, specializing in assembly spacewalks.
- Ed Gibson provided management leadership for engineering and operational issues for NASA's space station program as a principal at Booz, Allen and Hamilton. He later consulted on ISS utilization as president of Gibson International.
- Joe Kerwin, as senior vice president of Wyle, led the bioastronautics contract supporting NASA's human spaceflight programs, including the space station.
- Owen Garriott, before retiring from NASA, served as program scientist for the space station program office at the Johnson Space Center. Later, he was involved in developing and deploying Windows on Earth, the software astronauts use today to track and plan their Earth observation photo targets from aboard the International Space Station.
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Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1463
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 09-13-2016 06:14 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Fra Mauro:
...better ways of labeling or tying things down.
That would be Mir. | |
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