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heng44
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posted 12-13-2014 01:12 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Rocco Petrone and George Low watch through a porthole in the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator at the Marshall Space Flight Center as the Skylab 2 astronauts practice sunshade deployment procedures on May 22, 1973. The emergency EVA became necessary after Skylab 1 lost its micometeoroid shield during launch a weak earlier. Petrone was MSFC Director and Low was NASA's Deputy Administrator at the time.

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Why the surgical masks? Surely not because someone had...!

heng44
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The crew was in pre-launch quarantine at the time.

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But they were in a giant tank of water wearing spacesuits! What were docs worried about?

Michael Davis
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Only Conrad and Kerwin would have been in the NBS. Weitz might also have been present. Plus it is likely that the backup crew was present to provide support.

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