Skylab

America's Space Station

By: David Shayler, D. Shayler, Shayler David

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Paperback | 28 May 2001

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Skylab is not just a story of space hardware and space science, but also of space explorers and pioneers. Using official NASA documentation and interviews with the astronauts and key personnel, the inside story of Skylab is presented as the story unfolds. An evaluation of the lessons learnt from the programme and how these were, or were not, incorporated into the Space Shuttle and Space Station programme is also offered to present the value of Skylab in the context of the current programme, 25 years after the last crew came home.

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Foreword
Author's preface
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations, plates and tables
Acronyms and abbreviations
Prologue
Origins	p. 1
Theories and dreams	p. 1
The Apollo Applications Program	p. 19
Refining the flight schedule	p. 36
Preparing for Flight	p. 49
The lost Apollos	p. 49
The Skylab-1 (OWS) mission	p. 68
Ground support facilities	p. 84
The Human Element	p. 101
The original astronauts	p. 102
Astronaut Office technical assignments	p. 108
Programme changes, 1968-1970	p. 118
Skylab training	p. 126
SMEAT: the forgotten Skylab mission	p. 141
Flight Operations	p. 154
SMEAT: 56 days in a can	p. 154
Skylab 1: the launch of the Orbital Workshop	p. 163
Skylab 2: 'We can fix anything!'	p. 176
Skylab 3: the second manned mission	p. 201
Skylab 4: the third manned mission	p. 225
Research Fields	p. 255
Science	p. 255
Habitability	p. 283
Summary	p. 295
Beyond Skylab	p. 297
Revisit, reboost and re-entry, 1974-1979	p. 297
The legacy, 1974-2001	p. 315
Appendix	p. 336
Bibliography	p. 365
Index	p. 369
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