Backup skylab orbital laboratory on display at the national air.
Solar panels on skylab.
The unit was used to guide skylab itself into orbit.
Skylab re entered the earth s atmosphere in 1979 over australia.
Iu also controlled the jettisoning of the protective payload shroud and activated the onboard life support systems started the solar inertial attitude maneuver deployed the apollo telescope mount at a 90ยบ angle and deployed skylab s solar panels.
This re entry was a year or two earlier than expected.
Unable to be re boosted by the space shuttle which was.
For the remainder of their month long stay the astronauts performed other handyman chores conducted many medical experiments and took over 29 000 pictures.
Skylab was the first united states space station launched by nasa occupied for about 24 weeks between may 1973 and february 1974.
Another problem was lack of electricity due to the jammed solar panel.
The solar arrays proved critical to the success of the space station after one of the main solar panels was ripped away during launch.
Skylab astronauts had to rig a golden umbrella to keep their habitat comfortable.
It was operated by three separate three astronaut crews.
From may 25th 1973.
The two solar panels stayed in place throughout most of the launch sequence well after the ms had left the vehicle.
To fit within the payload shroud during launch the atm was initially positioned in line with the mda and orbital workshop.
Skylab 2 crew member paul weitz stood in the command module hatch to use cutters attached to a long pole but he could not.
Skylab 2 skylab 3 and skylab 4 major operations included an orbital workshop a solar observatory earth observation and hundreds of experiments.
Skylab 2 approach to skylab at long range fly around inspection.