Author Topic: Skylab Video (Read 17796 times)

hogan_terran · « **on:** 05/14/2008 03:26 pm »

interesting video about skylab

Proponent · « **Reply #1 on:** 05/15/2008 06:13 am »

Some great photography. It's slightly depressing, though, that even a NASA video about a NASA program gets its facts wrong on the lost solar wing. According to the video, the wing was lost during ascent. Actually, the wing came loose during ascent but was not actually separated until the S-II stage's retros fired.

Launch Fan · « **Reply #2 on:** 05/16/2008 01:21 pm »

KSC Media services still trying that "If we put it on youtube, millions will watch it"?

Good video though.

Skylab · « **Reply #3 on:** 05/16/2008 09:15 pm »

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Launch Fan - 16/5/2008 3:21 PM
Good video though.

The presenter even looks like he's from that era! :bleh:

Rob in KC · « **Reply #4 on:** 05/17/2008 03:03 am »

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Skylab - 16/5/2008 4:15 PM

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Launch Fan - 16/5/2008 3:21 PM
Good video though.
The presenter even looks like he's from that era! :bleh:

Yeah! Still enjoyed the video.

Andy L · « **Reply #5 on:** 05/17/2008 01:20 pm »

What are these videos? Former NASA TV, but recorded to preserve?

dwmzmm · « **Reply #6 on:** 05/17/2008 05:40 pm »

Still a nice video; shows just how much room the Skylab afforded the visiting astronauts compared to the ISS of today. Looks like the
Skylab astronauts could "play" better when they could....I've seen the Skylab mockup on display at Space Center Houston many times,
and it always amazes me to see what we could do in the era of the Saturn's.

ApolloLee · « **Reply #7 on:** 05/19/2008 03:34 pm »

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dwmzmm - 17/5/2008 10:40 AM

Still a nice video; shows just how much room the Skylab afforded the visiting astronauts compared to the ISS of today. Looks like the
Skylab astronauts could "play" better when they could....I've seen the Skylab mockup on display at Space Center Houston many times,
and it always amazes me to see what we could do in the era of the Saturn's.

The Bigelow modules will have as much room as Skylab, if not the same length.....

hogan_terran · « **Reply #8 on:** 05/21/2008 07:56 pm »

This video was created for the 35th Anniversary of Skylab by the KSC Web Operations Group for the NASA web portal. Check out the web page: www.nasa.gov/skylab
Hogan

catdlr · « **Reply #9 on:** 12/13/2017 03:22 am »

bump for an historic video...

Skylab / Saturn 5 rocket: Launch of the "SKYLAB" space station, May 14, 1973

Dan Beaumont Space Museum
Published on Dec 12, 2017

(Saturn rocket 50th ANNIVERSARY-1967-1973)
It was the last launch of a Saturn 5. There had been 13 successful launches, 12 in the "Apollo" program. It's "stock shots" from the Associated Press.

Beautiful picture of the launch here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdanbeaumont/27239754919/in/dateposted-public/

catdlr · « **Reply #10 on:** 05/01/2018 07:24 pm »

NASA SKYLAB 3 SL-3 MISSION JULY 28, 1973 DOCUMENTARY FILM 62294

PeriscopeFilm
Published on May 1, 2018

This film profiles Skylab 3 (also SL-3 and SLM-2), the second manned mission to the first American space station, Skylab. The mission began July 28, 1973, with the launch of three astronauts on the Saturn IB rocket, and lasted 59 days, 11 hours and 9 minutes. A total of 1,084.7 astronaut-utilization hours were tallied by the Skylab 3 crew performing scientific experiments in the areas of medical activities, solar observations, Earth resources, and other experiments.

The crew consisted of Commander Alan L. Bean, Science Pilot Owen K. Garriott -- father of Lord British -- and pilot Jack R. Lousma.

The manned Skylab missions were officially designated Skylab 2, 3, and 4. Mis-communication about the numbering resulted in the mission emblems reading Skylab I, Skylab II, and Skylab 3 respectively. During the approach phase, a propellant leak developed in one of the Apollo Service Module's reaction control system thruster quads. The crew was able to safely dock with Skylab, but troubleshooting continued with the problem. Six days later, another thruster quad developed a leak, creating concern amongst Mission Control. For the first time, an Apollo spacecraft would be rolled out to Launch Complex 39 for a rescue mission, made possible by the ability for the station to have two Apollo CSMs docked at the same time. It was eventually determined that the CSM could be safely maneuvered using only two working thruster quads, and the rescue mission was never launched.

The crew, during their first EVA, installed the twin-pole sunshade, one of the two solutions for the destruction of the micrometeoroid shield during Skylab's launch to keep the space station cool. It was installed over the parasol, which was originally deployed through a porthole airlock during Skylab 2. Both were brought to the station by Skylab 2. Skylab 3 continued a comprehensive medical research program that extended the data on human physiological adaptation and readaptation to space flight collected on the previous Skylab 2 mission. In addition, Skylab 3 extended the astronauts' stay in space from approximately one month to two months. Therefore, the effects of flight duration on physiological adaptation and readaptation could be examined.

A set of core medical investigations were performed on all three Skylab manned missions. These core investigations were the same basic investigations that were performed on Skylab 2, except that the Skylab 3 inflight tests were supplemented with extra tests based on what researchers learned from the Skylab 2 science results. For example, only leg volume measurements, preflight and postflight stereophotogrammetry, and in-flight maximum calf girth measurements were originally scheduled for all three Skylab missions.

In-flight photographs from Skylab 2 revealed the "puffy face syndrome" which prompted the addition of in-flight torso and limb girth measurements to gather more data on the apparent headward fluid shift on Skylab 3. Other additional tests included arterial blood flow measurements by an occlusive cuff placed around the leg, facial photographs taken before flight and during flight to study the "puffy face syndrome", venous compliance, hemoglobin, urine specific gravity, and urine mass measurements. These inflight tests gave additional information about fluid distribution and fluid balance to get a better understanding of the fluid shift phenomena.

The Skylab 3 biological experiments studied the effects of microgravity on mice, fruit flies, single cells and cell culture media. Human lung cells were flown to examine the biochemical characteristics of cell cultures in the microgravity environment. The two animal experiments were entitled Chronobiology of Pocket Mice and Circadian Rhythm in Vinegar Gnats. Both experiments were unsuccessful due to a power failure 30 hours after launch, which killed the animals.

The crew's health was assessed on Skylab by collecting data on dental health, environmental and crew microbiology, radiation, and toxicological aspects of the Skylab orbital workshop. Other assessments were made of astronaut maneuvering equipment and of the habitability of the crew quarters, and crew activities/maintenance experiments were examined on Skylab 2 through 4 to better understand the living and working aspects of life in space.

kking · « **Reply #11 on:** 05/02/2018 06:10 am »

Heres the launch of Skylab 1 from ABC

MATTBLAK · « **Reply #12 on:** 05/02/2018 06:35 am »

...AAAnd if you value your sanity; don't read all the flat Earth Bullsh1t comments that follow most of the videos on YouTube...

catdlr · « **Reply #13 on:** 09/05/2018 07:41 pm »

Spaceship Skylab: Wings of Discovery ~ 1979 NASA; Orbiting Workshop Accomplishments

Jeff Quitney
Published on Sep 5, 2018

"Describes the Skylab discoveries and accomplishments that are changing the way we look at the world. Telescopes show an enormous mass of energy erupting from the Sun's surface, each second radiating more energy that has been used by man since the beginning of civilization. Cameras and sensors of the Earth Resources Experiments Package made pictures of the Earth that may make a major contribution to solving some of the world's most pressing problems.
AWARD: Certificate of Merit, The 10th Chicago International Film Festival, 1974"

NASA film JSC-637

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab

Skylab was the United States' first and only space station, orbiting Earth from 1973 to 1979 when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention. Launched and operated by NASA, Skylab included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems necessary for crew survival and scientific experiments. It was launched unmanned by a modified Saturn V rocket, with a weight of 170,000 pounds (77,111 kg). Lifting Skylab into low earth orbit was the final mission and launch of a Saturn V rocket (which was famous for carrying the manned Moon landing missions). When data from onboard experiments (some of which were on physical film) were returned to Earth, analysis of scientific and engineering data of each mission was completed. Skylab's solar observatory was one of its major functions. Solar science was significantly advanced by the telescope, and its observation of the Sun was unprecedented.

To transport astronauts to Skylab, there were a total of three manned expeditions to the station, conducted between May 1973 and February 1974.

Numerous scientific experiments were conducted aboard Skylab during its operational life, and crews were able to confirm the existence of coronal holes in the Sun. The Earth Resources Experiment Package (EREP) was used to view Earth with sensors that recorded data in the visible, infrared, and microwave spectral regions.

Thousands of photographs of Earth were taken, and the record for human time spent in orbit was extended beyond the 23 days set by the Soyuz 11 crew aboard Salyut 1, to as much as 84 days by the Skylab 4 crew. Plans were made to refurbish and reuse Skylab by using the Space Shuttle to boost its orbit and repair it. However, due to delays with the development of the Space Shuttle, Skylab's decaying orbit could not be stopped... Skylab's atmospheric reentry began on July 11, 1979.

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Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aPQLbiQDVM?t=001

penguin44 · « **Reply #14 on:** 09/07/2018 05:12 am »

Cool video. Very creepy music at the beginning.

woods170 · « **Reply #15 on:** 09/07/2018 07:24 am »

Quote from: penguin44 on 09/07/2018 05:12 am

Cool video. Very creepy music at the beginning.

Yeah, NASA did quite a bit of that in the late 70's and early 80's. I've got a JPL promo film lying around from 1980; the background music, particularly in the beginning, is haunting.

Archibald · « **Reply #16 on:** 09/07/2018 07:41 am »

it probably reflected the post-Watergate (bad) mood of the times. Say what you want of old Jimmy Carter, but he nailed it well in its infamous "malaise speech". Then of course, it completely backfired in his face when people started saying "malaise = Carter".

1979 was a pretty apocalyptic year when you think about it.

More generally, in retrospect the 70's looks like a never-ending series of industrial / high-tech disasters. Most of the "deadliest disaster records" on hand were established in that decade and are still standing - things like Seveso, Tenerife, Flight 191, Amocco Cadiz, TMI, and of course disco music (the Bee Gees, the horror)

I'm glad to have been born in 1982, although The Challenger and Chernobyl surely made 1986 a pretty scary year.

TripleSeven · « **Reply #17 on:** 09/07/2018 07:54 am »

Quote from: Archibald on 09/07/2018 07:41 am

it probably reflected the post-Watergate (bad) mood of the times. Say what you want of old Jimmy Carter, but he nailed it well in its infamous "malaise speech". Then of course, it completely backfired in his face when people started saying "malaise = Carter".

1979 was a pretty apocalyptic year when you think about it.

More generally, in retrospect the 70's looks like a never-ending series of industrial / high-tech disasters. Most of the "deadliest disaster records" on hand were established in that decade and are still standing - things like Seveso, Tenerife, Flight 191, Amocco Cadiz, TMI, and of course disco music (the Bee Gees, the horror)

I'm glad to have been born in 1982, although The Challenger and Chernobyl surely made 1986 a pretty scary year.

as I chuckled over your post I was reminded of the scene in Airplane where "Disco never dies"

Archibald · « **Reply #18 on:** 09/08/2018 06:51 am »

Surely, you can't be serious !

Disco.. Gosh damn it, Lewis !

Tell Cdr Lewis disco sucks !

catdlr · « **Reply #19 on:** 09/24/2018 08:07 pm »

First US Space Station: "Skylab" ~1972 NASA; Pre-Flight Orbital Workshop Overview

Jeff Quitney
Published on Sep 24, 2018

Describes the Skylab orbiting workshop, to be launched the following year.

NASA film HQ-216

Skylab was the United States' first and only space station, orbiting Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention. Launched and operated by NASA, Skylab included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems necessary for crew survival and scientific experiments. It was launched unmanned by a modified Saturn V rocket, with a weight of 170,000 pounds (77,111 kg). Lifting Skylab into low earth orbit was the final mission and launch of a Saturn V rocket (which was famous for carrying the manned Moon landing missions). When data from onboard experiments (some of which were on physical film) were returned to Earth, analysis of scientific and engineering data of each mission was completed. Skylab's solar observatory was one of its major functions. Solar science was significantly advanced by the telescope, and its observation of the Sun was unprecedented.

To transport astronauts to Skylab, there were a total of three manned expeditions to the station, conducted between May 1973 and February 1974.

Numerous scientific experiments were conducted aboard Skylab during its operational life, and crews were able to confirm the existence of coronal holes in the Sun. The Earth Resources Experiment Package (EREP) was used to view Earth with sensors that recorded data in the visible, infrared, and microwave spectral regions.

Thousands of photographs of Earth were taken, and the record for human time spent in orbit was extended beyond the 23 days set by the Soyuz 11 crew aboard Salyut 1, to as much as 84 days by the Skylab 4 crew. Plans were made to refurbish and reuse Skylab by using the Space Shuttle to boost its orbit and repair it. However, due to delays with the development of the Space Shuttle, Skylab's decaying orbit could not be stopped... Skylab's atmospheric reentry began on July 11, 1979.

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Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

Dstevenb · « **Reply #20 on:** 09/29/2018 01:01 pm »

Does anyone here happen to have any news recordings when Al Shepard reprimanded the SL-4 crew on the open channel for covering up Billy Pogue's space sickness?

It would have occured on or around Nov. 18, 1973.

Thanks for your help.

catdlr · « **Reply #21 on:** 12/17/2018 05:26 am »

This video is the same that I posted above but without the timestamp.

Skylab 3: The Middle Mission 1973 NASA; Owen Garriot, Jack Lousma, Alan Bean

Jeff Quitney
Published on Dec 16, 2018

Covers the efforts to repair Skylab, damaged during launch to orbit, during the first two manned missions.

Produced for NASA by Technicolor Graphic Services.

Skylab 3 (also SL-3 and SLM-2) was the second manned mission to the first American space station, Skylab. The mission began on July 28, 1973, with the launch of three astronauts on the Saturn IB rocket, and lasted 59 days, 11 hours and 9 minutes. A total of 1,084.7 astronaut-utilization hours were tallied by the Skylab 3 crew performing scientific experiments in the areas of medical activities, solar observations, Earth resources, and other experiments.

The manned Skylab missions were officially designated Skylab 2, 3, and 4. Mis-communication about the numbering resulted in the mission emblems reading Skylab I, Skylab II, and Skylab 3 respectively...

Commander Alan L. Bean: Second and last spaceflight
Science Pilot Owen K. Garriott: First spaceflight
Pilot Jack R. Lousma: First spaceflight

During the approach phase, a propellant leak developed in one of the Apollo Service Module's reaction control system thruster quads. The crew was able to safely dock with Skylab, but troubleshooting continued with the problem. Six days later, another thruster quad developed a leak, creating concern amongst Mission Control. For the first time, an Apollo spacecraft would be rolled out to Launch Complex 39 for a rescue mission, made possible by the ability for the station to have two Apollo CSMs docked at the same time. It was eventually determined that the CSM could be safely maneuvered using only two working thruster quads, and the rescue mission was never launched.

The crew, during their first EVA, installed the twin-pole sunshade, one of the two solutions for the destruction of the micrometeoroid shield during Skylab's launch to keep the space station cool. It was installed over the parasol, which was originally deployed through a porthole airlock during Skylab 2. Both were brought to the station by Skylab 2.

Skylab 3 continued a comprehensive medical research program that extended the data on human physiological adaptation and readaptation to space flight collected on the previous Skylab 2 mission. In addition, Skylab 3 extended the astronauts' stay in space from approximately one month to two months. Therefore, the effects of flight duration on physiological adaptation and readaptation could be examined.

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Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

Hog · « **Reply #22 on:** 12/17/2018 04:21 pm »

I had no idea that rescue missions were stacked and readied in the VAB as AS 208 for Skylab-3 with CSM 119 atop a Saturn 1-b on a Mobile Launcher and was even taken to the pad by a Crawler Transporter.
AS 209 was the rescue mission for Skylab 4.

I thought that Launch On Need missions were created in the later stages of the Space Transportation System post STS-107. The Skylab LON missions were possible by the forethought of designing the ability of having more than one Command Module to be docked to Skylab at one time.

Here's a pic of a 5 man Apollo rescue mission. 2 astronauts launched on a Saturn 1B with 5 total astronauts returning.

Hog · « **Reply #23 on:** 12/17/2018 04:22 pm »

Quote from: Dstevenb on 09/29/2018 01:01 pm

Does anyone here happen to have any news recordings when Al Shepard reprimanded the SL-4 crew on the open channel for covering up Billy Pogue's space sickness?

It would have occured on or around Nov. 18, 1973.

Thanks for your help.

Any luck with this?

Citabria · « **Reply #24 on:** 12/18/2018 04:03 pm »

A magnificent machine, that Saturn 5! How disappointing that this was its last flight.

AS_501 · « **Reply #25 on:** 12/18/2018 04:23 pm »

Just as disappointing was Skylab's reentry in 1979. Unfortunate that the station could not be re-boosted and revisited by Shuttle missions. It would have been absolutely fascinating to see astronauts go back inside and check out various systems, see if anything powered up. Like reopening a old tomb.

Dstevenb · « **Reply #26 on:** 01/05/2019 12:42 am »

Quote from: Hog on 12/17/2018 04:22 pm

Quote from: Dstevenb on 09/29/2018 01:01 pm
Does anyone here happen to have any news recordings when Al Shepard reprimanded the SL-4 crew on the open channel for covering up Billy Pogue's space sickness?

It would have occured on or around Nov. 18, 1973.

Thanks for your help.
Any luck with this?

No unfortunately not. For Searching for Skylab I got pretty much all other audio (Helen Garriott, Pet Conrad swearing, and Deke Slyaton commending the SL-4 crew), but that Al Shepard reprimand audio remains elusive.

ZChris13 · « **Reply #27 on:** 12/23/2019 03:53 am »

Whatever happened to Jeff Quitney's uploads?

Sam Ho · « **Reply #28 on:** 12/23/2019 05:13 pm »

Quote from: ZChris13 on 12/23/2019 03:53 am

Whatever happened to Jeff Quitney's uploads?

It's moving to Vimeo when he can reupload it.

Quote from: Jeff Quitney

My YouTube channel was shut down for no reason, with no warning, and no explanation. YouTube will not answer my inquiries. There were no copyright strikes against my account.

I will be uploading at Vimeo from now on, I have about 200 videos there already which were VOD, but I am converting them all to free viewing: https://vimeo.com/jeffquitney

Over 1200 of my YouTube videos have also been backed up at BitTube:

https://twitter.com/quickfoundnet/status/1109314006919970816

Oersted · « **Reply #29 on:** 12/25/2019 05:52 am »

I've only ever seen really low-rez, murky Skylab video. Any chance the original films will ever get an "Apollo 11-movie" make-over? I would love to see a high rez despeckled digitally enhanced etc transfer. The footage would be glorious and help avoid that Skylab is forgotten.

catdlr · « **Reply #30 on:** 12/10/2025 12:07 am »

Skylab - The Final Orbit - by lunarmodule5

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Dec 9, 2025
Skylab - The Final Orbit

July 11th 1979 - the Skylab Space Station is on it's final Earth orbit. Approaching the Bermuda tracking station we hear reports from PAO, MOCR controllers, NORAD and the Flight Director. The track takes Skylab down the Atlantic over Ascension Island, where the final telemetry is received and analysed. Reports then start coming in of Skylab's re-entry and eventual destruction near to and over South West Australia.

This presentation is in real time. Audio is sourced from 6 tracks and condensed to 3 track - Left channel is PAO - Right Channel is MOCR - Mid Channel is FD/NORAD/Backroom

My thanks to Paolo for the Map and Skylab Icons
Audio courtesy NASA and NARA
Skylab patch courtesy NASA