Skylab Video

[Dstevenb]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[AS_501]

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]

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]

Whatever happened to Jeff Quitney's uploads?

[Sam Ho]

Whatever happened to Jeff Quitney's uploads?

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

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]

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]

Skylab - The Final Orbit - by lunarmodule5

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