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Early in the planning stages of the Skylab flight, there was a desire to keep it in orbit long enough to use it as the core of a larger station.
Skylab 5 Crew-Brand, Lenoir,Lind
Skylab B at Smithsonian
Saturn V at Houston
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“The thing I remember about reentry was not positioning some RCS switches correctly. We got behind and Owen could not read my notes in the checklist because of the limited space (and my ‘unique’ penmanship). I said, ‘Give me the book, and I’ll reconfigure the switches.’ So he gave me the book; then I reconfigured a few. I had a lot of other things going on, and I didn’t reconfigure them all. About ten minutes later, we began to drift out of attitude and we got a master alarm” Alan Bean
Parachute Deployment
Frogmen Enter the Water after Splashdown
Command Module in the Pacific
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“Near the end of our preparation period, management said; Well, we believe, we can do this, now let’s set about to see how we can get them down without expending the resources for a rescue mission. So just overnight we changed goals.” Vance Brand
Skylab Rescue Mission Patch
Crippled CSM Docked at Skylab
Garriott Exercises with the Cycle Ergometer
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“I think for me that was probably the low point of the mission because it threatened our ability to get our job done, and I wasn’t willing to come home. I’ve never been afraid of space, but that was a fear that I had (losing the mission) more than anything else.” Jack Lousma
Five Seat Skylab Rescue Command Module
Skylab Rescue Mission Crew-Vance Brand, Don Lind
Multiple Docking Adapter
