Word: airlocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the spinnaker on a sailboat (the analogy especially pleases Conrad, who recently acquired a 34-ft. sloop). If this fails, the crew will try again after they have boarded Skylab. One possibility: two of the astronauts will crawl out of a hatch in the space laboratory's airlock module and try to position another Mylar covering over the damaged section with a long extension...
...Workshop and the Apollo command ship and contains the complex control panel for Skylab's telescope; 3) the Apollo Telescope Mount, which is the world's first manned solar observatory in earth orbit and contains eight separate telescopes for different types of astronomical observations; and 4) the Airlock Module, which serves as a pressurization chamber for sorties out into space and is the nerve center for the entire station; it is equipped with thermal and electrical controls and extensive communications gear, including a teleprinter to receive updated flight plans from Mission Control in Houston...
...parking" orbit about 115 miles high. After a single swing around the earth, it resumes its climb, gingerly approaches its target, and then docks with a huge, slowly rotating space station. Once the passengers -several scientists and engineers, two Congressmen, a doctor and a journalist -have disembarked through an airlock, the ship frees itself from the station, drops back toward earth and re-enters the atmosphere at a sharp nose-up angle that quickly slows it down. Like the mother ship, it then fires up the fan jets hidden in its tail and flies to a landing on an ordinary...