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...worst was still to come. When the disappointed astronauts moved Apollo back to the nose of Skylab to dock for a rest period, another glitch developed: Apollo's docking mechanism, which had worked the first time, suddenly balked. Several times Conrad bumped Apollo's nose into Skylab's docking adapter; each time, Apollo's docking mechanism failed to engage...
Determined to avoid aborting the entire mission, the astronauts suited up again, depressurized their cabin, removed the probe assembly and attempted to make repairs. After two hours of effort they finally managed to dock successfully. On Saturday, they were to try to enter Skylab and attempt to put a sun screen over the orbital workshop's exposed skin...
...obviously rowed a poor race," Ullrich said. "Our boys just didn't feel physically tired when they backed to the dock after the race. I blame myself for a lot of the problem. Our bladework was extremely sloppy and some of this was because our boat may have been rigged...
...just brought his shell-scarred Lucky Star to the dock in Phnom-Penh last week−the 3,500-ton lead ship in a convoy that had to run a gauntlet of Communist gunfire to reach the encircled Cambodian capital. Normally, such ships−manned by Chinese crews that get large, unspecified war bonuses to do the work−set out every ten days from the South Vietnamese port of Vung Tau with cargoes of machinery, machine parts and fuel. The latest convoy, however, was delayed two weeks while U.S. bombers tried to clear a passage through Communist gunners along...
...Saturn 5 booster and sent into a 269-mile-high orbit of the earth. Next day, a smaller Saturn 1-B rocket will loft an Apollo command ship with three astronauts on board into a similar orbital path around the earth. Seven hours later, the astronauts will rendezvous and dock with Skylab. The men will then move into their posh quarters and prepare to remain there for the next 28 days−four days longer than the previous record set in 1971 by the Russians in their more primitive Salyut I space station.* Later in the year, two more three...