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...modern art. It's a bunch of stuff done by people who like to create in a visual way and are learning new ways to do so. Some of the works are class assignments, some aren't. Some are exciting, some trite or boring. There are lithographs and photographs, mylar and plastic, oil painting and silkscreening, hung mostly according to genre in a loose, disorganized way--with corrections penciled in on nametags that keep falling on the floor...
...Gico even seems capable of controlling the audience. "Watch the mirrors," she instructs them, in a reference to the mylar-coated reflecting panels which encircle the stage. "Every eye is a mirror," she adds mysteriously, and all of the actors immediately freeze, staring intently at the audience for what was obviously an uncomfortably long time for many of the patrons. The unusual interlude greatly increased the audience's need for the play; their relief was evident when movement began on the stage as suddenly as it had ceased...
...greatest attention was devoted to developing the various sunshades. That effort required the skills and ingenuity of a wide assortment of specialists, ranging from pipefitters and seamstresses to space physicists and polymer chemists (who were needed to evaluate the effect of solar radiation on the thin, aluminized Mylar and nylon sheet used to construct the canopies). Because plastics are notoriously vulnerable to the sun's ultraviolet radiation, technicians taped a thin, gold-colored protective material on the outside of one of the shades. But they quickly discovered that the coating made the canopy too bulky to fold and pack...
...devices. But NASA gave top priority to a third, untested device: the so-called "parasol" canopy. One reason: the astronauts would not have to leave Skylab to put it in place. Resembling a beach umbrella, the canopy is made up of a 22-by-24-ft. sheet of aluminized Mylar and nylon attached to a long pole consisting of seven 4-ft. sections. An astronaut could extend the pole and sheet out of a small airlock in the middle of the Orbital Workshop's exposed area. Springs in the umbrella's "spokes" would automatically snap the covering into...
...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...