Word: skylab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other sure eye-catchers are Collins' own spacecraft and the Friendship Seven Mercury capsule that carried John Glenn on the first U.S. orbital flight. Perhaps the most appealing exhibit in the Space Hall, another of the great bays, is the massive black and gold Skylab space station. The only bottleneck in the building is at Skylab's narrow portal, where crowds line up to enter. Says Collins...
America has too many domestic problems to continue Secretary Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy. If the Secretary is hooked on world travel, he should be "shuttlecrafted" to Skylab. Then he can orbit the world every two hours...
...Soyuz spacecraft is too "primitive" to bother docking with should realize that if it weren't for the launching of that spacecraft, we would not be launching an Apollo for any reason. The Soyuz program, however primitive it may be, is still advancing steadily. By contrast, Apollo and Skylab are dead. When viewed in this light, it is actually the Soviets who are condescending to dock with us. Soyuz is just coming into its own, while Apollo is putting on its encore performance...
...breakthrough. In a sense, both Apollo and its 20-story Saturn IB booster are antiques, having been built some nine years ago for the moon program. Still, unexpected gremlins can turn up in even the most time-tested equipment and procedures, witness the repeated difficulties encountered by the three Skylab missions...
...looking command-module pilot, is the quiet man of the American crew. A former Marine Corps and civilian test pilot with a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Colorado, he joined the astronaut corps in 1966, and was a back-up crewman for several moon flights and Skylab. One of the pluses of being involved in the joint flight, says Brand, is "having an opportunity to see how another culture operates." Among ins discoveries: spacemen are far better known in Russia than in the U.S. Not much interested in publicity inmself, Brand likes to spend ins free tune...