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Momentarily forgetting that he was no longer living in the weightless environment of spaceflight, returned Skylab 3 Astronaut Ed Gibson put his blood pressure kit out in front of him and turned away; he was startled when the kit crashed to the floor. His fellow space traveler, Gerald Carr, was so astonished by the sound of tumbling ice cubes in his refrigerator that he nearly jumped out of his seat. His wife reassured...
...Skylab's balky gyroscope]. It's just the ice maker." Usually a shy homebody, Astronaut Bill Pogue began calling numerous friends and wanted to go to the theater-just to "see all the different faces...
...first seven days after their splashdown off Lower California, the crew had little chance to sightsee. While NASA technicians began processing the 70 lbs. of film brought back from Skylab 3, the astronauts were kept in semi-quarantine; their contacts were limited to wives and selected NASA officials, as doctors tried to shield them from infections that would interfere with the medical tests. For 21 days the astronauts must also continue to eat Skylab-type prepackaged food, a teetotaling, less-than-gourmet diet that was particularly hard on Commander Carr; in space he dreamt continually of savoring his favorite cold...
...cost $2.6 billion and tapped the best of American technology; yet Skylab sometimes behaved like a castoff from a used-car lot. First it lost vital shielding and an electricity-generating solar wing. Then its steering rockets per formed so badly that NASA thought of sending up rescuers to evacuate its three-man crew. Finally, two of its stabilizing gyros faltered, threatening to send the 100-ton space station yawing and pitching like an angry whale...
Even these weighty problems, how ever, failed to excite a blase public. When the last of three Skylab crews finally splashed down off Lower Cali fornia last week, their successful home coming was not even given live cover age by the TV networks, though the astronauts had set a remarkable endurance record of 84 days in orbit...