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...When Skylab's third and last team of astronauts lands in the Pacific off lower California this week, after a record 84 days in earth orbit, a good deal more than an extraordinarily successful mission will be coming to an end. Except for next year's scheduled space rendezvous between American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts, there are no plans to send anyone from the U.S. into orbit before the close of the decade. Friday's splashdown concludes not only the ambitious $2.6 billion Skylab program but an entire era of space exploration...
...endure prolonged isolation and weightlessness. To compound those troubles, one of the space station's three stabilizing gyroscopes broke down and another periodically faltered -threatening the photographic studies of sun and earth, which require an extremely stable vantage point. Finally, the crew grew so edgy that Skylab Commander Carr asked for a full-fledged appraisal of the crew's performance-in effect, the space program's first encounter session between orbit and ground...
...physical as well as emotional adjustment to their life in orbit. They also got more tune to relax; for amusement, Carr would open a jar of peanuts and "swim" after them as they drifted off, swallowing them up like a hungry guppy. "From what we've seen on Skylab," Astronaut-Physician Story F. Musgrave said last week, "I don't think there is any limit on how long man can stay in space...
...disappointing dud. Looking with unaided eye into the southwest sky after sunset, most observers in well-lighted, smoggy metropolitan areas could find no trace of Kohoutek. Even with binoculars, they saw only a faint smudge near the bright planets Venus and Jupiter. From their orbital vantage, the Skylab astronauts found that the comet had suddenly become bewilderingly faint; only a few days before, they had enthusiastically described it as glowing "yellow and orange, just like a flame...
...programs have an audience of 2,253,000 each morning on the CBS radio network. While his colleagues concentrate on assembling verbal front pages, Osgood searches out items that newspapers are likely to bury. He interviews the teenage girl who got the idea of sending spiders into space via Skylab. He tells of the confession of a cat burglar in Miami who is only seven years...