Word: skylab
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...first Skylab astronauts proved beyond a doubt that man could live and work in zero-G for as long as 28 days...
...second Skylab mission was originally scheduled for 56 days, but at week's end NASA officials decided to extend the flight by three days...
...initial Skylab team had to cope with the loss of part of the ship's shielding and with a major failure in its electrical system.* By contrast, the second team should find the lab in good working order. As the countdown began last week, the only potentially serious problem reported by mission controllers was a malfunction in an attitude-control gyroscope, the second to break down so far (seven of Skylab's complement of nine gyros in the triply-redundant system are still working). The astronauts will carry up a replacement gyro. Already on board is a twin...
...ship, serious problems could occur when the spacecraft are maneuvering in earth orbit. But the cosmonauts-including Leonov and his sidekick, Engineer Valery Kubasov, who are the prime crewmen for the mission-seemed to be particularly interested in another American spacecraft. While touring a mock-up of the giant Skylab space station-which is significantly larger than the Soviet Salyut-they poked into every compartment within sight, flipped countless switches, and bombarded their hosts with endless questions...
...cordiality, there were signs of old tensions. The Russians were originally scheduled to spend six weeks in Houston, but they cut their visit to two weeks. Reason: had they stayed on, they would have been hard put to refuse an invitation to witness the launch of the second Skylab crew from Cape Kennedy, scheduled for July 28. The Russians have repeatedly shunned such invitations because protocol would have required them to invite American astronauts to one of their own lift-offs-something they have steadfastly declined...