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BEAVER FALLS, PA.: This steel fabricating town of 14,375 people northwest of Pittsburgh had a primary election last Tuesday, and news of Watergate and Skylab was relegated to page 13 of the local paper. As Edward A. Sahli, 69, a General Motors dealer put it: "The people are interested in campers and football; they're not worried about this." Sahli himself is more concerned about familial propriety than political ethics. He argues that "F.D.R. had a couple of babes on the side. Morally, Watergate is no worse...
...Skylab 1 is the last Skylab. It's also the first Skylab. So we do not have the maturity behind the hardware that Apollo had. We fully expect that some problems will come up and bite...
...Skylab Program Director William Schneider at a pre-launch briefing...
...have imagined. Indeed, for a few days last week, it appeared that the failure of an essential protective shield shortly after launch had touched off a chain of events that would result in disaster for the entire $2.5 billion program. But at week's end, as the crippled Skylab continued to orbit the earth, a combination of space-age teamwork and old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity on the part of NASA raised hopes that the mission could yet be salvaged. In fact, the mishap and the bold reaction to it promised to elevate a relatively monotonous experimental flight into high...
This week, for the first time in the history of space flight, astronauts are scheduled to be sent into orbit for the express purpose of performing a major repair on a stricken ship. If all goes according to plan, Skylab's three crew members will be launched this Friday (at 9 a.m., E.D.T.) from Cape Kennedy in the same Apollo command ship that was to have carried them up to join Skylab last week. After nearly five revolutions around the earth, Astronauts Charles ("Pete") Conrad Jr., Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz will rendezvous with the space laboratory, examine...