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While coping successfully with one crisis after another during their 28-day stay in space, Skylab 1 Astronauts Pete Conrad, Paul Weitz and Joe Kerwin still had time to act like ordinary tourists. Clicking away with their Nikons, Hasselblads and automatic cameras, they took 50,000 pictures -more than any space travelers before them. Last week, as they returned to Houston for continued postflight medical examinations and debriefings, NASA began releasing their splendid shots, some of the best ever taken in space...
After spending a record 28 days 50 minutes in space, Skylab Astronauts Pete Conrad, Joe Kerwin and Paul Weitz came home last week. They made a perfect splashdown in the Pacific some 830 miles southwest of San Diego. As the Apollo command ship bobbed gently in the rolling seas 6½ miles off the bow of the recovery ship Ticonderoga, Conrad radioed a message: "Everybody here is in super shape." Indeed, it was a flawless finish to a successful mission that only four weeks earlier had seemed doomed to failure...
...have had little time to consider one of the most important questions of their 28-day mission: What are the everyday problems of living and working in space over prolonged periods of time? Last week, as Skylab's troubles finally subsided, Astronauts Pete Conrad, Joe Kerwin and Paul Weitz began to verify some old answers and provide some new ones...
...takes forever to dry both one's self and the wall ... even using that inadequate little vacuum cleaner that we've got." Skylab's toilet, in contrast, worked very efficiently. In fact, recalling the messy urine tubes and collection bags of earlier flights, Space Rookie Weitz said: "As a new boy hearing horror stories from the old hands, I was deliriously happy and surprised at the [toilet's] operation." But that facility, too, has shortcomings. Whenever an astronaut used it, the blowers and other gear made such a racket that his buddies in the neighboring sleeping...
...level on earth), sound does not travel well. Thus, said Kerwin, "we're always hollering at each other. We're all hoarse up here." The astronauts also had trouble whistling-until Weitz found the knack: "You've got to hold your lips a little farther apart...