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...meeting in Houston, top NASA officials concluded that there was only one hope. To provide more electrical power, the astronauts would have to take a space walk outside the ship this week and attempt to free the inoperative solar panel that remains jammed in the side of the orbital workshop (the other workshop panel was ripped off completely during Skylab's launch...
...another day, until Skylab again moved into favorable position for a rendezvous. Meanwhile, the condition of the orbiting laboratory might have worsened to the point where any thought of salvage would have had to be abandoned. In fact, despite all efforts to bring down the temperatures inside the orbital workshop by changing the ship's angle relative to the sun, the heat again soared to more than 125° (after hovering around 105°). That created fears of additional food spoilage, and the astronauts were warned to be on the lookout for bad odors when they began sampling Skylab...
...beach umbrella, the canopy is made up of a 22-by-24-ft. sheet of aluminized Mylar and nylon attached to a long pole consisting of seven 4-ft. sections. An astronaut could extend the pole and sheet out of a small airlock in the middle of the Orbital Workshop's exposed area. Springs in the umbrella's "spokes" would automatically snap the covering into a rigid rectangle that could be positioned close to the skin of the shieldless spacecraft. Major drawback of the parasol: the airlock mechanism would prevent the astronauts from seeing how the operation...
...elapse before the shading effect of the shield would reduce the temperatures inside Skylab to a near normal 70°. Meanwhile, the crew would have to wait out the time in the cramped confines of their command ship, making occasional forays into the stifling heat of the orbital workshop only to bring out food and perhaps scientific equipment...
...went well, and the workshop cooled, the astronauts were to begin their scientific chores, hoping to complete a good part of their originally planned 28-day mission...