sl_v_c_o_AKP (ca. 1971, McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co., DAC photo no. 38008)
A rare view of one of the flight capable Skylab Orbital Workshops (OWS), at the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. facility in Huntington Beach, CA. Possibly/probably(?) the first/flown OWS?
If the OWS is the backup, aka “Skylab B”, then it’s the one that’s been on display at the NASM since 1976. If so, then even in this 1971 photograph, it did not yet have its micrometeoroid shield/sunshade installed. So then, safe to assume that it never did? I sort of thought that it was (at some point) removed in order to replicate the condition/configuration of the one flown. I’ve never seen it in person; however, from photos I’ve seen, it was/is? indeed displayed with one solar array wing extended.
To the left, mounted on its work jig & surrounded by work platforms looks to be one of the Skylab Saturn IB S-IVB stages. I think.
8.5" x 11".
My SWAG of the year is based on the page 233 image at the following & the photograph being on “A KODAK PAPER”
sl_v_c_o_AKP (ca. 1971, McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co., DAC photo no. 38008)
A rare view of one of the flight capable Skylab Orbital Workshops (OWS), at the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. facility in Huntington Beach, CA. Possibly/probably(?) the first/flown OWS?
If the OWS is the backup, aka “Skylab B”, then it’s the one that’s been on display at the NASM since 1976. If so, then even in this 1971 photograph, it did not yet have its micrometeoroid shield/sunshade installed. So then, safe to assume that it never did? I sort of thought that it was (at some point) removed in order to replicate the condition/configuration of the one flown. I’ve never seen it in person; however, from photos I’ve seen, it was/is? indeed displayed with one solar array wing extended.
To the left, mounted on its work jig & surrounded by work platforms looks to be one of the Skylab Saturn IB S-IVB stages. I think.
8.5" x 11".
My SWAG of the year is based on the page 233 image at the following & the photograph being on “A KODAK PAPER”