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A painterly alteration, in an impressionistic style, of my iPhone 8+ photo, edited with iColorama, Skylab, BeCasso, and DistressedFX apps on an iPad Pro.
Result of a long plane flight home, a complimentary Bloody Mary and the #SkyLab app. Probably be better w/o the birds & tree but I couldn't help myself....MTC
This command module is on display in the Great Lakes Science Center. The door hinges and mechanisms were amazing to look at.
Skylab 3, Astronaut Owen K. Garriott looks at the camera as he participates in the August 6, 1973 Extravehicular Activity (EVA) during which he and Astronaut Jack R. Lousma, pilot, deployed the twin pole solar shield to help shade the Orbital Workshop (OWS).
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sl3-122-2609
Date: August 6, 1973
A painterly image from my iPhone 8+ photo, edited with iColorama, Skylab, BeCasso and DistressedFX on an iPadPro using Apple Pencil.
This image belongs to a series called “Zodiac Signs”. In this series I intend to create my own signs which are different than the well known twelve signs of zodiac...
The apps which have been used through my process are;
Snapseed, Leonardo, Lens Light and Sky Lab.
Today's image was taken in the Hamlet of Old Milverton, just outside of Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. The view is of the parish Church of St James the Great. This version of the Church was rebuilt between 1879-80 although it is thought that there was a small church on the site dating back to the 13th century. There is a stained glass window and family vault in the church that honours Dr Henry Jephson. He was a prominent local physician, famed for promoting the health benefits of Leamington's mineral springs to a wider audience. He was therefore very instrumental in the development of Leamington as a Spa Town.
The photo was taken using the app Camera Awesome on my iPhone 6.
First I used the app Snapseed to edit the picture. I cropped the image and applied the Tonal Contrast preset. I increased the shadow area of the church to help bring out a little more detail in it. I also boosted the Contrast and Saturation. Next I used the app SkyLab to apply the small wispy cloud above the church, I also placed a few birds in the sky. After this I used the app Brushstroke to apply the Oil 04 painterly preset. Finally I used PhotoToaster to add the Tone preset and the Vibrant FX. I then added the Canvas Texture and the Burlap frame.
On this day in 1979, Skylab re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and broke up, scattering debris across Australia.
A lot was happening last night.
Upper left an aircraft is flying by, below the Big Dipper is the International Space Station (ISS)
APOLLO COMMAND MODULE, SKYLAB 4
This Apollo command module is identical to those used during the Apollo Program. It was used to ferry the crew of the last Skylab mission, astronauts Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson, and William R. Pogue, to the Skylab Orbital Workshop and back to Earth again. The Skylab 4 crew lived in the Skylab for 84 days, from Nov. 16, 1973 to Feb. 8, 1974. The crew performed numerous experiments and demonstrated that humans can live and work in space for long periods of time.
Skylab was a manned space station launched into Earth orbit by the United States in May 1973. It was made from the third stage of a Saturn V launch vehicle. A crew of three astronauts occupied Skylab during each of three missions. The longest mission, which ended in February 1974, lasted almost three months.
Skylab 4 (also SL-4 and SLM-3) was the fourth Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew on board the space station.
The mission started November 16th, 1973 with the launch of three astronauts on a Saturn IB rocket, and lasted 84 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes. A total of 6051 astronaut-utilization hours were tallied by Skylab 4 astronauts performing scientific experiments in the areas of medical activities, solar observations, Earth resources, observation of the Comet Kohoutek and other experiments.
The manned Skylab missions were officially designated Skylab 2, 3, and 4. Mis-communication about the numbering resulted in the mission emblems reading Skylab I, Skylab II, and Skylab 3 respectively
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My gallery. The large white ring that runs along the interior wall of Skylab is made up from a series of storage lockers for items ranging from cotton swabs to urine bags. Some crew members were able to run the length of these lockers as seen in the video to the left. The orbital workshops interior volume was 9,550 cubic feet (270 cubic meters).
A wonderful & awe-inspiring perspective view of the Skylab Saturn V launch vehicle, possibly/probably during rollout to Launch Complex 39A, April 16, 1973.
The unmanned Skylab 1/Saturn V space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:00 noon (EDT), May 14, 1973, to place the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit. The Skylab 1 payload included four of the five major components of the space station-Orbital Workshop, Apollo Telescope Mount, Multiple Docking Adapter, and Airlock Module.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S73-26913
Date: May 14, 1973
Taken in Pensacola, Florida, USA at the National Museum of Naval Aviation. This particular Command Module was used for the Skylab II mission flown by an all-Navy crew. It was a 28-day mission to the orbiting Skylab space station in May-June 1973.
Skylab astronauts took this photograph as they approached the orbiting laboratory on the the third and final mission in November 1973.
Image credit: NASA
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The Skylab model I’ve been working on (from purchased instructions) has been highly unstable and prone to breaking apart, almost as if it was de-orbiting over Australia. I spent some time tonight piecing it back together and decided to add a temporary support tower to bear the weight of the Apollo capsule. The module that the capsule docks with also precariously supports the solar panels and spontaneously detaches from the main body of the orbital lab. Undecided if I will have to resort to “The Kragle”.
A pattern of downstream eddies in the stratocumulus clouds over the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California, was photographed by the crew of the second Skylab manned mission (Skylab 3) from the space station cluster in Earth orbit. The clouds, produced by the cold California current running to the south and southwest, are prevented from rising by warm air above them.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: SL3-121-2371
Date: August 1, 1973
A closeup view of the Skylab space station photographed against an Earth background from the Skylab 3 Command/Service Module during station keeping maneuvers prior to docking. The Ilba Grande de Gurupa area of the Amazon River Vally of Brazil can be seen below. Aboard the command module were astronauts Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott, and Jack R. Lousma, who remained with the Skylab space station in Earth's orbit for 59 days. This picture was taken with a hand-held 70mm Hasselblad camera using a 100mm lens and SO-368 medium speed Ektachrome film. Note the one solar array system wing on the Orbital Workshop (OWS) which was successfully deployed during axtravehicular activity (EVA) by the first Skylab crew. The parasol solar shield which also was deployed by the first Skylab crew can be seen through the support struts of the Apollo Telescope Mount.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: SL3-114-1683
Date: July 28, 1973
Astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., commander of the Skylab 2 mission, is suited up in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building at the Kennedy Space Center during Skylab 2 prelaunch preparations. Skylab 2, with astronauts Conrad, Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz aboard, was launched from Kennedy Space Center's Pad B, Launch Complex 39, at 9:00 a.m. (EDT), May 25, 1973.
Skylab 2 was the first crewed mission of the Program, although the second launch (the first was the launch of the Skylab craft itself). The Skylab crews wore mission patches numbered for the crew - so Conrad (and his crew) wear the "Skylab 1" patch.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S73-25901
Date: May 25, 1973
Reposted for context.
Nikkormat FTn w/Vivitar 85-205mm f 3.8 Zoom w/2x teleconverter.
Skylab Launch
On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket thundered off Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to lift the Skylab space station into orbit. At first, all appeared to be proceeding normally, but at about 63 seconds into the mission, flight controllers in Houston observed the first signs of trouble. Telemetry indicated premature deployment of the micrometeoroid shield, designed to protect the station from debris and also act as a thermal blanket, and at least one of the OWS solar arrays, events that should have taken place only once the station achieved orbit. Less than 10 minutes after launch, after reaching its planned orbit, Skylab separated from the Saturn V’s S-II second stage and began a preprogrammed sequence to deploy the solar arrays and the ATM. Engineers in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, led by Flight Director Donald R. Puddy, noted that while the ATM and its arrays deployed normally, sensors indicated that the main OWS arrays did not and were only generating 25 watts of power. Furthermore, temperatures inside the station began steadily rising to levels that would be intolerable for the crew, harmful to delicate equipment, and ruin onboard consumables, indicating the loss of thermal protection from the missing micrometeoroid shield. With the station underpowered and overheating, the entire Skylab program seemed in jeopardy. Flight controllers faced a daunting challenge. To maximize power generation by the ATM solar arrays, the best attitude was to orient them toward the Sun, but this caused maximal heating on the orbital workshop. Conversely, the optimal attitude to minimize the heat loads on the OWS significantly reduced power generation. After a day or so, controllers arrived at a compromise attitude to balance these competing factors while engineers and astronauts worked tirelessly to find more permanent solutions.
Source: www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-the-launch-of-skylab-am...
Three crewed missions, designated Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4, were made to Skylab in the Apollo command and service modules. The first crewed mission, Skylab 2, launched on May 25, 1973, atop a Saturn IB and involved extensive repairs to the station. The crew deployed a parasol-like sunshade through a small instrument port from the inside of the station, bringing station temperatures down to acceptable levels and preventing overheating that would have melted the plastic insulation inside the station and released poisonous gases. This solution was designed by Jack Kinzler, who won the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his efforts. The crew conducted further repairs via two spacewalks (extravehicular activity or EVA). The crew stayed in orbit with Skylab for 28 days. Two additional missions followed, with the launch dates of July 28, 1973, (Skylab 3) and November 16, 1973, (Skylab 4), and mission durations of 59 and 84 days, respectively. The last Skylab crew returned to Earth on February 8, 1974.[52]
In addition to the three crewed missions, there was a rescue mission on standby that had a crew of two, but could take five back down.
Skylab 2: launched May 25, 1973[53] Pad 39B
Skylab 3: launched July 28, 1973
Skylab 4: launched November 16, 1973
Skylab 5: cancelled
Skylab Rescue on standby
Also of note was the three-man crew of Skylab Medical Experiment Altitude Test (SMEAT), who spent 56 days in 1972 at low-pressure on Earth to evaluate medical experiment equipment.[54] This was a spaceflight analog test in full gravity, but Skylab hardware was tested and medical knowledge was gained.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab
This week in 1973, the first Skylab crew returned to Earth following a successful 28-day mission. During its launch in May 1973, Skylab -- America's first space station -- suffered damage to its sunshield, causing the orbiting workshop to overheat. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center engineers and scientists worked to develop an emergency repair procedure that launched just 11 days after the incident. Here, a crew member practices the repair in Marshall's Neutral Buoyancy Simulator. Over the course of Skylab’s human occupation from May 25, 1973, to February 8, 1974, three crews visited the space station, carried out 270 scientific and technical investigations and logged a combined 171 days on orbit. Today, the Payload Operations Integration Center at Marshall serves as "science central" for the International Space Station, working 24/7, 365 days a year in support of the orbiting laboratory's scientific experiments. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating, and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological, and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage.
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On July 28, 1973, Skylab 3 (the second crewed mission in the program) launched from the Kennedy Space Center for a 2 month mission in Skylab, America’s first space station. The crew included Commander Alan Bean, Pilot Jack Lousma, and Scientist Owen Garriott. The three men continued maintenance of the space station that was started by the first Skylab crew. They also performed scientific and medical experiments, and conducted 3 spacewalks. The mission doubled the record for time spent in space, set by their predecessors on Skylab.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S73-32570
Date: July 28, 1973
Scientist-astronaut Owen K. Garriott, Skylab 3 science pilot, is seen performing an extravehicular activity at the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit, photographed with a hand- held 70mm Hasselblad camera. Garriott had just deployed the Skylab Particle Collection S149 Experiment. The experiment is mounted on one of the ATM solar panels. The purpose of the S149 experiment was to collect material from interplanetary dust particles on prepared surfaces suitable for studying their impact phenomena. Earlier during the EVA Garriott assisted astronaut Jack R. Lousma, Skylab 3 pilot, in deploying the twin pole solar shield.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: SL3-115-1837
Date: August 6, 1973
“This overhead view of the Skylab Space Station was taken from the Departing Skylab Command/Service Module during the Skylab 2's final fly-around inspection. The single solar panel is quite evident as well as the parasol solar shield, rigged to replace the missing micrometeoroid shield. Both the second solar panel and the micrometeoroid shield were torn away during a mishap in the original Skylab 1 liftoff and orbital insertion.”
Above from/at:
“Skylab EREP ground coverage- an artist’s concept of a Skylab cluster in earth orbit showing the area covered by the various components of the Earth Resources Experiment Package (EREP) which will be flown on the Skylab A mission in the 1972- ’73 time period.”
The image, featured in the ‘centerfold’ of NASA FACTS, NF-43/1-72 to me, looks like a Charles O. Bennett rendition of Skylab - that was cut out of another concept & superimposed over this earth view. Seems like it would’ve been too much busy work, so its probably wrong, but there’s something odd about the station’s border.
The “73PC” in one of the photo IDs & it being on “THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK” photographic paper suggests it to be a reissue.
The accompanying NF-43/1-72 caption being:
"Ground Coverage. Remote sensing equipment is pointed Earthward from Skylab's Multiple Docking Adapter, where the control and display panel and other equipment for the Earth resources experiments are located."
An overhead view of the Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit as photographed from the Skylab 4 Command and Service Modules (CSM) during the final fly-around by the CSM before returning home. The space station is contrasted against the pale blue Earth. During launch on May 14, 1973, some 63 seconds into flight, the micrometeor shield on the Orbital Workshop (OWS) experienced a failure that caused it to be caught up in the supersonic air flow during ascent. This ripped the shield from the OWS and damaged the tie downs that secured one of the solar array systems. Complete loss of one of the solar arrays happened at 593 seconds when the exhaust plume from the S-II's separation rockets impacted the partially deployed solar array system. Without the micrometeoroid shield that was to protect against solar heating as well, temperatures inside the OWS rose to 126 degrees fahrenheit. The gold "parasol" clearly visible in the photo, was designed to replace the missing micrometeoroid shield, protecting the workshop against solar heating. The replacement solar shield was deployed by the Skylab I crew. This enabled the Skylab Orbital Workshop to fulfill all its mission objects serving as home to additional crews before being deorbited in 1978. Skylab fell back to Earth on July 11, 1979.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: SL4-143-4706
Date: February 8, 1974
Astronaut Alan L. Bean, commander of the second Skylab crew, participates in the final extravehicular activity (EVA) of that mission, during which a variety of tasks were performed. Here, Bean is near the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) during final film change out for the giant telescope facility. Astronaut Owen K. Garriott, who took the picture, is reflected in Bean's helmet visor. The reflected Earth disk in Bean's visor is so clear that the Red Sea and Nile River area can delineated.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: SL3-122-2612
Date: August 6, 1973
Shown here is the Skylab food heating and serving tray with food, drink, and utensils. The tray contained heating elements for preparing the individual food packets. The food on Skylab was a great improvement over that on earlier spaceflights. It was no longer necessary to squeeze liquified food from plastic tubes. Skylab's kitchen in the Orbital Workshop wardroom was so equipped that each crewman could select his own menu and prepare it to his own taste. The Marshall Space Flight Center had program management responsibility for the development of Skylab hardware and experiments.
Outside the tray, starting from bottom left, are grape drink, beef pot roast, chicken and rice, beef sandwiches and sugar cookie cubes. In the tray, from back left, are orange drink, strawberries, asparagus, prime rib, a dinner roll and butterscotch pudding in the center.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S72-15409
Date: December 30, 1971
On February 8, 1974, Skylab’s final manned mission (Skylab 4) left behind America’s first space station after a stay of 84 days during which its crew accumulated 1,214 Earth orbits, conducted more than 22 hours of extravehicular activity (EVA), and observed and photographed the Comet Kohoutek. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. held overall responsibility for the launch vehicles, many hardware elements, and numerous experiments.
This iconic photograph is an overhead view of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit, as seen from the Skylab 4 Command and Service Modules (CSM) during the final fly-around before returning home. The crew of Skylab 4 included commander Gerald P. Carr, scientist-astronaut Edward G. Gibson, and pilot William R. Pogue. A 70mm hand-held Hasselblad camera was used by the crew to take this photograph.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC
Original image:
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Before departing for Earth on June 22, 1973, the first Skylab crew took this image of the Skylab space station. The crew made a careful visual and photographic inspection of the orbiting laboratory that showed the golden-colored parasol sunshade deployed by the crew to protect the workshop from solar heating. Skylab's original sunshield and one of its solar arrays were damaged during launch, and the crew conducted the first repair in space to deploy the parasol sunshade and remove the solar array. They worked out many of the repair procedures in an underwater simulator at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL in the weeks before launch. The next Skylab crew arrived on July 28, 1973.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 7042376
Date: June 22, 1973
SkyLabs, Bahnstadt Heidelberg.
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Description: The crewmembers of Skylab 3: astronaut Alan L. Bean, foreground, commander; scientist-astronaut Owen K. Garriott, left, science pilot; and astronaut Jack R. Lousma, pilot. This crew spent 59 days and 11 hours in orbit.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 72-HC-90
Date: February 2, 1972
This view of the Skylab Orbital Space Station was taken from the Skylab 2 Command/Service Module during it's initial fly around inspection. The micrometeoroid shield can be seen to be missing and a parasol solar shield was later fitted in its place. The damaged and partially deployed solar array, in the center of the scene, can be seen to be restrained by a strap that was later cut during an early EVA, allowing the panel to fully deploy.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: SL2-04-248
Date: May 25, 1973
“The Skylab 4/Saturn 1B space vehicle is launched from Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 9:01:23 a.m., Friday, November 16, 1973. Skylab 4 is the third and last of three scheduled manned Skylab missions.”
Although a beautiful photograph, it’s - SURPRISE - left-to-right reversed. Why not? Skylab 4, the THIRD scheduled manned Skylab mission, suuure. And then two years later, the worm logo. When it rains, it pours. ‘Fortunately’, no one noticed/cared. Definitely not the public. Nor the photo clowns either apparently. No excuse for this buffoonery as this was NOT the “rocket science” part.
Check out the voluminous water deluge cascading along/from the bottom of the Mobile Launcher. Also, this is one of few photos I’ve seen of H-1 engines in operation during flight, in which the cooler/darker turbine exhaust at the throats of the nozzle extensions are so clearly discernible.
Like you, I exclusively associated such with that revealed by the high-speed 16mm footage of the Saturn V F-1 engines at liftoff. Evident here:
Credit: Mark Gray/Spacecraft Films & YouTube
Not usually one for teh touristy stuff, but these little f*ckers look like fun. www.redrockscootertours.com/
Camera+, Snapseed and the new Skylab app from BrainFever: www.brainfevermedia.com/skylab.html
accidental light effect whilst shooting a moon rise over the Tyndall Range, West Coast Tasmania, Australia
It's the birthday of the late industrial design pioneer Raymond F. Loewy. NASA consulted with Loewy through the late-sixties and early seventies to make manned spacecraft like Skylab's Orbital Workshop more comfortable for astronauts. Pictured here is a full-scale mock-up of a concept for an artificial-G, shuttle-compatible space station interior designed by Raymond Loewy/William Snaith, Inc., for a habitability working group at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Look for documentation of Loewy's recommendations for NASA at NASA's Technical Reports Server (NTRS).
Image credit: NASA/MSFC
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This photograph shows the launch of the SA-513, a modified uncrewed two-stage Saturn V vehicle for the Skylab-1 mission, which placed the Skylab cluster into Earth orbit on May 14, 1973. The initial step in the Skylab mission was the launch of a two-stage Saturn V booster, consisting of the S-IC first stage and the S-II second stage, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its payload was the unmanned Skylab, which consisted of the Orbital Workshop, the Airlock Module, the Multiple Docking Adapter, the Apollo Telescope Mount and an Instrument Unit.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 108-KSC-73PC-284
Date: May 14, 1973