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The Skylab strike that never was, how stress, micromanagement, and silence sparked a space legend
In 1973, reports claimed that the crew of Skylab 4 staged the first strike in space, refusing orders from Earth. This is the deeper story of exhaustion, miscommunication, and micromanagement that ...
In the 1970s, America’s first space station allowed three crews of astronauts to conduct hundreds of experiments. Skylab, however, is mostly remembered for the frenzy surrounding its return to Earth ...
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The Skylab 4 'astronaut strike' that never happened, what really went wrong on America’s first space station
In December 1973, headlines claimed three astronauts had gone on strike aboard Skylab, leaving NASA powerless 270 miles below. The truth is more unsettling and more human, a pressure cooker of ...
Astronaut Bruce McCandless tests the balance and control of a test model of an astronaut maneuvering unit at Martin Marietta Corp.'s Denver Division, as seen on the cover of the August 2, 1971 issue ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The orbital workshop is the largest ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Skylab program studied the human ...
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