[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Skylab (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/22/2015 5:03:39 PM EDT
A lot of you guys were probably not even born yet, I was 8 when it was launched.
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Did you watch the video, they are talking about the launch mishap. Quoted:
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It wasn't a "disaster" - NASA didn't want to pony up and keep it in space. They let it fall. Did you watch the video, they are talking about the launch mishap. Wait - we're supposed to watch the videos before commenting? When did that change? |
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Quoted: It wasn't a "disaster" - NASA didn't want to pony up and keep it in space. They let it fall. It was damaged on launch. They had a hell of a time keeping it habitable...even using stop-gap engineered fixes. I remember it well...I was grown when it launched.  |
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A lot of you guys were probably not even born yet, I was 8 when it was launched. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WUugbcIE1I Embed made into link. |
| I was on a field exercise in Germany when it was scheduled to reenter the Earths atmosphere. I was sure it was going to land on my plastic coated canvas jeep roof and take me out. I think you could buy a hat with a big point on the top of it that was advertised as a "Skylab early warning hat" or some such bullshit. |
| Somewhere in all my old pictures I have a story from an Charleston Gazette writer talking of Skylab, at the time it was going to be crashing back to earth and they could not tell you where it would land when it would fall from the sky. The story was a paraody of it falling into a fountain on the WV State Capitol grounds. |
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A lot of you guys were probably not even born yet, I was 8 when it was launched.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WUugbcIE1II remember being in science class at the time it was falling back to earth. Everyone was worried about it since they weren't sure where it would hit. Ended up near or in Australia IIRC. |
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I remember being in science class at the time it was falling back to earth. Everyone was worried about it since they weren't sure where it would hit. Ended up near or in Australia IIRC. Quoted:
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A lot of you guys were probably not even born yet, I was 8 when it was launched. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WUugbcIE1II remember being in science class at the time it was falling back to earth. Everyone was worried about it since they weren't sure where it would hit. Ended up near or in Australia IIRC. Had pieces of it onstage at a Ms. Universe pageant the next weekend in Australia IIRC |
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Worst disco song: Skylab is Falling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fN6zXsAMEw |
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Funky Ghetto 
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I followed all the space missions when I was a kid. Remember it well. Sad days for me when we didn't return to the moon, when the Saturn V went out of use, and even sadder when they couldn't keep Skylab in orbit. (But I'm of the opinion we should stayed on the moon with a lunar base, and expanded orbital operations.) The Apollo-Soyuz mission was in 75 as well. |
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I followed all the space missions when I was a kid. Remember it well. Sad days for me when we didn't return to the moon, when the Saturn V went out of use, and even sadder when they couldn't keep Skylab in orbit. (But I'm of the opinion we should stayed on the moon with a lunar base, and expanded orbital operations.) The Apollo-Soyuz mission was in 75 as well. And in the end, the Russians won the space race 
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Quoted: And in the end, the Russians won the space race Quoted: Quoted: I followed all the space missions when I was a kid. Remember it well. Sad days for me when we didn't return to the moon, when the Saturn V went out of use, and even sadder when they couldn't keep Skylab in orbit. (But I'm of the opinion we should stayed on the moon with a lunar base, and expanded orbital operations.) The Apollo-Soyuz mission was in 75 as well. And in the end, the Russians won the space race Yeah. We never should have let our manned launch capability lapse.  Used to enjoy watching the footage of the spacewalks from Skylab. |
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And in the end, the Russians won the space race I wouldn't say they won...they're just in the lead at the moment. Besides, we have shit exploring other planets and even outside the solar system. The Russians have a cab that goes into earth orbit. It will be nice to see American astronauts riding American rockets again. Sometime. I hope.
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Quoted: Wait - we're supposed to watch the videos before commenting? When did that change? Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: It wasn't a "disaster" - NASA didn't want to pony up and keep it in space. They let it fall. Did you watch the video, they are talking about the launch mishap. Wait - we're supposed to watch the videos before commenting? When did that change? Seriously. Do the mods know how hard it will be to pad our post counts if we have to read the articles and think about our responses before posting?  |
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Quoted: It was damaged on launch. They had a hell of a time keeping it habitable...even using stop-gap engineered fixes. I remember it well...I was grown when it launched. Quoted: Quoted: It wasn't a "disaster" - NASA didn't want to pony up and keep it in space. They let it fall. I remember it well...I was grown when it launched. I was in junior high school. Skylab was NASA's attempt to do something cool to keep the public's attention between the moon landings and the space shuttle. Unfortunately, they had to do it on the cheap. The 1970s were not kind to NASA's budget. |
