Sixty Days in Space — Skylab 3
Al Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma have been in space for thirty days now on Skylab 3, with thirty more to go. What are they actually doing up there?
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Tag: long duration
Skylab Is Coming
The Skylab space station launches in May and the first crew follows in June. After Apollo, this is what's next for American human spaceflight.
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Salyut — The Soviets Build a Space Station
The Soviet Union launched the world's first space station on April 19. Salyut 1 is in orbit, waiting for a crew.
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Gemini 5 Follow-Up: What Eight Days Teaches You
The medical results from the Gemini 5 eight-day mission are in and I've been reading the summaries. The human body changes in microgravity. Some of it is manageable. Some of it is alarming.
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