Skylab 1 - May 14th 1973 For the first time in 51 years we follow the countdown, launch and initial orbits of the Skylab Space Station. Includes some descriptions of the anomalies seen during the launch phase, which resulted in the loss of a solar wing and micrometeorite shield. Also included are: NASA coverage of the countdown and launch as seen on the day Stacking in the VAB and Rollout of the last Saturn V 100's of photographs depicting various stages of Skylab development, construction and launch Audio is from the LCC countdown PAO, the Houston PAO and, after orbital insertion, from the Flight Director Loop. There are various shots of the launch, many that haven't been seen before now. Acknowledgements Dwight Steve-Boniecki - The person to go to if you want to know anything Skylab. Dwight's film, Searching For Skylab, is a must have in your space films collection. Dwight has been very generous in offering pictures and video for the project, alongside guidance to the anomalies at launch. www.searchingforskylab.com/ho... Robert Godwin - From Apogee Books allowed use of the countdown and launch coverage in it's entirety. Without that permission, this film would not have been possible. Mike Fried - Secured the audio from the National Archive - His research and assistance have been invaluable Johannes Kemppanen - Provided technical documents relating to the initial findings of the launch anomalies alongside other Skylab documents Paolo Mangili - Provided the MC Earth Map and Skylab icon Steven Taylor - Provided the launch sequences using KSP All media courtesy the National Archives and NASA Dedicating this project to everyone who worked on Skylab, who designed, built, stacked and launched it. There is a Patreon for anyone interested in supporting my channel - All donations go to enhancing future content - thanks in advance and it would be great to have you onboard. Patrons often receive pre-launch video access and media content www.patreon.com/user?u=549799...
Lm5 watching. Skylab suffered from gross underreporting at the time, I lived through it as a kid and was frustrated then! Thanks for bringing it back to life for all posterity.
Finally we are given the expert animation we were denied by the TV networks 51 years ago. For those of us who admired that work during the Apollo moon missions this was a real treat.
It’s not an animation, it’s actually a game. It’s KSP with the RSS/RO (Real Solar System, Realism Overhaul) modpack, looks like it has blackrack’s volumetric clouds mod too
Once again, Thank You for giving us this retrospective history of the Skylab program, starting with the Skylab 1 and 2 launches, which I have not seen in over 50 years. This is way more than a blast from the past for me. Once again, Thank You !
I was 7 when this was launched. Loved following the reports on my first b/w 13" TV I had bought for myself with Christmas money! I miss those days of the excitement of Apollo.
Loving this! I was in utero during Skylab 1 & 2 and was born whilst Skylab 3 was in orbit making history with Al Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma. I've always felt that Skylab was underrated for what it achieved - above and beyond what was planned. The only 'real' space station in my book - room to 'fly' around in that awesome S-IVB!
@@fanbutton And your arithmetic skills "that put you at" around 6 years of age. Welcome to the world of adult intelligent discussion and discourse, even though I doubt very much that you actually understand the topic.
I understand that feeling. I was a young seaman (E-3) at my first duty station when the Skylab was launched. I saw the backup lab at the National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian) on the DC Mall in 1975 and knew about the "mothballed" Saturn V that could have put this thing into orbit. So much wasted opportunity and capability ... what could have been.
@@robertf3479 The rationale may have been that Saturn V was unsuitable as a cargo launcher. On its first cargo launch, the spacecraft was badly damaged.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver OR the reasons behind all the damage to the Workshop was too hasty engineering, insufficient protection to the main solar panels folded into the side of the Workshop as well as the insulation layer. Both the Skylab and the backup were refits of Saturn S-IVB third stages. One of the two side "wing" solar panels was ripped away entirely along with the insulation, with the other "wing" straps intended to hold insulation in place wrapped around the wing, preventing it from unfolding properly. The Skylab II crew was able to free the solar panel wing to unfold using low tech bolt cutters and was able to replace enough of the insulation with an "umbrella" like contraption mounted in a small airlock to allow the Workshop to cool down and provide the shirtsleeve environment originally intended. Saturn V got the job done.
I sat next to Dr. Owen Garriott, who flew on Skylab 3, at a presentation his son Richard was giving back in 2009. Very cool experience! I still remember as a 4 year-old kid back in the summer of 1979, going to my mom and asking her if Skylab was going to come down over Kentucky. I had heard a report on the radio that the reentry was uncontrolled, so I was a little concerned at the age. My mom told me that it would probably fall into the ocean. Thanks for uploading this video!
Thank you for posting this. I had just turned 18, when 4 friends and I cut school and made the drive from central Ohio to KSC to see Skylab launched. I have to admit, I was a little disappointed when it was obscured by clouds so soon after launch. Even more disappointed when we found out the repair to the OW would move the launch back and we'd be well back in Ohio when Conrad and crew finally went up. In the end, it's great to have seen the last of the Saturn 5's launched, and amazed that (again) NASA engineers turned what could have been a loss, into victory.
I just want to put it out there - you are doing an amazing service to preserving and presenting space history. I’ve always been a fan of space history, and your videos are an inspiration into how this timeless material should be documented. Well done, and much appreciated sir.
Simon, Really enjoyed this one. Interesting that listen to the flight controllers grapple with the Skylab problem. I learned more watching this tape than I ever have known about Skylab. I always thought that Skylab was the forgotten stepchild of spaceflight. I hope you will be continuing the very interesting Skylab story. Of course I'm waiting for whatever it comes next great job again thanks for doing this, regards Jim
Superbly researched and constructed, LM5's videos are of the highest quality - the marvellous extras such as the post flight press conference (with the excellent Reg Turnhill from the BBC asking the question about the next day's launch - in the days when the BBC had correspondents who actually knew what they were talking about), take these presentations to another level !
Mixed feelings watching Skylab launch. Wonderful to see the Saturn V fly again, repurposed and used for another program, but sad knowing it was its last flight. Only 3 more 1b flights and the ASTP to go, closing out the Saturn's era.
omg my friend beauful work not watch it yet but thank you doing Skylab its aways forgotten....I have few air to ground audio but this be fab thank you.....
The premiere just went beyond my bedtime, but today I've been able to watch the rest of this amazing video. Thank you, Simon. You've filled another gap in spaceflight history here at UA-cam. Much appreciated.
More superb archive footage and audio plus technical break down of the mission. And of course top level simulation of the space vehicles in flight and orbit. I've listened to the entire Apollo 13 audio more than once during very long and potentially mundane periods of work. The job ceases to be dull straight away 😊
30:24 The guy in the red shirt in the center. So not only was he instrumental in taking down the Cali Cartel, helping win Thrones and saving Baby Yoda, he's also clearly a time traveler. Pablo Pascal (probably his doppelganger)
Beautiful, LM5! The production fills an immense void in the history of the US space program. The launch was nearly disastrous, but despite the extreme damage and conditions onboard, the heroic efforts of the astronauts and ground support teams saved the mission. The groundbreaking Skylab spacecraft itself performed marvelously well despite the abuse it took during launch and the first difficult weeks in space. The total designed mission duration was 140 days, but Skylab was ultimately crewed for 172 days and NASA evaluations conducted in 1978, five years after launch, concluded the spacecraft was still potentially viable for crews if the Shuttle had been ready in time. The performance of the modified Skylab Apollo Command and Service Modules also shouldn't be overlooked. The spacecraft that was designed originally for a two week roundtrip to the Moon and back operated very well in the ~1, 2, and 3 months flights, albeit with some thruster problems, bringing all three crews home safely. It should also be noted that it took only one launch to place Skylab (and the Saturn V's second stage FWIW) in orbit compared to the dozens of incredibly expensive and dangerous Space Shuttle flights to launch the ISS modules and equipment and the problematic EVAs that were necessary to integrate the pieces. It took many, many flights before ISS equaled the habitable volume of Skylab.
Hi LM5: Your stuff just keeps getting better. I don't know how you do it. I would like to add one detail if I may. In the report on the Saturn V Guidance and Control system for this flight, it was noted that after the S1C/SII interstage separation commands were given, the gimbal trim positions of the J-2 engines changed slightly. This was taken to indicate that enough of the interstage separation joint was cut that the structure shifted position a bit, but remained attached. Thank you very much.
Yep agree with everything here...I couldn't show it on the SIM...where either the adapter is on or off...there was no in between! Thanks for the comment
the Skylab repair job was an amazing achievement, sadly mostly forgotten. Mission control and many other NASA people involved put it next to Apollo 13. There were no lifes at stake but a very expensive mission was saved under enormous time pressure. Homesteading Space, The Skylab story , written by some of the crew is a great look into the topic. The repair job but also the normal missions. And the alleged "mutiny" of the last crew.
Ah, Skylab - what could have been. All of the problems during launch can be attributed to NASA trying to do something on the cheap, without the stringent testing and quality control that went into Apollo launches.
You are totally on point. After I read the Skylab Anomaly Report, there were a lot of unnecessary engineering modifications made to the Saturn V launch vehicle and poor engineering design issues. The micrometeoroid shield deployment mechanism was overly complicated and not thoroughly tested. It could have been simply attached to the Skylab workshop without the deployment mechanism. The micrometeoroid shield debris caused data lines to be cut to the explosive charges to jettison the interstage ring, so when the Instrument Unit sent commands to fire the charges, the commands never made it. It is theorized that if the J-2 engines had been firing six seconds longer than they did on the S-II, there could have been an explosion because the interstage ring hadn't been jettisoned and the extreme heat in the interstage ring. The bad engineering on having one of the solar arrays perpendicular to one of the S-II second stage retro rockets and the exhaust plume basically had enough force to rip the solar wing off of the Skylab workshop, was totally lazy engineering. It was a stroke of luck that Skylab even made it into orbit because of poor engineering decisions and lackadaisical managers approving those decisions. Because there was no human payload, it doesn't mean you get cheap and don't do adequate QC and testing. If there hadn't been the extensive cloud cover that obscured the range tracking camera footage, the engineers would have been able to ascertain the anomalies far sooner and I feel that the press would have held NASA's feet to the fire more by questioning the engineering missteps. NASA was lucky that it had brilliant engineers that saved the Skylab program from major mistakes. Skylab fortunately turned out to be a damn good program after all.
@@mistermac56 agreed sir. But at that point, NASA was simply trying to something - anything - to continue space flight on a budget from Congress that really didn't allow it.
Io mi ricordo bene quando ho seguito il rientro nell atmosfera dello Skylab ke piano piano sta per rientrare x alcune anolalie e un panello solare distrutto, era 11 /07/1979 e precipitò alcuni frammenti al largo delle coste australiane vicino a Perth
But it is theorized that if the J-2 engines had fired six or so seconds longer, the heat buildup inside the interstage ring could have caused the S-II to explode.
That footage of the viewing area... 1973 may have been a good year for some things, like rock music and space science. But it was NOT a good year for fashion! 😱
I had a great idea for you. I watch so many of your videos. And often times I catch news interviews of the giants of nasa deep into the videos. I was wondering if you have some way of reaching you so when I run across them in the hours of watching I can let you know the time stamps. For example I just watched a great reporter interview of Deke Slayton and one of Allen Shepard. Imagine a world where all or most of these were available in a compilation ! So we could have a catalog of one on one's that sometimes get lost to history. I watch all of your videos from stem to Stearn. But for those who don't. They are missing these great pieces of history. Lm5 rules!!!!
Skylab 1 - May 14th 1973
For the first time in 51 years we follow the countdown, launch and initial orbits of the Skylab Space Station. Includes some descriptions of the anomalies seen during the launch phase, which resulted in the loss of a solar wing and micrometeorite shield. Also included are:
NASA coverage of the countdown and launch as seen on the day
Stacking in the VAB and Rollout of the last Saturn V
100's of photographs depicting various stages of Skylab development, construction and launch
Audio is from the LCC countdown PAO, the Houston PAO and, after orbital insertion, from the Flight Director Loop.
There are various shots of the launch, many that haven't been seen before now.
Acknowledgements
Dwight Steve-Boniecki - The person to go to if you want to know anything Skylab. Dwight's film, Searching For Skylab, is a must have in your space films collection. Dwight has been very generous in offering pictures and video for the project, alongside guidance to the anomalies at launch.
www.searchingforskylab.com/ho...
Robert Godwin - From Apogee Books allowed use of the countdown and launch coverage in it's entirety. Without that permission, this film would not have been possible.
Mike Fried - Secured the audio from the National Archive - His research and assistance have been invaluable
Johannes Kemppanen - Provided technical documents relating to the initial findings of the launch anomalies alongside other Skylab documents
Paolo Mangili - Provided the MC Earth Map and Skylab icon
Steven Taylor - Provided the launch sequences using KSP
All media courtesy the National Archives and NASA
Dedicating this project to everyone who worked on Skylab, who designed, built, stacked and launched it.
There is a Patreon for anyone interested in supporting my channel - All donations go to enhancing future content - thanks in advance and it would be great to have you onboard. Patrons often receive pre-launch video access and media content
www.patreon.com/user?u=549799...
Problem with the Patreon link?
Not aware there is - it can also be found on the homepage for the channel
I watched this launch in person from about 8 miles away. Simply awesome!
Must have really been something to be there
I’ve never seen the Full launch of Skylab 1 and I’ve been looking for it for Years.
You have now!!
Thanks for all of your hard work. I was about a month from graduating jr. high when Skylab was launched. Brings back a lot of memories.
Glad you liked it!
Lm5 watching. Skylab suffered from gross underreporting at the time, I lived through it as a kid and was frustrated then! Thanks for bringing it back to life for all posterity.
The news media was paying more attention to the Watergate Scandal, and they thought that this is old news and routine.
Finally we are given the expert animation we were denied by the TV networks 51 years ago. For those of us who admired that work during the Apollo moon missions this was a real treat.
It’s not an animation, it’s actually a game. It’s KSP with the RSS/RO (Real Solar System, Realism Overhaul) modpack, looks like it has blackrack’s volumetric clouds mod too
A little over half way through and enjoying this. Thank you.
Keep going...it's a fascinating listen....listen out too for the PAO loop that bleeds into the FD loop....
Thank you! I’m 14 years old again.
Once again, Thank You for giving us this retrospective history of the Skylab program, starting with the Skylab 1 and 2 launches, which I have not seen in over 50 years. This is way more than a blast from the past for me. Once again, Thank You !
I was 7 when this was launched. Loved following the reports on my first b/w 13" TV I had bought for myself with Christmas money! I miss those days of the excitement of Apollo.
Am glad this one is getting lots of views .11k is way above the norm
Loving this! I was in utero during Skylab 1 & 2 and was born whilst Skylab 3 was in orbit making history with Al Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma. I've always felt that Skylab was underrated for what it achieved - above and beyond what was planned. The only 'real' space station in my book - room to 'fly' around in that awesome S-IVB!
I was working at the Bermuda tracking station during this launch "driving" the 30 foot USB antenna. I was all of 22 years old.
A question came up in another video ..what did USB stand for?
@@lunarmodule5 Unified S-Band. Provided voice, telemetry, commanding and range/range rate for the CSM when docked to Skylab.
@@clarkpj1Thanks 😊
Well, that you put you at roughly 92 years old. Welcome to William Shatner's club of space fantasy.
@@fanbutton And your arithmetic skills "that put you at" around 6 years of age. Welcome to the world of adult intelligent discussion and discourse, even though I doubt very much that you actually understand the topic.
Incredible. I remember the Sputnik, Vanguard and Explorer days. Thank you for all the hard work in preserving America’s manned space program.😊
hey! I was born exactly on that day so I kinda missed the launch, very kind of you to repost
Lol you are welcome...! Happy Skylab Launch/Birth Day
"I was born exactly on that day so I kinda missed the launch"
Wow, the excuses some people come up with! ;-)
@@maxfan1591 :D :D :D
Thanks for this great piece of space history. My father built an infrared spectrometer for studies of Earth, installed on Skylab.
Mary maybe saved the program and presumably went into clairvoyance in her later career.
Excellent video as always and a fun live chat. Cheers Simon!
Back in 73 all we really had to follow this day's events was Reg Turnill on BBC radio so this is bloody fantastic sir!!!
The Last of The Mighty Saturn V. Damn......I'm old.
I understand that feeling. I was a young seaman (E-3) at my first duty station when the Skylab was launched. I saw the backup lab at the National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian) on the DC Mall in 1975 and knew about the "mothballed" Saturn V that could have put this thing into orbit. So much wasted opportunity and capability ... what could have been.
@@robertf3479 The rationale may have been that Saturn V was unsuitable as a cargo launcher. On its first cargo launch, the spacecraft was badly damaged.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver OR the reasons behind all the damage to the Workshop was too hasty engineering, insufficient protection to the main solar panels folded into the side of the Workshop as well as the insulation layer. Both the Skylab and the backup were refits of Saturn S-IVB third stages.
One of the two side "wing" solar panels was ripped away entirely along with the insulation, with the other "wing" straps intended to hold insulation in place wrapped around the wing, preventing it from unfolding properly.
The Skylab II crew was able to free the solar panel wing to unfold using low tech bolt cutters and was able to replace enough of the insulation with an "umbrella" like contraption mounted in a small airlock to allow the Workshop to cool down and provide the shirtsleeve environment originally intended.
Saturn V got the job done.
I sat next to Dr. Owen Garriott, who flew on Skylab 3, at a presentation his son Richard was giving back in 2009. Very cool experience! I still remember as a 4 year-old kid back in the summer of 1979, going to my mom and asking her if Skylab was going to come down over Kentucky. I had heard a report on the radio that the reentry was uncontrolled, so I was a little concerned at the age. My mom told me that it would probably fall into the ocean. Thanks for uploading this video!
Thank you for posting this. I had just turned 18, when 4 friends and I cut school and made the drive from central Ohio to KSC to see Skylab launched. I have to admit, I was a little disappointed when it was obscured by clouds so soon after launch. Even more disappointed when we found out the repair to the OW would move the launch back and we'd be well back in Ohio when Conrad and crew finally went up. In the end, it's great to have seen the last of the Saturn 5's launched, and amazed that (again) NASA engineers turned what could have been a loss, into victory.
I just want to put it out there - you are doing an amazing service to preserving and presenting space history. I’ve always been a fan of space history, and your videos are an inspiration into how this timeless material should be documented. Well done, and much appreciated sir.
Simon,
Really enjoyed this one. Interesting that listen to the flight controllers grapple with the Skylab problem. I learned more watching this tape than I ever have known about Skylab. I always thought that Skylab was the forgotten stepchild of spaceflight. I hope you will be continuing the very interesting Skylab story. Of course I'm waiting for whatever it comes next great job again thanks for doing this, regards Jim
Thanks Jim!
The amount of detail is yet again nothing less than stunning. Just love it! Thanks LM5 👍🙏👏
Superbly researched and constructed, LM5's videos are of the highest quality - the marvellous extras such as the post flight press conference (with the excellent Reg Turnhill from the BBC asking the question about the next day's launch - in the days when the BBC had correspondents who actually knew what they were talking about), take these presentations to another level !
I noticed that its first orbit went over SW Western Australia as did its last orbit in 1979.
We’re one year late of Skylab’s 50th anniversary
Now it’s the 51st
Marvelous, thank you LM5.
Wow! More great content. I grew up in the Apollo age. I was even at the launch of Apollo 11. I am loving your content!!!!
Amazing stuff. Still makes a racket on the climb. Lovely 😉
Mixed feelings watching Skylab launch.
Wonderful to see the Saturn V fly again, repurposed and used for another program, but sad knowing it was its last flight.
Only 3 more 1b flights and the ASTP to go, closing out the Saturn's era.
Hello LM5 and all! As always fantastic job!
Excellent work 👏👏👏
omg my friend beauful work not watch it yet but thank you doing Skylab its aways forgotten....I have few air to ground audio but this be fab thank you.....
Excellent presentation...thank you for this premiere LM5
Thank you, LM5. Really much appreciated. You rock! Always great to have another Pete Conrad mission.
Thanks Matt...Pete wasn't on this one...he was on the next...
@lunarmodule5 oh yes, thank you, I don't know too much about Skylab yet. But I'm going to now thanks to you.❤️
Excellent, it brought back memories of long ago.
I did not know about the failure of skirt sep
The premiere just went beyond my bedtime, but today I've been able to watch the rest of this amazing video. Thank you, Simon. You've filled another gap in spaceflight history here at UA-cam. Much appreciated.
More superb archive footage and audio plus technical break down of the mission. And of course top level simulation of the space vehicles in flight and orbit. I've listened to the entire Apollo 13 audio more than once during very long and potentially mundane periods of work. The job ceases to be dull straight away 😊
This is awesome!!! Thank you!
Great video. Thanks.
Man, this is wonderful. Thanks for uploading.
Thank you so much! This is something I've always wanted to hear.
That was awesome! Thanks for uploading!
30:24
The guy in the red shirt in the center.
So not only was he instrumental in taking down the Cali Cartel, helping win Thrones and saving Baby Yoda, he's also clearly a time traveler.
Pablo Pascal (probably his doppelganger)
Il mio ok n. 500. Congratulazioni ragazzi un brllissimo video prr ricordare un grande programma post Apollo
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Thanks so much for this. It is all just so beautiful :-]
"Yessir! I'd sure like to get that CSM hooked up."
I totally dig this!
Amazing video 💪💪💞💞👍👍🍺🍺
Glad you enjoyed it
Beautiful, LM5! The production fills an immense void in the history of the US space program. The launch was nearly disastrous, but despite the extreme damage and conditions onboard, the heroic efforts of the astronauts and ground support teams saved the mission. The groundbreaking Skylab spacecraft itself performed marvelously well despite the abuse it took during launch and the first difficult weeks in space. The total designed mission duration was 140 days, but Skylab was ultimately crewed for 172 days and NASA evaluations conducted in 1978, five years after launch, concluded the spacecraft was still potentially viable for crews if the Shuttle had been ready in time. The performance of the modified Skylab Apollo Command and Service Modules also shouldn't be overlooked. The spacecraft that was designed originally for a two week roundtrip to the Moon and back operated very well in the ~1, 2, and 3 months flights, albeit with some thruster problems, bringing all three crews home safely. It should also be noted that it took only one launch to place Skylab (and the Saturn V's second stage FWIW) in orbit compared to the dozens of incredibly expensive and dangerous Space Shuttle flights to launch the ISS modules and equipment and the problematic EVAs that were necessary to integrate the pieces. It took many, many flights before ISS equaled the habitable volume of Skylab.
Hi LM5: Your stuff just keeps getting better. I don't know how you do it. I would like to add one detail if I may. In the report on the Saturn V Guidance and Control system for this flight, it was noted that after the S1C/SII interstage separation commands were given, the gimbal trim positions of the J-2 engines changed slightly. This was taken to indicate that enough of the interstage separation joint was cut that the structure shifted position a bit, but remained attached. Thank you very much.
Yep agree with everything here...I couldn't show it on the SIM...where either the adapter is on or off...there was no in between! Thanks for the comment
BEAUTIFUL !!!
2:40:25 what loop is that we’re hearing? Sounds like someone at KSC.
thank you
Thank you!
the Skylab repair job was an amazing achievement, sadly mostly forgotten. Mission control and many other NASA people involved put it next to Apollo 13. There were no lifes at stake but a very expensive mission was saved under enormous time pressure.
Homesteading Space, The Skylab story , written by some of the crew is a great look into the topic. The repair job but also the normal missions. And the alleged "mutiny" of the last crew.
First reporting by Flight of the loss of MMS and Beam 2 (solar wing array 2): 1:55:21
Okay,so the S-II cuts off at 250 miles high and separates.....and then what happened to it? I hope it reentered quickly.
It actually stayed up for 2 years before being deorbited in a controlled reentry.
Can't wait for Skylab 2! My favourite astronaut Jack Lousma did an awesome job on 2.
Skylab 3 - Skylab 2 was the Conrad crew
@@lunarmodule5Yeah, sorry, I always go by mission patches and not the official numbering. So confusing!
@@AureliusR it's all good. You do know I did part of day one of Skylab 3 already?
Ah, Skylab - what could have been. All of the problems during launch can be attributed to NASA trying to do something on the cheap, without the stringent testing and quality control that went into Apollo launches.
You are totally on point. After I read the Skylab Anomaly Report, there were a lot of unnecessary engineering modifications made to the Saturn V launch vehicle and poor engineering design issues. The micrometeoroid shield deployment mechanism was overly complicated and not thoroughly tested. It could have been simply attached to the Skylab workshop without the deployment mechanism. The micrometeoroid shield debris caused data lines to be cut to the explosive charges to jettison the interstage ring, so when the Instrument Unit sent commands to fire the charges, the commands never made it. It is theorized that if the J-2 engines had been firing six seconds longer than they did on the S-II, there could have been an explosion because the interstage ring hadn't been jettisoned and the extreme heat in the interstage ring. The bad engineering on having one of the solar arrays perpendicular to one of the S-II second stage retro rockets and the exhaust plume basically had enough force to rip the solar wing off of the Skylab workshop, was totally lazy engineering. It was a stroke of luck that Skylab even made it into orbit because of poor engineering decisions and lackadaisical managers approving those decisions.
Because there was no human payload, it doesn't mean you get cheap and don't do adequate QC and testing. If there hadn't been the extensive cloud cover that obscured the range tracking camera footage, the engineers would have been able to ascertain the anomalies far sooner and I feel that the press would have held NASA's feet to the fire more by questioning the engineering missteps. NASA was lucky that it had brilliant engineers that saved the Skylab program from major mistakes. Skylab fortunately turned out to be a damn good program after all.
@@mistermac56 agreed sir. But at that point, NASA was simply trying to something - anything - to continue space flight on a budget from Congress that really didn't allow it.
@@jim2lane good point.
The EEGILin MCC here is Sy Liebergot
I'm wondering if NASA used any DOD assets (hi- resolution telescopes) to view the station to help determine the status of the solar panels.
I did not know that any visual tracking existed from the moment the damaged occured.
Yeah the two pieces of film are available. We think the first one shows the meteoroid shield event but to be fair it's hard to tell
❤ahoj Petr NASA srdečný pozdrav mnoho úspěchů a štěstí Petr.🌈.
Io mi ricordo bene quando ho seguito il rientro nell atmosfera dello Skylab ke piano piano sta per rientrare x alcune anolalie e un panello solare distrutto, era 11 /07/1979 e precipitò alcuni frammenti al largo delle coste australiane vicino a Perth
My B-Day
Hope you have a great b-day
Thx
50:53 Blast Off 🚀🚀
I don't think the simulation showed skirt separation from the second stage. Am I right?
Correct. As the animation explains, skirt sep didn't happen.
The Second Stage looks better with the Interstage on!
But it is theorized that if the J-2 engines had fired six or so seconds longer, the heat buildup inside the interstage ring could have caused the S-II to explode.
❤
Skylab 1 being the first US manned spacecraft to make use of solar panels [thank you Albert Einstein :-]
Fiture diet moment capture science peaceful 21:06
At Last!
That footage of the viewing area... 1973 may have been a good year for some things, like rock music and space science. But it was NOT a good year for fashion! 😱
I grew up in that era....I totally agree!
Sky lab vmkga words green peaceful 3:30
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Understand time sea moment words gugle subcrible bub caikle quiet science 11:43
Skylab? Spylab is what it was.
Any evidence for this? Any explanation for why they'd do this, seeing as the Department of Defense had perfectly serviceable spy satellites?
And you can all read what I post here too, right?
Yes
❤😊humanism space explroer subcribe science omzero powerful 17:09
به ايت شڽڠ سحت لمس خۏاوح كجب ئمۏكڬفف ڽۏڤ
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FANTASTIC JOB!!!!!!!!!!
I had a great idea for you. I watch so many of your videos. And often times I catch news interviews of the giants of nasa deep into the videos. I was wondering if you have some way of reaching you so when I run across them in the hours of watching I can let you know the time stamps.
For example I just watched a great reporter interview of Deke Slayton and one of Allen Shepard. Imagine a world where all or most of these were available in a compilation ! So we could have a catalog of one on one's that sometimes get lost to history. I watch all of your videos from stem to Stearn. But for those who don't. They are missing these great pieces of history.
Lm5 rules!!!!