Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Skylab 3 commander, flies the M509 Astronaut Maneuvering Equipment, as seen in this photographic reproduction taken from a television transmission made by a color television camera in the Orbital Workshop OWS of the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. Bean is strapped into the back-mounted, hand-controlled Automatically stabilized Maneuvering Unit ASMU. The M509 exercise was in the forward dome area of the OWS. The dome area is about 22 feet in diameter and 19 feet form top to bottom.
