Skylab -- August 1973

WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES

08.20.2009

Courtesy Photo

NASA

Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Skylab 3 commander, flies the M509 Astronaut Maneuvering Equipment in the forward dome area of the Orbital Workshop on the space station cluster in Earth orbit. Bean is strapped into the back-mounted, hand-controlled Automatically Stabilized Maneuvering Unit, or ASMU. He is wearing a pressure suit for this run of the M509 experiment, but other ASMU tests are done in shirt sleeves. The dome area where the experiment is conducted is about 22 feet in diameter and 19 feet from top to bottom.

NASA Identifier: 257798main_SL3-108-01268_full

• Date Taken: 08.20.2009
• Date Posted: 02.08.2013 02:50
• Photo ID: 832981
• Resolution: 1981x3000
• Size: 927.52 KB
• Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., US