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    Skylab Astronauts' Neutral Buoyancy Simulator Training

    Skylab Astronauts' Neutral Buoyancy Simulator Training

    WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES

    11.19.2009

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    NASA

    After the end of the Apollo missions, NASA's next adventure into space was the marned spaceflight of Skylab. Using an S-IVB stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle, Skylab was a two-story orbiting laboratory, one floor being living quarters and the other a work room. The objectives of Skylab were to enrich our scientific knowledge of the Earth, the Sun, the stars, and cosmic space; to study the effects of weightlessness on living organisms, including man; to study the effects of the processing and manufacturing of materials utilizing the absence of gravity; and to conduct Earth resource observations. At the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), astronauts and engineers spent hundreds of hours in an MSFC Neutral Buoyancy Simulator (NBS) rehearsing procedures to be used during the Skylab mission, developing techniques, and detecting and correcting potential problems. The NBS was a 40-foot deep water tank that simulated the weightlessness environment of space. This photograph shows astronaut Ed Gibbon (a prime crew member of the Skylab-4 mission) during the neutral buoyancy Skylab extravehicular activity training at the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) mockup. One of Skylab's major components, the ATM was the most powerful astronomical observatory ever put into orbit to date.

    NASA Identifier: MSFC-7013601

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    Date Taken: 11.19.2009
    Date Posted: 02.08.2013 11:41
    Photo ID: 846362
    Resolution: 1536x1489
    Size: 395.94 KB
    Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., US

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