NASAFLIX - SKYLAB: Space Station One - MOVIE
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This rare, hard-to-find film is about the Skylab Space Station, launched and operated by NASA from 1973 to 1979, which included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems. The station was damaged at launch when the micrometeoroid shield separated from the station and tore away, depriving the station of most of its power, removing protection from intense solar heating, and threatening to make the station unusable. The first crew was able to save it in the first ever in-space major repair, by deploying a replacement heat shade and freeing the single remaining, jammed main solar array. Numerous scientific experiments were conducted aboard Skylab during its operational life, and crews were able to confirm the existence of coronal holes in the Sun. The Earth Resources Experiment Package (EREP), was used to view the Earth with sensors that recorded data in the visible, infrared, and microwave spectral regions. Thousands of photographs of Earth were taken, and records for human time spent in orbit were extended. Plans were made to refurbish and reuse Skylab, using the Space Shuttle to boost its orbit and repair it. However, development of the Shuttle was delayed, and Skylab reentered Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated in 1979, with debris striking portions of Western Australia. ©UFOTV®, a UFO Video, Inc. Company - Go to http://www.UFOTV.com
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Did they ever find out what caused bone loss and problems with hemoglobin levels? I don't know this for a fact but it is allured to in the movie by a lot of the necessary exercises and the constant blood checks.
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480p :'( very sad
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DO NOT COPY!
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Голливуд)))
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Skylab is real and was a beautiful success. Compared to the Apollo missions that are all a satanic lie from the beginning...
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Lot of opinions here. Skylab was two significant things, a science lab & a test bed for long duration spaceflight. And everything there was re purposed Lunar hardware.
Even with its crash-landing, we learned the hazards of De-orbiting and space debris.
I was sad with the losses of Skylab & MIR; they would have made excellent exhibits in some futuring orbital museum? Imagine a tourist group in the 25th Century at L-5; a giant bubble of breathable air 25 miles in every direction, just floating around with a simple thruster back pack or gyro-blades or a flying squirrel suit . And all the hardware artifacts of Man's early space age kept in perfect station keeping... you could climb into them like a children's swing set; kinda like visiting 'Independence Hall' at Knox berry Farm? You can see hundred of pictures or videos, but to see the real ships & monuments... its a fascinating experience. -
The Moon is constantly blasted/cratered by meteorites and space particles no shielding :( But perhaps we should try to figure things out down here before we try to run elsewhere. Also, as you said quite a bit of obstacles as well which makes it harder to move outside Earth.
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But, on a more serious note, your right. I think we should return to the Moon and build a permanent base there, or an orbiting space station. Then rockets going to Mars or other planets could be smaller and just refuel at the base.
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Yeah, like massive budget cuts to NASA.
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The Apollo program was part of the Cold War; technology to live in space from Low earth orbit upto the moon had potential defense implications, Mars has no defense benifits. As i think about it more and more, a successful mars human landing and return would not have been possible in the 70s or 80s even 90's. Even today I don't think its possible, im not an expert tho, i believe there is still many problems to overcome.
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What if we really went to Mars. The technology existed, heavy lifters, Nuclear rockets ( Nerva rockets were fully developed in the mid 60's allowing higher payloads, faster travel time and better radiation shield) . What if the public space program was a smoke screen for the secret and militarized program that went on as the public attention decreased. They say that Apollo ended because the support decreased...well that did not stop the Vietnam war... .
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Awsome
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I sigh when they mention going to Mars back in the 70s, the only thing that stopped us was willpower.
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Got enough commercials in there for three hours of footage.
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cool
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