March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
... congestion - studies performed on astronauts working onboard the Skylab space station in the 1970s showed that the amount ...space flight on cardiac functions and dimensions. Biomedical Results from Skylab. Greenbelt, MD. NASA. 1977. p. 366-371. 12...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... and psychological comfort and, perhaps most importantly, he designed a window which, despite initial resistance, was installed in Skylab. Despite the first timid steps of NASA towards industrial design there is now the promise of greater involvement...
June 2018
Striding through space
...crew for Apollo 14. He was back-up pilot for the first Skylab mission. More significantly for his later accomplishments, he was a ...experiment which was flown in the pressurised interior of the Skylab space station. When the Shuttle came along with a...
03 October 2021
Space Habitats and Habitability
... a number of terrestrial ‘analogue’ studies, missions and facilities along with actual space experience gained on missions from Skylab and Mir to the International Space Station. The well-structured text is illustrated with colour photographs and...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
.... Even the experienced and hardened Apollo 12 moonwalker Alan Bean admitted to this after his Apollo and Skylab missions: “I felt real fear out there, particularly when thinking of dangers such as window failure and depressurisation...
February 2016
Space for Art
... as it actually was. Right: Fellow artist astronauts Alan Bean and Nicole Stott. Bean, a veteran of Apollo 12 and Skylab, told Nicole he was “delighted” that she had become the first astronaut of the Space Shuttle/Space...
