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LM-12
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posted 10-25-2013 11:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
There were four EVA excursions on Skylab 4:
  • Gibson and Pogue on EVA-1
  • Carr and Pogue on EVA-2
  • Carr and Gibson on EVA-3
  • Carr and Gibson on EVA-4
The only photo I have seen of an EVA astronaut on Skylab 4 is S74-17456. Are there other EVA photos of Carr, Gibson and Pogue?

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posted 11-11-2013 02:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for keith.wilson   Click Here to Email keith.wilson     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
On the subject of Skylab photos the crews took very few onboard images considering the length of the three missions. Why was this? A too hectic science schedule or the likelihood of film being damaged due to a prolonged stay onboard (heat/radiation)?

I have probably seen more images of the crews in the ground-based trainer than on-orbit.

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posted 11-11-2013 02:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I am somewhat surprised that so few photos of the EVA astronauts were taken during the ten Skylab EVAs.

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posted 11-11-2013 03:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for J.L   Click Here to Email J.L     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by keith.wilson:
On the subject of Skylab photos the crews took very few onboard images considering the length of the three missions.
Keith, there are a lot more than you might think. I would estimate that only about third of the images showing the flight crews aboard Skylab have been released. I have been trying for some time now to secure hi-res versions. Only have lower res right now.

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posted 11-11-2013 03:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for keith.wilson   Click Here to Email keith.wilson     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This image is one of the less publicised EVA photos from Skylab. Skylab 3, Astronaut Owen K. Garriott looks at the camera as he participates in the August 6, 1973 EVA during which he and Astronaut Jack R. Lousma, pilot, deployed the twin pole solar shield to help shade the Orbital Workshop.

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posted 11-15-2013 10:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This photo of the Skylab crews in NASA SP-402 looks reversed.

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posted 11-16-2013 09:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mach3valkyrie   Click Here to Email mach3valkyrie     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It is reversed (mirror image). The photo also appears in the October 1974 National Geographic magazine as a foldout.

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posted 11-26-2013 10:17 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Photo SL3-120-2283 is Jack Lousma.

Frames 2278 to 2284 are "EVA, Lousma" in the Skylab 3 photo index.

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posted 11-28-2013 12:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Is the Skylab photo index online somewhere?

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posted 11-28-2013 01:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You would think that the Skylab photo indexes would be easily found on the NASA website somewhere, but that certainly was not the case.

I stumbled across a pdf version of the Skylab 3 Photographic Index and Scene Identification document on a UFO-related website, of all places!

No such luck with the Skylab 2 and 4 indexes.

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posted 11-28-2013 03:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That is amazing, but hey: we take what we can get! Thanks.

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posted 11-28-2013 08:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here is my rough list of the EVA photos of the Skylab 3 crew from the index:
  • SL3-115-1818 to 1822 (Lousma)
  • SL3-115-1823 to 1830 (Garriott)
  • SL3-115-1831 to 1835 (Lousma)
  • SL3-115-1836 to 1837 (Garriott)

  • SL3-117-2098 to 2102 (Lousma)
  • SL3-117-2103 to 2109 (Garriott)

  • SL3-118-2171 to 2176 (Bean)
  • SL3-118-2179 to 2182 (Bean)

  • SL3-120-2278 to 2284 (Lousma)

  • SL3-122-2609 to 2610 (Garriott)
  • SL3-122-2611 to 2612 (Bean)

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posted 11-29-2013 01:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here is SL2-100-798 in high-resolution. It is Joe Kerwin.

From the Skylab News Reference regarding EVA activities:

All three Skylab crewmembers will be suited up for the EVA ... EV3, who will remain in the MDA, will be "soft-suited," wearing a pressure suit without helmet and gloves.

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posted 11-30-2013 10:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
In the Mission Report for Skylab 4, there is a 35mm film usage table. The table shows that there are 64 frames of extravehicular activity on magazine 56.

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posted 12-10-2013 03:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
NASA is posting a bunch of new high-res Skylab 2 and Skylab 3 photos. No new Skylab 4 photos yet.

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posted 11-16-2016 10:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Compare the two similar views of Jack Lousma in Skylab photos SL3-115-1833 and SL3-117-2099. Magazine 115 was taken with the 70mm Hasselblad camera, and Magazine 117 was taken with the 35mm Nikon camera.

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posted 11-17-2016 11:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
There is this image with the caption "Weitz performing extravehicular activity" in Chapter 5 of NASA SP-400 "Skylab, Our First Space Station."

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posted 02-15-2017 12:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Skylab EVA photo SL2-100-799 has this caption:
This medium close-up view shows astronauts Charles Conrad, commander for Skylab 2, and Science Pilot Joseph P. Kerwin performing an extravehicular activity (EVA) to repair the damaged and partially deployed solar array system on the Skylab complex. The photo was taken from inside the Orbital Workshop (OWS) by astronaut Paul J. Weitz, pilot.
Who is who in the photo?

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quote:
Originally posted by LM-12:
"Weitz performing extravehicular activity"
I have a copy of the shot in my collection from the Skylab book that is signed by Weitz. I always wondered if it was red tinged due to Skylab going into Earth's shadow or a reflection from the parasol or something?

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posted 02-17-2017 01:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by LM-12:
Who is who in the photo?
EVA photo S73-27562 is Kerwin, according to the caption. The live TV transmission of the EVA seems to indicate that is Conrad.

So if that is Conrad, then I would say that Conrad is the EVA astronaut facing the camera in SL2-100-799.

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posted 02-21-2017 01:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
On the Skylab EVAs, some astronauts had a cover over their waist-mounted Pressure Control Unit, and some did not.

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posted 03-18-2023 12:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Don't recall seeing this Skylab EVA photo (SL4-185-6692) before: it shows one of the Skylab 4 astronauts, either Pogue or Carr, upside down near the EVA hatch. This is the photo caption:
On Christmas Day 1973, Skylab 4 astronauts Bill Pogue and Gerry Carr had no time for celebration; there was work to be done. Do it they did, conducting the only spacewalk by U.S. astronauts on December 25. One mission objective was to photograph Comet Kohoutek on this, the second of four spacewalks for the mission.

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posted 03-18-2023 05:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Philip   Click Here to Email Philip     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
S74-17456 is Gibson during EVA on 1974, February 3.

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posted 03-18-2023 08:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here is the NASA caption for that EVA photo of Gibson:
Scientist-astronaut Edward G. Gibson has just egressed the Skylab EVA hatchway in this frame taken from a roll of movie film exposed by a 16mm Maurer camera. Astronaut Gerald P. Carr, Skylab 4 commander, took this picture during the final Skylab extravehicular activity (EVA) which took place on Feb. 3, 1974. Carr was above on the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) when he shot this frame of Gibson. Note Carr's umbilical/tether line extending from inside the space station up toward the camera. Astronaut William R. Pogue, Skylab 4 pilot, remained inside the space station during the EVA by Carr and Gibson.

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posted 03-19-2023 04:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Don't recall seeing this Skylab EVA photo (SL4-185-6692) before...
I figure that is Pogue seen in EVA photo SL4-185-6692, and here is why.

The Skylab flight plan has these definitions for EV-1 and EV-2:

  • EVI - Crewman who egresses first and performs operations at the FAS Work Station (FAS is Fixed Airlock Shroud)
  • EV2 - Crewman who egresses second, transfers along handrails and performs operations at the Center Work Station and Sun-end Work Station
Pogue was EV-1 and Carr was EV-2 on the December 25 EVA, so Carr took the photo of Pogue.

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posted 03-22-2023 12:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Was Alan Bean EV-1 or EV-2 on his one Skylab EVA? I'm guessing EV-2.

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Some confusion here:

Photo SL3-118-2182 is described in the NASA caption as a Skylab 3 EVA photo dated August 6, 1973. So that would be Garriott and Lousma seen in the photo:

However, photo SL3-118-2181 (one frame earlier) is described here as a Skylab 3 EVA photo of Garriott and Bean taken on September 22, 1973.

Seems like one of the descriptions is wrong.

Photo SL3-118-2180 (two frames earlier) is definitely a photo of Bean. You can clearly see his name tag. So I would say the NASA caption for 2182 is incorrect.

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posted 06-30-2023 11:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
A slightly different Skylab EVA photo of Jack Lousma sold at auction earlier this year. The NASA photo number is SL3-117-2102.

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posted 08-09-2024 04:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Philip:
S74-17456 is Gibson during EVA on 1974, February 3.
As mentioned earlier, that photo is a frame taken from a roll of movie film exposed by a 16mm Maurer camera.

Photo SL4-185-6707 is a similar photo that shows the EVA astronaut (presumably Gibson) with both arms raised. It was taken with a 35mm Nikon camera. The photo is frame 46 of Magazine 185.

So Jerry Carr up near the ATM had both those cameras with him on the EVA?

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posted 08-09-2024 05:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Not sure about that Feb 3 EVA date.

The Farthest Reaches website has two very similar EVA photos signed by Gibson. Both photos have an inscribed EVA date that looks like 12/24/74. Maybe Gibson really meant the 12/29/73 EVA?

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Perhaps relevant to the discussion, I've seen every photo posted in this thread previously. So, anecdotally, there's nothing really new (yet) — although it's been 50 years now. Some new material would be most welcomed by all.

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