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Topic: Spacesuit (PGA) stowage onboard Skylab
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LM-12
Member Posts: 4043
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 01-10-2025 09:51 PM
  
From the Flight Plan notes regarding spacesuit storage aboard Skylab: Following rendezvous and docking, the PGAs [pressure garment assemblies] will be dried and then placed inside PGA bags. The bags with PGAs will be stowed in the CM [command module] on orbit to minimize crew handling in the event of a fire in the OWS [orbital workshop] and subsequent emergency crew transfer into the CM. Before EVA, the crew will retrieve the PGA bags from the CM and transfer the bags to the OWS suit donning station. PGAs will be removed from the bags and donned for EVA. Following EVA, the PGAs will again be dried, placed inside the PGA bags, and stowed in the CM. However, the three spacesuits can be seen stowed in the Multiple Docking Adapter at around 16:35 in this Skylab 2 video. |
Captain Apollo
Member Posts: 369
From: UK
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 01-13-2025 08:30 AM
Silly question, but how did the suits get wet? |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 01-13-2025 08:34 AM
Sweat from physical exertion. |
Captain Apollo
Member Posts: 369
From: UK
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 01-13-2025 11:24 AM
Oh, of course. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 4043
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 01-13-2025 10:46 PM
The video tour was taken on Day 168, which was two days before the June 19 EVA by Weitz and Conrad. |
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