by Emily Carney | Aug 28, 2019 | Astronauts, Skylab Space Station, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In July 2013, I was honored to attend the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s gala dinner celebrating Skylab’s 40th anniversary at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Saturn V Center. I had been a massive Skylab fan pretty much...
by Emily Carney | Jun 29, 2019 | Skylab Space Station, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” – Neil Young, “Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)” According to a previous blog post by This Space Available, when a proposed reboost mission carried out via Space Shuttle was ruled out as...
by Emily Carney | Mar 9, 2019 | Movies and Videos, Skylab Space Station, This Space Available
The documentary Searching For Skylab, released on Vimeo on March 5th, is a treasure trove of as-yet-unseen archival footage of the much-underrated early 1970s U.S. space station, inter-cut with commentary from its astronauts, workers, major players, and experts....
by Emily Carney | Feb 19, 2018 | Apollo, Astronauts, Cosmonauts, Project Mercury, Russian space program, Skylab Space Station, This Space Available
NASA photo, April 11, 1970: “Astronaut John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot for NASA’s third lunar landing mission, appears to be relaxing in the suiting room at Kennedy Space Center prior to launch.” Swigert’s role during Apollo 13 was...
by Emily Carney | Dec 24, 2017 | Apollo, Astronauts, Book Reviews, Skylab Space Station, Space Science, Space Shuttle, This Space Available
NASA photo, Feb. 1974: “Scientist-astronaut Edward G. Gibson, science pilot for the Skylab 4 mission, demonstrates the effects of zero-gravity as he sails through airlock module hatch.” There’s another world behind the sun / He used to shine on...
by Emily Carney | Dec 19, 2017 | Astronauts, Book Reviews, Skylab Space Station, space books, This Space Available
Square-jawed Dr. Ed Gibson gets ready to upset some space journalists, NASA photo, Sept. 10, 1973: “Scientist-astronaut Edward G. Gibson, science pilot for the third manned Skylab mission (Skylab 4), enters a notation in a manual while seated at the control and...
by Emily Carney | Dec 17, 2017 | Astronauts, Skylab Space Station, space books, Space Science, Technology, This Space Available
This year, the space community lost many notables, including Gene Cernan, Dick Gordon, and Paul Weitz (pictured aboard Skylab). NASA photo, June 1973: “Astronaut Paul J. Weitz, Skylab 2 pilot, mans the control and display console of the Apollo Telescope Mount...
by Emily Carney | Dec 3, 2017 | Astronauts, Skylab Space Station, Space Art, This Space Available
Dr. Joseph Kerwin, Charles “Pete” Conrad, Jr., and Paul Weitz, each sporting the mission patch designed by artist Frank Kelly Freas. 1973 NASA photo. A grand, spider-like space station, stark and monolithic, silhouetted against the seas of a blue and green...
