I said Mir, but OK. Breaks my heart that they will soon deorbit the ISS and there's nothing to replace it, except what individual corporations decide to send up with a myopic focus on profit. Science is only useful if it bolsters the bank account of some oligarch.
When you hear about all the problems deploying these stations in low earth orbit when they were initially unmanned, it shines a massive light on the accomplishment of the essentially flawless deployment of the James Webb Space telescope at the L2 Lagrange point 1,500,000 km from Earth. I still think the JWST is humanity's greatest technological achievement.
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I've heard Deboki's name SO many times but never seen her face. It's made me yell out loud "it's Deboki!!!". You're a wonderful presenter... thanks for the great video about one of my favorite subjects. Thank you to everyone at SciShow too! Much love!
In 1973, greeting card company Hallmark published a pop-up book about Skylab that showed what it would look like, what was inside, and all the cool science experiments that would be performed there.
There were 2 versions of this book. The first showed what the station was supposed to look like and was released shortly before it launched in May 1973.
However, the station, a repurposed Saturn V segment that was supposed to have been used for the now-cancelled Apollo 19 mission, was damaged during launch, so the first crew had to jury-rig an improvised sun shade to keep the interior from overheating. The 2nd version of the pop-up book shows the repair. I have a copy of version 2 signed by Bill Schneider, the program director for Skylab, as well as several Gemini and Apollo missions. Got it for a quarter at Goodwill. It's in excellent condition, with all pop-ups and other inserts intact, with no tears, and in perfect working order. I have it stored in mothballs. 😁👍
You forgot that during the dissolution of the USSR, a cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev, was trapped on the space station Mir for over 300 days before they got him back to Earth. At the time, nobody had stayed longer in space than he. He later also did missions on the ISS.
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There were 2 versions of this book. The first showed what the station was supposed to look like and was released shortly before it launched in May 1973.
However, the station, a repurposed Saturn V segment that was supposed to have been used for the now-cancelled Apollo 19 mission, was damaged during launch, so the first crew had to jury-rig an improvised sun shade to keep the interior from overheating. The 2nd version of the pop-up book shows the repair. I have a copy of version 2 signed by Bill Schneider, the program director for Skylab, as well as several Gemini and Apollo missions. Got it for a quarter at Goodwill. It's in excellent condition, with all pop-ups and other inserts intact, with no tears, and in perfect working order. I have it stored in mothballs. 😁👍