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 S73-26128 (thumbnail)
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   Photo ID:

   S73-26128   


   Program:

   Skylab   


   Mission:

   Skylab III


   Date Taken:

   1973-05-18


   Film Type:

   4x5

Title:
Artist's concept of deployment of twin pole thermal shield on Skylab
Description:
An artist's concept of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit illustrating the deployment of the twin pole thermal shield to shade the Orbital Workshop (OWS) from the Sun. This is one of the sunshade possibilities considered to solve the problem of the overheated OWS. Here the two Skylab 2 astronauts have completely deployed the sunshade. Note the evidence of another Skylab problem - the solar panels on the OWS are not deployed as required (26127); In this view the Skylab astronauts have partially deployed the sunshade (26128).
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