[FPSPACE] Skylab question

[JAY RESPLER]

James Oberg wrote:

> Skylab normally flew in a solar inertial attitude, solar arrays face-on
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> to the Sun. I'm trying to find out what the orientation of the
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> wardroom window on the lower deck was, relative to the
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> Skylab body vector towards the Sun. It was on the shaded
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> side, but at what angle along that side, relative to the Sun?
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> I thought it was an easy question, or could be solved by
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> finding the location of the sunward and anti-solar science airlocks
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> in the lower deck circumference -- but no such easiness. The
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> pictures I recall from the Skylab Press Kit don't seem to be on
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> the Internet, or NASA's websites.
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> Any other suggestions, please?
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> Jim O

I was thinking of selling my News References, but haven't done so yet. Info 
there says: Wardroom has a window...in the middle of the wall. The 
window...will face the sunlit side of the Earth during the mission.

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