[FPSPACE] Skylab question

Chris Jones clj at panix.com
Tue Dec 9 13:29:57 EST 2008


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

http://history.nasa.gov/EP-107/contents.htm is a link to the NASA publication
_Skylab: A Guidebook_.

http://history.nasa.gov/EP-107/p92.htm is a picture inside of it detailing
the viewing ports on Skylab (with a diagram and table).  The wardroom window
is described as "25.9 deg Off +z Toward +y".

Is this what you are looking for?


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