Living and Working in Space: Conducting Solar Observations from Skylab
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National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
Free, Tickets Required
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National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
Free, Tickets Required
7:00 pm - PRE-LECTURE: Free film on Skylab in the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
7:30 pm - PRE-LECTURE: Meet the lecturer
8:00 pm - Lecture begins
9:00 pm - Stargazing in the Phoebe Waterman Haas Public Observatory, weather permitting.
Owen Garriott is a former NASA astronaut, member of NASA and National Research Council Committees, vice president of space programs at Teledyne Brown Engineering, and adjunct professor in the Laboratory for Structural Biology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)
Garriott, one of the first six scientist-astronauts selected by NASA, will commemorate the human legacy of Skylab by drawing upon his experience as a member of the second Skylab crew. From July 28th to September 25th, 1973 Garriott performed observations of both the Sun and Earth's resources and human experiments relating to how the body adapts to weightlessness. During the 59-day flight, he also performed long-duration, extra vehicular activity tasks, ranging from installing scientific instruments to covering the Skylab workshop with a reflective sun shield to stabilize the temperature of the world's first space station.
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