# SKYLAB SPACE STATION 1970s NASA DOCUMENTARY FILM FIRST AMERICAN SPACE STATION 67134

This 1970s NASA documentary features the nine astronauts who participated in the 1973 Skylab missions and shows viewers some of the experiments and research they conducted as part of the Skylab program. The film opens with a shot of a space launch site and Skylab astronauts speaking to the camera about the program. Viewers see members from the three missions, including Paul J. Weitz, Gerald P. Carr, Owen K Garriott, William R. Pogue, Alan L. Bean, Joseph P. Kerwin, Edward G. Gibson, Jack R. Lousma, and Charles Conrad, Jr. Several astronauts maneuver through Skylab (02:54). Footage shows NASA’s control room, and then astronauts doing a skywalk to free a jammed satellite from Skylab. An astronaut works on something, possibly fuel cell system inside the space station (04:23). One of the men performs a routine medical examination on his fellow astronaut. One astronaut lies in a chamber while having his cardiovascular system monitored. Viewers see one of the astronauts riding an exercise bike (appears to be Pogue). An astronaut tests a rotating chair in space designed to measure motion sickness (06:45). Footage from a telescope shows solar flares on the surface of the Sun (08:53). An astronaut moves through the space station, and viewers see an eruptive prominence on the disc of the Sun as it moves out through the corona; the mission also records a full solar flare. One astronaut hooks up a special camera to measure and photograph ultraviolet radiation (11:10). Another man uses…

- Kind: Documentary
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Documentary, Space, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/67134-skylab-space-lab-vwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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