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Wikimedia Commons What happens when humans spend more than 84 days in space? One time ... Although the episode has been commonly called a “mutiny,” it wasn’t in the technical sense and ...
Rumors of a “mutiny” that took place aboard the Skylab space station in the 1970s have persisted for nearly half of a century. A cursory search turns up dozens of references to the event ...
A mini-mutiny of the mission’s crew. The stakes were already high. When Apollo 7 launched on October 11, 1968, it was the first time NASA sent astronauts into space since a cabin fire had killed ...
Listen 8:06 These three men make up the crew of the Skylab 4 mission. They are, left to right, scientist-astronaut Edward G. Gibson, science pilot; astronaut Gerald P. Carr, commander; and astronaut ...