Skylab Space Station

[scpmr]

They should have asked soviet union to deliver austronauts to skylab, as they do know with iss :)) but that was diffrent times back then

[MisterDenisX]

2:01 alien climbing across the windows, finally proof, they're here ! LOL just kiddin

[MassTransit999]

@MisterDenisX lol why is there a centipede in outer space

[TheJedi1147]

@anonymoustruther2 Okay great you're a truther, also you believe in the NWO, Iluminati, Freemasons, Fed, and in David Icke ?

[TheJedi1147]

@TheJedi1147 I will not upset you, I thought you has been aware of these things. I personally think we get ripped off mightily.

I'm not talking about the Fed and the Illuaminaten or David Icke etc. if I had not been so extensively employed.

I am from Germany. Sorry for my english

[TheJedi1147]

@anonymoustruther2 You wanna say me that I have no idea about science? About Simbolism and better about conspiracys and Facts?

Aww Goddamn, I am not your Enemy also say please why you not believe in Skylab or the whole space program come on.

[TheJedi1147]

@anonymoustruther2 and some people don't know something about science

[aigg]

@anonymoustruther2 Have fun playing with your peers...

[aigg]

@anonymoustruther2 ...and space wasters are still allowed a pulse i see...

[lesliekorshak]

IThe thing most people don't know about Skylab, the original space station, is that had Richard Nixon not sabotaged the shuttle program in favor of spending the money killing our kids in Southeast Asia, the shuttle would have simply lassoed it as it did the Hubble and pulled it into the correct orbit. Think of how much ahead of ourselves we'd be today!

[nspacemonkey1]

I have a plaque that I recieved around 1980 as a present- On a piece of marble is a orange bubble containing a little burned insulation. US and Australian flags with the lettering Skylab! I guess someone went out in the desert and took some trophy of the wreckage!

[serpentphoenix]

Holy shiett.. The interior space is soo large the skylab station should have been outfitted with radiation protection( say H2 tanks,concrete layer etc), a nuclear thermal rocket and launch it to a mission to orbit Venus/Mars

[KaOssis]

Arnt those astronaughts good actors, they're pretty cleaver at making the public believe their actually in space, lol.

[KonChul]

@KaOssis lolz...

[sebastiansz]

just wait untill Bigelow Aerospace will send to space BA 330 module :)

[ma049]

1:01 that thing is huge!



[Doctor699]

I liked the inside of skylab, cause it was soo big and roomy. The ISS is cramped and narrow!

[EpiDemic117]

@Doctor699 i never knew skylab was that HUGE on the interior! damn! i guess it was due to it being lifted into space by the saturn V rocket.

[pillownaut]

@EpiDemic117 That cane as a big shock to me too... Johnson Space Center now has a model of it in Houston, and you can walk into it. I took a video there myself, because I was just so knocked out by the huge space! The Skylab guys were much luckier than other space station inhabitants...

[DumbYankies]

little known fact was that the adaptor used in ASTP, as in the tube inbetween soyuz in apollo came out of an earlier project to build a resupply module to haul to skylab. In the end skylab was never resupplied and the three crews that went there just used what it was preloaded with.

Such a waste to let it decay. Would have formed the backbone of an ISS 20 years ahead of when the ISS actually started being built.

[predatortheme]

@DumbYankies

maybe skylab was too old and didnt fit with the new parts of the iss planings?

[Scifimaster92]

An interesting fact is that Skylab originally had two side panels, but one of them was damaged during launch and had to be disconnected from the vessel. The other was also damaged, but was later repaired.

[AcePilot101]

Skylab was bigger than ISS because it used material from the Apollo program.

[Roadracer987654321]

I read a few years ago that 2 Skylab space Stations were built. Only one was flown: Skylab -A

Skylab-Bwas held in reserve and ended up in the Smithsonian Museum.

Why didn't skylab-B get sent to the Moon ? It could have served as a lunar Science Observatory.. we would hgave had 2 Space Stations where NASA's aims could have bee nmet to a Highe Degree. Skylab-B could have been outfitted with anti radiation equipment to protect teh Crew. It would only Orbit the Moon. not land

[xponen]

@Roadracer987654321 Saturn-V rocket doesn't have enough fuel to send Skylab to the moon. But despite that; Saturn-V rocket is the only rocket that can send a piece like "Skylab" into orbit. -Its payload capacity is soo huge such that you can remove its upper stage and replace it with a space station.

[stybarrow]

why did Skylab drop out of orbit so soon ? it seems that ISS and Soyuz endured years longer than Skylab, yes ?

[wt1209061]

why is there ASTP at the end?

[never4getthis]

a pice of it was found in an australian farm

[roboticmehdi]

ill fated skylab.

[ApolloWasReal]

This isn't just Skylab. The last part is the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project launched in 1975. It did not visit Skylab, though it was still in orbit until 1979.

[greatflying]

What happened to the future?

[banksy35]

@greatflying future has been post poned due to the global financial crisis

[bradhig]

Skylab is my favorite space station. Why did NASA just let it burn up?

[assman12354]

yea i'm with you, it was cheaper than what were doing now and had more space, i wish we had taken like 6 sky labs and stuck them all together, it would have been way cheaper than the shuttle thing, though the shuttle is the shit

[Eagle1Division2]

@assman12354 I think the shuttle was just way ahead of it's time. It's too expensive, now. Now the best system is SpaceX's reusable rockets that are planned. Sometime, though, something like the shuttle but SSTO, like Venture Star, should take the stage. The materials science is ALMOST there...

[Eagle1Division2]

@assman12354 And then there's the beurocratic mess NASA's become...

[Century25]

Nixon. He stopped Apollo moon program and Skylab.. and the Saturn V boosters.. the repub's are all about profits for their sponsors - the people that paid to get them elected..

[captinseperoth]

thats the ONLY WAY TO BE ELECTED

YOU will never be a vilable canidate if you dont have millions

[Century25]

Yep. That is why we are flying so low today.. half a century after the Saturn rocket program was running. We got what 'they' didn't pay for. 'They' (corporate greedy pigs) got Nixon, Reagan & the Bushmen ~ lol.. like turds in the punchbowl of America...

[hans1066]

@captinseperoth

Not true... a survey by Steven Levitt showed that people will never elect candidates who are unpopular in the first place no matter how much money they owe or spend during the campaign... look at malcolm Forbes or Ross Perot...

[predatortheme]

wow thats huge :O so cool idk why they let it burn up but i guess it got a purpose

[cladiax1]

@predatortheme they weren't going to let it burn up they were going to use a space shuttle to capture it and put it back into orbit

[predatortheme]

@cladiax1 but skylab fell down before ? the space shuttle columbia lifted off for its first flight?

[cladiax1]

@predatortheme yes i know

[wt1209061]

@predatortheme Skylab fell in '79. STS-1 was in '81

[Cosmored]

This is off-topic but it's space-related.

There's a mountain of evidence that the Apollo moon missions were faked. I posted a partial summary of it on a science forum. Google "The Naked Scientists". In the "New Theories" section of the forum there's a thread entitled "Did We Land on the Moon?". The summary is on page 15. It's the 7th post from the top.

People who still think they went to the moon simply haven't seen the hoax evidence yet.

[ApolloWasReal]

Cosmored has been spamming this bit of nonsense on every forum he can find.

People who think Apollo was a hoax have a real problem accepting the accomplishments of others far more talented and hardworking than they are.

[sinclairbrett]

and lets not forget skylab was made using a stage from the saturn 5 it did its job well and should not be bad mouthed mir had a fantastic life and it also should not be bad mouthed i for one was a fan of both

[sinclairbrett]

ares is a retro step little has been done from the advent of apollo and using basically a bigger srb is not a good move as a fan of the space program i would rather wait untill i see the thing working it does not come close to a saturn its a case of 2 little 2 late

[davgosa]

CCCP walked in the space before USA. USA walked in the moon after. But what happened with both nations?

Both nations decided concentrate in war while space projects went frozen. Space projects pushed the nations to give big steps while the war give steps in reverse.

[MightySaturn5]

By 70' Rocketdyne had man rated the F-1A engine, of course since this engine was based on the F-1 considerably less work was needed to obtain the 2 million lb. plus thrust then it took to obtain the 1.55 million lb. spec of the original F1.

If there was ever a second production run of Saturn V's they would have used the F-1A and would have stretched the Saturn V's length for greater fuel capacity, this would have easily given a low earth orbit lift ability greater then Ares V without strap on's

[Edydar]

Its size was really impressive.

[Membrane556]

Ares V is much bigger then the Saturn V it would lift 188metric tons this is part of the criticism of the Ares architecture.

The CLV Ares I is too small and the CaLV Ares V is too big to have a decent flight rate which would keep costs down.

Plus the need for new six tracked crawler transporters and beefed up crawl ways.

The Direct launcher on the other hand is pretty much identical to the Saturn V in payload but costs a lot less.

[fletch1701]

launch vehicle was a saturn 1b. saturn v was designed to take us to the moon. saturn 1b was used to put things in earth orbit. but they're still bloody amazing machines. and as for hoaxes, have some respect for the people that gave their lives, Grissom ,Chaffee and White, for starters. I'm not american but i,m proud of every single person involved in the exploration of space, russian , chinese you name it, i'm proud.

[themandude20]

so cool, dam i never heard of the skylab station it seemed pretty big! lots of space in there

[Segasaturn95]

Nasa had intended to launch several more moon missions, but the program was ended prematurely to save money. "Skylab" was actually a leftover Saturn 5 booster stage that was hollowed out and furnished for life support. :D

[warriorsoul28]

this is absolutely fascinating

[cripplewoox]

yea so stick tht in your pipe

[bobiMpower]

Ares V is not built...yet

[ukrainesuperpower87]

this is was first space station? or Russian MIR?

[BenRoots65]

first was Salyut 1, but first Salyuts had problems(plus some had even a gun(canon) too!:)), Salyut 6 and 7 were ok, Mir was up there in 80ś till 90ś, Skylab in early 70ś Skylab was amazing with big diameter, much bigger than any later station... Mir or ISS segments are much thinner

[Segasaturn95]

Yup, the first crew to visit a space station on Salyut 1 were actually killed by a valve failure on the way back home. Skylab was large because it was a hollowed out section from an unfinished Saturn V rocket. It wasbig, but had nearly as many technical issues as Mir. We also barely got any use out of it, but at least we did better than the Salyuts. Then Mir came along and put Skylab to shame. :(

[MightySaturn5]

Mir put Skylab to shame?...fucking moron....you have any idea how much of a constant scientific workload was heaped on the astronauts occupying Skylab?, to this day no space station has the huge open working environment that skylab had and you actually think that mir was some incredible high tech set up?...as mentioned "fucking moron"

[Segasaturn95]

Is this comment the reason you've been harrasing me on my channel? Lol, get a life, man.

[cripplewoox]

what a mighty beast the saturn 5 was,shame no one has the balls to try and beat it

[JephN]

look up Ares V. bigger than Saturn V.

[gun844]

satunr 5 bring up 140t ares brings up only 130 max.

[JephN]

I didn't say it could lift more. I said it was bigger.

Ares V

Height; 116 m/381 ft

Diameter; 10 m/33 ft

Saturn V

Height; 110.6 m/363 ft

Diameter; 10.1 m/33 ft

[tanriovert]

What another load of crap. This shit was never in space obviously. Otherwise why all the special fx crapola instead of a sincere footage of a zero gravity environment. Skylab was in outer space for only about as long as Lionel Richie was dancing on the ceiling by the loox of things. And that super-fake docking scene?? That just looks like a deliberate parody of the Apollo era hoaxes but it's part the actual frigging hoax. What a joke. How can any1 buy this in this day and age?

[Boyinabox]

It worries me that people like you are allowed to reproduce.

[tanriovert]

I could say the same thing about people like you. People gullible enough to buy these hideous hoaxes.

[MightySaturn5]

tan, I'm terribly sorry for taking a wet, 6 lb. peanut riddled shit into your late mothers mouth, holding a gun to her head and informing her that she couldn't swallow for 15 minutes as tears were rolling down her swollen cheeks (from the beatings).

...She almost made it however at 14:27 her eyes rolled back into her head like a winning Vegas slot machine while quarters dribbled out of her ass.

She had an expression that seemed to say "I hope my death makes my dog cock sucking kid believe"

[tanriovert]

Yeah that's real classy stuff there saturn. I guess it's no other than your kind of chronically diseased brains that can still imagine to this day that Apollo hoax and such had anything to do with people going to space.

[MightySaturn5]

tanrio old gal, perhaps you are naive to assume such things -most people I've sent the video to agree that your late mother looked as though she felt regret, personally I found her death as a great joy ...as we all know you fear the Apollo program as well as commercially made milk so of course it gave me a big smilie face to know not even you can obtain breast milk from a corpse.

[SuperMagnetizer]

@tanriovert Excuse me, but my father built a piece of Skylab. He was one of the many sub-contractors who made the effort possible. Many trips to NASA, met several of the astronauts, etc.

[gschjetne]

In Soviet Russia, Apollo docks with YOU!!

(sorry, couldn't resist)

[fanbutton]

That was suppose to had been Apollo 18, but the Ruskies acquired doppler shift technology the year prior, making them able to confirm or disprove whether or not Apollo astronauts really went to the Moon.

[navyboydjray]

True pioneers of the space age.

[kooldog98]

Debris of the Skylab was found between Esperance and Rawlinna in Western Australia. The Shire of Esperance fined the United States $400 for littering, a fine which, to this day, remains unpaid.

[hans1066]

@kooldog98

haha.... nice story! ;-) Are you living there?

[chevezez]

@hans1066 well it got payed off in april 2009

[sonilove786]

@kooldog98 The fine was paid in April 2009, when radio show host Scott Barley of Highway Radio raised the funds from his morning show listeners and paid the fine on behalf of NASA.

[tlages]

@kooldog98 The Shire of Esperance fined the United States $400 for littering, a fine which remained unpaid for 30 years. The fine was paid in April 2009, when radio show host Scott Barley of Highway Radio raised the funds from his morning show listeners and paid the fine on behalf of NASA.

[v12tommy]

@kooldog98 Actually the fine was paid. In April of 2009 a radio guy raised the money and paid the fine on behalf of NASA.

[Kesonjeta]

@kooldog98 Alas, It has been paid! :D Im responding to a video thats 2 years old

[1Nekit1]

@kooldog98 Oh, boy...

[DTB4EVER]

Esto es muy vacano

[klipsch21]

i didnt kno soyuz docked with skylab

[nickxyzt]

It didn't. It docked with Apollo spacecraft. Two different issues in the same movie.

[pablohdezlopez]

thanks for this vid..i love space do you believe in ufos???

[melonearpen]

properly incredible

[mousedragons]

gee, thanks so much!

[anakina1]

THANKS FOR SUCH A GREAT POST.

[mrtrkdlite]

"holy cow watta view" awesome so lucky but scary

[muddyknees]

Skylab is so much sexier than the ISS. It looks like all those "futuristic" artists representations in magazines and documentaries. An actual living and working space, not just a series of interconnected tunnels. Looks like there was a lot of wasted space in there, but it still lessens the feeling of working in a tube or small box.

[commandox20]

ISS isnt just tubes.

[muddyknees]

way to just gainsay what I said without backing up or qualifying your argument at all.

[ytbigjim]

Skylab is cool. :)

[horseboyken]

wow i remember talking about that in school but why is the footage out now? where has it been for 30 years?

[magigg]

thank you for this great video :-)

[timsimmk]

What's with that weird thing in the top-right corner? Looks like a small worm.

[mgabrysSF]

NIIIICE! You included the Apollo Soyuz mission of 1975! A friend of the family was on that flight, V. Brand. I wouldn't feel to envious of him tho - his scheduled flight to the moon (Apollo 18) was canceled. Talk about DENIED!

[utbigjim]

Cool, I have added it to my favorites.

[pr0t0color]

Instead we have the ISS (tiny tin cans strung together), and the wimpy but outrageously expensive Shuttle (ya`know the Saturn V could have put the entire ISS into orbit with only about 4 or 5 launches?) which is going to be retired in about three years and replaced with 'The Stick' (which, as currently designed can't even get itself into orbit) and 'The Stack', which will be almost as powerful as the Saturn V but at a ten times the cost. So sad.

[mmysama]

I dunno about the Ares I, but I know the Ares V is expected to be considerably cheaper per launch than the Saturn V ever was. Bear in mind, inflation caused the US dollar to be worht a lot less now than it was during the apollo era. in 2006 dollars, NASA spent around 3 billion per launch of the Saturn V, but much of the was R&D done before they did any launches. It's estimated that a production model Saturn V should cost around 2 billion. Dunno if that figure includes the SIVB or not.

[mmysama]

The shuttle costs around 600 million per launch. the Ares V is expected to cost around 500 million, but knowing NASA it'll probally be a lot more, especially considered R&D costs. Also, the Ares V will have more than five times the cargo capacity of the shuttle cargo bay, thus it will drastically lower launch costs.

[Marcus79a]

At two or three launches a year it must be more like double that number. Plus each lunar launch also takes an Ares I shot.

[A86]

The Ares V is also much more powerful than the Saturn V rocket. The Ares V can haul 188 metric tons (that's 207 US tons) into orbit. The Saturn V could only carry half that much into orbit.

[Boyinabox]

I didn't know that! If the Orion module will be lighter than Apollo and the Ares V can lift more than Saturn V how come the whole setup requires launches by both Ares I and Ares V? Is the extra weight due to the new lunar lander?

[A86]

Boyinabox - It's all about cost and weight. The Saturn V rocket was abandoned after 1973 because it was very expensive and not expendable. The Ares I and V are made to be relatively inexpensive and expendable. The first stage of both vehicles is completely reusable as are the Ares V boosters. They're carried in two different rockets 1) so that they don't put all their eggs in one basket like the Saturn V does; and 2) yes, because of the heavy weight of the lander.

[A86]

I'm excited about the program too. The Orion CSM isn't lighter than the Apollo but it's only 7,000 lbs heavier despite the Orion command module being 250% larger than the Apollo command module. That's a lot of progress. The only thing I'm worried about is the new look of the Altair ascent stage. The new design makes it a lot smaller than it did in 2006. It currently doesn't look like it could fit 4 people, or at least they'll all be squished in like a Gemini capsule.

[MightySaturn5]

A86-The Saturn V could loft 285,000 lbs (or over 140 tons U.S.) into LEO...that seems considerably more then 103.5 tons which is actually half of the Ares V payload into LEO

[A86]

Where are you getting your info from?

h t t p : // en .wikipedia . o r g /wiki/Ares_V

The Ares V will be able to haul 188 metric tons (that's 414,000 lbs or 207 US tons) into orbit. The Saturn V could only lift 260,000 lbs (at sheer maximum) into orbit. The Ares V might actually lift more than projected if they add a second J-2X engine to the second stage (which they might need to as it is currently slightly underpowered).

[MightySaturn5]

The 260 k spec was projected information from early 1963 however due to new metal alloys, fabrication techniques, innovative ideas

( the 'common bulkhead' of North Americans second stage... thinning of various tank skins due to cryogenic enhancment of metals etc.) its max lift was upgraded in late 66' to 285 k for LEO.

Von Braun stated this in the Apollo 4 (AS-501) video here on youtube as did others in various engineering publications from that period.

[A86]

"its max lift was upgraded in late 66' to 285 k for LEO.

Von Braun stated this in the Apollo 4 (AS-501) video here on youtube as did others in various engineering publications from that period."

That's cool, I didn't know that.

But still, the Ares V will be able to lift at least 414k into LEO and 157k into TLI. The Saturn V couldn't push more than 100k into TLI (not to downplay that enormous amount).

[Membrane556]

Part of the need for such a large payload is under performance of Ares I it came up several tons short and general feature creep in Altair.

Orion needs Altair to perform TLI and them wanting a 20T cargo payload out of Altair.

This made Altair very large and heavy.

There's a plan to go with 2 smaller HLVs in the 90 to 120 ton range gaining ground.

Also commonality of the CLV and CaLV would save billions in both R&D reoccurring costs.

[A86]

I think part of the problem is that Ares I and Ares V still seem underpowered. Especially the Ares V, trying to use the same J-2X engine (which is barely enough for Ares I's upper stage) for Ares V's upper stage. I think a solution would be to upgrade Ares I's first stage to 5.5 segments instead of just 5. Ares V needs an upper stage engine about 20% larger to be able to obtain TLI speed. Maybe a 20% larger J-2 engine, like a J-2Y, could be created for the Ares V upper stage.

[pr0t0color]

Saw this on TV when I was a kid. I just KNEW that by the time 2000 rolled around we'd have an even more awesome space station in orbit, a base on the moon and manned expeditions to Mars, the moons of Jupiter and some of the juicier-looking asteroids.

[Amiduffer]

You should have elected LaRouche. Google his Woman on Mars election television broadcast.

[grooanmouliss]

great! superb station, much more better then Saljut,Mir...the interior looks like from the Space Odyssey

[zeproo]

the actual space station is very small compared to this monster... congratulations to our ancesters :-)

[MichelleDri]

Just an awesome station :)

[MightySaturn5]

so much larger then anything before or since

[Truth666]

nasa-hoaxes.blogspot (dot) com = TRUTH

Wikipedia = Illuminati lies

[chewie0872]

Thanks big bear. Wikipedia knows everything.

[chewie0872]

Does anyone know the location of where skylab crashed in Australia?

[bigbear1963]

Wikipedia says: 16:37 UTC 11 July 1979. Earth reentry footprint was a narrow band (approx. 4° wide) beginning at about 48° S 87° E and ending at about 12° S 144° E, an area covering portions of the Indian Ocean and Western Australia. Debris was found between Esperance, Western Australia, and Rawlinna, Western Australia, 31--34°S, 122--126°E.