Classic NASA Film - Skylab - #1

Highlights from the NASA film "Skylab: The First 40 Days" featuring the problem-plagued launch of the first manned Skylab mission in May, 1973.

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[ferdmert]

PS, i dont think the technology of the 60's and 70's both copmputer and audio/visual, would allow it to be possible to fake the moon landings. But the technology of the time was just enough to take us there for real, 400,000 people cant all tell the same lie folks!

[ferdmert]

why's it so hard for people born after 1990 to believe the US landed on the moon? people born after 1990 dont have much faith in anything, its too bad. I guess you had to be a "shuttle baby" or better to believe it and relish in our success in space exploration.

[amemy1]

@johngotechs And not trusting the government replaces communism as a focus for toxic US culture.

[amemy1]

@ferdmert ...conpiracies became more fashionable in th 90s,

[johngotechs]

@thedanphillips How true.. But believe or not all generations have dumb-asses. It's just as the population of all people gets larger.. stupid people become easier to spot. Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

[thedanphillips]

@johngotechs most people are fucking retarded born after 1990 lol. I have to admit, most of my generation (1990) can barely do basic algebra. I couldn't see them grasping the concept of space travel lol, they can only tell you who the next top model is or who is the most popular rapper alive LOL. Sad but true.

[thedanphillips]

@ferdmert I was born in 1990 and don't believe any of the retarded conspiracy theories lol. You've been proven wrong!

:P

[johngotechs]

@ferdmert I was born after 1990 and I hate when people say the landings were fake! I know you don't mean everyone but I wanted to say I know a lot of people who believe they were real. Most people who think it was fake don't trust the government and don't listen to any of our arguments that the landings were real.

[TheSpiritof1969]

@DVAFP

indeed it was. The Saturn was so powerful it could have put up the International space station in just 3 or 4 missions over a 6 month period at a fraction of the cost of using the ilconceived space shuttle, and it could have done it 20 years earlier had the US and USSR got together back then.

Right now only the USSR are capable of putting a humans into orbit.

[DVAFP]

@tpsossff skylab WAS the upper part of a saturn V.

[EmpireLS56KW]

WOW that's a nice bit of vintage NASA Skylab footage from the early 1970's. I like the space suits of that time with red locking thingy around the fish bowl helmets sure don't make them like that anymore.

[zeproo]

There is no challenge, there's no progress in high level science.as it used to be. Thats why now, young people don't believe we went to the moon.