NSSDCA ID: 1973-027A-35
Mission Name: SkylabThroughout the three manned visits to the Skylab flight crews were asked to evaluate everyday spacecraft type activities such as sleeping, eating and the ease or difficulty of getting around. The crew documented with film and tape-recorded comments the habitability features of the workshop as part of experiment M487 - habitability/crew quarters, the objectives of which were to provide data useful in the design of future manned spacecraft. Habitability features such as architecture, environmental elements and communications techniques will affect every day spacecraft activities and crew performance. Objective and subjective data were obtained on OWS environment, internal architecture, adequacy of mobility aids and restraints, food and water, graments and personal accounterments, personal hygiene, housekeeping, internal communications, and subjective data on the adequacy of the off-duty activity provisions. Instruments including a measuring tape, portable thermometers, surface temperature digital thermometer, sound meter and frequency analyzer, velometer and force gauge provided for the experiment.
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Name | Role | Original Affiliation | |
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Mr. Caldwell C. Johnson, Jr. | Principal Investigator | NASA Johnson Space Center |