Skylab sun shade plan for space salvage mission
Houston technicians rush the assembly of two aluminum coated nylon sun shades as three Skylab repairmen prepare to carry them to the orbiting lab. Conrad Kerwin and Welle practice rigging an awning massive enough to cover the eight room Skylab 271 miles above Earth while flight controllers finalize a 17.09 mph rendezvous from Cape Kennedy.
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Pioneer 11 space craft transmitter tube fails
A tube in the Pioneer 11 transmitter to send Jupiter pictures failed in Mountain View California. Ames Research Laboratory switched to a backup power tube and data transmission continued with no interruption. The craft is expected to reach Jupiter vicinity late next year.
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