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The LEM's Problems / Chap. 11 p. 94
workshop gradually worked its way up to 150 F." 28
In the meantime Houston control feared that the high temperatures had contaminated the
existing atmosphere with carbon monoxide and that toluene diisocyanate was released from
the materials inside. 29 They feared the lab would have to be purged many times to clear out
the toxic fumes. 30
Since the rate gyroscopes (IMU devices) had failed, NASA's geniuses figured out how
to tell the precise attitude from the temperature readings. At least that's what they told Baker.
He writes, "For the past day or so, information from the rate gyroscopes on Skylab's precise
attitude had become less and less reliable since they had not been updated by the Sun sensors
locking on the solar disc and gradual drift carried them out of the precise calibration they had
at the start of the mission. So controllers, who by now had developed a very precise
knowledge of the effect minute attitude changes, had on the internal and external
temperature, mapped the changing profile, observing fractional increase or decrease in
temperature, to tell the guidance controllers the precise attitude of Skylab." 31
This story is on the same level as that of Emil Schiesser and the doppler readings of the
radio transmissions of Apollo 11 after which he knew exactly where that ship was. This, to
my mind, is just as hard to believe as that tall tale.
On May 27, our space heroes finally boarded Skylab and deployed the parasol. Not, we
are assured, without a terrible struggle. But since one tends to grow weary of NASA sagas
lets move on. With the umbrella up the internal temperatures dropped to 46 °C (115° F) and
the astronauts reportedly went to sleep in Skylab. 32 Have you ever tried to sleep when it was
100° F, let alone 115 Pete Conrad and his boys really played it cool. They had "The Right
Stuff!"
The next morning the temperature was down to a comparatively chilly 42° C (107.6° F)
and they began regular operations. It finally dawned on me that the inclination of an orbit
determines the percentage of time the ship spends in the Sun, because our poles are inclined
21.5° to the path of our revolution. Therefore a ship with an inclination of 21.5° South would
spend 50 % of its time in the Sun. If that inclination was 68.5° North then it would spend all
of its time in the Sun. The Skylab, in its 50° North inclination would spend 80 % of its time
in the Sun.
It strikes me as strange that Skylab, composed of the same materials as the Apollo 13
capsule, overheated while that Apollo capsule which spent all its time in the Sun, became ice
cold. Remember that, according to NASA, the 6 LEMs that stood on the broiling lunar
surface for days on end, without air-conditioning, also became cold.
A ship heading toward the "new" Moon is 240,000 miles closer to the Sun. Are we to
conclude that the Sun's heat diminishes the closer you get Or can it be that the Van Allen
belts sort of gather up the radiation and also concentrate the Sun's heat
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene