DocumentCode
1343677
Title
Special report: A return visit with EE-astronaut Owen Garriott: Seven years of preparation and a blast off like riding the rumble seat of a model a ¿ but the two-month trip was worth it!
Author
Lindgren, Nilo
Volume
11
Issue
7
fYear
1974
fDate
7/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
50
Lastpage
60
Abstract
The prospect of sitting atop a Saturn missile and being propelled to orbital heights is probably not every engineer´s idea of fun, but EE-scientist-astronaut Own Garriott experienced just that ¿ and then circled the earth in Skylab 3 on an orbital mission that lasted nearly two months and brought him both pleasure and satisfaction.
Keywords
Corona; Earth; Instruments; Orbits; Space vehicles; Sun; Transient analysis;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSPEC.1974.6366586
Filename
6366586
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