A Brief History of Skylab
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
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Correction: the 5-segment boosters used by SLS do not have a longer burn time than the Shuttle boosters, but burn more powerfully.
Additionally, Starlab has now shifted from an inflatable habitat to a rigid one.
Brilliant...
I think the ISS should be raised orbitally.. so the 450 tons of materials are available for future generations.
One thing is the background Muzak making hard for me to concentrate on what you are saying..
Use music to enhance not almost continuous.
Imagine a lecture at uni with background Muzak!
Yeah SRB’s burn from inside out instead of bottom up. You could have a longer burning SRB, but it’d have to be either a wider diameter casing, or have a different shaped hollow core to it to render a different burn profile. You know, I didn’t even catch that error until seeing this comment. I suppose I really should be paying more attention to what people are telling me…🤔🤣
@@mySeaPrince_hmmm🤔
I didn’t have any troubles concentrating on the subject for the music. Perhaps adderall may help…?🤷🏾♂️
“Brief” you absolute mad lad.
Between you and Homemade documentaries, we don't deserve this level of quality content on RUclips... but I am so glad we get it anyway
If I had nickel for everytime Pete Conrad got struck by lightning, I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened three times.
Thrice is the word you're looking for
Thrice sounds weird even though it’s a word.
Agreed that thrice sounds a bit odd. but I’m happy that two isn’t trice
þrice
Obie Trice
Neato. There aren't many documentaries about Skylab around, let alone a great, in-depth one.
Neat o let me tell you a story about a man named Chris Cringle or what people liked to call him holy old Saint Nick he lived at the North Pole with elves and reindeer and every Christmas Eve he's fly through the sky on a alright with the reindeer and gives toys to all the good little boys and girls he keeps a list of the naughty and nice ones the naughty ones get lumps of coal and the nice ones get toys that the elves who work on Santas sweat shop all year made he breaks in to your home by coming down the chimney . Never believe everything that your told
@@user-yl1vb7ss8dyou’re really not a very smart person are you…?
I'm a simple man, I see a dead Kennedy space video, i'm gonna click on it.
me too
Güd
You're a simple man, you see a comment section and make a really old unoriginal dull comment.
@@samuelgarrod8327 are you ok honey?
@@samuelgarrod8327 Guess what? Yours isn't exactly better. More the opposite...
This channel is criminally under-subscribed. Great work, m8.
Suck up…😒
Jk, you’re good. Carry on…😃👍🏾
Skylab walked so the International Space Station could r̶u̶n̶ walk a little more briskly.
Banger video. Skylab has always fascinated me and this is a great compendium of knowledge
20 minutes in and I already knew this is the best doc on Skylab on YT. Been waiting for something like this for a long time, thank you!
I remember when the Skylab fell back to earth. I was about 7 or 8 years old, and my family would go out into the backyard and watch it fly over. When we heard about pieces that landed in Australia, we went into our backyard where we had collected two junked top loading washing machines and a dryer. Took them all apart piled the parts into one of the frames of the washing machines put the tub it on a 12 foot mass with one of those 3 day candles, and claimed that it was a part of Skylab as a neighborhood joke.
I was an Astronomy buff in High School in the 70's. I remember tracking Skylab with my telescope back then.
I saw Skylab through binoculars. I could clearly see the single large solar panel and the cross of panels on the telescope mount.
That’s fucking rad! I’ve always wanted to get set up so that I can track and observe ISS, or any LEO satellite for that matter. But idk exactly what it would take, and I’m sure it would be an issue living here in Charleston SC with all the night light we are forced to endure…🙄🤷🏾♂️
I was a little kid during Sky Lab. It was cool to see a documentary that tied it all together.
50:55 “this is how we fix problems in the russian SPACE STATION”
Beats the hell out of the power module
That’s exactly how I fix pretty much everything.
Step 1: Give defective item a cursory review in an attempt to identify any obvious issues that would explain the problem in question.
Step 2: a) If issue found and can be repaired, then do so.
b) If no obvious issue found, commence to beating the shit out of defective item with a hammer or heavy, hammer-like implement.
Step 3: Turn on item and resume usage…
Basically what I’m saying is I could totally be an astronaut…🤔
I'm always pleased when a YT doco-maker understands that around an hour is "brief".
This will be the best dinner and laundry folding wathcing session Ive had in weeks!
To one of the most creative and visionary people on RUclips.
Too kind! Thank you so much!
Everyday astronaut music! Awesome choice man!
I like tragedy by the BeeGees or staying alive don't bring me down is another good one by electric light orchestra
@@user-yl1vb7ss8dDon’t Bring Me Down would be hilarious for the deorbiting of Skylab!
That Owen Garriott mannequin at Johnson Space Center is super creepy, he looks like he's been hotboxing the food prep area, and is getting into some serious snackage.
John Young complaining about farting up a storm on 16 always makes me laugh.
Nice to see the Skylab 4 crew vindicated by the evidence, not speculation and accusations of "mutiny".
Also I'd love to see an MOL video, but the what-if of a Skylab boost mission is an even cooler prospect.
I’d never heard of the Lunar Farting incident before. I quite enjoyed learning of it’s existence, and it gives me a bit of inspiration into a potential future EVA personal propulsion system that I may need to discuss with NASA🤔
And yes, it’s good to see a doc like this that expels those disparaging rumors of mutiny and underperformance of our astronauts when in reality they were pioneers that should be celebrated for risking their lives to advance the human race into the space age…✊🏾
I like to think I know a thing or two about space flight and our forays into orbit.
I didn't know Jack about Skylab. Until today. Great video!
If you know a thing or two about space flight etc, then tell me this… How does one orbit a flat plane when space isn’t real?? Go ahead, smart guy! How’s it done…?🙄
I’m just joshing ya! Fuck flat earth!🤣
But seriously, Skylab was a neat little foray into LEO camping, allowing us to gain so much valuable experience and knowledge to ultimately be used for ISS. Much better to learn through fuck ups on an 85 ton LEO RV than one over 500 tons!
Seriously cool shit tho!
Thanks for the work on these Kenny! I don't think I've heard anyone speak at length at just how much wear and tear Skylab accrued, only how much of a shame it was that the Space Shuttle wasn't in time to save it.
Woooo happy to see this released! Hope you are doing well, can’t wait to watch !! Edited to say I just started and it’s awesome to see my home city Huntsville get a shoutout. Most people don’t realize how much research and technology is here and it’s not just limited to NASA and the Marshall Space Flight Center! It’s unique (highest concentration of engineers per capita and in the top phds per capita list, 4th largest research park in the WORLD) and very different from the rest of Alabama. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction 😃 and I pray that space force does end up here but Tuberville (he’s an embarrassment) may have blown it 😢. Def better than Colorado Springs in the long term as per the government site survey
Oh also…lol…being fully aware about Huntsville and it’s history with the space industry and it’s population of PhD’s, engineers, and other smarty-pants types, I still am struck by the dichotomy-or even perhaps only the perceived dichotomy-of Huntsville w/ all of its smart, white taped, black rimmed glasses, and pocket protector equipped engineers, and the state of Alabama and its reputation of hick, racism, and inbreeding et al…
No offense intended of course, it’s just an outline of stereotypical attributes, and not necessarily representative of the majority of its population…
But still…🤔🤣
Great work as always. I wish we got a Skylab revival in the 80s but it may have been for the best, since we got the ISS
I think you raised the bar once again, now surpassing TV documentary quality. Structure, pace, narration, all right on spot. Love the construction pictures and video material you unburied!
I'm sure the third crew had a few choice words for the second crew about that dummy they left in the station lol
That was hilarious! Props to those guys for pranking their coworkers! These days they’d get fired then sued for harassment, bullying, and causing life long PTSD and possibly them henceforth questioning their pronouns or some such shit…😒🤷🏾♂️
@@revmsj congrats, you won today's "man invents fictional scenario and then gets angry about it" prize.
This is a fantastic documentary! More informative and better quality than most documentaries on mainstream platforms. First video of yours I've seen and I'm hooked already! I hope you keep the content coming!
Thank you!
Dad woke me up in 1979 to watch Skylab crashing over our West Australian town, just incredible. Great video btw!
How do you sleep at night
@@user-yl1vb7ss8dI’d suspect in a bed…🙄
Sleep?? NAAAH NEW DKIS VIDEO DROPPED
Only now finishing the video to wipe my tears from the scrub of the first Starliner crew launch. 😥
Hey! It’s me calling from the future to let you know that Starliner did finally launch, yet was still plagued with problems. As you may have guessed, these problems mainly centered on more of its helium leaks that it’s become so notorious for, as well as it’s other common point of failure, it’s engines. Several of which of course failed to operate. They got to the ISS…but barely. Here’s hoping they’re now able to get back safely…🙄
Narrator's voice reminds me of the guy from the "Hyperspace pirate" channel here on youtube :-)
Now to watch the rest of this very interesting (and enjoyable!) documentary!
Funny, his voice reminds me of MC Toon (*sp), that one “Flat Earth” debunker guy…🤔
I watched Skylab launched from my classroom in elementary school (Yes they rolled out the TV cart for us) and have been a space nerd my whole life, thank you for this great "Brief" history of Skylab. This is the best history of this I have ever seen, bravo!
Oh man I can't wait to sit down for an hour and binge this all in one sitting.
Also hope the sobriety is treating you well DKIS! Keep on keeping on!
It's going great, thank you so much!
Well done, DK! You have recreated a period I lived through but did not know what happened!
Such a delightful history. Space flight histories can drag, no matter how interesting the subject.
Thank you! I have learned more with your story-like retelling than with any bucket of information.
Drag?! Idk, perhaps I’m just a dorky ass, super-nerd, cuz I never get tired of watching/listening to space science/history material.🤷🏾♂️
Hell, I’ve just now watched this twice, back to back…
15:38 same burn time but more power (diameter = burn time)
Just finished the video. Well done. I love all the stuff on the Apollo applications program
The amount of open pressurized space inside the station is still mindboggling today, especially when compared to later spacecraft.
ISS having something like 5x the pressurized volume of Skylab, Skylab WAS still the largest pressurized volume craft/structure ever put into space in a single launch. Was, that is, all the way up to present day with Spacex’s launch of Starship which has a bit more than the pressurized volume of ISS, which took more than 30 launches to transport and assemble its disparate components. We most definitely stagnated there for a while, which is no surprise considering the government had been holding the reins, but now with the free market and with players like SpaceX taking over, we are now most certainly making up for all that lost time! One of my biggest hopes for all this, aside from me personally one day going to space, moon, mars, etc. is that this new awakening of space exploration tech will also awaken that excitement from the general public for space exploration, and that they insist that the powers that be in congress open up more funding for science and space exploration. We should have fleets of probes at or on the way to every planet and every moon in our solar system! We could answer the question of whether or not extraterrestrial life exists in less than a decade by simply sending probes to at least the Jovian moons equipped with specific instruments to collect and examine salt water sprays that’re being emitted into space in some cases, and in others land on and drill. Long story short, there’s so much potential right here in our celestial neighborhood, and it seems insane that everyone is not excited as hell and demanding that we investigate immediately! With the tech we have in the works and the relative inexpensive cost of said tech, it’s inevitable that this all happens….soon…
Ugh. Sorry about rambling…🙄🤣
This was great, amazing work! Definitely should do a video on MIR next!
The work, research and dedication behind this kind of videos is insane. Thanks for spreading knowledge.
great how you told that story!
Finally a good quality documentary about Skylab thank you 😊
Yes! I've been waiting for this! Keep making these videos man, you deserve so many more subscribers and views than you have!
Great video man, thanks so much, and good luck with everything, we all support you!
Great doco...enjoyed it! I was a primary school kid when this was in orbit and I was a high schooler when the thing came back to earth. I'll check out your content for sure - subscribed!
Absolutely fascinating,Thank you!
Damn, I didn’t know we were getting another banger of a video so soon LETS GOOOOO
Finally got around to watching this and it's incredible as usual!
This was excellent!
Howdy
"Brief" at an 1:19:56
You mean....you can make an extended version?
A bit over an hour to document a decade long process of design and a 6-ish year long mission in space with all of its trials, tribunals, as well as lessons learned and science gleaned. Also the human angle. The psychology, the physiology understandings we made to prepare ourselves for longer duration missions like ISS and upcoming Artemus, and beyond hopefully one day to mars! And then a little bit of earth based trivia in the form of an Australian boy’s chores being interrupted by falling space debris but getting paid 10K by a newspaper for his troubles!!! I’d say yes… yes this was absolutely brief and our faithful narrator could absolutely do an extended version!
Oh ah please note I’m in no way affiliated with this channel and can and am in no way obligating him into said extended version….😳
Hell yeah, I'm here for every minute of this bad boy.
Always looking forward to your uploads!
I struck Gold by finding this channel some months ago...
I loved this video. You should do one on LC-39A! I know it's a ground... thing... but it's got such a cool history!
Thank you for another great video!
I am a simple man. When I see DKIS upload I DROP EVERYTHING AND WATCH.
This might be a BRIEF video but it deserves lengthy amounts of praise for is absolutely phenomenal quality.
How has youtube not shown you to me sooner. Oh good grief Im in for this video and the one you uploaded yesterday? Let alone youre entire backlog. Id grab some popcorn but I was already about to make some burritos and I have A Process that is conviently two hours long.
Get cozy! And welcome to the channel 😀
What impresses me with the Apollo program, and that one as well, is how they did so much in such a short time, with so many companies, people, organizations,…. I work in IT at a bank and most projects are shit shows, with vendors and poor management.
Keep up the fantastic work!!!!
7:23 KSP is the best animation tool lol
It was interesting to see the mission patches for Apollos 18, 19 and 20 and the crews of 19 and 20. However I don't know about 18. That was going to be Richard Gordon CDR, Vance Brand CMP and Harrison Schmitt LMP. Of course Schmitt flew on Apollo 17 so had Apollo 18 not been cancelled maybe Joe Engle (who Schmitt replaced on A17) would have flown.
I know that Gordon , Brand and Schmitt had been pencilled in for 18 so that patch at 11:08 took me by surprise - who the hell are those guys anyway ? There was Gerry Griffin but he was a Flight Director !
The lab in the sky, who's story will now be told
D A V I D !
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Salvē!
If sky then only lab 🔥
Great work. Thank you for making this
Really enjoy your deep dives into the history of the space program. It very informative and educational.
Appreciate your work...
I keep thinking throughout this documentary "jeez this technology is so primitive" but then I remember how "advanced" the Hubble images were compared to JWST’s images.
Yooo! New DKIS video dropped!
I’m seated and taking notes
🥳🙌
15:40 the five segment srb's don't burn longer, they burn harder
1:12:52 Nah, they definitely only said that so they could get the next crew with another mannequin scare
Very well done, thank you. Subscribed and looking forward to your future content!
Skylab 2 got hit by lightning?
Pete must have been unlucky getting struck on 2 launches in a row.
I like the direction you've taken the channel. Keep it up, man!
Been very much looking forward to this video!
"…but I am neither a pilot nor a scientist…" - I *AM* a pilot (although not military) and a scientist (by training, although have never worked in a science field.)
**ANYONE** can be trained to perform emergency procedures. Sure, doing that is standard for a pilot, but it doesn't take that long to train emergency procedures for a specific thing. Even something as complex as an Apollo CSM. The time they proposed to spend training pilots to be scientists would have been _more_ than enough time to train scientists in emergency CSM procedures.
No, they wouldn't have been "qualified test pilots" by any stretch, but enough to get home safely. Sure, military test pilots are a special breed (that was my plan in college before realizing the Air Force and I weren't compatible, so I dropped out of ROTC before reaching the point of actually committing to serve,) but the major part of "military test pilot" _isn't_ "preparing for unexpected" - it's actually "following a test plan to the letter, repeatably." ALL pilots "prepare for the unexpected". Giving the scientists pilot training gave them the important part of what would be needed on a spaceflight in an emergency.
Great video! Thanks for posting.
Superb video , I thought I knew about skylab, boy was i mistaken - Brilliant
A most excellent presentation, bud!
Fantastic vid. Thanks for your work
Love your videos, keep of the great work man!
Amazing video. Stunning work
Really good video. Didn't Starlab (1:18:39) become a rigid module when Lockheed Martin was replaced by Airbus though?
I hadn't heard that?
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory There's an Ars Technica article about it that I can't link for some reason, but it's called "Trans-Atlantic joint venture aims to build new “international” space station"
I've been waiting for this one, love me some Skylab
“Brief history of Skylab” video is over an hour long. 😂😂 Not complaining tho I’m watching the whole thing! Love your content.
But it’s the whole ass history of Skylab…. A 5 day long documentary would technically be brief…🙄
I’ve been following your progress on Twitter and I’m excited to watch! Great work!
It would have been a game changer if they had been able to save skylab long enough for the shuttles to reach it... then build a space station based off of it.. it was massive and would have madefor an amazing station!
Man, your videos always hit!
Slaton was right to put test pilots in the first few flights as proved by 13 but once the flight hardware was proved that was no longer a good reason!
Another great video. Thank you 👍
Say it with me now: Gemnini "Gem-en-me"
Perfect
You should do a video, or something, about IMIS, it was a Boeing proposal for a post Apollo mars mission, using NERVA engines. IMIS stands for integrated manned interplanetary spacecraft
Hell yeah more knowledge!!!!
Wow. I didn’t think this was you when I scrolled past it last night. I grabbed a screenshot (because skru the “watch later” list) so I could find it later.
Now I have something for tonight.
I have been looking forward to this!!
The ISS should be kept as a National Monument. Think of it like the 'Yellowstone' of low Earth orbit. Other stations can be used as Hotels for visitors to the ISS, think Titanic excursions, BUT in SPACE! It would not have to be kept operable, just in a steady orbit. Maybe a couple park Rangers, teehee, and presto this things making tourist cash!
Thank you and Jason :)
i'm a simple man. I see DeadKennedyinSpace post, i hit the like button.
The skylab program should be sent to other planets. The design is perfect
That's the "brief" one? I would love to watch an extended "special edition!"
29:27 this is similar to Ben Afflecks commentary from Armageddon .“I asked Michael (Bay, the film’s director) why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to teach astronauts to become oil drillers,” Affleck says over scene between Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton. “He told me to ‘Shut the fuck up.’ So that was the end of that talk.”
Too short, 5/10 /s.
Great video, as always. From Twitter, I know you have been going through some stuff. Congratulations on your sobriety, and I hope you find a good new job soon.
Bedankt
Thank YOU!