Living and Working in Space

CONTENTS

• Preface

1. PART I. FROM CONCEPT THROUGH DECISION, 1962-1969
   1. What to do for an Encore: Post-Apollo Plans
   2. From Spent Stage to Orbital Cluster, 1965-1966
   3. Apollo Applications: “Wednesday’s Child”
   4. A Science Program for Manned Spaceflight
   5. Years of Uncertainty, 1967-1969
2. PART II. DEVELOPMENT AND PREPARATIONS TO FLY, 1969-1973
   6. Managing the Design Phase
   7. Living and Working in Space
   8. The Medical Experiments
   9. Studying the Sun
   10. Late Additions to the Experiments
   11. Putting the Pieces Together
   12. Preparations for Flight
   13. Launching Skylab
3. PART III. THE MISSIONS AND RESULTS, 1973-1979
   14. Saving Skylab
   15. The First Mission
   16. The Second Mission
   17. The Last Mission
   18. Results
   19. What Goes Up...

APPENDIXES

1. Summary of the Missions
2. Major Contractors
3. International Aeronautical Federation World Records Set by Skylab
4. Experiments
5. Astronauts’ Biographies
6. Comet Kohoutek
7. Joint Observing Program 2, Active Regions

• The Authors
• Inside Cover