NASA Skylab Crew Debriefings

JSC-08053 SKYLAB 1/2 TECHNICAL CREW DEBRIEFING JUNE 30, 1973 PREPARED BY TRAINING OFFICE CREW TRAINING AND SIMULATION DIVISION NOTICE: This document may be exempt from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). Requests for its release to PERSONS o…

KERWIN (CONT'D) Unusual or Unexpected Visual Phenomenon. We saw light flashes. I think all of us saw them. I saw them most often when I was in the sack at night with my eyes closed but awake naturally. They tended to wax and wane in frequency. Someone asked me if that was in co…

CONRAD Sometimes I'd be lying there with my eyes half closed, and I'd see a fire sensor wink. KERWIN And you'd have to be careful that you weren't confusing that with the fire flash. Once you've seen a few of each, there is question of which is which. They're not an hallucinat…

JSC-08478 SKYLAB 1/3 TECHNICAL CREW DEBRIEFING PREPARED BY TRAINING OFFICE CREW TRAINING AND SIMULATION DIVISION NOTICE: This document may be exempt from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). Requests for its release to PERSONS outside the U.S.…

BEAN I did too. The sack would move over in the corner. LOUSMA Things we saw out the window. GARRIOTT For example, we saw that satellite about a week before splash-down. That was one of the most unusual things that we saw and I guess Jack noticed it looking out the window. T…

BEAN You bet. We never saw it again. You'd think we would have seen it the next night or it would cycle by another time. Maybe it did and we weren't looking out the window. LOUSMA You might point out that it never did take the shape of an object but it was always brighter than…

20.0 VISUAL SIGHTINGS LOUSMA Let's talk about visual sightings. Any comments on countdown. You saw your way to the booster or you didn't see that. Visual sighting no problem there. BEAN You might want to talk about the visual sightings on that orbit when Owen and Jack saw the…

GARRIOTT (CONT'D) a reddish hue to it, even though it was well above the horizon. The light from the Sun was not passing close to the Earth's limb at the time. We observed it for about 10 minutes prior to sunset. It was slowly rotating because it had a variation in brightness wi…

BE4/K. Grimwood JSC-08809 SKYLAB 1/4 TECHNICAL CREW DEBRIEFING FEBRUARY 22, 1974 PART I PREPARED BY TRAINING OFFICE CREW TRAINING AND PROCEDURES DIVISION NOTICE: This document may be exempt from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). Requests…

GIBSON (CONT'D) are still on the windows. Just what that material is, I'm not sure. But the remaining pieces should be useful for contamination studies. CARR One other item is the ammonia odor in the head which we discovered about the last week in the mission. We weren't sure…

CARR (CONT'D) but we did find it very interesting to be able to see other objects up there with us. The fact that one or two of them appeared to be tumbling was apparently due to the oscillation of the light flashes that we were getting from them. POGUE The OWS Heat Exchangers…