Skylab gyro troublesome
f.VZ. P..4.-Reuter—Copyright/ CAPE CANAVERAL, January 4.
The faulty gyroscope aboard the Skylab space station is giving increasing trouble, and the flightcontrollers are wondering if the 85-day mission, due to end on February 8, will have to be curtailed. "There’s definitely something wrong,” the flightdirector, Mr Neil Hutchinson, said last night. One of Skylab’s three stabilising gyroscopes failed earlier in the mission, and the second has been “in distress” for several weeks. “If it fails, the mission could last only 26 days more under the best conditions, and without using any precious fuel for manoeuvres,” Mr Hutchinson said.
“Telescope studies of the Sun and of the Comet Kohoutek, could not be continued unless the mission 'were curtailed.”
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33425, 5 January 1974, Page 6
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