Dancing in space
<.V.Z. Press Assn.—copyright > ; HOUSTON, Feb. 7. A happy and relaxed Skylab 3 crew today completed packing for their voyage home, and <pent a few minutes behaving like schoolboys in the unique world of weightlessness they will leave behind. A treasure chest of scien-. tific data collected duringman's longest space flight! was packed securely into theApollo spacecraft that is due to ferry them to a Pacific. Ocean splashdown at 9.17 a.m. (New Zealand time) on ' Saturday. Lieutenant-Colonels Gerald Carr and William Pogue and Dr Edward Gibson bounced from one wall to another of the Skylab workshop, turning somersaults and back-flips in a dance of ■ celebration. Then the three astronauts brought one of the final television shows of their 84-day . flight to a close by leaping from a different part of the workshop into each other’s I arms, and spinning around. : The trio retired to bed two . hours early, having stuffed' Apollo with 75,000 pictures 1 of the Sun and the comet, p Kohoutek, 19,240 pictures of| the Earth, and 100,000 feet; of magnetic recording tape. I
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33454, 8 February 1974, Page 10
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