This was the first time that a repair of this magnitude was performed in space. The first crew deployed a replacement heat shade and freed the jammed solar panels to save Skylab. This deprived Skylab of most of its electrical power and also removed protection from intense solar heating, threatening to make it unusable. The station was damaged during launch when the micrometeoroid shield tore away from the workshop, taking one of the main solar panel arrays with it and jamming the other main array. For the final two crewed missions to Skylab, NASA assembled a backup Apollo CSM/Saturn IB in case an in-orbit rescue mission was needed, but this vehicle was never flown. Three subsequent missions delivered three-astronaut crews in the Apollo CSM launched by the smaller Saturn IB rocket.
This was the final flight for the rocket more commonly known for carrying the crewed Apollo Moon landing missions. It was launched uncrewed into low Earth orbit by a Saturn V rocket modified to be similar to the Saturn INT-21, with the S-IVB third stage not available for propulsion because the orbital workshop was built out of it.
Skylab had a mass of 199,750 pounds (90,610 kg) with a 31,000-pound (14,000 kg) Apollo command and service module (CSM) attached and included a workshop, a solar observatory, and several hundred life science and physical science experiments. A permanent station was planned starting in 1988, but funding for this was canceled and replaced with United States participation in an International Space Station in 1993.
This debunks any chances of a Fallout 4 announcement this year unless something happens at VGX 2014.
On a related note Bethesda have announced that there will no Fallout 4 related news at next week’s GamesCom. The results as you can see are amazing but then again this does not represent a practical in-game scenario as a character art can be buffed up with millions of polygons which may or may not be possible on current gaming consoles and PCs. The textures were developed in Mudbox and Photoshop and it was finally rendered in Mental Ray. It’s almost a given that Bethesda won’t announced Fallout 4 anytime soon but that won’t stop fans to to use their creativity and imagination to bring out their incarnation of the much anticipated game. Bruno Camara who is an artist has shared some concept arts showcasing how the game could possibly look when it’s releases.īruno modeled the concept in ZBrush, retopology and UV’s in Max.
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