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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, January 19, 1972
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Conrad, Bean to command two Skylab missions next year
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SPACE CENTER, Houston (A>)
—Crews for the Skylab program,
an orbiting science workshop
which will be visited by three
groups of astronauts next year
for missions of up to 56 days,
were named Tuesday by the space
agency.
Commanders of the crews will
be two men who have walked on
the moon and a space rookie.
Charles Conrad Jr., a three
time space veteran who command
ed the Apollo 12 moon mission,
will command the first crew,
which will live in the orbiting
skylab for up to 28 days. His
crewmates will be Dr. Joseph P.
Conference on
earth material
held in February
A national conference on rapid
penetration of terrestrial materi
als will be conducted at A&M
Feb. 1-3.
Conference topics include use
of various types of projectiles
for high-speed penetration of soil,
rock, water, ice or frozen soil
material. Such projectiles may be
launched by a variety of means,
including aircraft.
The meeting is jointly sponsor
ed by Sandia Laboratories, the
Soil and Mechanics & Foundation
Division of the American Society
of Civil Engineers and TAMU’s
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station.
Technical papers will be pre
sented by representatives from
industry and the military, as well
as by research and educational
institutions, noted John L. Colp,
conference coordinator. Colp is on
leave of absence from Sandia
while studying for a Ph.D. degree
at TAMU.
Rapid penetration of terrestrial
materials is a field pioneered by
Sandia, an Albuquerque-based
Western Electric subsidiary op
erating under a non-profit con
tract with the Atomic Energy
Commission. TAMU has been
working with Sandia several
years and established a special
terramechanics laboratory here
with the group’s assistance.
Techniques involving rapid pen
etration have application in min-
' pile-driv-
inique
also may be important in earth
quake and ocean-bottom studies
and disposal of radioactive ma
terials. He said the technique
might also be used to penetrate
the surface of other planets to
learn what lies beneath.
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Kerwin, a physician-astronaut,
and Paul J. Weitz, a pilot astro
naut.
Commander of the second mis
sion is Alan L. Bean, who walked
on the moon with Conrad during
Apollo 12. With Bean on the crew
are Dr. Owen K. Garriott, a sci
entist-astronaut, and Jack R.
Lousma, a pilot astronaut.
The third mission will be com
manded by Gerald P. Carr. His
crewmates will be Dr. Edward
G. Gibson, a scientist-astronaut,
and William R. Pogue, a pilot-
astronaut.
The second and third crews will
spend up to 56 days orbiting the
earth in Skylab.
Skylab is a space laboratory
designed to study the earth and
the sun with remote sensing de
vices and telescopes. The space
craft will test the use of remote
sensors to gather information on
the earth’s environment, land and
water use, agriculture, foresters
and geology. The telescope system
will take films of the sun for
later study on the earth.
The mission is scheduled to
start April 30, 1973, with the
launch of the unmanned Skylab
vehicle. The first first crew will
be launched the next day. The
astronauts will ride into space
aboard an Apollo command craft
and then dock and board the
orbiting laboratory for a 28-day
stay.
At the end of their stay, the
crew will return to earth aboard
the Apollo spacecraft.
The second crew will be launch
ed July 30 for a 56-day visit. The
final mission will begin Oct. 28.
Conrad, 41, a navy captain, has
spent a total of 506 hours in
space. These came on the earth
orbit flights of Gemini 5, in 1962,
on Gemini 11, in 1966, and on
Apollo 12, the second manned
moon landing in 1969.
Kerwin, 39, as a member of
Conrad’s crew, will become the
first doctor in space. The Navy
commander holds a doctor of med
icine degree from Northwestern
University.
Weitz, 39, the third member of
the first crew, is a Navy com
mander who has never flown into
space.
Bean, 39, commander of the
second Skylab mission, is a Navy
captain. His first space mission
was as lunar module pilot on
Apollo 12.
Neither of Bean’s crewmates—
Garriott, 41, and Lousma, 35—
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