Movie_01_(DOY212 TV-6 SMMD Activation SD_WM)
Skylab TV Vol.2 : "Howdy, Space Fans!"
•
8m 48s
DOY-212 SMMD Activation. The SMMD was a specialized instrument designed to measure the mass of small objects, such as food containers and biological samples, in a weightless environment.
Up Next in Skylab TV Vol.2 : "Howdy, Space Fans!"
-
Movie_02_(DOY212 TV-53 Wilberforce Pe...
DOY-213 Fish Two mummichog (killifish), aboard to study how aquatic life adapts to microgravity, where they initially swam in loops but quickly learned to orient themselves using light, demonstrating adaptation to weightlessness.
-
Movie_03_(DOY213-TV3-Eating_WM)
DOY-213 Eating on Skylab involved a full galley with a table, food trays, heaters for cans, and a water gun for rehydrating meals, offering a much richer menu (including frozen items like ice cream) than the previous Apollo missions.
-
Movie_04_(DOY214-TV-X-MO-92-LBNP [SD])
DOY-214 Lower Body Negative Pressure LBNP (Lower Body Negative Pressure) on Skylab was a crucial in-flight experiment (M092) to understand and counter spaceflight's cardiovascular deconditioning, simulating gravity's
return by pulling fluids to the lower body.
![Movie_04_(DOY214-TV-X-MO-92-LBNP [SD])](https://vhx.imgix.net/skylabspace/assets/38964078-269f-4882-89d5-6d95cd53b9c2.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=crop&h=360&w=640)