Skylab Technical Crew Debriefing 1973

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BEAN
You bet.
We never saw it again.
You'd think we would have
seen it the next night or it would cycle by another time.
Maybe it did and we weren't looking out the window.
LOUSMA
You might point out that it never did take the shape of an
object but it was always brighter than any other star or
planet in the night sky.
It was much brighter.
BEAN
We tried monitors and everything
make it into anything other than
on it but we could never
a bright light.
LOUSMA
In doing T002, I had on other occasions, at least once
twice, seen other satellites although they appeared as
points of light.
or
star
BEAN
Let's talk about caution/warnings at night and in the daytime.
I noticed at first when we did have caution/warnings in the
daytime we all whistled up there real quick to see what was
happening.
Then as the mission wore on, we tended to just let
whoever was closest take a look.
Without the TACS on, there
isn't a lot that can go on exc~pt rapid DELTA-P which sounds
different than any of the other caution/warnings, particularly
just a caution.
I recommend to Jerry and his crew, and I'm
sure that this recommendation will be hard to live by, that
caution/warnings don't appear to be anything you have to hurry
and resolve or stop doing your tasks to race up to the panel
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