Skylab IV Splashed Down on This Day: Five Things the Most Complaining Space Crew Ever Bitched About
Skylab IV splashed down on this day in 1974, ending the last mission to America's first space station.![]()
Skylab IV: Not happy campers
They were glad to get home.
The crew of Skylab IV -- William Pogue, Gerald Carr and Edward Gibson -- became famous for the sheer amount of complaining they did.
Arguments with NASA over the amount of work they were assigned became so bad that the crew staged a one-day strike.
Among the things they complained about during the 84-day mission:
5. Fashion
In Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, author Nicholas de Monchaux quotes a Skylab IV crew member on what they were forced to wear.
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"I just get tired of this damn brown!" Skylab IV scientist Edward Gibson lamented...about his own clothing, supplied only in a yellowish-brown fireproof polyester. Skylab IV mission pilot William Pogue judged that using them was "sort of like drying off with padded steel wool."























