In May 1973, Charles Conrad Jr., Paul Weitz and Joseph Kerwin launched to America's first space station, Skylab. Upon arrival the crew installed the parasol sunshade - seen here being stitched together by two seamstresses - and released the solar array wing. Without the sunshade, the temperature inside Skylab's orbital workshop became dangerously high, rendering the workshop uninhabitable NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center engineers and scientists worked to develop an emergency repair procedure. An optimised version of an original NASA image. Credit: NASA

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