Pleated skirt and matching cardigan in soft checkered jersey from Guillemin. The outfit is worn with a sweater held nicely by a gold mesh belt. Givenchy New Boutique Fall/Winter 1973-74. L'Officiel n°601-603 1973.

Jupe plissée et cardigan assorti en souple jersey quadrillé de Guillemin. L'ensemble se porte avec un pull maintenu joliment par une ceinture en mailles dorées. Givenchy Nouvelle Boutique Automne/Hiver 1973-74. L'Officiel n°601-603 1973.

2:A song you like with a number in the title

14:A song that you would love played at your wedding

22:A song that moves you forward

2: A song you like with a number in the title

Criminally underrated band and album.

14. A song you would love played at your wedding

To this day I am CONVINCED this is a queer song

22: A song that moves you forward

It just fucks severely what can I say

A World Gone Mad

Star Trek #20

Good fun.

"A giant plot is possible! But a whole world gone mad?"

This story does not have a promising start. The ruler being delivered by the ship to his home world, is an obnoxious teenager who orders the command crew about like servants. But, there's an engaging mystery on his planet when they arrive.

Assassins are everywhere! Spock suspects it's more than a conspiracy, which takes McCoy and Scotty back into space looking for a clue/cure. Kirk and Spock must protect the prince from a lynch mob, while the doctor and engineer ending up fighting each other.

To the script's credit, the youngster's character arc works. By the end, he's not a dick anymore. He's brave and smart. And the guys respect him.

Great to see McCoy and Scotty carrying so much of the story. It's one that, except for the spacewalk sequences, could easily have been filmed for the TV show.

On Sale Date: July 19, 1973.

Arnold Drake (4 of 21).

Alberto Giolitti (18 of 33).

8/10

September 1973 I Am Not 50 I Am 18 With 32 Years Of Experience T-Shirt

Get yours now: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/40043397-september-1973-i-am-not-50-i-am-18-with-32-years-o

Duane Bryers - "Hilda" - September/October 1974 Hilda Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - Happy Hilda Monday!

Cancelled Missions: Skylab Rescue Mission (SL-R)

Mission patch for rescue mission for SL-3

Spacecraft: CSM-119

Launch Vehicle: Saturn IB AS-208, later AS-209

Commander: Vance D. Brand

Command Module Pilot: Don L. Lind

Intended launch date: September 1973, (on standby from August 1973 - February 1974)

Skylab rescue mission crewmen Vance Brand (left) and Don Lind.

"Influenced by the stranded Skylab crew portrayed in the book and movie 'Marooned', NASA provided a crew rescue capability for the only time in its history." Prepared for launch during Skylab 3."

"Skylab rescue vehicle phasing - NAR Space Division drawing illustrates phasing of 5-seater Skylab rescue vehicle for a Skylab mission."

Date: April 5, 1971

"A kit was developed to fit out an Apollo command module with a total of five crew couches. In the event a Skylab crew developed trouble with its Apollo CSM return craft, a rescue CSM would be prepared and launched to rendezvous with the station. It would dock with the spare second side docking port of the Skylab docking module."

- information from Astronautix.com: link

"The Apollo Command Module as modified to rescue stranded crews for the Skylab program. Two crew + three rescuees packed like sardines...."

"Skylab 3 astronauts Alan Bean and Jack Lousma helped design the "field modification kit" to use a standard CSM for rescue, and would have flown the CSM for their mission to rescue Skylab 2 if necessary. The standard Skylab Command Module accommodated a crew of three with storage lockers on the aft bulkhead for resupply of experiment film and other equipment, as well as the return of exposed film, data tapes and experiment samples. To convert the standard CSM to a rescue vehicle, the storage lockers were removed and replaced with two crew couches to seat a total of five crewmen."

Posted on Flickr by Mike Acs. NASA ID: 108-KSC-70P-69

"Soon after Skylab 3's launch the crew's CSM developed a problem with Quad B, one of its four reaction control system thrusters. On August 2, 1973, six days later, a snowstorm-like effect outside the station startled the crew during breakfast. What appeared to be 'a real blizzard' was fuel leaking from Quad D, opposite from Quad B. The malfunctions left two available quads, and while the spacecraft could operate with just one, the leaks posed a possible risk to other systems. The fuel for all quads and the main service propulsion system (SPS) engine were from the same batch; if the SPS fuel was contaminated, the CSM might not be able to deorbit.

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NASA considered bringing the crew home immediately, but because the astronauts were safe on the station with ample supplies and because plans for a rescue flight existed,  the mission continued while the Saturn IB rocket AS-208 with CSM-119 was assembled in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Launch Complex 39 for possible use. It was at one point rolled out to LC-39B.

Illustration of the rescue Apollo spacecraft preparing to dock at Skylab’s lateral port. source

NASA announced on August 4 that Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 backup crewmen Vance Brand and Don Lind would fly any rescue mission; they had immediately begun training for the flight once the second quad had failed on August 2. After engineers found that the leaks would not disable the spacecraft, the two men used simulators to test reentry using two quads. If ground personnel worked 24 hours a day and skipped some tests, the mission could launch on September 10, and would last no more than five days. The astronauts would attempt to prepare Skylab for further use but returning experimental data and diagnosing the cause of the problem were more important, with Lind choosing what would be brought back. Human urine and feces samples and Apollo Telescope Mount and other film were the priorities. Although Skylab had two docking ports the primary one would be used if possible, jettisoning the Skylab crew's CSM if necessary.

Posted on Flickr by Drew Granston: link

While many within NASA believed that the rescue mission would occur, within hours of the failure of the second quad the agency canceled the rescue mission. Beyond NASA's conclusion that the failed quads would not disable the Skylab 3 CSM and the SPS fuel was uncontaminated, Brand and Lind had already shown during their training as backup Skylab crewmen that a reentry with failed quads was safe. They also devised a method to deorbit with the command module's attitude control system. Later joking that they were 'very efficient but perfectly stupid, because we have literally worked ourselves out of the mission', Brand and Lind continued to train for a rescue mission, as well as for their backup roles, but the Skylab 3 crew was able to complete its full 59-day mission on the station and safely return to Earth using the two functional RCS thruster quads,  using the SPS engine once instead of twice as precaution."

- Information from Wikipedia: link

Posted on Flickr by Ed Dempsey: link

Saturn IB SA-208 was used for Skylab 4 and SA-209 was assigned to the standby rescue mission. At one point, CSM-119/SA-209 was slated for the Skylab 5 mission but it was cancelled when SL-4 was extended and completed all of it objectives.

Mission patch for rescue mission for SL-4

Later, CSM-119/SA-209 was the backup launch vehicle for Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission and standby rescue vehicle. After the Apollo program ended, the surplus rocket and spacecraft were displayed at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

NASA ID: 71-H-662, S73-31922

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L'Officiel n°601-603 1973 (left) Miss Dior, set consisting of a Leonard wool skirt, a knitted cardigan, a printed blouse in Besson fabric. Large green scarf. Shoes and bag, Christian Dior. (right) Ungaro Parallèle, knitted jersey cardigan, contrasted with a skirt printed with light designs, all pleated. A silk tie blouse gracefully puffs out the neckline. Shoes, Ungaro.

L'Officiel n°601-603 1973 (gauche) Miss Dior, ensemble composé d'une jupe en lainage de Léonard, d'un cardigan tricot, d'une blouse imprimée en tissu Besson.Grande écharpe verte. Chaussures et sac, Christian Dior. (droite) Ungaro Parallèle, cardigan jersey maille, opposé à une jupe imprimée de dessins légers, toute plissée. Une blouse en soie à cravate, gonfle gracieusement l'encolure. Chaussures, Ungaro.

happy 50th anniversary of the first interview!

louis and claudia decided to kill lestat on september 3rd 1939. the first interview took place 34 years... and one day later, on september 4th, 1973. if we imagine the meeting at the bar was before midnight and the interview started after midnight, and that daniel is an "actually it's already the 4th" kind of person and used the precise date, perhaps the bar meeting was on the 3rd and louis was in fact reminiscing about doing a terrible thing on the 34th anniversary of the day he decided to do it? these scenes are almost back to back in the same episode after all.

Susan Bottomly

Ánimo y fuerzas para todos los chilenos que perdieron familiares en la dictadura

Para los que fallecieron, desaparecieron, los que fueron obligados a hacer el servicio militar y los que han sido lastimados por esa época

Ánimo para la familia de Víctor Jara, ánimo a todos los inocentes que no pudieron dar más de sí... Da igual tu postura política, si defiendes la dictadura o no, si defiendes el golpe de Estado o no, si defiendes que se haya terminado la Unidad Popular... Chilenos unidos, por todos los que sufren aquellas pérdidas

The Granite Sky

Marvel Team-Up #13

Average. 

Spider-Man and Captain America vs. Grey Gargoyle and AIM. 

Pages 1-4: A slow start, with Peter Parker down at the docks at night to do some brooding. He has good cause, with Gwen’s recent death and all. 

Pages 4-9: Action time! After patrolling for a short while, Spidey notices Captain America fighting guys in “funny yellow suits” and joins in. 

Pages 10-13: Now aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier, the guys get a mission assignment from Nick Fury. 

Pages 13-20: The Grey Gargoyle, glimpsed earlier in the issue, is revealed to be working with AIM! The heroes show up and, after a battle, ruin his plans. The end. 

I reread this having encountered GG in 1991′s She-Hulk #27, where he is basically a hired thug working alongside Killer Shrike and Dragon Man. How the mighty have fallen. In this 1973 story, he’s ordering AIM “underlings” around. 

On the whole, this is fine. The weakest part is the ending where both Cap and Spidey somehow break free of GG’s influence. 

Len Wein (3 of 17). 

Gil Kane (4 of 10). 

6/10

This edition of the Marshall Star from 1973, a newsletter of the George C. Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama, features an article titled “Anita, Job Done, Dies Aboard Skylab.” 

The article goes on to explain that Anita was the back-up spider in the Web Formation Experiment.  The primary spider, Arabella, was still alive at the time of the newsletter. Arabella’s current whereabouts are unknown.

Record Group 255: Records of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationSeries: Marshall StarFile Unit: Marshall Star Volume 14

Marshall Star Vol. 14, No. 2 . NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center -- Huntsville, Ala. 35812 . September, 1973 Final EVA Saturday Skylab 3 Crew Prepares For Next Week's 'Splash' Skylab's second manned crew, prvoding a bonanza of scientific data to investigators on Earth. has begun preparations for splashdown and recovery scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 25. As they head into the home stretch, Astronauts Alan Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma are operating ahead of experiment timelines. Flight directors estimate they will exceed 100 percent of their planned activity in all scientific disciplines. The crew is scheduled to conduct its third and final EVA Saturday. Exposed film cannisters will be removed from the Apollo Telescope Mount's instruments for stowage inside the Command and Service Module and return to Earth. For the EVA, the crew is to awaken at 2 a.m. Hatch opening is expected about four hours later. Monday the crew becan changing the rhythm of their sleep-work cycle by arising at 4 a.m. after goint to bed two hours early. This schedule was to be followed Tuesday. Today the crew planned to arise at 2 a.m. after beginning their sleep period at 6 p.m. last night. Purpose of the new sleep-work cycle is to prepare the astronauts for splashdown day when they will be required to arise early for a full day's activity. The crew was given the go- ahead last week for continuation to the end of the 59-day mission. This approval for a fourth incremental extension beyond 28 days followed review of the inflight medical data and the recommendation of the NASA director for life sciences, Dr. Charles A. Berry. The crew's health and spirits are excellent. The body weight of each has been relatively constant (See SKYLAB on Page 4) SOLAR ERUPTION -- A mammoth solar eruption is seen in this photo taken by the White Light Coronagraph about Sklyab. The eruption expanded into space at a speed of about one million miles per hour. When photographed it was approximately 220 times the diameter of Earth. Solar eruptions are a result of the interaction between solar material and magnetic fields around the Sun. Combined Federal Campaign 'Kickoff' Scheduled Monday MSFC's 1974 Combined Federal Campaign gets underway Monday with a "kickoff" in Morris Auditorium. The annual campaign combines the monetary needs of many health, welfare and recreational agencies into one drive. Rober G. Sheppard, executive chairman, stated the drive officially begins with the 10:45 a.m. kickoff and will end November 2. He explained that the 1974 goal is to do as well as in 1973 when MSFC employees contributed $194,712. Monday's kickoff ceremonies will feature and address by Dr. Rocco A. Petrone, director. He will be joined by several distinguished guests, including Mrs. Ruth Ferrari, International Services Agencies; Tom Horton, Jr., National Health Agencies; and Mrs. Jerri McLain, Huntsville/ Madison County United Way. MSFC lab and office directors, campaign mangers and solicitors are expected to attend the opening ceremonies. Music will be provided by the 55th U.S. Army Band. The Rev. Hugh Chambliss, presi- (See 'KICKOFF' on Page 4) 

Anita, Job Done, Dies Aboard Skylab One of Skylab's two "spider astronauts" --who never were intended to be brought back to Earth--has now finished her job in space and is dead. Anita, the backup spider for the Web Formation Experiment, ED52, apparently died sometime over the weekend. The report of Anita's death came from science pilot Owen Garriott early Monday. Although NASA had no plans to bring back the spiders, it was announced several weeks ago that they would be returned if they could be kept alive. Arabella, the prime spider for the experiment, is still doing fine. Garriott explained from the (See ANITA on Page 4)

Polaroid Sunglasses From the 1973/1974 Argos Catalog (via: archive.org)