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SKYLAB EARTH RESOURCES EXPERIMENT PACKAGE SITE BOOK
JACK LOUSMA'S COPY
Skylab EREP Site Book. [Washington D.C.: NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, 1978].

20 July 2016, 13:00 EDT
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SKYLAB EARTH RESOURCES EXPERIMENT PACKAGE SITE BOOK

JACK LOUSMA'S COPY
Skylab EREP Site Book. [Washington D.C.: NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, 1978].
8 x 10" manual, approx 155 maps (including color minimum zoom photomaps on kodak paper, Skylab Science Site area maps, and minimum zoom maps). Punched at spine and bound into cream cardstock covers with two rings. Paper label to front cover reads SKYLAB EREP SITE BOOK. J. Lousma. "Lousma in blue pencil and "SL-2 Change Sheet" in black pen on first page, " This list an update of the Feb. 8 list. Ron W. Volume 2 Index" in blue ink to second page. WITH: Lousma's large folding color map S-191 SITE MAP - UNITED STATES, St. Louis, MO, Defense Mapping Agency Aerospace Center, 22 January, 1973. Pen notations in margin of map read: "S-191 Site Assignments. Crewman #2 SL-3 Lousma." AND: 2 page manuscript list of landing sites from the map, presumably in Lousma's hand.

The Earth Resources Experiment Package (EREP) tested the use of sensors that operated in the infrared, microwave, and visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum to monitor and study the earth's resources. Jack Lousma (b. 1936) was the backup Docking Module Pilot of the United States Flight Crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), was the pilot for Skylab 3 (he spent 11 hours on two spacewalks outside the Skylab space station, and was a member of the astronaut support crews for Apollo 9, 10, and 13, and was the CAPCOM recipient of the famous Apollo 13 message "Houston, we've had a problem."

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