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Skylab astronauts also face a multitude of housekeeping chores. Garbage has to be carefully stowed In bags or it would float away. When full, the bags are stuffed into a large trash tank which has an airlock. To gather any splattered food or moisture floating around the inside of the spacecraft, the astronauts have a portable vacuum cieaner. But there's one bright spot for the outer space house-keepers.

There'll be no wash day blues. Skylab fashions consist of shirts, slacks and jackets made of a gold-colored, fireproof fabric. The astronauts change trousers once a week and socks, shirts and underwear every two days. For the 28-day Skylab 1 mission, there are individually tailored wardrobes for each crewman and enough changes for the entire skin or the inside of the enclosure," said Weitz. "When you're done, you holler to your buddy and he turns on the vacuum cleaner." Weitz said the astronaut taking the shower then uses the hose to vacuum away water from himself and the shower stall.

It sounds simple, but the trick is that each astronaut gets only three quarts of water per shower and only one shower per week. A shower on earth uses three quarts in about 30 seconds. Somehow, the Skylab spacemen must soap up and rinse off before the water runs out. Sleeping may also take a bit of getting used to. In a place where there's no weight, there's also no up or down.

An astronaut can't actually lie "down" without possibly drifting away. As a result, the spacemen sleep in bag-like restraints which are attached to the side walls of their bedrooms. To a person standing on the floor, the slumbering spaceman appears to be sleeping on his feet. Eating on Skylab should be an adventure, promoting not only good nutrition, but also fast reflexes. The Skylab menu includes such things as steak, soup, lobster and other gourmet-type foods.

The adventure part of the menu comes in getting the food from plate to mouth in weightlessness. For instance, if an astronaut wants to tura a bolt with a wrench, he has to be anchored. Otherwise, instead of the bolt turning when the spaceman applies muscle, the astronaut himself will be twisted. A slight motion can cause an astronaut to drift away from whatever work he's trying to do. And tools can't be just placed on a work bench.

They have to be secured somehow or they will drift away. To overcome these problems, Skylab is lined with foot and hand restraints and with patches of a fabric adhesive called Velcro. Floors have a triangular grid and the spacemen can wear shoes with three-sided cleats. To remain in one place, the astronaut locks the cleats into the floor. Weightlessness affects even basic bodily functions.

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lhe 118-foot-long spacecraft was designed for living in space and living fairly comfortably. In previous spacecraft, the essential idea was to survive. Skylab astronauts have private bedrooms, a shower, a dining room, an exercise area, a library of books and music, gourmet-type food, an occasional day off and even a dart board. "Skylab doesn't quite have the service and accommodations of a luxury hotel," said one space engineer, "but the view is much better." The station is scheduled to be launched from Cape Kennedy Monday. Astronauts Charles Conrad Joseph P.

Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz will join it the next day. Skylab has the roominess of a three-bedroom, house. But in space, Skylab should seem even larger, according to Conrad, commander of the first mission aboard the orbiting laboratory. "The volume of a spacecraft seems to expand once you get into zero gravity," he said.

Zero or weightlessness, affects almost every activity of astronauts living in Skylab. Instead of walking on the floor of their spacecraft, the astronauts expect to float or swim along the ceilings and walls, flitting from one place to another with the flex of a finger. This may sound like fun, but zero gravity can be troublesome and can make even the simplest of tasks difficult. operate with a slight air vacuum which provides the flushing action. To shower, an astronaut steps into a collapsed cylinder and raises it to form an enclosure.

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The Kerwins live In comfortable brick home Nassau Bay, a community of astronauts and space engi neers near the Johnson Space center. nil mmmmmm Kerwin said his children have grown up around the space business and aren't greatly "impressed with his Skylab 1 adventure. Regular "The big thing they know about Skylab 1 is that I ain't going to be around the house for two months," said the astronaut. The spacemen are in 1 97 Immmm easJ (AP) Astronaut Joseph P. tt Kerwin believes the explora-tion era is over and it's time fc now to turn space into an-other place for man to live and work.

"The time for pioneering in space, the Lewis and Clark- J. type of thing, is pretty well over," says Kerwin, a 41-year-old Chicagoan who becomes the first physician in space on Skylab l. "It's time now for home-steading. It's time to make spaceflight an accepted part of life." That, said the astronaut, will be one of his main jobs on. Skylab 1 to prove that space can be a home for man, a place where he caff live for long periods of time and do useful work.

"Our purpose is to make, space safe for human beings," said Kerwin, "to find out what goes on and if any of it is potentially harmful." Kerwin and his crewmates, Charles Conrad Jr. and Paul J. Weitz, will spend 28 days in Skylab, the nation's first space station, and will be experimental subjects in medi I sq. yd. Shag carpeting in 9 cozy colors spreads a warm welcome over your floors.

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Kerwin said his wife "would just as soon have it over with." "She wishes me well and thinks it's great," said the doctor. "But it's going to be rough on her. Rougher on her than it is on me in many ways. It will be nice to be back." Kerwin is a lanky six-footer. He is thin and pale to the point that a reporter once asked if he was, in fact, healthy.

The astronaut has dark-brown hair, blue eyes and thin, graceful hands which are usually holding a pipe. The pipe, he notes, represents one of his big adjustments for the long-term spaceflight. It has to be left on earth. Kerwin has interest in a wide-range of literature. He reads voraciously, scanning anything from the popular science fiction to the more obscure classics.

For leisure reading on Skylab, he's taking along a book of poetry and a short history of the United States. Kerwin is a commander in the Navy and will automatically be promoted to captain after his first spaceflight. He doesn't expect any more advancement in rank after that. "Very few medical men ever become admirals in the Navy," he explained. After Skylab, Kerwin wants to continue his study of long space flights, such as those which one day will take man to other planets.

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"In the return mail I had a letter from Uncle Sam," he said. Assigned to the Navy, Kerwin was offered a training program in aviation medicine at Pensacola Naval Air Station. He accepted, he said, to be near his younger brother who was then in flight training. As a flight surgeon trainee, Kerwin was required to fly 25 hours and recalls now, "that's when I got the bug for flying." The physician turned Navy doctor then turned into a jet pilot, earning his Navy wings in 1962. Three years later, Kerwin was chosen as an astronaut, becoming the nation's first, physician-spaceman.

Kerwin is married to the former Shirley Ann Good of Danville, Pa. They met while he was a medical student at Northwestern and she was the head nurse at the hospital there. They married in 1960 and have three daughters, i complex medical equipment in the house-sized orbiting laboratory, evaluate the physical condition of his crew-mates and at the same time act as one of the experimental subjects. Kerwin is the seventh of eight children of a Chicago businessman and his wife, Mr. and Mrs.

Edward M. Kerwin. The astronaut's father is a retired senior vice president of E. J. Brach Sons, the candy company.

Unlike many of the other astronauts, Kerwin had no boyhood fascination with i A ft? tV 3.V vs tr 1 if 1 flying or space. Nor, says his mother, did he express interest in a medical career. "He started to college with really no idea of what he wanted to become," said the astronaut's mother. "He was in college for a while before he tried medicine." Kerwin said a dean at his college, Holy Cross in Worcester, tailored for him a study program that included Latin, philosophy and science. After graduating from Holy Cross in 1953, Kerwin entered Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago and decided in his last year to become a baby doctor.

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