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(Bucago (Tribune ft Monday, May 14, 1973 The space station for missi Orbital Workshop (OWS) Airlock Module (AM) Command and Service Module (CSM) Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) Multiple Docking Adapter (MDA) The ATM will be the first use of manned scientific telescopes in space. This solar observatory will observe, monitor, and record the behavior and structure of the sun. Altho compact in size at launch, the ATM will deploy its solar wings in orbit (shown below), and absorb the sun's energy for recharging its batteries. The ATM weighs 22,200 lbs. The MDA provides two docking ports for the CSM and is the link between the CSM and the AM.

The pressurized MDA contains the ATM control and display console, and provides a crew working area for Earth Re: sources Experiments (EREP). The MDA weighs 12,000 lbs. and has a work volume area of 1,140 cu. ft. The AM provides a pressurized passageway between the MDA and the OWS.

It contains an airlock for outdoor operations, carries the ATM deployment truss, and is the control center for cluster atmosphere and thermal control. The AM has a work volume area of 61 3 cu. ft. and weighs 49,000 lbs. The OWS houses most of the cluster experiments, provides two solar wings for power generation (shown below), and has complete crew quarters and accommodations for sleeping, eating, and housekeeping, during all mission operations.

The OWS weighs 62,500 lbs. and has a work volume area of 10,644 cu. ft. The CSM provides taxi service to and from the Saturn Workshop (SWS). Altho similar to that used for Apollo, the CSM has been modified to accommodate the long-duration Skylab Mission.

The CSM weighs 31 ,000 lbs. and has a work volume area of 366 cu. ft. Illustration by Tom Carollo-Tribune Artist Mlr.T-- A Diverse personalities fit together in Skylab IT be difficult to find three more different personalities than the astronauts who will live together for 28 days on Skylab I. PETE CONRAD, commander, is a balding, bouncy, feisty test pilot and race car driver.

He's an Ivy Leaguer who likes country music. JOSEPH P. KERWIN, the first physician in space, went to Northwestern University Medical School and planned to be a pediatrician before he became a Navy pilot. He is widely read, scholarly, and his taste in music is strictly classical. PAUL J.

WEITZ. Is the quiet, laconic "nest door neighbor" of the astronaut corps. He shuns parties, works around the house, and musically prefers "oldies" such as the Ink Spots. I in nil I 1 I v' l-: I 1 The Mission Skylab I is scheduled for launch at 12:30 p. m.

Chicago time today from Cape Kennedy, with another ship carrying the astronauts being launched tomorrow at noon. Linkup is scheduled for 7:40 p. m. tomorrow. Charles Conrad, Paul Weitz, and Joseph Kerwin will spend 28 days aboard the space station.

Skylab II and Skylab III flights are set for August and November. Purpose of the mission is to determine if man can live and work in space for long periods. i 2ft lull 111 li PAUL J. WEITZ, 40, is a Navy com-mander who wears his blond hair sticking out in front and has been waiting for seven years for a space flight. Born in Erie, he is a quiet man among the lively astronaut corps.

Friends say he shuns most of the parties even when he's not training for a "I doubt that many people in the astronaut corps know them except professionally," a friend said. "They're not the type to run around and do a lot of things. They always have a lot of home activities painting the house, putting up a fence themselves." WEITZ' WIFE, Suzanne, Is described as a "very down to earth person, a very unassuming person who genuinely cares about people." They dated in high school. They and their children Mathew, 14, and Cynthia, 11 are avid workers at the House of Prayer Lutheran Church in Clear Lake City, adjacent to the Johnson Space Center. Weitz flew 120 missions on a bomber tanker over Southeast Asia in 1965.

He earned five air medals and a special Navy Commendation for a tricky bit of flying which he says "really wasn't anything extraordinary." Weitz is the son of a career Navy man. His late father was a chief petty officer. Even as a boy, the astronaut 3 1 .4 I. Charles Pete Conrad Jr. CHARLES PETE CONRAD Is an Ivy Leaguer who has made a pinpoint landing on the moon, driven race cars under an assumed name to avoid space agency regulations, and likes country music.

Conrad, 42, is a Navy captain and former test pilot. Associates say he's the best seat-of-the-pants flyer in the astronaut corps. He's commander of the first Skylab space station mission. THE FAME and frillls or spaceflight mean little to Conrad. The important fact is that he's flying the most daring mission available, and he says flying is his life when he's not racing cars or boats.

Conrad, runs counter to the popular imago of American astronauts as sober, conservative men. Feisty, with a penchant for high-living, Conrad comes closest to being the playboy of the group. He doesn't look like the typical astronaut. He has a hawk nose, is almost bald, and has a wide space between his front twill. He has a bouncy personality and makes friends with ease, AS A COMMANDER, Conrad is strictly nonmilitary Conrad was born into a Mainline Philadelphia family and attended a private school for boys.

Ho was more interested in airplanes than books and soon developed a reputation as a dunce. After ho failed four out of five subjects, his family transferred him to a boarding school. For the first time, says Conrad, he studied and began making the honor roll. For college, ho chose Princeton, the only school in the East then offering aeronautical engineering. Joseph Kerwin As a Marine flight surgeon trainee, he got the bug for flying.

IN 1965, THE space agency selected him as the nation's first physician-spaceman. Without a doubt, Kerwin is the most widely read of the astronauts. He is taking Chesterton's "A Short History of the United States" and a book of verse with him on Skylab. He's also taking all seven of Edward Fitzgerald's translations of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam tc figure out how they differ. Kcrwin's taste in music is strictly classical.

Kerwin probably will miss cherry pie and lasagna most during his 28-day space trip aboard Skylab, his wife says. The former Shirley Ann Good of Danville, is a fetching woman who is working for her master's degree in nursing at Texas Woman's University. Kerwin met her when she was working as a nurse in Chicago. "I like to see people used to their full potential," she said. "Too bad the people lost him as a pediatrician, but they have gained so much more." The astronaut said his children aren't particularly impressed that their father is about to spend almost a month in space.

His pipe represents one of the big adjustments he has to make for spaceflight. The pipe has to be left on earth and Kerwin admits he'll miss it JOSEPH P. KERWIN is a dedicated space physician who worries about everything from man's endurance in weightlessness to astronauts dandruff while floating in space. Eight years ago, Kerwin suggested that a physician-astronaut should be put on "a long-duration earth-orbital medical-biological mission where he would do the most good." That's exactly where Dr. Kerwin is going to be.

KERWIN, 41, was born in Oak Park. A lanky, pipe-smoker, he says "chance" pushed him into philosophy, then medicine, and then aviation. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward N.

Kerwin, live in Chicago. The elder Kerwin is the retired senior vice president of E. J. Brach and Sons, the candy makers. Dr.

Kerwin was the seventh of eight children. Ho graduated from Fenwick High School, Oak Park, in 1949 and went to Holy Cross to study Latin and philosophy. AFTER GRADUATING from Holy Cross, he entered Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. He decided to become a baby doctor after observing doctors at the Children's Memorial Hospital. Later he changed his mind and canceled his residency.

"In the return mail I had a letter from Uncle Sam," said Kerwin. had plans to go to sea and one day to fly. He was graduated from Penn State in 1954 with a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering and a Navy commission. Weitz Is a quiet, unemotional man who has been known to sit thru a news conference with his Skylab 1 crewmates without making a single contribution. "Not that I know of," is his reply when asked about any close calls as pilot or in the Vict Nam War.

"Nothing in particular," Welti says when asked what he is particularly interested In about Skylab. Weitz idea of a great meal "is Italian food and beer, lots of beer." The force driving him into space, he says, "Is just personal pride in being here. It's one of the few frontiers left, It takes a little more and everybody can't go. I think it requires something." Then he adds: "Hell, man's never stopped exploring. Not going into space would be like 'Daniel Boone not crossing the mountains." WEITZ IS AN avid hunter and a member of the National Rifle Association.

He also enjoys altho be prefers the Pennsylvania trout streams of his boyhood to the saltwater fishing near his home. AT PRINCETON, he met Jane Du- bose, a striking brunette from Uvalde, who was going to Bryn Mawr. She's two inches taller than Conrad and the daughter of a wealthy family that rules over more than 3,000 acres of Texas ranch land. During graduation week in 1953, Conrad received his degree, married Jane and was commissioned in the Navy. Conrad was selected as an astronaut in 1962 and flew on Gemini 5 and Gemini 11.

In 1969, he was the commander of Apollo 12. His wife says his space flying hasn't hurt his relationship with his sons Peter, 18, Thomas, IS, Andrew, 14, and Christopher, 12. "Pete has been home often enough in the last year. Any spare time he has, he 6pcnds it with the boys," said Jane. Taul Weitz.