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Astronaut Alan Bean flies the Astronaut Maneuvering Equipment
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SL3-108-1304 (July-September 1973) --- Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Skylab 3 commander, flies the M509 Astronaut Maneuvering Equipment in the forward dome area of the Orbital Workshop (OWS) on the space station cluster in Earth orbit. Bean is strapped in to the back-mounted, hand-controlled Automatically Stabilized Maneuvering Unit (ASMU). This ASMU experiment is being done in shirt sleeves. The dome area where the experiment is conducted is about 22 feet in diameter and 19 feet from top to bottom.
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Credit lineAstronaut Alan Bean flies the Astronaut Maneuvering Equipment. NASA/JSC, 1973-08-18. Public domain. ID: sl3-108-1304.
