Skylab launch

[Jim Eshelman]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab
Launched May 14, 1973, 17:30 UT, Cape Canaveral, FL (Charts all calculated for Washington)

Re-entered atmosphere: July 11, 1979, 16:37 UT, near Perth, Australia

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.)
Year: Cansolar (Dormant.)

Bridge (None.)

Quarter: Arisolar {+2}
(It would be +3 but for the Moon-Saturn square)
Jupiter sq. Asc 0°19' [sq. non-angular Saturn 1°22' in mundo]
Venus on EP 0°38'
Sun sq. MC 1°28'
Pluto on Dsc 2°44'
Uranus more widely foreground
-- Sun-Uranus op. 1°08' in mundo
-- Sun-Venus conj. 1°12'
-- Venus-Uranus op. 2°41' in mundo
-- Venus-Pluto op. 3°21' in mundo
Moon-Saturn sq. 1°05'

Month: Caplunar {-2}
Saturn on MC 0°44'
Pluto widely foreground
-- Mars-Saturn sq. 0°19' PVP

Week: Liblunar {+1}
Moon sq. Asc 0°08'
Pluto on IC 1°08'
Moon-Uranus sq. 1°22' in mundo

Day: Capsolar Quotidian {+1}
p Asc sq. t Mercury 0°14'

[Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits (Dormant.)

Day: Arisolar Quotidian {-1}
p MC sq. t Sun 1°27'
p Asc conj. s Saturn 1°10'

Day: Libsolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
p Asc op. t Jupiter 0°34', sq. s Mercury 0°01'
-- t Jupiter sq. s Mercury 0°33'
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t Pluto conj. s MC 1°11'

[Jim Eshelman]

These charts are consistent with my view that, after the Moon landing, space flights just didn't have the mass-mind "grab" as before. There isn't the sense of enormous celebration, public fixation, technical breakthrough, or general engagement.

Launching Skylab was a big deal. The charts are fine enough - some great ones, some that show they likely would have far worse problems than they had, but overall pretty good especially for a minor event - hence the engagement of the minor Libsolar most of all for daily outcome.

Skylab had definite problems later; but these charts are meant to describe the event of its launch, not its eventual future.