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Original – A close up view of astronaut Jack R. Lousma, Skylab 3 pilot taking a hot bath in the crew quarters of the Orbital Workshop (OWS) of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth Orbit. Astronaut Lousma, Alan Bean and Owen K. Garriott remained within the Skylab space station in orbit for 59 days conducting numerous medical, scientific and technological expierments. In deploying the shower facility the shower curtain is pulled up from the floor and attached to the ceiling. The water comes through a push-button shower head attached to a flexible hose. Water is drawn off by a vacuum system.
Reason
I was actually surprised to find this image here on site, as I didn't think that this sort of thing existed, but here we have a functional shower facility in use aboard an actual human space station, in this case the (now defunct) Skylab station. While showering is in and of itself not something I would typically nominate here at FPC the fact that this one takes place in space and demonstrates (depending on your view) either an engineering triumph that allows us to shower in space or the limitations of our current technology to engineer an acceptable solution to hygiene when deprived our natural habitat suggests to me a high degree of encyclopedic value, and that in turn suggests that from our standpoint of an encyclopedia this is an image that deserves a featured star for its ability to convey a point of interest about our space programs that is not easily conveyed in words.
Articles in which this image appears
Bathing, Hygiene, Skylab 3
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator
NASA

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 02:33, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]