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May 19, 1971 - Skylab Workshop Production: Conversion of a Saturn S-IVB rocket stage in to an orbital Workshop for occupation by three astronauts for up to 56 daus is moving ahead at McDonnel Douglas Astronautics Company, Huntington Beach, California, in a super-clean environment. Enginners and technicians working inside the cylindrical Workshop (left) enter through a porbale Clean room (foreground) attatched to one end of the Wrokshop. The 20-feet high facility built of transparent polyvinyl chloride sheeting over a metal frame, contains filtered, duet-free air which is pumped into far end of the Workshop and spills out into the Clean room'. All workmen don sanitized protective clothing in the lower level of the Clean room'. Initial major installations have been completed Workshop. It next willbe placed in a vertical positioni for addtion of thrust structure and shirts and of floor-to-ceiling partitions in the living and working area. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is planning to launch Skylab in 1973. McDonnel Douglas is developing the Workshop and Skylab Airlock module for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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