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See merge discussion at Stand-alone or section about possibly merging Skylab mutiny to this article. Regards -Fnlayson ( talk) 20:21, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
The first mention of a communications break I have found in extensive research comes in 1980 when Balbacky wrote the Harvard Business School piece "A Strike in Space". Even Cooper '76, the first use of "strike," doesn't mention that the radio was off. No such event took place. The sources presently are contradictory - saying that there was a period of 90 minutes without communications (there was no such period), and that there was a single pass over a single ground station (which takes about 10 minutes) during which there were no communications. We have, in retrospect, gone back over the transcripts and found at least one time when there was a missed pass over a ground station, but this was not cause for concern. Gibson's comments about a communications break come in response to an inquiry about the thoroughly-debunked myth of a mutiny, and are an attempt at a plausible explanation. This week's BBC article quotes an obvious error by Gibson: "'The word 'strike' went at lightspeed throughout the control room and out into the news media, who feasted on that,' Ed says.", except "strike" does not appear in any newspaper, magazine, or journal articles about the mission until Cooper '76. This is Gibson's re-telling 47 years after the event, and he was neither in the control room nor privy to everything the media reported at the time, since his news was heavily filtered by Mission Control. There was a press conference with the astronauts on January 4, 1974, at which one could reasonably expect a question about a communications break if there had been one in late December. There was no such question, though they were certainly grilled about productivity. I have yet to see a source reliable to support a notable break in communications during the mission. -- ke4roh ( talk) 20:09, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
@
Eric: regarding
this edit you made to "The strike or mutiny myth" section, how is "
urban legend" not considered "normal vocab
[ulary]"...? Thanks -
wolf
21:25, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
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See merge discussion at Stand-alone or section about possibly merging Skylab mutiny to this article. Regards -Fnlayson ( talk) 20:21, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
The first mention of a communications break I have found in extensive research comes in 1980 when Balbacky wrote the Harvard Business School piece "A Strike in Space". Even Cooper '76, the first use of "strike," doesn't mention that the radio was off. No such event took place. The sources presently are contradictory - saying that there was a period of 90 minutes without communications (there was no such period), and that there was a single pass over a single ground station (which takes about 10 minutes) during which there were no communications. We have, in retrospect, gone back over the transcripts and found at least one time when there was a missed pass over a ground station, but this was not cause for concern. Gibson's comments about a communications break come in response to an inquiry about the thoroughly-debunked myth of a mutiny, and are an attempt at a plausible explanation. This week's BBC article quotes an obvious error by Gibson: "'The word 'strike' went at lightspeed throughout the control room and out into the news media, who feasted on that,' Ed says.", except "strike" does not appear in any newspaper, magazine, or journal articles about the mission until Cooper '76. This is Gibson's re-telling 47 years after the event, and he was neither in the control room nor privy to everything the media reported at the time, since his news was heavily filtered by Mission Control. There was a press conference with the astronauts on January 4, 1974, at which one could reasonably expect a question about a communications break if there had been one in late December. There was no such question, though they were certainly grilled about productivity. I have yet to see a source reliable to support a notable break in communications during the mission. -- ke4roh ( talk) 20:09, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
@
Eric: regarding
this edit you made to "The strike or mutiny myth" section, how is "
urban legend" not considered "normal vocab
[ulary]"...? Thanks -
wolf
21:25, 20 October 2021 (UTC)