That Time When 3 Astronauts Went on Strike in Space

I guess the NASA didn't understand the gravity of the situation

Imagine going on strike in space and mission control saying "Oh, thats alright. We can replace you." and leaving you up there.

EA: You want to use the bathroom? That'll be $32,400.

Astronauts: strike! Strike! Strike! NASA: have fun staying up there then Astronauts: ok ok I’ll stop now

I see you finally upgraded from airplanes to spaceships. Congratulations!

@2:59 "They were also tasked with completing spacewalks, but the astronauts reported there was no pressure during these" Please give your writer a raise, that was glorious.

Oh my god these puns are awfully good.

"They wanted to prove that humans could live for extended periods in space without dying" Yes... that's what living means...

This is a great story, but unfortunately, it's not true. While there was a lot of tension around the work schedule, the radio contact was not cut on purpose, and the day they took off was entirely within protocol. Gerald Carr: "So finally, at a point in the mission, I guess it was the third, maybe the fourth day off we were to have. We kind of set up a ten-day week, and the tenth day of each week was to be a day off, and we could do what we wanted on the day off. That was to be our shower day, too, when we could take a shower in the little makeshift shower that we had. Well, we gave back our day off the first three or so times, two or three times. We said, "Go ahead and schedule us, and we'll try to do some makeup." Well, we got to the point where the morale was low. We weren't feeling too good. We were getting tired. So we said, "Let's take our day off and maybe a good day's rest will get us back in good shape again and we can begin to maintain the pace." So we took our day off and did what we wanted to do. We all took a shower. Bill and I did some reading and some looking out the window, doing Earth observations, photographs and things. Ed played at the ATM panel and did some little rough experiments and did some observations ad lib. We had a good day. One of the things we did is we got careless with our radios and we forgot to configure for one of our passes, so when we went AOS [acquisition of signal] over one of the sites, people on the ground called us and we didn't answer them. So the press just thought that was wonderful. They said, "Look at that. These testy old crabby astronauts up there won't even answer the radio now. They've turned off their radio and they won't listen to the people on the ground." So we have lived under that stigma all these years, but basically it was we just got careless and we were busy doing other things and didn't think to configure our radios. For some reason they couldn't get through to us and we missed a pass, and I think it caused a certain level of concern down there." Source: https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/CarrGP/CarrGP_10-25-00.htm

4:30 Mankinds greatest truimphs - another half ass interesting video

Space pirates! Arrrrrstronauts.

"No country has won more Super Bowls". HAHAHAHAHA

Aw, NASA wanted to go to mars in the 80’s. That’s kinda sad.

I love that transition from the ISS to the logo.

I had to rewatch this video because I kept spacing out.

As a student in Paris, I actually spit my water when he mentioned the whole strike despite not being French joke 😂😂 They go on strike on just about anything!

0:19 "The US is no stranger to winning. No country has won more Super Bowls." That comment just made my day haha. The arrogance and self-absorbing attitude is so on point.

"The U.S. is no stranger to winning, no country has won more super bowls" Lmao

One thing that is definitely not safe to strike in a space station is a match.

Regarding the numbering, there was one unmanned mission (the launch), and 3 manned mission. The launch was mission Skylab 1. The subsequent manned missions were Skylab 2-4.