NASA APOLLO / SKYLAB PROGRAM TEST FOOTAGE SPACE TOILET CORONAGRAPH ERGOMETER XD45294

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Dating to November of 1969, this silent NASA film is divided into several sections. The first is titled “Bicycle Ergometer Restraints“. The film shows an exercycle being tested in a weightless environment aboard a research aircraft. (An ergometer is, in this case, a bicycle fitted with mechanical work measurement devices is also an ergometer.) The tests were doubtless intended to discover what the best restraint system would be, that would permit an astronaut to exercise on a bike in space. A bicycle ergometer of similar design flew on the Skylab space station. The second section is titled “Coronagraph and ATM Contamination“ (8:30). A coronograph is shown -- this is a telescope, fitted with an attachment that blocks out direct rays from the sun, used to study and photograph the corona of the sun. The type shown was used during S