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Rotary chair vestibular experiment in Skylab

(August 9, 1973) Scientist-astronaut and electrical engineer Owen K Garriott (1930-2019), Skylab 3 science pilot, serves as a test subject for the Skylab Human Vestibular Function M131 experiment, as seen in this image from a television transmission made by a color TV camera aboard the Skylab space station in Earth’s orbit. (Source: NASA/Johnson Space Center [Houston]. NASA ID: S73-32113. Public domain.)