“Accuracy is everything when you're cruising around the world at 16,000 mph.”
The astronaut Owen Garriott stayed two months (a world record) in the space station Skylab III, which he boarded on July 1973, for a scientific mission dedicated to study the effects of prolonged exposure to outer space. “From above, we circled the Earth at a speed of 16,000 mph, with a sunrise every 90 minutes” he declared. On the subject of time, he added “In space, accuracy is even more important than on Earth. The Skylab station moving at a speed of 5 miles per second, every second of inattention results in a drift of 5 miles from your anchor point.”
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