Talk:Manned Orbital Laboratory

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[edit] Helium/Oxygen Atmosphere

I don't know if the Air Force guys were nuts? Isn't helium/oxygen gas mixtures used in deep-sea diving? I wonder if it was chosen delibertaly so that the MOL astronaut sound like "Alvin and the Chipmunks" (watch the diving crews for the U.S.S. Monitor programs on the Discovery Channel). At least the Soviet Almaz military space station and the Skylab space station used oxygen/nitrogen, with the former at sea-level pressure and Skylab at a 3:1 ratio (3 parts oxygen to 1 part nitrogen). Rwboa22 01:40, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Secret aspects?

This article doesn't even mention that aspects of this program were closely guarded secrets at the time. All I know about this subject is what I saw on Nova, so I'm reluctant to write much about this myself. ike9898 (talk) 14:28, 16 February 2008 (UTC)