thoughtportal:

Happy Labor Day. Today I learned about probably the first strike to happen IN SPACE.

[image is of three white men wearing brown NASA uniforms, posing with an American flag, a model of a space station, and a globe.

Text reads: “Early Labor Day post:

In 1973, three astronauts (Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson, and William R. Pogue)  staged a strike in space on the US space station Skylab.  Every hour of their day had been scheduled for weeks.  They were given no time to rest.  They told mission control to fix that and stopped talking to them for a day.  As a result, astronauts now have time to rest between mission tasks.  However, in an act of clear retaliation, none of the “mutinous” astronauts were allowed to fly into space again.  They are largely unrecognized, despite the fact that the Space Strike is arguably the first assertion of human rights against authority made in space.  These men deserve to have their names written into the stars as the people who helped make space a place for humans to be human.  I’m going to make this a project to have either the US or International space halls of fame recognize their contributions.”]

(I added links to the men’s wikipedia pages)

Apparently Carr and Gibson are still alive (Pogue died in 2014).  Hey @nasa, how about organizing a public honor for them? At minimum, how about updating their NASA biographies to include information about the strike?