Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Space Shower

Space Shower

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Original – A close up view of astronaut Jack R. Lousma, Skylab 3 pilot taking a hot bath in the crew quarters of the Orbital Workshop (OWS) of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth Orbit. Astronaut Lousma, Alan Bean and Owen K. Garriott remained within the Skylab space station in orbit for 59 days conducting numerous medical, scientific and technological expierments. In deploying the shower facility the shower curtain is pulled up from the floor and attached to the ceiling. The water comes through a push-button shower head attached to a flexible hose. Water is drawn off by a vacuum system.

Reason: I was actually surprised to find this image here on site, as I didn't think that this sort of thing existed, but here we have a functional shower facility in use aboard an actual human space station, in this case the (now defunct) Skylab station. While showering is in and of itself not something I would typically nominate here at FPC the fact that this one takes place in space and demonstrates (depending on your view) either an engineering triumph that allows us to shower in space or the limitations of our current technology to engineer an acceptable solution to hygiene when deprived our natural habitat suggests to me a high degree of encyclopedic value, and that in turn suggests that from our standpoint of an encyclopedia this is an image that deserves a featured star for its ability to convey a point of interest about our space programs that is not easily conveyed in words.
Articles in which this image appears: Bathing, Hygiene, Skylab 3
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator: NASA

Support as nominator --TomStar81 (Talk) 02:32, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Exactly the sort of weird little thing that's rather awesome. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 05:19, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support as it can't be re-taken, but not full support as it doesn't show how the shower works... Effectively this is a picture of a man standing in a white round bag... gazhiley 11:17, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I really don't think NASA wants to publish astronaut porn, though. =P Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 05:46, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - I know what you mean, but they don't have to have the person in there naked to have a picture of the shower working... He could be wearing boxers or something to protect his modesty... Don't get me wrong, I'm supporting the picture because I know it is good, but for me I would not know that was a shower without reading the article... gazhiley 11:03, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    - Even then, though, isn't the point of the white round bag that it keeps water from getting out into the rest of the craft, so any picture of it in operation would show less? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 16:21, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
      - That's why I supported... Not really a lot else we could do - however it isn't great hence weak... gazhiley 10:14, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Not great quality at all, but encyclopedic and very cool. ceranthor 05:50, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support; technical issues can be overlooked because of age and uniqueness. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:58, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:33, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not enough support. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:33, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]