Skylab 4 ghosts

“what”

~ Gerry Pickup Truck on seeing the Skylab 4 Ghosts for the first time

The Skylab 4 Ghosts are the ghosts of the Skylab 4 Crew, consisting of Gerry Pickup Truck, Billp Ouge and I Couldn't Think Of A Funny-Sounding Name For Ed Gibson. They were first Spotted during the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, which is pretty stupid, because none of the Skylab 4 crew would actually be dead until 2014.

The only known photo of the Skylab 4 Ghosts.

The heck's a Skylab?

Because there's no page written on it yet (As of April 2025), It's probably important to talk about what Skylab even is. Skylab is an American space station built from leftover moon landing doohickeys. It was home to the Skylab 2 crew, the Skylab 3 crew, the Skylab 4 crew, the Skylab 4 ghosts, and would have been home to the Skylab 5 crew, but Skylab 5 forgot to exist (Again, as of April 2025). Skylab is just an empty rocket stage you can live in. When someone writes a page on Skylab, they'll probably tell you more.

Appearance

• Well, they're just... fine, I'll give you a description.
• They wear orange suits displaying the name of whatever crew member they're a ghost of, and a Skylab 4 patch.
• They also look like a mannequin wrapped in a sheet.

First Sighting

The Skylab 4 Ghosts would be first sighted by the crew of Skylab 3, that crew consisting of Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma. Lousma would be the first to see one, on September, 2-Weeks-Until-The-End-Of-Skylab-3, 1973. He would tell his crew: "yo we got a skylab 4 crew in here". When Bean spotted them, he would take the photo on the right, which you can view to the right of this paragraph. They didn't really see the Skylab 4 ghosts that much, given they first saw them on September, 2-Weeks-Until-The-End-Of-Skylab-3, and also because the Skylab 4 ghosts didn't appear often, particularly the ghost of Billp Ouge, since he was embarrassed about getting a not-very-good photo taken of him.

Self-Visit

Skylab 4 would also see the ghosts of themselves ... somehow. Gerry Pickup Truck, when he spotted them, famously said: "what". Eventually after 8 days, the non-ghost Skylab 4 crew got bored of having the Skylab 4 ghosts floating around, and they put them in their command module until they had to leave. They probably took another photo, but no one knows if they did.

What happened to them?

Well, they are still currently waiting for Skylab 5 to exist. Nowadowadays, it makes a little more sense the Skylab 4 Ghosts exist, as Billp Ouge and Gerry Pickup Truck are actually dead now. Ed Gibson, however is still alive, and for some reason, is now roomates with his ghost. I'm not really sure how that works, but then again, we live in a place where spaghetti can be a letter of the alphabet.