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Skylab 4 (also SL-4 and SLM-3 [2]) was the third crewed Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew aboard the first American space station.. The mission began on November 16, 1973, with the launch of Gerald P. Carr, Edward Gibson, and William R. Pogue in an Apollo command and service module on a Saturn IB rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, [3] and lasted 84 days, one hour ...
The last Skylab crew returned to Earth on February 8, 1974. [52] In addition to the three crewed missions, there was a rescue mission on standby that had a crew of two, but could take five back down. Skylab 2: launched May 25, 1973 [53] Skylab 3: launched July 28, 1973; Skylab 4: launched November 16, 1973; Skylab 5: cancelled; Skylab Rescue on ...
Skylab 2 (also SL-2 and SLM-1 [4]) was the first crewed mission to Skylab, the first American orbital space station. The mission was launched on an Apollo command and service module by a Saturn IB rocket on May 25, 1973, [5] and carried NASA astronauts Pete Conrad, Joseph P. Kerwin, Paul J. Weitz to the station.
Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, United States.The site and its collection of facilities were originally built as the Apollo program's "Moonport" [2] and later modified for the Space Shuttle program.
Skylab 2, (crew to Skylab) May 25, 1973 Decayed from low Earth orbit First Saturn IB launched from LC-39B. Stages 206-210 were produced in 1966/67 then stored at Huntington Beach until 1971. Refurbished and put through a second set of ground testing prior to being shipped to KSC. S-IVB-207 Skylab 3, (crew to Skylab) July 28, 1973
Destiny is NASA's first permanent operating orbital research station since Skylab was vacated in February 1974. The Boeing Company began construction of the 14,515-kilogram (32,000 lb) research laboratory in 1995 at the Michoud Assembly Facility and then the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville , Alabama. [2]
The Skylab orbiting space station will serve as a workshop and living quarters for the astronauts as they perform investigations in. the following broad categories: physical. sciences, biomedical sciences, Earth applications, and space applications. During the eight-month operational lifetime of Skylab, three crews, each consisting of three
The three Skylab astronaut crews were awarded the 1973 Robert J. Collier Trophy "For proving beyond question the value of man in future explorations of space and the production of data of benefit to all the people on Earth." [26] [27] In 1974, President Nixon presented the Skylab 4 crew with the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. [28]