A view of Skylab from the departing Skylab 4 mission Station statistics NSSDC ID: 1973-027A Call sign: Skylab Crew: 3 Launch: 1973-05-14 17:30:00 UTC Launch pad: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center Reentry: 1979-07-11 16:37:00 UTC near Perth, Australia Mass: 77,088 kg (169,950 lb)...
The crew of the Skylab 4 Mission exhibited physiological changes during their 84-day mission that resembled but in several important areas did not reach the magnitude of changes exhibited in crewmen of the two earlier Skylab flights. At rest all three crewmen showed, in comparison to preflight...
Skylab 4View of Melbourne, Australia as seen from Skylab space stationCredit: NASA1973 August 7-15 - . Viewing program for the comet Kohoutek during the SL-4 mission. - . Nation: USA. Program: Skylab. Flight: Skylab 4. Representatives from NASA Hq, MSFC, GSFC, and JSC attended. Resu...
mission crew dates notes Skylab 1 May 14, 1973–July 11, 1979 first U.S. space station Skylab 2 Charles Conrad; Joseph Kerwin; Paul Weitz May 25–June 22, 1973 new space endurance record (28 days 1 hour) Skylab 3 Alan Bean; Owen Garriott; Jack Lousma July 28–Sept. 25, 1973 ...
During the Skylab 4 mission the S-193 radar altimeter was operated nearly continuously for a revolution around the world on January 31, 1974. This direct measurement to the sea surface has provided for the first time an independent basis for the evaluation of the precision of global geoids ...
This booster would have been used to launch a Skylab rescue mission if needed.(Photos: Richard Kruse, 2009) Skylab Flight Suit Edward Gibson's Skylab Flight Suit One of Edward Gibson's Skylab flight suits on display at the United States Space and Rocket Center. Gibson was the Science Pilot...
Skylab will provide man with an observatory, unobstructed by the Earth’s atmosphere, for conducting solar and stellar astronomy investigations. As a laboratory it will offer weightlessness and vacuum for exploring processes, technologies and biological.
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The image details the station's major elements. In 1970, the station became known as Skylab. Three manned Skylab missions (Skylab 2 in May 1973; Skylab 3 in July 1973; and Skylab 4 in November 1973) were flown on which experiments were conducted in: space science, earth resources, life ...
missioncrewdatesnotes Skylab 1May 14, 1973–July 11, 1979first U.S. space station Skylab 2Charles Conrad;Joseph Kerwin; Paul WeitzMay 25–June 22, 1973new space endurance record (28 days 1 hour) Skylab 3Alan Bean;Owen Garriott; Jack LousmaJuly 28–Sept. 25, 1973new space endurance record...