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Skylab was the United States' first space station, launched by NASA, [3] occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. It was operated by three trios of astronaut crews: Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4.
NASA Apollo CSM-118 NASA Low Earth, docked to Skylab Crewed orbital flight: 8 February 1974: Successful Crewed flight with 3 astronauts. Final flight of Skylab programme 20 November 12:29 Kosmos-2I (R-12 11K63) Plesetsk Site 133 Kosmos 608 (DS-P1-Yu) MO SSSR Low Earth Radar calibration: 10 July 1974: Successful 21 November 10:00 Voskhod (R-7 11A57)
Skylab 4: November 16, 1973 CSM-118 Skylab: CSM-118 January 15, 1974 February 8, 1974 1,509 [9] 59.46 Alan L. Bean Owen K. Garriott Jack R. Lousma: Skylab 3: July 28, 1973 CSM-117 Skylab: CSM-117 August 25, 1973 September 25, 1973 143 [10] 28.03 Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. Joseph P. Kerwin Paul J. Weitz: Skylab 2: May 25, 1973 CSM-116 Skylab ...
Skylab 3 (also SL-3 and SLM-2 [2]) was the second crewed mission to the first American space station, Skylab.The mission began on July 28, 1973, with the launch of NASA astronauts Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma in the Apollo command and service module on the Saturn IB rocket, and lasted 59 days, 11 hours and 9 minutes. [3]
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 ...
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.
The Skylab program's goal was to create the first space station of NASA. The program marked the last launch of the Saturn V rocket on May 14, 1973. Many experiments were performed on board, including unprecedented solar studies. [ 65 ]
Skylab 2: Skylab: 22 June 1973 Skylab 2: First crewed mission to Skylab space station. Spent almost one month in space. 49 Alan L. Bean (2) Jack R. Lousma (1) Owen K. Garriott (1) 28 July 1973 Skylab 3: Skylab: 25 September 1973 Skylab 3: Spent almost two months in space. Miscellaneous scientific experiments. 50 Vasili Lazarev (1) Oleg Makarov ...