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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 ...
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 ...
Columbia memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) was an internal commission convened by NASA to investigate the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-107 upon atmospheric re-entry on February 1, 2003.
Skylab SLM-1 Pete Conrad Joseph P. Kerwin: Used long-handled cable cutters to remove debris that prevented the solar array system from deploying and then forced the solar array system to deploy, providing the Skylab with electrical power needed to operate. 19 June 10:55 1 hour 36 minutes 12:31 Skylab SLM-1 Pete Conrad Paul J. Weitz
The Skylab Rescue Mission (also SL-R) [1]: iii was an unflown rescue mission, planned as a contingency in the event of astronauts being stranded aboard the American Skylab space station. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] If flown, it would have used a modified Apollo Command Module that could be launched with a crew of two and return a crew of five.
1979: portions of Skylab came down over Australia, and several pieces landed in the area around the Shire of Esperance, which fined NASA $400 for littering. [4] 1987: a 7-foot strip of metal from the Soviet Kosmos 1890 rocket landed between two homes in Lakeport, California, causing no damage.
Soyuz 11 successfully docked with Salyut 1 on 7 June 1971 and the cosmonauts remained on board for 22 days, setting space endurance records that would hold until the American Skylab 2 mission in May and June 1973. [9]
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.