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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 ...
Skylab 4 EVA 2: Gerald Carr William Pogue: 25 December 1973 16:00 25 December 1973 23:01 7 h 01 min Carr and Pogue used the extreme ultraviolet electronographic camera and the coronagraph contamination camera to photograph Comet Kohoutek. They also replaced the film in the solar observatory. [49] 39. Skylab 4 EVA 3: Gerald Carr Edward Gibson ...
Skylab in February 1974, as Skylab 4 departs. After a boost of 6.8 miles (10.9 km) by Skylab 4's Apollo CSM before its departure in 1974, Skylab was left in a parking orbit of 269 miles (433 km) by 283 miles (455 km) [109] that was expected to last until at least the early 1980s, based on estimates of the 11-year sunspot cycle that began in 1976.
The longest crewed mission of the program was Skylab 4 which lasted 84 days, from November 16, 1973, to February 8, 1974. [66] The total mission duration was 2249 days, with Skylab finally falling from orbit over Australia on July 11, 1979.
Skylab 3: Saturn 1B: Alan Bean, Jack Lousma, Owen Garriott: July 28, 1973 Space station mission Success - Apollo spacecraft takes second US crew to Skylab for a 59-day stay Skylab 4: Saturn 1B: Gerald Carr, William Pogue, Edward Gibson: November 16, 1973 Space station mission Success - Apollo spacecraft takes third US crew to Skylab for an 84 ...
Skylab 4: 20,847 Block II CSM ferried third crew to Skylab orbital workshop SA-209: Kennedy, LC-39B: AS-209: Standby Skylab 4 and later Apollo-Soyuz rescue CSM-119. Not needed, currently on display in the KSC rocket garden: Skylab 5: Planned CSM mission to lift Skylab workshop's orbit to endure until Space Shuttle ready to fly; cancelled. SA ...
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 4 crew won the AIAA Haley Astronautics Award in 1975 "For demonstrated outstanding courage and skill during their record-breaking 84-day Skylab mission". [33] He was one of 24 Apollo astronauts who were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1997.