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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 test had a three-astronaut crew with Commander Robert Crippen, Pilot Karol J. Bobko, and Science Pilot William E. Thornton; [167] there was a focus on medical studies and Thornton was an M.D. [168] The crew lived and worked in the pressure chamber, converted to be like Skylab, from July 26 to September 20, 1972.
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]
Crew Remarks 26 May 00:40 40 minutes: 01:20 CM-116 SLM-1: Paul J. Weitz: Using a 10-foot (3.0 m) long tool, Weitz stood in the open hatch of the Command Module (as Joe Kerwin held onto his legs) and tried to remove a strap preventing the release of a solar panel on Skylab. [3] 7 June 15:15 3 hours 25 minutes 18:40 Skylab SLM-1 Pete Conrad ...
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 ...
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.
Skylab 4 astronauts Gerald P. Carr, Edward Gibson and William Pogue made up the first crew to celebrate the holiday in space on November 22, 1973. Skylab was the nation’s first space station.
Three Skylab crews, including Pogue, were awarded the 1973 Robert J. Collier Trophy. [46] [47] In 1974, President Richard Nixon presented the Skylab 4 crew with the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, [48] [49] and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale awarded the crew the De La Vaulx Medal and Vladimir Komarov Diploma that year. [50]