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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 crew stayed in orbit with Skylab for 28 days. Two additional missions followed, with the launch dates of July 28, 1973, (Skylab 3) and November 16, 1973, (Skylab 4), and mission durations of 59 and 84 days, respectively. The last Skylab crew returned to Earth on February 8, 1974. [52]
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 ...
Start Date/Time Duration End Time Spacecraft 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 ...
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. [67]
Pogue (left) and Gerald Carr disposing of trash bags aboard the Skylab 4. Pogue was the pilot of Skylab 4, the third and final crewed visit to the Skylab Orbital Workshop, from November 16, 1973, to February 8, 1974. [26] At 84 days, 1 hour and 15 minutes, it was the longest crewed flight to that date.
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1959 January 4 USSR First spacecraft in heliocentric orbit: Luna 1 1959 February 28 USA First satellite in a polar orbit: Discoverer 1: 1959 August 7 USA First photograph of Earth from orbit Explorer 6: 1959 September 14 USSR First hard landing on another celestial body (the Moon) Luna 2: 1959 October 7 USSR First three-axis stabilised spacecraft