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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.
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 ...
With 1,803 yards before the start of the 14th and final game, Simpson broke Jim Brown's 1963 record of 1,863 yards rushing in the first quarter. Fernando Pascoal Neves, better known as "Pavão", was playing as a midfielder for FC Porto against Vitória F.C., in a match in Portugal's Primeira Liga. Just 13 minutes into the match before a home ...
One of the surplus CSMs, CSM-119, was modified to carry two additional crew and kept on standby for a potential rescue mission in case of issues on-board Skylab. During Skylab 3, a malfunction on the Apollo CSM docked to the station caused fears that the crew would not be able to return safely. CSM-119 was rolled out to Launch Complex 39B on ...
A series of malfunctions turn an attempt to launch an orbital solar power station into disaster, trapping the payload in a decaying orbit and forcing the use of a military space shuttle to rescue the crew, even as the race to prevent it crashing into a populated area continues. [4] Olaf Carlsen Tom Carlsen, Col. (Commander) Eight others
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 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.