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The CSMs launched in orbit on Saturn IB ranged from 32,558 pounds (14,768 kg) (Apollo–Soyuz), to 46,000 pounds (21,000 kg) (Skylab 4). The omnidirectional antennas sufficed for ground communications during the Earth orbital missions, so the high-gain S-band antenna on the SM was omitted from Apollo 1, Apollo 7, and the three Skylab flights.
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Two uncrewed CSMs, one uncrewed LM, and one crewed CSM were carried into space by Saturn IB launch vehicles for low Earth orbit Apollo missions. Larger Saturn Vs launched two uncrewed CSMs on high Earth orbit test flights, the CSM on one crewed lunar mission, the complete spacecraft on one crewed low Earth orbit mission, and eight crewed lunar ...
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]
To convert the standard CSM to a rescue vehicle, the storage lockers were removed and replaced with two crew couches to seat a total of five crewmen. [4] The biggest risk in a rescue was the three upper seats "stroking" or collapsing onto the two lower seats in a rough landing, but no stroking occurred in previous missions.
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Skylab B was a proposed second US space station similar to Skylab that was planned to be launched by NASA for different purposes, [1] [2] mostly involving the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, but was canceled due to lack of funding.
The Apollo command module, the crew cabin used in the Apollo program designed specifically to return through the atmosphere to a water landing; The crew module of the Orion spacecraft, designed to function similarly to the Apollo command module; An electronic control unit used to control a motor vehicle system or subsystem