Skylab 2 (also SL-2 and SLM-1) was the first crewed mission to Skylab, the first American orbital space station. The mission was launched on an Apollo...
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February 1974. It was operated by three trios of astronaut crews: Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4. Operations included an orbital workshop, a solar observatory...
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Skylab 4 (also SL-4 and SLM-3) was the third crewed Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew aboard the first American space station. The mission...
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Skylab 3 (also SL-3 and SLM-2) was the second crewed mission to the first American space station, Skylab. The mission began on July 28, 1973, with the...
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The Skylab Rescue Mission (also SL-R): iii was an unflown rescue mission, planned as a contingency in the event of astronauts being stranded aboard the...
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Canceled Apollo missions (section Skylab)
would have been the final crewed mission to the Moon, was canceled to allow Skylab to launch as a "dry workshop" (assembled on the ground in an unused S-IVB...
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Skylab One may refer to: Skylab I, the first generation of U.S. space stations Skylab 1 (SL-1), the first Skylab mission Skylab 2 (SLM-1), the first crewed...
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The Apollo/Skylab space suit (sometimes called the Apollo 11 Spacesuit due to the fact that it was most known for being used in the Apollo 11 Mission)...
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Skylab is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language period comedy drama film written and directed by debutant Vishvak Khanderao. Produced by Byte Features in association...
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Skylab Two may refer to: Skylab II, NASA L2 space station concept Skylab 2 (SL-2), second mission in the Skylab space station program Skylab 3 (SLM-2)...
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Paul J. Weitz (category Skylab program astronauts)
twice. He was a member of the three-man crew who flew on Skylab 2, the first crewed Skylab mission. He was also commander of the STS-6 mission, the maiden...
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Apollo Applications Program (section Skylab)
with over $1 billion being required for FY 1968. The AAP eventually led to Skylab, which absorbed much of what had been developed under Apollo Applications...
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Science Pilot of Skylab 2 Paul J. Weitz – Pilot of Skylab 2 Owen K. Garriott – Science Pilot of Skylab 3 Jack R. Lousma – Pilot of Skylab 3 Gerald P. Carr...
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Pete Conrad (category Skylab program astronauts)
commanded Skylab 2, the first crewed Skylab mission, in 1973. On the mission, he and his crewmates repaired significant launch damage to the Skylab space...
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the astronaut support crew for Apollo 15 and Skylab 2, 3, and 4. As a mission specialist on the Spacelab-2 mission (STS-51-F), he flew on Space Shuttle...
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Space food (section Skylab (1973–1974))
When Skylab's solar panels were damaged during its launch and the station had to rely on minimal power from the Apollo Telescope Mount until Skylab 2 crewmembers...
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Joseph P. Kerwin (category Skylab program astronauts)
physician and former NASA astronaut. He served as the science pilot for the Skylab 2 mission from May 25, 1973, to June 22, 1973. He was the first physician...
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Apollo lunar program ended, three Apollo CSM/Saturn IBs ferried crews to the Skylab space station. In 1975, one last Apollo/Saturn IB launched the Apollo portion...
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June 7, and June 19, 1973, on the Skylab 2 mission. They rescued the functionality of the launch-damaged Skylab space station by freeing a stuck solar...
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Rusty Schweickart (section Skylab and beyond)
the first crew to perform critical in-flight repairs of the Skylab station. After Skylab, he served for a time as Director of User Affairs in NASA's Office...
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Module. The same system was later used for the Skylab 2, Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 CSMs to dock with the Skylab space station, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project...
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Skylab II was a space station concept proposed in 2013 by the Advanced Concepts Office of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, to be located at the Earth-Moon...
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(Expedition 43/44/45/46) Joseph Kerwin – Skylab 2 Robert Kimbrough – STS-126, Soyuz MS-02 (Expedition 49/50), SpaceX Crew-2 (Expedition 65/66) Timothy Kopra –...
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Rogério Tolomei Teixeira (born September 2, 1956), known professionally as Rogério Skylab, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, lyricist, classical guitarist...
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ill-fated Soyuz 11. Consecutively space stations have been operated since Skylab (1973) and occupied since 1987 with the Salyut successor Mir. Uninterrupted...
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Archived from the original on March 18, 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2007. "Skylab Mission 2". www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 2001-02-20. Retrieved...
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launch the Low Earth Orbit missions (Apollo 1 (planned), Apollo 7, Skylab 2, Skylab 3, Skylab 4, and Apollo–Soyuz) could not handle the 66,900-pound (30,300 kg)...
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again acted as a recovery ship for the astronauts of Skylab 2, the first crewed mission to Skylab, the first U.S. orbital space station, in June 1973....
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