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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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 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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missions in support of both Skylab 3 and Skylab 4. However, no rescue mission ever proved necessary. All astronauts visiting Skylab returned safely to Earth...
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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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Edward Gibson (category Skylab program astronauts)
the development of the Skylab space station. In 1973–74, Gibson made his only flight into space as science pilot aboard Skylab 4, the third and final crewed...
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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, mostly involving the...
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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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the proposal due to insufficient preparation time. Skylab 4 – the third crewed mission to the Skylab space station – was scheduled favorably for the passage...
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Gerald Carr (astronaut) (category Skylab program astronauts)
aviator, and NASA astronaut. He was commander of Skylab 4, the third and final crewed visit to the Skylab Orbital Workshop, from November 16, 1973, to February...
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Skylab Three may refer to: Skylab 3 (SL-3), third Skylab mission Skylab 4 (SLM-3), third crewed Skylab mission Skylab C, the Earth-bound ground-based...
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Skylab Four may refer to: Skylab 4 (SL-4), the fourth Skylab mission Skylab 5 (SLM-4), the fourth crewed Skylab mission Skylab IV, a 2003 album by Rogério...
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original on January 4, 2013. Retrieved 2009-11-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) "Saturn I". NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center, Skylab Saturn IB Flight...
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William Pogue (category Skylab program astronauts)
NASA in 1966. His NASA career included one orbital mission as pilot of Skylab 4, whose crew conducted dozens of in-orbit research experiments and set a...
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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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Gerald P. Carr – Commander of Skylab 4 Edward G. Gibson – Science Pilot of Skylab 4 William R. Pogue – Pilot of Skylab 4 Vance D. Brand – Command Module...
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Don Lind (category Skylab program astronauts)
missions. Lind was then assigned as backup pilot for Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 and would have flown on Skylab Rescue. Lind was the payload commander on his only...
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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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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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Retrieved 2017-01-05. "The Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records". Space.com. Retrieved 2017-01-05. List of spaceflight records Manned Venus flyby Skylab 4...
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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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serial number 212, was converted into the hull for Skylab, the first American space station. Skylab was launched on a Saturn V on May 14, 1973, and it...
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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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to Skylab Skylab 4, the third and last crewed mission to Skylab Skylab B, a backup Skylab station, proposed for a second launch but never used Skylab Rescue...
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Mercury, Project Gemini, the 1968–1972 Apollo Moon landing missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International...
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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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different spacecraft series, or: "programs", "projects". The Salyut series, Skylab, Mir, ISS, and Tiangong series space stations, with which many of these...
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Searching for Skylab - America's Forgotten Triumph is a 2019 documentary about the 1970s American space station Skylab. It was written by Carl Alessi and...
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Retrieved 2020-01-10. William Pogue's Seiko 6139 Watch Flown on Board the Skylab 4 Mission, from his Personal Collection... The First Automatic Chronograph...
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the 84-day mark set by an Apollo capsule on the final flight to the Skylab (Skylab-4) space station on 8 February 1974. The first operational mission in...
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