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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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 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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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 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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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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Jack R. Lousma (category Skylab program astronauts)
He was a member of the second crew, Skylab-3, on the Skylab space station in 1973. In 1982, he commanded STS-3, the third Space Shuttle mission. Lousma...
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Spider web (redirect from Skylab spider experiment)
aboard Skylab, involving two female European garden spiders (cross spiders) called Arabella and Anita, as part of an experiment on the Skylab 3 mission...
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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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Alan Bean (category Skylab program astronauts)
second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second crewed mission to the Skylab space station. After retiring from the United...
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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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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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as peanut butter, caramel, and chocolate. In 1972, astronauts on board Skylab 3 ate modified versions of Space Food Sticks to test their "gastrointestinal...
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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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plant European garden spiders were the first spiders in space, aboard Skylab 3. Courting male is consumed by the female. (video, 1m 38s) "Taxon details...
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Owen Garriott (category Skylab program astronauts)
engineer and NASA astronaut, who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a Space Shuttle...
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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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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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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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2017-01-05. "Skylab Flight Summary". www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 2001-02-20. Retrieved 2017-01-04. "Second crew on Skylab: Breaking...
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comet before STS-51-D. All three astronauts on Skylab 3 suffered from nausea, although the three on Skylab 2 had not; the illness affected their work during...
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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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Tolomei Teixeira (born September 2, 1956), known professionally as Rogério Skylab, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, lyricist, classical guitarist, poet,...
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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...
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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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Garriott – Skylab 3, STS-9 Charles Gemar – STS-38, STS-48, STS-62 Michael Gernhardt – STS-69, STS-83, STS-94, STS-104 Edward Gibson – Skylab 4 Robert Gibson...
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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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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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