BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The longest human space flight up to that time ended with the splashdown of the Skylab 3 crew of Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott, and Jack R. Lousma on September 25, 1973. The ...

Skylab 2 would last 28 days; Skylab 3, 59 days; and Skylab 4, 84 days. It took more extra time, strenuous physical effort and a pair of humble shears to finish the job successfully.

Skylab 2 astronaut Charles Conrad trims the hair of Paul Weitz on board the Skylab space station. Skylab, launched on 14th May 1973, carried experiments to study the Sun, ...

He served as the pilot on the Skylab 2 mission that launched in May 1973. The 28-day flight established what was then a world record for a single mission, according to NASA.

Griffin and his colleagues envision placing Skylab II at the Earth-moon Lagrange point 2, a gravitationally stable location beyond the moon's far side. Over the past year or so, ...

August 19, 1966: The details may be lacking, but all the major components of this concept sketch made it into the creation of Skylab, NASA’s first space station. 1966: Concept sketch of Skylab ...

The crew of Skylab 4 was there for 84 days, the longest time an American crew had spent in space up to that point. It was paramount that they were under close observation.

On his first space flight, he served as pilot on Skylab-2 (SL-2), along with Apollo 12 veteran Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr., and Joseph Kerwin, also a rookie on SL-2.

Skylab astronauts Dr. Ed Gibson and U.S. Marine Col. (Ret.) Jack Lousma will be in Huntsville for the premiere. Gibson flew aboard Skylab 4, and Lousma was Skylab 2’s pilot. Both are featured in ...

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