Skylab

Flight Details

Skylab 1

Mission Statistics:

• Date: 05/25/73
• Flight Time: 028d 00h 50m
• Number of Orbits: 0454 orbits

Astronaut Crew:

• Charles (Pete) Conrad
• Joseph P. Kerwin
• Paul J. Weitz

EVA's:

• 00h 37m - stand-up EVA
• 03h 30m - space walk
• 01h 44m - space walk

Payloads:

• None

Mission Highlights: This was the first manned flight to the Skylab orbital science workshop (launched 5/14/73). Much of the early flight was devoted to repairing a broken solar array on the Skylab and rigging a shade over the station. The stand-up EVA by Weitz was to try deploy the solar panel. Conrad and Kerwin performed the first space walk to fully deploy the panel, while Conrad and Weitz retrieved film canisters during the final space walk. The USS Ticonderoga was the recovery ship.

Skylab 2

Mission Statistics:

• Date: 07/28/73
• Flight Time: 059d 11h 09m
• Number of Orbits: 0962 orbits

Astronaut Crew:

• Alan L. Bean
• Owen K. Garriott
• Jack R. Lousma

EVA's:

• 06h 39m - space walk
• 04h 30m - space walk
• 02h 45m - space walk

Payloads:

• None

Mission Highlights: This second crew to the Skylab station experienced motion sickness for the first 3 days of the flight. Thereafter, however, they achieved many biological, Earth science, and solar science experiments. The first two space walks were performed by Garriott and Lousma, first to deploy a new sunshade over the station and then to retrieve film canisters. The third space walk, by Garriott and Bean, was also to retrieve film canisters. The recovery ship was the USS New Orleans.

Skylab 3

Mission Statistics:

• Date: 11/16/73
• Flight Time: 084d 01h 16m
• Number of Orbits: 1360 orbits

Astronaut Crew:

• Gerald P. Carr
• Edward G. Gibson
• William R. Pogue

EVA's:

• 06h 33m - space walk
• 07h 01m - space walk
• 03h 28m - space walk
• 05h 19m - space walk

Payloads:

• None

Mission Highlights: The primary mission of this final Skylab flight was, as in the previous ones, to conduct a large number of biological, Earth science, and solar science experiments. Also on the agenda was observation of Comet Kohoutek. All space walks were to retrieve film canisters. They were performed by: Gibson and Pogue (1), Carr and Pogue (2), and Gibson and Carr (3 and 4). Problems in the Apollo command module's gyros caused some concern, but the crew was successfully recovered by the USS New Orleans.

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Last Updated: January 1, 2003