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The official decision to proceed with the Skylab reboost mission was made on September 1st 1977, initiating a two-year preparation period for the development and production of the required hardware and systems.
Teleoperator Retrieval System
Skylab Boost Mission
STS-3 Launching in March of 1982
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Early in the planning stages of the Skylab flight, there was a desire to keep it in orbit long enough to use it as the core of a larger station.
Skylab 5 Crew-Brand, Lenoir,Lind
Skylab B at Smithsonian
Saturn V at Houston
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Activating the station upon arrival was a challenge, but packing up to return home was also a major event that took several days. For Carr and his crew, this was the last planned visit, but they left open the possibility of a return visit at some point in the future.
Departure Fly-around
Splashdown Skylab 4
Gibson-Pogue-Carr on Recovery Ship
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The next time an American would venture outside of a spacecraft would be on a Space Shuttle flight and that was nine years later. In less than a decade, from June 1965 to February 1974, American astronauts had learned to effectively work in Earth orbit, had left their footprints on the moon, and had walked in space.
Skylab – Solar Flare
Skylab Spacewalk
Skylab Spacewalk
