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Skylab Programme Mission Patch

Skylab Crewed Mission Patch

Skylab was the first United States space station, launched by NASA,occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. It was operated by three separate three-astronaut crews: Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4. Major operations included an orbital workshop, a solar observatory, Earth observation, and hundreds of experiments.

Unable to be re-boosted by the Space Shuttle, which was not ready until 1981, Skylab's orbit decayed, and it disintegrated in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979, scattering debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia.

Skylab 2 Apollo CSM-116/Saturn IB SA-206
May 25, 1973, 13:00:00 UTC
June 22, 1973, 13:49:48 UTC
Charles Conrad, Jr.
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Docking with Skylab

Skylab 3 Apollo CSM-117/Saturn IB SA-207
July 28, 1973, 11:10:50 UTC
September 25, 1973, 22:19:51 UTC
Alan L. Bean
Owen K. Garriott
Jack R. Lousma
Docking with Skylab

Skylab 4 Apollo CSM-117/Saturn IB SA-207
November 16, 1973, 14:01:23 UTC
February 8, 1974, 15:16:53 UTC
Gerald P. Carr
Edward G. Gibson
William R. Pogue
Docking with Skylab

Other Associated Mission/ Patches

Skylab Women’s Patch Anniversary Edition

Designed and submitted to Vance Brand

This is the official emblem for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Skylab Program

Skylab I — Depicts the launch of the orbital workshop on the last Saturn V rocket to fly. The perspective is just before things went horribly wrong with the loss of the meteoroid shield and solar array.
The original mission patches were numbered 1, 2 and 3 while the official NASA designation numbered the launches including the lab itself as 1, 2, 3 and 4. I included both

Skylab I/2 Anniversary Crew Patch: Based on the painting of Skylab orbiting the Earth by the patch artist, Frank Kelly Freas.

Skylab Project Patch

Humour, keeping it light and fun is a hallmark of the astronaut community. And the Skylab II Astronaut wives, Sue Bean, Helen-Mary Garriott, and Gratia Lousma cooked up a surprise for their husbands’ arrival at the space station.

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