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.
