14
May

COUNTRYS FIRST SPACE STATION LAUNCHED

14 May 1973, 17:30:00 UTC, T plus 000:00:00.22 | This Day in Aviation

Skylab, America’s first space station, was successfully launched
into an orbit around the earth. Eleven days later, U.S. astronauts
Charles Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, and Paul Weitz made the planned 
rendezvous with Skylab, repairing a jammed solar panel and
conducting scientific experiments during their 28-day stay
aboard the space station.

50 years later, Skylab remembered as major force in space exploration - UPI.com

Three men stand inside a training mock-up of a space station eating food.
From left, Joseph P. Kerwin, science pilot; Paul J. Weitz,
pilot; and Charles Conrad Jr., commander.

An astronaut wearing spacesuit works outside of a space station.

A view of the Skylab space station photographed against an Earth background


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