Retro Space Images: Skylab Awaits

Photo Credit Tom and Mark Usciak / Retro Space Images
Photo Credit: Tom and Mark Usciak / Retro Space Images

Fueled and Ready: The Saturn 1B for Skylab 3 stands at Pad 39B late in the evening of July 27, 1973, ready to launch astronauts Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma the next morning on the second manned mission to Skylab.

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