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Bill Shepherd (center) and his Expedition 1 crewmates, Yuri Gidzenko (left) and Sergei Krikalev, juggle oranges during their time aboard the International Space Station. They celebrated both Christmas and the dawn of 2001 in orbit. Photo Credit: NASA With a naval officer in command of the International Space Station, it might have seemed […] Bill Pogue (center), pictured with crewmates Gerry Carr (left) and Ed Gibson on 27 July 2013 at the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s 40th anniversary of Skylab. Photo Credit: Emily Carney Last month, NASA marked the 40th anniversary of the end of the final Skylab mission, and less than four weeks later the agency is […] Spectacular view of Skylab, as seen from the departing crew of Gerry Carr, Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue on 8 February 1974. This would be the last occasion that Skylab was ever seen, up close, by human eyes. Photo Credit: NASA Forty years ago this week, in November 1973, NASA launched its third […] The final Skylab crew was tasked with its first EVA only a week after arriving in space. It was only the start of an overloaded work schedule which Ed Gibson later described as “a 33-day fire drill.” Photo Credit: NASA Forty years ago this week, in November 1973, NASA launched its third and […] Boosted aloft atop a Saturn IB rocket, and utilizing a special “milk stool” to raise its umbilical connections to the proper levels on the Pad 39B gantry, the third and final Skylab crew takes flight on 16 November 1973. Photo Credit: NASA Forty years ago, on 14 May 1973, the United States launched […] Skylab and its Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM)—seen here with its “windmill” of solar arrays—was a critical asset in observing Comet Kohoutek in the winter of 1973-74. Photo Credit: NASA Forty years ago, nine men occupied America’s first space station, high above the Earth. Much of the history of Skylab is clouded by its […] |
 Next Launch AEHF-5 on a Atlas V 551 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 8 Aug 19 at 9:00 GMT 8 Aug 19 at 5:00am Eastern 
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