Monday 19 December 2016

Astrognome Scrapbook Skylab

Skylab Solar Flare Picture

Skylab was a space station launched and operated by NASA and was the United States' first space station. Skylab orbited Earth from 1973 to 1979, and included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems. It was launched unmanned by a modified Saturn V rocket.



 Three manned missions to the station, conducted between 1973 and 1974 using the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) atop the smaller Saturn IB, each delivered a three-astronaut crew.





On December 19th 1973 the now famous picture of a giant solar prominence loop on the Sun was taken.




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