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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