Skylab 2
Launch: May 25, 1973
Landing: June 22, 1973
Astronauts: Charles C. Conrad Jr., Paul J. Weitz, and Joseph Kerwin
This is the emblem for the first crewed Skylab mission: Skylab 2. The crew made critical major repairs to the damage Skylab sustained when it was launched. Without the repairs made by Conrad and his crew, the entire Skylab program would have ended. The mission included three spacewalks and lasted 28 days—twice the previous record for the length of a space mission.
The patch, designed by artist Kelly Freas, shows the Skylab space station silhouetted against the Earth's globe, which in turn is eclipsing the sun.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S72-52630
Date: February 1972
Skylab 2
Launch: May 25, 1973
Landing: June 22, 1973
Astronauts: Charles C. Conrad Jr., Paul J. Weitz, and Joseph Kerwin
This is the emblem for the first crewed Skylab mission: Skylab 2. The crew made critical major repairs to the damage Skylab sustained when it was launched. Without the repairs made by Conrad and his crew, the entire Skylab program would have ended. The mission included three spacewalks and lasted 28 days—twice the previous record for the length of a space mission.
The patch, designed by artist Kelly Freas, shows the Skylab space station silhouetted against the Earth's globe, which in turn is eclipsing the sun.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S72-52630
Date: February 1972