Pete Conrad suits up for Skylab launch
Astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., commander of the Skylab 2 mission, is suited up in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building at the Kennedy Space Center during Skylab 2 prelaunch preparations. Skylab 2, with astronauts Conrad, Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz aboard, was launched from Kennedy Space Center's Pad B, Launch Complex 39, at 9:00 a.m. (EDT), May 25, 1973.
Skylab 2 was the first crewed mission of the Program, although the second launch (the first was the launch of the Skylab craft itself). The Skylab crews wore mission patches numbered for the crew - so Conrad (and his crew) wear the "Skylab 1" patch.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S73-25901
Date: May 25, 1973
Pete Conrad suits up for Skylab launch
Astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., commander of the Skylab 2 mission, is suited up in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building at the Kennedy Space Center during Skylab 2 prelaunch preparations. Skylab 2, with astronauts Conrad, Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz aboard, was launched from Kennedy Space Center's Pad B, Launch Complex 39, at 9:00 a.m. (EDT), May 25, 1973.
Skylab 2 was the first crewed mission of the Program, although the second launch (the first was the launch of the Skylab craft itself). The Skylab crews wore mission patches numbered for the crew - so Conrad (and his crew) wear the "Skylab 1" patch.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S73-25901
Date: May 25, 1973