Remembering Skylab’s launch, 50 years on

On May 14, 1973, watched by 25,000 rapt spectators, the last Saturn V patiently sat on Launch Pad 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Atop the rocket was Skylab, the biggest, heaviest single object ever to be put into space and the nation’s first long-term, off-planet homestead. At 12:30 P.M. EDT, the Saturn’s fiveContinue reading “Remembering Skylab’s launch, 50 years on”
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