Amaya Toman In today's part of our regular series called Back to the Past, this time we will recall an event related to the discovery of space. This is the launch of the Skylab space station, which went into orbit on May 14, 1973. The Skylab station was launched into orbit using the Saturn 5 rocket.
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Skylab Space Station Heads For Orbit (1973)
On May 14, 1973, Skylab One (Skylab 1) took off from Cape Canaveral. It involved putting the Skylab station into orbit by a two-stage modification of the Saturn 5 carrier. After the launch, the station began to experience numerous problems, including an excessive increase in internal temperature or insufficient opening of the solar panels, so the program for the first flight to Skylab was largely concerned with fixing the given defects. The U.S. orbital space station Skylab eventually orbited planet Earth for six years and was manned by a crew of mostly American astronauts. In the years 1973 – 1974, a total of three three-man crews stayed on Skylab, while the length of their stay was 28, 59 and 84 days. The space station was created by modifying the third stage of the S-IVB rocket Saturn 5, its weight in orbit was 86 kilograms. The length of the Skylab station was thirty-six meters, the interior was made up of a two-story structure that served for the work and sleeping quarters of the individual crews.
