SKYLAB 4 LIFTOFF - The Skylab 4/Saturn 1B space vehicle is
launched from Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center,
Florida, at 9:01:23 a.m. (EST), Friday, November 16, 1973.
Skylab 4 is the third and last of three scheduled manned Skylab
missions. Aboard the Skylab 4 Command Module were Astronauts
Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson and William R. Pogue. In
addition to the CSM and its launch escape system, the Skylab 4
space vehicle consisted of the Saturn 1B first (S-1D) stage and
the Saturn 1B second (S-IVB) stage. (The Skylab 1/Saturn V
unmanned space vehicle with the space station payload was
launched from Pad A on May 14, 1973).
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