IMAGE 1600_99\685.Lbm,The Skylab 2 astronauts, (from the front) Charles Conrad, Paul Weitz and Joseph Kerwin, leave for the launch pad.
IMAGE 1600_99\687.Lbm,On reaching orbit, the Skylab 2 astronauts see the extent of the damage Skylab suffered during launch.
IMAGE 1600_99\688.Lbm,On-board photograph showing the partly deployed solar panel on Skylab's orbital workshop.
IMAGE 1600_99\689.Lbm,The heated food tray Skylab astronauts used when taking meals, a great advance on eating arrangements on previous missions.
IMAGE 1600_99\690.Lbm,Charles Conrad at work in the cavernous Skylab space station. (Skylab 2)
IMAGE 1600_99\691.Lbm,Pedalling with his hands on the bicycle ergonometer, Charles Conrad takes much-need exercise. (Skylab 2)
IMAGE 1600_99\692.Lbm,Dr Joseph Kerwin gives fellow Skylab 2 astronaut Paul Weitz a medical once-over.
IMAGE 1600_99\693.Lbm,Paul Weitz helps Joseph Kerwin wire-up for his session in the lower body negative pressure experiment. (Skylab 2)
xxIMAGE 1600_99\693a.Lbm,The Skylab 2 astronauts make a final check of Skylab before returning after their 28-day mission on June 22, 1973.
IMAGE 1600_99\694.Lbm,The Skylab 3 astronauts fly around Skylab before docking with it on July 28, 1973.
IMAGE 1600_99\695.Lbm,Owen Garriott at the control console of the Apollo telescope mount, which carries the solar telescopes. (Skylab 3)
IMAGE 1600_99\696.Lbm,Alan Bean test-flies the astronaut manoeuvring unit in the huge forward dome of the orbital workshop. (Skylab 3)
IMAGE 1600_99\697.Lbm,This live TV transmission from Skylab shows Jack Lousma spacewalking. (Skylab 3)
IMAGE 1600_99\698.Lbm,Jack Lousma spacewalking, photographed from Skylab. (Skylab 3)
IMAGE 1600_99\699.Lbm,Space spider Arabella makes a passable job of web-spinning, despite the weightless conditions in Skylab. (Skylab 3)
IMAGE 1700_99\700.Lbm,Skylab 3 Earth photography: Hurricane Ellen over the Atlantic on September 20, 1973.
IMAGE 1700_99\701.Lbm,Skylab 3 Earth photography: the Andes Mountains, looking south over Argentina and Chile.
IMAGE 1700_99\702.Lbm,Skylab 3 Earth photography: the Manicouagan impact structure in Quebec, Canada.
IMAGE 1700_99\703.Lbm,Skylab 3 Earth-resources photography: south-eastern New York State and the Hudson River.
IMAGE 1700_99\704.Lbm,The three main parachutes open above the Skylab 3 command module to lower it to a gentle splashdown on September 25, 1973, after a magnificent 59-stay in orbit.
IMAGE 1700_99\705.Lbm,Frogmen attach a flotation collar to the Skylab 3 command module after splashdown.
IMAGE 1700_99\706.Lbm,Sunrise over the pad on November 16, 1973, for the Skylab 4 astronauts, shortly to be launched to Skylab by Saturn IB rocket.
IMAGE 1700_99\707.Lbm,The Skylab 4/Saturn IB launch vehicle blasts off the pad on November 16, 1973.
IMAGE 1700_99\708.Lbm,Edward Gibson spacewalking, a still from an on-board Skylab movie. (Skylab 4)
IMAGE 1700_99\710.Lbm,Astronauts William Pogue and Gerald Carr demonstrate how easy it is in zero gravity to balance a man on a finger! (Skylab 4)
IMAGE 1700_99\711.Lbm,Skylab 4 Earth photography: a vast cyclone winding itself up over the South Pacific.
IMAGE 1700_99\712.Lbm,Skylab 4 Earth photography: snow blankets the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains during the winter of 1973/74.
IMAGE 1700_99\713.Lbm,Skylab 4 Earth photography: part of the Murray River Basin in Victoria, Australia. The prominent feature lower left is the dry Lake Tyrrell.
IMAGE 1700_99\714.Lbm,Skylab 4 Earth-resources photography: infrared view of the Berry Islands in the Bahamas.
