“A Saturn IB rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on this date in 1973 carrying the last three astronauts to visit the Spacelab space station. The Skylab 4 (SL-4) mission lasted eighty-four days and the three astronauts completed 1,214 orbits of the earth. The Skylab program was America’s first space station program and NASA scientists learned quite a bit about the effects of long-term habitation in space.”
~Florida Historical Society
