Skylab 4 Apollo Command Module
This Skylab 4 Apollo Command Module served as the cabin for going to and from Skylab, the first U.S. space station. Skylab 4, the last of the Skylab missions and was launched in 1973 with this Command Module and the three-person crew, who spent 84 days in orbit.
Skylab 4 astronauts performing scientific experiments in the areas of medical activities, solar observations, Earth resources, observation of the Comet Kohoutek and other investigations. None of the crew of Skylab 4 flew in space again, as they had not been selected for Apollo-Soyuz and all of them retired from NASA before the first Space Shuttle launch.
Skylab 4 Apollo Command Module
- Title: Skylab 4 Apollo Command Module
- Launch: 1973
- Applications: Skylab 4 Command Module
- Design life: 75 hours
- Launch mass: 33,500 pounds (15,200 kg) initial
- Crew capacity: 3
- Dimensions: 10ft 7in. x 12ft 10in., 12000lb. (322.58 x 391.16cm, 5443.2kg)
- Materials: Aluminum alloy, stainless steel, and titanium structures. Epoxy-resin ablative heat shield covers outside.
- Museum: National Air and Space Museum
Tour of the National Air and Space Museum
- The Spirit of St. Louis
- Apollo 11 Command Module
- The Wright Flyer
- Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis
- SpaceShipOne
- Apollo Lunar Module
- Skylab 4 Apollo Command Module
- Airbus A320 Simulated Cockpit
A Tour of Air and Space Museums
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- Intrepid, Sea, Air & Space Museum
- Aviation Museum Hannover-Laatzen
- Royal Air Force Museum London
- Australian Aviation Heritage Centre
Science and Technology Museums
- Science Museum, London
- Queensland Museum & Science Centre
- National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo
- ArtScience Museum, Singapore
- Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
- Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland
- Intrepid, Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York
- National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC
- National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo
- Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)
- Science and Technology Museums
- Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Military and War Museums and Memorials
- Imperial War Museum, London
- Intrepid, Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York
- Australian War Memorial
- Darwin Military Museum, Australia
- Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, Australia
- Changi Museum, Singapore
- War Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Churchill War Rooms, London
- Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, New Zealand
- Household Cavalry Museum, London
- National Army Museum, London
- MacArthur Museum Brisbane
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“Isn’t it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years,
just so we could discover them!”
-Orville Wright
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Photo Credit: 1)By Joyofmuseums (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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