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SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont: link

"Artist's rendering shows how Command Service Module (CSM) will dock with the Orbiting Workshop (OWS) during the Skylab mission. Assisting in the docking is the VHF Ranging System designed and built by RCA Government Communications Systems, Camdem, N.J. The system provides the CMS pilot with the range between the two spacecraft. Ranging is performed by sending radio tones from the CSM to the workshop, which retransmits them to the CSM. The range is determined by measuring the time between the transmission of the tones and receipt of the OWS retransmitted."

Date: May 12, 1973

"This photograph, taken during the assembly of the Flight Article of the Skylab Airlock Module (AM) at McDornell Douglas in St. Louis, Missouri, shows the truss assembly. The AM enabled crew members to conduct extravehicular activities outside Skylab as required for experiment support. Separated from the Workshop and the Multiple Docking Adapter by doors, the AM could be evacuated for egress or ingress of a space-suited astronaut through a side hatch. Oxygen and nitrogen storage tanks needed for Skylab's life support system were mounted on the external truss work of the AM. Major components in the AM included Skylab's electric power control and distribution station, environmental control system, communication system, and data handling and recording systems. The Marshall Space Flight Center was responsible for the design and development of the Skylab hardware and experiment management."

"This space station, which appears from the art style to be a Grumman design, is a single-launch space station to be launched atop a Saturn V. The two arms would fold back for storage on the launch vehicle and would deploy once in orbit. An Apollo CSM is shown approaching for docking along the centerline; it’s not clear if the docking cone was rotationally decoupled. if it was not, the two Apollo-like capsules hanging off the sides of the cone are a bit of a head scratcher."

Date: 1969

Portraits of all three Skylab Astronaut crews.

The final view of Skylab, from the departing SL-4 after 84 days in the orbiting laboratory.

"An overhead view of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit as photographed from the Skylab 4 Command and Service Modules (CSM-118) during the final fly-around by the CSM before returning home. The space station is contrasted against a cloud-covered Earth.

Note: the solar shield which was deployed by the second crew of Skylab and from which a micrometeoroid shield has been missing since the cluster was launched on May 14, 1973. The OWS solar panel on the left side was also lost on the workshop's launch day."

Date: February 8, 1974

The Skylab Airlock flight article 2 lower deploy assembly being loaded into the Guppy, in front of McDonnell Douglas Blg 66 ready, to be transported to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Date: March 22, 1971

Utilization of current hardware for Apollo Applications program, including the Dry Workshop (aka Skylab) and extended Apollo missions to Earth orbit and the moon.

Date: October 14, 1969

"Skylab Airlock Module in clean room

St. Louis, MO - The flight version of the Skylab Airlock Module is shown here in a clean room at the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. Faciliy in St. Louis, MO. The flight Airlock Module is 17 feet long and 10.5 feet in diameter at the top, and weighs about 49,000 pounds.

Note: the Gemini door, inverted at center of picture."

Date: January 27, 1972