Skylab Orbital Workshop, Kennedy Space Center, USA

1973 - Skylab Orbital Workshop; The Skylab Orbital Workshop is shown in the Vehicle Assembly building at Kennedy Space Center, Fla, mated with its Saturn V launch vehicle. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will place an embryonic space station the Skylab cluster into each orbit in 1973. The Skylab Program Objectives are to carry out a broad spectrum of experimental investigations and to gain a better understanding of the requirements for a permanent man made platform in space. Emphasis is being placed on a series of medical experiments associated with the extension of manned space flight, at the short wave lengths not directly observable from the surface of the Earth, and a series of earth survey experiments. (Credit Image: (c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans)

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