NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Skylab 1

Launch Time
Mon May 14, 1973 17:30 UTC

Last flight of the Saturn V.

Rocket

Saturn V
NASA
Status: Retired
Price: $1,160.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 35,100 kN
Payload to LEO: 140,000 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 110.6 m

Mission Details

Skylab 1

By 1969, Apollo funding cuts eliminated the possibility of procuring more Apollo hardware, and in fact forced the cancellation of some later Moon landing flights. This freed up at least one Saturn V, allowing the wet workshop to be replaced with the "dry workshop" concept: the station (now known as Skylab) would be built on the ground from a surplus Saturn IB second stage and launched atop the first two live stages of a Saturn V.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 76,295.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Stats

1973

28th orbital launch attempt

Saturn V

13th mission
1st mission of 1973
12th successful mission
11th consecutive successful mission