Status
Success
Rocket
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