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Skylab 3

Skylab 3 (also SL-3 and SLM-2) was the second manned mission to Skylab. The Skylab 3 mission started July 28, 1973, with the launch of three astronauts on the Saturn IB rocket, and lasted 59 days, 11 hours and 9 minutes. A total of 1,084.7 astronaut-utilization hours were tallied by Skylab 3 astronauts performing scientific experiments in the areas of medical activities, solar observations, Earth resources and other experiments.

The manned Skylab missions were officially designated Skylab 2, 3, and 4. However, a series of mistakes during the design phase of the mission patches resulted in the patches reading Skylab I, Skylab II, and Skylab 3 respectively.