Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC); landing 1320 km
southwest of San Diego in the Pacific Oecean.
First crew of the Skylab
space station. "Rescue mission" for the overheated space station, which had
been damaged at its launch.
EVAs:
Weitz
on 25.05.1973 (0h 35m) (first attempt to release to the solar panel - failed),
Conrad and
Kerwin on 07.06.1973 (3h 23m) (successful release of the
solar panel),
Conrad and
Weitz
on 19.06.1973 (1h 36m) (replacement of film cartridges for solar camera).
Substantial repairs, including deployment of a parasol sunshade, which brought
the temperatures down to tolerable levels. Solar astronomy and Earth resources
experiments and medical studies were performed. The sunshade had been built
within 7 days.
The recovery ship was the
USS Ticonderoga. With
this mission the crew set a new manned spaceflight duration record.