Skylab Launch

Skylab launched On A Saturn Rocket

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[FantasticBob7000]

0:10 This ain't Skylab.  @#$% stock footage BS.

[misqumockas]

@FantasticBob7000 Better tell NASA that.......

[FantasticBob7000]

@misqumockas You know what I'm talking about right? 0:11-0:15 shows the CSM with the RCS thrusters, they switched stock film. 

[misqumockas]

@FantasticBob7000 I see what you mean, good eye!!!

[ApolloWasReal]

Good catch! I also looked up some photos of the S-IB launches and I see that only the S-IVB of the Skylab 2 (first manned launch) was missing the letters "US". The picture of the Skylab 3 launch shows that its S-IVB had the full "USA". I wonder why those letters were missing from just the one rocket?

[ApolloProgramWasReal]

That part was launch of Skylab 2. You can see on 0.24 letter "A". I found picture of Sl 2 launch. there can be seen "A", but not the "US". Its missing

[smart12222]

@fletch1701

Actually, the Saturn 1B would have been capable of it, but the launcher was actually a modified Saturn V. What they did was they ripped the S-IVB upper stage, which in a lunar mission would have pushed it to the moon, and replaced it with Skylab. Though there were plans to just use an S-1B, then use the empty second stage as a space station.

Also, at 0:11 for a few seconds, it's stock footage. Skylab didn't have thrusters. Those are from Apollo CSM.

[101southsideboy]

my 3 yr old speak better than alot of those nasa pao's (public affair officers)

[ApolloWasReal]

You're right, the wide shots are of the Skylab 1 launch. That was the orbital workshop, without crew, on an INT-21, the first two stages of a Saturn V.

The close shots are of an Apollo CSM on a Saturn 1B from Pad 39, so it could have been one of the crew flights: Skylab 2, 3 or 4.

But it might also be the very last Apollo launch: Apollo Soyuz Test Project. It also flew on a Saturn 1B from a "stool" at Pad 39.

The other Apollo/Saturn 1B launch was Apollo 7, but from a visibly different pad.

[clipperride]

It looks like a Saturn V launch to me! There was no escape tower as it was an unmanned launch. Ther three crews got to Sky Lab on a Saturn 1B launcher. You can spot these launches as the 1B wsa placed on a stand so the hatch door was at the same hight as on the previous Apollo Moon launches.