NASA to Mark 40th Anniversary of Skylab and Life Off Earth
“NASA will commemorate the 40th anniversary of America’s first space station Monday, May 13, with a televised roundtable discussion featuring Skylab astronauts, a current astronaut and agency managers planning future space missions.”
Participants will include:
– Owen Garriott, science pilot, Skylab 3
– Gerald Carr, commander, Skylab 4
– Kevin Ford, commander, International Space Station Expedition 34
– D. Marshall Porterfield, director, Space Life and Physical Sciences Research and Applications Division, NASA Headquarters
– Jason Crusan, director, Advanced Exploration Systems, NASA Headquarters
Watch live at 2:30 p.m. ET.

Marc Boucher is an entrepreneur, writer, editor, podcaster and publisher who has worked in space media for more than 25 years. In 1999 he co-founded SpaceRef with Keith Cowing. The new media company grew into a network that included NASA Watch and The Astrobiology Web. After selling SpaceRef, he joined Multiverse Media, which later merged with SpaceNews. There he helped steer the combined company toward more multimedia, a subscription paywall and intelligence products, and pushed for a mobile app. He is also the founder of SpaceQ Media, Canada’s space news and market intelligence publication.

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One reply on “NASA Commemorates Skylab's 40th Anniversary”

  1. Owen Garriott and Gerry Carr and their Skylab memories were far more interesting than the ISS folks. I wish Carr would have went into more detail on the “big disagreement” he and his crew had with the flight controllers during Skylab 4!

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