In January 1968, the Saturn V S-IVB stage that housed the orbital workshop, which was renamed Skylab was unloaded from the Super Guppy at Redstone Airfield in Huntsville, Ala.
In January 1968, the Saturn V S-IVB stage that housed the orbital workshop, which was renamed Skylab was unloaded from the Super Guppy, the NASA plane built to carry oversized cargo, at Redstone Airfield in Huntsville, Ala. The workshop measured 22 feet (6.7 meters) in diameter, and 48 feet (14.6 meters) in length. The Saturn V S-IVB stage was modified at the McDonnell Douglas facility at Huntington Beach, Calif., for a new role as America’s first space station. The initial concept for the workshop was devised at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville; the center also managed the development of Skylab hardware and experiments.
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