1974 NASA SKYLAB #1529 Plate Block of 4 x 10 cents US Postage Stamps

1974 NASA SKYLAB #1529 Plate Block of 4 x 10 cents US Postage Stamps - On May 14 1974 in Houston TX, the USPS celebrated the first anniversary of NASA's launching of Skylab 1, the first orbiting space laboratory. Skylab 1 included a laboratory for studying the effects of microgravity and the Apollo Telescope Mount solar observatory. Severe damage was sustained during launch, as was successfully repaired during a spacewalk, as depicted here in this stamp. After 171 days in space, Skylab 1 returned to Earth in 1979, with about 94,000 frames of film and 100,000 feet of tape for space researchers to study. ( NASA, Space, Astronauts, Microgravity, Exploration )

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