Skylab 1, America's first space station, launched unmanned on the final Saturn V from Kennedy LC-39A; micrometeoroid shield and solar-array damage during ascent later required on-orbit repairs.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 85.7 T
- Flight
- 13th
- of 13 Saturn V flights
- Date and time
- 14 May 1973, 17:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Saturn V
- Builder
- Boeing / North American / Douglas
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1973-027
- Launches in 1973
- 28th of 116
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