The Skylab 2/ Saturn 1B space vehicle is launched from Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 9:00 a.m. EDT, Friday, May 25, 1973. Skylab 2 is the first of three scheduled Skylab manned missions. Aboard the Skylab 2 Command/Service Module were astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz. The Skylab 2 CSM later docked with the Skylab 1 space station cluster in Earth orbit. In addition to the CSM and its launch escape system, the Skylab 2 space vehicle consisted of the Saturn 1B first S-1B stage and the Saturn 1B second S-1VB stage. The Skylab 1/ Saturn V space vehicle with the space station payload was launched from Pad A, on May 14, 1973.
