On this date, Jan. 4, 1970, NASA officially canceled the Apollo 20 mission and transferred the Saturn V rocket that would have sent astronauts to the moon to the Skylab mission. NASA, in a budget ...
acting as space commander in the second manned Skylab mission, which set a record for space flight of 59 days. See more programmes and clips about the Apollo Moon landings.
He travelled to the US two months later to witness the launch of Apollo 12 and has attended the launch of Skylab, the US’ first space station in 1973, visited Mission Control in Houston and the ...