Artifact: Skylab 2+3+4 signed 8x10 NASA litho by all 9 (7 handsigned, 2 autopens)
Artifact Category: autograph, photograph.
Dimensions: 20.4 x 25.5 cm.
Program: Skylab

Description: Skylab litograph handsigned by 7 astronauts: Alan Bean, Jack Lousma, Owen Garriott (Skylab 3 crew), Charles Conrad (Skylab 2) and Jerry Carr, Bill Pogue + Ed Gibson (Skylab 4 crew). 2 are autopensigned : Paul Weitz and Joe Kerwin.

Skylab was the first United States space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. It was operated by three separate three-astronaut crews: Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4. Major operations included an orbital workshop, a solar observatory, Earth observation, and hundreds of experiments.

Unable to be re-boosted by the Space Shuttle, which was not ready until 1981, Skylab's orbit eventually decayed, and it disintegrated in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979, scattering debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia.

Artifact: Skylab flown oxygen supply tank fragment.
Size: 6.5 x 10.8 cm.
Weight: 385 gr.

Description: Flown fragment of a Skylab oxygen supply tank recovered in Western Australia after the space station's fiery reentry in 1979, approximately 1.75” x .5°, encased ina domed 2.5” x 4” x 2.5” block of Lucite with a folded image and information sheet at the bottom.

Skylab was the first United States space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. It was operated by three separate three-astronaut crews: Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4. Major operations included an orbital workshop, a solar observatory, Earth observation, and hundreds of experiments.

Peter Ralphs, Laurie Hotstone and Bill Norton pose by the road in Rawlinna, WA with the Skylab oxygen supply tank, July 13, 1979. Credit: AP radiophoto.