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Skylab station with Earth in the background

Crew of the departing Skylab 2 mission took this June 22, 1973 photo of the orbiting space station. The SL-2 crew comprised of Charles Conrad, Paul Weitz and Joseph Kerwin. They spent over 26 days in space and took this picture from the Skylab Command/Service Module as part of their final fly by inspection before returning back to Earth.

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