The Explorers' Club, № CMLX

Operation AXIOM: The Space Race—The 50th Anniversary of Skylab 2, Part III
19-22 June 1973: Conrad & Weitz conducted an E.V.A. to retrieve film canisters from the Apollo Telescope Mount; the trio set a new spaceflight endurance record—twenty-eight days; the unnamed Command Module splashed down in the Pacific & was recovered by the U.S.S. Ticonderoga; Conrad especially had exercised furiously in order to walk unaided across the Ticonderoga's deck, & did so.

Commentary: The twenty-eight days of Skylab 2 surpassed the previous endurance record, twenty-three days, set by the doomed Soyuz 11 crew aboard the Salyut 1 space station (1971).

Bonus! Space Race Song o' the Day: Skylab 2
They Might Be Giants, "Why Does the Sun Really Shine?" from Here Comes Science (Space Cadet Mike Papa DSKY)

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