STP156 - An Interview with Jack Lousma - Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Skylab 3

This week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Skylab 3 by talking to the only surviving member of that crew - Jack Lousma.

Skylab 3 lifted off on July 28th 1973 and the mission lasted 59 days, 11 hours and 9 minutes which was an endurance record at the time. The commander was Alan Bean, science pilot was Owen Garriott and the pilot was Jack Lousma. Lousma was one of 19 astronauts selected in NASA astronaut group 5 in April 1966, perhaps most famous for being the astronaut who was CAPCOM during Apollo 13 at the moment the explosion happened on board the spacecraft. He was the person who responded to the “Houston we’ve had a problem” message. As well as this Skylab mission, he commanded the Space Shuttle on it’s 3rd mission before retiring from NASA in October 1983 having clocked a total of 67 days and 11 hours in space.

Try and meet Jack at Kennedy Space Center: 

https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar?pageindex=1 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp156-an-interview-with-jack-lousma-celebrating-the-50th-anniversary-of-skylab-3

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