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Astronauts Launch 85 Day Skylab Mission to See Kohoutek
Skylab 3 crew Gerald Carr William Pogue and Edward Gibson depart Cape Canaveral aboard a Saturn 1B at 11 40 a m EST to begin an 85 day stay aboard the space station linking with it after eight hours. They seek to study Kohoutek the Christmas comet from orbit and carry instruments to record ultraviolet and X ray emissions amid a world wide effort to observe the event.
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Lukos Kohoutek