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Good point. And of course is is Skylab 1-4 or Skylab + 1-3 or some
variation there of. ;-)


Don't forget that the unflown back-up Skylab was called 'Skylab 2',
also.


As Brian pointed out, it was referred to as Skylab B. The issue numbering
Skylab flights is some consider the launch of the station itself was "Skylab
1" others (including the patch) refer to the first crewed flight to the
station as Skylab 1.
(Wikipedia appears to use SL-2 and SLM-1 to refer to the same flight so
perhaps that's one way of resolving the discrepancy. :-)

(and there's another flight never flown that perhaps we should have,
SL-5/SLM-4, a proposed 20 day flight that also would have boosted it into a
higher orbit.)



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