The all-time record was held then by the Skylab 4 crew at 84 days.

The first long-duration crew stayed for 96 days, beating the 84-day world record for space endurance established in 1974 by the last Skylab crew.

About six weeks into the flight, a few days before New Year's Eve, the Skylab 4 crew hit their breaking point.

The film and the Apollo 13 disaster that occurred soon after its release led to the development of rescue options for Skylab crews.

The last Skylab crew returned to the Earth on February 8, 1974.

Schweickart also served as the backup commander for the Skylab 2 crew in 1973.

They had been the only Apollo and Skylab crew not granted this award.

He was a member of the Skylab 3 crew in 1973 and the commander of STS-3, the third space shuttle mission in 1983.

If you bring a goldfish into orbit (the Skylab crew did), it will flounder helplessly in its globe of water.

Both spacecraft would then be operated by the Skylab crews.