# Skylab 2: Human Ingenuity Saves Space Station
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This is your Astronomy Tonight podcast.
Well hello there, stargazers! Welcome back to our show. Today we're celebrating a rather *explosive* anniversary in the cosmos—and I mean that quite literally!
On January 26th, 1972, the absolutely magnificent **Skylab 2 mission** launched from Kennedy Space Center, carrying astronaut Pete Conrad, Paul Weitz, and Joe Kerwin to rendezvous with America's first space station, Skylab. But here's where it gets really interesting: the original Skylab had launched just ten days earlier, and it had suffered *catastrophic damage* during ascent—a micrometeorite shield had torn away, exposing the station to the brutal vacuum and heat of space. Many people thought the whole program was doomed!
But Pete Conrad and his crew? They were absolute legends. When they docked with Skylab, they performed the most audacious spacewalks of the era, literally going out there with nothing but their suits and some improvised tools to save the entire space station. They deployed a makeshift sunshade—essentially a space umbrella—that brought the temperature down from a scorching 130 degrees Fahrenheit to a habitable 75 degrees. Pure. Genius.
This mission proved that human ingenuity and courage could overcome the most impossible odds, right there in the vacuum of space.
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