The crewmen of the third and closing manned Skylab mission chill out on the USS New Orleans, prime restoration ship for his or her mission, about an hour after their Command Module splashed down at 10:17 a.m. (CDT), Feb. 8, 1974. The splashdown, which occurred 176 statute miles from San Diego, ended 84 record-setting days of flight exercise aboard the Skylab area station cluster in Earth orbit.
