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First and second stages of the Saturn IB launch vehicle for Skylab 2 are visible atop the 129-foot high pedestal installed on a mobile launcher. The pedestal was designed to enable use of mobile launchers for Saturn IB launch vehicles. On the Skylab 2 mission, an Apollo spacecraft will carry Astronauts Charles Conrad, Dr. Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz into Earth orbit to rendezvous and dock with Skylab 1, the first US manned orbiting space station. They will enter the space station to live and conduct experiments during a 28-day mission, then return to Earth in the Apollo.