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A close-up view of the Skylab space station cluster photographed against a black sky background from the Skylab 3 Command Module (CM) during the "fly around" inspection prior to docking. Aboard the CM were astronauts Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott and Jack R. Lousma, who remained with the Skylab space station in Earth orbit for 59 days. This picture was taken with a hand-held 70mm Hasselblad camera. Note the one solar array system wing on the Orbital Workshop (OWS) which was successfully deployed during an extravehicular activity (EVA) on the first manned Skylab mission. The primary docking port at the forward end of the Multiple Docking Adapter (MDA) is visible below the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM).