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[b]Space Cover 192, A Skylab 4 Holiday to Remember[/b] What present would you want for a holiday? Well, if I was in space it would be a record setting spacewalk... and that is exactly what the Skylab 4 astronauts received for their holiday in 1973! The second spacewalk of the Skylab 4 mission would take place on December 25, 1973 with a then record setting length of seven hours. Jerry Carr and Bill Pogue used two special cameras – an extreme ultraviolet electronographic camera and a coronograph contamination camera – to photograph Comet Kohoutek as it approached its perihelion on December 28. Comet Kohoutek was observed first by Skylab 4 and then by Soyuz 13 thus becoming the first comet to be observed by a manned spacecraft. In addition to their photography of the comet Carr and Gibson also replaced film on the Skylab solar observatory. Shown above in the scan are three covers for this spacewalk. The top cover is from the Space City Cover Society while the middle cover is a Space Voyage cover. Both of these are cancelled from Houston on December 25. The bottom cover is a Philgraph cover and is cancelled at Cape Canaveral with a December 25th cancel. As Steve said... Happy Holidays from all of us Space Cover of the Week writers to you and your families!
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