Video: 'Radio News Coverage: Skylab 3 Part 6' (splashdown coverage at 35:37)

(Friday, February 8, 11:16:53 a.m. EDT; part of NASA’s Skylab program) — The last three-man crew of the Skylab space station, consisting of Jerry Carr, Bill Pogue and Edward Gibson, returned to Earth today after spending 84 days in space, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean some 176 miles southwest of San Diego. Skylab remained in orbit another five years before plunging to its destruction in 1979.