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The U.S. Project Skylab Commemorative Stamp: 1974
Project Skylab, 10 cents, Scott Catalog No. 1529, Issued in 1974
Skylab was designed from Apollo era hardware. There were a total of four launches. The laboratory, as a Saturn V, and three subsequent launches with a crew of three each. Each of these was a Command/Service Module,launched with a Saturn 1B booster.
This beautiful stamp is a mult-colored engraved design showing the partially deployed solar panels and the special thermal shield brought up on the first manned flight.
For further reading, see NASA's The Skylab Project web pages at the Kennedy Space Center.