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==Launch== [[File:The Skylab 4 Saturn 1B space vehicle is launched from Pad B, Launch Complex 39.jpg|thumb|The Skylab 4 Saturn 1B space vehicle is launched from Pad B, Launch Complex 39.]] NASA's launch center was located in an area called [[Cape Kennedy]] since November 28, 1963<!-- May 15, 1964 -->.<ref name=icknwdb>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=U38eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RMoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1484%2C5225048 |work=Daytona Beach Morning Journal |location=(Florida) |agency=Associated Press |title=It's Cape Kennedy now |date=November 29, 1963 |page=1}}</ref> Cape Kennedy was restored to its former name of Cape Canaveral officially on October 9, 1973.<ref name=leth>Lethbridge, Clifford J. [http://www.spaceline.org/capehistory/3a.html Spaceline.org "Cape History"]. Spaceline.org. Retrieved on March 23, 2011.</ref><ref name=ckisncc>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=n41OAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fPoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7245%2C2691579 |work=Lakeland Ledger |location=(Florida) |agency=(Washington Post) |title=Cape Kennedy is now Cape Canaveral |date=October 10, 1973 |page=8A}}</ref> The [[Saturn V]] launch facilities at LC-39A and LC-39B were still located at the [[Kennedy Space Center]] on [[Merritt Island, Florida|Merritt Island]].<ref name=leth/> The Skylab 4 mission was the first crewed launch since the area changed its name back to Cape Canaveral;<ref name=sasetfo>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z-MpAAAAIBAJ&pg=3778%2C4892 |work=Daytona Beach Morning Journal |location=(Florida) |title=Skylab astronauts set for 9:01 launch today |date=November 16, 1973 |page=1A}}</ref> it launched from the Kennedy Space Center's LC-39B pad on November 16, 1973.<ref name=sdcthrd>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=36dYAAAAIBAJ&pg=6498%2C5079|work=[[Spokane Daily Chronicle]] |location=(Washington)|agency=Associated Press |title=Third Skylab crew fired aloft |date=November 16, 1973 |page=1}}</ref>
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