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 Skylab Is Launched (1973)Launched into orbit in 1973, Skylab was the first US space station. It carried a laboratory for studying the human body's adaptation to weightlessness and a powerful solar telescope. Three successive astronaut crews conducted research aboard Skylab for a total of 171 days in 1973–74. Though Skylab was intended to be reused, increased solar activity caused its orbit to degrade faster than expected. In 1979, the 75-tonne station reentered Earth's atmosphere and broke up. Where did the debris land? More...
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Daemon wrote:Skylab Is Launched (1973)Launched into orbit in 1973, Skylab was the first US space station. It carried a laboratory for studying the human body's adaptation to weightlessness and a powerful solar telescope. Three successive astronaut crews conducted research aboard Skylab for a total of 171 days in 1973–74. Though Skylab was intended to be reused, increased solar activity caused its orbit to degrade faster than expected. In 1979, the 75-tonne station reentered Earth's atmosphere and broke up. Where did the debris land? More... Thank you for the good article and pictures. An era gone by.
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a amazing feat for mankind
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I was a kid when this happened. I remember everyone at school worrying about getting hit by Skylab. Every kid claimed something landed in their back yard.
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Daemon wrote:Skylab Is Launched (1973)Launched into orbit in 1973, Skylab was the first US space station. It carried a laboratory for studying the human body's adaptation to weightlessness and a powerful solar telescope. Three successive astronaut crews conducted research aboard Skylab for a total of 171 days in 1973–74. Though Skylab was intended to be reused, increased solar activity caused its orbit to degrade faster than expected. In 1979, the 75-tonne station reentered Earth's atmosphere and broke up. Where did the debris land? More... Let's look at it from a different angle... too much money wasted/ taken away from the honest, good, hardworking people who are trying to make ends meet while man's greed is searching to be in control of the Universe but cannot control their own addictions, destructive military urges that will eat them away like the flame in the wind.... The bottom line is man can never know the mystery of life and death, and cannot truly be in control of the Universe... man is a very uncaring, selfish, self-destructive animal...
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death is like sleeping without any movies.
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Amazing adventures.
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