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40th anniversary of skylab

expectationlost · 2013-05-14 20:57:52

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/14/4330806/skylab-americas-first-space-station-launched-40-years-ago-today hour long discussion about skylab with two astronauts from that mission and few others, very interesting apart from the annoying host looking for good picture showing the the size and volume of skylab (compared to the…

14-05-2013 8:57pm

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http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/14/4330806/skylab-americas-first-space-station-launched-40-years-ago-today

hour long discussion about skylab with two astronauts from that mission and few others, very interesting apart from the annoying host

looking for good picture showing the the size and volume of skylab (compared to the ISS)

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/about/history/jsc40/jsc_gallery_center12.html

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/images/skylab_images.html

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#2 14-05-2013 10:43pm

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Skylab was incredible for its time - the amount of space the astronauts had was huge. Its launch was a near disaster as part of its solar panel array and heat shield ripped off - so the first mission to Skylab was to repair its outer shield to bring temperatures inside the station down to habitable conditions.

It was the hollowed out inside stage of a Saturn rocket.

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