SKYLAB

Skylab

Skylab was a space station launched and operated by NASA and was the United States' first space station. Skylab orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, and included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems. It was launched unmanned by a modified Saturn V rocket, with a mass of . Three manned missions to the station, conducted between 1973 and 1974 using the Apollo Command/Service Module atop the smaller Saturn IB, each delivered a three-astronaut crew. On the last two manned missions, an additional Apollo / Saturn IB stood by ready to rescue the crew in orbit if it was needed.

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skylab

Noun

  1. An outer space laboratory.


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