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40th anniversary of skylab
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14-05-2013 9:57pm#1http://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.html3
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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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