Skylab
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- proper noun
- /ˈskaɪˌlæb/
- Specialized
- In the summer of 1979, Skylab, the first and only manned American space laboratory, malfunctioned and crashed to Earth.
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Watch on YouTubeAnd those guys hung around in for the for Skylab, sort of flew on Skylab and sort of flew on the shuttle.
- And those guys hung around in for the for Skylab, sort of flew on Skylab and sort of flew on the shuttle.
- So it was the week that Skylab was coming back to Earth, going to re enter the atmosphere.
- Rewinding real quick, Skylab was, was, was it the first, the first big lab that we had in orbit?
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Ethan, can I access the Skylab files from here?
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Three successive crews of astronauts visited Skylab for periods of 1 to 3 months each.
Academic text (1991) -
Skylab was in our program and a second Skylab was under construction at that time.
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How did a guidance system from Skylab end up in a Russian bird?
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Sir, did you see Skylab when it fell?
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So it was the week that Skylab was coming back to Earth, going to re enter the atmosphere.
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This is the guidance system from Skylab.
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And we left a fine space station (Skylab) abandoned because we had no means to reach it.
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Techniques of making high-quality X-ray images were developed in the 1960s and 1970s, and led to an orbiting X-ray telescope on Skylab in 1973 and 1974.
Academic text (1991) -
In 1973, I spent 59 days aboard NASA's Skylab space station as commander.
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Etymology
Skylab is a name made from sky and lab, so it means a 'laboratory in the sky'. That's why Skylab was the US space station where astronauts lived and did experiments in orbit.