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US space station
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skylab
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Skylab may be a reference to: Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station , an Antarctica research station Skylab , the first space station launched into orbit by the United States Skylab 1 , the mission that launched Skylab Skylab 2 , the first human spaceflight ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
name of a U.S. space program, first attested 1970, launched 1973, fell to earth 1979. From sky (n.) + lab (n.).
Usage examples of skylab.
The average man shrugged at the news that damaged sections of Skylab in the summer of 1973 might have left its crew in space for eternity.
He would be one of nine men to spend up to two months aboard Skylab II, the big space station orbiting the earth at three hundred miles.
We developed equipment for the Skylab station there, and I logged a few hundred hours underwater.
Tucker had finally commanded a Skylab mission a year before Baedecker had left NASA.
It had also almost certainly cost Dave a future ride in the Skylab program.
He showed her the station, and she told him about her old home in Sun Country and the skylabs where her parents used to work.
One Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) were the sole survivors of the Apollo Applications Program.
And McDonnell Douglas, over at Huntington Beach, has built the Skylabs and Moonlabs&mdash.
They maintain that projects like Skylab, NASA's wide-ranging space laboratory launched in 1973, with its highly sensitive multi-spectral scanning system, will be vital in the location of desperately needed information on crop growth, mineral deposits, and atmosphere pollution in the battle to preserve our precious supplies.