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Skylab
[ skahy-lab ]
noun
- a U.S. earth-orbiting space station that was periodically staffed by three separate crews of astronauts and remained in orbit 1973–79.
Skylab
/ ˈskaɪˌlæb /
noun
- a US space station launched in May 1973 into an orbit inclined at 50° to the equatorial plane at a mean altitude of 430 kilometres (270 miles), the astronauts working there under conditions of zero gravity. It disintegrated, unmanned, in 1979, with some parts landing in the outback of Australia
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Example Sentences
The orbit of the American space station Skylab is deteriorating; history tells us that parts of it came down in … Western Australia, in 1979.
There are plans to display it alongside chunks of Nasa's Skylab, which crashed in Australia in 1979.
In fact, researchers only learned about the prevalence of S.A.S. symptoms in the 1970s, when they heard Skylab astronauts talking about it with one another over a hot mic.
The state's premier, Roger Cook, suggested to local media that the object could be stored in the state museum alongside debris from Nasa's Skylab station, which was discovered in 1979.
After Apollo 7, Mr. Cunningham served as chief of NASA’s Skylab program, which produced the first American space station.
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