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Two Trailblazing Spacewalks in 1965 Opened the Door to Decades of Astronauts Pushing the Limits of Their Capabilities
Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...
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Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States entered the space station...
Skylab was, therefore, the second space station to be crewed in orbit, but as of 2023 it remains the only crewed station to have been operated exclusively by the United States. Skylab’s large ...
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Observing Storms From Skylab
Skylab 3 astronauts witnessed many spectacular sights during their 858 orbital trips around the Earth in the summer of 1973.
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How Do Astronauts Shower in Space?
A diagram of the shower aboard Skylab during the Saturn Workshop mission in the 1970s. | NASA // Public Domain To make the astronauts feel more at home in orbit, Skylab—the first U.S. space ...
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Skylab crash lands
Just think! Skylab made a complete orbit of the earth every 90 minutes, going at 17,000 miles an hour. It had been whizzing around since 1973. Once it started its re-entry, its temperature would ...
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How Do Astronauts Shower in Space?
To make the astronauts feel more at home in orbit, Skylab—the first U.S. space station—came equipped with a contraption more ...