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NASA Skylab News Reference By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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America s first space station known as Skylab proved the concept of a zero g laboratory and orbiting observatory and paved the way for today s International Space Station Launched on May 14 1973 the station nearly didn t make it into operation when an aluminum micro meteoroid shield tore loose during lift off taking one of two solar power arrays with it While Skylab made orbit the station was left underpowered and its interior overheated NASA quickly came up with a salvage plan and after a ten day delay the crew of the SL 2 mission rendezvoused with the station Contingency repairs including the installation of a parasol like sun shield and deployment of the remaining solar array succeeded and Skylab functioned or less as intended for the duration of its mission During that time two additional crews designated SL 3 and SL 4 visited the station and conducted a wide range of experiments The SL 4 crew departed the station on February 8 1974 after spending 83 days in orbit During that time they performed four EVAs shot 75000 images of the sun filmed Comet Kohoutek and traveled over 34. Book nasa skylab news reference guide 5 million miles Despite this terrific success Skylab would never be occupied again The end of the Saturn V era and delays with the Space Shuttle program resulted in the station s abandonment and it burned up in the Earth s atmosphere in 1979 Originally created by NASA in 1973 to inform the press corps about America s first space station this Skylab News Reference contains chapters detailing the station s hardware and systems It also provides detailed information concerning flight operations launch facilities experiments on board crew training contractors and project management Also included are official press releases for the SL 1 and SL 2 SL 3 and SL 4 missions NASA Skylab News Reference.

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA is an independent agency of the U: Astronomy nasa skylab news reference center S federal government responsible for the civil space program aeronautics research and space research