Skylab

In 1973, the United States launched Skylab, a space station. It was designed so that astronauts could live and work in orbit for prolonged periods of time.

An important function of the Skylab space station was to take photographs of the Earth using special infrared cameras. One of the pictures enabled scientists to help famine victims in Africa find water.

On May 14, 1973, a two-staged Saturn V rocket propelled the 90 metric ton unmanned Skylab space station into an orbit above Earth.

Skylab was designed to allow astronauts to live and work in space for several weeks. It was to be a laboratory for astronauts and a base for spacecraft.

On July 11, 1979, after more than six years in space, the Skylab space station re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. Most of Skylab burned up upon re-entry. A few fragments fell to the ground in an uninhabited part of Australia.

Two possibilities come to mind: (1) the use of multi-body spacecraft systems, e.g. space stations or shuttle skylabs employing subsatellites and/or passive balloons. (2) the use of cluster system of several small satellites of different size, geometry and surface material.

Two aspects of altered immunity must be dealt with before man can exist for extended periods in space capsules, skylabs, or sealabs.

What are the scientists up to, apart from perfecting impenetrable food packaging and orbiting skylabs?

With the growing possibility of a global nuclear accident, untold genetic defects, falling skylabs, and the unleasing of powers science cannot control people are once more “off center.”

When asked whether China will launch its own skylabs and space shuttles, Shen Rongjun said: "The ultimate purpose of aerospace technology is to send people into space. […] "

At the very beginning of my time in Lake Sebu the jeepneys coming from the lowland would go until Lëm-Delag. Later on, the barangay officials decided that only skylabs were allowed to carry passengers to Lëm-Delag.

Parked by its ancestor the ox cart, skylabs are the only public transit in this Sakhon Nakhon village.

In the town of Mongkayo skylabs are designed to hold as many as a dozen passengers.