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...The real Skylab space stations, launched between 1973 and 1974, were much more than a camping trip....
...Analog preferred airbrush renderings of space stations that looked as if they belonged to the era of Boeing, rather than Skylab....
...Made in conjunction with the commercial arm of film studio Warner Bros, the Skylab Batman watch features a skeletonised movement incorporating the Dark Knight’s bat symbol, which glows blue in the dark,...
...We meet Jeoffry the cat, famous subject of Christopher Smart’s 18th-century religious poem “Jubilate Agno”; Arabella, the spider who learnt to spin webs in zero-gravity aboard Skylab in 1973; and Koko the...
...In 1979, large segments of Skylab crashed to earth in a remote part of Australia, prompting the shire of Esperance to fine Nasa A$400 for littering....
...In comparison, the Soviet Union’s space station Salyut entered orbit in 1971, while the US’s Skylab went up in 1973....
...Smoke detectors were created in 1970 for Skylab, America’s first space station, for example. Freeze-dried food was a Nasa development. And, as in the home, so out of it....
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