| In addition to its suite of cameras, Skylab was stocked with tons of scientific equipment, including coronagraphs, spectrometers, and ultraviolet and X-ray telescopes. |
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| The Skylab example can be used again, since it uncontrolledly re-entered the atmosphere in July of 1979, scattering some 20 tons of debris on Australia and the Indian Ocean. |
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| City governments passed tongue-in-cheek ordinances prohibiting Skylab from entering the municipal limits, or inviting it into the town, depending on the mood they were in. |
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| In 1973, the United States launched Skylab 1, its first manned space station. |
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| After a record 84 days in orbit, the crew of the spacecraft Skylab 4 return to Earth. |
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| Astronaut William Pogue thought he had seen it from Skylab but discovered he was actually looking at the Grand Canal of China near Beijing. |
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| Damaged on lift-off, Skylab was left in orbit until its orbit decayed. |
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| Over 114,000 images were operated from 869 flights over Mexican highways in a project implemented by DroneDeploy mapper Sergio Serrato of Skylab Industries. |
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| But, like Nasa's first Skylab station, it will prove beyond doubt that China can maintain a relatively cost-effective, efficient presence in space. |
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| The SkyLab factory is based in Koh Si Chang, that small island 40 minutes by ferry boat from the Eastern Seaboard's Sriracha port. |
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