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Skylab
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Skylab [ˈskaɪˌlæb]
n
(Astronautics) a US space station launched in May 1973 into an orbit inclined at 50° to the equatorial plane at a mean altitude of 430 kilometres (270 miles), the astronauts working there under conditions of zero gravity. It disintegrated, unmanned, in 1979, with some parts landing in the outback of Australia
[from sky + lab(oratory)]
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Noun1.Skylab - United States space station; in orbit from 1973 to 1979
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skylab [ˈskaɪlæb] N → skylab m, laboratorio m espacial
Skylab [ˈskaɪlæb] n → laboratorio spaziale
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1979: America's Skylab I returned to earth after 34,981 orbits in six years.
Onthisday by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
1979: Skylab tumbles back to Earth The space laboratory, Skylab I, plunges to Earth scattering debris across the southern Indian Ocean and the sparsely populated Australian desert.
ON THIS DAY by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
1979: America's Skylab I returned to earth after 34,981 orbits in six years.
ON THIS DAY IN .. by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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