Skylab was the first space station of the United States, launched uncrewed by NASA on May 14, 1973, and visited by three crews of three astronauts between May 1973 and February 1974. It was built from a Saturn V third stage, the S-IVB, fitted out on the ground as a dry workshop, and carried a solar observatory, a docking adapter and an airlock for spacewalks. McDonnell Douglas received the 1969 contract to convert the S-IVB stages into the Orbital Workshop, the large habitable module at the heart of the station. Skylab was not reboosted by the Space Shuttle as once hoped, its orbit decayed, and it disintegrated over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia on July 11, 1979. A second station, Skylab B, was built alongside it but never flown.
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On August 8, 1969, the McDonnell Douglas Corporation received a contract for the conversion of two existing S-IVB stages to the Orbital Workshop configuration.
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Skylab was the United States' first space station launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974.
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The Skylab itself was launched on May 14, 1973.
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Skylab re-entered the earth's atmosphere amid worldwide hysteria on 11 July 1979, with chunks of the disintegrating space station crashing over a wide area of Australia.
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Skylab re-entered the earth's atmosphere amid worldwide hysteria on 11 July 1979, with chunks of the disintegrating space station crashing over a wide area of Australia.
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On August 8, 1969, the McDonnell Douglas Corporation received a contract for the conversion of two existing S-IVB stages to the Orbital Workshop configuration.
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Skylab was the United States' first space station launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974.
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On August 8, 1969, the McDonnell Douglas Corporation received a contract for the conversion of two existing S-IVB stages to the Orbital Workshop configuration.
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Skylab was the United States' first space station launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974.
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It was operated by three trios of astronaut crews: Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4.
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