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Skylab

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Skylab

America's first space station/Space Missions

Skylab was the United States' first space station, launched in 1973. It hosted three crewed missions and proved humans could live and work in space for extended periods. The station re-entered Earth's atmosphere in 1979, scattering debris across Western Australia.

Measurements

Total length25.1 m
5 billioniPhone transistors
7.17Parallel bar lengths
570Oreo diameters
Maximum diameter6.6 m
17.2 billionthsEarth-to-Moon distances
34.7No. 2 pencils
2.5 hundredthsTitanic lengths
Mass77,088 kg
385Motorcycles
771 billionthsReservoir water masses
Habitable volume283 m^3
2 hundredthsCostco stores
29,236Index cards
56,600Business cards

Pressurized volume

Solar panel wingspan31 m
68.9Necklace lengths
47.7Baguettes
201 billionCarbon atoms
Operational life190 million s
19,792Titanic sinkings
15,283LOTR extended editions

About 6 years

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