A Brief History of Skylab

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  @ClassicAerospaceHistory · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Correction: the 5-segment boosters used by SLS do not have a longer burn time than the Shuttle boosters, but burn more powerfully.<br><br>Additionally, Starlab has now shifted from an inflatable habitat to a rigid one.

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• LU

  @lulkak2664 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2p4SWIk6FQ&amp;t=2875">47:55</a> Reminds me of that one line from Apollo 13:<br>&quot;I&apos;m sick and tired of the entire Western world knowing how my kidneys are functioning!&quot;

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• RU

  @rubycosmo6279 · 2 years ago

  Skylab walked so the International Space Station could r̶u̶n̶ walk a little more briskly.

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• ER

  @Ericisnotachannel · 2 years ago

  If I had nickel for everytime Pete Conrad got struck by lightning, I&apos;d have three nickels, which isn&apos;t a lot, but it&apos;s weird that it happened three times.

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• DA

  @danielcarter305 · 2 years ago

  I remember when the Skylab fell back to earth. I was about 7 or 8 years old, and my family would go out into the backyard and watch it fly over. When we heard about pieces that landed in Australia, &nbsp;we went into our backyard where we had collected two junked top loading washing machines and a dryer. Took them all apart piled the parts into one of the frames of the washing machines put the tub it on a 12 foot mass with one of those 3 day candles, &nbsp;and claimed that it was a part of Skylab as a neighborhood joke.

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• BU

  @BufusTurbo92 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m sure the third crew had a few choice words for the second crew about that dummy they left in the station lol

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• CJ

  @cjackmanson · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m always pleased when a YT doco-maker understands that around an hour is &quot;brief&quot;.

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• EN

  @entropiated9020 · 2 years ago

  Between you and Homemade documentaries, we don&apos;t deserve this level of quality content on Youtube... but I am so glad we get it anyway

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• ET

  @ethanomcbride · 1 month ago

  NASA should fund an Archer-style animated comedy series that takes place on Sky Lab.

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• DD

  @ddew · 2 years ago

  Neato. There aren&apos;t many documentaries about Skylab around, let alone a great, in-depth one.

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• JI

  @jinzo457 · 2 years ago

  This channel is criminally under-subscribed. Great work, m8.

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• JT

  @jtgd · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2p4SWIk6FQ&amp;t=3055">50:55</a> “this is how we fix problems in the russian SPACE STATION” <br><br>Beats the hell out of the power module

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