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Was NASA Serious about Trying to Rescue Skylab?

Skylab in orbit, 1973-1974. On the May 19, 1979, episode of Saturday Night Live, the path-breaking comedy program that everyone who was anyone watched, John Belushi played a science commentator for...

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A Chronology of Key Space Anniversaries for 2014

The Space Shuttle coming at you. There are many anniversaries every year, some truly significant and others of a more mundane nature. What follows is a short chronology of anniversaries taking place in...

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What is the Attraction of a Space Station?

The International Space Station in 2012. There has been an international crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) since 2000. Why? What is it about the idea of a space station that has made it...

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Wednesday’s Book Review: “Homesteading Space”

Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story. By David Hitt, Owen Garriott, Joseph P. Kerwin, with the diary of Alan L. Bean. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-080-3224-34-6. 548 pages....

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