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![]() Fountain in front of the Math Building that houses EPSL. |
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This Week in Science     more science eventsMay 14, 1973: the United States launched "Skylab One," its first manned space station. During the following nine months, three successive crews of astronauts manned the orbiting laboratory. This was the largest payload launched into space. It fell back into and burned up in the Earth's atmosphere in July, 1979. Skylab was composed of the Apollo Command/Service Module, Orbital Workshop, Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM), Multiple Docking Adapter, and Airlock Module and had arrays of solar cell panels to turn sunlight into electric power for the space station. |
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