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- noun An
outer space laboratory .
Etymologies
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I can blog from skylab, but I can't check email from here, and here is the only place I have a computer that will light up.
What do the power lines and roads in my area have in common? Kosmo 2009
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I can blog from skylab, but I can't check email from here, and here is the only place I have a computer that will light up.
Archive 2009-05-01 Kosmo 2009
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Current Music: crown me king- even skylab crashed1 gunslinger | crown me king
mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2005
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Current Music: crown me king- even skylab crashed16 gunslingers | crown me king
mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2005
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Current Music: crown me king- even skylab crashed18 gunslingers | crown me king
mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2005
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For many years they have been operating on the "MIR" skylab and in spite of the fact that forecasts of a substantial decrease of the value of one watt of the electrical power have not been justified so far, the most effective energy source in space is, nevertheless, a set of solar cells on heterostructures of III-V compounds.
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At 35 feet long and 15 feet in diameter, UARS was among the largest spacecraft to plummet uncontrollably through the atmosphere, although it is a slim cousin to NASA's 75-tonnes skylab station, which crashed to Earth in 1979.
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But I always wondered why we couldn't build a more advanced spacestation than the skylab on steroids we got up there now.
SPACE.com 2009
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Nearly three decades back, the fall of skylab had people in a panic.
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