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Skylab|ˈskaɪlæb|
[f. sky n.1 + lab n.2]
The name of a space laboratory launched into earth orbit by the U.S. in 1973. Freq. attrib. Occas. (with small initial) in gen. use.
The laboratory itself was more precisely designated Skylab 1; Skylabs 2, 3, and 4 were the spacecraft which successively ferried crews to it. The laboratory was manned until 1974, and disintegrated in the atmosphere in 1979.
1970Nature 13 June 1001/2 There are now only four journeys to the Moon before autumn 1972 when the engineers at the Cape and in Houston turn their attention to the Skylab programme—the renamed Apollo applications programme. Ibid. 22 Aug. 774/1 Cancelling two of the [Apollo] flights so as to conserve the Saturn V launcher vehicles for ambitions nearer home, such as Skylab and the space station project. 1972Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 19 Jan. b9/8 The first three⁓man crew is scheduled to spend 28 days aboard the Skylab mission starting next May. 1973Guardian 11 Apr. 4/3 Preparations are precisely on schedule at Cape Kennedy for the launching on May 14 of Skylab-1, the first US experimental space station. 1975McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 43 With the recovery of the Skylab 4 command module and crew on Feb. 8, 1974, the active operational phase of the Skylab Program was brought to a successful conclusion. 1979Guardian 12 July 1/8 Skylab fell to earth last night... Its debris scattered into the sea and on to a sparsely inhabited Australian desert. 1982M. Duke Flashpoint xiii. 98 Scientifically equipped satellites and sky labs. |