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Graphic shows what the United States’ first space station, Skylab, was designed to do and how an ill-fated launch required the first ever major spacewalk to repair it.
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By Ninian Carter

May 14, 2013 - America’s first space station, Skylab, was launched on May 14, 1973, atop the last Saturn V rocket to fly. Despite many mechanical problems, three crews were able to prove that humans could live in space for extended periods, and expand our knowledge of solar astronomy well beyond Earth-based observations.

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PUBLISHED: 07/05/2013; STORY: Graphic News
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