Skylab Mission
By: Sophia Welch
Information
- The Skylab Was Made out of an old rocket
- The Skylab was the first space station to actually go into space- They first flew up the Skylab, Then they sent up the people.
-When they sent Skylab into space a couple of problems occurred
1. The temperatures got up to 130 Degrees
2. One of the solar panels broke and one was jammed
- They sent a parachute made with a certain material to help cool down the Skylab
- They had to go out of the spaceship and fix the solar panels
- They did end up fixing both of the problems and they celebrated
- There was actually 3 Skylab missions
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Citation
Skylab I. Charles Redmond, 12 Nov. 2008. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwbLXp4CnZ4
"Skylab I." NASA. NASA, 18 Apr. 2014. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.Dunbar, Brian. "Skylab Mission." NASA. NASA, 01 Feb. 2013. Web. 29 Apr. 2015.