{"id":4225,"date":"2013-08-30T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2013-08-30T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:23:11","slug":"the-skylab-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4225","title":{"rendered":"The Skylab story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Space historian Roger Launius writes about the sad fate of Skylab<\/a>, America’s first space station: Was NASA Serious about Trying to Rescue Skylab? – Roger Launius’s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jim Oberg points to his earlier article on Skylab: Skylab’s Untimely Fate: James Oberg tells the sad story of how the United States abandoned the largest space station ever built and spent a quarter century trying to regain the capability<\/em> – Air & Space, February\/March 1992, pp. 73-79<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Space historian Roger Launius writes about the sad fate of Skylab, America’s first space station: Was NASA Serious about Trying to Rescue Skylab? – Roger Launius’s Blog. Jim Oberg points to his earlier article on Skylab: Skylab’s Untimely Fate: James Oberg tells the sad story of how the United States abandoned the largest space station … Continue reading The Skylab story<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-169","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3736,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3736","url_meta":{"origin":4225,"position":0},"title":"NASA video: Research in space from Skylab to Station","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A NASA video about scientific research and human spaceflight Skylab was America's first space station, taking scientific research to new heights and proving humankind could live and work in space for long periods of time. 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