August 30, 1995
The constellations may be old, but the person celebrating beneath them is gloriously new by cosmic standards.
Skylab Over Earth
Birthday · August 30, 1995
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August 30, 1995 Skylab Over Earth Credit: NASA, Skylab, HEASARC, Jesse Allen Explanation: Skylab was an orbiting laboratory launched by a Saturn V rocket in May 1973. Skylab was visited three times by NASA astronauts who sometimes stayed as long as two and a half months. Many scientific tests were preformed on Skylab, including astronomical observations in ultraviolet and X-ray light. Some of these observations yielded valuable information about Comet Kohoutek, our Sun and about the mysterious X-ray background - radiation that comes from all over the sky. Skylab fell back to earth on 11 July 1979.