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satlite was the United States' 1st and solely severally engineered space platform. planned in 1965 as a workshop to be created in house from a spent Saturn IB higher stage, the 169,950 lb , station was created on Earth and launched on could fourteen, 1973 atop the primary 2 stages of a Saturn V, into a 235-nautical-mile (435 km) orbit inclined at 50° to the equator. broken throughout launch by the loss of its thermal protection and one electricity-generating solar battery, it had been repaired to practicality by its 1st crew. it had been occupied for a complete of 171 days by three ordered crews in 1973 and 1974.  It enclosed a laboratory for finding out the results of microgravity, and a star observatory.National Aeronautics and Space Administration planned to own an area Shuttle dock with it, and elevate space platform to the next safe altitude, however the Shuttle wasn't prepared for flight before Skylab's re-entry on Gregorian calendar month eleven, 1979.

To save value, National Aeronautics and Space Administration used one amongst the Saturn V rockets originally earmarked for a canceled Phoebus mission to launch the space platform. Phoebus craft were used for transporting astronauts to and from the space platform. 3 three-man crews stayed aboard the station for periods of twenty eight, 59, and eighty four days. Skylab's liveable volume was eleven,290 three-dimensional feet (320 m3), that was thirty.7 times larger than that of the Phoebus module.