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Justin cartledge, iss payload communications manager he will be speaking about the history and mission of the international space. In 1973, nasa launches its first space station to low earth orbit using the last of its saturn v moon rockets. The story of skylab reads a bit like a pitch for a film script. Homesteading space, by two of skylabs own astronauts and a nasa journalist, tells the.
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