{"id":79345,"date":"2013-05-15T11:52:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/americas-first-space-station-skylab-turns-40.php"},"modified":"2013-05-15T11:52:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:52:47","slug":"americas-first-space-station-skylab-turns-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/americas-first-space-station-skylab-turns-40.php","title":{"rendered":"America&#39;s first space station Skylab turns 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Before the International Space Station and     viral videos from space, there was Skylab -- America's    first space station.  <\/p>\n<p>      30 Photos    <\/p>\n<p>      Play Video    <\/p>\n<p>    Skylab launched into space by the unmanned Saturn V rocket on    May 14, 1973 from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.  <\/p>\n<p>    The space station went unmanned for over a week until Commander    Charles C. Conrad Jr., Paul J. Weitz and Joseph Kerwin arrived    on May 25, 1973.  <\/p>\n<p>    In the 1977 book \"Skylab, Our First    Space Station,\" author Leland F. Belew describes the    highlights of Skylab's mission.  <\/p>\n<p>    According to Belew, the first crew made repairs to the ship    that occurred during take-off and conducted solar astronomy and    Earth resources experiments, as well as medical studies and    five student experiments. Two more teams of astronauts made    missions to Skylab in July and November of 1973.  <\/p>\n<p>    Researchers on Skylab performed nearly 300 experiments    including studies of the Earth's crust, oceans and surfaces,    comets, meteors, planets and stars.  <\/p>\n<p>    Astronauts were able to study the sun like never before because    they could observe X-ray and ultraviolet emissions that could    not be examined from Earth. And for the first time, remote    parts of the Earth could be accurately measured.  <\/p>\n<p>    Skylab researchers were able to study physiological and    psychological effects from prolonged periods of zero-gravity. A    total of 16 biomedical experiments were conducted.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-205_162-57584401\/americas-first-space-station-skylab-turns-40\/\" title=\"America&#39;s first space station Skylab turns 40\">America&#39;s first space station Skylab turns 40<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Before the International Space Station and viral videos from space, there was Skylab -- America's first space station. 30 Photos Play Video Skylab launched into space by the unmanned Saturn V rocket on May 14, 1973 from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/americas-first-space-station-skylab-turns-40.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-station"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}