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Skylab

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Skylab see space exploration ; space station .

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	The sky is falling ... and Skylab panic is quaint memory.(News) Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 3/13/2001; 654 words; ... editorials and the wacky souvenirs. When Skylab, the doomed United States space station ... above - as evident by the yellow novelty Skylab hardhat with the bulls-eye that has spent ... souvenir-sustaining, hardhat-hawking, Skylab fever. It's going to be the most spectacular ...
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