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Space Rocket History Podcast

Space Rocket History #386 – Skylab – Pre-history

Space Rocket History Podcast

Michael Annis

History, Technology

4.9769 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A scant five months after Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean in December of 1972, NASA launched Skylab to begin a new phase of American manned spaceflight – space station operations.

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0:00.0

Hello, listeners. If you are enjoying this podcast without commercial interruption and are

0:05.4

financially able, please consider supporting our effort. To contribute, go to the homepage

0:10.5

spacerockethistory.com and click on the orange donate button or the Patreon link. Thanks.

0:19.9

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things.

0:24.7

Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

0:28.1

Godspeed, John Glenn.

0:30.4

Roger, zero G, and I feel fine.

0:33.3

It might be right. Okay, I'm out.

0:35.9

How does it feel for the United States to be the new record holder?

0:40.1

At last, huh?

0:41.8

In that baby lights, there's no doubt about it.

0:44.6

Lift-off. We have a lift-off. 32 minutes past the hour.

0:49.2

Lift-off on Apollo 11.

0:51.8

flipping Tanguality base here.

0:54.7

The Eagle has landed.

0:56.6

That's one small step for man.

1:00.2

One giant leap for manned.

1:08.8

Hello and welcome.

1:11.1

This is Michael Annis, and you are listening to episode number 386 of the Space Rocket History podcast.

1:18.8

And now, Skylab, prehistory.

1:23.4

This special aeronautics and space report brought to you by NASA.

1:31.3

Music This special aeronautics and space report brought to you by NASA. Some of these parts and pieces coming together at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida,

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