Classic NASA Film - Skylab - #3

NASA archive footage of a 1973 film tour through the surprisingly spacious compartments of the Skylab station.

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[TheSpiritof1969]

@gforce527

But you miss the point, Skylab was sent up in just one launch and was an ad-hock project using the remaining useable parts left over from apollo. The ISS was assembled over several years and a lot of launches. Estimated cost up to the year 1998 was $15,000,000,000 and it was not even complete.

If they had not scrapped the Saturns in favour of the ill conceived shuttle project an ISS sized platform could have been put up decades earlier at a tiny fraction of the cost.

[Craigthepope]

30 second ad for a two minute video...

[PhatFarm60]

America at her apex... times long gone never to be again

[Wanztnabel]

@DiscoveryNetworks Can you tell my the name of the song in the background?

[lozza1982]

This video shows how in real terms how much the richer the world was back then.

[jakfuki]

LEGO doesn't make space stations like this anymore.

[gforce527]

@SteelBeWithYou although skylab looks impressively big because it is just an empty SIV-B stage, ISS has over triple the habitable volume, also you should look up NASA videos that show astronauts unpacking the European Space Agency`s ATV, that sucker is pretty big inside.

[blitsed]

the skylab was SO large...it definitely looked like a sci-fi space station. the iss seems so claustrophobic if compared...

[Membrane556]

The Bigelow Nautilus modules will be about the same size of Skylab and should look very similar inside.

[EpiDemic117]

i'd have to say that this is probably the worlds first REAL looking space station. It all hexagonal unlike the iss which is squareish. hopefully if they get the Ares V rocket working they can sends massive payloads into space like this once again.