Download the app
educalingo
Search
By 1973, we had a space station, the Skylab, and we had multiple probes going up to planets. So, all this wonderful stuff happened in 10 to 15 years. About that time, there should have been enormous initiatives to make it affordable for people to fly in space, not just a handful of trained NASA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts.
Burt Rutan

Meaning of "Skylab" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SKYLAB

From sky + lab(oratory).
info
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp
section

PRONUNCIATION OF SKYLAB

Skylab  [ˈskaɪˌlæb] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SKYLAB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Skylab is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SKYLAB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Skylab

Skylab

Skylab was a space station launched and operated by NASA and was the United States' first space station. Skylab orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, and included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems. It was launched unmanned by a modified Saturn V rocket, with a weight of 169,950 pounds. Three manned missions to the station, conducted between 1973 and 1974 using the Apollo Command/Service Module atop the smaller Saturn IB, each delivered a three-astronaut crew. On the last two manned missions, an additional Apollo / Saturn IB stood by ready to rescue the crew in orbit if it was needed. The station was damaged during launch when the micrometeoroid shield separated from the workshop and tore away, taking one of two main solar panel arrays with it and jamming the other one so that it could not deploy. This deprived Skylab of most of its electrical power, and also removed protection from intense solar heating, threatening to make it unusable. The first crew was able to save it in the first in-space major repair, by deploying a replacement heat shade and freeing the jammed solar panels.

Definition of Skylab in the English dictionary

The definition of Skylab in the dictionary is a US space station launched in May 1973 into an orbit inclined at 50° to the equatorial plane at a mean altitude of 430 kilometres, the astronauts working there under conditions of zero gravity. It disintegrated, unmanned, in 1979, with some parts landing in the outback of Australia.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SKYLAB


blab
blæb
flab
flæb
lab
læb
lablab
ˈlæbˌlæb
Lib-Lab
ˈlɪbˈlæb
minilab
ˈmɪnɪˌlæb
slab
slæb
spacelab
ˈspeɪsˌlæb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SKYLAB

Skye
Skye terrier

WORDS THAT END LIKE SKYLAB

Arab
Bab
cab
crab
dab
fab
gab
grab
hijab
inqilab
jab
kab
kebab
path lab
paving slab
Punjab
rehab
sab
stab
tab

Synonyms and antonyms of Skylab in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Skylab» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF SKYLAB

Find out the translation of Skylab to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Skylab from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Skylab» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

太空实验室
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Skylab
570 millions of speakers

English

Skylab
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्काईलैब
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سكايلاب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Скайлэб
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Skylab
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্কাইল্যাব ´স্থাপন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Skylab
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Skylab
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Skylab
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スカイラブ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

스카이 랩
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Skylab
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Skylab
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விண்வெளி ஆய்வுக்கூடம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्केलेब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gök lâboratuarı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

laboratorio spaziale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Skylab
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Скайлеб
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Skylab
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Skylab
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Skylab
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Skylab
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Skylab
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Skylab

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SKYLAB»

The term «Skylab» is regularly used and occupies the 79.634 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
63
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «Skylab» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of Skylab
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Skylab».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SKYLAB» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Skylab» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Skylab» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Skylab

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «SKYLAB»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Skylab.
1
Burt Rutan
By 1973, we had a space station, the Skylab, and we had multiple probes going up to planets. So, all this wonderful stuff happened in 10 to 15 years. About that time, there should have been enormous initiatives to make it affordable for people to fly in space, not just a handful of trained NASA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SKYLAB»

Discover the use of Skylab in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Skylab and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Skylab: America's Space Station
In Skylab - Americas Space Station, David Shayler chronicles the evolution of the station, its infrastructure on the ground including astronaut training, each of the three manned missions, summary of results, achievements and the lessons ...
David Shayler, 2001
2
Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story
Homesteading Space, by two of Skylab s own astronauts and a NASA journalist, tells the dramatic story of America s first space station from beginning to fiery end.
David Hitt, Owen K. Garriott, Joe Kerwin, 2008
3
Popular Science
Here's a fascinating advance glimpse of some highlights of its practical results How Skylab actually looked in 270-mile-high orbit is seen above, in photo by last crew at departure. Contrasting pre- flight NASA drawing (small view below) shows ...
4
Popular Science
Glinting in the sunlight, Skylab looms lopsided against the blackness of space. The solar wing at left lost its twin during launch. This head-on shot of the space station was taken in 1974 by the last Skylab crew before they returned to earth.
5
Popular Science
Docking port MULTIPLE- DOCKING ADAPTER AIRLOCK MODULE (inside INSTRUMENT UNIT) APOLLO COMMAND AND SERVICE MODULE Cutaway view shows Skylab in orbit. Docked to it, in foreground, is Apollo spacecraft that brings ...
6
Popular Mechanics
SKYLAB: Our. Next. Giant. Step. In. Space. Late in 72 a mighty Saturn rocket will blast a three-man workshop and lab into Earth orbit — a mission that could prove a springboard to Mars By JOHN F. PEARSON, Science Editor SKYLAB: ...
7
New Scientist
Skylab adopts a better attitude Race figures in intelligence tests continued Benn's committee tides over. continued Despite intermittent alarms and excursions about the fate of Skylab, the 118- foot, 85-ton space station abandoned 4!2 years ...
8
New Scientist
Skylab's fiery fall lights up NASA nightmare Richard Lewis, Kennedy Space Center NASA lost track of its wayward Skylab before it broke up and had to rely on amateur sightings of the station's spectacular death Doubts over cancer cure grow ...
9
New Scientist
The 96-foot, 85-ton Skylab space station, the largest man-made object in orbit, is falling toward an uncontrolled re-entry which could be as early as the summer of 1979. While most of the space station would break up and burn on reentry into ...
10
New Scientist
As Skylab, the US's first manned space station, approaches its final days in orbit, NASA is covering all bets. While continuing to claim that the chance of a single casualty remains remote, the space agency has quietly organised an elaborate ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SKYLAB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Skylab is used in the context of the following news items.
1
History of the NASA Skylab, America's first space station
The seeds of Skylab were planted as early as 1959, when Wernher von Braun – the head of the Development Operations Division at the Army Ballistic Missile ... «Phys.Org, Jun 15»
2
Raymond Loewy's NASA Designs Are The Space Future That Never …
"Prior to Skylab, NASA designed its vehicles like aircraft cockpits, where providing basic life support was the guiding principle," the new book Milestones of ... «Gizmodo, Oct 14»
3
Teen who took Molly at rave headed to rehab
She admits to taking what she thought was Molly at the Skylab XX electronic dance concert on Sept. 20. "I personally don't want to take it again because you ... «9NEWS.com, Oct 14»
4
17-year-old still in hospital after taking club drug at Skylab festival
Skylab's producer, Global Dance, puts on a variety of EDM events throughout the year, including the internationally known Global Dance Festival. The company ... «FOX31 Denver, Sep 14»
5
Newsweek Rewind: When Skylab Crashed Into Australia
Skylab, America's first space station, had a dramatic birth and death. Damaged on its trip into space in 1973, it required an innovative repair—an expandable ... «Newsweek, Jul 14»
6
This Day in History - May 14, 1973 - Skylab Space Station Launched
On this day in history, May 14, 1973, the United States launched it's first orbiting space station, the 85-ton "Skylab 1." Skylab 1 was damaged only 63 seconds ... «WTVY, Dothan, May 14»
7
Millions over budget: BES project prompts audit
The construction company in charge of the project, Skanska USA Building, worked alongside premier architecture firm Skylab, whose staff designed the ... «KOIN.com, May 14»
8
Jack Kinzler, Whose Ingenuity Saved Skylab, Dies at 94
Providentially, Mr. Kinzler had done all those things, and Skylab, imperiled by the loss of a thermal shield on its launch in 1973, was saved. Mr. Kinzler saved it ... «New York Times, Mar 14»
9
The Astronaut Who Went On Strike
As the obituary in The New York Times explains, Pogue did something unusual when he was flying the last and the longest Skylab mission in space, from Nov., ... «NPR, Mar 14»
10
William Pogue, Astronaut Who Staged a Strike in Space, Dies at 84
“The Skylab astronauts called it 'Space Crud,' ” he wrote. A children's book he wrote was titled “How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space?” A sense of the ... «New York Times, Mar 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Skylab [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/skylab>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z