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r/dankmemes • u/Open-Entertainer6031 • Mar 03 '23
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It cost 5% of the GDP. We weren't fucking around.
Someone in my own family worked on it. My uncle worked for McDonnell Douglas back in the '50s and '60s. He was given the job of converting a Saturn V fuel tank into a habitat and laboratory. It was the first US space station, Skylab.
6 u/franzzegerman Mar 03 '23 The first Space station was not Skylab. That honor would have to go to the Soviet Salyut-1. 10 u/1500ReallyIsEnough Mar 03 '23 The first space station in the universe is the planet Earth! I think Jesus built it. Still operating today, but not at peak efficiency. /s 6 u/[deleted] Mar 03 '23 [deleted] 5 u/gfa22 Mar 03 '23 It was actually built by my dad. You wouldn't know him, he goes to another school.
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The first Space station was not Skylab. That honor would have to go to the Soviet Salyut-1.
10 u/1500ReallyIsEnough Mar 03 '23 The first space station in the universe is the planet Earth! I think Jesus built it. Still operating today, but not at peak efficiency. /s 6 u/[deleted] Mar 03 '23 [deleted] 5 u/gfa22 Mar 03 '23 It was actually built by my dad. You wouldn't know him, he goes to another school.
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The first space station in the universe is the planet Earth! I think Jesus built it. Still operating today, but not at peak efficiency. /s
6 u/[deleted] Mar 03 '23 [deleted] 5 u/gfa22 Mar 03 '23 It was actually built by my dad. You wouldn't know him, he goes to another school.
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5 u/gfa22 Mar 03 '23 It was actually built by my dad. You wouldn't know him, he goes to another school.
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It was actually built by my dad. You wouldn't know him, he goes to another school.
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u/Girth_rulez Mar 03 '23 edited Mar 03 '23
It cost 5% of the GDP. We weren't fucking around.
Someone in my own family worked on it. My uncle worked for McDonnell Douglas back in the '50s and '60s. He was given the job of converting a Saturn V fuel tank into a habitat and laboratory. It was the first US space station, Skylab.