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From: larry@ihuxf.UUCP (Larry Marek)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Spacelab Turned On
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Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 10:53:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 29 10:53:29 1983
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Pardon my ignorance about "Space Lab" --but is that package going to be
seperated from Columbia and left in orbit, or does a shuttle have to take it
up each time?  If it is left in orbit, will the shuttles be able to get it
high enough to prevent another "Sky Lab"?  If it is left in orbit, how do the
people get from the shuttle to the lab? (grab it with the arm and pull it in
the cargo bay each time?)  It would seem awful wasteful (and hazordous to any
delicate  equipment) to take that rough ride "up" each time Space Lab was to
be used.

As a side question, can anybody provide a size comparison between Sky Lab and
Space Lab??  There was a show on PBS the other day that had some footage of
the inside of Sky Lab --MY GOSH IT WAS **HUGH**!!  Pictures from the outside
never made it seem so big - nothing to reference it with I guess.  Too bad the
shuttles didn't get going in time to save it.
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		Larry Marek
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