skylab

Definitions

1. An outer space laboratory.
2. A motorcycle taxi with extension seats on the sides, configured by placing a wooden beam across the pillion.
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3. An orbiting workshop and observatory built by NASA.

Equivalents

Examples

“Two possibilities come⟳ to mind⟳: (1) the use⟳ of multi-body spacecraft systems, e.g. space stations or shuttle skylabs employing subsatellites and/or passive balloons. (2) the use⟳ of cluster system of several small satellites of different size, geometry and surface material.”

“Two aspects of altered immunity must be dealt with before man can exist⟳ for extended periods in space capsules, skylabs, or sealabs.”

“What are the scientists up to, apart from perfecting impenetrable food packaging and orbiting skylabs?”

“With the growing possibility of a global nuclear accident, untold genetic defects, falling skylabs, and the unleasing of powers science cannot control⟳ people are once more “off center.””

“When asked whether China will launch⟳ its own⟳ skylabs and space shuttles, Shen Rongjun said: "The ultimate purpose of aerospace technology is to send⟳ people into space. […] "”

“At the very beginning of my time in Lake Sebu the jeepneys coming from the lowland would go until Lëm-Delag. Later on, the barangay officials decided that only skylabs were allowed to carry⟳ passengers to Lëm-Delag.”

“Parked by its ancestor the ox cart, skylabs are the only public transit in this Sakhon Nakhon village.”

“In the town of Mongkayo skylabs are designed to hold⟳ as many as a dozen passengers.”

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