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Audio Video Interleaved Video  |  1998-04-23  |  3.0 MB  |  160x120  |  15fps  |  45 seconds
Transcription: After the successful Apollo program ended in 1972, the first U.S. space station, Skylab, was launched into Earth orbit in 1973. Later that year, three astronauts spent 84 days in Skylab. Unmanned planetary vehicles, however, dominated space exploration throughout the 70s. Between 1977 and 1980, Voyager 1 traveled some one billion miles and produced history-making photos of Saturn and its rings. In an effort to open up space From space to industry and scientific research, the first reusable space vehicle, the Shuttle Columbia, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1981. Columbia touched ...