Editing Skylab

'''''Skylab''''' was the United States of America's first space station launched on 14 May 1973 CE, and was decommissioned via deorbit on 11 July 1979 CE. 

References to Skylab abound in the [[Original Series]] and in its successor, ''[[Galactica 1980]].''

== Original Series ==
=== [[Greetings From Earth]] ===
Instrumentation of ''[[Lunar Avion]]'' makes use of equipment designed for Experiment M131 - Human Vestibular Function<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catalog.nlm.nih.gov/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma999334613406676&context=L&vid=01NLM_INST:01NLM_INST&lang=en&search_scope=MyInstitution&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=LibraryCatalog&query=lds56,contains,Weightlessness%20--%20adverse%20effects,AND&mode=advanced&offset=180|title=National Library of Medicine: M131 Listing|accessdate=9 May 2025}}</ref> aboard ''Skylab''.

=== [[The Hand of God]] ===
The hatch and compartment that led to the bridge's corridor of the [[Basestar (TOS)|basestar]] that [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] and [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] boarded were re-uses of the set designed after Skylab, made for ''[[w:Six_Million_Dollar_Man|Six Million Dollar Man]],'' a series that [[Glen A. Larson]] had a hand in developing and producing.

== ''[[Galactica 1980]]'' ==
Colonel [[Briggs]] and his aide discuss the projected crash of an unidentified craft (the [[Cylons (1980)|Cylon]] [[A-B Raider]]), likening it to Skylab's deorbiting, which resulted in debris spreading over the Indian Ocean and Australia in 1979 {{G80|The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I}}.

== External Links ==
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== References ==
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