Noun
An outer space laboratory.
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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?
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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. […] "
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A motorcycle taxi with extension seats on the sides, configured by placing a wooden beam across the pillion.
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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.