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the International Space Station, have been cooperative efforts between countries. his free-range chickens had been killed • Launched on May 14, 1973, Skylab almost by foxes until he trained a Maremma dog ended in disaster as a shield designed to (similar to a Great Pyrenees) to guard protect the craft from micro-meteoroids them. He suggested that dogs could be and the heat of the Sun tore off just 63 trained to protect the penguins. The first seconds after launch. Debris from the dogs failed because they got lonely for accident jammed two of the solar arrays, humans and ran away from the island to leaving the space station without enough go home. The second batch was raised power. with penguins from the moment of their • Skylab made it into low-earth orbit just birth, and that did the trick, allowing the fine, but without the heat shield in place, it though their exposure to people had been penguin population to recover. would be too hot inside to sustain human very limited, almost all of the dogs were • One experiment involved raising litters life, and without the solar arrays, there happy to interact with humans. However, of puppies in isolation from humans. wasn’t enough energy to run the station. the puppies whose exposure to people had • The launch of the 3-man crew, originally Each week several of the puppies would come when they were 7 weeks old had the be taken indoors to play with humans for scheduled for the following day, was strongest bond with humans. Those who 90 minutes before being returned to their delayed until May 25 while NASA worked did not spend time with humans until litter: two pups would be taken out when up a solution to the problem: a solar they were 14 weeks old were not able to be they were a week old; two different pups umbrella. When the crew reached Skylab, tamed at all. when they were two weeks old; continuing they accomplished the world’s first inall the way up until they reached the age OUT OF THIS WORLD space repair, installing the new equipment of 14 weeks. Each of the puppies therefore SKYLAB by spacewalk. Following this remarkable received a single 90-minute interaction • Skylab was the first United States space repair, crew members were able to work station, and the only space station operated with humans. 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