In 1973 , astronaut Owen Garriott shinny around outside of Skylab to collect interplanetary dust particles . Because dusting is n’t just a household chore when you ’re in infinite ; it ’s an opportunity to collect samples for science .
Skylab was the first American place post . The list of mishaps that beset the station is a tarradiddle for another day , but we learned a lot about recollective - duration space missions that helped us with the International Space Station .
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