A little trivial pursuit question

[timetraveller]

As A little follow up to my last post I have a little trivial pursuit question for you

without looking it up answer the following questions

1 what was the name of the very first space station to be launched ?

2 When was it launched and how ?

3 how many people manned it and how long for

[canuck]

99% Guess, 1% memory:

Skylab?

1978/Enormous Slingshot?

Maximum 2 people

Feel free to praise/correct/mock/ridicule at your discretion.

[canuck]

Aww...Googled it. I was way off. :oops:

[beamish]

I'm guessing Russian !

Right off to google

[beamish]

:lol:

Well I was just about there :bootyshake: but I shan't spoil it for others

[timetraveller]

hello Canuck i would not be so mean as to take the Micky and you were indeed partially right with your answer it was indeed Skylab but it was launched on the 14 may 1973 as a part of the Apollo programme and it carried 3 crew men at a time the space station itself was built from a highly modified second stage of a Saturn v lifting body and its finall demise was brought about by an accident which looked very similar to the Apollo 13 near disaster they actually managed to repair the station with a patch made from a spare section of solar panel i have included a link to the NASA site for anybody who may be interested

regards Pete

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/skylab.html

[beamish]

:shock: I was waaaaaay off :withstupid:

Karlo :oops:

Bl**dy Google PAH !

[timetraveller]

i stand here well sit really in total embarassement i got it wrong and i apologise it was salyut 1 in 1971 skylab was in 73 2 years later

those dam russians did it again poor old USA :withstupid:

[beamish]

Umm, Solyut 1 launched April 19th 1971

[beamish]

Ah who cares , lets 'ave a larf !!

[timetraveller]

I had forgotten salyut one was actually manned i know one of the salyuts wasnt because of a docking lock malfunction but that may have been a later one

[thing]

Wasn't it that thing on "2001? That was in 1968.