OTD 14.5 May 14th Traditional Cache

OTD - 14:5 

Perhaps you want a smiley for every day of the year or maybe a birthday smiley. For whatever reason these 12 mini monthly power trails are here to be found. Most are easily located, with an occasional sneaky one in the mix, sat lock can be difficult in some areas.

Here are some facts for this day. You are welcome to log your interesting, quirky or fun fact/s with your log.

On This Day - May 14th 1973

Skylab I is launched. 

Skylab was the first space station the United States launched into orbit. Launched on 14 May 1973, it was designed to test various aspects of human endurance in space by having teams of astronauts living in Skylab for up to 84 days at a time. Each Skylab mission set a record for the duration of time astronauts spent in space.

In all, the space station orbited Earth 2,476 times during the 171 days and 13 hours of its occupation during the three manned Skylab missions. Astronauts performed ten spacewalks totalling 42 hours 16 minutes. Skylab logged about 2,000 hours of scientific and medical experiments, including eight solar experiments. Skylab had been in orbit for six years when it made its descent on 11 July 1979, with many chunks of hot debris falling across southern Western Australia. Most of the pieces were found on a 160km wide strip of land between the Perth-Adelaide highway and the Indian Pacific railway line.