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* ''None yet'[[May 14]]''' - The first [[space station]] is launched into [[orbit]]. Named "Skylab", its purpose is to further the research the effects of weightlessness. <br> The station was occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974, and operated by three separate three-astronaut crews. <br> Major operations included an orbital workshop, a solar observatory, [[Earth]] observation, and hundreds of experiments. <br> Unable to have its orbit be re-boosted, Skylab's orbit eventually decayed, and it disintegrated in the atmosphere on in [[1979]], scattering debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia.
* Ichiro Kato, of Waseda University, develops the world's first full-scale [[humanoid]] [[Robotics|robot]], "Wabot-1." * The "Pioneer 10" [[probe]] becomes the first to reach [[Jupiter]]. <br> It is also the first probe to send back close-up images of the planet. * "Pioneer 11" is launched on a mission to study the [[Sol System|Solar System]], tasked mainly with studying the [[asteroid belt]], the environment around [[Jupiter]] and [[Saturn]], [[Astronomical Terms Database#S|solar winds]], and [[Astronomical Terms Database#C|cosmic rays]]. <br> It was also the first probe to encounter [[Saturn]], the second to fly through the [[asteroid belt]], and the second to fly by [[Jupiter]]. * [[Probe]] "Mariner 10" is launched towards [[Mercury]], becoming the first probe to reach the planet. <br> The first spacecraft to perform flybys of multiple planets ([[Mercury]] and [[Venus]]), its mission objectives were to measure [[Mercury]]'s environment, atmosphere, surface, and body characteristics - and then to make similar investigations of [[Venus]]. {{| class="wikitable" style="width:20%"! colspan="3" | [[Timeline]] |-| <center>[[1972]] || <center>[[1973]] || <center>[[1974]] |- [[category:timeline nav}}]]
