Astronaut Mixtape - Skylab Mission-Flown Cassette Tape - Display Card home goods While the aluminum coating is

While the aluminum coating is still bright the fabric beneath is quite fragile

When it set sail in 1912

which was crucial to surviving the intense heat of atmospheric reentry

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Astronaut Mixtape - Skylab Mission-Flown Cassette Tape - Display Card home goods While the aluminum coating isAstronauts tend to keep busy during their missions, but even in outer space, there's still room for some downtime. This specimen is a piece of magnetic tape from a cassette owned by astronaut Paul Weitz. It was brought to space and used for entertainment during Skylab 2, a mission undertaken to repair the damaged space station. The cassette tape section has been sealed in resin and comes affixed to an informational card that includes the Mini Museum