Skylab, built by NASA, was launched from Cape Kennedy on May 14, 1973 and the third and final crew to live there departed on February 8 , 1974
Meg Falck, age 13 How to get there Getting there: Departing September 25, KE Adventure Travel (017687 73966, keadventure.com) offers a nine-day trek to Kilimanjaro on the Rongai Route from £1,240.
Those seeking a last-minute family half-term break could book one of a few remaining places on Explore's (0845 867 9434, explore.co.uk) group family trip there, departing on 22 October.
Good skiers like Matieu and Clotilde would love St Anton, Austria, and last week Skiworld (skiworld.ltd.uk) was offering a week in a chalet there, departing 14 December, for just £249 - leaving £251 of their £500 budget for lift pass, lunch and drinks.
When, in June, East Germany sealed its hundred-and-ninety-mile Baltic coastline with an immense "control strip," forty-one young East Germans got themselves appointed to their country's delegation to the World Youth Festival, held in Finland, and from there departed for the West.
Way to go Getting there: Departing January 16, Club Med (08453 676767, clubmed.co.uk) offers seven nights' all-inclusive at La Palmeraie, Marrakech for £745pp including British Airways or Royal Air Maroc flights from Heathrow, transfers, all meals, unlimited beer and wine with lunch and dinner, most sports and activities (including tennis, golf and horseriding) and insurance.
From there, you depart the asphalt and leave a cloud of dust behind as you.
Getting There Trains depart frequently from Brussels for all three towns.
A MEDIEVAL CATHEDRAL, A MEDIEVAL MARKET GETTING THERE Trains depart Waterloo Station in London every half hour, arriving about an hour and half minutes later at Salisbury Station, a walking distance to the cathedral.
The US has ordered all non-essential diplomats to leave Yemen and urged all Americans there to depart as security conditions deteriorate, with the country's embattled leader refusing to step down.
