On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. Despite a troubled start to its life, Skylab pioneered long-duration spaceflight ...

Skylab was the first U.S. space station, flying above the Earth's surface from 1973 to 1979. Three crewed Skylab missions ...

Four zebrafish spent 43 days in orbit aboard the Tiangong space station, breaking records and advancing space biology. In ...

This remote area of the South Pacific, 34 times larger than France, is the graveyard for hundreds of derelict spacecraft – ...

In 1979, the American space station, Skylab, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. Large fragments hit SW Australia instead of the Indian Ocean. Originally broadcast 11 July 2013.

Skylab was the first United States manned space station, launched on May 14, 1973.Credit: Archive “I was concerned to learn that fragments of Skylab may have landed in Australia,” Carter wrote ...

Unlike Skylab, which had an enclosed shower ... flight programs to plan sleeping and sanitary arrangements for the Space Station that will be more like those on Earth.

[Courtesy: NASA] In December 1973, the crew of Skylab 4, on a mission to the first American space station, used empty food containers and decals to build and ornament a makeshift Christmas tree ...