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 ...
This remote area of the South Pacific, 34 times larger than France, is the graveyard for hundreds of derelict spacecraft – ...
Instead of launching another crew of astronauts to the moon, NASA decided to use the Saturn V rocket that was built for Apollo 20 to launch the Skylab space station instead. Budget cuts along with ...
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 ...
It is simple and powerful. Skylab was NASA's first space station, and it was launched into orbit after the final Apollo lunar landing in 1972. From May 1973 to February 1974, three different crews ...
The Indian and Pakistani Negotiators agreed on guidelines of an accord on restoring shipping services between the two countries, the two delegation heads told newsmen after the first round of talks ...