Skylab consisted of four major components: the Orbital Workshop (OWS), the Airlock Module (AM), the Multiple Docking Adapter (MDA) and the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM).

Damaged at launch, the 1970s Skylab required dramatic on-orbit repairs before it was usable. See how it worked in this SPACE.com infographic.

And Skylab’s supposedly water-tight microgravity shower, a cylindrical tent-like contraption, will likely be the last shower on a space station, according to Muir-Harmony.

Skylab, the American space station and laboratory, was launched into space on May 14, 1973, starting a six-year journey that recorded various in-space firsts and discoveries. Operated by NASA, Skylab ...

Skylab, the first U.S. space station, remains the largest station launched into orbit in one piece. When its last crew departed in February 1974, it still had plenty of oxygen, water, and other ...

Skylab was also an assembly of modules. The command and service module built by Rockwell International got astronauts to space and back to Earth and was 34 feet long and 13 feet wide. The docking ...

Luckily, Skylab had been designed with a small airlock in the workshop to allow experiments in the vacuum of space. Luckier still, the airlock was located on the sunny side of the ship, and so was ...

Edward G. Gibson, science pilot for Skylab 4, demonstrates zero-gravity as he floats through the airlock module hatch. About astronauts’ life in space, Raymond Loewy wrote, “Whether their ...

Over time, the Skylab concept vehicle evolved to sport four distinct major components, the Airlock Module, the Multiple Docking Adapter, the Apollo Telescope Mount, and the heart and soul of the ...