For decades, NASA has been studying the human factor in space in much the same way researchers study physics and engineering. 'Riding On A Train With Square Wheels': A Space 'Mutiny' Aboard Skylab ...

A close-up view of the Skylab space station cluster photographed against a black sky (NASA). Then Skylab orbited, inert, from February 1974 until March 1978, when NASA flight controllers began the ...

While Skylab had an Earth orbit of only 268 miles, completing an orbit every 93 minutes, Gateway will have a highly elliptical orbit around the moon that will range from 930 miles to 43,000 miles ...

Skylab was America’s first space station, launched in 1973 as a pioneering testbed for long-duration space missions. It was an ambitious follow-up to the Apollo program, using leftover Saturn V ...

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Sixty years after the first woman launched into space, here is a short story about a comic strip artist, an anthropomorphic ant, an orbital workshop, a wizard and Sally Ride.

Skylab was the first U.S. space station, flying above the Earth's surface from 1973 to 1979. Three crewed Skylab missions flew to the station between May 1973 and February 1974.