On May 14, 1973, watched by 25,000 rapt spectators, the last Saturn V patiently sat on Launch Pad 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Atop the rocket was Skylab, the biggest, heaviest ...

Thursday is the 40th anniversary of Skylab falling back to Earth. While most people know it as America’s first manned space station, its influence extends much further. Skylab launched May 14 ...

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 ...

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. “It didn’t work ...

Dubbed Skylab in February 1970, a full-sized mockup was completed even before the final three Apollo missions, 18, 19, and 20, were canceled by Congress. Over time, ...

In 1979, NASA knew that the 78 1/2-ton Skylab was starting to deteriorate and would re-enter the earth atmosphere. They knew it would break apart and that some 25 tons would fall to Earth but they ...

'Searching for Skylab,' a new documentary about America's first space station, will be screened at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019.

Visitors can almost miss Skylab.Tucked away in a large display case in a small city museum, the remains of what fell from the sky on July 11, 1979, can be found in Esperance, a port town with less ...

NASA astronaut Gerald “Jerry” Carr, who was capcom for both the Apollo 8 and Apollo 12 missions and launched into space himself as commander of the Skylab 4 mission has died at the age of 88.