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 ...

A diagram of the shower aboard Skylab during the Saturn Workshop mission in the 1970s. | NASA // Public Domain To make the astronauts feel more at home in orbit, Skylab—the first U.S. space ...

As a result, Skylab’s successor, the International Space Station, ended up reverting back to sponge baths, with astronauts ...

On the space station Skylab, a predecessor to the ISS that launched in the 1970s, astronauts used a heavily modified version of a normal shower.

Skylab was the United States' first space station and represented the nation's first effort at long-term human space missions.

As the U.S. and its partners involved in the International Space Station work through another possible down-to-the-wire, space station deorbiting scenario, a top takeaway from Skylab still applies ...

NASA launched Skylab, America’s first space station, into space 50 years ago in May 1973, and it would make space history in ways its builders wanted and ways they would have gladly missed ...

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 ...

The recent anniversaries of the Apollo moon missions loomed large, but another milestone achieved half a century ago also deserves attention: On May 14, 1973, the United States launched Skylab ...