Once in orbit, the station weighed 170,000 lbs. Photos: Skylab, the 1st U.S. space station Skylab launched into space on May 14, 1973. However, a micrometeoroid shield, which was supposed to ...

She provided photos of Skylab as guides to our construction. We made the model almost as long as the classroom so that we could take turns “piloting” and “floating” around the inside of ...

Atop the rocket was Skylab, the biggest, heaviest single object ever to be put into space and the nation’s first long-term, off-planet homestead. At 12:30 P.M. EDT, the Saturn’s five F-1 ...

But it’s an achievement that would be impossible if not for an earlier space station, NASA’s Skylab, launched 50 years ago on May 14, 1973. Born out of the disappointment and leftovers over ...

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 ...

What happens when a space station falls out of the sky? The world got a preview back in 1979 with the end of Skylab, the United States' first space station. NASA had placed Skylab into Earth orbit ...

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The Skylab Medical Program involved a series of missions where astronauts conducted extensive biomedical experiments in a weightless environment. The crew launched in an Apollo Command Module and ...