In the 1970s, America’s first space station allowed three crews of astronauts to conduct hundreds of experiments. Skylab, however, is mostly remembered for the frenzy surrounding its return to Earth ...

Long before the ISS, we built Skylab - America’s first space station and one of the boldest engineering experiments of the Cold War. We follow its origins, daily life in orbit, and the scientific ...

In 2023, a space company called Vast announced that it was developing a single-module commercial space station called Haven-1. It will operate much like Skylab or the Manned Orbiting Laboratory were ...

Visitors to Space Center Houston have walked past a Skylab training model storage locker during trips to the museum for years. Little did they know there were still items in it that hadn't seen the ...

Back on Earth after what was then the longest human spaceflight in history, William “Bill” Pogue remarked on the autumn foliage around his house. “It’s so beautiful,” he told his sister, Betty Pogue ...

A time-management trick learned by the Skylab 4 crew almost 40 years ago continues to work on the International Space Station today, according to commanders of missions on each orbital laboratory.

On March 14th, 1973, a Saturn V rocket launched into space with an important mission: putting Skylab, the first US space station, into orbit. The station had an inauspicious start: during liftoff, ...