Skylab Gallery is facing the threat of permanent closure by the end of November. The Downtown DIY art and music scene, located at 57 E. Gay St., will potentially be no more after current artist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a surreal week in the summer of 1979, the world was watching the skies. NASA’s abandoned space station, Skylab, was about to fall back down to the Earth that launched it, and no one knew ...

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Forty-five years ago today, the first U.S. space station, Skylab, slipped from orbit and crashed to Earth. It had been 65 months since the last crew had departed. NASA had hopes of keeping it ...