America's first space station, Skylab, helped pave the way for permanent operations in low-Earth orbit 52 years ago this year.

NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. Skylab orbited Earth for six years and supported three crewed ...

Garriott and his Skylab 3 crewmates, Alan Bean and Jack Lousma ... dropping from the ceiling to the gridded floor where we stood. He would launch himself from the bottom of the experiment deck ...