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

Skylab was America’s first space station, launched in 1973 as a pioneering testbed for long-duration space missions. It was an ambitious follow-up to the Apollo program, using leftover Saturn V ...

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

The news was everywhere that July: In 1979, after orbiting the planet for a few years and being subjected to intensified solar activity that increased drag, the Skylab space station was going to ...

Nearly 46 years after the wreckage of the Skylab space station caused a sonic boom as it blazed a kaleidoscopic trail across the WA sky, another doomed spacecraft, Kosmos 482, is expected to crash ...