Despite a rocky start, NASA’s Skylab 4 mission was considered a success and completed on February 8, 1974, when the three-man crew returned safely to Earth. Although named “Skylab 4,” this was the ...

On Feb. 8, 1974, the third and final manned Skylab mission came to an end. After a record-breaking 84-day mission, the command module carrying the three-man Skylab crew successfully splashed down in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Skylab orbital workshop lifts off atop the last Saturn V rocket to fly on May 14, 1973, from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space ...

On 28 July 1973, the Skylab 3 crew of Alan Bean, Jack Lousma, and Owen Garriott lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, bound for the Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit.

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Space.com Before the International Space Station existed, before U.S. astronauts shared space on Russia's space station Mir, America's ...

On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. Despite a troubled start to its life, Skylab pioneered long-duration spaceflight, and fifty years ...

It's been almost half a century since the three astronauts on board the Skylab 4 space mission famously fell out with mission control. Soon afterwards, reports began to circulate that they went on ...

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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, its ...

Space stations, big metal tubes in low-Earth orbit pressurized to roughly the same atmospheric pressure you'd find on sea level so a bunch of squishy, fragile meat sacks can conduct science ...

Shield debris had pummeled SA-513, tearing at least one hole in the tapered interstage adapter that linked its S-II second stage with the OWS. It also apparently damaged the system for separating the ...

Former NASA astronaut Jerry Carr, who led the final mission aboard the first American space station, is dead at 88. Carr’s family confirmed he died in Albany on Wednesday. No cause of death was ...