UNITED STATES - APRIL 24: This spectacular view of Skylab, clearly showing the sun shield, was taken by the crew of Skylab 4, the last manned mission to the space station, as they returned home.

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 six ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Before the International Space Station existed, before U.S. astronauts shared space on Russia's ...

Rumors of a “mutiny” that took place aboard the Skylab space station in the 1970s have persisted for nearly half of a century. A cursory search turns up dozens of references to the event, with many ...

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 ...

The space station was the nation's first effort at long-term human space missions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Skylab was the ...

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 ...

One morning in 1993, Geoff Grewar and his wife Pauline were flying a small aircraft over their farm property in Western Australia when they spotted a gleaming object in the scrub below. In 1979 NASA's ...