I liked the remark of the man at the Houston Space Center who was in charge of bringing down Skylab. When the first word came in that the crash landing was over and that most of it had fallen in ...

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 ...

HOUSTON - In 1973, Skylab was the United States' first space Station. Skylab 1-G, America’s first space station training module has been on display inside Space Center Houston's Starship Gallery ...

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 ...