Skylab included the Apollo Telescope Mount (a multi-spectral solar observatory), a multiple docking adapter with two docking ports, an airlock module with extravehicular activity (EVA) hatches, and the orbital workshop, the main habitable space inside Skylab.

The Apollo/Skylab space suit (sometimes called the Apollo 11 Spacesuit because it was most known for being used in the Apollo 11 Mission) is a class of space suits used in Apollo and Skylab missions.

Mar 6, 2025 · The history of Skylab is examined with emphasis on the program's development from previous Apollo missions, modifications to spacecraft, onboard experiments, and flight crew training.

May 14, 2018 · As originally envisioned, three successive three-person crews would spend 28, 56, and 56 days aboard the space station, launching in Apollo capsules atop Saturn 1B rockets. For the first time in human spaceflight, Skylab’s second docking port enabled a rescue capability.

Skylab was America's first space station. After the Apollo missions to the Moon, the United States used the last of the Apollo-era vehicles to launch an experimental space station, Skylab, in 1973.

Jul 11, 1979 · Skylab was an outcome of the Apollo Applications Program set up by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1965 to adapt spacecraft and systems developed for the U.S. Moon landing program to a variety of scientific missions.

Apr 26, 2013 · Launched aboard the last of the Apollo-era Saturn V rockets on May 14, 1973, the uncrewed Skylab became America’s first space station. The station almost immediately developed technical problems due to vibrations during liftoff when a critical meteoroid shield ripped off, taking one of the craft’s two primary solar panels with it.

Skylab 2 (also SL-2 and SLM-1[4]) was the first crewed mission to Skylab, the first American orbital space station. The mission was launched on an Apollo command and service module by a Saturn IB rocket on May 25, 1973, [5] and carried NASA astronauts Pete Conrad, Joseph P. Kerwin, Paul J. Weitz to the station.

The Skylab project began as the Apollo Applications Program in 1968 with an objective to develop science-based human space missions using hardware originally developed for the effort to land astronauts on the moon.

The Skylab (SL) was a manned, orbiting spacecraft composed of five parts, the Apollo telescope mount (ATM), the multiple docking adapter (MDA), the airlock module (AM), the instrument unit (IU), and the orbital workshop (OWS).