Click to open image viewer. This is the Skylab 4 Command Module, which served as the crew cabin for going to and from Skylab, the first U.S. space station. Skylab 4, the third and last of the Skylab ...

A historic NASA spacecraft will soon leave the Smithsonian for the Sooner State. The Apollo command module that was flown by the third and last astronaut crew to live on board the United States' first ...

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.

Skylab was in orbit for almost six years. Its mission didn't begin well: Part of its protective shielding and one of its two main solar panels were torn off during launch and it took bravery and ...

Skylab astronauts took the photograph above as they left the orbiting laboratory in February 1974 following the third and final manned mission. Upon realizing that Skylab's 40th anniversary was ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After the final Apollo moon landing, NASA repurposed surplus Apollo and Saturn V rocket hardware ...

On May 14, 1973, watched by 25,000 rapt spectators, the last Saturn V patiently sat on Launch Pad 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Atop the rocket was Skylab, the biggest, heaviest single ...

Thanks to the seminal work of Howard and Hanks et al, the world is intimately familiar with the story behind perhaps the most epic hack of all time, the saving of the crippled Apollo 13 mission. But ...