Stephen Bowen remembers seeing Skylab fly overhead. At eight years old, Bowen's experience watching the United States' first space station cross the night sky fueled his interest in spaceflight.

Four decades after the United States' first space station roared into orbit, a second version of the groundbreaking craft may be on the horizon. NASA launched the Skylab space station 40 years ago ...

Thursday is the 40th anniversary of Skylab falling back to Earth. While most people know it as America’s first manned space station, its influence extends much further. Skylab launched May 14, 1973 ...

NASA's first manned outpost in deep space may be a repurposed rocket part, just like the agency's first-ever astronaut abode in Earth orbit. With a little tinkering, the upper-stage hydrogen ...

Skylab launched into space by the unmanned Saturn V rocket on May 14, 1973 from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The space station went unmanned for over a week until Commander Charles C.

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

Ten-year-old Dwight Steven-Boniecki cowered in his bed in Sydney’s Hills District, praying he’d be alive next morning. It was the night of July 11-12, 1979 and the self-confessed “space nut” knew the ...

A working replica of a Leica MDa Nasa used in the 1970’s Skylab missions has just gone up for sale at Wetzlar Camera Auction in Germany. The camera used in the Skylab missions was a modified version ...