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 ...

Owen K. Garriott, one of the original scientists selected to explore the cosmos firsthand and the first astronaut to operate an interstellar ham radio station, died Monday at his home in Huntsville, ...

In November 1973, Skylab 4 launched with three rookie astronauts on the longest U.S. mission to space at the time. But after weeks of relentless schedules and little rest, the crew allegedly staged ...