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.

“America’s first space station,” Skylab, was launched in 1973 on the last Saturn V rocket flown. The mission, coming on the heels of the final Apollo Moon landing, concluded nine months later 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, and fifty years ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. May 25 (UPI) Fifty years ago, on May 25, 1973, three NASA astronauts were launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to spend a month aboard Skylab, America's first space ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Feb. 8, 1974, the last crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth. Skylab was the first and only American space station ...

The recent anniversaries of the Apollo moon missions loomed large, but another milestone achieved half a century ago also deserves attention: On May 14, 1973, the United States launched Skylab, its ...

As a fourth grader at Jenny Lind Elementary School on the Northside of Minneapolis I had an innovative teacher named Ms. Kougle. On May 14, 1973, she introduced us to space exploration by telling us ...

Selected by NASA in 1966, Weitz went on to fly on the first manned Skylab mission and performed vital space walks to fix the stricken station. He... Former NASA astronaut Paul Weitz, who spent nearly ...

This collection consists of the Flight Data File issued to Mission Commander Gerald P. Carr (1933 - 2020) for training during the three months prior to launch. The material consists of crew manuals, ...