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 ...

The Skylab Medical Program involved a series of missions where astronauts conducted extensive biomedical experiments in a weightless environment. The crew launched in an Apollo Command Module and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Today is the 40th anniversary of the launch of America's first space station, Skylab. Skylab wasn't the first space station ever (that honor ...

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What happens when a space station falls out of the sky? The world got a preview back in 1979 with the end of Skylab, the United States' first space station. NASA had placed Skylab into Earth orbit six ...

Looking to the skies in July 1979, Canadians and the world were on alert for debris from an American space station that was coming back to Earth. Skylab, which had been launched into orbit six years ...

Life on the International Space Station is luxurious. Its living accommodation is spacious, with two bathrooms, two toilets and a gym. There’s also Wi-Fi, DVDs, musical instruments, even fresh fruit ...