Without a doubt, there's no question that there'd be no International Space Station without Skylab. That's why this piece of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On May 14, 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. It fell to earth six years later, burning up in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979. Skylab itself was a heavily modified third ...

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.

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 ...

NASA will commemorate the 40th anniversary of America’s first space station Monday, May 13, with a televised roundtable discussion featuring Skylab astronauts, a current astronaut and agency managers ...

Astronaut Paul Weitz died Monday at the age of 85. NASA One of NASA’s pioneering astronauts and former deputy director of the Johnson Space Center, Paul Weitz, died Monday at the age of 85. NASA ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. China's Tiangong-1 space station is predicted to enter Earth's atmosphere sometime during Easter ...