On Feb. 8, 1974, the last crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth. Skylab was the first and only American space ...

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 ...

In 1973, headlines claimed NASA astronauts went on strike aboard Skylab, the first American space station. The truth was messier and more human, a breakdown in communication, crushing schedules, and a ...

Astronaut Bruce McCandless tests the balance and control of a test model of an astronaut maneuvering unit at Martin Marietta Corp.'s Denver Division, as seen on the cover of the August 2, 1971 issue ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The orbital workshop is the largest ...

Sergei Krikalev watched the Soviet Union collapse from 200 miles above Earth, unsure when he would ever come home. Then, years earlier, Skylab 4 became the center of a “strike” story that NASA still ...