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 ...

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 ...

The Oklahoma History Center Museum (OHCM) will close its exhibit "Launch to Landing: Oklahomans and Space" on March 31.The ...

Here on Earth, we tend to take showers for granted. But for astronauts stationed in space, taking a quick rinse—much like cooking, eating, using the toilet, and just about every other mundane, ...

How Do We Rule The Universe? 10, 9, 8, 7: Four Apollo missions Space Flight In 1979, the American space station, Skylab, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. Large fragments hit SW Australia instead ...

acting as space commander in the second manned Skylab mission, which set a record for space flight of 59 days. See more programmes and clips about the Apollo Moon landings.