Skylab's second crew — led by Apollo 12 moonwalker Alan Bean, with pilot Jack R. Lousma and scientist Owen K. Garriott — impressed NASA with its productivity.

NASA astronaut Gerald “Jerry” Carr, who was capcom for both the Apollo 8 and Apollo 12 missions and launched into space himself as commander of the Skylab 4 mission has died at the age of 88.

CHURCH HILL, Tenn. (WJHL) – One of the original members of the Apollo and Skylab Astronaut Rescue Team remembers the Apollo 12 launch on November 14, 1969. He has written a book chronicling the ...

If astronauts had become stranded on the Skylab Orbital Workshop, NASA had a plan, and in July 1973 it came very near to launching its plan. Beyond Apollo blogger and historian David S. F. Portree ...

Apollo missions 18, 19 and 20 were canceled by 1971, and the crew of Apollo 17 would be the last humans to touch the moon for decades to come. The idea for Skylab originated in 1965, when NASA ...

"Houston, Skylab 2 [here], we fix anything," mission commander Pete Conrad said enthusiastically, to ground controllers as a Saturn 1B carried his Apollo capsule and two other astronauts, Joseph ...

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 ...

Keywords Skylab, Apollo Command Module, biomedical experiments, weightlessness, cardiovascular studies, exercise capacity, sleep patterns, waste management, astronaut health, long-duration ...

Skylab was America’s first space station, launched in 1973 as a pioneering testbed for long-duration space missions. It was an ambitious follow-up to the Apollo program, using leftover Saturn V ...

Apollo, Skylab, the Shuttle, and Artemis have all used mobile launch platforms, each tailored to the particular needs of the launch vehicle. Three Mobile Launchers (ML) were constructed for the ...

Walter “Walt” Cunningham, a retired NASA astronaut and pilot of the first crewed flight in the space agency’s famed Apollo program, died early Tuesday morning at the age of 90, NASA said.