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 ...

After the final Apollo moon landing, NASA repurposed surplus Apollo and Saturn V rocket hardware for the Skylab space station program. Nine astronauts inhabited Skylab for a total of 171 days ...

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 ...

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

Donald Puddy, 67, a veteran NASA flight director who supervised Apollo, Skylab and early space shuttle missions from Mission Control in Houston, died Monday in Houston after a lengthy illness ...

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 ...

Apollo and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the moon and an accomplished artist, has died. Bean, 86, died on Saturday, May 26, at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston ...

New book by Douglas Brinkley explores "American Moonshot" 50 years after Apollo 11 06:53. ... Edward Gibson and William Pogue kick off a record-setting 84 days in orbit in the final Skylab flight.

Skylab launched May 14, 1973 and orbited the Earth 2,249 times before it fell to the Earth’s surface, landing in a remote part of Australia on July 11, 1979.