Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

A diagram of the shower aboard Skylab during the Saturn Workshop mission in the 1970s. | NASA // Public Domain To make the astronauts feel more at home in orbit, Skylab—the first U.S. space ...

Skylab 3 astronauts witnessed many spectacular sights during their 858 orbital trips around the Earth in the summer of 1973.

The cost to bring home a pair of stranded astronauts that have spent most of a year in space aboard the International Space ...

As a dedicated station, the Dry Workshop – which would later evolve into Skylab – would provide more space for astronauts, be able to carry more equipment, and not require as much of their ...

Skylab also had a small refrigerator/freezer and for the first time, astronauts ate real ice cream. By the way, freeze-dried ice cream isn’t real astronaut food. Although the stuff was developed ...

Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams have spent nine months aboard the International Space Station following the failure of ...

The astronauts who crewed the Boeing Starliner will have to wait a few more days until making their homecoming after the SpaceX Crew-10 launch scrub.

To make the astronauts feel more at home in orbit, Skylab—the first U.S. space station—came equipped with a contraption more ...