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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore ... Mir (1986 to 2001), China’s Tiangong-1 (2011 to 2018) and NASA’s Skylab (1973 to 1979).

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