NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. Skylab orbited Earth for six years and supported three crewed ...

America's first space station, Skylab, helped pave the way for permanent operations in low-Earth orbit 52 years ago this year.

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

Apollo and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon and an accomplished artist, died Saturday at a hospital in Houston, Texas. NASA says U.S. astronaut Mike Massimino -- the ...

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So they developed a toilet that operated with a fan and vacuum suction.” The Skylab astronauts were also test subjects for a variety of experiments. Scientists wanted to determine if the ...

By the late 1960s he had joined forces with McCandless to produce a test version tried out by astronauts inside the roomy Skylab space station in 1973. In 1977, Whitsett arrived at NASA ...