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.

Ever since it came into the public eye in 1989, Area 51 has been a source of conspiracy, with many questioning its purpose and whether the US government is hiding something from the public behind its ...

Declassified CIA documents finally lifted the lid about the activities that went on at Area 51, which led the secret Nevada base to be known for crashed UFOs and extraterrestrial autopsies.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL, UNITED STATES, May 15, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Former NASA astronaut Dr. Story Musgrave will receive the prestigious Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award for his efforts ...

Back in 1973, Owen Garriott, astronaut and physicist, lived aboard Skylab, America’s first space station, for 59 days. The station’s core was a modified Saturn V third stage, the S-IVB ...

Ed Smylie, who became a quiet hero of the space age in 1970 when he and his fellow NASA engineers jury-rigged an air filter ...

At its simplest, in-space manufacturing refers to anything made in space that can then be used on Earth or in space itself. The absence of gravity allows for unique manufacturing processes that cannot ...

52 years ago tomorrow, the United States launched its first space station, Skylab. May 14, 1973, marked the start of the first time astronauts spent an extended period of time in space.

Legendary singer, actor and show business star Frank Sinatra died on May 14, 1998, in Los Angeles from a heart attack aged ...

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly begins his first-ever spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Oct. 28, 2015. Credit: Kjell Lindgren / NASA Before NASA shot astronaut Scott Kelly into orbit ...