The Saturn V rocket that hoisted Skylab into space differed from the rockets used in the Apollo jaunts as the rocket that took that final flight was comprised of just two stages rather than three.

A further Saturn IB was assembled for the Skylab rescue mission but was not ... In July 1975, NASA used the rocket to launch the first international human spaceflight collab – the Apollo-Soyuz ...

On May 14, 1973, watched by 25,000 rapt spectators, the last Saturn V patiently sat on Launch Pad 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Atop the rocket was Skylab, the biggest ...

Skylab was the first space station operated ... was converted from the upper stage of a Saturn rocket. It contained exercise equipment, a galley, and many scientific experiments, in particular ...

That rocket would be known as the Saturn V, a three-stage rocket that ... and later contributed to the construction of Skylab—the first U.S. space station. Its legacy is considerable.

A Saturn V rocket, originally intended to launch the Apollo 12 mission, could place Skylab in orbit. And the space station itself would be constructed out of a rocket’s third stage. “ ...

Skylab, a converted S-IVB stage taken from the SA-212 Saturn IB rocket, had reached orbit on 14 May 1973 unmanned atop the last Saturn V to fly. Though officially designated Skylab 2, SA-206's ...

To celebrate the anniversary, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center is hosting a series of free events this summer for the public to learn more about why Skylab was monumental in learning to live off of ...

"Houston, Skylab 2 [here], we fix anything," mission ... 1973, when a modified Saturn V rocket had taken the space laboratory, without a crew on its way toward Earth orbit. Even though everything ...

Lofted to orbit around Earth atop the same mighty rocket that took us to ... Hopes ran high as Skylab launched atop the modified Saturn V just half a year after Apollo 17, the final moon mission.

A rocket center report from 2022 described the Saturn 1B as an “overlooked workhorse of the Apollo program.” Among its tasks was as the launch vehicle for the Skylab mission that is ...