OTD In Space - February 8: NASA Astronauts Say Final Goodbye to Skylab

On Feb. 8, 1974, the last crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth. Skylab was the first and only American space ...
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Skylab: The rise - and meteoric fall - of America's first space station

In the 1970s, America’s first space station allowed three crews of astronauts to conduct hundreds of experiments. Skylab, however, is mostly remembered for the frenzy surrounding its return to Earth ...
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50 Years Ago: NASA's Skylab Wrote the Playbook for the ISS

Space stations, big metal tubes in low-Earth orbit pressurized to roughly the same atmospheric pressure you'd find on sea level so a bunch of squishy, fragile meat sacks can conduct science ...
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50 Years Of Skylab: Our Interview With Its Last Astronaut

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
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Remembering Skylab’s launch, 50 years on

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, heaviest single ...
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50 years later, Skylab remembered as major force in space exploration

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. May 25 (UPI) Fifty years ago, on May 25, 1973, three NASA astronauts were launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to spend a month aboard Skylab, America's first space ...
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Skylab, the First U.S. Space Station, Changed What We Thought Was Possible in Orbit

It’s the 50th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Skylab—the space station that laid the groundwork for the International Space Station. These days, the orbital lab is mostly remembered for the ...
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Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States entered the space station...

On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. Despite a troubled start to its life, Skylab pioneered long-duration spaceflight, and fifty years ...
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OTD In Space – February 8: NASA Astronauts Say Final Goodbye To Skylab

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Feb. 8, 1974, the last crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth. Skylab was the first and only American space station ...