The small Esperance Municipal Museum is located near the waterfront of the port town of about 10,000. A large model of Skylab stands on a pedestal at the museum’s entrance. The museum houses a ...

Rumors of a “mutiny” that took place aboard the Skylab space station in the 1970s have persisted for nearly half of a century. A cursory search turns up dozens of references to the event, with many ...

Astronauts who flew in America's first space station more than 30 years ago trained in the aluminum-and-steel hulk that bakes under the blazing sun. Today, birds and raccoons have taken over.

Skylab may have not been the first space station to escape Earth's gravity - and it certainly was not the last - but it was a monumental achievement for NASA. Born out of the ashes and leftover parts ...

WASHINGTON — As the space race – and the Apollo program – came to an end, NASA shifted the focus of its manned spaceflight program from exploration to science with the launch of the first U.S. space ...

The mission of Skylab, the United States’ first space station, ended July 11, 1979, with a show worthy of Independence Day fireworks, scattering debris over a wide swath of the Indian Ocean and the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Skylab, America's first space station, had a dramatic birth and death.

Skylab launched into space by the unmanned Saturn V rocket on May 14, 1973 from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The space station went unmanned for over a week until Commander Charles C.