What happens when a space station falls out of the sky? The world got a preview back in 1979 with the end of Skylab, the United States' first space station. NASA had placed Skylab into Earth orbit six ...

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 ...

Skylab was America’s first space station, launched in 1973 as a pioneering testbed for long-duration space missions. It was an ambitious follow-up to the Apollo program, using leftover Saturn V ...

On July 11, 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth as it burned up in the atmosphere, showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia. The last ...

Visitors to Space Center Houston have walked past a Skylab training model storage locker during trips to the museum for years. Little did they know there were still items in it that hadn't seen the ...