Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Skylab orbital workshop lifts off atop the last Saturn V rocket to fly on May 14, 1973, from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space ...

1973 launch of Skylab was the first of U.S. space stations.

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Space.com Before the International Space Station existed, before U.S. astronauts shared space on Russia's space station Mir, America's ...

Thursday is the 40th anniversary of Skylab falling back to Earth. While most people know it as America’s first manned space station, its influence extends much further. Skylab launched May 14, 1973 ...

On May 14, 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. Skylab orbited Earth for six years and supported ...

On May 14, 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. It fell to earth six years later, burning up in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979. Skylab itself was a heavily modified third ...

Today Nasa will commemorate the 40th anniversary of Skylab, America's first space station, launched on 14 May 1973. In a televised discussion, Skylab astronauts, a current astronaut and agency ...

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Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Space.com Four decades after the United States' first space station roared into orbit, a second version of the groundbreaking craft may ...

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