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 ...
The lessons of Apollo, Skylab and the space shuttle, with respect to the rescue of astronauts in space, appear to have been ...
Using some remaining hardware from the soon-to-be-cancelled Apollo program, NASA developed Skylab, which launched in May. Skylab remained in orbit for six years, and experiments conducted aboard ...
Apollo 11 saw Commander Neil Armstrong in the left seat ... Conrad went on to command the first crewed Skylab mission. Bean, ...
acting as space commander in the second manned Skylab mission, which set a record for space flight of 59 days. See more programmes and clips about the Apollo Moon landings.