Keywords Skylab, Apollo Command Module, biomedical experiments, weightlessness, cardiovascular studies, exercise capacity, sleep patterns, waste management, astronaut health, long-duration ...

Compared to the space capsules previously used by U.S. astronauts, Skylab's habitable volume was enormous: 12,750 cubic feet (361 cubic meters). The Apollo command module had only 218 cubic feet ...

"Houston, Skylab 2 [here], we fix anything," mission commander Pete Conrad said enthusiastically, to ground controllers as a Saturn 1B carried his Apollo capsule and two other astronauts, Joseph ...

Dubbed Skylab in February 1970, a full-sized mockup was completed even before the final three Apollo missions, 18, 19, and 20, were canceled by Congress.

Apollo missions 18, 19 and 20 were canceled by 1971, and the crew of Apollo 17 would be the last humans to touch the moon for decades to come. The idea for Skylab originated in 1965, when NASA ...

Just ask Ken Mattingly, Apollo 16’s command module pilot. In a transcript dated June 23, 1972, Mattingly joked with crew members about the capsule ... Everything changed with the advent of Skylab.

The recent anniversaries of the Apollo moon missions loomed large, but another milestone achieved half a century ago also deserves attention: On May 14, 1973, the United States launched Skylab ...

At 3:50 p.m. the Apollo 18 spacecraft, aboard a Saturn 1B rocket, departed NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, ... Salyut 1, in 1971; the United States launched Skylab in 1973.