Crew members on NASA’s Gemini and Apollo missions, which took place during the 1960s, opted for sponge baths, cleaning themselves with soap and towels just as one would on Earth, only a bit more ...

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 ...

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