The Skylab Medical Program involved a series of missions where astronauts conducted extensive biomedical experiments in a weightless environment. The crew launched in an Apollo Command Module and ...

"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 ...

NASA's first space station taught humans lots about living in space, including that bath wipes are superior to showers.

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP for short) was on its way. It was the first international space mission – and the last flight of an Apollo spacecraft.

On the 50th anniversary of Skylab's launch aboard the Saturn V, let's take a look at what made Skylab the gold standard for space stations for the next 15years.

“On Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, the crew members practically wore the capsules. They lived in their seat, and everything that was personal they did in their seat.

Lofted to orbit around Earth atop the same mighty rocket that took us to the moon, Skylab would help us learn to live and work in space for longer than ever before.

Once Apollo ended, NASA shifted its focus to space stations to prepare for longer-term human spaceflight. Skylab launched in May 1973, hosting four crews of astronauts that year and the next.