Remembering Skylab’s launch, 50 years on. The eventual success of America’s first space station, Skylab, was masked by a troubled launch that almost halted the mission in its tracks.

Fortunately, Bowen's launch was a lot less dramatic than when Skylab left Earth. Unlike the International Space Station, which took 10 years and more than 30 missions to assemble, Skylab was ...

During the May 14 launch, Skylab’s micrometeorite shield, which also functioned as a sun shade, was shorn off, leaving the newly orbital space station to roast in the direct sunlight.

While Skylab's Saturn V launch vehicle sat at LC-39A, the neighboring pad, LC-39B, was mounted with a smaller Saturn IB rocket carrying the lab's awaiting crew.

When exactly did Skylab launch and what went wrong almost immediately? The “Skylab space station,” as NASA calls it, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center May 14, 1973.

Fifty years ago, on May 25, 1973, three NASA astronauts were launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to spend a month aboard Skylab, America's first space station. Their first order of ...

On May 14, 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. Skylab orbited Earth for six years and supported three crewed missions during which astronauts conducted hundreds of ...

The film documents the Skylab mission, focusing on the challenges faced during the first crewed mission to the space station. After an unsuccessful initial launch and significant technical ...

Unfortunately, the flight of our cardboard Skylab went much smoother than the real mission. Originally, the initial crew for Skylab was scheduled to launch the day after the space station was sent ...

One of the largest and best-known launch complexes is Launch Complex 39 , which NASA has used at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to stack and launch rockets for the Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle ...