WASHINGTON — As the space race – and the Apollo program – came to an end, NASA shifted the focus of its manned spaceflight program from exploration to science with the launch of the first U.S. space ...

The United States began to abandon the technology of manned lunar exploration by late 1967, nearly a year before the first Apollo astronauts reached space on board an Apollo spacecraft (Apollo 7, ...

On 28 July 1973, the Skylab 3 crew of Alan Bean, Jack Lousma, and Owen Garriott lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, bound for the Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. May 25 (UPI) 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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Valerie Neal, National Air and Space Museum Space History Department Chair, talks about the creation, design and purpose of Skylab. Valerie Neal, ...

Four decades after the United States' first space station roared into orbit, a second version of the groundbreaking craft may be on the horizon. NASA launched the Skylab space station 40 years ago ...

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, its ...

Former astronaut Gerald Carr, who commanded the last Skylab mission, passed away Aug. 26, 2020 in Albany, NY. “NASA and the nation have lost a pioneer of long duration spaceflight,” said NASA ...