Parked in low Earth orbit and traveling around our planet at 16,000 miles per hour (25,750 kilometers per hour), Skylab allowed for detailed observations of the Earth and Sun, acted as a medical lab, ...

“America’s first space station,” Skylab, was launched in 1973 on the last Saturn V rocket flown. The mission, coming on the heels of the final Apollo Moon landing, concluded nine months later in ...

A time-management trick learned by the Skylab 4 crew almost 40 years ago continues to work on the International Space Station today, according to commanders of missions on each orbital laboratory.