Forty-five years ago today, the first U.S. space station, Skylab, slipped from orbit and crashed to Earth. It had been 65 months since the last crew had departed. NASA had hopes of keeping it around ...

On Aug. 1, 1968, NASA cancelled the production of its Saturn V rocket. The giant rocket was the only launch vehicle to have ever carried astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, and it was the largest, most ...

HOUSTON — NASA’s Johnson Space Center will host the grand opening of a restored Houston landmark and national treasure, the immense Saturn V rocket resting at the space center gate, on July 20, 38 ...

This week in 1973, the uncrewed Skylab was launched aboard a modified Saturn V rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The initial concept for the orbital workshop was devised at NASA’s Marshall ...

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 science ...

Nasa. Beautiful view of the lift-off of the modified Saturn V rocket, carrying the SKYLAB laboratory into Earth orbit from launch pad 39A at Cape Kennedy, Florida, on May 14, 1973., May 14 Vintage ...