Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Space.com NASA's first manned outpost in deep space may be a repurposed rocket part, just like the agency's first-ever astronaut abode ...

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Space stations, big metal tubes in low-Earth orbit pressurized to roughly the same atmospheric pressure you'd find on sea level so a bunch of squishy, fragile meat sacks can conduct science ...

NASA's first manned outpost in deep space may be a repurposed rocket part, just like the agency's first-ever astronaut abode in Earth orbit. With a little tinkering, the upper-stage hydrogen ...

Skylab, the American space station and laboratory, was launched into space on May 14, 1973, starting a six-year journey that recorded various in-space firsts and discoveries. Operated by NASA, Skylab ...

On May 14, 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. It fell to earth six years later, burning up in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979. Skylab itself was a heavily modified third ...

On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. Despite a troubled start to its life, Skylab pioneered long-duration spaceflight, and fifty years ...

Astronaut Paul Weitz died Monday at the age of 85. NASA One of NASA’s pioneering astronauts and former deputy director of the Johnson Space Center, Paul Weitz, died Monday at the age of 85. NASA ...

Today Nasa will commemorate the 40th anniversary of Skylab, America's first space station, launched on 14 May 1973. In a televised discussion, Skylab astronauts, a current astronaut and agency ...