IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Skylab, the United States' first ...
On May 14, 1973, watched by 25,000 rapt spectators, the last Saturn V patiently sat on Launch Pad 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Atop the rocket was Skylab, the biggest, heaviest single ...
WASHINGTON -- NASA celebrates the 40th anniversary today of Skylab, America's first space station. It was conceived in Huntsville, Al., and saved there when the program nearly ended before it began. A ...
What happens when a space station falls out of the sky? The world got a preview back in 1979 with the end of Skylab, the United States' first space station. NASA had placed Skylab into Earth orbit six ...
Astronauts who flew in America's first space station more than 30 years ago trained in the aluminum-and-steel hulk that bakes under the blazing sun. Today, birds and raccoons have taken over. A ...