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.

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Thursday is the 40th anniversary of Skylab falling back to Earth. While most people know it as America’s first manned space station, its influence extends much further. Skylab launched May 14, 1973 ...

A historic NASA spacecraft will soon leave the Smithsonian for the Sooner State. The Apollo command module that was flown by the third and last astronaut crew to live on board the United States' first ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Former NASA Astronaut Don Thomas talks about the history of SKYLAB. ** This clip is part of C-SPAN Classroom's FREE resources for teachers and ...

The unmanned Skylab station launched May 1:30 p.m. May 14, 1973 from the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida. A critical meteoroid shield ripped off taking one of the craft's two solar panels ...

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 ...

WEBVTT IT'S TIME NOW FOR YOUR WYFF NEWS 4 TIMELINE...ON THIS JULY 11TH. ON THIS DATE IN 1979, "SKYLAB" CRASHED OVER THE INDIAN OCEAN AND A SPARSELY SETTLED REGION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. THE ABANDONED U ...

Shield debris had pummeled SA-513, tearing at least one hole in the tapered interstage adapter that linked its S-II second stage with the OWS. It also apparently damaged the system for separating the ...