In the 1970s, America’s first space station allowed three crews of astronauts to conduct hundreds of experiments. Skylab, however, is mostly remembered for the frenzy surrounding its return to Earth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Feb. 8, 1974, the last crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth. Skylab was the first and only American space station ...

On July 11, 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth as it burned up in the atmosphere, showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia. The last ...

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On Feb. 8, 1974, the last crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth. Skylab was the first and only American space station, and it supported three crewed missions. The third and final mission ...

The Skylab space station crashed into a debris field scattered across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia on July 11th, 1979. On that day, the only orbital workshop the United States ever operated ...

Astronaut Bruce McCandless tests the balance and control of a test model of an astronaut maneuvering unit at Martin Marietta Corp.'s Denver Division, as seen on the cover of the August 2, 1971 issue ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. An astronaut on the Skylab 4 mission ...